April 2016: 26 April 2016: Security Council asks UN's Secretary-General to submit a broad plan within 30 days detailing how his Yemen envoy can help the warring Yemeni parties move towards peace - 29 April: Ukraine's Vadym Prystaiko said at a meeting of the UN Security Council that the Russian Federation had concentrated a 34,000-strong hybrid military force in the occupied part of Donbas

May 2016: 4 May 2016: UN Security Council condemnation of North Korea's latest missile tests has been delayed by Russian regime - 5 May: An an emergency meeting of the Security Council UN's Feltman calls for referring Syrian Assad regime to ICC, charging the regime with war crimes - 7 May 2016: Russia blocks UN statement on Syria airstrikes - 13 May 2016: UN Security Council expressed its outrage at recent attacks in Syria targeting civilians and medical facilities, stressing these actions may amount to war crimes, as the SNHR said that it had documented 23 massacres by regime and Russian forces, hundreds of barrel bomb attacks, that claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians, and the death of 26 detainees killed under torture in April - 14 May 2016: Assad regime and Russian forces stepped up airstrikes on rural Idlib, concentrated on populated areas and vital civilian facilities on Friday, killing 20 civilians and injuring at least 35 - 18 May 2016: The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office accuses the Assad regime of directly violating UN Security Council Resolution 2268 by seizing medical aid bound to civilians trapped in the besieged areas and preventing the evacuation of those in urgent need for treatment - 29 May: The number of Syrians living under siege has grown by some 75,000 to total 592,700, underscoring the worsening plight of civilians in the five-year war, the UN aid chief Stephen O’Brien tells the Security Council, saying that the use of siege and starvation as a weapon of war was 'reprehensible' and 'must stop immediately'

June 2016: 1 June 2016: Hospitals are now normal targets of war, Médecins Sans Frontières' Michiel Hofman says, describing permanent members of the UN security council as complicit in killings, after Russia blamed for new strikes which targeted two hospitals and other parts of Idlib city, killing scores - 2 juin 2016: Le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU a condamné les trois récents tirs manqués de missiles balistiques effectués par la Corée du Nord - 14 June: Saudi Arabia-backed Syrian High Negotiations Committee's Agha slams Russia's attempts to postpone political transition, saying that the UN Security Council resolution 2254 has been ignored by Russia and rejected by the Assad regime - 21 June 2016: After Russian jets on Monday bombed the towns of Huraytan, Hayyan, Anadan, Kafar Hamra, Maaret Alartiq, Urm Alqubra, Messibin, Babees and Anjara in rural Aleppo, reportedly using cluster munitions and killing at least 21 civilians and injuring dozens more, Syrian Coalition calls for UN action to stop Russia’s use of banned weapons in Syria - 24 June 2016: 12 civilians were killed and dozens more injured in Aleppo in airstrikes by Russian jets, using internationally banned weapons, most notably incendiary and cluster munitions - 24 June 2016: Saudi Arabia-backed HNC urges UN to protect Syrian civilians from Russian incendiary bombs, as UN's Stephen O’Brien says that the use of barrel bombs in the Syrian conflict 'constitutes indiscriminate attacks' against civilians, adding that their sole purpose is 'to terrorize and punish the civilian population'

July 2016: 11 juillet 2016: 'Le Conseil de sécurité s'est reposé sur la bonne volonté des dirigeants du Soudan du Sud' et 'a brandi des menaces vides d'embargo sur les armes et de sanctions individuelles' et a ainsi échoué à empêcher les violences dans la crise au Soudan du Sud, selon Human Rights Watch - 11 juillet 2016: Le Conseil de sécurité a sollicité dimanche l'aide des pays de la région pour mettre fin aux combats au Soudan du Sud et leur a demandé en particulier de fournir des Casques bleus supplémentaires à sa mission dans le pays - 16 July 2016: Syrian Coalition calls for emergency UNSC meeting to address Assad’s military escalation and the dangerous deteriorating situation on the ground in Syria in particular in Aleppo and Daraya

