United Nations

International inspection teams overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons will have to negotiate cease-fires between government and rebel forces to gain access to...

The United Nations is planning to create a sweeping new set of “sustainable development goals” for the planet that will likely require trillions of dollars of spending on...

Syria's foreign minister claimed Monday that his government is fighting a war against Al Qaeda-linked militants who eat human hearts and dismember people while they are still...

Syria's president vowed Sunday to abide by the U.N. resolution calling for the country's chemical weapons stockpile to be destroyed.

The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to secure and destroy Syria's chemical weapons stockpile, a landmark decision aimed at taking poison gas off the battlefield in...

The five permanent members of the often-divided U.N. Security Council reached agreement Thursday on a resolution to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons arsenal, British and U.S....

The five permanent members of the divided Security Council have reached agreement on key elements of a resolution to require Syria to dismantle its chemical weapons stockpiles,...

The Iranian delegation may be pariahs inside the UN building, but they've found at least one friend during their visit to New York - Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

Brazil’s president lashed out at the United States Tuesday at the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, saying the NSA meddling in the lives and affairs of other countries...

A list of U.N. General Assembly speakers for Tuesday, Sept. 24.

At the same time the Syrian regime of Bashir Al-Assad began the brutal repression that would quickly spin the country into civil war—and culminate  with the use of...

The chief U.N. chemical weapons inspector says his team will return to Syria "within weeks" to complete the investigation it had started before the Aug. 21 gas attack of other...

As the United States decides whether to strike Syria for using chemical weapons against its own citizens, another brutal dictatorship that has gotten billions of dollars worth...