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The United Nations formally rejects the United States's request to reimpose its sanctions against Iran via the "snapback" provision of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA), citing the Security Council's opposition due to the country's withdrawal from the JCPoA in 2018.
2020-08-25

The United Nations Security Council unanimously votes to lift sanctions on Eritrea.
2018-11-14

Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kuwait, Peru and Poland are elected to the United Nations Security Council for a two-year term beginning on January 1, 2018.
2017-06-2

Iraq's government gives Turkey 48 hours to withdraw its forces from northern Iraq or face "all available options", including recourse to the UN Security Council.
2015-12-6

The United Nations Security Council ends its observer mission in Syria.
2012-08-16

Russia and China veto a United Nations Security Council resolution threatening sanctions against Syria. 11 nations vote in favour while Pakistan and South Africa abstain.
2012-07-19

Fahd Jassem al-Freij is appointed as Minister of Defense by President Bashar al-Assad.
2012-07-18

Syrian media report that Minister of Defense Dawoud Rajiha is killed along with deputy vice president General Hasan Turkmani, interior minister Mohammad Ibrahim al-Shaar and Assef Shawkat, Bashar al-Assad's brother-in-law and deputy defense minister. Several other senior officials are also seriously injured, including the country's intelligence chief Hisham Bekhtyar.
2012-07-18

In the past seven days, 916 Syrians have been killed, making it the deadliest week since the uprising began, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
2012-06-27

Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian United Nations observer, announces that the United Nations Security Council is to vote tomorrow on a resolution critical of Israeli settlement building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
2011-02-17