The Latest Breaking News from the Security Council

As gangs escalate violence in Haiti, the UN Security Council debates upgrading the current security mission to a peacekeeping force despite opposition from Russia and China.

Russia and China oppose changing the Kenya-led multinational force in Haiti into a U.N. peacekeeping mission

A U.S.-led statement approved by 10 of the 15 U.N. Security Council members condemned a recent North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile launch

The Knesset passed a bill on Monday banning the UN agency for Palestine refugees from operating in Israel.

Recent UN Security Council meeting sees Iran and Israel in heated exchange over escalating tensions in the region.

Relations between Israel and the United Nations have long been tense

The top U.N. official in Haiti says gangs have escalated their violence and expanded operations outside the capital, even attacking small boats and kidnapping personnel from cargo shipping companies

A spokesman for forces in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon says it is maintaining its positions despite warnings to move from the Israeli Defense Forces

One rogue nation cannot declare war on the UN itself and continue to get away with it

Israeli forces fired on the headquarters of the UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon for the second time in two days on Friday, injuring four peacekeepers. It is the first time Blue Helmets from the UN mission, established in 1978, have been injured since the escalation on both sides of…

The head of the U_N_ agency for Palestinian refugees is warning that if pending Israeli legislation is adopted, all humanitarian operations in Gaza and the West Bank may “disintegrate.”