The peacekeepers, including soldiers, doctors and support services personnel, have helped to enhance security in the conflict zones of Africa and other places around the world.
Terrorist attacks against the UN peacekeepers in Mali, which left one Chinese blue helmet died, have outraged UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and led to strong condemnation from China.
The UN Security Council will be working on recommendations on capacity building for the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali as well as increasing its troop levels, French Ambassador to the UN Francois Delattre said here on Wednesday.
Nine New Zealand military personnel have joined a U.S. Navy hospital ship as part of the largest multilateral humanitarian mission to the Southeast Asia-Pacific region, the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) announced Thursday.
An attack helicopter of the Russian Aerospace Force crashed early Tuesday in Syria, killing two military pilots, Russian media reported.
A joint New Zealand-Australian mission to train Iraqi troops in the fight against Islamic State insurgents has been a success over its first nine months, Defense Minister Gerry Brownlee said Thursday.
U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly, who recently completed a year-long mission on the International Space Station, will retire from NASA effective April 1, the U.S. space agency said Friday.
A suicide car bomb that rocked U.S. military base in Bagram airbase, 50 km north of Kabul, inflicted casualties on Monday, an official with the U.S. Forces public relation office said.
A demining mission along the China-Vietnam border has been approved by the State Council and the Central Military Commission.
A Chinese navy flotilla that has been escorting commercial vessels in pirate-plagued Somali waters returned home on Friday, after its mission completed.
More than 10 months after Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 disappeared with 239 people on board, the agency in charge of the search mission has given an indication of how search crews are remaining motivated throughout the grueling process.
President Barack Obama acknowledged on Sunday that Afghanistan is still a "dangerous place" as U.S.-led coalition forces formally ended their 13-year- long combat mission in the Asian country.
Probe Philae made a historical landing on a comet on Wednesday, but its conditions remained unclear. Scientists said the probe might had bounced while touching down.
A police patrol of the UN mission in Central African Republic (CAR) was ambushed by anti- Balaka elements, injuring four peacekeepers, a UN spokesperson said here on Wednesday.
Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott has ruled out introducing new taxes to pay for the fight against the Islamic State, even though the cost of the operations is likely to be as much as 40 million U.S. dollars per month.
India on Wednesday became the first nation to have successfully reached Mars on its maiden attempt, a historic feat for the country's indigenous space program.
India is all set for the crucial fourth trajectory correction manoeuvre and test fire of the main liquid engine on the spacecraft Monday, to let the Martian orbit enter into sphere of influence of Mars, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Sunday.
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