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A fire and subsequent explosion at a gas station in Rome, Italy, leaves 45 people injured, including two critically.
2025-07-4

The Iranian government releases Italian journalist Cecilia Sala from prison, with Sala arriving back in Rome later that day.
2025-01-8

United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Otto Pedersen calls for an "orderly political transition" from the collapsing Syrian government to the Syrian opposition in order to end the conflict.
2024-12-7

Two people are killed and 25 more are injured in a collision between a bus and a truck on a highway in Rome, Italy.
2023-09-14

Members of the Last Generation activist group pour charcoal into the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy, turning the water black.
2023-05-21

Italian intellectuals Corrado Augias and Giovanna Melandri hand back their medals of the Legion of Honour, France's highest order of merit, to France. They protest the news that President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion at the same time that prosecutors in Rome indicted four top security officials of the Sisi regime over the 2016 abduction and torture to death of Giulio Regeni, an Italian doctoral student, in Cairo.
2020-12-14

Residents in Idlib, the last Syrian opposition-held territory, demonstrate against President Bashar Assad's government.
2018-09-14

Violent clashes break out between the Syrian rebels and Syrian Democratic Forces on the outskirts of al-Muhsenli Village, in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo, but no casualties are reported.
2017-07-21

The United States warns travelers in Italy that St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the La Scala opera house in Milan, and the Milan Cathedral, as well as "general venues" like churches, synagogues, restaurants, theaters and hotels, have been identified as "potential targets" for terrorist attacks. The message added the Italian authorities are aware of these threats.
2015-11-18

At the International Institute for Strategic Studies Manama Dialogue security conference in Bahrain, Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces the United States will contribute $100 million (£64.7 million) in fresh aid to support the Syrian opposition.
2015-10-31