Though the U.N. has asked the parties backing the various entities in the Syrian conflict to stop injecting weapons into the violent war. The parties backing the various entities in the Syrian conflict seem to have declined to acede to the U.N.’s request: Heavy fighting resumed around the northern Syrian...

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The United Nations has been declining to publish a detailed report – one which has already been approved by the U.N. Security Council sanctions committee – detailing the degree to which Iran has been able to dodge existing sanctions. Somebody somewhere wanted the report to see the light of day,...

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The United Nations released new figures showing at least 93,000 people have died, but admits that the death toll is most likely much higher. The U.N. report says that 265,000 deaths were reported, but only victims with a name, date and location of death were counted. Analysts had to sort...

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned Wednesday that spillover from Syria’s civil war is threatening the increasingly fragile four-decade ceasefire between Syria and Israel. Observers are specifically raising alarms about the potential collapse of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) – the U.N. peacekeeping mission which has monitored the...

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United Nations official Richard Falk – who has among other things blamed America and Israel for the Boston Marathon terror attack, posted anti-Semitic cartoons on his blog, and suggested that America was complicit in Al Qaeda’s attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 – is responding to a round of recent...

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The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) held its thrice-yearly session Monday. As always, the body deliberated over its infamous Item 7 – the council’s permanent agenda item on Israel and the only one devoted to a specific country. As always, a convoy of some of the world’s worst human-rights abusers...

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The head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog blasted Iran on Monday for its intransigence during talks designed to reduce opacity around the country’s atomic program. His evaluation of the progress of negotiations was unsparing: Yukiya Amano also said his agency’s talks with Iran on unblocking an IAEA inquiry into possible...

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An open letter signed last week by 72 congressmen is calling on United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to demand that Iran be removed from serving as the chair of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament. The bipartisan letter – coauthored by Peter Roskam (R-IL), Ted Deutch (D-FL), Mike Kelly (R-PA),...

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Opposition forces battling the Bashar al-Assad regime have stolen at least two “virtually indestructible” U.N. vehicles in recent months from the U.N. Disengagement Force (UNDOF) along the Golan Heights. The acknowledgment of the thefts by UNDOF will renew speculation that Israel may have to act to reestablish stability amid the...

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A report released today by the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog reveals that that Iran is locking in critical infrastructure necessary to quickly produce weapons-grade nuclear material. The report discloses that Iran has sped up the installation of, among other things, advanced IR-2m centrifuges at its Natanz plant. The technology allows Tehran to...

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