Near East

The U.N.'s Department of Global Communications is under fire for a one-sided view of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, with critics saying it often sides with Palestinians at the expense of other conflicts.

The country's role as a regional stabilizer is at risk if it takes on more Palestinian refugees.

The law that bans the United Nations agency that aids Palestinian refugees in Gaza went into effect on Wednesday.

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UNITED NATIONS, Oct 31 (IPS) - On October 28, the Israeli parliament voted to ban activity from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Israel. Two bills were passed by the Knesset, Israel's house of representatives, one that barred all UNRWA efforts, and another that prevents interactions between Israeli authorities and UNRWA personnel. The implications of…

The unending, unjust Israel-Hamas war exposes rifts in the universality of human rights and the hypocrisy of Western nations.

Six months. That's how long it took for President Biden to call for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas terrorists who killed some 1,200 people, raped women, tortured and murdered children, and took more than 200 captives, including American citizens, into the maze of tunnels, spider holes, and underground bunkers known as the Gaza Metro on October 7.

Iran has asserted itself on the global stage through proxies in the Middle East and by supporting Russia in its war in Ukraine. On this episode of The Eastern Front, Giselle, and Iulia welcome An

The United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is embroiled in controversy after Israel reported agency employees participated in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. Here is the agency's history.

The decision by Western powers to defund the aid agency in Gaza further imperils civilians, while undermining the credibility of key global institutions.

Incredibly old human-made rocks have exposed an important event in Earth's magnetic history.

A Palestinian man living in Gaza told the Israeli Defence Forces that Hamas has direct control over the Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees in the Near East, known as UNRWA.

Domestic cats are cherished human companions, but a new study shows the enormous breadth of species the felines prey on when they are left to roam freely

Even if Israel succeeds in toppling Hamas, it will face a conundrum like the U.S. did in Iraq two decades ago.

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Researchers created two extensive Neolithic family trees using ancient DNA.

The French archaeologist Ludovic Slimak has spent the past 30 years rummaging fields and caves from the Horn of Africa to the Artic Circle, and, of course, his beloved Rhône Valley in France. For the past year and a half, his team of 45 researchers have been on a roll, publishing paper after paper on early humanity's history between 54,000 and 42,000 years ago.

Humans carved into boulders precise, to-scale representations of the large "desert kites" they built in the Middle East.

In 1914, two beads were found under the great ziggurat of Aššur in Iraq, in a foundation deposit dating from around 1800-1750 BC. Their material has now been identified as amber using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR). The beads represent some of the earliest amber specimens in southwest Asia and also some of the most distant discoveries from the find areas in the Baltic region.

Similarities between artifacts found in Lebanon and France suggest Homo sapiens migrants brought tool traditions with them