Head of Iran’s Relief and Rescue Organization Morteza Salimi said relief operations continue in flood-stricken provinces of the country and that about 300,000 people have been accommodated in emergency shelters.

Israeli forces demolished the house of Palestinian prisoner Arafat Irfaiya, 19, in the Wadi al-Harya in Hebron, southern occupied West Bank, on predawn Friday, a report said.

Inquiries into the murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi should not end once her report on the killing is submitted in the coming weeks, United Nations investigator Agnes Callamard has said.

Thousands of foreign children are stuck in a Syrian camp after fleeing fighting in Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (ISIL or ISIS) last stronghold, according to a United Nations official.

More than 70,000 people have been killed in Yemen's civil war since January 2016, according to a database tracking violence in the country.

The UN Security Council on Thursday called on warring sides in Yemen to pull back their forces from the key city of Hudaydah "as soon as possible" in line with a ceasefire deal reached four months ago.

The UN said Friday it had evacuated 163 refugees from war-ravaged Libya to neighboring Niger, but more than 3,000 others were still trapped in detention centers affected by clashes.

Advisor to the Iranian Parliament Speaker Hossein Amir Abdollahian lashed out at the Bahraini ruling family of a-Khalifa for following the policies dictated from Washington and Tel Aviv against its own people.

The United Nations expressed concern that a mass trial by a court in Bahrain that stripped nearly 140 people of their nationality this week had not met international fair trial standards.

At least 205 people have been killed in the battle for control of the Libyan capital Tripoli, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday, as the United Nations-recognised government said it would seek the prosecution of renegade military leader Khalifa Haftar in the International Criminal ...