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A Turkish soldier holds the hand of Sidra, 12, a Kurdish refugee girl from Kobani who lost her parents after their arrival at the Turkey-Syria border near Suruc, Turkey, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. U.S.-led coalition airstrikes targeted Islamic State fighters pressing their offensive against a Kurdish town near the Syrian-Turkish border on Tuesday in an attempt to halt the militants' advance, activists said. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

UN: Islamic State forcing thousands to flee Syria

Cara Anna · September 30, 2014 5:53 pm

Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland, speaks during the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Monday, Sept. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Iceland announces men-only UN meeting on women

Cara Anna · September 29, 2014 10:26 pm

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, laughs while speaking to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon before a summit on international peacekeeping operations on the sidelines of the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Friday, Sept. 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

National Security

US, others vow to strengthen UN peacekeeping

Cara Anna · September 26, 2014 11:25 pm

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius speaks during a high level meeting on Libya Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, during the 69th session of the U.N. General Assembly meetings at the United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Security Council urged to spare veto in atrocities

Cara Anna · September 26, 2014 1:22 am

Armored vehicles from the U.N. peacekeepers of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, also known as UNDOF wait to cross from the Israeli controlled Golan Heights to Syria, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014. In southern Syria, government warplanes targeted rebels near the country's frontier with Israel in the Golan Heights, a day after opposition fighters captured a crossing point on the disputed border. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

UN: Armed group detains 43 peacekeepers in Syria

Cara Anna · August 29, 2014 1:36 am

In this photo provided by the United Nations, the U.N. Kyung-wha Kang, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, briefs the U.N. Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Syria, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, at U.N. Headquarters. She told the Security Council that the Islamic State group is taking violence against civilians in Syria "to a new level," threatening the cross-border humanitarian aid operations recently approved by the Security Council and that both the extremists and the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front are advancing on border crossings with Turkey "and could hinder additional cross-border operations." (AP Photo/United Nations, Loey Felipe)

UN: Islamic State group threatens Syria aid access

Cara Anna · August 29, 2014 12:34 am

Libya’s UN envoy warns of ‘full-blown civil war’

Libya’s UN envoy warns of ‘full-blown civil war’

Cara Anna · August 27, 2014 6:39 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2013, file photo, Jordan's ambassador to the United Nationas, Prince Zeid al Hussein, speaks to the media during a news conference in New York. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday, June 6, 2014, he will appoint Prince Zeid as the new high commissioner for human rights, bringing to that post a voice from the Middle East at a time when such rights are under strain in some countries in the region. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

UN to tap Jordan’s ambassador as new rights chief

Cara Anna · June 6, 2014 11:07 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 file photo, a young man screams in pain as he lies in a pool of blood on the floor of a hospital in Bangui, Central African Republic following a day-long gun battle between Seleka soldiers and Christian militias. A new U.N. report obtained Thursday, June 5, 2014 says "ample evidence" exists that both sides in the devastating conflict in Central African Republic have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, but it says it's too early to speak of genocide or ethnic cleansing. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

UN report sees no genocide in C. African Republic

Cara Anna · June 5, 2014 9:11 pm

UN says ready to get aid into Syria despite gov’t

UN says ready to get aid into Syria despite gov’t

Cara Anna · May 22, 2014 9:52 pm

Russia says it will veto UN resolution on Syria

Russia says it will veto UN resolution on Syria

Cara Anna · May 21, 2014 10:00 pm

Russian Federation Ambassador Vitaly Churkin addresses the United Nations Security Council, Friday, May 2, 2014. The U.N. Security Council is meeting in emergency session on Ukraine after Russia called for a public meeting on the growing crisis there. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

National Security

Security Council holds emergency Ukraine meeting

Cara Anna · May 2, 2014 8:33 pm