United Nations officials urged a gathering of world leaders on Tuesday to help strengthen a new approach to sustaining peace, which aims to put prevention at the heart of the UN’s work, calling for more diplomacy, dialogue and mediation to head off conflicts before they break out.

 United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called for a prompt, effective and transparent investigation into recent airstrikes on civilians in Yemen, which claimed at least 50 lives, including children, and injured many others.

 Iran's Deputy Human Rights Chief Kazem Gharibabadi has announced the impending publication of a book on the situation of human rights in the United States.

 Hate crimes targeting US Muslims rose 15 percent in 2017, the second year of increases, according to a study released on Monday by advocacy group the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

 A Syrian minister said remaining militants in southern Damascus will not be offered reconciliation deals by the government.

A wedding ceremony in Yemen's has been targeted by Saudi airstrikes as the kingdom continues with its relentless war on the impoverished country.

 The President of the General Assembly, Miroslav Lajčák, will convene a High-Level Meeting on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 24 and 25 April 2018.

Aid groups repeatedly use the same word "destruction" to describe the wounds caused by Israelis' bullet.

Palestine will not let President Trump or anyone else announce Quds as the capital city of the Zionist regime, president of the State of Palestine and Palestinian National Authority said.

The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov condemned Israel on Friday for the death of a Palestinian child during recent clashes in the besieged Gaza Strip.