United Nations Development Programme

March 27, 2026 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Israel continues operations against Hamas in Gaza, diplomats push for disarmament as shaky ceasefire continues

A ceasefire in Gaza has largely held throughout March 2026 as Israel focuses on renewed conflicts in Iran and Lebanon. However, low-level clashes, other violations of the agreement, and Israeli operations...

December 3, 2025 | Enia Krivine |

UNRWA in Gaza Has Been Replaced; It’s Time to Shutter the Agency

The UN Relief and Works Agency — or UNRWA — in Gaza has been replaced by over a dozen other aid organizations. UNRWA’s decades-long monopoly on aid and services has finally been broken, presenting...

October 1, 2025 | Bridget Toomey |

8 UN Failures in Yemen

The United Nations has been active in Yemen for a decade, yet the country remains one of the poorest places on Earth. The country is at war with itself and home to the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who kidnap...

August 27, 2025 | Clifford D. May |

The U.N.’s long war against Israel

For half a century, the most globalist of institutions has demonized the Jewish state

April 5, 2024 | Alan Goldsmith |

The Urgent Need for UN Reform

The UN’s response to October 7 makes reform more urgent than ever. UN reform used to be a bipartisan priority — it must now be again.

June 2, 2023 | Natalie Ecanow |

Meet the U.S.-Funded Force Behind Lebanon’s Refugee Crackdown

The Biden administration’s Lebanon policy ends up propping up the very order it claims to oppose.

April 20, 2023 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Can COP28 Expand Israeli Water for Arab Peace?

Iraq needs water. Israel has mastered desalination and other water-saving methods. Cooperation in this regard could achieve great things.

July 26, 2022 | David Kilcullen |

Missing the Mark

Reassessing U.S. Military Aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces

January 22, 2021 | Behnam Ben Taleblu, Varsha Koduvayur

Challenges and Opportunities Ahead for U.S. Sanctions in Yemen

Antony Blinken, President Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of state, has vowed to evaluate the recent designation of Yemen’s Houthi rebels as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). Pushed through...

September 13, 2019 | Nour Aburish, Annie Fixler, Michael Hsieh

The Role of Cyber Insurance in Securing the Private Sector

August 24, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

How Hamas Allegedly Embezzles Millions in Christian Charity

The arrests of the head of a U.S. charity operating in the Gaza Strip—and of an UN engineer—put the international spotlight on terrorism finance in the nonprofit world. The&n...

November 4, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

An Unhappy United Nations Birthday

Did it escape your attention that last month was the 70th birthday of the United Nations? Did you miss the opportunity to celebrate by following Elyx on an “exciting 70-day (virtual) trip a...

June 24, 2015 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Admitting Syrian Refugees: The Intelligence Void and the Escalating Homeland Security Threat

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October 12, 2012 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report |

Digging Deeper Into the UN’s WIPO Tech for Tyrants Scandal

Congressional investigators of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs are pressing ahead with their inquiry into one of the flashier United Nations scandals of recent times — call it Tech f...

June 30, 2011 | The Rosett Report |

Beyond Parody: North Korea Presiding at UN Disarmament Conference

Even for the United Nations, this is over the top. It’s stock stuff at the UN that the worst offenders periodically plonk themselves down in one or another of the presiding seats and bask i...

June 15, 2011 | World Defense Review

U.S. Engagement of Africa in the National Interest

Earlier this year, citing an array of new initiatives including the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), and the President's Emergency Plan for...

June 15, 2011 | |

Closet Case

The U.N.'s Worldwide Inventory Problem

June 14, 2011 | Claudia Rosett The Journal of International Security Affairs |

Bad Faith Actor

In the pantheon of United Nations causes, Africa by many measures occupies a preeminent role. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has described “the African challenge” as “the highest...

June 13, 2011 | The Spectator |

Nice Work: The Taxpayer is Being Stung So This Lord Can Live in Admiralty House

Co-Authored by James Forsyth Mark Malloch-Brown, the minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, was the most prestigious recruit to Gordon Brown’s ministry of all the talents....

June 13, 2011 | Journal of International Security Affairs

Securing Africa

 On February 6, 2007, President George W. Bush launched a major evolution in American military posture when he formally announced that he had directed the Pentagon to establish a new unified...