UN Security Council Should Have Condemned Iran Embassy Attack in Syria - Iran's UN Mission

UN Security Council Should Have Condemned Iran Embassy Attack in Syria - Iran's UN Mission WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The "imperative for Iran" to retaliate for the attack on its embassy compound in ... Read More

Syrian Civil War Fast Facts

December 19, 2011 – Syria signs an Arab League proposal aimed at ending violence between government forces and protesters. January 28, 2012 – The Arab League suspends its mission in Syria as ... Read More

UN’s high court orders Syria to stop torture

Canada and the Netherlands say that the regime of Bashar Assad has violated the 1984 United Nations Convention ... International Criminal Court. Syria has not signed the Rome Statue, which underpins ... Read More

‘Armstrong of the Arab World’: Syria’s first astronaut Mohammad Faris dies in exile

Mohammad Faris, known as the “Armstrong of the Arab World” and Syria ... “When we decided to leave Syria, I scattered my children in different neighborhoods of Aleppo to meet at a particular ... Read More

Syria's Assad refuses to let in UN chemical weapons inspectors

Syria will not accept a chemical weapons team, as proposed by U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon, to probe the alleged use of chemical weapons in the country’s conflict, the foreign ministry said on Monday. Read More

UN Security Council Fails to Condemn Strike on Iran in Syria

UN Security Council ... Iran's embassy compound in Syria, which Tehran has blamed on Washington's ally Israel. Press statements by the 15-member council have to be agreed by consensus. Read More

United Nations adopts 'groundbreaking' resolution on human rights for intersex people

April 4 (UPI) --The United Nations on Thursday for the first time ... who said a Russian national was in police custody. World News // 11 hours ago Russia fires nine drones at Ukraine, damages ... Read More

UN human rights body backs measures against Myanmar and investigations in Iran

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.'s leading human rights body agreed Thursday to measures ... and another by a “fact-finding mission” focusing on rights violations related to protests since September ... Read More

US says a UN agency has agreed to help in distribution of aid to Gaza via sea route

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.N. World Food Program has agreed to help deliver aid for ... said about 500 of his soldiers will participate in the mission. All together, Pentagon officials have said ... Read More

UN Security Council should have condemned Iran embassy attack in Syria - Iran's UN mission

Tehran's mission to the United Nations said on Thursday. "Had the UN Security Council condemned the Zionist regime’s reprehensible act of aggression on our diplomatic premises in Damascus and ... Read More