International Organisations

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah denied media reports claiming the European Union has stopped channelling money earmarked for Gaza employees and pensioners. Hamdallah told the Anadolu Agency, on the...

In a letter to the UN Security Council, Yemeni Ambassador to the UN Khalid Al-Yamani urged the council to approve a ground operation in his country, mainly in Taiz...

UAE citizens will be allowed to access Europe without having to apply for a visa before arrival after authorities signed a visa waiver agreement yesterday. The Permanent Representative of...

The Europeans have been forging an increasingly specific policy towards the Arab-Israeli conflict, centred on the Green (1949 Armistice) Line as the provisional border between Israel and Palestine. While...

UNICEF has distributed aid to families that it has been unable to reach for two years, the organisation revealed yesterday. According to a statement issued by the organisation, the...

The smuggling of migrants from Africa to Europe generates $150 million annually to its perpetrators, a senior UN official revealed yesterday. In a press conference held at the United...

The Turkish prime minister said on Sunday that xenophobia and exclusion on the basis of sectarian, religious and ethnic differences are the biggest threat facing Europe today. Ahmet Davutoğlu...

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Sunday that it has received just 18 per cent of the funds needed for the reconstruction of...

Over 3,500 Palestinian children are stranded in Syria's flashpoint Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has said. "There are some 3,500 children stranded...

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) on Saturday called for protecting civilians in the Palestinian Yarmouk refugee camp, southern Syrian capital Damascus. The agency called on the Syrian...

The Syrian regime has shelled the Yarmouk refugee camp late Friday in southern Damascus, a local activist said. This is not the Syrian regime's first attack on the camp....

The UN has denied media allegations about Saudi Arabia setting conditions for its relief efforts in Yemen. It is claimed that Riyadh donated more than $275 million to alleviate...

A United Nations report revealed that Iran has been arming the Houthis since 2009, confirming accusations made by Arab and Western countries against Tehran regarding its support of the...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday called on the Syrian regime to "immediately" stop shelling the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, in the outskirts of Damascus, a statement said. "The...

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...