Middle East
- Anastasiia Carrier
- • March 14, 2024
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After weeks of deepening financial straits amid the deadly humanitarian conditions prevailing in Gaza, the tide may be turning positively for the United Nations Relief and Works agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). Yet numerous countries that suspended their aid nearly …
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, US-UN Relations
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- Opinion by Mona Ali Khalil
- • January 27, 2024
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In a speech on Dec. 4, 1997, commemorating the International Day of Solidarity With the Palestinian People, Nelson Mandela celebrated the end of apartheid in South Africa and assured his audience that he and his fellow South Africans “know too …
- Categories: International Justice, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, OPINIONS
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- Arthur Bassas
- • January 26, 2024
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Azerbaijan to lead COP29; Gaza’s garbage pileup; US envoy loves Liberia. Plus: UN Security Council meeting on ICJ ruling; Yemen, Haiti, Gaza. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Our most-read story of …
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- Opinion by Jusaima Moaid-azm Peregrina
- • January 22, 2024
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The Syrian conflict, now nearing its 13th year, has left the country in ruins. Despite waning international attention, it stands as the largest displacement crisis globally, with over 12 million Syrians that have been forcibly displaced throughout the region. The …
- Categories: Middle East, OPINIONS, Security Council
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- Fatma Katr
- • January 18, 2024
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CAIRO —Â Israel’s plan to intensify its ground operations in Gaza’s south includes seizing control of the Philadelphi Corridor, a stretch of land adjacent to the Egypt-Gaza border. But the plan risks breaching Egyptian sovereignty and disrupting the already abysmal flow …
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East
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- Opinion by Arwa Mokdad
- • January 17, 2024
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The relentless bombardment in Gaza by Israel Defense Forces is threatening to further destabilize the Middle East and prolong existing conflicts. While Omani-led peace negotiations for Yemen continue amid these fractures, the boiling tensions in the Red Sea could halt …
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, OPINIONS
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- Dawn Clancy
- • December 14, 2023
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- Categories: Africa, Middle East, Ukraine-Russia War
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- Arthur Bassas
- • December 8, 2023
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- Damilola Banjo
- • December 6, 2023
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- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Dawn Clancy
- • December 3, 2023
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- Opinion by Moncef Khane
- • November 6, 2023
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The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres was the target of unprecedented verbal attacks from the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, after a meeting of the Security Council on Oct. 24, when he called on the UN leader …
- Categories: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, OPINIONS, Secretary-General
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- Arthur Bassas
- • November 3, 2023
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Welcome to This Week @UN, where we summarize the most important news emanating from the organization as well as promote our own articles that you may have missed in the last seven days. The agonizing toll on civilians caught in the …
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- Dawn Clancy
- • October 31, 2023
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IDLIB, Syria — In early October, a suicide drone ripped through a graduation ceremony at a military academy in Homs, Syria, killing and injuring dozens of civilians and cadets while delivering an equally devastating blow to the psyche of the …
- Categories: Middle East, Peace and Security
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- Opinion by Louise Blais
- • October 30, 2023
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The saddest part of the spectacle of three competing United Nations Security Council resolutions on the Israel-Hamas conflict all failing in the last few weeks is that it was classic Council intractability and, as such, not a surprise. The inability …
- Categories: General Assembly, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, OPINIONS, Security Council
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- Arthur Bassas
- • October 20, 2023
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Welcome to This Week @UN, where we summarize the most important news emanating from the organization as well as promote our own articles that you may have missed in the last seven days. By donating to PassBlue, a women-led nonprofit news site, …
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