NEW YORK CITY: The head of UN peacekeeping used his final International Day of UN Peacekeepers address to issue an urgent call for the violence in Lebanon to end, as the organization mourned the death of yet another soldier killed while serving with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the under-secretary-general for peace operations, said that Sgt. Nilovan Ivanovic of Serbia died from critical injuries sustained when mortar shells struck his position in Lebanon. He would have celebrated his 37th birthday the following day.

June 2 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has written to U.N. Security Council members stressing the need for a continued uniformed U.N. presence in Lebanon after…

A Serbian peacekeeper serving in Lebanon died early Thursday after mortar fire on his position near Marjayoun in the country’s southeast, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)…