The PKK militant group has announced that its members in Iraq's northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region will begin handing over their weapons, marking the first concrete move toward disarmament.

Yemen strongly denounces the United States over its role in obstructing UN-brokered peace efforts in the country, and its failure to stop Israeli atrocities in the Gaza Strip.

The secretary general of the Islamic Jihad says his group will continue to arm resistance groups in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli regime and its military forces.

The head of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council blames the US for sabotaging efforts to establish a nationwide peace across the crisis-hit country.

The UN special envoy for Yemen urges both parties of the war to take “serious steps” toward lasting peace.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Moscow is not giving up on the idea of peace talks with Kiev.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the West of seeking to sabotage negotiations between Russia and Ukraine by fueling "hysteria" over the alleged mass killing of civilians by Russian forces in the town of Bucha, warning that the peace process could collapse if such attempts continued.