UNITED NATIONS: A senior Iranian diplomat linked to Iran's reformists has been detained for nearly two months and is in solitary confinement at Evin...
UNITED NATIONS: France, Morocco's traditional protector on the U.N. Security Council, is unlikely to use its veto to block a U.S. proposal to have U.N....
UNITED NATIONS: U.N.-Arab League Syria envoy Lakhdar Brahimi hopes to revamp his role as an international peace mediator in the Syrian conflict as a United...
UNITED NATIONS: Discussions between the United Nations and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government on a possible investigation into the alleged use...
UNITED NATIONS: The conflict in Mali threatens to spill over into the disputed territory of Western Sahara and the Polisario Front independence movement has...
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations and Syria have not yet agreed on how much access a team of chemical weapons inspectors will have to investigate allegations...
UNITED NATIONS: The 193-nation U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved on Tuesday the first-ever treaty on global arms trade that seeks to regulate the...
UNITED NATIONS: Iran, Syria and North Korea Friday prevented the adoption of the first international treaty to regulate the $70 billion global conventional...
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations hopes that a team investigating allegations about the use of chemical weapons in Syria's civil war will deploy to the...
UNITED NATIONS: The United States has violated Pakistan's sovereignty and shattered tribal structures with unmanned drone strikes in its counterterrorism...
UNITED NATIONS: Iran has significantly stepped up military support to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in recent months, solidifying its position alongside...
SEOUL/UNITED NATIONS: North Korea threatened the United States on Thursday with a preemptive nuclear strike, raising the level of rhetoric just before the...
UNITED NATIONS: The U.N. Security Council is set to blacklist two North Korean enterprises and three individuals working for North Korean entities involved in...
SEOUL/UNITED NATIONS: South Korea's military said it will strike back at North Korea and target its top leadership if Pyongyang launches a threatened...
SEOUL/UNITED NATIONS: Kim Kwang-jin says that when he worked for North Korea's state insurance company in Singapore in 2003, he stuffed $20 million into...
UNITED NATIONS: Iran has denied allegations that it has been supplying Islamist militants in Somalia with weapons, describing the charges as "absurd...
UNITED NATIONS: The United States and China have struck a tentative deal on a draft U.N. Security Council resolution condemning North Korea for its December...
UNITED NATIONS: French troops' initial clashes with Islamist militants in Mali have shown that the desert fighters are better trained and equipped than...
UNITED NATIONS: The leading U.S. pro-gun group, the National Rifle Association, has vowed to fight a draft international treaty to regulate the $70 billion...
UNITED NATIONS: The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Monday to restart negotiations on a draft international treaty to regulate the $70 billion...
UNITED NATIONS: The 15-nation U.N. Security Council on Thursday unanimously authorized the deployment of an African-led military force to help defeat al Qaeda...
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations said on Thursday it had launched a comprehensive review of its Congo peacekeeping mission, which suffered a severe blow to...
UNITED NATIONS: The Palestinian Authority secured an upgrade of its observer status at the United Nations Thursday, moving from an “entity” to a...
UNITED NATIONS: The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting on Wednesday night to discuss Israeli strikes against the Gaza Strip but took no action,...
UNITED NATIONS: A shipment of graphite cylinders usable in a missile program and suspected to have come from North Korea was found in May aboard a Chinese...