Rights group says UN must keep peacekeepers in Lebanon

Human Rights Watch urged the UN to extend the peacekeeping force's mandate until the security situation improves enough to consider reducing the force.

Human Rights Watch says UN must keep peacekeepers in Lebanon Human Rights Watch has called on the United Nations to keep an international force in Lebanon after its peacekeepers' mandate ends this year. The peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, Unifil, has roughly 7,500 personnel from nearly 50 countries and ha