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...

A record number of foreign fighters from more than half of the world’s countries are joining Islamist and Al-Qaeda linked groups, claims the UN. A new report from the...

Israeli occupation forces injured 64 Palestinians in just one week, UN figures have revealed. Most of the injuries during the period 24-30 March took place in the context of...

The United Nations has evacuated its international staff from Yemen after Saudi Arabia continued its crackdown on Houthi rebels and their allies there. Deputy spokesman for Secretary General, Farhan...

Deputy Spokesman for the United Nations Secretary General, Farhan Haq on Tuesday refused to comment on the Palestine ICC membership going into effect on April, 1 2015. During a...

2,312 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces. 56 of those Palestinian fatalities were killed in the West Bank. 2 Palestinians were killed by Israeli settlers. 67 percent of the...

The outgoing UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process has warned that halting the security cooperation between the Palestinians and Israel “may be the final nail in...

Humanitarian needs in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) are driven by practices related to Israel’s prolonged occupation and recurrent escalations of armed conflict, the UN Office for the Coordination...

UN’s top relief official Valerie Amos says Assad regime has allowed UN access to just three of 33 locations requested for aid delivery since Jan. 1. NEW YORK (AA)...

Mohammed Chouaib, the head of a Libyan delegation from the UN-recognised government in the eastern city of Tobruk on Tuesday welcomed UN proposals to solve the current split in...

Israel’s human rights abuses in the Occupied Palestinian Territory came under renewed attack by senior UN officials on Monday. Addressing the Human Rights Council in Geneva, UN Special Rapporteur...

Israeli representatives remained absent from a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) special session on Monday regarding the situation in the Palestinian territories in the aftermath of the Israeli...

The Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) called on Sunday for Israel to lift its eight-year siege of the Gaza Strip. Speaking at the opening...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has congratulated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his re-election. A statement from the UN head says that Ban is “looking forward” to working with...

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has warned of the ramification of the ongoing Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, saying it could open the way for a...

Western officials have claimed that the major world powers have quietly started to talk about a UN Security Council resolution to lift UN sanctions imposed on Iran if a...

Syrians in the UK are saving thousands of lives by getting aid into war torn districts of their homeland which international charities struggle to reach. Local charities are among...

A spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General has renewed calls for Egypt and Israel to lift the siege imposed on the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. According to Anadolu, Stephane Dujarric...

Deputy Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said yesterday that the UN is unable to take any decision in favour of the Syrian refugees, reiterating Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s...

The UN Special Representative to Libya, Bernardino Leon, said on Friday that the Libyan national dialogue had achieved a “breakthrough” on its second day, Anadolu news agency reported. The...

The UN Security Council has condemned in the “strongest terms” any use of chlorine as a weapon in Syria. According to a statement issued on behalf of the Security...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed concern on Friday at a decision by the PLO to halt security coordination with Israel, Reuters has reported. Mr Ban called for the international...

PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ endeavours to obtain symbolic recognition of Palestinian statehood from European countries had, as intended, eclipsed the necessity of developing awareness of the importance of Palestine’s...

The Egyptian foreign ministry has criticised the UN’s Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Robert Serry, after he called for the Rafah Crossing with the Gaza Strip...

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad cannot be part of any political solution to resolve the crisis created by his regime, the Anadolu Agency reported United Nations Security Council President François...