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Amid the destruction of cultural heritage in Syria, including that of the famed tetrapylon and parts of the Roman theatre in Palmyra by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da'esh), the...

Warning that the situation in Yemen is growing more dire every day, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the lead United Nations-affiliated agency on migration issues, launched today...

With some 1,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails on hunger strike for a second month, an independent United Nations expert vising the region called on Israel to comply with international law and...

Amir Kabir University of Technology ranks fourth in the world in terms of the number of faculty members in the course of medical engineering.

It can confidently be said that in today's world, particularly in the recent decades, we hardly hear the word "peace", because in all corners of the world the only thing that wehear is war,...

ODVV: “Art For Peace Exhibition” at the 34th Session of the Human Rights Council

With tens of thousands of civilians forced to flee their homes following a spike in fighting across western and central Yemen, the United Nations refugee agency appealed for more international...

The United Nations will adopt a minimalistic, concrete and realistic approach to addressing the crisis generated by Syria’s ongoing conflict, a senior UN official said today as he warned about the...

On 21st April 2014, at 2.30pm Mr Mohd Kamilzuhairi Abdul Aziz, a local Shia cleric was arrested while giving an opening speech at a luncheon organized by his group.

Addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for a new generation of partnerships with the business community to limit the...

At least 21 people have lost their lives and 97 others sustained injuries in a bomb attack carried out by the Takfiri ISIL terrorist group against a Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province.

Highlighting the complex and interlinked challenges confronting the global community that also compound the suffering of the most vulnerable, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres...

Highlighting the plight of victims of human trafficking, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon underlined the need to ensure justice for victims and accountability for perpetrators, as well...

Warning of the disastrous impact of an imminent attack on a western city and port and Yemen, the United Nations migration agency has called on all actors to use dialogue and talks rather than...

As the extreme cold weather and storms continue to sweep Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, refugee and migrant children are threatened by respiratory and other serious illnesses, according to...

A series of car bomb blasts in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has killed at least 42 people and injured many more, officials say.

Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have blocked a major motorway in Bahrain ahead of Sunday's F1 Grand Prix in the Gulf kingdom.

Bahraini courts have revoked the citizenship of dozens of people as part of the ruling Al Khalifah regime’s oppressive measures and heavy-handed crackdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy...

Bahraini human rights activist and former Al Wefaq Consultive Council member Nizar Al Qari (49 years old) was arrested from his residence on Friday 5th of May & security forces raided his house...

Bahrain is at a tipping point. The first two months of 2017 alone saw an alarming upsurge in arbitrary and abusive force by security forces as well as the first executions since the uprising in 2011