A French UN peacekeeper has been killed in Lebanon, highlighting rising risks for UNIFIL. The UN mission has been in the country for nearly 50 years — DW looks at its mandate, role and growing ...

It is a grim irony to consider that the International Day of Peace in 2024 (September 21) is overshadowed by the very real risk of serious escalation across the Israeli-Lebanon border. The trade of ...

An illustration showing Hezbollah’s rocket path and the UNIFIL position in southern Lebanon. (Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson’s Office) The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) stated ...

JNS.org – The U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has one job: to ensure that no armed groups, including Hezbollah terrorists, operate in a restricted area of Southern Lebanon. Not only did UNIFIL ...

Israel and the UNIFIL peacekeepers in Lebanon have a troubled history, with Israeli drones regularly attacking the peacekeepers in violation of the UN Resolution 1701. Earlier this month, they injured ...

BEIRUT — Clashes erupted in Lebanon on Thursday between members of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and residents of a southern town, marking the latest in a series of similar ...

EBEL EL SAQI, Lebanon — The peacekeepers passed scorched fields and bombed houses and hollowed-out towns, the landscape of southern Lebanon’s stop-and-start war. On the road, in white armored vehicles ...

Established to maintain peace in southern Lebanon, the UNIFIL forces have been increasingly caught in the middle of the Israeli-Hezbollah war. By Eve Sampson A U.N. peacekeeping mission operating ...

Israeli forces have fired at three U.N. positions in the south of Lebanon, the United Nations said Thursday, escalating a nearly week-long standoff with peacekeepers. BEIRUT — Israeli forces have ...