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Adla Massoud

Adla Massoud

Adla Massoud is The National’s New York and United Nations correspondent, where she reports on diplomacy, politics and the Middle East’s shifting conflicts. Also a documentary filmmaker, she was recognised in 2022 by the Arab Film and Media Institute as one of six “Rising Arab Women in Filmmaking.”
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Activist Masih Alinejad outside a court in New York, in October, after a judge sentenced two men to 25 years in jail each over a plot allegedly hatched by Tehran to kill her. AFP
Activist Masih Alinejad says Trump should not repeat Biden and Obama's mistakes on Iran protests

Democratic presidents were too fixated on making a deal with Tehran, overlooking plight of protesters, journalist says

USJanuary 09, 2026
Women detainees at Al Hol camp in Syria's north-east in 2023. AFP
Iraq deserves credit for bringing citizens home from Syrian camps, UN official says

The world body has now ended its Unami assistance mission in Iraq

USJanuary 07, 2026
Abukar Dahir Osman, Somalia's representative to the UN. EPA
Somalia’s UN envoy linked to company that was convicted of fraud, senior US official says

Elon Musk calls for arrest of Abukar Dahir Osman, although no charges have been filed against him

USJanuary 06, 2026
Mike Waltz, US ambassador to the UN, has defended his country's actions in Venezuela. EPA
Unease at UN after US seizes Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro

Washington’s partners on Security Council face delicate balancing act as US moves unilaterally

USJanuary 05, 2026
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'Kidnapped' Nicolas Maduro pleads not guilty to US narco-terrorism charges

Dressed in beige jumpsuit, Venezuelan leader was flown over New York by helicopter

USJanuary 05, 2026
Abukar Osman, Somalia's representative to the UN, speaks during a Security Council meeting in New York on December 29. EPA
Somalia warns Israel’s Somaliland recognition threatens Horn of Africa stability

US defends Israeli move but is not changing its own stance

USDecember 29, 2025
US President Donald Trump, left, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem in October. Reuters
Netanyahu travels to US for talks with Trump on Gaza and Iran

Israeli Prime Minister makes fifth trip this year, with agenda focused on Tehran, analysts say

USDecember 28, 2025
Residents wave Somaliland flags in the city of Hargeisa, as they celebrate recognition by Israel. AFP
UN Security Council to meet after Israel recognises Somaliland

Somalia, which will assume council presidency in January, requested meeting

MENADecember 28, 2025
Donald Trump speaks at the UN General Assembly in New York. AFP
US leverages institutions to advance revamped 'America First' agenda

White House is using its pocketbook to push for big changes at institutions that serve as major instruments for US soft power

USDecember 26, 2025
Portraits on a Sanaa fence of senior Houthi leaders. EPA
Yemen’s Houthis detain 10 more UN staff in escalating crackdown

Rebel group now holds 69 UN personnel

MENADecember 18, 2025
Then-Iraqi President Barham Salih, soon to be head of the UNHCR, in Baghdad in March 2019. AP Photo
Iraq's Barham Salih confirmed as new UNHCR head in historic move

UN General Assembly endorsed former president of Iraq to serve five-year term as head of refugee agency

USDecember 18, 2025
President Donald Trump salutes as troops in Delaware carry the remains of Ayad Mansoor Sakat, a US civilian killed alongside two soldiers in Syria. Getty Images / AFP
ISIS ambush and extremists in Syrian forces cause alarm in Washington

Not all Republicans happy with President Trump's unfettered embrace of Syria's new leader

USDecember 18, 2025
Forces of Yemen's main separatist group, the Southern Transitional Council, arrive in the southern province of Abyan, Yemen, on December 15. Reuters
Unilateral actions in Yemen will not clear path to peace, warns UN chief

Southern Transitional Council forces advanced earlier this month into the eastern provinces of Hadhramaut and Al Mahra

USDecember 17, 2025
Matilda Britvan, 10, a victim of the Hanukka shooting on Sunday at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia. Reuters
Palestinian UN envoy rejects linking statehood to Bondi Beach terror attack

Fifteen people killed and dozens wounded when attackers fired on crowd gathered to celebrate Jewish festival of Hanukkah

MENADecember 16, 2025
Former UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon urged member states to give the next UN leader stronger political backing to match the office’s moral authority, saying credibility is insufficient without the power to act. EPA
Ban Ki-moon calls for single seven-year term for next UN chief

Secretary General Antonio Guterres's second and last term ends at close of next year

NewsDecember 15, 2025
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