Lebanon Tuesday rejected an Israeli call to reform a UN peacekeeping force patrolling the border between the two countries days before a UN Security Council vote to renew its mandate. Lebanon and Israel are still technically at war, and the United Nations force, UNIFIL, is tasked with...

The president of the UN Security Council Tuesday rejected the Trump administration’s demand to restore all U.N. sanctions on Iran, a move that drew an angry rebuke from the US ambassador who accused opponents of supporting "terrorists." Indonesia’s ambassador to the UN, Dian Triansyah...

Lebanon's leaders should not use the explosion that destroyed parts of Beirut earlier this month as an excuse to hide the reality that the country was on the edge of a precipice, France's foreign minister said on Tuesday. "The catastrophe should not be used as a pretext to obscure the...

The defense ministers of the United Arab Emirates and Israel spoke via telephone Tuesday focusing on their countries' move to normalise ties, state media reported. Officials from the UAE and the Jewish state have increased contacts since the announcement earlier this month that they would...