Syria is poised to come in from the cold at the UN’s nuclear watchdog, with the agency’s boss travelling to Damascus this month. Rafael Grossi revealed he was invited by Syria’s government in order to “re-establish a meaningful, constructive dialogue”. His talks on “remaining...

A Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ministerial meeting on Sunday called for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. The foreign ministers of the 6-nation bloc along with Egypt, Jordan and Morocco met in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on Sunday. A statement issued following the meeting...

It has now been more than one month since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered an interim ruling calling on Israel to take measures to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza.  The provisional measures were announced on 26 January, weeks after South Africa had taken Israel to the...

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian teenager during a raid in the occupied West Bank. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, Israeli soldiers conducted a raid on the town of Kafr Ni'ma, west of Ramallah, in the West Bank. During the raid, 16-year-old Muhammed Murad ad-Diq was...