Security Council

Indus Waters Treaty abeyance after Pahalgam attack sparks India-Pakistan clash - opinion

Pakistan challenges India’s treaty suspension at the UN amid rising tensions between the countries.

Indian security force personnel stand guard at the site of a suspected militant attack on tourists in Baisaran near Pahalgam in south Kashmir's Anantnag district, April 24, 2025.
Rafael Mariano Grossi, candidate for the position of the next Secretary-General, speaks during a dialogue with delegations while candidates for the position of new United Nations Secretary General are interviewed at U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S., April 21, 2026.

Top candidates grilled at UN in contention to replace Guterres as secretary general

Taliban Deputy Spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat speaks during a press conference about the conflict between Afghanistan and Pakistan, in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 3, 2026.

Afghan women’s rights advocates urge Melania Trump to support girls facing Taliban restrictions

UNIFIL Chief Maj.-Gen. Diodato Abagnara, attends a meeting in Beirut, Lebanon, March 14, 2026; illustrative.

IDF Merkava tank rammed UNIFIL vehicles on two occasions on Sunday, UN force claims


UN rights chief expresses support for US-proposed Gaza ceasefire deal

The US said it wants the nine-member UN Security Council to adopt a resolution backing the proposal.

Footage of Hamas terrorists using UN facilities for cover and transport, May 14, 2024

UN committee unable to agree on Palestinian bid for full membership

UN Security Council deliberating on Palestinian membership, which would effectively recognize it as a state.

Members of the United Nations Security Council meet on the day of a vote on a Gaza resolution that demands an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan. March 25, 2024

This is how Iran helped Israel in the war on Hezbollah - opinion

How Iran's involvement shapes Israel's tactics in countering Hezbollah's threat.

 Nasrallah in a meeting with Iran's foreign minister

UN report claims Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, call for arms embargo

The report presents the alleged genocide as "driven by a genocidal logic integral to [a] settler-colonial project in Palestine."

 People visit the United Nations Headquarters as delegates of the Security Council delayed for one extra day the vote on a proposal to demand that Israel and Hamas allow aid access to the Gaza Strip, December 20, 2023

US locks in UN resolution backing efforts to broker Gaza truce

The US traditionally shields Israel at the UN, but it has also abstained twice, allowing the council to adopt resolutions that aimed to boost aid to Gaza and seeks extended pauses in fighting.

 Israel's Foreign Minister Eli Cohen speaks during a meeting on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas at UN headquarters in New York, US, October 24, 2023

US, UK, France request emergency UN Security Council meeting on Hamas sexual violence

The meeting being requested is to examine the crimes that emerged from the UN report on Hamas's sexual violence on October 7 and the hostage situation in Gaza.

 Women protest at Habima Square in Tel Aviv against the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the US, June 28, 2022.

Itamar Ben-Gvir denied intel briefings; calls claims 'childish'

The Telegraph report: Itamar Ben-Gvir blocked from intel briefings after leak incidents; had prior accusations of illegal photography in classified meetings.

Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir

UNSC deeply concerned over Gaza aid distribution disaster

The IDF has dismissed all claims that it deliberately targeted civilians during the incident. 

 Thousands of Palestinians converge on aid trucks in the Gaza Strip, February 29, 2024

Security Council 'perhaps fatally' undermined by Gaza, Ukraine deadlock, says UN chief

Guterres said the UN Security Council often found itself deadlocked and "unable to act on the most significant peace and security issues of our time."

 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres holds a press conference, ahead of G20 Summit in New Delhi, India, September 8, 2023.

US casts third veto of UN action since start of Israel-Hamas war

The Algerian-drafted resolution vetoed by the US did not link a ceasefire to the release of hostages.

 US AMBASSADOR to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks at the Security Council on Friday. She said that she couldn't understand those refusing to condemn the atrocities committed by Hamas.