Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is indicted for war crimes, has cancelled his plans to address a high-level meeting of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly’s general debate, accord...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/09/25/sudans-omar-al-bashir-cancels-u-n-trip/
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday that U.N. weapons inspectors have obtained "overwhelming" evidence that chemical weapons were used in an Aug. 21 attack that killed large numbers of...
U.N. inspectors have collected a "wealth" of evidence on the use of nerve agents that points to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons against his own people, according to a seni...
For nearly two years, the United States and its key allies have been challenging the Syrian government’s claim to legitimacy. Some countries have recognized the Syrian opposition as the country...
As President Obama struggles to secure congressional approval for air strikes in Syria, America’s principal Persian Gulf ally, Saudi Arabia, has been quietly exploring the possibility of seekin...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/09/06/saudis-to-push-general-assembly-vote-on-syria-intervention/
The British government asserted today that it has the legal authority to strike Syria because of the controversial doctrine of "humanitarian intervention." One small problem: That legal norm has ...
It wasn’t long ago that the Obama administration was championing the cause of U.N. chemical weapons inspectors in Syria. And it wasn’t long ago that Syria was resisting every effort by the we...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/28/u-s-and-syria-trade-places-on-chemical-weapons-inspections/
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s office said Sunday that U.N. chemical weapons experts will conduct an urgent inspection Monday in a Damascus suburb to determine whether chemical weapons we...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/25/u-n-inspectors-get-green-light-for-syrian-nerve-agent-hunt-2/
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki moon on Thursday dispatched his top disarmament official to Syria to try to persuade the Assad government to grant weapons inspectors access to the site of what’s ...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/22/u-n-pressures-syria-to-open-up-chemical-battlefields/
Syria’s U.S.-backed opposition leader, Ahmad al-Jabra, promised the U.N. Security Council today that his coalition was prepared to participate in peace talks with the Syrian government in Genev...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/26/how-syrias-rebels-are-scuttling-any-chance-at-peace-talks/
A panel of independent U.N. experts who investigated the source of a deadly cholera epidemic that killed thousands of Haitians has concluded that United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal "most like...
Facebook, Google and other social media giants have been all-too-willing to hand over information about their users when American intelligence and law enforcement agencies come calling. But what ...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/24/facebook-stiff-arms-u-n-investigators/
The Obama administration earlier this year expanded its secret war in Somalia, stepping up assistance for federal and regional Somali intelligence agencies that are allied against the country’s...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/23/is-the-u-s-ramping-up-a-secret-war-in-somalia-2/
There’s a new North Korean in New York City. Jang Il Hun, a former interpreter and career diplomat, arrived in New York in recent days to take up his new post as the North Korean representative...
When Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah dispatched fighters to Syria last spring to reinforce the beleaguered army of his longtime benefactor, President Bashar al-Assad, it was a matter of pride f...
North Korea’s U.N. envoy Sin Son Ho emerged from a three-year media blackout on Friday to host a nearly hour long press conference. And it was a doozy. Sin not only demanded the dismantling of ...
The Somali militant movement al-Shabab today launched a deadly strike against a U.N. humanitarian compound in Mogadishu that killed one international staffer, three contractors, four Somali secur...
Iran continues to evade U.N. sanctions on its nuclear program by changing its supply routes, erecting new front companies, and shopping the world for lower grade parts not explicitly prohibited b...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/06/18/hidden-report-reveals-how-iran-dodges-nuclear-watchdogs/
U.N. Secretary Ban Ki moon registered concern today about the foreign supply of weapons to Syrian combatants, placing the top U.N. official at odds with the Obama administration as it presses ahe...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/06/15/u-n-chief-hates-the-white-houses-plan-to-arm-syrias-rebels/
At least 92,901 people have lost their lives in Syria’s bloody civil war. And the pace of killing is quickening, with death toll nearly five times what it was in 2011. The latest count of the f...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/06/13/syrias-death-toll-soars-to-nearly-93000/
Revelations of widespread data mining by the National Security Agency may be sending shock waves across America and Europe, where digital privacy concerns have been mounting in recent years. Bu...
The U.N. Security Council struggled this evening to prevent the collapse of a beleaguered mission that has helped maintain peace between Israel and Syria along the Golan Heights for nearly 40 yea...
Some Republicans looked like they were set up for a new fight against President Barack Obama‘s nominee for to replace Susan Rice as U.N. ambassador, Samantha Power, a Pulitzer Prize-winning aut...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/06/05/samantha-powers-tough-road-to-confirmation-gets-a-bit-easier/
Russia will mount a diplomatic effort to secure Iran a seat at the table at a U.N.-brokered political conference on Syria, Russia’s U.N. envoy Vitaly Churkin said in an interview. Speaking at t...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/06/04/russia-wants-tehran-at-syria-conference/
More than 60 nations today signed the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty at U.N. headquarters, displaying a strong show of support for the world’s first international pact regulating the $70 billion intern...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/06/03/kerry-wont-sign-on-the-dotted-line-yet/