Top Results For: United Nations’ peacekeeping mission

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday threatened widespread destruction of Iran’s energy resources and other vital infrastructure if a deal to end the war is not reached soon.

Carney's office says Canada is working with coalition allies to boost Ukraine's defence capabilities and support the nation's long-term recovery.

The summit comes as Hamas released 20 remaining living Israeli hostages and Israel started to free hundreds of Palestinians from its prisons.

Canada has just two female military peacekeepers deployed with the UN, sparking concern it’s failing its own goals on women’s participation in peacekeeping.

Robert Fowler says it would take 'a very large and serious effort to eradicate' Islamic terrorism groups in West Africa, which U.S. military officials warn could attack America.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he “would like Trump’s team to be more truthful" after Trump suggested Ukraine “should have never started” the war.

The latest fighting is part of a major escalation of a conflict over power, identity and resources dating back to the 1990s Rwandan genocide.

Alarmed that U.S. security priorities lie elsewhere, a group of European countries has been working on a plan to send troops into Ukraine to enforce any peace settlement.

U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said he also believed NATO membership for Ukraine was not realistic, nor was the country regaining its pre-2014 borders.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the United Nations is urgently looking for troops to replace Austrian peacekeepers who are regrettably withdrawing from the U.N. force on the Golan Heights.

A Veterans groups says the Conservatives offered to have a parliamentary secretary at this year's memorial, so long as organizers prepared his speech.

Canada's desert war came to an end Tuesday when soldiers of the Royal 22e Regiment stood down and formally handed over their battlefield to American units.

As the international community watches Syria’s infighting, Syrians in Canada are appealing to Ottawa, handing the federal government a list of recommendations on how it can help. <br /><br />

While Canada may be known for its peacekeeping missions and poutine, our nation isn’t at the top of the list in kid-friendliness ranking. <br /><br />

OTTAWA - The Canadian military is drawing up contingency plans in case the Harper government chooses to join any international intervention in the Syrian crisis.

KINSHASA, Congo - The United Nations said a peacekeeper in Congo was killed by an exploding shell as rebels allegedly backed by Rwanda made major advances in the country's volatile east, taking a border crossing into Uganda and threatening a strategic town.

GENEVA - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world's foremost human rights body on Monday to keep up the pressure on major powers to end the civil war and rights abuses in Syria.

<p>Angry protests over an anti-Islam film spread across the Muslim world Friday, with demonstrators scaling the walls of U.S. embassies in Tunisia and Sudan and torching part of a German embassy.<br /><br /> </p>

CAIRO - Angry protests over an anti-Islam film spread across the Muslim world Friday, with demonstrators scaling the walls of U.S. embassies in Tunisia and Sudan, torching part of a German embassy and clashing with police in violence that left at least four dead. Amid the turmoil, Islamic militants waving black banners and shouting "God is great" stormed an international peacekeepers base in Egypt's Sinai and battled troops.

The United Nations gave strong backing to Libya's former rebels Friday, handing their National Transitional Council the country's U.N. seat and then lifting and modifying some sanctions imposed on Moammar Gadhafi's regime.