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Security Council briefed on challenges to peacekeeping in Lebanon, Syria-January 17, 2025,12:00

Two senior UN peacekeeping officials briefed the Security Council on Friday on recent developments in Lebanon and the occupied […]

UNRWA chief: Ceasefire is the start, not the solution-January 17, 2025,12:00

Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) on Friday welcomed the Gaza ceasefire […]

In Lebanon, Guterres highlights challenges and support for peacekeepers-January 17, 2025,12:00

Continuing his high profile visit to Lebanon, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday underscored the challenges faced […]

Gaza ceasefire could boost aid deliveries to 600 trucks per day: WHO-January 17, 2025,12:00

Amid reports that Israel’s security cabinet has given the green light to a ceasefire deal with Hamas, the UN World Health […]

‘Enough death and destruction’: Gazans hope for ceasefire and a better future-January 16, 2025,12:00

In the wake of Wednesday’s announcement of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas due to come into effect on Sunday, […]

A decade of conflict: ‘Almost 40 million Yemenis have waited far too long’-January 15, 2025,12:00

The UN’s Special Envoy for Yemen and a top aid official briefed the Security Council on Wednesday warning of the grave […]

Guterres hails Gaza ceasefire deal as ‘critical first step’-January 15, 2025,12:00

The UN Secretary-General has welcomed Wednesday’s announcement of a deal to secure a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza following 15 months of war. 

UN rights chief in historic meeting in Syria’s with caretaker authority in Damascus-January 15, 2025,12:00

The UN human rights chief Volker Türk has described the unbearable suffering of former detainees under the deposed Assad regime […]

Syria emergency: Four children a day killed or injured by leftover explosives-January 14, 2025,12:00

Syria’s lethal legacy of landmines and other explosives left over from years of conflict has led to the deaths of over 100 […]

First Person: Syrian refugee shipwreck survivor vows to help reconstruct shattered country-January 13, 2025,12:00

Syrian refugee Doaa Al Zamel’s harrowing tale of surviving a deadly shipwreck brought the horrors of fleeing war to a worldwide […]