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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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      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
      Israeli ambassador to the UN Danny Danon. EPA
      'We are ready': Israel's UN envoy warns Iran against testing its defence capabilities

      Danny Danon accuses Tehran of spending billions of dollars supporting militant groups in the Middle East while ignoring urgent domestic issues

      MENAJanuary 20, 2026
      Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran's last shah, says Iranians are taking 'decisive action on the ground'. Reuters
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      Iran’s Reza Pahlavi says protesters have ‘not retreated’ amid crackdown

      Exiled son of last shah claims 'large sections' of country's military and security forces have quietly pledged loyalty to him

      USJanuary 16, 2026
      Mike Waltz, US envoy to the UN, has said the Tehran regime 'will be held accountable' for the economic hardship in Iran. AFP
      All options on table to end Iran 'slaughter', says US envoy to UN

      Mike Waltz says President Donald Trump is a 'man of action, not talk'

      USJanuary 15, 2026
      Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director general, says it is his wish that the US decides to rejoin the organisation. AFP
      US withdrawal from WHO makes the world unsafe, Tedros says

      President Donald Trump signed executive order withdrawing Washington from agency last year

      USJanuary 13, 2026
      Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar at the UN headquarters in New York last August. AFP
      Israel cuts contact with UN bodies, prompted by US withdrawals

      Foreign Ministry says further decisions will be made over departure from other bodies

      USJanuary 13, 2026
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