Political parties in Libya’s capital rejected a draft proposal on Tuesday which was put forward by UN envoy Bernardino Leon. The proposal is intended to bring about an end...

UN envoy Bernardino Leon’s proposal to recognise the Tobruk parliament is “disappointing, unbalanced and disrespectful of the country’s Supreme Court ruling”, the Anadolu Agency reported a senior Libyan official...

The United Nations Security Council yesterday called on the UN chief Ban Ki-moon to find a political solution to the current crisis in Yemen, the Anadolu Agency reported. Jordan’s...

A UN board of inquiry has concluded that the Israeli army was responsible for seven attacks on UN facilities during last year’s assault on Gaza, strikes that killed 44...

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on European countries not to resort to military solutions to prevent migrants drowning in the Mediterranean Sea, the Anadolu Agency reported. In...

PLO member and head of the Department of Refugee Affairs Zakaria Al-Agha yesterday called for the donor countries to increase their financial support for UNRWA to help resolve the...

UN Security Council (UNSC) in a statement called on Friday for all the Syrian parties to “immediately” end all forms of violence and reiterated that they “immediately” allow humanitarian...

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon yesterday voiced his organisation’s concern over the resumption of airstrikes in Yemen by a Saudi-led coalition. “When I read the report that fighting...

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is reported to be following up on the implications on Egypt’s ousted President Mohamed Morsi’s sentence on the country’s overall situation, a UN...

The UK’s Department for International Development is giving the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) £30 million of funding for the...

The United Nations has started looking west in a despondent attempt to find asylum for the millions of refugees streaming out of Syria. Last week UN High Commissioner for...

Jordan’s deputy prime minister and minister of foreign and expatriate affairs, Nasser Judeh, said on Tuesday that the UN Security Council will meet next week to review its position...

The very possibility of reaching a two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to recede with potentially explosive consequences, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday. In a briefing to...

Syrian armed opposition groups have rejected accusations made against them by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of committing sexual violence in Syria during the period of Januar-December 2014, the...

United Nations denied that it had mediated between the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas and Israel in order to reach a long-term truce and to agree on using the cement...

UN envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon said Sunday that 80 percent of a UN draft proposal to resolve the Libyan crisis has been agreed to by the country’s warring...

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif submitted on Friday a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon proposing a four-point peace plan for the conflict in Yemen, Anadolu reported. “I would...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif urged UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to put an immediate end to Operation Storm of Resolve in Yemen and provide humanitarian aid to the...

Members of the UN Security Council held a closed meeting yesterday to hear testimonies related to the use of chlorine gas in Syria. During the meeting, a video showing...

Some 12 million children in the Middle East are out of school as a result of poverty, sexual discrimination and violence, in spite of efforts to increase the education...

The United Nations official charged with coordinating the Middle East peace process yesterday reiterated his demands to the Israeli authorities to the release millions of dollars in tax revenues...

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday accused Syrian regime forces and six armed groups of committing rape and other acts of sexual violence in Syria during the...

The Libyan General National Congress (GNC) warned that it would suspend participation in the United Nations (UN) backed national dialogue in the Moroccan city of Skhirat, Anadolu news agency...

The United States yesterday called on Iran to respect the United Nations Security Council’s newly passed arms embargo on Yemen and stop supporting Shia Houthi rebels there, the Anadolu...

The UN Security Council will vote today on a draft resolution which calls for those involved in Yemen’s Shia Houthi insurgency to be blacklisted, diplomatic sources said. If adopted,...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday called on the Egyptian authorities to stop using violence against their people and to listen to their aspirations instead. Ban, speaking in Doha...

Israel is increasingly jailing Palestinians without charge or trial, according to the office of a senior UN human rights official. A spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described attempts by Shia Houthi rebels and their allies in Yemen to control territories by force and to undermine the government’s legitimate authority as...

A United Nations official said the Israeli recent war on Gaza Strip left nearly 7,000 unexploded ordnances and demanded for them to be defused as a result. The U.N....

So relentless has the violence convulsing the Middle East become that an attack on yet another Arab country and its descent into full-scale war barely registers in the rest...

A meeting reportedly takes place in New York today to decide whether or not to include the Israeli military on a list of serious violators of children’s rights, amid...

Trapped civilians in Yarmouk are “more desperate than ever” amid fighting in the camp, the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said...