August 2016: 2 August 2016: One year after the UN security council adopted a resolution that set a 12 month-deadline to identify the perpetrators of chlorine attacks in Syria, dozens injured in a chemical attack using a gas cylinder laced with chlorine and targeting the town of Saraqeb in Idlib province, which is under opposition control, and near where a Russian helicopter was shot down on Monday - 2 August 2016: Syrian Coalition demands UN action under chapter VII following Assad regime chlorine attacks on Saraqib in Idlib province - 4 August 2016: Daraya local council calls on the United Nations to immediately enforce provisions set out in international resolutions pertaining to the situation in besieged areas, as Assad helicopters drop Napalm-filled barrels on Daraya and the humanitarian situation deteriorates - 8 August 2016: As Syria’s Assad regime and Russian regime are carrying out daily airstrikes, MSF's Silvia Dallatomasina demands an immediate end to attacks on hospitals, pointing that four out of five UN security council members were participants in the war in Syria, after hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders in rebel-held northern province of Idlib that specialized in pediatrics hit by series of airstrikes in broad daylight, leaving four staff and five children dead and injuring six other hospital staff members, and after UN said it had recorded 44 attacks on health facilities in Syria in July alone - 9 August 2016: UN Security Council warns Russia's proposed 'Safe Passages' are risky - 10 August 2016: Medical workers in Syrian liberated areas say that Russian and Assad regime air forces targeted around 36 medical facilities within the last 40 days in blatant violation of UN Security Council Resolution 2286 adopted on 3 May 2016, strongly condemning attacks on medical facilities and personnel - 10 August 2016: Alwaer residents appeal to UN as Assad regime tightens siege, violating UN resolutions - 12 August 2016: With 11 votes and four abstentions UN approves increase in peacekeeping force in South Sudan, as an additional 4,000 peacekeepers will be dispatched, making the total deployment 17,000 troops, that will be asked to take more 'proactive' measures to protect civilians - 16 August 2016: Over 100 barrel bombs hit Daraya in rural Damascus, some filled with napalm, as the local council callsd on the United Nations and international organizations to intervene immediately to stop the war crimes - 16 August 2016: Syrian Coalition's Bashar says that the UN has so far failed to enforce own resolutions passed on Syria, only offering flawed proposals - 17 August 2016: Assad regime and Russian terrorist air forces continue to brutally bomb Aleppo, Idlib and Daraya, killing over 400 civilians in the past week, using internationally banned weapons, most notably cluster bombs, vacuum bombs, napalm and barrel bombs - 18 August 2016: The injuring of five-year-old Omran Daqneesh 'is a daily fact of Russian and Syrian government airstrikes' and 'they take turns bombing civilians in Aleppo before the whole world', 'this child is a representative of millions of children in Syria and its cities', Aleppo-based journalist Mustafa al-Sarout says - UN World Humanitarian Day 19 August 2016 - 22 August 2016: 'I'm angry, very angry...this callous carnage that is Syria has long since moved from the cynical, to the sinful', UN's Stephen O'Brien tells the UN Security Council, adding that Aleppo is being bombed every day and has become 'the apex of horror' in 'the greatest crisis of our time', that 'you have the power with a pen - a simple pen stroke - to allow food to people' - 24 August 2016: Reports by independent human rights groups indicate that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons 136 times since the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 2118 on 27 September 2013, as Syrian Coalition calls upon the UN Security Council to re-open the file of the 2013 Ghouta Massacre and refer it to the ICC - 24 August 2016: International inquiry accuses Syrian Assad regime of using chemical weapons, setting the stage for a Security Council decision of the five veto-wielding powers over whether sanctions should be imposed, as the Syrian Coalition repeats its call for referring the chemical weapons dossier in Syria to the International Criminal Court - 26 August 2016: As Syrian Coalition's Nyrabiya urges UNSC to refer chemical attacks case to ICC, warning that blocking this move will encourage the culture of impunity prevalent in Syria and will give a green light to perpetrators to carry out more crimes using internationally banned weapons, USA permanent representative to the United Nations S. Power calls the use of chemicals 'a barbaric tool, repugnant to the conscience of mankind' and urges the UN to take 'strong and swift action' - 30 August: Syrian Coalition's letter to UN Secretary General on Assad regime’s use of the UN as a 'cover' for mass displacement aimed at bringing about a demographic change in Syria - 30/31 August 2016: Russian air force carried out dozens of airstrikes on Idlib city and its countryside, using internationally banned weapons, including napalm and white phosphorus

