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The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Arabic: قوة الأمم المتحدة المؤقتة في لبنان, Hebrew: כוח האו"ם הזמני בלבנון), or UNIFIL (Arabic: يونيفيل, Hebrew: יוניפי״ל), is a United Nations peacekeeping mission established on 19 March 1978 by United Nations Security Council ...
Current Missions Past Missions UN refugee camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. IDP camp in Sudan resulting from the Darfur conflict.. This is a list of United Nations peacekeeping missions since the United Nations was founded in 1945, organized by region, with the dates of deployment, the name of the related conflict, and the name of the UN operation.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations Security Council voted on Thursday to extend a long-running peacekeeping mission in Lebanon for another year after a compromise was reached between ...
UNIFIL – the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon – has called the violations “shocking.” ... The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was established by the UN Security Council ...
The United Nations expanded UNIFIL’s original mission following the monthlong 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, allowing peacekeepers to deploy along the Israeli border to monitor the cessation of hostilities between the two sides and patrol a buffer zone set up along the border.
ROME/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The 16 EU countries contributing to the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon believe its rules of engagement need to be more effective, the Italian defence ministry said ...
The United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon said new explosions hit its headquarters Friday, injuring two peacekeepers a day after Israeli forces targeted the same position and struck central Beirut. Earlier Friday, cross-border fire from Lebanon killed a man from Thailand who was working on a farm in north Israel.
UN mission in Lebanon says 2 peacekeepers injured after its base was hit by new explosions By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon says new explosions hit its headquarters on Friday morning, injuring two peacekeepers, a day after Israeli forces struck the same position.