Peacekeeping news

UNIFIL’s Maritime Task Force (MTF) recently carried out an exercise off the coast of Jounieh, north of Beirut, together with the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Navy in order to enhance the cooperation and coordination between…

As one of its quick impact projects, UNMISS is financing the construction of a dormitory at Rumbek National Secondary School. Photo: UNMISS/Eric Kanalstein For the young women of Rumbek, education is a lifeline. It offers…

Two hundred and seven child soldiers have been released by armed groups in South Sudan, part of a series of planned discharges that should see nearly 1,000 children return home over the coming months.

Those who committed the most serious crimes in Syria must be identified, and criminal case files must be built as the basis for prosecutions, the head of a United Nations body assisting these efforts said Wednesday.

A renewed United Nations-led diplomatic push is under way for a “meaningful relaunch” of intra-Syrian talks by the Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, his office has announced.

Without the engaging company of Radio Miraya's programming travelling on the roads in Eastern Lakes is likely to feel rather cumbersome. During a six-day-long patrol, staff members of the UN Mission in South Sudan were told…

In the coming months, almost 1,000 children are expected to be released from different armed groups. Photo (UNMISS/Amanda Voisard) from a release ceremony in Yambio in February 2018. On Tuesday 17 April, more than 200…

The United Nations and the League of Arab States on Tuesday signed an agreement on working together to tackle terrorism – previewing the type of partnerships the UN hopes to forge in June at a gathering of counter-terrorism…

The United Nations chief stressed the importance of preventing terrorism by addressing the root causes that turn grievances into destructive action, as well as the need to sustain the world body’s funding to help countries…

Dog handlers from UNIFIL’s French contingent trained jointly with their counterparts from the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) earlier this month. The “Attack Dog” exercise benefited LAF soldiers from the Fifth Intervention…

The United Nations Security Council has failed to prevent the Rohingya refugee crisis, and the 15-member body must refer sexual violence and other crimes against the ethnic group to the world’s top criminal court, a Rohingya…