The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

The host countries of two of the United Nations’ flagship peacekeeping missions recently demanded their withdrawal. This development raises questions about whether such missions can still effectively prevent and manage conflicts. As part of a broader review, the UN is working to adapt its peacekeeping efforts to contemporary realities.

In the past few months United Nations-sponsored negotiations to tackle climate change, plastic pollution, loss of global species and a growing number of deserts have either outright failed or come out with limited outcomes that didn’t address the scale of the problems

Medical supplies airlifted to French Indian Ocean territory after Cyclone Chido leaves hundreds feared dead

How the pandemic and climate migration have influenced this third outing of a formerly sterile architectural puzzle game

Pentagon also considering redesignating Iranian-backed Houthis as terrorist group

The EU's envoy to Syria headed to Damascus Monday to hold talks with the country's new Islamist rulers, just over a week after president Bashar al-Assad's ouster ended decades of brutal rule and civil war.

Since the fall of the al-Assad regime, Israel has attacked Syria to deepen the occupation of the Golan Heights.

Israel’s war in Gaza has killed over 45,000 Palestinians, according to the Health Ministry in the Strip.

The most high-profile assassination in Afghanistan since 2021 has sparked questions over divisions within the Taliban.