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The Nuclear Arms Race Is Accelerating — and the U.N. Looks Increasingly Powerless

OPINION – Last week, the 11th Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, currently in session at the [...] More

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Eighty Years On, Can the UN Meet Its Mission?

The 80th ordinary session of the United Nations ended on September 8, 2026. During this year, the UN will have an opportunity to help resolve a few [...] More

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (R) speaks during a press conference after arriving at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, Iran on September 27, 2025

Defiance Meets Desperation as Iran Faces Fresh UN Sanctions

EXPERT INTERVIEW – The United Nations has reimposed sweeping economic and military sanctions on Iran, ten years after lifting them under the 2015 [...] More

The United Nations Must Do More to Bring Peace to the World

According to the Geneva Academy of Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, as of May 2024, there were more than 120 ongoing armed conflicts in the world, [...] More

The UN Cybercrime Convention is Digital Solidarity's First Real Test

OPINION — Earlier this year, the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of [...] More

After Saying "Never Again," Will the World Respond to Genocide in Darfur?

After Saying "Never Again," Will the World Respond to Genocide in Darfur?

SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING - Afraid to show his face and wedged into an overstuffed refugee camp on Sudan’s border with Chad, a middle-aged man [...] More

Where Are We 70 Years After the ROK-US Treaty?

OPINION — This is the 70th anniversary of the Mutual Defense Treaty between the U.S. and the Republic of Korea (ROK), signed October 1, 1953. It’s [...] More

UN Peacekeepers on the way out as Terrorists gain ground in Mali

UN Peacekeepers on the way out as Terrorists gain ground in Mali

CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — As the Mali government grapples with political turmoil, a splinter faction of the militant group ISIS, known as ISIS-GS or [...] More

Soviet Espionage Under the Cover of Diplomacy

Soviet Espionage Under the Cover of Diplomacy

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — Immediately after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last month, the US government expelled 13 Russian diplomats working at the United [...] More

Climate Change, Iran, Dominate Headlines at 2019 UN General Assembly

Bottom Line Up FrontAt the 2019 United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), which kicked off this week, topics including Iran’s attack on Saudi Arabia [...] More

Last Stand in Idlib?

Bottom Line Up FrontThe Syrian government and its Russian and Iranian allies are making moves to retake Idlib from the last remaining pocket of rebel [...] More

Libya Devolves Further Into Anarchy

Bottom Line Up FrontA serious military escalation is underway in Libya as General Khalifa Haftar and his forces move to take Tripoli.The battle is [...] More

A Tenuous Peace Deal in the Central African Republic

Bottom Line UpfrontEarlier this month, fourteen armed groups from Central African Republic agreed to a peace agreement following talks in Khartoum, [...] More