The United States urged the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to consider measures to halt an offensive by Rwandan ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels, accompanied by Rwandan forces, advanced on Goma, a regional hub for security and humanitarian ...

The UN refugee agency says 200,000 Syrians have already returned home since the fall of Bashar Assad. But Western sanctions ...

With Saddam Hussein's government gone, the United States wants the sanctions lifted immediately. It argues the funds should be used for reconstruction and basic needs, without UN control.

US looking for HTS progress on actions, not words Russia blames unilateral sanctions for harming Syrian economy UN warns Israel could jeopardize prospects for political transition UNITED NATIONS ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — The United Nations human rights chief on Wednesday called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong civil war, now that former leader Bashar Assad has ...

The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting Sunday to discuss the escalation of violence in eastern Democratic Republic ...

North Korea has been under U.N. Security Council sanctions since 2006 and the measures have been steadily strengthened over the years with the aim of halting Pyongyang’s development of nuclear ...

The United Nations refugee chief says some 200,000 refugees have returned to Syria from neighboring countries since the ...

UN Syria envoy Geir Pedersen was in Damascus for the second time since Assad's ouster for talks with the country's de facto ...

The shift is based on an assessment done by the UN in January, weeks after Assad was ousted by Islamist rebels, bringing an abrupt end to a 13-year civil war that had created one of the biggest refuge ...

UNITED NATIONS - A U.S. sanctions exemption for transactions with governing institutions in Syria is welcome, but "much more significant work ... will inevitably be necessary," the U.N. special ...