In 1956, Canada invented the UN’s first peacekeeping force. After the Israeli, British and French militaries descended on Egypt during the Suez Crisis, the United Nations faced a conundrum: it could ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marguerite Picard holds a picture of her brother Paul, who was killed in a plane crash while serving with the UN peacekeeping ...

OTTAWA, ON, Aug. 9, 2026 /CNW/ -- Today, the Honourable Jill McKnight, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, the Honourable David McGuinty, Minister of National ...

Soaring over the Niger river before entering the savannah in northern Mali, a Canadian twin-engined military helicopter is making one of its first forays into the country. Two artillerymen are ...

Canadian veteran Ronald Reginald Griffis salutes during a commemoration for the 60th anniversary of Canada's contribution to the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus at Wolseley Barracks inside a ...

OTTAWA, ON, Aug. 7, 2026 /CNW/ -- Anita Vandenbeld, Member of Parliament for Ottawa West—Nepean, will participate in a commemorative event at the National Peacekeeping Monument to mark National ...

Gaza is suffering “man-made mass starvation” caused by the blockade of aid into the territory, the head of the World-Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has said, as more than 100 ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A land mine hidden in a sandy track in the Afghan capital exploded Thursday, killing two Canadian peacekeepers and wounding three others. The blast came 24 hours after engineers ...

Canadian peacekeepers backed by helicopters will join UN Blue Helmets in the troubled west African nation of Mali before autumn, a government source said on Friday. Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan is ...

NICOSIA, Cyprus — It was the first time that Canadian U.N. peacekeeper Michelle Angela Hamelin said she came up against the raw emotion of a people so exasperated with their country’s predicament.