blue-helmet

plural blue-helmets · alternative Blue Helmet · alternative blue helmet

1. UNSynonym of blue beret.

   “The rhetoric is very high, but the reality is different,” says Andrea Tenenti, the spokesperson for UNIFIL, which has more than 10,000 blue-helmet troops from nearly 50 nations stationed in a border region south of the Litani River.

   2024 May 28, Scott Peterson, “To avoid war, Israel and Hezbollah shift their red lines. But war heats up.”, in The Christian Science Monitor

   Synonyms: blue beret