The United Nations has announced a plan for the release of tens of thousands of women, children, elderly, and sick Syrians who are languishing in detention as the country’s civil war grinds towards a bloody conclusion. Addressing the UN Security...
The United Nations’ reputation as a fair broker in the Middle East has been rocked by a series of allegations that its officials in Palestine and Yemen are guilty of graft, sexual misconduct and other misdeeds. UN spokesman Stephan Dujarric...
United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned on Tuesday that Iran will be “unshackled to create new turmoil” once a United Nations arms embargo on Iran and a travel ban on its senior officials expires next year. Speaking at...
The southern separatists who have seized control of Yemen’s port city of Aden will use upcoming crisis talks to push for an independence referendum and a role in the country’s UN-led peace process, said the group’s envoy Sulaiman Al-Khader. Speaking...
Majok Peter Awan was eight years old when a rebel military chief put a Kalashnikov assault rifle in his young hands and taught him to shoot at Sudanese government soldiers, during a civil war that ultimately won independence for the...
Last month, amid shocking news that scores of refugees and migrants had been killed in an airstrike at a Libyan detention centre, officials in the turbulent North African country quickly promised to close down those facilities for good. But, almost...
United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres launched an investigation on Thursday into military strikes on hospitals and other civilian facilities in northwest Syria, amid growing fears that they were being deliberately targeted by the Syrian government and Russian forces. The probe...
(United Nations) The demolition of Palestinian homes near a military barrier on the outskirts of Jerusalem broke international law, and may amount to a war crime, Palestinian officials and human rights groups have said this week. Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian...
(United Nations) — United Nations peace envoy Martin Griffiths has warned of the “frightening prospect” of Yemen’s war getting dragged in to a broader confrontation between the United States, its regional allies and Iran. Griffiths, the special envoy for Yemen,...
A military strike that killed dozens of people at a detention centre in Libya has focused attention on the treatment of refugees and migrants in the turbulent country, and amplified calls to shutter the lockups they are housed in once...
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