A Kenyan police officer, part of a U.N.-backed multinational force, patrols a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in December 2024. AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph For decades, the United Nations has intervened ...

As of December 2018, the United Nations (UN) had 14 ongoing peacekeeping operations with approximately 103,000 personnel. The United States is the single largest financial contributor to these ...

Cyprus, as the host country of one of the longest-running peacekeeping operations in the world, is fully aware of the necessity of sustaining a UN force to prevent the recurrence of fighting, ...

Rebeca Grynspan, former vice president of Costa Rica, speaks during a news conference where the government announced her nomination for United Nations secretary-general, in San Jose, Costa Rica, Oct.

Ms. Diallo began her United Nations career in 1986 with the Department of Public Information in New York. From 1992 to 1994, she served in two United Nations Peacekeeping Operations in Cambodia and ...

November 8, 2025: UN peacekeeping missions have become a thing of that past. There are fewer of them and in a growing number of cases peacekeepers have been replaced by the International Crisis Group.

Every year on 29 May, the United Nations marks the International Day of UN Peacekeepers. Uniformed and civilian peacekeepers serve a vital role in maintaining and promoting peace in some of the ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -United Nations peacekeeping missions are under severe financial pressure and U.S. cuts could limit their ability to protect civilians in places like South Sudan and the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The future of U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon has split the United States and its European allies, raising implications for security in the Middle East and becoming the latest snag to ...