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A United Nations source has said that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is not yet ready to announce a date for the Geneva II conference on Syria. Ban's spokesman Martin Nesirky...

UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk has claimed that "Israel is slouching towards nothing less than a Palestinian holocaust" in his comments about the abuse of human rights in the...

In a press release issued today by three members of the Goldstone Report (Ms. Hina Jilani, Professor Christine Chinkin and Colonel Desmond Travers) they reaffirmed their support for the...

The Russian representative at the recent Middle East Quartet meeting objected to calling Israel a "Jewish state"; a demand the Israeli side insists on for the resumption of the...

Turkey has criticised the Middle East Quartet plan to revive the Palestine-Israel peace process because it "ignores the UN recognition issue" and calls upon the Palestinians to go back...

In future, the 'State of Palestine' will be the official alternative name for the 'Palestinian Authority' within all UN institutions, but not in Palestinian-Israeli institutions, Ban Ki-Moon has said....

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said that the alliance is ready to confront the security challenges in Syria but noted that a decision has not been reached...

Arab and Western officials have ruled out that the Geneva II Conference on Syria would take place on schedule because of clear differences between Washington and Moscow. Washington and...

On Tuesday, delegations from across the UN member states convened in Geneva for Israel's Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Only 48 hours before the hearing was due to commence, it...

The United States and Russia failed to agree a date for the Syria peace conference. They disagreed over the role that Iran might play in talks to end the...

A UN official has blamed Israel for the current impasse in the peace negotiations between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israeli officials. It is urging Israel to halt its...

The latest Russian-Egyptian rapprochement and new signs of cooperation between the two countries has aroused worries in the US, Israel and other regional powers, Anba Moscow reported. The Russian...

In 1955, young Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser took a bold step by making an arms deal with Czechoslovakia. At that time, the world was going through the Cold...

A United Nations official said on Thursday that Turkey has agreed to fund fuel purchases that will be used to provide power for emergency services in the Gaza Strip,...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has been preoccupied with the Middle East recently. After visiting Egypt and Saudi Arabia in order to repair damaged relations, he headed to...

In a major step towards promoting justice and human rights, Britain's Trades Union Congress (TUC) voted this week in favour of a campaign to boycott companies that profit from...

It might have seemed like just another United Nations report among the hundreds cranked out every year, and just another UN resolution from the international resolution factory. But to...

By Omar Radwan The Israeli government has announced that it will refuse any invitation to start direct negotiations with the Palestinians issued by the diplomatic Quartet responsible for mediating...

IntroductionIsrael has been condemned, yet again, by the United Nations for serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian laws. A UN report released last week has confirmed that...

The Zionist state of Israel has always worked hard to put a spin on events which falsifies reality and covers-up the facts. An objective observer, however, can discern the...

When the UN Secretary General announced on 2 August 2010 that a Panel of Inquiry had been established to investigate the Israeli attacks of 31 May on the Mavi...

The United States must support the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations this month or risk losing the little credibility it has in the Arab world. If...

The Palestinians have been suffering for decades at the hands of one of the most brutal military occupations in the modern world. They are dehumanised on a daily basis,...

Article 1, paragraph 1 of the Charter of the United Nations says that the purpose of the organisation is "to maintain international peace and security". On that level, the...

The pro-Israel NGO behind NATO's war on Libya is targeting Syria On December 2, the Geneva-based UN Watch welcomed that day's "strong condemnation" of Syria by a UN Human...

After eighteen years of negotiations and conceding more than 80 per cent of historic Palestine, and signing the Oslo agreement (which added to the legitimacy of Israel and broke...

In his maiden speech to the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) at its summit in Tehran, Egypt's President Muhammed Morsi said humanity is witnessing one of the most important periods in...

By Mohamed Mohsen Watad – Umm al-Fahm A complaint is to be lodged with the human rights agencies of the UN about the intensification of house demolitions in the...

Israeli president Shimon Peres is hosting in Jerusalem this week a presidential conference called "Facing Tomorrow". Its theme is the "human factor and its role in shaping our tomorrow"....

One of the blunders of modern science was the creation of weapons that can spread toxins and disease within a matter of minutes. However international awareness about the dangers...

Two decades after the Oslo Accords, and many violations of its terms and much delusion, the Palestinian Authority established as a result of the agreement appears to be facing...

Part 1: A green light to Assad Ever since the Syrian regime gassed its own citizens in the Damascus suburbs in a chemical attack on August 21, the issue...