ISIS
- Alexander Brotman
- • October 24, 2014

After an extraordinary effort from the United Nations, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and about a half dozen countries, including the United States and Russia, 96 percent of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal has been destroyed, acting…
- Categories: Disarmament, Libya, Middle East, Security Council
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • October 16, 2014

Five new members have been elected to join the United Nations Security Council: Angola, Venezuela, Malaysia, New Zealand and Spain. The first three countries ran unopposed for the five two-year term seats open on the council, representing their regions,…
- Categories: General Assembly, Security Council
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 24, 2014

Amid hypertight security at United Nations headquarters in New York, President Barack Obama told the packed mass of 100-plus global leaders meeting at the opening day of the 69th General Assembly session that the United States, in a current…
- Categories: General Assembly, US-UN Relations
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 3, 2014

President Barack Obama will hold a summit late this month in the United Nations Security Council to try to counter the surging power and strength of the Islamic terrorists that have seized parts of the Middle East this summer…
- Yermi Brenner
- • August 31, 2014

The extremist Sunni militant group called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which recently declared a caliphate in parts of the Middle East, now controls an area of 13,000 square miles in Iraq and Syria. Testimonies coming out about…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Middle East
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 17, 2014

If there is one anarchic group that every member of the United Nations Security Council currently finds abhorrent it is the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which has seized large regions of Iraq this summer, astonishing most…
- Categories: Middle East, Peace and Security, Security Council
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 14, 2014

Attempting a second time this year to ease the humanitarian catastrophe in Syria as a result of its three-year civil war and no political solution in sight, the United Nations Security Council has displayed a rare unified front on…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Peace and Security, Security Council