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‘No one speaks on behalf of Lebanon’: PM Salam asserts State authority at UN
Lebanon’s Prime Minister, Nawaf Salam, has stressed that decisions over war and peace, and control of weapons…
Lebanon’s Prime Minister, Nawaf Salam, has stressed that decisions over war and peace, and control of weapons…
Aid agencies in Yemen highlighted the growing hunger emergency sparked by renewed fighting between Houthi opp…
Israeli policies now threaten “the very life and existence of the Palestinian people on their homeland”, Pale…
President Masoud Pezeshkian opened his General Assembly address with a direct rebuttal to US President Donald…
The UN chief warned on Tuesday that the two-State solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict is at risk of co…
As hostilities worsen in Yemen, more people have been fleeing their homes, further intensifying the humanitar…
The UN has condemned continued cross‑border attacks by Houthi forces against Saudi Arabia, including an attem…
People displaced by the renewed fighting in Yemen have described fleeing for their lives amid shelling and gu…
While Syria is making progress in its political transition, the Security Council is meeting to hear briefings…
Renewed fighting in Yemen is deepening an already severe humanitarian crisis in a country where more than 12 …
Search and rescue operations continued in Gaza City on Wednesday following the collapse of a bombed-out build…
Amid rising violence in Yemen, the Security Council has called an emergency meeting at 3pm (NY time) on Tuesd…
The escalating conflict in Yemen is choking off aid shipments and driving fresh displacement, including to ne…
Bodies are still being pulled from the rubble of Gaza, three years after Israeli bombardment flattened entire…
Independent UN human rights investigators called for an immediate cessation of hostilities on Monday followin…
Fatimah* was 13 when she was married off to an older man. Two years later, she gave birth to twin daughters. …
Ola Ishtiwi sits with her children in front of the remains of her home in the Al-Tuffah neighbourhood in east…
On the heels of reported Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia on Tuesday and the capture of another key port by the…
The Secretary-General has condemned mounting civilian casualties in southern Lebanon and called on Israel to …
A successful and lasting transition in Syria requires comprehensive accountability, inclusion and guarantees …
In war-torn Gaza, a growing number of women-headed households face “impossible decisions” every day, amid ong…
UN human rights chief Volker Türk added his voice on Monday to growing calls for greater AI controls, warning…
Israeli security forces forcibly displaced the entire population of three Palestine refugee camps in the occu…
Peacekeepers in Lebanon have reported a marked deterioration in the security situation along the Blue Line of…
Following revelations from the UN nuclear watchdog that the former Syrian regime failed to report holding nuc…
Yasmin Al-Mashaan lost five brothers during more than a decade of conflict in Syria. Two were forcibly disapp…
Lack of funding has forced the World Food Programme (WFP) to slash aid to families in the West Bank by half e…