The spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Rupert Colville, said on Friday that Sheikh Jarrah's evictions if ordered and implemented, would violate Israel's obligations under international...

The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, is "deeply concerned" by the tension in the occupied West Bank and Israeli attempts to expel Palestinians...

The then United Nations acting envoy to Libya, Stephanie Williams, said on 2 December last year that there are 20,000 foreign fighters and mercenaries in Libya. She described the...

Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent a letter to the United Nations Security Council requesting support in holding legislative elections scheduled later this year. "Iraq has sent a...

More than 700 Libyan migrants have been repatriated in recent days, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced yesterday. "Among the migrants, there were very young children,...

The President of the Palestinian National Council (PNC), Salim Al-Zanoun, has defended the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) over allegations about teaching "hate speech and...

The fifth round of negotiations between Lebanon and Israel on their maritime border demarcation concluded on Tuesday, the official Lebanese News Agency said. Anadolu Agency reported the the agency...

Last week, an informal meeting began in Geneva linked to the Cyprus peace talks. It was an initiative by UN Secretary-General António Guterres as he seeks common ground for...

The UN on Thursday sent 65 truckloads of humanitarian aid to Syria's northwestern Idlib province, Anadolu Agency reported. The trucks crossed into Idlib through the Cilvegozu border gate in Turkey's southern...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has announced that Libyan authorities have rescued 125 children destined for Europe via boat off the Libyan coast, confirming that most were placed...

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) stated on Friday that it was "disappointed" by the European Union (EU) parliament's claims suggesting that UNRWA: "Teaches and...

The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said yesterday there is "no common ground yet" to resume official negotiations to resolve the Cyprus issue. "The truth is that at the...

Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Libya Jan Kubis arrived in war torn country on Monday to meet Libyan interlocutors and officials with the aim of advancing the...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said yesterday that Ankara fully supports the two-state solution to end the dispute over the island of Cyprus. "We fully support the Turkish Cypriots' vision,...

The Egyptian National Action Group (ENAG), which includes opposition figures at home and abroad, called in a statement on the United Nations and the UN Security Council to put...

The leaders of Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriots met in Geneva yesterday to find a common ground on the divided Mediterranean island with the support of the UN, four years after the...

The UK supports a "comprehensive, just and lasting resolution of the Cyprus problem," a British government statement said ahead of unofficial talks that were to commence yesterday in Geneva. " talks...

World powers and Iran sought on Tuesday to speed up efforts to bring Washington and Tehran back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear accord, as the United States reassured...

Rape and sexual violence are being used to pursue political and military goals in Ethiopia's crisis-hit Tigray region, UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock said Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reported. During remarks to...

The United Nations expressed concern over the clashes between government and opposition forces in Somalia, and urged the fighting sides to exercise restraint. In a statement the United Nations...

The Palestinian people are paying the price of the UN Security Council's inability to implement its resolutions in relation to putting an end to the Israeli occupation and illegal...

Israeli settlers have increased their harassment of Palestinian worshippers during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. The Israeli extremists usually carry out their attacks with the full protection of...

The United Nations (UN) has reiterated the importance of all Palestinians in all occupied Palestinian territories participating in the elections, Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, told journalists...

According to the United Nations (UN), 172 migrants are believed to have drowned off the Libyan coast in the past few days. This came in a tweet by the...

Tunisia's representative in the United Nations (UN) Security Council has stated that despite the decisions issued by the UN, Israel continues to occupy Palestinian territory and inflict injustices on...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) said Israeli authorities have demolished or confiscated 20 structures owned by Palestinians in Area C of the...

United Nations human rights experts today urged Switzerland to repatriate two Geneva sisters from a squalid camp in north-eastern Syria five years after the girls were allegedly abducted by...

A brief but revealing press statement marked the meeting of US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield with the Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine...

The Palestinian Ministry of Religious Endowments in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday condemned the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)'s exclusion of religion from its digital...

The West Darfur state, in the far west of Sudan, yesterday declared Geneina a disaster-stricken area and requested urgent humanitarian intervention from the federal government as a result of tribal fighting...

Turkey, Qatar, and the UN have agreed to postpone the Istanbul Conference for the Afghanistan peace process, a joint statement issued today has revealed. The high-level conference hosted by...

Sudan's foreign minister on Tuesday said she briefed the UN Security Council on the failure of the Kinshasa talks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project, Anadolu Agency reported. In...