Yair Lapid is poised to become Israel's caretaker prime minister, as Israeli lawmakers dissolved parliament on Thursday, forcing the country's fifth election in less than four years.
Lapid, leader of the centrist Yesh Atid party, will take over at (...)
A "staggering" average of 71 verified grave violations a day, are committed against children by parties to conflict in more than 30 settings across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America.
This is one of the key findings of a new report (...)
"High level" violence has resulted in "scores of Palestinian and Israeli casualties", the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process told the Security Council on Monday.
Speaking via video conference from Jerusalem, Tor Wennesland, (...)
Investing in the UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, is also "investing in stability" for the entire Middle East region, the UN chief told a pledging conference on Thursday.
"It means investing in the economic and social wellbeing (...)
The UN says information shows Israeli gunfire killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and wounded her colleague last month, despite Israel's claim that it is unclear which side killed her.
Abu Akleh, a 51-year-old Palestinian American, was (...)
AMMAN — Saudi Arabia and Jordan reiterated on Wednesday that the security of the two Kingdoms is one and their visions are consistent on various issues of the region.
In a joint statement issued at the end of the visit of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin (...)
A final joint statement was issued for the visit of His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Following is the text of the (...)
When two spokespeople from India's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) made derogatory comments about the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) last month, it prompted an international firestorm.
The incident led to protests among India's Muslim (...)
Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has effectively called time on his premiership after just a year in the job.
Along with his key coalition ally Foreign Minister Yair Lapid -- who now looks set to replace him as leader as early as next week -- (...)
The European Union (EU) and Egypt Monday underlined comprehensive resolution to the Palestine question is the two state solution that ends Israel occupation and leads to the establishment of an independent, contiguous, sovereign and viable (...)
The 6 + 3 + 1 summit, to be hosted by Saudi Arabia at the invitation of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman on July 15 and 16, will be the most devastating thunderbolt for those whom I call "moles," as their day begins with uttering (...)
The world's stockpiles of nuclear weapons are expected to increase over the next decade, reversing a decline seen since the end of the Cold War.
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI, said on Monday that all nine nuclear-armed (...)
Marsel has roots in three countries, Palestine, Syria and Ukraine. For three generations, his family has been fleeing wars. Last stop: Paris.
Like many Syrians, Marsel arrived in 2016 in France five years after the war began. Not on foot or on (...)
Member states of the Riyadh-based Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) called on the world community to shouder its responsibility towards Israeli violations of the rights of the Palestinian people, urging for exerting more efforts to revive the peace (...)
For three generations, Marsel Abdo's family have been fleeing conflict, including the Syrian war and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
It began when grandfather left his home in Palestine after the creation of Israel in 1948, to take refuge in the (...)
UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan received on Thursday Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennett at Al Shati Palace.
At the start of the meeting, Sheikh Mohamed welcomed Bennett who offered his condolences to him and the Emirati people (...)
Palestinian factions on Tuesday rallied in Gaza's center marking the somber 55th anniversary of the Israelis' occupation of more Palestinian territories in 1967.
Many Palestinians gathered at the "unknown martyr's square" with billboards reading, (...)
Ending the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, and discrimination against Palestinians, is essential to stopping the decades-long conflict between the two sides, a new UN independent human rights body said on Tuesday.
The finding comes in (...)
Israel must halt plans to demolish a Bedouin village in the Naqab desert that will forcibly displace hundreds of residents in a bid to expand Jewish-only settlements, two experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council said on Friday.
Special (...)
Minister of Economy of the United Arab Emirates Abdulla Bin Touq and Israel's Minister of Economy and Industry Maj. Gen. (retd) Orna Barbivay have signed the UAE-Israel Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (UAE-Israel CEPA) in Dubai, (...)
The Palestinian presidency says Israel is "playing with fire" as thousands of Israeli Jews prepare to march through Muslim areas in Jerusalem's Old City.
The annual event comes at a time of particularly high tensions following months of deadly (...)
The World Health Organisation says nearly 200 cases of monkeypox have been reported in more than 20 countries not usually known to have outbreaks of the unusual disease, but described the epidemic as "containable" and proposed creating a stockpile (...)
Israelis and Palestinians must push beyond the paradigm of managing the conflict and move toward resolving it, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process told the Security Council on Thursday, as he expressed particular concern that (...)
A Palestinian investigation has concluded that Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Aqla was intentionally shot dead by an Israeli soldier.
Announcing the findings, the Palestinian attorney general said "the only shooting was by the occupation forces, (...)
US President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett last month that his decision to keep Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps on the list of designated foreign terrorist organizations (FTO) is final, Politico reported on Tuesday citing a (...)
