International Organisations

Following on from the tragic and brutal murder of the Jordanian fighter pilot Mu'ath Al-Kaseasbeh at the hands of his ISIS captors, many people have been thinking about other...

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticised a recent statement issued by the Quartet saying the group's statement "did not live up to expectations" and "ignored Israel's apparent violation...

European Union envoy to Yemen Bettina Muscheidt intends to leave the crisis-rocked nation within 48 hours "for security reasons," a source with the EU's mission in Yemen said Wednesday....

Israel believes that the European Union is preparing to impose severe sanctions on settlements built on occupied Palestinian land. Officials who have visited European foreign ministries and the EU...

Israeli officials, who recently visited European foreign ministries and the headquarters of the European Union (EU) in Brussels, said that the EU is preparing to impose severe sanctions on...

During the 51st Munich Security Conference last Sunday, the Middle East Quartet urged for a resumption of negotiations between Israel and Palestine and expressed concern about the impediments that...

Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh yesterday rejected the United Nation Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's accusations that he supports the Shia Houthi rebels in "undermining" the political process in Yemen,...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on Friday for international donors to fulfil their pledges to rebuild the Gaza Strip, Anadolu has reported. The financial assistance was pledged at...

The Bethlehem region is increasingly fragmented by Israeli occupation policies, according to a new UN agency factsheet. The OCHA publication, 'Bethlehem governorate: fragmentation and humanitarian concerns', details ways in...

A group of 75 US senators have signed a letter addressed to the current US Secretary of State John Kerry asking him to punish Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas...

Left-wing politicians in the EU Parliament undermined a visit by Israeli Major General Yoav Mordechai because he has "blood on his hands" according to Northern Ireland MEP Martina Anderson....

The European Union ambassador to Morocco Robert Joy said the EU hopes to resume talks over the signing of a comprehensive free trade agreement with Rabat, the Anadolu Agency...

The United Nations team which is investigating potential war crimes committed by Israel during its war on the Gaza Strip last summer will release its report on time next...

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged European Union member states to close satellite channels affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood that are broadcasting via European satellites. During his Tuesday...

A spokesman for the United Nations Secretary General, Estefan Dogrk, said Israel had demanded the removal of William Schabas, the chairman of the UN Human Rights Council commission investigating...

Israel has cheered a UN Human Rights Council decision to appoint American jurist Mary McGowan-Davis as the replacement for William Schabas who resigned from his post as chairman of...

After more than 20 twenty years of laborious and intermittent negotiations, peace remains as elusive as ever in Palestine-Israel, while the civilian death toll, violations of international law and...

The Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has outlined two conditions necessary in order for his country to reach a final agreement on its nuclear file; namely recognising Iran's...

The International Monetary Fund has issued a press release following its latest visit to East Jerusalem and Ramallah, during which the economic decline in both Gaza and the West...

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says it has received $13.5 million from oil-rich Saudi Arabia for Palestinian families affected by Israel's devastating military onslaught on the blockaded...

Palestinian resistance faction Hamas has blamed Israel for the resignation of the head of a commission formed by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to investigate last summer's Israeli...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said that a probe by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) into last year's Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip should be shelved in...

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Sunday said that it will respond to Israel's continued expansion of illegal settlements in occupied Palestinian territories by referring the case to the International Criminal Court...

Evidence gathered by Amnesty International published today indicates that the Egyptian authorities are attempting to cover up the deaths of more than two dozen people who were killed in...

Yemen's General People's Congress (GPC) and the Southern Separatist Movement have withdrawn from a United Nations-sponsored meeting, it has been reported. A source in the GPC, whose leader is...

Hamas described the attack on the United Nations' offices in the Gaza Strip as "unacceptable", stressing that it will not allow any further assaults on the international organisation's offices...

Senior UN official said yesterday that the organisation has been struggling to deliver aid to around 40 per cent of civilians in Syria because of the ongoing struggle and...

A senior leader of Hamas Salah Bardawil said the UN and its Envoy Robert Serry's decision to halt aid to the victims of the Israeli aggression in Gaza has...

The United Nations Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Kyung-wha Kang once again accused the Syrian regime of "using explosive barrel bombings against civilians in Syria", the Anadolu Agency reported. The UN official,...

The UK's permanent representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant "requested to hold a Security Council emergency meeting to discuss the current situation in Lebanon following the...

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin cut short his trip to the United States and will returned to Israel this afternoon after two Israeli soldiers were killed in a Hezbollah missile attack on the border with Lebanon, the...

The State Department has denied that US President Barack Obama's administration has changed its position on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, insisting that the US administration does not imagine a...