At a historic crossroads, just 11 days after the collapse of the Assad regime, Syria faces a fragile mix of hope and chaos, ...

Senior UN officials have been meeting representatives of the new caretaker authorities in Damascus in the past few days, ...

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Tuesday welcomed the proclamation of the Second International Decade for People of ...

Tropical Cyclone Chido struck northern Mozambique over the weekend, bringing torrential rains and powerful winds that caused ...

The head of UN political affairs called on Tuesday for urgent re-engagement to restore an international agreement on Iran’s ...

The historic shift of power in Syria and the possibility of finally accessing evidence of horrific human rights violations ...

The World Food Programme (WFP) has intensified its emergency response in Sudan, delivering food assistance to more than ...

Avian influenza has caused the deaths of more than 300 million birds worldwide and the virus “is increasingly crossing ...

UN humanitarians expressed alarm on Monday at the rising numbers of civilian casualties in and around the besieged Sudanese ...

Authorities in Gaza reported on Monday that more than 45,000 people have been killed in the enclave in the last 14 months, as ...

Civilians near the frontlines of Ukraine’s war with Russia are living “on the edge”, a senior UN humanitarian official told ...

The UN’s top Syria envoy held talks in Damascus with the head of the new administration as well as the prime minister of the ...