September 2016: 1 September 2016: Human Rights Watch calls on the UN Security Council to urgently impose sanctions on the Assad regime for chemical weapon attacks in Syria and refer the situation to the International Criminal Court - 3 September: Syrian Coalition sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General concerning the third report of the OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism on the use of chemical weapons in Syria, calling for action against Assad - 6 septembre: L'ONU condamne les tirs nord-coréens - 8 September 2016: As chemical weapons watchdog chief says Aleppo gas attack disturbing, the UN Security Council is due to discuss a report by the UN and the watchdog group OPCW, blaming Assad regime forces for previous toxic gas attacks - 16 September 2016: UN-led international inquiry has identified two Syrian Assad regime air force helicopter squadrons and two other military units it holds responsible for chlorine gas attacks on civilians - 17 September: UN Security Council cancels meeting on Syria - 18 September: USA ambassador to the UN Samantha Power describes Russia’s call for an emergency closed-door security council meeting over an incident, that possibly killed through an error Assad regime military personnel, a 'stunt' that was 'uniquely cynical and hypocritical' as Russia had for years blocked UN punitive measures against the Syrian Assad regime and its perpetrators for the barrel bombing of civilian populations in rebel-held cities - 19 September 2016: At least eight civilians were killed and dozens more injured in Assad regime barrel bombs attacks on the southern Daraa province - 20 September 2016: USA blames Russia after UN aid convoy in Syria targeted by air attack and UN official says 'inexplicable' attack could amount to a war crime if bombing which killed aid workers proved to be deliberate - 20 September 2016: Red Cross president says attack on UN and Red Crescent convoy delivering supplies is unacceptable violation of international law and UN suspends all aid convoy movements in Syria after airstrike - 20 September: The UN said 18 of the trucks were damaged or destroyed and insisted that the damage to them had been caused by airstrikes, as bystanders at the scene of the attacks reported multiple airstrikes, and airstrikes in the area are realized only by Russian and Assad warplanes - 21 September 2016: Russian planes dropped bombs that destroyed UN aid convoy and killed at least 20 people in opposition-controlled Urem al-Kubra in Syria, according to USA officials also saying two Russian Sukhoi SU-24 warplanes were in the sky above the aid convoy at the precise time it was struck - 21 September: Speaking at UN Security Council meeting on Syria, USA secretary of state John Kerry accuses the Syrian Assad regime of dropping barrel bombs on children and bombing hospitals, adding that the council members know that these are flagrant violations of international law - 24 September: Syrian Coalition condemns the barbaric onslaught launched by the Assad regime and Russian forces on Aleppo, slamming the inaction of the international community and its failure to stop heinous crimes in Syria, despite promises and condemnations repeated again, again and again - 25 September 2016: UN security council to meet on Syria amid intense bombardment, appearing to include extremely powerful 'bunker buster' bombs, by Assad and Russian forces that left dozens dead and nearly 2 million without water in the city of Aleppo - 25 September: Russia accused of war crimes in Syria at UN security council session, as the ambassadors from the USA, Britain and France walk out of the council chamber in protest against Assad regime's Ja’afari and the regime's war crimes - 27 September 2016: Syrian photographer code-named Caesar wins 2017 Nuremberg International Human Rights Award for exposing torture in Assad’s prisons - 28 september 2016: As Unicef counts 96 children killed and 223 injured since Friday, the two largest hospitals in besieged eastern Aleppo, which serve a quarter of a million civilians, bombed out of service by Russian and Assad regime airforces, in what doctors describe as a catastrophic campaign that is testing the conscience of the world, giving account that 'children ... are coming to us as body parts' - 28 September 2016: Condemning Russian and Assad regime's attacks on the two largest hospitals in eastern Aleppo as 'war crimes', UN's Ban Ki-moon says that 'those using ever more destructive weapons know exactly what they are doing' - 29 September 2016: Daily life in Aleppo will descend into hell within a month under air strikes from the regime and its Russian ally, civil defense official Meshal warns - 29 September: UN's Stephen O’Brien asks the Security Council 'whether there is any level of disaster and death that can be visited upon the Syrian people that might prompt the parties to this conflict, and by extension the international community, to identify a red line that will not be crossed', as the UN itself has come under intense scrutiny in recent months, with aid organisations, human rights groups and NGOs accusing it of being too close to the Assad regime without scruple and its accomplices to murder - 30 September 2016: Syrian Coalition’s legal committee submits a memorandum to the UN Security Council on the genocidal war the Assad regime as well as its Russian and Iranian allies wage on Aleppo

