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The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has strongly condemned the double bombing in the Libyan city of Benghazi that left over 40 people dead, underscoring that there can be no military solution to the crisis plaguing the North African Read more
The UN Security Council (UNSC) will hold an emergency meeting Friday on the status of the city of Jerusalem at the request of eight states after President Trump Wednesday defied international warnings and declared the old city capital of Israel. Read more
Following the US president’s Friday speech against Iran and his decision not to endorse the 2015 nuclear deal, members of the P5+1 and several other countries and world organizations voiced their strong support for the deal, known as the Joint Read more
Qatar’s foreign ministry Tuesday urged the international community to press Israel to review its plans to establish a new unlawful settlement in the city of Nablus, part of the West Bank within the internationally recognised Palestinian territory. The Israeli government, Read more
UN Chief Antonio Guterres ended Wednesday his three-day tour of Palestine and Israel by announcing $4 million aid for Gaza, which is living one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes the world have ever known. Guterres was in the enclaved Strip Read more
UN Chief Antonio Guterres Tuesday in Ramallah underlined the UN stance on the two-state solution to end decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict while inviting both sides to cease moves that may hinder peace building. “I want to express very strongly the total Read more
Israel has launched missiles into the Gaza Strip in response to a missile that was fired from Gaza. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said “a projectile hit an open region in the Ashkelon region” without causing any injuries. No group Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday indicated that he would push for the shutting down of the Jerusalem office of Doha-based news network Al Jazeera, accusing the network of inciting violence in its coverage of incidents at al-Aqsa mosque. “The Read more
King Mohammed VI, Chairman of the Al-Quds Committee of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, has denounced the Israeli authorities’ continued, systematic violations in the city of Al-Quds Al-Sharif and around the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in blatant violation of international law. In Read more
Australia has announced that it is “temporarily” suspending the activities of its six warplanes partaking in the US-led air campaign on the Islamic State in Syria, as tension between the US and Russian military increases. The statement from the Australian Read more