The Saudi Arabia-led military coalition is responsible for an “unacceptably high” 51 per cent of child deaths and injuries in Yemen last year, according to a draft United Nations...

A new round of Astana talks on Syria will be held at the end of this month, the UN’s envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, announced yesterday. Speaking at...

Security forces in eastern Libya said on Thursday they had arrested the commander of an elite forces unit who is sought by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for allegedly...

Earlier this week Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari asked the UN to help Iraq establish a special UN commission to investigate crimes committed by Daesh. The announcement appears to...

Latin America is once again Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s diplomatic target, at a time when violence in the region fomented by US imperialism is once again rising to...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced yesterday the appointment of former German President Horst Köhler as the UN envoy for Western Sahara. Köhler has more than 35 years of experience...

A Kurdish official has denied remarks conveyed by an Israeli MK claiming that Kurdish officials visited Israel and asked for their help in seeking independence from Iraq, Anadolu reported...

A former United Nations human rights investigator and emeritus professor of international law at Princeton University in the US said it was “clear that all the major issues international...

One of the changes US President Donald Trump has been working to make since his presidency is a change to the laws regarding humanitarian food aid to the world,...

The Yemeni governorate of Taiz hosts 15 per cent of the internally displaced Yemenis, the Anadolu Agency reported the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) saying yesterday. Om Twitter,...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Felipe Grande, is due to visit Sudan on Sunday to inspect refugee camps in the eastern Darfur region, a Sudanese official...

A political crisis in Gaza is depriving two million people of electricity, vital medical care and clean water in sweltering summer temperatures, the United Nations human rights office said...

A German court today sentenced three Syrian men for running a smuggling ring from Turkey to Europe over the deaths of 13 migrants in the Mediterranean two years ago....

Spain witnessed a three-fold increase in refugees entering the country using the sea-route this year when compared to the same period last year, the UN migration agency said today....

Kuwait began enforcing economic sanctions against North Korea Thursday that include eliminating direct flights to and from that country, said a source in Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry. He reiterated his country’s...

UNICEF warned yesterday that more than half a million children in Libya need help and called on warring parties to end the violence and negotiate a political solution to...