The UN migration chief expressed concerns about large-scale refugee returns destabilizing Syria further, particularly affecting religious minorities who fled violence during the Assad regime’s brutal crackdown and subsequent years of conflict
Biblical-scale catastrophe unfolding in Gaza Strip: Russia’s UN envoy
United Nations, New York - A humanitarian catastrophe on a biblical scale is unfolding in the Gaza Strip, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said at a session of the UN Security Council. "It’s time to call it what it is: a humanitarian catastrophe on a biblical scale...
Yemen’s Houthi rebels consider extending truce
Yemen's Houthi rebels said Wednesday they are considering renewing a United Nations-brokered truce with the government which expires in two weeks. The Houthis' "Supreme Political Council will consider the request for an extension of the truce, which ends on June 2," the rebels' Saba news agency said.
UN calls on Iraqi politicians to end seven-month stalemate
The UN envoy to Iraq on Tuesday urged Iraqi politicians to end a deadlock which has kept parliament from forming a new government for more than seven months, warning that the crisis could spark civil unrest. "The streets are about to boil over in Iraq," Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert told reporters.
UN’s new envoy of W.Sahara meets with Polisario head in Algeria
The Polisario Front took up arms in the 1970s to seek independence in the disputed Western Sahara while demanding an independence referendum.
UN envoy to West Sahara in Morocco for first regional tour
Staffan de Mistura, a veteran Italian, diplomat began his first visit to the region and landed in Rabat.
