The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Wednesday that the conflicts in Middle East and North African countries are putting the lives of 24 million children in danger, Arab48 ...

The top United Nations human rights official yesterday urged Israel to improve conditions for Palestinians prisoners, especially the more than 1,500 whose hunger-strike had entered its 38th day. The...

The Saudi-led coalition yesterday condemned the attempt by the Houthis to assassinate UN envoy to Yemen, Ismail Cheikh Ould Ahmed, when he arrived in Sanaa International Airport on Monday,...

"The days of the so-called Daesh caliphate in Iraq are numbered" and discussions on how to rebuild the country have begun, reported Jan Kubis, head of the UN Assistance...

Democratic reforms that protect and promote human rights in Sudan are among the principle recommendations of the preliminary report of a United Nations independent expert who concluded an 11-day...

UN envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, was shot at immediately after his arrival in Sana'a International Airport yesterday, the Anadolu Agency reported. Ahmed was severely criticised by...

The Algerian Foreign Ministry on Saturday summoned the Moroccan ambassador after its diplomats came under attack by officials from Rabat during a UN meeting in the Caribbean. Earlier, Morocco...

East Libyan forces have targeted rival brigades with a series of air strikes in the southern region of Jufra, officials and witnesses said on Sunday, three days after dozens...

UN envoy Staffan de Mistura ended four days of Syria talks yesterday, saying there had been "incremental progress" and he planned to reconvene negotiations in June. But the warring...

Yemen could have as many as 300,000 cases of cholera within six months and an "extremely high" number of deaths, the World Health Organisation warned today. We need to...

The United Nations Security Council's decision to give Sudan and South Sudan another six months to put together a joint monitoring force in the disputed area of Abyei in...

Football is a beautiful game; full of passion, it is a sport which has ingrained itself in many national cultures bringing out the very best in human nature, and...

An attack on Yemen's Hodeidah port would push the country closer to famine as humanitarian agencies have no other way to deliver all the food and aid that is...

US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said in an interview with CBN that the US embassy should be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem because the city...

The international community is not without outstanding examples of people to emulate, if it ever decides to prioritise Palestinian anti-colonial struggle over legitimising Israel and its violations of international...

Egyptian Army Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Mahmoud Hegazy, yesterday met the leader of the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar, in the Libyan port city...

A protest in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israel closed the doors of the UN office in Ramallah on Wednesday, Quds Press has reported. The protesters...

In an editorial about a recently proposed bill in the Israeli Knesset (parliament) which seeks to impose Israeli law on Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, Haaretz said...

A leaked report last month revealed the lengths to which Israel is going to undermine and sabotage the Palestine solidarity movement. The report, a copy of which has been...

Three workers died and several were injured at a building site in Qatar, which has come under pressure to improve conditions for labourers working on venues for the 2022...

The mistreatment of Palestinians prisoners in Israeli prisons has been condemned amid speculations that Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike are being force-fed. This is a practice which, a UN...

The new US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, has cast doubt over the creation of an independent Palestinian state, while dismissing the conventional wisdom that Israel will cease to...

I have just returned from Rakhine state in western Myanmar, but it feels as if it was a trip to somewhere far more familiar; to Palestine. I know, Rakhine...

Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar staged a large military parade on Tuesday for the third anniversary of his campaign to control Benghazi, as his troops fight to secure two last...

In an effort to reduce the number of United Nations peacekeeping force, Sudan and South Sudan have been given six month by the Security Council to agree and put...

Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Jarallah said on Monday that Kuwait is ready to host Yemeni peace talks if "a final formula to end the ongoing crisis," Kuna has...

Cholera has killed at least 180 people in Yemen in recent weeks, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Monday, a day after authorities declared a...

The State of Israel was formed following the mass expulsion of nearly a million Palestinians. We take a look back at what happened.

Officials in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, controlled by the armed Houthi movement, declared a state of emergency on Sunday after an outbreak of cholera, which has killed dozens...

Western diplomats shunned the opening ceremony of a conference in Qatar on Sunday attended by Sudan's president, who is wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC)....

UNICEF said 97 people have died of cholera and diarrhea outbreaks in Yemen

More than 630,000 people have been displaced in and around Mosul since the beginning of military operations there last October, the United Nations said Friday, citing Iraqi authorities. "This...