Syria said Wednesday that a British doctor alleged to have been effectively murdered in custody had hanged himself after being arrested for “unauthorised activities.” Regime warplanes meanwhile pounded Aleppo for a fourth straight day in raids that…
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16 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has deplored the shooting on Sunday of an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) soldier…
13 December 2013 – Syrians continue to fall victim to a callous indifference towards human life and disregard for safety,…
13 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the international community to hold accountable those responsible for the…
12 December 2013 – The United Nations and its humanitarian partners are ramping up efforts to assist more than 800,000…
12 December 2013 – The United Nations team probing the use of chemical weapons in Syria, which in September found…
11 December 2013 – A senior United Nations humanitarian official today voiced concern as Israeli demolitions in the Jordan Valley…
10 December 2013 – As the Syrian crisis passes the tragic 1,000-day mark, the United Nations refugee agency is working…
10 December 2013 – The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today voiced grave concern…
9 December 2013 – A group of independent United Nations human rights experts today called on the Iraqi Government to…
9 December 2013 – The Government of Israel has decided to resume the transfer of construction materials for United Nations…
Australian combat troops have completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Monday, marking the end of the nation’s longest war which left 40 of its soldiers dead. Abbott announced that more than 1,000 troops would pull…
An Israeli soldier was killed by cross-border fire from Lebanon on Sunday evening, Israeli media reported. There was no confirmation from the Israeli military, which earlier said that a Lebanese soldier opened fire at an Israeli civilian vehicle at…
A week after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly chose to miss Nelson Mandela’s memorial service because of travel costs, Israeli ministers voted Sunday to consider buying an Israeli equivalent of “Air Force One.” They approved creating a committee…
At least 25 people, including 14 children, were killed in regime air raids on rebel districts of the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. They were killed when regime forces unleashed an aerial attack using…
The first UN aid flight from Iraq landed in northeastern Syria on Sunday with badly needed supplies, after a winter storm delayed it for several days, the United Nations said. UN aid agencies have “started airlifting urgently needed humanitarian aid…
The heaviest snowfall in decades blocked roads across Israel and the West Bank Saturday, while torrential rains flooded areas of the Gaza Strip. The heavy snow, which stopped falling Saturday afternoon, prompted Israeli authorities to interrupt the…
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel on Monday that US drone strikes were “counter-productive” as Washington tried to ease tensions with Islamabad. In the first visit by a US defence secretary for nearly four years,…
A visit to Israel by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte Sunday was marred by a dispute over a new security scanner on the Gaza border, an Israeli official said. Rutte was to have inaugurated the scanner on the frontier with the Palestinian Islamist-ruled…
The funeral service of Nelson Mandela could be a “trap” for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani because he could run into US President Barack Obama, a hardline Iranian daily warned Sunday. The Islamic republic has yet to announce who will travel to South…