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Israeli authorities continue to deny UN-led efforts to reach North Gaza with lifesaving aid, including the most recent attempt on Friday, ac...

Syrians have high expectations for their country, and a strong desire for people from across the social spectrum to come together and forge...

Persistent Russian bombardments have failed to dampen the resilience of the Ukrainian people, according to the United Nations. Despite the l...

A team from the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria concluded a first visit to the country on Thursday, taking crucial steps to foster dialogu...

Global economic growth is projected to remain at 2.8 per cent in 2025, unchanged from this past year, according to a UN flagship report rele...

The UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, congratulated Joseph Aoun who was on Thursday elected the country’s Pres...

A month since the fall of the Assad regime, more than 125,000 refugees have returned to Syria “full of hope after years of exile”, only to f...

The Security Council met on Wednesday to discuss political and humanitarian developments exactly a month on from the collapse of the Assad r...

While the war in Gaza grinds on with dozens of civilians already reportedly killed and injured so far this year - and as the fragile ceasefi...

UN teams in Gaza have carried out a rapid needs assessment in two makeshift sites in Deir Al-Balah following a recent airstrike, Spokesperso...

The UN and the Government of Lebanon unveiled a $371.4 million extension of the Lebanon Flash Appeal on Tuesday aiming to provide life-savin...

“We saw dead bodies scattered to the left and right, decomposing in the sun”, recounts Jonathan Dumont, Head of Emergency Communications at...

Israeli airstrikes continued across Gaza overnight into Monday, while the UN World Food Programme (WFP) reported that one of its aid convoys...

With seven per cent of the population killed or injured since October 2023, the health crisis in Gaza shows no signs of abating.

Operations by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) north of the UN-monitored Blue Line in southern Lebanon have continued, according to the UN pe...

In northeast Syria, UN teams pressed ahead with a lifesaving cholera vaccine campaign in Al Hol detention camp complex on Friday, despite ru...

The UN Security Council is due to meet in emergency session at 10am in New York on the collapse of health services in Gaza. The meeting was...

More than 115,000 people have reportedly returned to Syria from countries such as Türkiye, Jordan and Lebanon since 8 December – the fall of...

Civilians are not safe anywhere in the Gaza Strip, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, warned on Thursday. 

The head of UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA again underlined the need for a ceasefire in Gaza in a statement posted on the social media pl...

Since he began his mandate as UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, Matthias Schmale has seen for himself the devastating eff...

Humanitarians continue to respond to needs in Syria as security and logistical conditions permit, the UN said on Tuesday.

Israel’s pattern of deadly attacks on and near hospitals in Gaza, and associated combat, have pushed the healthcare system to the brink of t...

The head of the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, issued a fresh call on Tuesday for investigations into the “systematic dis...

Essential services that sustain life - healthcare, emergency aid, and humanitarian access - are being systematically dismantled in the Occup...