The Latest Breaking News from Security Council

UN raises concerns with Damascus’s terms for aid deliveries via Bab al-Hawa to rebel-held areas in northwest Syria.

North Korea’s U.N. ambassador has defended his country’s recent long-range missile launch in a rare appearance at the U.N. Security Council

The U.N. Security Council has failed to approve either of two rival resolutions authorizing the delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria’s rebel-held northwest from neighboring Turkey, officially ending the U.N. cross-border operation which had been vital to helping 4.1 million people

Russia proposes authorisation only be extended for six months rather than a nine-month compromise.

Aid for opposition-held areas is divisive in UN Security Council, with the ever-present threat of a Russian veto.

Tehran berated for JCPOA violations including illegal weapons transfers and increasing ballistic missile development and testing

Israeli forces arrest suspects and destroy infrastructure in ongoing operation; international community expresses concern.

The U.K. has called for the expansion of the UN Security Council’s permanent seats to include India, Brazil, Germany and Japan as well as African representation, underlining that it is high time the powerful UN body entered the 2020s.

The United States, Britain and France are demanding that the United Nations urgently investigate Russia’s reported use of hundreds of Iranian-provided drones in the war in Ukraine, which would violate U.N. sanctions