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U.N. Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, informs the media at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, March 14, 2016. Mistura alls peace talks "a moment of truth," says the "only Plan B available is return to war." (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Staffan de Mistura, U.N. Syria envoy: Only Plan B to talks is ‘return to war’

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Syrian soldiers keep watch on a roof in a town on the outskirts of Damascus that is hosting large numbers of refugees from other areas of the besieged country. (Associated Press)

Syria cease-fire reduces carnage, returns some normalcy to hard-hit areas

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Pope Francis names new Permanent Observer to the UN in Geneva

Catholic News Agency

This Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015, file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian government troops walk inside the Kweiras air base, east of Aleppo, Syria. (SANA via AP, File)

Russia says hard-liners should attend Syria peace talks

By Jamey Keaten and Aya Batrawy - Associated Press

This frame grab from a Jan. 12, 2016, video by the Iranian state-run IRIB News Agency, shows detention of American Navy sailors by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the Persian Gulf, Iran. (IRIB News Agency via AP) ** FILE **

Iran may have violated Geneva Convention with video of sailors: State Department

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

In this Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, photo, residents talk to reporters in the besieged town of Madaya, northwest of Damascus, Syria. Aid convoys reached three besieged villages on Monday — Madaya, near Damascus, where U.N. humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien said about 400 people need to be evacuated immediately to receive life-saving treatment for medical conditions, malnourishment and starvation, and the Shiite villages of Foua and Kfarya in northern Syria. (AP Photo)

Siege, starvation left Syrian town in ‘grim’ state, U.N. says

Associated Press

Members of the band Eagles of Death Metal, Jesse Hughes, right, and Julian Dorio, kneeling, pay their respects to the 89 victims who died in a Nov. 13 major extremist attack, at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, France, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

Geneva police hunt suspects as part of Paris attacks probe

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2015 file photo, Defense Secretary Ash Carter speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon. New Defense Department guidelines allow commanders to punish journalists and treat them as &quot;unprivileged belligerents&quot; if they believe journalists are sympathizing or cooperating with the enemy. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

DoD manual allows journalists to be held as ‘belligerents’

By WENDY BENJAMINSON - Associated Press

In this March 16, 2015, file picture, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, rides a bike after a bilateral meeting with the Iranian Foreign Minister in Lausanne, Switzerland. (Jean-Christophe Bott,Keystone via AP, file)

John Kerry’s surgeon to accompany him to U.S. for leg treatment

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, rides a bike after a bilateral meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister in Lausanne, Switzerland, in this March 16, 2105, file photo. Kerry is in stable condition in a Swiss hospital after suffering a leg injury in a bike crash on Sunday, May 31, 2015. (Jean-Christophe Bott, Keystone via AP, file)

John Kerry breaks leg in bike crash, ends overseas trip early

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2006, file photo, Anders Kompass, the U.N. High Commission for Human Rights representative in Guatemala, speaks with members of the media during a news conference in Guatemala City. For months, the U.N.’s top human rights officials knew about allegations of child sexual abuse by French soldiers in Central African Republic, collected by their own staff. But they didn’t follow up because they assumed French authorities were handling it. When the allegations were first publicly reported, part of the uproar was over the suspension of the Geneva-based U.N. human rights staffer who first informed French authorities, Kompass. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

U.N. officials let child sex abuse claims linger

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

RICHARD RAHN: Switzerland’s success due to limited government, low taxes make

By Richard W. Rahn

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr. Margaret Chan, left, and Assistant Director-General of Health Security Keiji Fukuda, right, confer during a news conference after an emergency meeting at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, in this Friday, Aug. 8, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi, File)

Emails: U.N. health agency resisted declaring Ebola emergency

By Maria Cheng and Raphael Satter - Associated Press

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who is also a member of the Assembly of Experts, arrives to attend a biannual meeting of the assembly in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Iran's most influential clerical body charged with choosing or dismissing the nation's supreme leader has elected a hard-line ayatollah as its new chairman, the official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday. IRNA said Mohammad Yazdi, the deputy chairman of the 86-member Assembly of Experts, got 47 votes in his favor from among 73 clerics who attended the session. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Obama clinging to ‘preposterous argument’ with Iran: Rep. Brad Sherman

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Josh Earnest speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 20, 2015, as he answered questions about IS. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

White House: Odds still iffy for nuclear deal with Iran

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

US Secretary of State John Kerry, center, arrives at the hotel prior to a bilateral meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for a new round of Nuclear Talks, in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Keystone,Salvatore Di Nolfi)

Iran nuclear deal closer with uranium enrichment increase provision

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, pose for a photograph prior to a bilateral meeting of the closed-door nuclear talks in Vienna, Austria, in this Nov. 23, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, Pool-File)

Iranian official hopeful on nuclear talks with U.S.

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

U.N.: $16.4 billion needed to aid most vulnerable

By John Heilprin - Associated Press

Last week in Geneva, Tom Malinowski, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, told the U.N. Committee Against Torture: "A little more than 10 years ago, our government was employing interrogation methods that, as President Obama has said, any fair-minded person would believe were torture." (AP Photo/U.S. State Department)

MICHAEL HAYDEN: State Department gives U.N. panel tools for CIA’s fall

By Mike Hayden