The G-7 group of rich nations committed on Friday to pursuing the creation of a UN peacekeeping force to protect world heritage sites from destruction in conflict and combatting the trafficking of plundered treasures.
Destroying antiquities at heritage sites like the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and the shrines of Timbuktu in Mali has increasingly become a tactic of warRead more
Israel’s military fired tear gas across the border into Lebanon on Saturday, breaking up a small Lebanese protest against cameras installed there, Lebanon’s National News agency reported.
Israel’s military said the protesters crossed the international border, prompting the dispersal. The UN peacekeeping force, known by the acronym UNIFIL, said it is investigating the various claims and that the situation laterRead more
The president of South Sudan said on Monday that soldiers who rape civilians should be shot, trying to mollify citizens outraged by abuses by security forces and quell growing international anger over attacks.
South Sudan was plunged into a sporadic civil war in 2013 when Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his deputy, an ethnic Nuer. Rights groups and UNRead more
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has fired the commander of the UN peacekeeping force in South Sudan after an independent investigation sharply criticized the military response to deadly attacks in July on a UN compound housing 27,000 displaced people and living quarters for UN staff and others.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric on Tuesday announced the dismissal of Kenyan Lt. Gen. Johnson MogoaRead more