November 9, 2014
12:47 am

Yemeni activists carry placards during a rally in Sanaa, on November 8, 2014, against the control by Shiite Huthi fighters and condemning the assassination Mohammad bin Abd al-Malik al-Mutawakkil. Arabic writing on placard (C) reads "No to militias, no to terrorism." (Photo credit: AFP/ Mohammed Huwais)

Yemen’s Saleh moves to spike new government

Former president rejects UN sanctions, pulls party out of newly formed cabinet

By Hammoud Mounassar

November 6, 2014
11:46 am

Israel's UN envoy Ron Prosor addresses the UN Security Council in New York, on April 29, 2014 (screen capture: YouTube)

Israel’s UN envoy raps Security Council for silence on terror

Ron Prosor chastises world body for failing to condemn Jerusalem attacks and Palestinian incitement

By Spencer Ho

November 6, 2014
2:15 am

Palestinians clean up debris inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque, on November 5, 2014 following clashes between stone-throwing Palestinians and Israeli security forces. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/AHMAD GHARABLI)

Jordan ready to ‘take measures’ against Israel

After ambassador recalled from Tel Aviv, and amid threats to reassess peace treaty, envoy tells UN that Amman is outraged by clashes on Temple Mount

By AFP and Times of Israel staff

November 6, 2014
12:54 am

Palestinian representative Riyad Mansour addressing journalists after a UN Security Council meeting, May 2014. (photo credit: UN/Devra Berkowitz)

Palestinians urge UN to press Israel on East Jerusalem

Riyad Mansour calls to ‘end provocations’ at Temple Mount; Israel’s UN envoy slams Security Council for its silence on violence

By AFP and Times of Israel staff

November 4, 2014
4:44 pm

Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) official Wassel Abu Yusef. (screen capture: YouTube/PressTV News Videos)

Palestinians to submit UN resolution ‘this month’

PLO official Wassel Abu Yusef says the US has not offered any other realistic solution to the conflict

By AFP

November 4, 2014
1:44 pm

US President Barack Obama talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in 2012 (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/Government Press Office/Flash90)

US veto at Security Council may no longer be a given

With ties growing colder, some in Jerusalem fear Washington’s protection at the UN cannot be taken for granted, and that the midterms may further complicate the picture

By Raphael Ahren

November 4, 2014
10:19 am

Palestinian Authority lead negotiator Saeb Erekat, right, and US Secretary of State John Kerry in Ramallah, West Bank, on January 4, 2013. photo credit: State Department)

Erekat asks Kerry to support Palestinian bid at UN

During DC meeting, chief Palestinian negotiator pushes Washington to recognize Palestinian state

By Lazar Berman

November 2, 2014
10:04 am

Syrian residents running in the street after a government warplane dropped barrel bombs on the al-Sakhour neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday, April 5, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

Syria said to step up barrel bombings as world shifts focus

US, others more concerned with jihadists than crimes by Assad regime, rights groups and citizens say

By Serene Assir

November 1, 2014
8:53 am

Mideast Israel UN peacekeepers from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, also known as UNDOF, observe Syria's Quneitra province at an observation point on Mount Bental in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, overlooking the border with Syria, Friday, August 29, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

UN begins review of peacekeepers amid criticism

International body’s internal watchdog says forces respond immediately to only a minority of attacks on civilians

By Cara Anna

October 31, 2014
9:19 am

UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura listens during a press conference after his meeting with the UN Security Council, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014 at UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

UN Syria envoy urges bottom-up peace effort

Staffan de Mistura tells UN Security Council ending the violence begins with ‘incremental freezes’

By Cara Anna

October 29, 2014
11:48 pm

UN holds emergency session on Jerusalem unrest

Jewish homes in ‘our eternal capital’ are not a threat, Ambassador Ron Prosor tells Security Council

By Lazar Berman and AP

October 29, 2014
12:46 pm

US President Barack Obama talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while walking from the Oval Office to the South Lawn Drive of the White House, after their meeting May 20, 2011. (Photo credit: Avi Ohayon/Government Press Office/FLASH90)

Obama and Netanyahu: A fractured alliance becomes open conflict

Op-ed: Previously, despite fundamental policy differences, there was a clear sense of shared purpose between the two. Now that is collapsing, and the implications are far worse for Israel than for the US

By David Horovitz

October 28, 2014
5:27 am

Jordanian Foreign Minister and President of the United Nations Security Council Nasser Judeh, right, has a conversation with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as a Security Council meeting began at UN headquarters on Monday, January 20, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Craig Ruttle)

Jordan calls for Security Council meeting on Jerusalem

Foreign Ministry says plan to build new homes over Green Line a ‘slap in the face’ of efforts to restart peace talks

By AFP, AP and Times of Israel staff

October 27, 2014
10:57 pm

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Abbas calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting on Jerusalem

PA president says international body must end ‘settler attacks’ on Temple Mount and Israeli construction over the Green Line

By Times of Israel staff

October 23, 2014
10:51 pm

Saeb Erekat (photo credit: Issan Rimawi/Flash90)

PA negotiator vows to press for statehood

Saeb Erekat says PA will pursue international recognition in November, insists Israel has no say in the matter