Turkey rejected on Friday the human rights violations claims in northern Syria laid out in a report by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry and following criticism. We categorically...

The United Nations (UN) announced on Thursday that 730,000 people have been seriously affected by the floods in Sudan, in the worst crisis the country has faced in decades....

Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) declared on Friday that it will not allow Wagner mercenaries to be part of the oil industry in the country. This came in a...

US President Donald Trump’s administration says that on Saturday (2000 EDT/0000 GMT Sunday) all United Nations sanctions on Iran have to be restored and a conventional arms embargo on...

A meeting between the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels on swapping prisoners and detainees have started in Geneva, the UN’s envoy to Yemen announced on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports. “My message...

US Congress on Wednesday sent a letter to the State Department calling for $73 million in aid to Yemen halted in March by President Donald Trump to be restored, Foreign...

US President Donald Trump will not travel to New York on Tuesday for his speech to the United Nations General Assembly, but will deliver the address from the White...

In a joint statement signed on Tuesday, 31 NGOs called for the international community and the United Nations (UN) to put pressure on the parties in Yemen to stop...

The UN on Wednesday dispatched six trucks with humanitarian aid to northwestern Syria, where millions of people remain in need of assistance due to internal conflict, Anadolu reports. The...

The Libyan government denied what was published by Arab and international media about an expected meeting between the head of the Presidential Council, Fayez Al-Sarraj, and renegade General Khalifa...

Thousands of Yemenis could soon lose access to telecommunications and internet services in the capital, Sanaa, due to a lack of fuel needed to operate the corporation’s facilities, Yemen’s Saba news...

At least 114 people have been killed and nearly 100,000 homes have been destroyed in Sudan as devastating floods, the worst in nearly a century, have swept the country.

Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, said on Monday that the status of the city of Jerusalem should be “decided” by Israel and the Palestinians. Answering a question during...

The UN Security Council on Tuesday asked Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to appoint a special envoy to broker peace in Libya, although Russia and China abstained from voting on the...

Palestinians protests outside the UNESCO office in Gaza against Bahrain's normalisation deal with Israel

Turkey must rein in Syrian rebels it supports in northern Syria who may have carried out kidnappings, torture, and looting of civilian property, United Nations war crimes investigators said...

The European Union (EU) has contributed €500,000 ($594,897) to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to improve hygiene and sanitation measures in the...

The UN migration agency has said that at least 24 people have drowned or are dead in the sea off the coast of Libya. A boat carrying refugees on...

UN peacekeeping forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) announced yesterday that they had rescued 36 migrants outside Lebanese territorial waters, AP reported. According to a press release issued by UNIFIL, there were 37...

Talks on the Libyan crisis being held in Switzerland and Morocco are designed to exclude renegade General Khalifa Haftar, former US presidential aide, Jeffrey Feltman, announced yesterday. In a...

Interference in aid operations by parties to Yemen’s conflict must stop as it is deterring donors and putting at risk millions of people who are dependent on assistance, Human...

At least 90 peacekeepers stationed with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) have contracted Covid-19, a spokesperson said yesterday. According to Agence France Presse (AFP), 88 of the...

The United Nations (UN) announced on Thursday that it closed down 70 per cent of life-saving reproductive health programmes at the start of September due to lack of funds,...

Amnesty International has called for an independent and impartial international investigation into the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered by a Saudi hit squad inside the kingdom’s consulate in...

About a week after Moscow denied the presence of soldiers in Libya, a plane crashed and its pilot, who sent a video in Russian to seek help, survived, raising...

Should we take the Nobel Peace Prize seriously? This year’s nominations include two polar opposites: Cuba’s Henry Reeves Brigade, whose medical interventions in the coronavirus context have placed the...

A UN report released yesterday has named Canada for the first time among the countries that are fuelling the war in Yemen. The findings cover June 2019 to June...

The United Nations Children’s Fund has said that around eight million children are now out of school in Yemen due to the war and Covid-19 pandemic. UNICEF gave the...

Weapons provided by Western powers and Iran to the warring sides in Yemen are fuelling the six-year-old conflict, marked by deadly Saudi-led coalition airstrikes and Houthi shelling, UN investigators...

The Houthi will close Sanaa International Airport to relief flights including the United Nations from today. The group’s foreign ministry said in a letter sent to the United Nations...

The UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions has said that the sentences imposed by the Saudi Arabian authorities following the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi lack legitimacy. “These verdicts...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) yesterday announced that it had detected two coronavirus cases in the Azraq camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan. The humanitarian organisation...