NEOM — Saudi Arabia's Cabinet strongly condemned the continued terrorist attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi militia, targeting civilians in the Kingdom.
The Cabinet said the attacks by the Houthis using ballistic missiles, armed drones and (...)
Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States has been critical to addressing the ongoing war in Syria, the search for a two-State solution for Israelis and Palestinians, and other challenges, the UN's political affairs chief (...)
Dr. Anwar bin Mohammed Gargash, the UAE's minister of state for foreign affairs, said that the Arab world's problems cannot be resolved without key players on the regional and global scene collaborating to strengthen "the spirit of solidarity and (...)
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan on Saturday said that the Kingdom expects to reopen its embassy in Qatar in the coming days.
"It is just a matter of logistics and full diplomatic relations will resume," Prince Faisal said
He (...)
Syrian refugee Fatima Hussein Al Ahmad, a mother of four, lives on a farm with 50 other workers in Sahba, Jordan. COVID-19 travel restrictions meant that didn't work for two months in 2020, and feeding her family became a daily struggle.
Fatima and (...)
Travel restrictions and other curbs to movement put in place in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, have put a significant dent in migration figures, but the overall trend shows 100 million more people living outside their countries of origin in (...)
The United States announced fresh Iran sanctions on Friday related to conventional arms and to the metals industry.
The new sanctions are part of the President Donald Trump administration's maximum pressure campaign against Iran to force it to join (...)
The mullah regime is clamoring to take revenge for the killing of the bloodthirsty Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a US missile strike near Baghdad airport a year ago.
Soleimani was the serial killer of the mullah regime, its butcher, and the (...)
MOSCOW — Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan on Thursday said that Iran is wreaking havoc in the Middle East region with its interventions.
He made the remarks at a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergei (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has warned citizens and residents against traveling to 12 coronavirus-affected countries without permission, an official source at the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
According to the source, the countries are Libya, (...)
Despite important strikes against terrorism over the past two decades, including in bringing perpetrators to justice and disrupting additional attacks, countries cannot afford to let down their guard, the UN's counter-terrorism chief told a virtual (...)
In his first major speech of the year, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres underlined the need for global cooperation to address today's challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change.
Guterres was speaking on Sunday during a (...)
Indonesia's top terrorist convict Abu Bakar Bashir, the spiritual leader of Southeast Asia's terror group Jemaah Islamiah, will be released from prison on Friday (Jan. 8).
Bashir was the alleged mastermind of Indonesia's deadliest terrorist attack — (...)
A UN independent human rights expert, on Tuesday, called on the United States to remove unilateral sanctions against Syria that may hamper efforts to rebuild the war-torn country's destroyed civilian infrastructure.
Alena Douhan, United Nations (...)
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov discussed in a phone call on Friday ways to enhance bilateral relations and reviewed a number of regional issues of interest.
According to an official statement by the (...)
A French court found guilty on Wednesday 14 accomplices of the French militants behind the January 2015 attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a Jewish supermarket in Paris.
Among the 14 was Hayat Boumeddiene, former partner of Amedy (...)
The impact of COVID-19 on poverty levels among Syrian refugees and host communities in Jordan, Lebanon and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) has been severe and profound in 2020.
An estimated 4.4 million people in host communities, close to 1 (...)
As the end of another year of war looms, "families in Syria remain without respite after almost a decade of conflict", the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator told the Security Council on Wednesday.
Speaking via videoconference, Humanitarian Affairs (...)
On Dec. 14, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees turned 70 years old. For an organization that should have ceased to exist after three years, it is an uncomfortable birthday that we are not in the mood to celebrate.
As a (...)
The United States on Monday formally removed Sudan's state sponsor of terrorism designation, the US Embassy in Khartoum announced Monday.
The two countries reached an agreement in October for Sudan to be lifted from the list. The settlement required (...)
The number of people forcibly displaced around the world has doubled in the past decade and is estimated to have passed 80 million in mid-2020, as few could go home and more were uprooted, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said in a report published on (...)
The United States on Tuesday imposed terrorism-related sanctions on Iran's ambassador to the Houthi militia in Yemen Hasan Irlu and on Iran's Al-Mustafa International University.
In a statement on Tuesday, the US Department of the Treasury's Office (...)
As COVID-19 continues to disproportionately impact women and girls hit by multiple humanitarian crises, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency appealed on Monday for $818 million to provide 54 million women and youth with essential and (...)
The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday, launched a $6.4 billion emergency funding appeal to reach more than 190 million children affected by humanitarian crises amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
The appeal for 2021, which is a 35 percent (...)
IRANIAN nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the mastermind of Iran's clandestine nuclear program, was killed in an ambush near the capital city of Tehran, in a strikingly similar way Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary (...)
