The Algerian Parliament yesterday approved a bill criminalising joining, recruiting or funding the activities of terrorist organisations, the Anadolu Agency reported. Algerian National Popular Council, the first parliament chamber,...

The predictions made by those observing developments in the relationship between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement — Hamas — range between the possibility of another war soon...

A blind student in the Gaza Strip has won a human rights competition organised in UNRWA schools in the territory, QudsNet reported on Tuesday. Yasmin Al-Najjar, 13, studies at...

Thirteen years ago, US occupation forces entered Baghdad, proud of their victory over a country that has been under an unjust and deadly blockade for more than a decade,...

UNESCO rejects the use of “Temple Mount” to refer to Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) has become the latest UN agency in Jordan to drop G4S, following a campaign by the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions...

The Syrian opposition coalition decided to postpone its participation in the ongoing talks in Geneva on Monday due to a lack of progress in the humanitarian situation and the...

'There is no alternative for political agreement which will lead to the country’s prosperity,' Kobler told reporters on Sunday in Tripoli.

A recent resolution adopted by the UN’s culture agency criticizing “Israeli aggression” and restrictions on Muslim worship at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque has prompted accusations by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...

Three United Nations human rights experts have expressed grave concern over Egypt’s ongoing crackdown on human rights activists and civil society organisations in the country. The experts issued a...

Three United Nations human rights experts have expressed concern over Egypt’s continuing crackdown on human rights defenders and civil society organisations in the country. The experts issued a joint...

As the Syria conflict enters its sixth year, the Bashar al-Assad regime has announced its intention to hold parliamentary polls on April 13 in regime-controlled parts of the country....

A ceasefire between the fighting parties in Yemen started on Monday morning ahead of talks scheduled to begin on 18 April in Kuwait under the auspices of the United...

An eight-member European delegation visited the Gaza Strip on Monday and was shown the devastation left by the last Israeli offensive, Anadolu reported. The delegation, which was chaired by...

The shortfall in donations has undermined the reconstruction of thousands of destroyed homes in the Gaza Strip, a senior UN official stressed yesterday. In a press release, Director of...

A member of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, Libyan scholar Dr Ali Sallabi has called on the Libyan national unity government and its opponents to resort to dialogue...

The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien has expressed “serious concerns” about the ongoing exclusion of medical supplies from aid convoys as a...

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday appealed to the international community to share the burden of Syrian refugees and to increase cooperation with Syria’s neighbour, noting that these...

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution on 24 March put forward by the Palestinian Authority which included Clause 17 “to produce a database of all...

Over 900 children have been killed and nearly 1,300 others injured as a result of the Yemen conflict in the past year alone, according to a report released on...

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees said it has partially suspended its operations on the Greek islands after the agreement reached between the European Union and Turkey, saying the...

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has voted to establish a database of businesses involved in Israeli settlements, despite opposition from the US and European Union member states....

The Syrian government gave “oral” agreement for humanitarian convoys to head to four besieged areas, but excluded the cities of Duma and Darya, Reuters reported a senior UN official...

Yemen’s President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi said on Wednesday that UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed has informed him that the Houthi rebel group has agreed to implement UN...

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is set to vote on Thursday on whether to establish a database of businesses involved in Israeli settlements. The UNHRC, meeting in...

The UN Special envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura asked the Syrian regime delegation to the Geneva talks to submit a concrete working paper on its vision for political...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) announced yesterday that it would pay around $6 million to reconstruct and repair Palestinian...

Abrupt and unprecedented developments have characterised a long week in Moroccan-Sahara diplomacy. Signs of disagreement arose when UN chief Ban Ki-moon refused to reschedule his visit to North Africa....

Demonstrators held a protest outside UNICEF’s office in London on Friday evening urging it to end its contract with British security company G4S. Activists from Inminds human rights group...

Former Egyptian parliamentarians, who were members of the Shura Council that got dissolved when then-President Mohamed Morsi was ousted on 3 July 2013, called on the United Nations and...

Matters are getting complicated for the Libyan national accord government due to the refusal of the Tripoli parliament and its own government to recognise it. This is despite the...

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has announced plans to build four new schools in the Gaza Strip funded by the...