400 migrants try to scale the Ceuta border fence, with most of them repelled. It is the first such incident in seven months. 2018-06-6
Russia calls for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council as it considers supplying S-300 missile systems to Syria. 2018-04-14
A rocket hits and injures several people at the Damascus International Fair. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says five people have died. 2017-08-20
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu accuses Russia of acting as a "terrorist organization" in Syria, saying "If Russia continues behaving like a terrorist organization and forcing civilians to flee, we will deliver an extremely decisive response". 2016-02-15
According to an opinion poll, a majority of British citizens now want the United Kingdom to leave the European Union as voter anxiety rises over the bloc's handling of a crisis provoked by an influx of migrants into Europe. A referendum on the United Kingdom's EU membership is scheduled to take place before the end of 2017. 2015-11-24
Thousands of Iranian troops arrive in Syria to reportedly start a new offensive in the battle of Aleppo. 2015-10-14
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant forces claim to have killed at least fifty members of the Syrian Army, summarily killing many of them. 2014-07-25
Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, calls on other sectarian forces in the Arab world to withdraw from Syria, saying that if they did so, Hezbollah would also "not remain in Syria either." 2014-02-16