The United Nations is still investigating possible links to Al Qaeda (UN Photo/Nadine Kaddoura)

UN Security Council members will be traveling to West Africa over the weekend, where they will be visiting Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone. Members of the 15 nation security body will be meeting political leaders to discuss the United Nations ongoing role in the region as well as recent security…

By Elianna Mintz A panel of judges at the International Criminal Court will decide in the coming weeks if ICC war crimes indictee Saif Gaddafi should be turned over to the Hague or tried by a national court in Libya, the court’s top prosecutor said Wednesday. Libya officially requested the…

By Elianna Mintz The international community has so far failed to make long term investments in Afghanistan’s aid and development programs, as humanitarian assistance to the country continues to fall well short of the population’s needs, says the United Nations top humanitarian official. “It’s very hard to say that the…

By: Elianna Mintz Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC), announced today that the ICC was confident in their evidence against war criminals Bosco Ntganda and Sylvestre Mudacamura. “We are pretty confident on our evidence but the main issue will be if this request could contribute to establish…

The UN has stepped up the deployment of peacekeepers to Syria over the past several days, bringing the number of unarmed military observers on the ground to 145. The increase comes almost three weeks after the UN Security Council agreed to dispatch a team 300 peacekeepers to monitor the country’s shaky…

The UN Security Council Thursday condemned a bombing attack in Damascus that reportedly killed over 50 people and injured more than 300 others, a serious blow to the already faltering UN backed April 12 ceasefire. Media reports indicate two suicide bombers detonated car bombs close to Syrian security force headquarters…

A bomb exploded near a convoy of UN peacekeepers entering the Syrian city of Dara Wednesday, joint UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan’s spokesperson confirmed in a statement. The special envoy’s office says there were no UN casualties from the attack, but that several Syrian government soldiers were injured by the…

Syria risks sliding into civil war Kofi Annan warned Tuesday (UN Photo/Violaine Martin)

As the UN celebrated World Press Freedom day Thursday with conferences and discussions on the importance of media through out the world, Azerbaijan, a country recently singled out by rights groups for its use of censorship and intimidation of journalists, assumed the rotating presidency of the international organization’s most powerful…