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In this Feb. 14, 2017 file photo, a Jordanian soldier stands guard at the northeastern border with Syria, close to the informal Rukban camp for displaced Syrians. Desperate to help Syrians stuck on Jordan's sealed border, U.N. agencies reluctantly agreed late last year to hand much of the control over aid distribution to Jordan's military, a Jordanian contractor and a Syrian militia. Since then, the system has broken down repeatedly and only sporadic aid shipments have reached the two remote desert camps on the border. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh, File)

Obstacles mount in fight to aid Syrians stranded near Jordan

By KARIN LAUB - Associated Press

UN envoy flays continued rights violations in Sri Lanka

By KRISHAN FRANCIS - Associated Press

In this July 11, 2017 photo, the sun sets behind destroyed buildings in the west side of Mosul, Iraq. The 9-month fight to defeat the Islamic State group in Mosul ended in a crescendo of devastation: bombardment that damaged or destroyed a third of its historic Old City in just three weeks. The cost of uprooting the militants was the destruction of large swaths of Iraq’s second largest city, leaving a population that is displaced, exhausted and potentially embittered if there is no reconstruction. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Liberation from militants leaves devastation in Mosul

By SUSANNAH GEORGE - Associated Press

United Nations Peacekeepers drive in a truck in Yei, South Sudan, Thursday, July 13, 2017. The United Nations says it is considering putting a peacekeeping base in South Sudan's troubled Yei region, the first such expansion since civil war began in 2013. The peacekeeping mission's chief says Yei has &quot;gone through a nightmare.&quot; Since fighting spread to the city a year ago, 70 percent of the population has fled. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

UN considers new base in South Sudan’s troubled Yei region

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

UN Assembly backs $40.5 million for Haiti cholera victims

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

David Shearer, second left, the United Nations peacekeeping mission chief in South Sudan, visits the troubled region of Yei, South Sudan. Thursday, July 13. 2017. Shearer says he's considering putting a permanent U.N. presence in the town, but only if the government grants unrestricted access. The United Nations says it is considering putting a peacekeeping base in South Sudan's troubled Yei region, the first such expansion since civil war began in 2013. The peacekeeping mission's chief says Yei has &quot;gone through a nightmare.&quot; Since fighting spread to the city a year ago, 70 percent of the population has fled. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

UN considers new base in South Sudan’s troubled Yei region

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

Caitlyn Jenner said she's working with the Republican Party "behind the scenes" on LGBT issues, revealing on ABC's "The View" that she had a meeting scheduled with United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley. (ABC)

Caitlyn Jenner: I’m working with Republicans ‘behind the scenes’ on LGBT issues

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Another 38 probable mass graves found in Congo, UN says

Associated Press

FILE - A Wednesday, May 24, 2017 file photo showing Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), answering questions from journalists at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. The new head of the World Health Organization said he is reviewing the agency's travel expenses, after an Associated Press story last month revealed the U.N. agency spends more on travel than on fighting AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

UN health agency’s new chief says he will check travel costs

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

In this photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, a U.S. MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile is fired during the combined military exercise between the U.S. and South Korea against North Korea at an undisclosed location in South Korea, Wednesday, July 5, 2017. Grinning broadly, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delighted in the global furor created by his nation's first launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, vowing Wednesday to never abandon nuclear weapons and to keep sending Washington more &quot;gift packages&quot; of missile and atomic tests. (South Korea Defense Ministry via AP)

A big North Korean moment, amplified with bigger propaganda

By FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

China warns rising tension with NKorea could be disastrous

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE In this Friday, May 20, 2011 file photo, Bangladeshi United Nations soldiers stop to buy phone credit from a street vendor on the eve of President Alassane Ouattara's inauguration, in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast, The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast is coming to an end Friday, June 30, 2017, 13 years after forces intervened to implement a peace agreement that left the war-wracked economic giant split into two pieces.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

UN ends peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast after 13 years

By ALEXIS ADELE - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, May 10, 2017 photo, a family stands around the body of 6-year-old Victor Serrano Ruiz, who died in a fireworks explosion, inside their two-room cinderblock home in San Isidro, Mexico. An errant firecracker landed on a cache of fireworks and touched off a powerful explosion Tuesday, at a home in the Mexican state of Puebla, killing 11 children and three adults. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

UN: Reintegrating ex-fighters is first challenge in Colombia

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley said that President Trump's tough stand on reform at the U.N. is working as countries can longer take American help for granted. (Associated Press)

Nikki Haley Hillary Clinton Donald Trump on foreign policy

By Bruce Fein

FILE - In this Saturday, April 9, 2011, file photo, United Nations soldiers wave as they drive past forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara, at a republican forces operating base on the outskirts of Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast is coming to an end Friday, June 30, 2017, 13 years after forces intervened to implement a peace agreement that left the war-wracked economic giant split into two pieces. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

UN agrees to cut peacekeeping budget, a reduction US sought

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Council calls on UN force to help Mali extend security

Associated Press

UN votes to sharply reduce peacekeepers in Sudan’s Darfur

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 28, 2017, before the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing: 'Advancing U.S. Interests at the United Nations'. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

UN and EU praise Iran over nuclear deal but US is critical

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2015, file photo, Chinese billionaire Ng Lap Seng, center, leaves federal court with his attorney Benjamin Brafman, right, after he was released on bail in connection with a United Nations bribery scheme in New York. Prosecutor Douglas Zolkind said Thursday, June 29, 2017, during opening statements in Ng's trial that Ng corrupted two U.N. ambassadors so he could build a legacy by constructing a U.N. conference center in China. Defense attorney Tai Park countered in Manhattan federal court that Ng was a philanthropist who was betrayed by one of the ambassadors who demanded contributions from him. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Chinese billionaire portrayed as criminal and hero at trial

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley said that President Trump's tough stand on reform at the U.N. is working as countries can longer take American help for granted. (Associated Press)

Nikki Haley says Trump’s tough stance gets results at U.N.

By Alex Zietlow - The Washington Times