What UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in his remarks to the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People affirmed the inherent hypocrisy of...

UNESCO said it might send a mission to document Israeli violations in occupied Jerusalem, Al-Wattan Voice reported yesterday. Speaking to Palestine Voice, representative of the Palestinian Authority (PA) to...

The Turkish president said on Tuesday that Turkey would not be able to shoulder a new potential migration wave on its own, Anadolu Agency reports. Speaking in Istanbul at...

Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to start withdrawing forces from the main port of Hudaydah under a UN-sponsored deal, the United Nations said, following weeks of diplomacy to salvage...

The United Nations (UN) yesterday called on Iraq to form a government as soon as possible, asking the country’s political parties to fill the four ministerial positions which remain...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secretly met Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Nasser Bourita, on the side-lines of the UN General Assembly meeting last September. The...

The Israeli cabinet yesterday approved a bill to deduct $138 million from the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s tax revenue in a bid to stop prisoners’ stipends. Israel collects customs duties...

Yemen’s Houthi group yesterday announced that it had taken control over a number of sites inside the Saudi territory. Pro-Houthi SABA reported that the group’s “army forces and popular committees...

Yemeni government and Houthi representatives have reached an agreement on the first phase of their redeployment of forces under a UN-sponsored deal for the warring armies to leave the...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday his government would not bargain over the country’s constitution with the Turkey-backed opposition, lambasting a UN peace process that aims to rewrite...

The new UN envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, said yesterday that “some serious discussions could be a door-opener to a political process that will lead to a negotiated outcome...

The head of the UN urged Israel on Friday to remove restrictions on Palestinian freedom of movement, Anadolu Agency reports. I urge Israel to lift restrictions on the movement of people...

Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs has released a report called Terrorists in Suits: The Ties Between NGOs promoting BDS and Terrorist Organisations. The report has a sense of melodrama,...

Israel has refused to allow representatives of the UN Security Council to visit the occupied West Bank. Israel’s Channel 7 reported yesterday that the Palestinians proposed the visit on...

UN Special Coordinator Nickolay Mladenov yesterday revealed that the UN is preparing work projects to create 10,000 job opportunities in the Gaza Strip. During his participation in the Palestine...

Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh has phoned the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East, Nickolay Mladenov, asking him to put pressure on Israel to commit to a truce. Haniyeh...

A German migrant rescue ship has been renamed after Syrian child refugee Aylan Kurdi, whose image sparked an international outcry over Europe’s migrant crisis after he washed up on...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the African Union to send monitors for potential Palestinian elections. While speaking at the 32nd meeting of the African Union,...

UNICEF has said that it is “saddened” by the Israel’s killing of two children in the Gaza Strip this weekend. In a statement yesterday, UNICEF’s Regional Director for the...

The fiancée of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said on Friday she would welcome a change in Donald Trump’s approach to the killing, and may visit the United States...

The highest Shia cleric in Iraq rejected on Wednesday the notion of turning Iraq into a platform to monitor or harm other countries. Ayatollah Ali Sistani made his comment...

Talks on a UN-sponsored prisoner swap in Yemen’s war could drag on for months if the Saudi-backed government denies the existence of thousands of Houthi fighters in captivity, the...

The UN urged Yemen’s Houthi rebels Thursday to restore access to a grain storage site at a key port city after nearly a half-year blockade and a worsening famine...

A UN watchdog urged Syria on Thursday to grant full rights to its displaced children, adding that thousands had been killed, tortured or enslaved during the country’s civil war,...

The Sahrawi population in Tindouf camps, Algeria, have risen together against the Algerian government to protest the disappearance of a Sahrawi intellectual, Ahmed El Khalil, since his 2009 abduction...

A United Nations-led inquiry into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said on Thursday that evidence pointed to a brutal crime “planned and perpetrated” by Saudi officials, reports...

The US blocked a draft United Nations Security Council statement yesterday from issuing a statement that would have expressed concerns over Israel’s decision to expel the international observatory task...

The largest United Nations humanitarian aid convoy since the start of the Syrian conflict has reached Rukban refugee camp, where thousands of desperate people are stranded in the desert...

It is very nice to see the delegation of the UN ambassadors touring the Israeli-Lebanese borders early week to follow up closely on Israeli efforts to fight the alleged...

The European Union’s Foreign Policy Chief, Federica Mogherini said yesterday that a political solution in Syria is a precondition to normalising relations with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, the Anadolu...

A committee overseeing a ceasefire in Hudaydah will hold its next meeting on a ship off the port city as Yemen’s warring parties cannot agree on a venue, Yemeni...

The UN refugee agency on Friday expressed “great concern” for the security of thousands of civilians threatened by terrorist groups in eastern Syria, Anadolu Agency reports. In a regular press briefing...