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Some say they brought a measure of stability. But they also brought cholera — and have been accused of sexual abuse.

The U.N. Security Council unanimously passes a resolution demanding that Iraq disarm and ordering new weapons inspections. President Bush welcomes the development. Iraq is silent. NPR News reports.

The temporary units for people waiting to enter the U.S. are meant to bolster a shortfall in shelter caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

With the U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon already appearing weak, a growing rift between U.S. and Israeli war priorities is causing new tensions between the country's leadership.

Nikki Haley, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., resigns. NPR Diplomatic Correspondent Michele Kelemen talks about Haley's work there and what this might mean for President Trump's international policy.

Kim Yo Jong, who is said to have recently assumed a key leadership role, has reportedly married the son of the secretary of the ruling party.

The Vatican has faced two days of grilling before the U.N. Committee on Torture investigating the Catholic Church's handling of cases of sexual abuse by priests.

This month, investigators learned that some peacekeepers were paying girls less than $1 for sex in the Central Africa Republic. It's part of a pattern of abuse. Can the U.N. stop it?

Amid intense fighting between Hezbollah and Israel, diplomatic efforts to end the conflict are in full force this weekend. The United States and France put forward a proposed U.N. Security Council resolution calling for an end to the fighting and for U.N. peacekeepers to patrol the Israeli-Lebanese border.

After a four-year absence, U.N. weapons inspectors return to Iraq to search for chemical, biological and nuclear arms programs. Hear NPR's Michele Kelemen and Khidir Hamza, a nuclear physicist and Iraqi defector.