The coronavirus disease COVID-19 continues to spread at the regional and global levels. As of 24 September 2022, the global cumulative incidence reached 611 969 162 reported cases and 6 527 151...
Erbil, 29 September 2022 – The World Health Organization (WHO) in Iraq, in partnership with the Ministry of Health in the Kurdistan region, opened new WHO warehouses located within the Kurdistan...
Following a series of economic shocks, most recently inflation and price increases, the socioeconomic situation of refugees is increasingly precarious, with nine in ten households holding debt as per...
Introduction Multiple compounded crisis have increased the challenges facing refugees and internally displaced populations across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The COVID-19 pandemic...
On 28 September, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards fired missiles and drones into northern Iraq’s Kurdish region, in retaliation for the alleged involvement of Iranian Kurdish dissidents in the unrest...
Since Saturday 24 September shelling and bombing have been happening in northern Iraq KRI, in rural areas of Erbil and Sulaymaniyah governorates, near the border with Iran. The intensity escalated on...
BAGHDAD – On the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)...
Last week in the Middle East, political violence remained stable at high levels in Yemen, as the end of the UN-mediated truce on 2 October approaches with no report on a new extension.^1^ In Iran, a...
In cognizance of the significant residual humanitarian needs among extremely vulnerable Iraqis, against the context of response transition, this last allocation of the Iraq Humanitarian Fund (IHF)...
SG/SM/21499 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General António Guterres: The Secretary-General is following with concern the reported shelling of the...