Described as "sometimes modest, sometimes historic," UN special political missions have quietly been preventing the escalation of conflicts during the organization's 80-year history, becoming a key ...

In 2010, there was a huge U.S. aid effort after a quake in Haiti. Today, U.S. officials say they oversee billions in ...

Pakistan has quietly begun mediating between Libya's rival eastern and western power centres, two Pakistani sources said, in a previously unreported Pakistani effort that ​would further raise its ...