August 14, 2026
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Major General Jawwad Ahmed as Force Commander of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, succeeding a Bangladeshi general whose assignment ended on August 2.
October 10, 2025
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations will reduce a quarter of the peacekeeping forces in nine businesses around the world in the coming months due to lack of money, said senior United Nations officials on Wednesday and as future funding from the United States remains uncertain. “Overall, we should repatriate … about 25% of our total military troops and the police, as well as their equipment, and will also be affected by a large number of civil servants in missions,” said a UN senior official, speaking on the condition. This will reach 13,000 and 14,000 troops and police, the official said.
April 18, 2025
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives at the Foreign Ministry of France before a bilateral meeting with his French counterpart in Paris, France, April 17, 2025 – Reuters The State Dept Secy says the US should decide “in a few days”. “Many other real important things that are happening,” says Rubio. Trump had promised to end the war on the first day in the office. US President Donald Trump will be removed from trying to make a bonnet for a Russian-Ukraine peace agreement within a few days, unless there are clear indications that an agreement can be made, US
February 28, 2025
At the UN Security Council, Pakistan has called for strengthening the role of UN Police in Peacekeeping Missions. Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Munir Akram, in his remarks, said policing in peacekeeping operations needs to evolve in a way that is capable of addressing complex, non-traditional threats involving organized crime, human trafficking, terrorism and weaponization of technology. He stressed the need for employing technology to enable the UN police to fulfill its mandate. He recalled Pakistan’s vital role in UN peacekeeping missions, and stated that as a longstanding contributor, Pakistan has deployed 50 Formed Police Units (FPUs) in
February 19, 2025
RAWALPINDI– Security forces killed 30 terrorists during an intelligence-based operation in the general area of Sararogha, South Waziristan, said ISPR. According to the military’s media wing press release, “On 17 February 2025, security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation in general area Sararogha, South Waziristan District on the reported presence of Khwarij.” During the conduct of operation, own troops effectively engaged the Khwarij location, as a result of which, 30 Khwarij were killed Sanitisation operation is being conducted to eliminate any other Kharji found in the area as the security forces of Pakistan are determined to wipe out the menace of
August 21, 2024
DOHA: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a short but intense visit to the Middle East to push for a ceasefire in Gaza, but left the region on Tuesday without securing a deal between Israel and Hamas. Blinken, along with mediators from Egypt and Qatar, had pinned their hopes on a US “bridging proposal” aimed at bridging the gap between the two sides in the ongoing 10-month conflict. Despite last week’s stalled negotiations, Blinken expressed the urgency of a solution, saying the deal “must be completed in the next few days” and that every effort would be made to
August 6, 2024
UN peacekeepers on the Israel-Lebanon border have never been more critical, global force chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix said on Tuesday, as fears of an escalation in the Middle East soared. Since the Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, sparking a war in the Gaza Strip, Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, an ally of Hamas, have exchanged cross-border fire almost daily. But concern has grown about a wider regional conflict, especially after the assassination, blamed on Israel, of a top Hamas leader in Iran and an Israeli airstrike that killed a Hezbollah commander in Beirut’s southern suburbs last
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