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Adla Massoud

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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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Syrian security personnel on patrol in the desert, near the site of recent strikes on abandoned ISIS hideouts. Ahmad Fallaha for The National
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Special reportHunting for ISIS fighters deep in the Syrian desert

The National visits areas where Syrian forces are dismantling ISIS hideouts, as Damascus seeks closer security ties with Washington

MENAFebruary 14, 2026
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories. AFP
Pressure builds on UN's Albanese, accused of calling Israel humanity’s ‘common enemy’

Several European governments condemn 'inappropriate remarks' by UN rapporteur on Palestinian territories

USFebruary 12, 2026
Special envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg at UN headquarters in New York on January 14. EPA
UN envoy says no Yemeni faction has right to drag whole country into regional conflict

Hans Grundberg presses Houthis to release all detained UN staff

USFebruary 12, 2026
Syria's President Ahmad Al Shara, centre, and Foreign Minister Asaad Al Shibani, second left, at a military parade in Damascus to mark the anniversary of the downfall of Bashar Al Assad. AFP
Five assassination plots against Syria’s Al Shara last year, UN report says

Conspiracies attributed to Saraya Ansar Al Sunnah, group said to be 'front for ISIS'

MENAFebruary 12, 2026
Israeli security forces demolish homes in the Palestinian village of Beit Awa in the occupied West Bank, part of an expansionist policy drawing mounting criticism. AFP
UN warns Israel’s West Bank expansion forcing Palestinians out of their homes

Volker Turk says measures further cement Israel's control and integration of occupied territory

MENAFebruary 11, 2026
A member of the Syrian security forces at Al Hol camp in Hasakah, north-east Syria. Getty Images
UN official warns of rising ISIS attacks worldwide

Group continues to carry out and inspire attacks across a wide geographic arc, from Syria and Iraq to the Sahel, the Lake Chad Basin, East Africa and Australia

USFebruary 04, 2026
Hezbollah fighters attend the funeral of the group's top military commander Ibrahim Aqil, who was killed in an Israeli air strike, in Beirut's southern suburbs on September 22, 2024. AFP
Hezbollah can rebuild despite efforts to disarm, US House panel hears

Lebanese military says it has completed first phase of disarmament plan, but Washington has expressed frustration about slow progress

USFebruary 03, 2026
Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet in Geneva on June 13, 2022. AFP
Mexico, Brazil and Chile back Michelle Bachelet to be UN chief

Former Chilean president also served as UN high commissioner for human rights

USFebruary 02, 2026
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has urged member states to meet their financial obligations. Reuters
UN warns of risk of 'imminent financial collapse'

Secretary General Antonio Guterres says organisation is in 'Kafkaesque cycle' of giving back money it never received

USJanuary 30, 2026
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres outlines his priorities for 2026 in New York City, on January 29. Reuters
UN chief urges renewed diplomacy between Iran and US to avoid 'devastating consequences'

Antonio Guterres urges faster transition towards multipolar international order

USJanuary 29, 2026
A makeshift displacement camp surrounded by rubble in Gaza city shows the living conditions for many Palestinians in the territory. AFP
Hamas weapons to be bought in international programme, US envoy tells UN

Gaza demilitarisation to be supervised by international monitors, Mike Waltz says

MENAJanuary 28, 2026
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the responsibility of the defence alliance 'is singular, its obligation is universal'. AFP in central London on January 16, 2026. (Photo by Toby Shepheard / AFP)
Guterres: Only UN Security Council has legal authority on war and peace

US President Donald Trump has suggested Gaza's Board of Peace could eventually replace the UN

USJanuary 26, 2026
An Iranian revolutionary flag hangs from the wall of a mosque in Tehran. EPA
Any new US strike on Iran means ‘all-out war’, senior Iranian official warns

US President says 'armada' on its way to the Middle East

USJanuary 24, 2026
Syrian ambassador to the UN Ibrahim Olabi said Kurds were part of the country’s rebuilt political framework. Getty Images
No victors or losers in Syria's future, says UN envoy amid SDF ceasefire

Damascus has given Kurdish-led group four days to present plan for merging its remaining territories

USJanuary 22, 2026
The UN Security Council chambers in New York. AFP
Could Trump's Board of Peace undermine the UN Security Council?

US President says world body 'has never lived up to its potential'

USJanuary 21, 2026
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