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Speaking of the UN military engagements in the Middle East further elaborates how the world peace is at stake amid the increasing peacekeeping efforts. Middle East, which is home of the contemporary world crisis, is under military observation of the UN. The military role of the body in this region can be currently seen in Syria. UN has special rapporteur on Syria situation. But it seems that the regional powers like Russia, Iran and Turkey are more powerful there than the UN itself. This keeps the military engagement of the UN in Middle East undermined thus hampering the global peace. Similarly, UN Military Observer Group in Lebanon shows its weakness to end the hostility of Lebanese groups with Israel and its regional supporters. This situation prevents the world from attaining ultimate peace thus making the UN military engagements ineffective.

As far as the military engagements of the UN in South Asia are concerned, they also represent a bleak picture. The traditional boundary disputes between Pakistan and Afghanistan are unsettled. UN appointed its military observer group over the issue but still Afghanistan does not recognize the Durand Line with Pakistan. Similarly, the border rift between India and Pakistan was also brought into consideration of the UN Military Observer Group. But even in this case, the body remains a failure to settle the problem. War loom in South Asia owing to these disputed borders thus leading the whole world towards chaos rather than peace.

In brief, UN military engagements in the form of Peacekeeping Missions and Military Observer Groups in Africa, South Asia and Middle East have marked little success in leading the world towards peace. In fact, the failure of UN military engagements has undermined the global peace and security by giving the states more leverage to settle their own issues through non-pacific and combative means which has resulted in more was and more conflict across the borders and within the countries.