October 2016: 1 October 2016: Syrian Coalition’s Michel Kilo says that the international community must deter Russian aggression on Syria, warning that Russia is drawing the world to the precipice of chaos and mayhem and that Russia’s actions threaten the creation of the same conditions Hitler’s policies created and which led to the breakout of World War II - 8 October 2016: UN to vote on rival Syria resolutions and likely veto both - 9 October 2016: French foreign minister Ayrault compares Aleppo's likely fate to Guernica during the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939, Srebrenica during the Bosnian war and the Chechen capital Grozny destroyed by the Russian army in the mid-1990s, saying 'it is the annihilation of Aleppo', declaring that the continued bombing by Russian and Assad forces will leave the city in ruins, a place where citizens will be left to their 'executioners', as Russian regime vetoes French-drafted UN Resolution demanding immediate halt to Aleppo bombing, and a number of ambassadors walked out, including the representatives of Britain, France, Ukraine, the USA, when Assad regime's UN ambassador Ja'afari started speaking - 11 October 2016: UN's Ban Ki-moon on Monday again asked the Security Council to formally request that the International Criminal Court ICC begin investigations of war crimes in Syria - 12 October: At least 62 countries signed a letter calling on the UN Security Council to prevent further deaths resulting from a 'calculated campaign' by the Assad regime and its allies on Aleppo - 13 October: New Zealand circulated to the 15-member UN Security Council a draft resolution that would demand an end to all attacks that kill civilians in Syria, particularly air strikes in Aleppo, just days after Russia vetoed a similar text - 14 octobre 2016: Le Royaume-Uni va présenter un projet de résolution au Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU réclamant un cessez-le-feu immédiat au Yémen après le carnage perpétré dans la capitale Sanaa lors d'une cérémonie funéraire - 19 October 2016: Russian convoy of warships, including an aircraft carrier carrying fighter bombers, passes Britain on its way to Syria, monitored by governments and politicians, since nearly 6 years concerned about their discussion threads with brutal Russian, Iranian and Assad terrorists and not about the victims, where it is thought they will participate in a final assault on the besieged city of Aleppo, where children are coming as body parts to surviving doctors in out bombed hospitals - 21 October 2016: The Syrian Coalition and the Free Syrian Army say that the UN continues to ignore Russia’s crimes and its violations of international law in Syria - 22 October 2016: International inquiry has found Syrian Assad regime forces responsible for a third toxic gas attack in Qmenas in Idlib governorate on 16 March 2015, according to a fourth report submitted to the UN Security Council, after the third report by the inquiry in August blamed Assad for two chlorine attacks in Talmenes on 21 April 2014 and Sarmin on 16 March 2015, following Ghouta chemical attacks in August 2013 on opposition-controlled areas in the suburbs around Damascus using chemical agent sarin, and after in September 2013 the USA Senate filed a resolution to authorize use of military force against Assad's military in response, averted when the murderous regime accepted a USA–Russian negotiated deal to turn over 'every single bit' of its chemical weapons stockpiles for destruction, but has in reality encouraged Assad to escalate his war against the Syrian people, to invite the Russian regime and its murderous military to join Assad's terrorism and to annihilate the Syrian democracy and any opposition against dictatorship - 27 October 2016: UN humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien calls the failure of the UN security council, and Russia in particular, to stop the bombing of eastern Aleppo and the mass killing of civilians 'our generation’s shame', as envoys from France,the UK and USA come to the UN’s defence against a Russian regime's envoy, who should not sit in New York but in The Hague's ICC for complicity, as Russian or Assad's warplanes in their recent terror attack kill at least 26 people, most of them