Middle East

Martin Griffiths, who was appointed in 2018, has been mediating efforts to end five years of fighting between Government forces,...

“The explosion at the Beirut port has accelerated a lot of things, that's for sure”, said Deputy Special Coordinator Najat Rochdi,...

The Al-Shifaa Hospital came under fire amid shelling in the rebel-held northern city of Afrin on Saturday.   At least...

In her first briefing since last July, Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), reminded ambassadors that...

Izumi Nakamitsu, the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, updated delegates on recent developments in the work of the Organisation...

Phillipe Lazzarini issued a strongly-worded statement on Thursday, expressing serious concern at the “magnitude of attacks directed against the senior management of...

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that it has provided essential medicines for trauma care and supported ambulance services for...

Ambassadors met in person in New York as a fragile cessation of hostilities continues to hold, following 11 days of...

In comments to the Human Rights Council in Geneva - which stopped short of supporting a call for an international probe into...

“It is a tragic irony that this time of relative calm, compared with earlier years of the conflict, is also...