The New York Times
Friday, December 20, 2013 - 07:30
Kazakhstan, seeking a more prominent role on the world stage, decided on Friday to send officers to aid United Nations peacekeeping missions next year for the first time since independence in 1991.
Friday, December 20, 2013 - 07:27
Senior officials of the United Nations, the United States and Russia began a series of meetings in Geneva on Friday to review prospects for a second international conference aimed at ending the fighting and ushering in a political transition in Syria.
Friday, December 20, 2013 - 07:04
The United Nations said on Friday that it had sent helicopters to rescue personnel from a base in South Sudan that came under lethal attack amid a worsening political crisis and President Obama warned that South Sudan, the world’s youngest country, “stands at the precipice.”
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 09:25
In a sign of mounting international concern about fighting in South Sudan, Britain said Thursday that it was evacuating British nationals as clashes were reported to have spread following claims of an attempted coup.
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 07:18
The American ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, landed in this besieged capital early on Thursday with what she called a blunt and simple message: The United States is watching.
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 07:05
Israeli troops shot and killed a member of the Palestinian security forces whom they were seeking to arrest in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the Israeli military said.
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 07:04
The acting chief of Iran's air force says his pilots will hold a military drill over the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the waterway for one-fifth of the world's oil tanker traffic.
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 07:01
Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafik, will soon be free to return from self-imposed exile and perhaps to make a political comeback after Egyptian courts on Thursday acquitted him in a corruption case and shelved another.
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 06:58
Syrian Kurds are demanding their own delegation separate from both the government and opposition at next month's peace talks in Switzerland aimed at halting the conflict in Syria, Kurdish political leaders said on Thursday.
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 06:55
Syrian activists and other citizens have vanished into secret detention as part of a "widespread campaign of terror against the civilian population" by the Damascus government, U.N. investigators said on Thursday.