International Organisations

The UN said yesterday that it had resumed air drops of desperately-needed aid to Deir ez-Zor in Syria after halting the deliveries over two weeks ago due to heavy...

The European Union warned Iran on Tuesday not to "deepen mistrust" by testing ballistic missiles. "The EU reiterates its concern about Iran's missile programme and calls upon Iran to...

Morocco's King Mohammed VI hailed on Tuesday his country's official return to the African Union after 33 years of absence. "I am finally home" King Mohammed VI said in...

Jerusalem's Mufti Sheikh Mohamed Hussein severely criticised UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres over his remarks on Israeli radio regarding Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Anadolu Agency reported yesterday. Guterres told the Israeli...

The Houthis said they had launched a ballistic missile at a coalition military base on the Red Sea island of Zuqar between Yemen and Eritrea this morning

There have been developments regarding moving the embassy, as there has been a trade-off between the Israeli government and American administration involving postponing the move of the embassy in...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to speed up rulings on key issues including Israeli settlements, an official has told Arab News. According to...

Israel has decided not to partner with an EU cultural programme because it includes an article banning cooperation with illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories, QudsPress reported yesterday....

Europe's five largest pension funds have €7.5 billion invested in companies with business activities in and around Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT), according to a new...

Iran said today that ballistic missile tests carried out by the country on Sunday were neither part of a nuclear agreement with world powers, or a UN Security Council...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) revealed it had documented 366 violations of the ceasefire agreement in Syria, mostly by forces loyal to veteran dictator President Bashar Al-Assad....

Prominent experts from Germany and North Africa, including Tunisians, have warned European governments against imposing a new free trade agreement on Tunisia. Speaking at the launch of a new...

The Houthi militia in Yemen bombed a building that belongs to the United Nations in Dhahran Al-Janoub, in Asir Region in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Defence Ministry announced on...

Russia may support the US initiative to establish the so-called 'safe zones' for refugees in Syria, the Moscow-based RT News reported on Monday, quoting the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov....

Morocco has accused the African Union (AU) Commission's head, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, of blocking its efforts to re-join the Union 32 years after it departed it, the country's foreign ministry...

The World Bank has partnered with a number of Turkish agencies and the European Union to construct schools for Syrian refugees in Turkey, Turkish newspaper Hurriyet Daily reported. It...

Turkey reopened its embassy in Libya on Monday, two-and-a-half years after closing it due to the security situation, the Turkish foreign ministry said, as diplomatic missions begin to reopen...

A report prepared by the Hayes Group International and published by TradeArabia said that four per cent of expatriate workers lost their jobs in various Arabian Gulf countries last...

Migrants face executions, torture and other systematic rights abuses in camps in Libya, according to a report prepared for the German government by the German embassy in Niger, the...

US President Donald Trump and Saudi King Salman spoke for over an hour by telephone on Sunday, agreeing to step up counter-terrorism and military cooperation and enhance economic relations,...

The World Food Programme (WFP) said yesterday that it had halved the food rations distributed to 1.4 million Iraqis displaced in the war against Daesh because of delays in...

The United Nations refugee agency and International Organisation for Migration (IOM) called on the Trump administration today to continue offering asylum to people fleeing war and persecution, saying its...

During his briefing to the UN Security Council on Thursday, the UN Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Sheikh Ahmed accused the Shia Houthi rebels of undermining the roadmap to...

The EU has decided to extend sanctions imposed on ousted Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, his wife and other 46 Tunisians in his regime for an additional...

Syrian regime forces entered the village of Ain Al-Fijah near Damascus today and took control of a strategic spring from opposition factions, as well as a pumping station that...

Following the remarks of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov regarding the Syrian peace talks in Geneva being delayed, a UN official has denied that the talks slated to take...

The United Nations reaffirmed today that torture is illegal and that refugees deserve protection, while ducking any direct criticism of remarks made by new US President Donald Trump. Major...

Yemen has roughly three months supply of wheat left to draw from, leaving the country exposed to serious disruption as a central bank crisis cuts food imports and starvation...

The UN yesterday said that Yemen is heading towards famine in 2017 if the conflict between the Houthi rebels and the Yemeni government persists. UN humanitarian aid chief Stephen...

Exiled former-Prime Minister Sadiq Al-Mahdi returned to Sudan yesterday after more than two years away to "end the war". Al-Mahdi flew in to Khartoum yesterday, according to his daughter...

Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki said on Thursday that the Palestinian Authority will ask the International Criminal Court to open a full investigation into the legality of the Israeli settlements....

War, famine and instability have plagued post-Arab Spring Yemen. After Ali Abdullah Saleh, who ruled Yemen with an iron fist for decades, stepped down as president, hope blossomed slightly...