International Organisations

UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl visited an UNRWA school today, following an Israeli strike that targeted a nearby police station. Yesterday, the Israeli authorities had denied permission for UNRWA Commissioner-General...

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya, UNSMIL, evacuated its foreign staff from Libya on Sunday due to the deteriorating security situation in the capital Tripoli. Anadolu news agency...

The European Union said it is following with deep concern the rapidly deteriorating situation in the Gaza Strip and the occupied Palestinian territories, and called for an immediate end...

Egypt opened the Rafah border crossing on Thursday after a request from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Speaking at a press conference, Mr Ban said that he phoned Egyptian...

Reporters without Borders criticised in a statement on Wednesday the Jordanian authorities' decision to block nine more local news websites for not obtaining the necessary licenses. The Paris-based organisation...

Tunisia condemned the Israeli military escalation in the Gaza Strip and demanded the Security Council immediately intervene to stop such attacks, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement today....

The Iraqi government has officially informed the UN that it has lost control of a former chemical weapons facility, north of the capital Baghdad, to elements in the organisation...

Moving swiftly from one euphemism to another, Israeli atrocities in Gaza under "Protective Edge" have predictably targeted civilian areas, resulting in further killing, rendering people homeless and causing injuries....

The International Union of Muslim Scholars, led by influential Sunni cleric Dr Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, released a statement on Friday concerning the recent declaration of a "caliphate" by the Islamic...

First the Palestinian flag was draped from the team bus during the team's triumphant open-top bus tour of the capital, now it has been claimed that the Algerian national...

The European Union condemned "in the strongest terms" the killing of a Palestinian child yesterday. The EU statement comes in the aftermath of the murder of 16-year-old Mohamed Abu...

The UN Secretary General's Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, warned on Tuesday that Iraq is on the verge of disaster with the recent advances by...

Russia has asked the United Nations Security Council to condemn the sale of Syrian oil by terrorist groups, including ISIS and Al-Nusra Front, diplomats reported. A draft presidential statement...

It was the start of another day for the UNRWA team in Syria. Our convoy entered the besieged Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in Damascus on 31 January where,...

A spokesperson of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas has condemned the statement issued by the European Union regarding the Israeli occupation's operation in Hebron and rejected the EU's charges...

Amnesty International "extrajudicial executions" of Sunni detainees took place early this month by Iraqi government forces and Shia militias in the Iraqi cities of Tal 'Afar, Mosul and Ba'quba....

The United Nations Security Council failed to agree on a statement that would condemn Israel over the death of Palestinians during the security operation to locate three missing settlers...

The council of Iraq's Anbar province today demanded the Arab League and the United Nations open an investigation into the Syrian Air Force targeting Iraqi territory killing and injuring...

As the settler-colonial state intensified its outburst of violence under the guise of Operation Brother's Keeper, the Palestinian leadership issued a statement urging the UN Security Council to address...

The International committee of the Red Cross warned doctors against force-feeding Palestinian prisoners who have been on hunger strike for 62 days. Healthcare in Detention Coordinator at ICRC Raed...

The World Heritage Committee in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on Monday approved a resolution to place the old city of Jerusalem on the "List...

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the removal of the remaining 7.2 per cent of chemical weapons material from Syria, Anadolu news agency reported. In a statement...

Following the previous lobbying for Israel's inclusion in the Western European and Others Group (WEOG), the settler colonial state's alleged isolation has been rectified by the granting of another...

Western diplomats and Iran have started drafting a nuclear agreement following talks that took place between 16-20 June in Vienna, an EU official told reporters on Friday. According to...

The UNESCO's World Heritage Committee added the ancient Palestinian village of Battir to its list of "world heritage sites", as well as the "sites in danger" list on Friday....

The FIFA Congress decided on June 11 to form a neutral committee to monitor Israeli violations against the Palestinian football team, Deputy Director of International Relations at the Palestinian...

Two major Islamic organisations have condemned the election of Israel to the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation. The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (ISESCO) and the Organisation...

Now in the Washington, D.C. area, Kuttab is founder of the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq and also a co-founder of Nonviolence International, which just put out a 45-page...

The United Nations has warned that Iraq's neighbours may be overwhelmed by the mass exodus of refugees fleeing unrest in the country. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio...

The countries participating in the Rome Conference to support the Lebanese army affirmed their readiness to provide it with special technical support. The Conference, which was held in the...

The Syrian regime has agreed to open four border crossings for the safe delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians in Syria, the President of the UN Security Council Ambassador...

The EU Court of Auditors has said "there is no evidence of corruption, mismanagement or diversion of funds" received by the Palestinian Authority (PA) from the EU, a statement...