UN Security Council

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, September 20, 2017. (AP/Seth Wenig)

August 14, 2018, 5:32 pm

A Palestinian attempt to oust Israel from the UN would be quixotic — and fail

Israeli paper claims PA may bid to boot Israel from world body. Ramallah knows it wouldn't succeed, but that's never stopped it from trying such gambits, or Jerusalem from fuming

By Raphael Ahren

View of the trail left in the sky by a Patriot missile that was fired to intercept a Syrian jet entering Israel from Syria, as seen in the northern Israeli city of Safed, on July 24, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)

July 25, 2018, 7:01 am

Syria says response to fighter jet’s downing ‘will come soon enough’ — report

Official tells Lebanese news site 'Damascus is in no hurry to enter a war with Israel' but promises a reaction; Russia said to protest to Israeli officials over incident

By TOI staff and AP

United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov speaks at a press conference during a visit to the Gaza Strip on July 15, 2018. (Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

July 25, 2018, 5:29 am

UN Mideast envoy: Israel, Hamas were ‘minutes away’ from war

Nikolay Mladenov tells Security Council unless sides begin to work for true change, 'another explosion is almost a certainty'; Israeli envoy Danon says Hamas 'holding Gaza hostage'

By Agencies and TOI staff

Israeli soldiers are photographed at the Tel Saki hill in the Golan Heights across the border from the Daraa province in Syria on July 24, 2018. (AFP/JALAA MAREY)

July 24, 2018, 11:54 pm

Israel tried to contact Syrian pilot before shooting down jet, envoy to UN says

Army now reportedly believes plane crossed into Israel accidentally, but Danny Danon says military had to act quickly without knowing its intention

By TOI staff and AP

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting at UN Headquarters, July 24, 2018 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

July 24, 2018, 9:53 pm

Despite US cuts, Haley accuses world of failing to fund Palestinians

At Security Council, US envoy rebukes Iran and others for giving speeches but no cash to UNRWA; vows US won't continue 'feeding hands that bite'

By Raphael Ahren

FILE - In this Thursday, May 18, 2017, file photo, soldiers cheer at a ceremony marking the 34th anniversary of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), attended by President Salva Kiir, in the capital Juba, South Sudan. (AP /Samir Bol)

July 13, 2018, 4:48 am

UN set to impose arms embargo on war-torn South Sudan

Israel, which has forged close ties with country, has been accused of selling guns and surveillance equipment that have helped fuel civil war

By AP

Homeless children stand on the road from Khoukha to Taiz in Yemen, February 12, 2018. (Nariman El-Mofty/AP)

July 10, 2018, 10:54 am

1 in 4 children live in country of conflict or disaster, UN says

535 million youngsters in dangerous circumstances; Security Council unanimously adopts resolution urging greater action to protect kids caught up in wars

By Edith M. Lederer

Syrians displaced by government forces' bombardment in the southern Daraa province countryside drive near the town of Shayyah, south of the city of Daraa, towards the demilitarized zone separating the Israeli and Syrian Golan heights on June 29, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mohamad Abazeed)

July 5, 2018, 11:34 pm

Russia blocks Security Council statement on Syria

Diplomats say member states can't agree on response to escalating fighting and deteriorating humanitarian conditions in country's southwest

By AFP

Displaced Syrians flee from government forces' bombardment on rebel-held areas of the embattled southern city of Daraa on July 3, 2018. (AFP/Mohamad ABAZEED)

July 4, 2018, 1:34 am

UN calls emergency meet as 300,000 Syrians flee regime offensive in south

Kuwait, Sweden request Security Council session after Jordan, Israel refuse to take in refugees displaced by Russian-backed bombings

By AFP

A Syrian government forces' soldier smokes a cigarette on an armored vehicle during a government guided tour in the village of al-Sourah, province of Daraa, on June 29, 2018.
(AFP PHOTO / Youssef KARWASHAN)

June 30, 2018, 4:14 am

UN calls for armed groups to leave Golan area separating Israel-Syria forces

Call comes as Assad presses offensive against rebels in the area, causing tens of thousands of civilians to flee toward Jordan and Israel

By AFP and TOI staff

Illustrative: An unidentified International Atomic Energy Agency inspector cuts the connections between the twin cascades for 20 percent uranium enrichment at the Natanz facility, some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Monday, January 20, 2014. (AP/IRNA, Kazem Ghane)

June 28, 2018, 3:18 am

Iran reopens uranium plant after 9 years to step up enrichment

Activity resumes at facility as Trump administration begins dismantling the sanctions relief that was granted to Tehran under nuclear deal

By TOI staff and Agencies

A Palestinian woman sits with a child after receiving food supplies from the United Nations' offices at the United Nations' offices in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, February 11, 2018. (AFP/Said Khatib)

June 19, 2018, 10:00 pm

Cash-strapped UN refugee agency to cut back operations in Gaza

United Nations special envoy Nickolay Mladenov tells Security Council that by August UNRWA will need to suspend core services

By AFP and TOI staff

In this photo a US Border Patrol agent watches as people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, stand in line at a facility in McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 17, 2018. (US Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP)

June 18, 2018, 4:49 pm

UN rights chief condemns migrant family separations at US border

Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein calls deterrent policy 'unconscionable,' as outrage against practice grows

By Olivia Hampton

Yemenis drop off boxes of humanitarian aid provided by the Emirati Red Crescent in the coastal town of Mujailis, south of the city of Hodeida, on June 6, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / NABIL HASSAN)

June 12, 2018, 12:20 am

UN scrambles to avert coalition attack on key Yemen port

Security Council warns rebel held city of Hodeida must be kept open for aid shipments to prevent worsening of humanitarian crisis

By AFP

Latvian FM Edgars Rinkēvičs, right, with PM Netanyahu, in Jerusalem, June 2018 (Twitter)

June 11, 2018, 7:46 am

Latvian FM: Anti-Israel resolutions don’t advance peace

Visiting Jerusalem, Edgars Rinkēvičs hails Riga's 'balanced position' on Mideast, criticizes Israel's use of lethal force during Gaza riots

By Raphael Ahren