2018 DR Congo general election The Congolese election commission delays announcing the results of the recent election, claiming that only half the ballots have been counted.
2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I signs the independence decree ('tomos') officially separating the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the Russian Orthodox Church as autocephalous Church.
Syrian civil war The Syrian Network for Human Rights reports that at least 223 documented massacres were perpetrated in 2018 by the parties to the conflict in Syria.