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Opinion -
5/29/2025 5:34:00 PM
As the United Nations marks its 80th anniversary, the legacy of UN peacekeeping stands as one of the clearest and most enduring expressions of multilateral cooperation.

World - Region
5/14/2025 10:06:57 PM
The UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon protested on Wednesday at "direct fire" by the Israeli military at one of its positions, the first since a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel.

World - Region
2/15/2025 6:42:10 PM
Lebanese authorities said Saturday that more than 25 people had been arrested following an attack on a United Nations convoy the day before that wounded two peacekeepers, including the force's outgoing deputy commander.

World - Region
1/8/2025 9:24:06 PM
UN peacekeepers in Lebanon patrol through rocky hills and olive groves near the border with Israel, ahead of a deadline for a truce in the war with Hezbollah that some residents fear will not hold.

World - Region
12/12/2024 10:48:09 AM
Israeli forces withdrew from a strategic town in southern Lebanon and handed it back to the Lebanese army in coordination with UN peacekeepers, the two militaries said Wednesday, marking an important test of the recent ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

World - Region
11/25/2024 8:18:59 PM
UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon expressed worry Monday over deadly strikes on Lebanese soldiers, which Beirut blames on Israel.

World - Region
11/8/2024 8:18:39 PM
UN peacekeepers on Friday said the Israeli army damaged one of their south Lebanon positions in a "deliberate and direct" action against their forces.

World - Region
10/23/2024 11:51:14 PM
A confidential report obtained by the Financial Times revealed that Israeli forces have launched at least a dozen documented targeted attacks on UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, including the use of white phosphorus near UN bases, injuring 15 soldiers, and significantly damaging the UN infrastructure.

World - Region
10/18/2024 7:38:10 PM
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Friday slammed attacks on United Nations peacekeepers as "unacceptable" after Israeli troops repeatedly targeted their positions in south Lebanon.

World - Region
10/15/2024 8:54:41 PM
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni warned on Tuesday against withdrawing UN peacekeepers from Lebanon at Israel's unilateral request, as she announced she would visit Lebanon on Friday.

World - Region
10/14/2024 9:35:34 PM
As the Israeli war on Lebanon escalates, a United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, is increasingly in the crosshairs, with Israeli troops firing at the peacekeepers' headquarters and positions several times in the past week.

World - Region
10/14/2024 8:24:50 PM
The European Union condemned the Israeli attacks on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon and rejected allegations that UN Secretary-General António Guterres is responsible for obstructing the Israeli army.

World - Region
10/13/2024 6:00:53 PM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the UN chief on Sunday to move peacekeepers deployed in south Lebanon out of "harm's way", saying Hezbollah was using them as "human shields".

World - Region
10/10/2024 7:05:17 PM
UN peacekeepers in Lebanon said Israeli fire on their headquarters in the south Thursday left two Blue Helmets injured, as they accused Israel of "repeatedly" hitting their positions.

World - Region
8/24/2024 2:43:48 PM
On the deserted border between Lebanon and Israel, Spanish UN peacekeepers have for more than 10 months effectively been caught in a war zone.

World - Region
8/6/2024 6:57:02 PM
UN peacekeepers on the Israeli-Lebanese border have never been more crucial, the force's global chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix said Tuesday, as fears soared of an escalation in the Middle East.

World - Region
7/10/2024 1:24:05 PM
Cyprus marks a half-century of division this month, with the unresolved conflict between Greek and Turkish Cypriots branded on the landscape in a UN-patrolled buffer zone that cuts across the island.

War on Gaza - War on Gaza
5/16/2024 10:56:12 PM
The United States claimed Thursday that a UN peacekeeping force in the Palestinian territories proposed by the Arab League could compromise Israel's effort to defeat Hamas but stopped short of opposing it.

War on Gaza - War on Gaza
5/16/2024 2:32:00 AM
An unofficial version of the final statement of Thursday's 33rd Arab Summit in Bahrain, obtained by Ahram Online, includes a call from the Arab states to "deploy international protection and peacekeeping forces under the United Nations in the occupied Palestinian territory until the two-state solution is implemented."

World - Africa
2/28/2024 12:56:15 PM
The United Nations kicked off Wednesday the withdrawal of MONUSCO peacekeeping forces from the Democratic Republic of Congo by handing over a first UN base to national police, an AFP team saw.

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