[caption id="attachment_41370" align="alignright" width="384"] Al Aqsa Mosque[/caption] The UN Security Council appealed for calm and restraint Thursday after three days of clashes this week at Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa mosque compound between Israeli police and Muslim protesters....

[caption id="attachment_41328" align="alignright" width="370"] Dr Maleeha Lodhi[/caption] Pakistan has urged the United Nations to take notice of civilian casualties in unprovoked Indian firing along the Line of Control and Working Boundary. In a letter to ...

Year 2014 has been a devastating year for children with up to 15 million swept up in wars in the Central African Republic, Iraq, South Sudan, the Palestinian territories, Syria and Ukraine, the UN children’s agency said Monday. [caption id="attachment_40494" align="alignright" width="384"]...

Pakistan called on the United Nations (UN) Security Council to make effort to resolve the decades-old Middle East problem by “establishing an independent state of Palestine based on the pre-1967 borders with al-Quds al-Sharif (Jerusalem) as its capital”. [caption id="attachment_40049" align="alignnone" width="600"]...

India has called upon Pakistan not to involve the United Nations in the Kashmir dispute and resolve any conflict through bilateral dialogue, the BBC Urdu reported on Friday. [caption id="attachment_39769" align="alignright" width="384"] India - Pakistan[/caption]...

The Palestinian envoy to the United Nations held up photographs of children slain in Gaza and read out names of the dead on Tuesday as he pleaded for action from the Security Council. [caption id="attachment_38219" align="alignright" width="384"] Palestinians[/caption] “On ...

The United Nations received reports from local sources in South Sudan on Tuesday that between 400 and 500 people had been killed and up to 800 wounded in the latest violence, and the government said it had arrested 10 politicians in connection with a "foiled coup". [caption id="attachment_34264" align="alignright" ...

Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif demanded the comity of nations for implementation of Kashmiri people’s right to self-determination, news reported Saturday. [caption id="attachment_32477" align="alignright" width="295"] Nawaz Sharif[/caption] Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, he invited his Indian ...

Ending weeks of diplomatic deadlock, the United States and Russia reached an agreement on Thursday on a draft U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at ridding Syria of its chemical weapons arsenal. Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador ...

UN chemical weapons investigators will not explicitly pin the blame on anyone in their upcoming report on the August 21 poison gas attack in Syria, but diplomats say their factual reporting alone could suggest which side in the country's civil war was responsible. [caption id="attachment_32202" align="alignnone" width="558"]...