From election support in the Central African Republic to patrols in the disputed Abyei region, UN peacekeepers are operating ...

A French UN peacekeeper has been killed in Lebanon, highlighting rising risks for UNIFIL. The UN mission has been in the ...

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Japan's government has decided to send a senior Ground Self-Defense Force officer to South Sudan to serve in a leadership ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Kenyan police officer, part of a U.N.-backed multinational force, patrols a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in December 2024.

The United States on Wednesday called for United Nations peacekeeping missions to adapt to changing conditions or shut down, ...

Peacekeeping is in trouble. More peacekeepers are in the field than ever before, and, as UN Ambassador Samantha Power noted, “we are asking peacekeepers to do more, in more places, and in more complex ...

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 There are fewer of them and in a growing number of cases peacekeepers have been replaced by the International Crisis Group.

Remember when blue helmets just monitored ceasefires between nation-states? Those were simpler times, like when your biggest tech worry was dial-up internet. Today’s peace operations face a complex ...

In February 2026, the Guided Tours Unit welcomed members of the Hospitality Committee for United Nations Delegations for a focused briefing on UN peacekeeping. Participants included members of the ...

South Africa will withdraw its troops from the United Nation’s peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo as the continent’s largest economy seeks to “realign” the resources of its armed ...