Israeli army yesterday announced that it had uncovered new observation point near the borders with Lebanon used by Hezbollah to monitor the army’s infrastructure in the area, Ynet News...

Iran has begun withdrawing its fighters from areas in northern and northeastern Syria for more than two weeks, Kuwait’s Al-Jarida reported yesterday. According to the paper, the Iranians have...

Chief of B'Tselem slammed Israel's violations against the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip

The ICC should expedite the opening of a criminal investigation into the ongoing Israeli crimes against Palestinians and properties as “war crimes and crimes against humanity”, senior Palestinian official...

The United Nations has signed purchase agreements with Israeli companies specialising in water and security services worth tens of millions of shekels. The deals have been made in the...

The German Development Bank has signed an agreement with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) to provide the UN agency with an additional €8 million ($9.2m) to...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday met with the leadership of liberal Zionist advocacy group J Street at his headquarters in Ramallah, reported the Times of Israel. Abbas welcomed...

The UN General Assembly voted on Tuesday by an overwhelming majority to grant the State of Palestine enhanced rights and privileges, allowing it to take over the chair of...

Turkey’s release of Reverend Andrew Brunson so that he can return to the US can be viewed as a step towards normalising Turkish-American relations. This could pave the way...

United Nations Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura told the Security Council today that he plans to step down at the end of November for personal reasons after more than...

As many as 206 Palestinian refugees including 20 women from the Yarmouk refugee camp are secretly being held in Syrian regime prisons, a rights group said. The Action Group...

Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said yesterday that Hamas had crossed all red lines, stressing that the Israeli cabinet “must” take a decision to launch a “serious blow” to...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) Michelle Bachelet yesterday called on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the lift diplomatic immunity of its officials in Istanbul...

The 193-member United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday allowed the Palestinians to act more like a full UN member state during meetings in 2019 when they will chair the...

The government in Amman kept its promise to open the border crossing with Syria in the event that the latter met the required conditions. This is contrary to the...

Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi has sacked Prime Minister Ahmed Bin Dagher, accusing him of “negligence” in running the country, Saba news agency has reported. The Yemeni premier has...

In 2015, Israel approved a law that stipulated a 20 year prison sentence for individuals caught throwing stones. The intention was to target Palestinians involved in resistance activities, despite...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said yesterday that 2.2 million Yemeni children are suffering from acute malnutrition and need immediate care. “As the fourth year of conflict in...

Israel does not owe its existence to the genocide of the Jews during the Second World War but, without a doubt, the Holocaust played a significant role in speeding...

US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, has made her post a “more glamorous” position than her predecessors – as President Donald Trump described Haley’s 2-year term at the...

Every Gazan who lives in Jordan must pay $300 to renew their passport. They must also pay for their medical treatment, whether they visit a government or private hospital,...

The CEO and Executive Vice President of the World Jewish Congress submitted a petition to the Deputy Director of the UN Environment Programme last week signed by over 22,000...

The United Nations said yesterday that heavy rains and flash floods have affected about 195,000 people in 15 of Sudan’s 18 states, the Anadolu Agency reported. The United Nations...

Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah refused to meet with the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov, following sharp disagreement over Mladenov’s role...

Forces loyal to Libyan strongman General Khalifa Haftar said yesterday that they are prepared to secure any electoral process in the country by protecting polling stations in their areas...

Canada has announced that it is contributing $50 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Some $40 million would be allocated over two...

It's UN International Girls Day -and these girls have some pretty cool career plans!

Thousands of Syrians stranded on Jordan’s border with Syria are running out of food as routes leading to their camp are closed by the Syrian army and Jordan is...

Russia has rejected Israel’s claim to sovereignty over the Golan Heights which has been under Israeli occupation for 51 years. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov indicated that his country...

Students in a small school in Yemen’s Saada province have returned to class in the absence of their friends who were killed in an air strike on a bus...

When Donald J Trump was three years old the UN General Assembly met a few blocks away from where he was born and adopted Resolution 302. That was in...

The Syrian regime is preventing refugees from returning to areas where it has made demographic changes on the ground, a Lebanese minister said yesterday. Minister of State for Refugees...