By AFP/Louis BAUDOIN-LAARMANTwo buses carrying Palestinian prisoners released in the Gaza ceasefire deal had to inch through a thick crowd when they at last arrived in the West Bank at 2 am Monday.After the doors opened, women hugged their relatives...

By AFP/Youssef Hassouna with Daniel Capurro and Adel ZaanounThree Israeli hostages released Sunday from Gaza were reunited with their families on the first day of a long-awaited truce aimed at ending more than 15 months of war that has ravaged the Pa...

By UN News/Conor LennonHopes are rising that, with the support of the United Nations, the architects of the brutal former regime of Bashar al Assad in Syria will eventually be held accountable for their crimes.For years, UN human rights bodies have b...

By AFPIn a sprawling tent city in central Gaza, Palestinians displaced by war to other parts of the territory are all waiting for one thing: a ceasefire so they can go home.Most of Gaza's 2.4 million people have been displaced at least once by the Is...

By AFP/Ruth EglashEight decades after the Holocaust, its memory is at a "crossroads" as survivors who can offer first-hand accounts of the horrors of Nazi-era Europe dwindle, said the head of an Israeli memorial centre.Dani Dayan, chairman of Jerusal...

By AFP/Valentin Rakovsky and Laurence CoustalThe war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas, which on Wednesday agreed a ceasefire, has killed tens of thousands of people and created a humanitarian disaster.The fragile ceasefire deal is due to st...

By AFP/Yannick PASQUETThey were four years old, 15 or only seven months when they were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald and Ravensbruck. Some were even born there.Somehow they survived, began their lives again and had children th...

By AFP/Acil TabbaraIn a Damascus courtyard, Syrian activists brainstormed strategies to ensure their country does not return to authoritarianism, in a scene unimaginable under president Bashar al-Assad's rule.Since Islamist-led rebels ousted the long...

By AFP/Nina Larson with Amelie Bottollier-DepoisWith just days to go before Donald Trump again enters the White House, anxiety is rising across UN agencies fearful he could wreak even more havoc than last time.During Trump's first term in office, Was...

By AFPQatar and the United States announced Wednesday a ceasefire and hostage-release deal between Israel and Hamas, adding that they hoped it would pave the way for a permanent end to the war in Gaza.After mediators earlier said a deal had been reac...

By UN News/Reem AbazaSyrian refugee Doaa Al Zamel’s harrowing tale of surviving a deadly shipwreck brought the horrors of fleeing war to a worldwide audience when it was told in the book “A Hope More Powerful Than The Sea” in 2017.After the Syrian ci...

By UN NewsThe world is entering a new era of crisis for children; climate change, inequality and conflict are disrupting their lives and limiting their futures, an authoritative study from the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned.At the beginning o...