Palestinians have filed a complaint to the UN against Israel for numerous violations including breaches of its obligations under international anti-racism treaty. The move, which is likely to trigger...

Two Palestinians, including a deaf teenager, have succumbed to wounds sustained during the ongoing “Great March of Return” protests in the besieged Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Ministry of Health...

UN Special Envoy for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov clashed with a former Israeli army spokesman on Twitter after the UN official slammed Israel’s violent response to...

Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir yesterday discussed with African Union Peace and Security Commissioner, Ismail Sharqi, the United Nations Security Council decision to reduce United Nations African Union Mission in...

An international human rights group late Saturday called on the UN to have a “permanent” presence in the “Great March of Return” protests along the Gaza-Israel borders, which this...

Iraq resumed paying Kuwait compensation on Friday for the destruction of Kuwaiti oil fields and facilities during the 1990-91 Gulf War, the United Nations said in Geneva in a prepared...

The US administration is resolved to “destroy the peace process and the two-state option”, the Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s (PLO) Executive Committee, Saeb Erekat, said yesterday. Erekat’s remarks...

Israeli forces have been forced to evacuate one area of the border after protesters burned tyres in an effort to reach the fence, with the fumes drifting into the small kibbutz of Alumim

Romania will follow the US and soon move its embassy to Jerusalem, Liviu Dragnea, the president of the Chamber of Deputies and a member of Romania’s ruling party, revealed...

The human cost of Israel’s crackdown on Palestinian protesters in the occupied Gaza Strip is “a crisis on top of a catastrophe”, a senior United Nations official has stated....

Sudan’s Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour has been relieved of his duties yesterday following the issuance of a presidential decree, Sudan News Agency reported. On Wednesday, Ghandour updated parliament on...

Rockets hit Libya’s main airport and damaged a plane as it was waiting to take off early on Thursday, a security force said, underscoring fragile security. One rocket hit an...

The Syrian government stepped up its efforts on Thursday to retake the opposition’s last besieged enclaves, as rebels prepared to withdraw from one and a newspaper reported an ultimatum...

Five Saudi soldiers were killed yesterday in clashes with the Houthi along the Kingdom’s southern border with Yemen, local media reported. Saudi fighter jets launched raids on groups of...

The UK government must ensure arms it provides to Israel and trade ties with the country are not used to support unlawful actions against Palestinians by Tel Aviv, members...

Shortly after the missile attack on Syria, US Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump bragged in his usual pompous way that it was “mission accomplished”. In Britain, there was no such display...

UN human rights experts have condemned “the continued use of firearms, including live ammunition” by Israeli forces “against mostly unarmed Palestinian protesters and observers” for a third straight week...

The United Nations yesterday warned Israel of the dangers of deporting Palestinian Bedouins from occupied East Jerusalem. In a report issued following a visit by the UN Humanitarian Coordinator...

Sudan has filed a complaint at the United Nations Security Council against Egypt after it allowed residents of the disputed Halayeb triangle to vote in last month’s presidential elections....

The United Nation’s envoy to Yemen plans to unveil a new framework to end the civil war which has entered its third year, Martin Griffiths told the Security Council...

The Moroccan-US joint military training, known as the African Lion Manoeuvres 2018, have been launched in Morocco under the orders of King Mohammed VI and will continue until April...

Syrian UN Ambassador Bashar Ja’afari said a United Nations security team traveled to the Syrian town of Douma on Tuesday ahead of a planned visit by international chemical weapons...

Israel is currently hosting a fifth of all ambassadors to the UN in an effort to change the country’s image among the international community, according to the Jerusalem Post....

Algerian writer and human rights activist, Anwar Malek has ruled out the possibility of war between Algeria and Morocco over the recent escalations between Rabat and the Polisario in...

Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz said yesterday that the Palestinian issue is “the number one” Arab issue and East Jerusalem is the capital of the State of Palestine. “The...

A Russian bid for the United Nations Security Council to condemn US, British and French air strikes on Syria over a suspected chemical weapons attack failed on Saturday after...

Russia on Saturday called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council as Moscow said it would consider supplying S-300 missile systems to Syria following US-led strikes....

Turkey has welcomed a joint strike by the US, UK, and France against the Assad regime in the wake of a suspected chemical attack, which killed dozens outside of...

As Mohammed Bin Salman’s global tour continues in a bid to stabilise Riyadh’s economy, his foreign policy needs revising to ensure political and security risks aren’t deepening. After three...

A human rights defender will be facing trial in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after more than one year imprisonment, the International Campaign for Freedom in the United Arab...

Lebanese President Michel Aoun announced yesterday that his country would file a complaint to the UN Security Council against the “Israeli violation of Lebanese sovereignty”. Speaking during the weekly...

Palestine is still at the heart of the politics of the Middle East, good and bad alike, and the pounding heart of Palestine is charitable and humanitarian work by...