International Organisations

Iran is to ask the UN Security Council to support the potential nuclear deal with P5+1 countries, the country's foreign minister said yesterday. The Anadolu Agency reported Mohammad Javad...

The Syrian regime launched a bombardment of the Yarmouk refugee camp despite assurances it would not attack while civilians remained inside, the United Nations said yesterday. UN Secretary-General Ban...

A number of Palestinian senior officials and intellectuals signed the largest memorandum of protest against settlement activity and the Separation Wall today. The move came as part of the...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday applauded Turkey's role during its G20 Presidency, saying it has made big contributions, especially in welcoming Syrian refugees, the Anadolu Agency reported. Speaking during...

Political parties in Libya's capital rejected a draft proposal on Tuesday which was put forward by UN envoy Bernardino Leon. The proposal is intended to bring about an end...

A senior member of Fatah's Executive Committee called on Monday for the Europeans to be more involved in Middle East issues, the Palestine-Israel conflict and efforts leading to the...

Only a few days after the visit of Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Pierre Krihnpol to...

UN envoy Bernardino Leon's proposal to recognise the Tobruk parliament is "disappointing, unbalanced and disrespectful of the country's Supreme Court ruling", the Anadolu Agency reported a senior Libyan official...

The United Nations Security Council yesterday called on the UN chief Ban Ki-moon to find a political solution to the current crisis in Yemen, the Anadolu Agency reported. Jordan's...

The International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Yukiya Amano said yesterday that his agency was not in a position to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material...

A UN board of inquiry has concluded that the Israeli army was responsible for seven attacks on UN facilities during last year's assault on Gaza, strikes that killed 44...

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on European countries not to resort to military solutions to prevent migrants drowning in the Mediterranean Sea, the Anadolu Agency reported. In...

PLO member and head of the Department of Refugee Affairs Zakaria Al-Agha yesterday called for the donor countries to increase their financial support for UNRWA to help resolve the...

The trial of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, which saw him jailed for 20 years, produced no evidence of his guilt, a leading human rights group said Sunday. Morsi...

UN Security Council (UNSC) in a statement called on Friday for all the Syrian parties to "immediately" end all forms of violence and reiterated that they "immediately" allow humanitarian...

Executive Director of Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth has said that latest support of Gulf States to Egypt was channelled to "suppress dissent." Roth tweeted on Thursday: "It's expensive...

Nearly 2,000 people have been killed this year while attempting to make the perilous sea journey across the Mediterranean to the supposed safe haven of Europe – or rather,...

On Thursday, the bodies recovered from the Mediterranean's worst-ever migrant disaster were buried in Malta. There were only 24 coffins, although an estimated 800 people died. None of the...

Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Robert Turner yesterday called on donors to fulfil their commitments and provide...

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon yesterday voiced his organisation's concern over the resumption of airstrikes in Yemen by a Saudi-led coalition. "When I read the report that fighting...

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is reported to be following up on the implications on Egypt's ousted President Mohamed Morsi's sentence on the country's overall situation, a UN...

The UK's Department for International Development is giving the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) £30 million of funding for the...

The United Nations has started looking west in a despondent attempt to find asylum for the millions of refugees streaming out of Syria. Last week UN High Commissioner for...

Jordan's deputy prime minister and minister of foreign and expatriate affairs, Nasser Judeh, said on Tuesday that the UN Security Council will meet next week to review its position...

The very possibility of reaching a two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to recede with potentially explosive consequences, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday. In a briefing to...

Amnesty International yesterday called for ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to receive a fair retrial in a civilian court in line with international standards or to be released. The...

Syrian armed opposition groups have rejected accusations made against them by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of committing sexual violence in Syria during the period of Januar-December 2014, the...

The Egyptian government said on Sunday that it has asked five EU countries and the United States to freeze the bank accounts of 30 opposition figures living abroad, Anadolu...

United Nations denied that it had mediated between the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas and Israel in order to reach a long-term truce and to agree on using the cement...

UN envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon said Sunday that 80 percent of a UN draft proposal to resolve the Libyan crisis has been agreed to by the country's warring...

On Friday, 17 April 2015, a massive demonstration was held in front of the European Parliament in Brussels to commemorate both the 10th anniversary of the popular Ahwazi uprising...

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif submitted on Friday a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon proposing a four-point peace plan for the conflict in Yemen, Anadolu reported. "I would...