Security Council

At least 84 people were murdered in the twin explosions in Iran that were claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group, which the UN Security Council denounced as “reprehensible” on Thursday. The day before, on the...

According to the agenda for the UN Security Council meeting on January 13 that was made public on Saturday, Japan will be the Council’s chairman for the following week. The meeting is set to begin around...

According to diplomats, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres requested a meeting of the permanent members of the Security Council on Thursday to discuss the chaotic situation in Afghanistan. According to AFP, Guterres addressed letters to the US,...

An emergency meeting of the UN Security Council has been held to take the necessary steps to end the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine. The meeting was held on Monday. However, no official statement was...

The UN Security Council is to hold an informal meeting on Friday on the situation in Belarus, this time in public and with the participation of the country’s opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, diplomats said. The videoconference...

The UN Security Council is scheduled to hear a briefing next week from the head of a UN fact- finding mission that has accused Myanmar’s military of atrocities against Muslim Rohingya, diplomats said Thursday. Nine countries...

The UN Security Council on Friday backed a US-drafted resolution that urges Morocco and the Polisario Front to prepare for talks on settling the decades-old conflict over Western Sahara. The council renewed for six months the...