The UN Security Council is due to discuss the crisis in Syria on Wednesday.
US President Donald Trump has described Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the bigger anathema of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for the resumption of peace talks between the warring sides in Yemen, which has been under incessant attacks by the Saudi regime and its allies.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has snubbed outgoing US President Barack Obama on New Year by expressing his good wishes to President-elect Donald Trump instead.
UN has warned of a devastating crisis over impoverished Syrian refugees that could undermine Lebanon’s security and destabilize the whole region as millions of refugees suffer from lack of very basic humanitarian supplies.
The UN and international aid groups have urged for all borders to be open to Syrian refugees as the crisis, worsening each day, has entered its fourth year.
School-age children living as refugees outside Syria are increasingly cut off from education and forced to work long hours for low pay, a UN report says.
Foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has met with Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi to study possible avenues to end Syrian crisis.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres has warned the Security Council that almost half Syria’s 20.8 million population could be in need of humanitarian help in less than a year, if the fighting is not over.