The implementation of a landmark nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers is still fragile, the head of the UN agency that polices Iran’s side of the deal has said, warning that small mistakes could have grave consequences.
TEL AVIV – U.S. strikes against the Assad regime in Syria are once again being pushed by top security officials, but President Barack Obama is unlikely to give the go ahead.
TEL AVIV – Veteran Lebanese journalist Samir Atallah penned a scathing article on the Arab people’s inability to conduct negotiations without resorting to threats, as well as the hypocrisy of the Arab world’s outrage towards external threats like Israel, which may have demolished “a house or two” while Arabs destroy entire cities.
Former Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman said the United Nations should treat Iranian President Hassan Rouhani the same way it treats North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and suggested that “Tehran has more blood on its hands than even the regime in Pyongyang.”
NEW YORK – Thousands of members from the Iranian resistance group the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), or the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), held a rally and put on mock executions at the United Nation’s Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in New York City on Tuesday to protest President Hassan Rouhani’s visit to the U.N. and to shed light on his role in the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners who were hung, shot and buried in mass graves.
Syrian Dictator Bashar al-Assad has said neither Syria nor its ally Russia launched the bombs that destroyed a United Nations aid convoy carrying food supplies to a rural area west of the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo that killed at least 20 people, including the local director of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent.
North Korean Foreign Affairs Minister Ri Yong Ho ardently attacked the United States at the podium of the UN General Assembly Friday, accusing Washington of “extremely dangerous aggression” and “constant nuclear threats.”
TEL AVIV — The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum urged world leaders to condemn Iran’s Holocaust denial ahead of President Hassan Rouhani address at the UN General Assembly.
President Juan Manuel Santos announced to the audience of the UN General Assembly Wednesday that the government of Colombia and the multi-million-dollar terrorist group FARC had agreed to a deal that would keep most FARC terrorists out of prison, and allow its leaders to found a political party in the country.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon used his final address Tuesday to the General Assembly, after ten years in office, to blame Israel for the failed Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Ban said nothing about Palestinian terrorism, war or incitement in his speech.
New York City officials are expanding police presence around the United Nations complex in anticipation of the General Assembly debate, beginning Tuesday, which is expected to be attended by dozens of world leaders.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton plans to mingle with foreign leaders at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly next week. Her goal is to use the UN as a backdrop to display her foreign policy credentials, and contrast her experience with that of Republican rival Donald Trump.
TEL AVIV – The parents of a slain Israeli soldier whose body is being held captive by Hamas are demanding the United Nations and U.S. “take responsibility” to recover his remains, after the Gaza-based terror group abducted their son during a U.S. and UN-brokered ceasefire in the 2014 summer conflict.
South Korea and Japan are looking to China and Russia, permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, to aid in their quest to stop North Korea from conducting yet another nuclear test, following the nation’s fifth and most powerful one yet.
73 humanitarian aid groups are dropping out of the United Nations “Whole of Syria” program, accusing the UN of cooperating too closely with the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad. The move comes shortly after an exposé in The Guardian revealed deep financial ties between Assad and UN humanitarian projects in Syria.
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) accredited by the United nations are promoting antisemitism worldwide, according to a new report released earlier this month.
In anticipation of the two leaders meeting next week, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte once again asserted he would not allow President Barack Obama to lecture him on human rights, citing the killing of unarmed black people in the United States and Hollywood’s allegedly pervasive cocaine problem.
On August 20, 2016 the United Nations did something it had not been willing to do for six years: it accepted responsibility for the 2010 cholera outbreak that has since killed 10,000 and infected millions in Haiti.
Last Shabbat morning I spoke in the Nitzanim Synagogue in Jerusalem, delivering the morning sermon. Five days after my daughter’s wedding, I was in high spirits but delivered a somewhat ominous message.
The United Nations and the European Union are helping the Palestinian Authority build its global advocacy campaign against the Jewish state, including its filing of “war crimes” complaints about Israel before the International Criminal Court.
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad still has the capability to launch chemical weapon attacks, according to a summary of a confidential watchdog report provided to the United Nations.
Russia said on Thursday it is prepared to work with the United States at the United Nations on how to respond to a report that blamed Syrian government forces for two chlorine gas attacks and ISIS militants for using sulfur mustard gas.
The Israeli government on Thursday rejected a U.N. request for diplomatic immunity for a Palestinian engineer who worked for the U.N. in the Gaza Strip but is now in prison after being accused of assisting the territory’s Islamic militant Hamas rulers.
TEL AVIV – The Israeli army on Wednesday cleared troops in four cases of allegations of killing Palestinian civilians during the 2014 war with Hamas in Gaza.
TEL AVIV – A majority of Palestinians – 54% – believe that Israel is bent on extending its borders to include all the territory from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea as well as planning a campaign of ethnic cleansing to expel them, a new poll found.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is increasingly losing control of its largest stronghold outside of Iraq and Syria, the coastal Libyan city of Sirte, located a few hundreds of miles from the shores of Europe.
TEL AVIV – The chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday lashed back at Jordan’s allegations of Israeli misconduct at the Temple Mount, saying the holy site will not be governed by the rules of Mecca and Medina, the Saudi Arabian cities where entrance is prohibited to non-Muslims.
Troops loyal to the U.S.-backed government of South Sudan have reportedly embarked on a rampage of rape and murder, targeting civilians — a testament to the mayhem that has spread across the world’s youngest country, the birth of which the Obama administration helped midwife.
TEL AVIV – As Jews worldwide mark Tisha Be’Av, the Jewish fast day commemorating the destruction of the Second Temple at the hands of the Roman Empire in 70 CE, Jewish archeologists recount the challenges in unearthing Jewish artefacts that prove the unbreakable bond between the land of Israel and the Jewish people.
Russia said on Wednesday there would be daily three-hour ceasefires in Syria’s Aleppo starting Thursday to allow humanitarian convoys to enter the city safely, a proposal which the United Nations said it would consider.
TEL AVIV – A leader of the Druze population in the Golan Heights refuted a United Nations statement accusing Israel of imposing economic and social hardships on his community, saying it was “a total joke” and that the UN should instead concern itself with real human rights violation such as those happening in neighboring Syria.
Civilian casualties in Afghanistan reached 5,166 during the first half of this year, an all-time high, with children paying a heavy toll, reports the United Nations.
TEL AVIV – Israel is taking measures to prevent an internal EU document that pins the blame for Palestinian terror on the “occupation” from being part of EU discussions on the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
TEL AVIV – Confronting the U.S. is the only choice Iran has left, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani warned Wednesday.
TEL AVIV – Members of a UN agency who attempt to erase Jewish and Christian ties to Jerusalem’s Old City are damaging its status as a World Heritage site for all three monotheistic religions, UNESCO’s Director-General Irina Bokova warned on Friday.
It remains uncertain how long a shaky ceasefire will hold in South Sudan, a nation that the Obama administration helped birth.
TEL AVIV – The UNESCO vote on a controversial resolution ignoring Jewish historical ties to the Temple Mount was postponed Tuesday after Israel enlisted the help of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany to counter the draft text.
A major crossing point between Gaza and Israel is set to reopen for the first time in nine years, the Israeli government announced Wednesday.
TEL AVIV – Terrorist organization Hezbollah now has 120,000 missiles – 17 times the number it had a decade ago – with “more missiles below ground than European NATO allies have above ground,” Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon told the United Nations Security Council Tuesday.
The Conservative party’s failed attempts to control spending and bring down public debt breach “human rights”, the United Nations (UN) has declared, calling for a bigger state and a higher minimum wage.
