United Nations

Latest Stories

Morocco threatens UN buffer zones in disputed Western Sahara

By AMIRA EL MASAITI - Associated Press

Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

How North Korea flouts international sanctions

By Lamont Colucci

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a Security Council meeting at U.N. headquarters, Wednesday, March 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

The Latest: US says it pays too much of UN peacekeeping cost

Associated Press

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a Security Council meeting at U.N. headquarters, Wednesday, March 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

US: Won’t pay over 25 percent of UN peacekeeping anymore

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

In this March 26, 2018, photo provided March 28, 2018, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, center, and his wife Ri Sol-ju, center right, are greeted by Chinese Communist Party members on the arrival at Beijing station in Beijing. Kim made the unofficial visit to China at Xi’s invitation, China’s official Xinhua News Agency said, in his first trip to a foreign country since he took power in 2011. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Donald Trump says he’s looking forward to North Korea meeting

By Sally Persons - The Washington Times

In this image taken from video footage run Wednesday, March 28, 2018, by China's CCTV via AP Video, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands in Beijing, China. The Chinese government confirmed Wednesday that North Korea's reclusive leader Kim went to Beijing and met with Chinese President Xi in his first known trip to a foreign country since he took power in 2011. The official Xinhua News Agency said Kim made an unofficial visit to China from Sunday to Wednesday. (CCTV via AP Video)

Kim, Xi portray strong ties after NKorea leader’s China trip

By GILLIAN WONG and KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

UN extends Congo peacekeeping force after a deadly year

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 18, 2018, file photo, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi listens to the opening speech at the Leaders Plenary during ASEAN-Australia Special Summit in Sydney, Australia. The Trump administration has slapped sanctions on companies across the globe to punish illicit trade with nuclear-armed North Korea, yet Myanmar, which is suspected of acquiring ballistic missile systems from the pariah state, has escaped the full force of the “maximum pressure” campaign. (Mark Metcalfe/Pool via AP)

Lawmakers call for pressure on Myanmar over Pyongyang ties

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

British Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Jonathan Allen, right, listens as American Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a Security Council meeting on the situation between Britain and Russia, Wednesday, March 14, 2018, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) ** FILE **

America, Israel should quit ‘sham’ U.N. Human Rights Council

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this undated photograph provided by Conflict Armament Research, an independent London-based group that researches battlefield weaponry, three explosives disguised as rocks are on display in Yemen. Roadside bombs disguised as rocks in Yemen bear similarities to others used by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and by insurgents in Iraq and Bahrain, suggesting at the least an Iranian influence in their manufacturing, a report released Monday, March 26, 2018, by Conflict Armament Research alleges. The report comes comes as the West and United Nations researchers accuse Iran of supplying arms to Yemen’s Shiite rebels known as Houthis, who have held the country’s capital since September 2014. (Tim Michetti/Conflict Armament Research via AP)

Report: Bombs disguised as rocks in Yemen show Iranian aid

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

A taxi in front of the Russian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, March 26, 2018.Russia's Ambassador to Poland Sergei Andreev was summoned Monday to Poland's Foreign Ministry and said he will stay in Warsaw in the coming weeks, but &quot;we will see&quot; about other embassy employees.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

The Latest: Russia slams Australia for expelling 2 diplomats

Associated Press

In this undated photograph provided by Conflict Armament Research, an independent London-based group that researches battlefield weaponry, an explosive disguised as a rock is on display in Yemen. Roadside bombs disguised as rocks in Yemen bear similarities to others used by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and by insurgents in Iraq and Bahrain, suggesting at the least an Iranian influence in their manufacturing, a report released Monday, March 26, 2018, by Conflict Armament Research alleges. The report comes comes as the West and United Nations researchers accuse Iran of supplying arms to Yemen’s Shiite rebels known as Houthis, who have held the country’s capital since September 2014. (Tim Michetti/Conflict Armament Research via AP)

Report: Bombs disguised as rocks in Yemen show Iranian aid

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, is welcomed to Parliament House by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during her state visit in Canberra Monday, March 19,2018. The Nobel Peace laureate who has been widely condemned over her country's treatment of its Rohingya Muslim minority arrived in Sydney at the weekend for a summit of Southeast Asian leaders. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi welcomed to Australia amid protests

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

In this March 5, 2018 photo, one-year-old Syrian refugee Eman Zatima is prepared by medical staff for surgery, at a hospital in Amman, Jordan. Eman, who has a heart defect, received a life-saving pro bono surgery from doctors sent by the Vatican's Bambino Gesu Hospital. The infant is one of the few lucky Syrian refugees with severe medical conditions to get the needed treatment. Dozens more are left untreated each month because of funding constraints in overwhelmed refugee host countries in the region. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Syrian refugee baby gets life-saving surgery, others wait

By ALICE SU - Associated Press

Yes, canned soup may be fueling North Korea’s air force

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

Police officers position a screen outside the vehicle recovery business &quot;Ashley Wood Recovery&quot; in Salisbury, England, Tuesday, March 13, 2018. The use of Russian-developed nerve agent Novichok to poison former-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia makes it &quot;highly likely&quot; that Russia was involved, British Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday. Novichok refers to a class of nerve agents developed in the Soviet Union near the end of the Cold War. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

The Latest: Envoy denies Russia was behind attack on ex-spy

Associated Press

UN received 138 allegations of sexual misconduct in 2017

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad, speaks during a news conference in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, March 10, 2018. Mekdad denied opposition charges that government forces used poison gas in their attacks on eastern Ghouta. Mekdad added that insurgents groups in the eastern Ghouta are preparing &quot;to fabricate&quot; more such attacks to blame the Syrian army. (SANA via AP)

The Latest: Syria opposition urges force imposing cease-fire

Associated Press

This combination of two file photos show U.S. President Donald Trump, left, speaking in the State Dining Room of the White House, in Washington on Feb. 26, 2018, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attending in the party congress in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 9, 2016. Trump has accepted an offer of a summit from the North Korean leader and will meet with Kim by May, a top South Korean official said Thursday, March 8, 2018, in a remarkable turnaround in relations between two historic adversaries. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Wong Maye-E, File)

Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un meeting brings skepticism

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

This photo released by the Syrian Red Crescent shows a convoy of vehicles of the Syrian Red Crescent arriving to Douma, eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, Monday, March. 5, 2018. Desperate for food and medicine, Syrian civilians in the war-ravaged eastern suburbs of Damascus hoped for relief Monday as a 46-truck aid convoy began entering the rebel stronghold, the first such shipment in months. (Syrian Red Crescent via AP)

Aid delivered to Syria’s Ghouta amid renewed violence

By Zeina Karam and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press