The United Nations secretary-general has urged the Lebanese armed forces to remain loyal to President Michel Suleiman in the face of violence caused by Takfiri gunmen in the country’s south.
Baghdad has urged greater cooperation from the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) to remove Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorists from the country.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has felicitated Iran’s president-elect Hassan Rohani on his victory in the June 14 vote.
Iran will chair the United Nations’ most important disarmament negotiating forum during the panel’s May session, which opened on Monday.
Militants in Syria have captured a group of UN peacekeepers monitoring the ceasefire line between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
A video has emerged showing Bahraini regime forces directly shooting a group of women with tear gas canisters to disperse them during a protest in the capital, Manama.
The United Nations calls on the Israeli regime to halt all its illegal settlement activities in the occupied West Bank and withdraw the Zionist settlers from the Palestinian land.
The United Nations said it paid out about $1.3 billion in compensation to Kuwait on Thursday over Iraq's invasion of the Persian Gulf emirate in 1990.