The United Nations said it is keeping a close eye on the situation of more than a thousand Palestinian prisoners, who have gone on hunger strike honoring a call by a fellow inmate. Unprecedented in scale, the protest action involves a reported number of 1,500 prisoners. It started on Monday ...
The United Nations says nearly half a million civilians have fled Mosul since Iraqi forces launched a wide-scale military operation last October to retake the city from ISIL militants. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Monday that 493,000 people have been displaced from the city. As ...
