PEACEKEEPING: ‘The world’s most dangerous U.N. mission’, Washington Post, 17 February 2017

UN peacekeepers have been dispatched to 69 conflicts-civil wars, border disputes and failed states. But now they are confronting an unsettling new threat: al-Qaeda. In the past four years, 118 peacekeepers have been killed-making the U.N. mission in Mali, known as MINUSMA, the world body's deadliest ongoing peace operation. The bloodshed has raised questions about how an institution developed in the 1940s can serve a world under threat from the Islamic State and al-Qaeda. The issue is especially potent given the expectation that U.N. peacekeepers will eventually go to places such as Syria and Libya. 'The world's most dangerous U.N. mission', Washington Post, 17 February 2017