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...

The Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said on Monday that the number of needy Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip has increased by 80,000...

Palestine’s Ambassador to the United Nations has condemned John Kerry’s criticism of the UN Council for Human Rights. Speaking to Anadolu, Ibrahim Khreisheh said that the US Secretary of...

The UN Security Council’s decision to extend sanctions against former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh as well as two leaders of the Houthis who are allied with him “will...

The corrupt practices of Yemen’s former leader Ali Abdullah Saleh have netted the strongman up to $60 billion, a UN sanctions panel will report to the Security Council on...

We all remember the infamous comical moment when Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the UN back in 2012 and made his fabricated case for striking Iran. In his desperation to convince...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday criticised the international community’s hesitance to solve the conflict in Syria, the Anadolu Agency reported. Speaking at the UN Security Council on the situation...

Less than a month after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 2012 warning to the UN General Assembly that Iran was 70 per cent of the way to completing its “plans...

UNRWA needs $100 million in urgent relief in the first quarter of this year to enable it to help repair homes destroyed during Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip...

The UN has urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime to release thousands of people who have been held in detention for years. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid...

UN envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar described the “constitutional declaration” announced by the Shia Houthi rebels as “unilateral action” which means that it will not be adopted as a...

The UN has launched an appeal for $700m to meet the humanitarian needs of 1.6 million vulnerable Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. At a press conference last Thursday,...

The UN Security Council on Sunday demanded Yemen’s Houthi rebels relinquish control of the government and withdraw their forces from the capital. The 15-member council unanimously adopted a Britain and Jordan-drafted...

Libya reopened its oil port of Hariga yesterday, ending a strike by guards that had threatened to further slash exports as rival factions fight for control of the OPEC country,...

UN Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson called on Tuesday for donor countries to fulfil their pledges made for the “desolate” Gaza Strip, a UN statement said. Eliasson was speaking...

As April approaches, Morocco is hectically preparing for the UN’s annual renewal of the mandate for the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), which was...

Following on from the tragic and brutal murder of the Jordanian fighter pilot Mu’ath Al-Kaseasbeh at the hands of his ISIS captors, many people have been thinking about other...

European Union envoy to Yemen Bettina Muscheidt intends to leave the crisis-rocked nation within 48 hours “for security reasons,” a source with the EU’s mission in Yemen said Wednesday....

Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh yesterday rejected the United Nation Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s accusations that he supports the Shia Houthi rebels in “undermining” the political process in Yemen,...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on Friday for international donors to fulfil their pledges to rebuild the Gaza Strip, Anadolu has reported. The financial assistance was pledged at...

The Bethlehem region is increasingly fragmented by Israeli occupation policies, according to a new UN agency factsheet. The OCHA publication, ‘Bethlehem governorate: fragmentation and humanitarian concerns’, details ways in...

A group of 75 US senators have signed a letter addressed to the current US Secretary of State John Kerry asking him to punish Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas...

The United Nations team which is investigating potential war crimes committed by Israel during its war on the Gaza Strip last summer will release its report on time next...

A spokesman for the United Nations Secretary General, Estefan Dogrk, said Israel had demanded the removal of William Schabas, the chairman of the UN Human Rights Council commission investigating...

Israel has cheered a UN Human Rights Council decision to appoint American jurist Mary McGowan-Davis as the replacement for William Schabas who resigned from his post as chairman of...

The Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has outlined two conditions necessary in order for his country to reach a final agreement on its nuclear file; namely recognising Iran’s...