United Nations

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  • Saddam won't die

    Ten years after the Gulf War, the Iraqi leader is stronger than ever.
    By Vivienne Walt January 18, 2001

  • Radioactive fallout

    Did exposure to American depleted-uranium-tipped weapons cause the cancer deaths of some European peacekeepers who served in the Balkans?
    By Laura Rozen January 12, 2001

  • Cambodian justice

    Twenty-five years after Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge launched its genocide campaign, could a war-crimes trial finally be a reality?
    By Vivienne Walt December 18, 2000

  • Kosovo crackdown

    U.N. vice squad officers are sent home for "inappropriate behavior" with prostitutes.
    By Jack Boulware December 13, 2000

  • Propping up the walls

    As international support for Kosovar independence wanes, hatred still seethes between Albanians and Serbs. And the U.N. oversees their division.
    By Richard Blow October 23, 2000

  • The U.N.'s millennium bash

    President Clinton shakes Fidel Castro's hand and sits in on a speech by Iran's president at the organization's P.R. bonanza.
    By Ian Williams September 8, 2000

  • Bread instead of soldiers

    On the front lines of war, humanitarian-aid workers do the work of diplomats -- but some say they should stay away from politics.
    By Laura Rozen August 7, 2000

  • Immune from prosecution

    U.S. diplomats are wrecking the chance to bring future Saddam Husseins to justice -- all for the sake of domestic politics.
    By Ian Williams June 16, 2000

  • Congo needs help, not Western posturing

    A feud between Richard Holbrooke and Madeleine Albright shadows what will likely be useless U.N. aid to war-torn Central Africa.
    By David Rieff May 8, 2000

  • Germany OKs drug-injection rooms

    Heroin users can shoot up off the streets, unless the U.N. has its way.
    By J.A. Getzlaff March 13, 2000

  • A new era for Iraq?

    Saddam Hussein must decide whether to accept the U.N.'s latest arms-inspection deal, which could end sanctions against his country.
    By Ian Williams December 21, 1999

  • Kosovo culture clash

    War criminals in the former Yugoslavia are getting a free ride from French and American peacekeepers.
    By Laura Rozen December 21, 1999

  • Arianna Huffington is dead wrong

    In her unbelievable defense of the Serbs, the syndicated columnist condones the massacre of innocent civilians by the Serbs.
    By Ian Williams December 17, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Readers debate: Is Oprah good for books? Plus: Stop dissing "chick flicks"; why did A.M. Rosenthal save his scorn for black hatemongers?
    Letters to the Editor November 19, 1999

  • A confederacy of dunces

    The GOP-led Congress has pushed the United States to the brink of losing its vote in the United Nations.
    By Ian Williams November 12, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    It's time for action in East Timor; misunderstanding "Stigmata"; cybercommunism and "free" software.
    Letters to the Editor September 17, 1999

  • Another U.N. disaster

    United Nations ineptitude has paved the way for the current East Timor crisis.
    By Ian Williams September 11, 1999

  • Chaos in Kosovo

    Kosovar gangs pick up where the Serbs left off.
    By Laura Rozen August 3, 1999

  • "Unvanquished: A U.S.-U.N. Saga"

    Time hasn't healed the former secretary-general's wounds or lessened his bitterness.
    By Douglas McGray July 9, 1999

  • Follow the leader

    As Kosovo recovers from Serbian-inflicted devastation, rival political factions jockey for position.
    By Laura Rozen July 2, 1999

  • Waging diplomatic war

    NATO is dictating a peace deal at the U.N. that will virtually guarantee Kosovo's future independence.
    By Ian Williams June 9, 1999

  • Milosevic plays the U.N. card

    The Serbian president appears to wave the white flag, and the blue United Nations banner is set to fly again in former Yugoslavia.
    By Ian Williams June 3, 1999

  • NATO in denial

    The conflict in Yugoslavia is a war that NATO cannot win, and should not be fighting.
    By Tom Hayden May 27, 1999

  • Report details rape of Kosovo women

    By Associated Press May 26, 1999

  • A good war?

    Human rights groups battle over whether NATO's Kosovo mission can be defended on humanitarian grounds.
    By Tamara Straus May 19, 1999
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