The UN Security Council, established in 1945 as the cornerstone of global peacekeeping, was designed to maintain international order and respond decisively to threats against humanity. This year, as ...

The UN's 193 member states will mark Thursday the signing of the organisation's foundational treaty, the UN Charter, on June 26, 1945, in San Francisco ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa led HTS, considered a jihadist group for years. Now, he has replaced Assad as Syria’s new president. And he ...

The responsibility to protect is more than a principle — it is a moral imperative, rooted in our shared humanity and the U.N.

With its influence discredited and its budget in tatters, the United Nations is weathering a firestorm of criticism as it ...

Centrifuges at the Fordo uranium enrichment plant in Iran are "no longer operational" after the United States attacked the ...

In West African geopolitics, ECOWAS mdash;the Economic Community of West African States mdash;now finds itself perched on a precarious edge, caught between the weight of internal rebellion and ...

Stung by the UN watchdog agency’s perceived failure to condemn Israeli-US strikes, upset by a pre-war IAEA resolution ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

In July 2021, France was t he 35th-largest contributor to contingents (the third-largest in Europe and second among the permanent members of the Security Council, behind China), with a total of 608 ...

Major cities will be more vulnerable to Russian bombardment due to the freeze on US aid for the most crucial anti-aircraft ...

In today’s edition of The Capitals, read about a divisive post-Qatargate lobbying crackdown, NATO scrambles to appease Trump, and so much more.