International Organisations

The UN revealed on Monday that 1,792 people were killed in violence in Iraq last month, up from 1,003 in September. Of those who were killed, the majority –...

The Confession captures the entirety of Moazzam Begg’s story, from his forced confession and testimony as a free man, to his experience as a British Muslim and living the War on Terror

The head of the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) wants FIFA to adopt what he called a Crimea-style solution to prevent Israeli league clubs from being based in settlements in...

The US ambassador to the UN has called on the Saudi-led coalition to end its airstrikes in Yemen at yesterday's UN Security Council meeting. Samantha Power began her speech...

The world's largest pan-Islamic body, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, has announced that its secretary general resigned on Monday after mocked Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi during a meeting...

The address given by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT) to the UN General Assembly's Third Committee provided a...

A United Nations human rights expert has slammed "Israel's entrenchment of a colonial-like regime in the Occupied Palestinian Territory", citing "two separate and unequal systems" with respect to laws,...

Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities has banned any cooperation with Toledo Museum of Art in America, after the Ohio-based institution held auctions to sell ancient Egyptian artefacts. A ministry statement...

The people of Yemen are being held hostage to "personal and reckless political decisions," the United Nations special envoy said on Monday as he appealed for the UN Security...

A tank shell hit the United Nations office in western Aleppo on Sunday, damaging the top floors of a building that is well known to be the UN base...

Saudi Arabia appointed market regulator Mohammed al-Jadaan as its new finance minister by royal decree on Monday, replacing Ibrahim Alassaf, who had held the post since 1996. Alassaf, 67,...

Turkey was warned against re-establishing the death penalty by the Council of Europe yesterday, as Ankara stepped up its crackdown on the failed July coup by firing 10,000 more...

The United Nations plunged to a new low over the weekend when it held a secret ballot to elect 14 members to its Human Rights Council. Rather predictably, Russia...

The news that the population of Gaza has reached the 2 million mark was reported widely in the media but has stirred hardly any real action by the international...

A report by OPEC shows that Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait control about 30 per cent of global oil reserves, Quds Press reported on Sunday. The monthly report said...

The Israeli authorities are preparing to start a campaign to convince the International Criminal Police Organisation, Interpol, to reject the membership application from the Palestinian Authority, Quds Press reported...

Thousands of people demonstrated in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott on Saturday against proposed constitutional amendments, Agence France-Presse has reported. The protests were a response to a call by opposition...

Syrian rebels opened a new front in Aleppo as fighting spread on the third day of a major insurgent counter-attack to break the government's siege of the opposition-held part...

Amnesty International has confirmed "credible reports" that white phosphorus munitions have been used in the battle to recapture Mosul from Daesh militants, placing civilian lives at extreme risk of...

Several armed Syrian factions have successfully managed to press their offensive on western Aleppo that began yesterday in a bid to break the siege on opposition-held eastern Aleppo, besieged...

The first conference for education ministers organised by the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (IESCO) has hailed UNESCO's statement on Palestine, Quds Net has reported. The gathering in...

The foreign minister of France said on Thursday that either Russia or Syria must be “blamed” for the strike on the school

A meeting on Libya in London next week will seek to break a political stalemate over the country's UN-backed unity government, which has struggled to extend its influence beyond...

A UN General Assembly committee decided yesterday to organise negotiations on a treaty to ban nuclear weapons starting next year. The resolution is non-binding and the first of its...

Russia has been voted off the United Nations Human Rights Council in a stunning rebuke to the country which is increasingly being accused of war crimes over its actions...

Around 1.5 million children in Yemen are malnourished and half the population lives in hunger, United Nations aid agencies said on Friday, three days after pictures of an emaciated...

A Turkish parliamentary delegation concluded a five day visit to the United Kingdom yesterday, meeting with parliamentarians and peers in order to bolster ties in a post-Brexit environment. The...

Daesh forces in Iraq have abducted tens of thousands of men, women and children from areas around Mosul and are using them as "human shields" in strategic sites in...

Armed Syrian opposition factions began a counter-attack against the army and its allies today, aiming to break a weeks-long siege on eastern Aleppo, sources in the opposition said. The...

The UN hired friends and associates of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad as part of relief operations in the country, the Guardian newspaper revealed today. The paper said relatives of...

The number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen has ballooned to 1,410 within three weeks of the outbreak being declared, the World Health Organisation said today, as 18 months...

After Facebook's removal of an iconic Vietnam war photo stirred an international uproar last month, the social network's executives quickly backtracked and cleared its publication. But the image –...