Morocco has criticised the United Nations Security Council resolution to extend its mission in the Western Sahara for another year. In a statement issued on Sunday the Moroccan foreign...

Israel’s halt of the entry of cement into Gaza has stopped reconstruction work, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) revealed on Friday, according to Quds Press....

Civilian deaths and injuries in Syria revealed a “monstrous disregard for civilian lives by all parties to the conflict”, and warned of “military build-ups indicating preparations for a lethal...

Palestinian suffering and humiliation at the hands of the Israeli occupation occurs on a daily basis and has done ever since the Nakba (“Catastrophe”) of 1948, when the ethnic...

Iran has presented its new military hardware amid typically loud statements from Ayatollah Khamenei. Among the equipment Iran has obtained recently is the S-300 missile system, from Russia, which...

Informed diplomatic sources in Geneva revealed yesterday that a new round of talks on Syria may begin in mid-May. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov had announced earlier that...

Yemeni factions resumed their “direct consultations” yesterday after mediation efforts by Kuwait’s Emir Sabah Al Ahmad Jaber Al Sabah, a source in the Yemeni government’s negotiating delegation said. Al...

We understand from US President Barack Obama’s words that he wants to correct his past mistakes in Libya. He said that he agreed with British Prime Minister David Cameron...

  The head of the Legal Committee in the Palestinian Legislative Council accused the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of “conspiring against the Palestinian cause” describing him as “a failed...

The decision by the French government to call for a consultative meeting in Paris on 30 May to prepare for an international conference on Israeli–Palestinian peace might have caught...

At the age of 21, I crossed Gaza into Egypt to pursue a degree in political science. The timing could have not been worse. The Iraq invasion of Kuwait...

Sixty per cent of the population of Gaza is unemployed, while 70 per cent live in poverty, QudsNet reported yesterday. Secretary-General of the General Federation of Palestine’s Trades Unions...

The Sudanese foreign ministry has said it will formally protest before the United Nations against the United States’ decision to deny Interior Minister Esmat Abdel-Rahman Zein al-Abdin an entry...

The UN agency tasked with looking after Palestinian refugees has expressed concern about the “worrying humanitarian situation” in Yarmouk refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus, QudsNet reported on...

The Houthis announced early this morning their reservations on the points made yesterday by UN Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh on which the Yemeni talks in Kuwait...

US Secretary of State John Kerry is set to meet with his Iranian counterpart, Javad Zarif, today to discuss lifting the sanctions imposed on Iran, Washington confirmed yesterday. State...

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...