Headlines
  • 1,332 people have killed as a result of the US-Israeli attacks in Iran.
  • Early on Sunday morning, Kuwait's defense ministry announced that an Iranian drone attack had targeted fuel tanks at the country's international airport.
  • In what appears to be a planned assassination, Israeli forces bombed the Ramada Hotel in central Beirut, killing at least four people and injuring ten more, Al Jazeera reports.
  • The US and Israel are strikes Tehran's refineries and oil storage facilities for the first time.
  • US president Trump said he believes Iran is to blame for the attack on the school of Iranian girls.
  • As the conflict with the Iran-backed Hezbollah intensifies, dozens more people have died in Lebanon as a result with major Israeli air and ground operations.
  • On Saturday, Trump visited an air base in Delaware for honorable transfer of six US service members who had been killed in the fighting.
  • After a week of strikes, Israel and the United States had almost complete control of the skies over Tehran, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who declared on Saturday that Israel would continue its fight with Iran "with all our force."

Tag: United Nations HQ

February 1, 2022

UN Secretary-General Swears in the Executive...

Amina Mohammed,United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, chats with Catherine Mary Russell, Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

UN Secretary-General Meets With President of...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres meets with Vassily Nebenzia, the Russian Federation’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and the Security Council’s President for February

January 24, 2022

UN Security Council Meets to Discuss...

United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo briefs the Security Council on the situation in Libya

January 21, 2022

UN General Assembly Hears the Secretary-General’s...

António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, briefs the General Assembly on his priorities for 2022 and presents his report on the Organization’s activities

January 20, 2022

Global High-Level Conference on Youth-Inclusive Peace...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres (right) speaks at a high-level Global Conference on Youth-Inclusive Peace Process in New York

January 19, 2022

Ahead of Security Council Meeting, President...

Anniken Huitfeldt, Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of the Security Council, briefs reporters on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, prior of the Security Council meeting

January 18, 2022

UN Security Council Holds Meeting on...

Kaavya Asoka, Executive Director of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security (NGOWG), addresses the Security Council meeting on Women, Peace and Security on the theme Protecting Participation: Addressing Violence Against Women in Peace and Security Processes

January 12, 2022

At UN Security Council, Africans Urge...

The African members of the U.N. Security Council urged their counterparts on Tuesday to support sanctions imposed this week on Mali’s coup leaders by a bloc of West African nations

January 8, 2022

UN Headquarters in the Snow

Outside the General Assembly building at UN Headquarters, a view of Henry Moore’s sculpture in the snow

December 20, 2021

UN Secretary-General Pays a Visit to...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is in Lebanon to reaffirm the UN’s assistance for the country and its people, including political teams, peacekeepers, humanitarian relief workers, and development professionals. The Secretary-General will meet with officials from the government, including President Michel Aoun and Speaker

Top