The restoration of the historic city’s iconic Al-Nouri Mosque and Al-Hadba Minaret was just one of many programs run by the U ...

The country previously left the agency for two brief stints—once from 1984 to 2003 and again from 2017 to 2023. The newly ...

The decision comes two years after the Biden administration rejoined following a controversial, five-year absence that began ...

The Trump administration plans to pull out of the U.N. cultural agency, putting UNESCO back at the center of geopolitical ...

The Trump administration in 2017 announced that the U.S. would withdraw from UNESCO, citing anti-Israel bias. That decision ...

The US says the UN's culture and education body is promoting "divisive social and cultural causes" - a claim the agency ...

President Donald Trump has decided to pull the United States out of the "woke" and "divisive" U.N. culture and education ...

UNESCO runs the influential World Heritage Sites program. There are 26 UNESCO World Heritage sites in the United States ...

The US on Tuesday withdrew from UNESCO – the UN’s culture and education agency – due to its "globalist, ideological agenda" ...

The Trump administration plans the departure for the end of 2026 and criticizes the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Several places in Los Angeles and further north in California are on UNESCO's World Heritage List. Here's what that means.