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Gaza: UN urges Israel to allow fuel into Strip
The crisis in Gaza is worsening, UN humanitarians warned on Monday, as ongoing hostilities and access restric…
The crisis in Gaza is worsening, UN humanitarians warned on Monday, as ongoing hostilities and access restric…
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is deepening at an alarming rate, a senior United Nations official warned on …
The interim authorities in Syria have taken important steps in recent weeks to address past violations, the C…
The head of UN Peacekeeping affirmed the critical role played by the “blue helmets” in Lebanon and Syria duri…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, warni…
The first meagre midweek delivery of urgently needed medical goods to enter Gaza in months will provide scant…
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are increasingly being subjected to forced …
Most families in the Gaza Strip are surviving on one meal a day and one-third go entire days without eating a…
When Bashar Al-Assad ruled Syria, his regime was widely accused of profiting from the production and traffick…
The rapid depletion of the remaining fuel stocks in the Gaza Strip is threatening efforts to keep critical li…
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Wednesday that his “number one priority” is…
A fragile ceasefire brokered by the United States between Iran and Israel appears to be holding, marking a te…
The Security Council meets at 3pm for a scheduled debate over the future of the so-called Joint Comprehensive…
Amid signs on Tuesday that a fragile ceasefire appeared to be holding between Iran and Israel, the head of th…
At least 410 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military while trying to fetch from controversial n…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres is “deeply alarmed” by the further escalation of the conflict in the Mi…
Afghanistan is already grappling with immense humanitarian and economic challenges and growing instability in…
The food security situation in Government-controlled areas of southern Yemen is dire, with nearly half the po…
After surprise US bombing raids on Iranian uranium enrichment facilities over the weekend, the head of the UN…
The top UN humanitarian official in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has issued a stark warning over the de…
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres told an emergency meeting of the Security Council on Sunday that ma…
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres described the United States’ bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran…
Senior UN officials reiterated an appeal for urgent restraint on Saturday as conflict spiral between Israel a…
The world stands on the edge of catastrophe, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Frid…
Death and suffering in Gaza are ever-present and the enclave's people now have little choice but to risk …
One week since the Israel-Iran conflict erupted, diplomatic efforts to end the war are ramping up in Geneva t…
As deadly missile exchanges between Israel and Iran enter a second week, the United Nations is sounding alarm…
Just days before Israel launched a bombing campaign against Iran, the UN watchdog agency monitoring Iran’s nu…
More than 100 days into Israel’s complete fuel blockade in Gaza, UN agencies still in the shattered enclave w…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday he remains “profoundly alarmed” by the ongoing milita…
As the pall of starvation hangs over Gaza, UN agencies have sounded the alarm over deadly violence at food di…
As the Iran-Israel crisis continued into a sixth day on Wednesday, the UN deputy human rights chief Nada Al-N…
A senior UN official has warned against the impact of regional escalation on Syria as the country continues o…
Gaza’s health system is at breaking point, overwhelmed time and again by scores of people killed or injured n…
After a weekend of massive strikes and counter-strikes between Tel Aviv and Tehran, the UN's human rights…
Israel’s strikes on Iranian nuclear and military facilities mark a dangerous new escalation in the Middle Eas…
The UN-backed atomic watchdog passed a resolution on Thursday declaring that Iran is not complying with its o…
Secretary-General António Guterres condemned Israeli strikes in Iran late Thursday evening, urging ‘maximum r…
Yemen cannot endure more years of division, economic collapse and human suffering, the UN’s top official on t…
Tens of thousands of people went missing in Syria over the past 50 years including during 14 years of civil w…
The General Assembly meets at 3pm in New York on Thursday in emergency session following the Security Council…
People in the Gaza Strip are getting hungrier because of the “very limited” volume of food being allowed in, …
The top UN official in Iraq reiterated his confidence in the resilience of the country's people and the d…
The Israeli military’s destruction of Gaza’s education and cultural infrastructure amount to war crimes and t…
The worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip has reached “unprecedented levels of despair,” the UN sai…
Whether it’s their first time or a routine part of their life, menstruation has become a nightmare for women …
The UN’s top disarmament official has welcomed signs of increased cooperation from Syria’s interim authoritie…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday urged world leaders to revive efforts toward a two-State so…
The lack of food entering Gaza caused by ongoing Israeli aid restrictions is leaving increasing numbers of Pa…
A draft resolution calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza failed to pass in the UN Security…
The United States has vetoed a new draft resolution on Gaza, standing as the lone vote against the text which…
Amid reports of yet another deadly attack on a school in Gaza on Wednesday, the UN’s top aid official Tom Fle…
UN human rights chief Volker Türk has condemned new reports that dozens more Gazans were killed early Tuesday…
As June marks one year since the arbitrary detention of dozens of personnel from the UN, NGOs, civil society …
The UN Secretary-General has called for an immediate and independent investigation into the killing and injur…
Amid disputed reports of Israeli forces firing on civilians near a new privatised aid distribution point in s…
“I stood helpless in the face of my son's hunger. I cried a lot and told him to drink from our little wat…