Russia has invited Security Council ministers to a meeting next week to give “new impetus” to the Middle East peace process.

A young woman abducted and repeatedly raped by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda told the Security Council on Wednesday how she became a rifle-toting child...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recommended Wednesday that the Security Council reject an immediate U.N. peacekeeping force for Somalia, saying such a deployment could...

A key Security Council committee reported Tuesday that Iran violated U.N. sanctions by trying to send weapons-related material, reportedly to Syria, on a cargo ship now...

The Security Council on Wednesday authorized 5,200 U.N. peacekeepers to replace a 3,300-strong European Union force in Chad and Central African Republic, which have...

The United Nations kept its aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip on hold Friday as Israel and Hamas ignored a Security Council cease-fire demand.

The U.N. chief urged the divided Security Council to try to bring a speedy end to the escalating crisis in Gaza and planned to meet Monday with Arab ministers flying to...

The Security Council is planning emergency consultations to discuss an Arab request for a legally binding and enforceable U.N. resolution that would ensure an immediate...

The Security Council on Monday condemned a rebel offensive in eastern Congo that has driven tens of thousands from their homes, while the rebels threatened to quit...

The Security Council has voted unanimously to maintain U.N. protection for billions of dollars of Iraqi assets against seizure by governments, companies or...

The Security Council has unanimously authorized nations to go ashore in Somalia to fight piracy.

A U.N. human rights expert said late Wednesday the Security Council risks losing credibility as a law-abiding body if it does not change the way it imposes sanctions on...

The Security Council should impose more sanctions on Iran over its stonewalling of a U.N. investigation into allegations that Tehran tried to make nuclear weapons,...

Tell us, the UN Security Council, is 18th September, 2008, a lucky day to have the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) closed down forever? Serbia, Kosovo,...

The limits of U.N. power are being tested as the Security Council becomes more inclined to send missions to the world’s most hostile areas, the departing U.N....

Two U.N. war crimes tribunals appealed to the Security Council on Wednesday for support in pressuring Serbia and Rwanda to do more to hunt down their most-wanted...

The Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Thursday calling for a U.N. political presence in conflict-wracked Somalia for the first time in years and...

The Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday night to extend the U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Sudan and called for demarcation of the contested oil-rich...

Security Council members agree that Eritrea’s treatment of U.N. peacekeepers on its disputed border with Ethiopia is “unacceptable,” but the council...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for the speedy release of presidential election results in Zimbabwe and said the African country’s crisis will be a...