The Biden administration's recognition of Palestinian refugees goes beyond reinstating aid: It walks back Trump's adoption of the right wing's fantastical, punitive dreams. The rest of the pro-Israel camp should welcome it
Outgoing minister has signed an amendment that would formally enlarge Lebanon’s claims by 1,430 square kilometers, in a unilateral move by Beirut likely to anger Israel and the U.S.
President Joe Biden's administration has made clear it intends to roll back parts of Trump's approach that Palestinians denounced as heavily biased in favor of Israel
Several Western nations expressed concerns over the delays and access given to UN-led investigators in their report on the origins of COVID-19, which concluded the virus had likely been transmitted from bats to humans through another animal
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres calls Syria a 'living nightmare,' says 60 percent of Syrians are at risk of going hungry
The head of Saudi Arabia's human rights commission says he 'cannot recall the exact conversations' with United Nations expert probing dissident journalist's murder, adding 'I never would have desired or threatened any harm'
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast. Yemen's new prime minister, Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed, ordered an investigation
UN mediator tells council that there has been a dramatic deterioration in the more than six-year-long war with a Houthi offensive on Marib the Yemeni government's last northern stronghold putting millions of civilians at risk
Some 900 migrants, mostly from Ethiopia, were detained at the facility – including 350 inside a warehouse – when the fire took place on Sunday
In the first joint statement on Egypt since 2014, 31 signatories call on the government to end prosecution of activists, journalists and political opponents
Under Trump's more isolationist approach, Washington quit the council in 2018 but the Biden government has already returned as an observer
Thomas-Greenfield, 68, is a 35-year veteran of the Foreign Service who has served on four continents, most notably in Africa
Iran officially started restricting international inspections of its nuclear facilities, state TV reports, in a bid to pressure European countries and Biden to lift economic sanctions and restore the 2015 nuclear deal
Removal of the UN peacekeeping mission in Darfur is leaving innocent people unprotected and allowing terrorists masquerading as democratic leaders to escalate their murderous tactics
Blackwater founder Erik Prince was involved in 'a well-funded private military company operation' to provide military equipment to eastern-based Libyan commander Khalifa Hifter, UN panel says
The visit, the second in a six-month span, comes amid diplomatic efforts to keep alive the nuclear agreement
The prison came to symbolize the excesses of the U.S. 'war on terror' because of harsh interrogation methods that critics say amounted to torture
Under Trump, the U.S. had left the organization on grounds of being biased against Israel and inefficient
In the year it normalized ties with Israel, the UAE gave UNRWA just $1 million, while in 2018 and 2019 the kingdom donated $51.8 million to the agency
Biden has also moved to bring the United States, the world's second-largest greenhouse emitter, back into the Paris deal
Last month, UN experts said Iran now has enough low-enriched uranium stockpiled for at least two nuclear weapons, if it chose to pursue them
One British diplomat described the countries' moves to bar Saudi Arabia, UAE and Cyprus as 'the beginning of the end of multilateralism'
Pompeo's designation of the Houthis as a terrorist organization could be a matter of 'life or death,' says humanitarian source, while others warn it could polarize the conflict
Al-Hathloul was found guilty on charges including agitating for change, pursuing a foreign agenda and using the internet to harm public order
On Wednesday, the state-run Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said gunmen had killed over 100 people in the area, which has seen regular ethnic violence
Nickolay Mladenov, one of the most successful UN envoys to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was a key mediator between Israel and Hamas. Can his successor leverage a post-Trump Mideast towards a negotiated peace?
The UN Middle East envoy since 2015 was set to become the special envoy for Libya, but will instead resign
Thousands of people are believed to have been killed and more than 950,000 displaced some 50,000 of them into Sudan, according to UN estimates
Israel is still trying to decipher Lebanon's hard stance, especially since stagnant negotiations means it can’t start exploiting its natural gas resources
Ethiopia's declaration comes amid international calls for more transparency into the month-long fighting that is thought to have killed thousands