The UN mission in eastern Congo was initially meant to be quickly concluded at the request of Kinshasa. However, the M23 offensive in North Kivu has led to a reassessment. Will the peacekeeping ...

The UN mission in eastern Congo was initially meant to be quickly concluded at the request of Kinshasa. The MONUSCO ...

Unidentified people in civilian clothing enter UN base in Goma, hand over weapons to the Uruguayan Blue Helmets that are part of the MONUSCO peacekeeping force. Video credit: Social media.

Two South African peacekeepers were killed Friday, while a Uruguayan Blue Helmet was killed Saturday, a UN official told The Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because ...

The United States urged the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to consider measures to halt an offensive by Rwandan ...

More than 1,100 UN peacekeepers are currently deployed in the Golan, a demilitarised zone along the Israel-Syria border at what is a tense and dangerous time in the history of the region. But, why are ...

(Cedric Thornberry died in 2014, aged 77. His blue UN helmet, chipped from use in war zones, sat on a shelf on Thornberry’s office near a Christmas card from the Blairs.) ...

The charred remains of at least 26 victims of the Bashar Assad government were located Tuesday by Syrian civil defense workers in two separate basements in rural Damascus. The ...

The DR Congo and the UN say the M23 is backed by Rwanda. The Rwandan authorities neither confirm nor deny this. Last year, a UN experts report said that up to 4,000 Rwandan troops were in DR Congo, ...

Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is said to see advantages in China sending peacekeepers to help monitor a Ukraine armistice, perhaps in blue UN helmets. Yet when a German grandee publicly ...

Ukrainian special operations forces have given an insight into the brutal, near-suicidal tactics of the North Koreans they have faced in intense fighting in the Russian border region of Kursk.

A UN armoured personnel carrier burns ... Two South African peacekeepers were killed Friday, while a Uruguayan Blue Helmet was killed Saturday, a U.N. official told The Associated Press.