The Latest Breaking News from Security Council

North Korea’s U.N. ambassador has defended his country’s recent long-range missile launch in a rare appearance at the U.N. Security Council

UNITED NATIONS (UNITED STATES) - Syria will let humanitarian aid flow through its main border crossing into rebel-held areas, reopening a conduit that had closed after a Security Council stalemate, the country's UN ambassador said Thursday.

UN Security Council unable to agree on extension to cross-border aid to opposition areas, which expired on Monday.

The United Nations Security Council's failure to renew the critical flow of international aid from Turkey into opposition-held northwestern Syria has rattled Syrians and social workers

The deputy secretary of Russia’s Security Council said Western military aid would not stop Moscow’s victory in Ukraine.

The U.N. Security Council has failed to approve either of two rival resolutions authorizing the delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria’s rebel-held northwest from neighboring Turkey, officially ending the U.N. cross-border operation which had been vital to helping 4.1 million people

Russia proposes authorisation only be extended for six months rather than a nine-month compromise.

Aid for opposition-held areas is divisive in UN Security Council, with the ever-present threat of a Russian veto.

Tehran berated for JCPOA violations including illegal weapons transfers and increasing ballistic missile development and testing

Israeli forces arrest suspects and destroy infrastructure in ongoing operation; international community expresses concern.

The U.K. has called for the expansion of the UN Security Council’s permanent seats to include India, Brazil, Germany and Japan as well as African representation, underlining that it is high time the powerful UN body entered the 2020s.