At least 15 children displaced within Syria have been killed by sub-zero temperatures and lack of access to medical care, the United Nations said on Tuesday. According to Unicef, the UN’s agency for children, eight were killed by the freezing cold in the Rukban camp on the Syria-Jordan border. Another[…]
A United Nations-brokered ceasefire deal has come into effect in the strategic Yemeni city of Hodeidah, but reports say sporadic fighting is still taking place in the embattled port. After a week of consultations in the Swedish town of Rimbo, representatives from the Houthi movement and the Saudi-UAE-backed government of[…]
More than 200 graves containing the corpses of thousands of victims have been discovered in areas formerly controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS), a UN report said. The report by the UN Human Rights Office and the UN Assistance Mission documented[…]
UN relief trucks had planned to deliver aid to Rukban a week ago after gaining clearance from Damascus, but were delayed for logistical and security reasons. A United Nations aid convoy on Saturday reached the Rukban refugee camp in Syria, next to the border with Jordan, where thousands of people[…]
United Nations experts have called on Saudi Arabia to stop the pending executions of six people that were arrested and sentenced to death for actions taken while they were under the age of 18. The group of experts said the six individuals were sentenced to death for alleged crimes that[…]
The United Nations body has called on Saudi Arabia to immediately halt its deadly airstrikes against civilians in war-torn Yemen and prosecute officials responsible for child casualties due to unlawful attacks. The statement by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on Thursday also said the investigative mechanism[…]
The United Nations on Wednesday urged warring parties in Syria to allow basic health service deliveries to tens of thousands of increasingly desperate Syrians trapped in the desert near the Jordanian border. The global body’s fund for children, UNICEF, said two babies – a five-day-old boy and a four-month-old girl[…]
Following days of protests in southern Yemen’s capital Aden over the government’s inability to tackle an economic crisis, a southern separatist group on Wednesday called for independence and a popular uprising. Yemen is suffering a crippling economic crisis as the rial plummets in value and prices of essential goods rise[…]
A United Nations agency that supports Palestinian refugees received contributions of $118 million on Thursday, narrowing a budget gap for this year to $68 million as it aims to fill a shortfall left by a cut in US funding, Reuters reports. Pierre Krahenbuhl, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and[…]
Turkey has said it is working with Russia and Iran to stabilize Syria’s rebel-held Idlib region, indicating continued efforts to avoid a Syrian government offensive in the area, where Ankara failed to secure a ceasefire last week. Damascus, backed by Russia and Iran, has been preparing a major assault to[…]
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