International Organisations

After years of deadlock and months of wrangling, a nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers was finally agreed in mid-July. The deal, endorsed by the UN Security...

The European Union is preparing sanctions against five Libyans believed to be obstructing a UN-backed peace deal, Western diplomats said on Monday, after EU foreign ministers agreed to put...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards have criticised a UN Security Council resolution endorsing last week's nuclear deal, saying it crossed "red lines" set by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The Security...

The United Nations Economic and Social Council has voted in favour of a resolution on the "economic and social repercussions of the Israeli occupation on the Palestinian people's living...

The European Union has called on Israel to "halt plans for the forced transfer of the population and demolition of Palestinian housing and infrastructure" in the village of Sussiya...

The UN Security Council is due to vote Monday a draft resolution endorsing a deal reached on Iran's nuclear program. The vote is scheduled to be held at 9...

The United Nations has refused a request submitted yesterday by Libya's UN Ambassador Ibrahim Omar Dabbashi to lift an embargo on arms imports imposed on the country. The United...

The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O'Brien, expressed deep concern on Wednesday over what he described as the "catastrophic humanitarian situation in Yemen." He called on all parties...

The UN's special envoy to Syria thanked Turkey for its acceptance of Syrian refugees Wednesday. Staffan de Mistura met Foreign Ministry Under-Secretary Feridun Hadi Sinirlioglu in Ankara. "De Mistura...

The FIFA committee which was recently set up to discuss Israeli violations against Palestinian sport is to convene for the first time on 28 July, the head of the...

Hamas described UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's call for the release of Israeli prisoners of war held in the Gaza Strip as "biased remarks". In a statement, the movement's spokesperson...

Using the hashtag #Gaza1YearOn, Palestinians in Gaza have once again been subjected to exploitative oversimplification. In keeping with its neutral agenda, UNRWA has embarked upon another propaganda spectacle under...

A UN-proposed peace deal for Libya was signed late Saturday in Morocco by some parties to the country's ongoing political crisis, including representatives of Libya's Tobruk-based parliament. Representatives of...

The Egyptian Observatory of Rights and Freedoms has reported that both Egyptian military and civilian courts issued 92,420 sentences against Egyptian citizens during the first year of Abdul-Fatah Al-Sisi's...

The seven nations involved in the Iran nuclear talks are desperately trying to meet a deadline for an agreement which would curtail Iran's nuclear capability, however, Washington's refusal to...

The US delegation to the UN revealed a draft resolution yesterday which calls on Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to form a Joint Investigative Mechanism with the Organisation for the Prohibition...

Former EU Special Representative to the Southern Mediterranean, Bernardino Leon, said he was involved in an initiative to help Egypt resolve what he called the "Two Squares Crisis," in...

The BRICS group of nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) has called on both Israel and the Palestinians to resume peace talks in order to reach an...

The Egyptian foreign ministry announced on Thursday that it has distributed English-language copies of the court judgement sentencing deposed president Mohammed Morsi to death among Egyptian embassies abroad and...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday that it has delivered aid to families displaced from Yarmouk, a Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus. According...

Party of former President Mohamed Morsi calls for a Security Council investigation into the security situation in Egypt under Article 34 of the United Nations Charter African Union called...

The spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Stéphane Dujarric, called on Wednesday for the opening of Israeli and Egyptian crossings with the Gaza Strip, Anadolu agency reported....

The ongoing nuclear talks between Iran and Western powers have created tension between EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Anadolu Agency reported...

Over 2,200 martyrs were killed during Israel's offensive against the people of the Gaza Strip last summer. According to a new report from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights...

Israel's 51-day operation in Gaza last year was the most "deadly and destructive escalation" of hostilities since its occupation of the Strip in 1967, said the spokesman of the...

A boycott of Israel by the European Union would cost billions according to a government-commissioned report, further details of which appeared in the Israeli media this week. The study...

Post-coup Egyptian Vice President Mohamed El-Baradei has revealed that EU Envoy Bernardino Leon was involved in the negotiations that led to the military coup against President Mohamed Morsi in...

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab-African Affairs, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, has discussed efforts to reach a ceasefire in Yemen during a telephone call with UN Envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh...

It was midday and the temperature was over 32oC as Rabah Abu-Shanab, 58, lay under the rubble of what once was his house in Al-Shuja'ia, the neighbourhood which was...

The United Nations envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, arrived in the capital Sanaa on Sunday to negotiate a new ceasefire, Turkey's Anadolu news agency has reported. Speaking...

Italy's Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Paolo Gentiloni, has said that his country is going to provide more support to Tunisia, which announced a state of emergency...

More than 100 MEPs have announced their support for granting the London-based Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) consultative status at the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported...