Azerbaijan has no plans to send peacekeepers to Gaza unless hostilities between Israel and Hamas come to a complete halt, a government source told Reuters on Friday, News.Az reports.

A senior UN official announced on Wednesday that the United Nations will begin reducing its peacekeeping force and operations, requiring thousands of soldiers to evacuate from various global hotspots over the coming months.

The United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved a final extension of the long-standing peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, continuing it through the end of 2026.

UN peacekeepers claimed that they were attacked in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, with Prime Minister Nawaf Salam saying such incidents “endanger the security and stability” of the region.

The United States has recently withdrawn a group of peacekeepers from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), sources informed Radio Tamazuj.

China held informal talks in Brussels about joining the "Coalition of the Willing," which is forming a peacekeeping contingent to be sent to Ukraine, according to Die Welt. The report, citing diplomatic sources, was announced in the Sunday supplement of Welt am Sonntag.

The Taoiseach has stated that while Ireland is open to being part of a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine, it will not participate in any troop deployment intended as a military deterrent.

"We must be seeking to ensure that everything we do we do it together with the United States," German Chancellor said

The situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's east remains "deeply worrying," a UN official said, confirming nine UN peacekeepers were injured during the clashes.