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World
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International
5/29/2023 11:45:51 PM
The NATO-led peacekeeping force said on Monday that 25 of its troops were injured in clashes with ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo after they tried to take over the offices of one of the municipalities where ethnic Albanian mayors took up their posts last week.
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World
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International
5/27/2023 3:38:18 PM
Serbia on Saturday condemned NATO-led peacekeepers stationed in neighboring Kosovo for their alleged failure to stop “brutal actions” by Kosovo police against ethnic Serbs, and said that its armed forces stationed near the border will remain on the highest state of alert until further notice.
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World
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International
5/25/2023 8:14:48 PM
Over the past 75 years, the United Nations sent more than 2 million peacekeepers to help countries move away from conflict, with successes from Liberia to Cambodia and major failures in former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Today, it faces new challenges in the dozen hotspots where U.N. peacekeeping has operations, including more violent environments, fake news campaigns and a divided world that is preventing its ultimate goal: successfully restoring stable governments.
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World
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Region
3/16/2023 6:06:42 PM
The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon said Thursday it had not observed any border crossings after Israel said it killed a suspect wearing an explosive belt who may have entered from Lebanon.
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World
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Africa
2/21/2023 6:21:48 PM
Three UN peacekeepers were killed on Tuesday when their convoy struck a roadside bomb in jihadist-torn central Mali, the mission said, in a fresh blow to the long-running operation.
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World
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Africa
2/8/2023 10:47:46 PM
Peacekeepers killed eight civilians during an attack on a UN convoy in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the military governor of North Kivu province said on Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
1/18/2023 10:50:48 PM
Mass graves containing the bodies of 49 civilians have been discovered in northeastern Congo after a series of weekend attacks blamed on a local militia, the United Nations said Wednesday.
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World
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Region
1/5/2023 4:49:13 PM
Lebanon has charged seven people for participating in an attack against United Nations peacekeepers that killed one Irish soldier in mid-December, a judicial official told AFP on Thursday.
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World
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International
12/26/2022 8:58:07 PM
NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo said Monday they were investigating a shooting incident in a tense northern region, urging calm as Serbia's top military officials inspected their troops on the border with Kosovo in a show of combat readiness.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
12/15/2022 8:46:25 PM
The Egyptian foreign ministry denounced on Thursday the attack that targeted yesterday evening the United Nations Peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL), killing one peacekeeper and injuring three.
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World
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Africa
11/22/2022 9:01:08 PM
Three soldiers with the UN peacekeeping force in northern Mali have been injured by a highway bomb, the mission said on Tuesday.
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World
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Africa
11/12/2022 9:12:54 PM
Kenyan soldiers landed in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday, as part of a regional military operation targeting rebels in the conflict-torn region.
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Egypt
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Defence
10/13/2022 7:02:49 PM
The Cairo International Centre for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding (CCCPA) hosted a three-day training course to educate Arab peacekeepers on gender-responsive peace operations.
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World
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Africa
8/31/2022 9:01:50 PM
At least 50 civilians were killed and hundreds arrested in central Mali in April during an operation by the army and "foreign" personnel, the UN's peacekeeping mission said Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
8/3/2022 11:26:57 PM
Congo's government has requested that the spokesman for the United Nations mission in Congo leave the country, saying he has made inappropriate statements amid demonstrations against the presence of the UN peacekeepers.
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World
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Africa
8/2/2022 5:42:59 PM
Congo's government is reassessing the presence of United Nations peacekeepers after protests against the force in the country's east have killed at least 36 people.
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World
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Africa
8/1/2022 4:14:44 PM
Violent protests erupted in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in late July 2022, resulting in the deaths of at least three peacekeepers and several civilians.
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World
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Africa
7/31/2022 5:33:08 PM
Two people have been killed and several others injured after UN peacekeepers opened fire during an incident in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on the Uganda border on Sunday, the UN said.
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World
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Africa
7/25/2022 2:38:59 PM
Protesters stormed a United Nations base in the eastern Congolese city of Goma on Monday, an AFP journalist said, demanding the departure of peacekeepers from the region.
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World
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Region
7/16/2022 12:20:09 AM
President Joe Biden Biden announced from Jeddah that Peacekeepers including US troops would leave the Red Sea island of Tiran by the end of the year.
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