Donald Trump has threatened to withhold billions of dollars in aid from those nations which criticise his controversial decision to unilaterally recogniseJerusalem as the capital of Israel.

GENEVA (Associated Press) — A UN investigative panel on Syria says the Islamic State group is committing genocide, crimes against humanity and other war crimes against the Yazidi community in Iraq and Syria, and wants countries to do more to stop it — hoping to build a legal case on top of political condemnation from countries like the United States.

DUBAI (Reuters) – The parties to over a year of civil war in Yemen have agreed to release all child prisoners they are holding, U.N. envoy to peace talks in Kuwait Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said on his official Twitter account on Monday.

BBC - The Iraqi army says it has begun an operation to storm Falluja, a bastion of so-called Islamic State (IS).

BBC - All references to climate change's impact on World Heritage sites in Australia have been removed from a United Nations report.

BBC - The US and other world powers have said they are ready to arm Libya's UN-backed unity government to help it fight the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group.

BBC - UN aid officials have warned that the situation in the Syrian town of Daraya is extremely dire, with shortages of food, medicine, and clean water.

In the early hours of April 2, 2016 Azerbaijan unleashed large-scale offensive operations against Nagorno-Karabakh thus violating trilateral agreements of 1994 on cease-fire and of 1995 on the cease-fire consolidation, signed by Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, which do not have time limits. Azerbaijan has violated basic principles of international law, the decisions and declarations adopted by the OSCE Summits and Ministerial Councils, blatantly disregarding the statements of the presidents ...

BBC - Boko Haram's use of child bombers has increased over the last year with one in five suicide attacks done by children, the UN's child agency says.

BBC - A rights group says it has evidence that South Sudan government forces deliberately suffocated more than 60 men and boys in a shipping container.