International Organisations

As Iraq's delicate sectarian make-up has been gradually ripped open and existential battles have ignited, the West has so far passed resolutions blindly. These are based on the supposed...

A humanitarian aid convoy entered Syria without a permit from the Syrian government on Thursday, the United Nations said. According to the spokeswoman of the UN Office for the...

A spokesperson for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described the decision on Wednesday by the UN Human Rights Council to form an international inquiry mission to investigate all...

The EU froze on Wednesday the assets of two oil companies as they suspect them in taking part in covert oil shipments for the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad....

Hamas announced on Tuesday evening that it had agreed to a US proposal for a ceasefire during the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's visit to the region, but Israel's...

The US said on Wednesday that the UN decision to investigate all violations committed during the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip is unfair and "one-sided". The United Nations...

Permanent Iraqi representative to the UN Mohamed Ali Al-Hakim yesterday called for the UN Security Council to help Iraq in order to face ISIS, Al-Sharq newspaper reported. Al-Hakeem warned...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement announced on Tuesday evening that it had agreed to a US proposal for a ceasefire during the visit of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to...

The United Nation's Human Rights Council is holding a special meeting tomorrow to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip in response to a request ​made by Egypt, Palestine...

The European Union decided yesterday to extend the suspension of sanctions imposed on Iran specified in the Joint Plan of Action agreed by P5+1 and Iran last year until...

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has called on Israel to halt its aggression against the Gaza Strip, noting it is complicating efforts to provide medical care to casualties. In a...

Another Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip; it's not the first and won't be the last if the political equation in the region does not change. With the...

The Arab Doctors Union called on the United Nations to swiftly intervene to help open "humanitarian corridors" in the embattled Gaza Strip, a statement said today. The ADU expressed...

The European Union Parliament yesterday urged member states to support a new resolution urging the United Nations Human Rights Council to begin an international investigation into the killing of...

President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz met on Thursday in Brussels with Nikos Anastasiades, the president of the southern part of the island of Cyprus, and reiterated the...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) announced Thursday that some 20 rockets had been discovered hidden in a vacant school...

  Several European Union parliamentarians have made it clear that they hold Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki and his policies responsible for the crisis engulfing the country. Their remarks...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on political leaders in Iraq to form an "inclusive" government representing all the political blocs, and which reflects the national spirit of Iraq. He...

German footballer Mesut Ozil, who plays for Arsenal, said he is donating his World Cup earnings to the children of Gaza following his country's triumph in the cup. The...

Government owned Tunisian Airlines has canceled all flights to the Libyan cities of Tripoli and Misrata for security reasons, the company said in a statement yesterday. "The airline canceled...

China's Special Envoy to the Middle East Wu Sike will be visiting a number of states in the Middle East, including Palestine and Israel, in a tour of the...

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...