20 December 2013 – The United Nations human rights office today called on Egyptian authorities to immediately release all individuals…
Browsing: Middle-East News
Middle-East News and Press Releases
20 December 2013 – The Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria,…
20 December 2013 – The United Nations voiced deep concern today about the intimidation and prosecution of individuals in Saudi…
19 December 2013 – Enforced disappearances are being committed throughout Syria as part of a campaign of intimidation and as…
18 December 2013 – The Security Council today extended the nearly 40-year-old United Nations observer force in the Golan Heights…
18 December 2013 – The search for suitable vendors to assist in the commercial transport and destruction of Syrian chemical…
17 December 2013 – The long-sought international peace conference on Syria is set to begin on 22 January with a…
16 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the members of Security Council have deplored the shooting on Sunday of…
16 December 2013 – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) voiced horror today at reports that as many as 28…
16 December 2013 – With another release by Israel of Palestinian prisoners set for later this month, the top United…
A deadly Al-Qaeda attack this month on a Yemeni defence ministry hospital was a mistake and the jihadist network is ready to pay blood money, a top jihadist commander has said. The brazen daylight attack on the defence ministry complex on December 5…
Five senior Iraqi officers, including a divisional commander, and 10 soldiers were killed Saturday in a raid on an Al-Qaeda hideout in the west of the country, military officers said. Violence elsewhere killed 10 people, including a police chief, four…
NATO on Saturday opened negotiations with Afghanistan over a proposed military force to stay in the country after next year, but said no deal would be signed until after a separate agreement with the US was completed. Afghan President Hamid Karzai and…
UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi held fresh talks Friday to pave the way to a January peace conference between Syria’s government and rebels, amid wrangling over who will be at the table. Brahimi and senior US and Russian officials met behind closed…
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned Friday that his Lebanese Shiite movement will “punish” Israel for the killing of a top leader earlier this month. “The killers will be punished sooner or later… Those who killed our brothers will not know safety…
The Palestinians on Thursday accused Israel of a “dangerous escalation” after the army killed two people in the West Bank, calling the violence a deliberate attempt to scupper peace talks. “This dangerous Israeli escalation aims to thwart American and…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue “developing” settlements following reports of US pressure ahead of a fresh round of Palestinian prisoner releases due later this month. “We will not stop, even for a moment, building our…
The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday slammed rights abuses in Syria, whose UN envoy launched a furious onslaught against Saudi Arabia for pressing the initiative. A resolution that has become an annual event since the start of Syria’s civil…
A drone strike on a wedding convoy in Yemen killed 17 people, mostly civilians, medical and security sources said Friday, adding grist to mounting criticism of the US drone war. “Some” of the dead in Thursday’s strike near the central town of Radaa…
Mideast peace efforts are being “hampered” by Israeli settlement construction, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem said Wednesday in his traditional Christmas message. “The Israeli-Palestinian talks resumed in late July, after three years of interruption…