GENEVA: The UN rights chief on Wednesday rejected as “unlawful” proposals for the annexation of or forced transfer from Palestinian territories, warning they posed a threat to the entire region.

Volker Turk says such efforts could threaten regional stability, calls Hamas torture and kidnapping 'war crimes'

Israel’s offensive in the West Bank is part of broader plans to expand Zionist settlements and eventually annex the West Bank—first expelling the Palestinians from Area C, assigned by the 1993 Oslo Accords to Israel’s full military control and making up 60 percent of the Palestinian territory.

Hamas handed over four dead hostages to the Red Cross in exchange for Israel's release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, days before the first phase of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will end.

Many in Lebanon have been calling on Hezbollah to disarm, particularly following its latest war with Israel that stopped when a U.S.-brokered ceasefire went into effect on Nov. 27 and Israeli troops withdrew from most of southern Lebanon.

The World Health Organization is deeply concerned about violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the impact of what it called "starkly rising" attacks on healthcare, its representative in the Palestinian territories said on Tuesday.

Assad, Israel launches more attacks, disrupting the national dialogue and asserting control over southern Syria as part of a regional escalation.

Iran recently unveiled its largest drone, named `Gaza,` in honor of the Palestinian enclave devastated by ongoing war. Major General Hossein Salami, Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC),

In this short, pained meditation, Shehadeh, a renowned Palestinian writer and human rights advocate, puzzles over the conflict that has defined his life.

Ireland has secured language in a key EU communique which the Government believes will support its handling of the Occupied Territories Bill and possibly ease the bill's potential conflict with EU law.

A leading UN authority on the Palestinian Territories has warned against restrictions on academic freedom after an event she was set to attend at a Berlin university was held online following a political backlash.

The new US administration assumed office at a time the global order is going through a deep structural shift, including in the Middle East, where the US' role is being redefined. The US is finding itself dealing with an increasingly unfamiliar world and an assertive Middle East,