United Nations

Slovakia’s former foreign minister Jan Kubis will succeed Ghassan Salame as the UN’s new envoy to war-stricken Libya.

US designation of Yemen’s Houthi rebels as ‘terrorists’ may also impede the flow of much-needed aid, agencies say.

Top diplomat was awaiting the outcome of the US election before deciding on a second term at the...

Experts say pardons of 4 private contractors convicted of murder in a 2007 Baghdad massacre undermine...

The UNAMID peacekeeping mission was deployed in Darfur in 2007 to end a bitter conflict that erupted in 2003.

A looming end to subsidies in Lebanon has triggered UN warnings of ‘social catastrophe’.

Banking services resumed in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region for the first time since the conflict began in November.

First UN-brokered prisoner exchange comes as part of ceasefire deal inked two months ago in Geneva.

The UNGA adopted 17 resolutions against Israel this year, compared with six for the rest of the world.

The withdrawal of the UN peacekeepers from Darfur is leaving the local population vulnerable to continuing attacks.

Qatar’s UN ambassador tells UNSC four Bahraini fighter jets flew over its territorial waters amid continuing GCC row.

UN rights chief describes weeks-old conflict as one of many ‘appalling’ rights abuses that could amount to war crimes.

Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov to succeed Ghassan Salame while Tor Wennesland was appointed new Middle East envoy.

Michelle Bachelet calls on Tehran to ‘immediately free’ those detained for exercising human rights.