A group of men blocked a UNIFIL patrol in southern Lebanon, citing the absence of a Lebanese army escort, leading to brief ...

Catherine Callaghan's plea comes amid concern that the UN peacekeeping operation in southern Lebanon may not have its mandate ...

UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti said in a statement that several individuals in civilian clothing confronted peacekeepers ...

A patrol from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Thursday attempted to enter the southern town of Aytit, but was met with resistance from a group of local youths, the state-run ...

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has told EU ambassadors that the "safety of UNIFIL personnel is essential to Lebanon" after ...

It's time to shift funding from UNIFIL to the Lebanese Armed Forces and allow it to better secure southern Lebanon from Hezbollah.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was established by the UN Security Council following Israel’s first invasion into southern Lebanon in 1978.

UNIFIL issued a statement on Sunday, announcing, "Early this morning, peacekeepers at a U.N. position in Ramyah observed three platoons of IDF soldiers crossing the Blue Line into Lebanon.

Unifil was created by the UN Security Council in March 1978 to confirm Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, which it had invaded five days earlier, to restore international peace and security, ...

UNIFIL has about 10,000 peacekeepers, with 47 countries participating. The United States is not part of the mission. “Since 2006, the situation had been quite stable,” said Tenenti.

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 ...