A European parliament delegation that attempted to enter the besieged Gaza Strip to assess the residual damage of Israel’s 2014 military offensive was denied entry by Israeli authorities today....

UN mediator Staffan de Mistura said today that he expects no breakthrough at Syria peace talks starting tomorrow, but the beginning of a series of rounds of negotiations that...

UNRWA said will be able to complete repair work to all houses in the Gaza Strip which suffered severe partial damage as a resulted of the 2014 Israeli offensive...

According to Marta Rueda, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, Sudan is taking some very positive steps which are recognised, and… normally that would need to be recognised...

A leader of the Muslim Brotherhood group in Libya, Bashir Al-Kabti, has denounced the statements made by Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar in which he described the Brotherhood as...

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull offered a staunch defence of Israel on Wednesday, criticising the United Nations and vowing never to support “one-sided resolutions” calling for an end to...

The US-backed Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance has crossed into Deir ez-Zor province for the first time as part of an offensive against Daesh, a Kurdish military source said...

The trial of the son of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi did not meet international standards and he should be brought in front of the International Criminal Court (ICC),...

Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Al-Sarraj survived an attack on his motorcade on Monday, his officials have revealed. He was en route to the opening of the new criminal investigation...

Israeli authorities today destroyed a pipeline supplying the northern Jordan Valley communities with drinking water under the premise that it was “built without a permit”. Mutaz Bsharat, an official...

On 23 December, Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi told the UN General Assembly that he has pledged to “grab” his country from “Iran’s claws”

Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Al-Sarraj of the UN-backed government in Tripoli said on Sunday he would like Russia to help overcome deadlock in the country, which is struggling with...

The United Nations and other parties to Syrian peace efforts on Sunday softened any expectations of a major breakthrough at UN-led talks in Geneva next week, with US policy...

US Republican senators plan to introduce legislation to impose further sanction on Iran, accusing it of violating UN Security Council resolutions by testing ballistic missiles and acting to “destabilise”...

The chief negotiator for the Syrian opposition delegation for the 2017 Geneva talks, Mohamed Sabra, has said that the international community does not appear to be serious about the...

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Thursday the United States still supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a day after President Donald Trump...

The United Nations warned yesterday of catastrophic flooding in Syria from the Tabqa dam near Raqqa, which is at risk from high water levels and deliberate sabotage by Daesh...

A Palestinian think-tank, the Council on International Relations (CIR), considered nominating alleged war criminal and former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni for a senior UN position as an “unprecedented...

France has called on the UN Security Council to issue a resolution to punish those responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Human Rights Watch said in...

Six years ago North Africa and the Middle East were engulfed by the fires of the Arab Spring in events that seemed unfathomable barely a year before. Fast forward...

Some Palestinians assume that the resolution of the conflict with the Israeli occupation must be by force alone and that we are facing a battle in the traditional and...

The UN voiced its support on Monday for the Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) against threats of protests led by the Shia Cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr, Anadolu has reported....

Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticised on Monday Israel’s continuous construction of settlements in the occupied West Bank, Anadolu has reported. During a speech in Bahrain, the Turkish president called it...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday he believed former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad was the right person to be the world body’s envoy to Libya after the...

Empirical historical evidence combined with little common-sense are enough to tell us the type of future options that Israel has in store for the Palestinian people: perpetual apartheid or...

Qatari Ambassador Mohammed Al-Emadi accused the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank of “hindering” Qatar’s projects in the fields of energy and resolving the electricity crisis in the...

Islamophobia in parts of the world is fuelling terrorism, the head of the United Nations said on a visit to Saudi Arabia yesterday, as anti-immigrant sentiment rises in some...

Libya’s UN-backed unity government yesterday condemned the creation of a “National Guard” by armed groups to rival its own presidential guard in the capital Tripoli. The Government of National...

The UN’s choice of former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad for the post of special envoy to Libya has been challenged by the Trump administration. “For too long the...

Syria’s main opposition body, the High Negotiation Committee (HNC) on Sunday approved a new 21-member delegation, including representatives from 10 opposition groups, for a new round of UN-sponsored peace...

The Syrian opposition will announce today its delegates for the next round of UN-based peace talks in Geneva planned for later this month, the main opposition umbrella group said....

Yemen’s estimated supplies of wheat will run out at the end of March, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Friday in a report. It suggests Yemen, an...