The aim of this study was to explore the practices and challenges of teaching listening in the!rnpeacekeeping English project under the Ministry of National defense. The purpose was tornexplore the approach adopted in teaching listening and what problems were encountered byrnthe teachers while teaching it. To this end, English language teachers and students werernselected using purposive sampling technique. To identifY what listening practices did thernteachers use and what teaching materialslsupport~ did they use to teach listening, thernresearcher used a Â·questionnaire. A questionnaire was also administered to the students torngather data about their teachers ' teaching practices. Observation was one of the mainrninstruments to collect data about practices of teaching listening. For the sake of crosscheckingrnif there is a match or not between what the teachers have mentioned in thern. questionnaire and what they actually did in the classroom and for detailed information; anrnobservation was used Finally, in order to complement the data ji-om the questionnaire, andrnto get in-depth information about the problems related to teaching listening, a semistructuredrntype of interview was used. A mixed research approach was employed in the studyrnin order to collect and analyse the data. The data through the interview was analysedrnqualitatively whereas the data through questionnaire and observation were analysedrnquantitatively. Results of the study showed that the teachers' practices of teaching listeningrnwere as most literatures suggest it should be. They were seen applying the three stages withrndifferent activities. The teachers pointed out that they face difficulty only from the side of thernstudents as their students did not have enough exposure to listening skills. Finally, possiblernrecommendations were drawn.