Un Peacekeepers

For six decades, these men and women -- most recognizable in their blue helmets -- have been responsible for restoring stability where terror lived.

When 83 percent of polled Republicans, Democrats and Independents are together on an issue, it stands out as more than simply a consensus -- it's a mandate. That's how many voters want the U.S. to maintain an active role in the U.N.

There are a variety of U.N. agencies that use a variety of companies for both logistical and security needs and have competed for those contracts. Indeed, some companies have a history of working with the U.N. which dates back decades.

MONROVIA, Liberia — Violence broke out at opposition headquarters, killing at least one person hours before Liberia's presidential runoff on Tue...

UN personnel must be held accountable for violations of the law and administrative cover-ups of misdeeds. It should not take a Hollywood film to shame the UN Secretariat and member states into remedying this disgraceful situation.

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- United Nations peacekeepers in Ivory Coast enticed underage girls in a poor part of the West African nation to exchange sex fo...

Africa's largest country is on the verge of reigniting a conflict that killed hundreds of thousands of people and devastated the region over a decade....

The crisis engulfing the Ivory Coast is a lesson in how even the trappings of democracy can fail to keep a fragile nation from breaking apart. It wasn't supposed to be this way.

With the battle for control of the Ivory Coast nearing an end, explosive divisions remain unresolved and revenge killings are expected after months of unthinkable horror.

Some government leaders keep going and going. They would rather see their country descend into anarchy than leave office. Gaddafi is one. Mugabe is another. So is the president of the Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo.

In the midst of a cholera epidemic that has killed a reported 1,300 Haitians, the U.S., Canada and the United Nations insisted that Haiti's elections go ahead today, as scheduled.

Afghan security forces probably killed an American security officer and three other UN staff during a "friendly fire," exchange during a fog of warfare.

UNITED NATIONS — Ten years ago, veteran diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi oversaw a landmark report chronicling the U.N. peacekeeping's failures to preve...

It's worth delving into the less obvious links between mineral resources and instability in eastern Congo to illustrate the potentially grave effects of a gold, lithium, or niobium rush in Afghanistan.

When an author I met today during an overseas visit gave me a copy of his recently published book, he said writing it was very special since it recoun...

No one quite knows why but the United Nations is pulling its peacekeepers out of Chad, home to hundreds of thousands of victims of Sudan's war in Darfur. The government of President Idriss Déby wants it that way.

In this barren sandy moonscape, UN troops replaced European peacekeepers last March. Recently, Chad asked the UN to leave, but the reasons for their request are opaque.

With a presidential vote on the horizon, Brazil's national conscience is getting a strong dose of melancholia generated by non-stop coverage of dead and wounded soldiers coming home from UN peacekeeping operations in Haiti.

The IMF has proposed a plan that might help Haiti build a new foundation for nation building. But if this plan is to succeed it will need to contain the global drug trade that dominates Haiti's economy.

UNITED NATIONS - As Haitians without food, water and shelter grow frustrated and angry, the United Nations Security Council authorized another 2,000 p...

Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere with impenetrable roads, a crumbling infrastructure, illiteracy and a barely functioning judicial system. It did not deserve an earthquake.