schoolchildren, teachers and rescue workers, in Syria's Idlib - 27 October 2016: The USA directly accuses either Syria or Russia of being behind airstrikes that destroyed a school complex in Idlib province on Wednesday, as rescue workers describe details of the attack that levelled much of the area, killing almost 40 people, and as a doctor who treated many of the wounded says most of the dead were children aged six to 15 as well as female teachers, putting the number of injured at more than 100 and describing that many of the children who had arrived at the hospital had lost limbs - 28 October 2016: SOHR condemns the massacres committed by the Russian and Syrian warplanes against the Syrian citizens in Syria and in Idlib's Has, murdering in the recent school attack at least 37 civilians including 15 students, 4 teachers, 3 females, and a doctor, who died wounded after the aerial bombardment, as regime forces and allies are perpetuating their terror attacks on the towns of Safohin and al-Mozara in Idlib province and across the country, despite international condemnation, due to inactivity and complicity of some states, regimes and parties - 9 November 2016: As the Assad regime’s mass forced displacement operations, which amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Syrian Coalition's Mohammed Jojah criticizes the international community’s failure to take action against the regime’s policies, saying that apart from shy calls by some friendly countries to end the conflict, the international community has not yet assumed its responsibility to put an end to the crimes of the Assad regime and its allies - 16 November 2016: New report by human rights group SNHR claims Assad regime is responsible for the death of 188,729 civilians, over 90% of all victims from nearly six years of war in Syria, also saying that the responsibility for war crimes also moved just weeks after the outbreak of the popular uprising in Syria in 2011 to the international community, to take collective measures in accordance with Articles 41 and 42 of the UN charter, but did not lift a finger because of Russian and Chinese protection for the Syrian regime - 16 November 2016: Bringing the total number of hospitals targeted by Russian warplanes on Monday in Aleppo's countryside to three, Russian murderous air strikes are targeting and destroying the Baghdad hospital, killing and wounding dozens and burying others under the rubble, while civil defense forces are working to lift the rubble to save the survivors and remove the corpses - 16 November 2016: Canadian FM Stephane Dion welcomes Syrian opposition leader for talks as meetings are touching on ways to circumvent Russia's veto power at the UNSC in order to end the bloodshed of Syrian civilians - 18 November 2016: UN Security Council approved a one-year extension of an international inquiry to determine blame for chemical weapons attacks in Syria - 19 November 2016: Syrian Coalition’s Bassam Abdullah says that the international community has a political, legal and moral responsibility to force the Assad regime and Russia to stop the horrific massacres they are committing in Syria - 21 November 2016: The Council of Free Aleppo Governorate calls upon the UN and human rights organizations to assume their responsibilities towards the protection of civilians in Aleppo from the fierce bombing campaign by the Assad regime and Russia forces - 21 November 2016: Assad's military commanders were involved in 'killing and injuring civilians' since 2011 with assaults on schools, hospitals and homes, says USA ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, reading out names and the military units to a meeting of the UN security council - 22 November 2016: Israeli activists launch awareness campaign to express their solidarity with the civilians in the face of a military escalation being carried out by Russia, Assad and his allied militias, calling for communal prayers on Jewish holiday for the 'hundreds of Syrians who are dying daily in Syria, men, women and children, while the world is silent' - 22 November 2016: Aleppo siege is 'war of extermination', a doctor in eastern Aleppo says, who was wounded earlier this month in an airstrike, adding that 'everything is being exterminated with the collusion of the United Nations, they all see and hear, but they will not answer, and they cannot stop this war machine' - 28 November 2016: Syrian Coalition urges international action to end Assad regime's siege of Al-Tal saying threat must not be ignored as Assad regime has already proven willingness to commit crimes of unimaginable proportions to achieve its goals - 29 November 2016: France calls for UN Security Council meeting over Aleppo saying 'we need to urgently put in place means to end the hostilities and to allow humanitarian aid to get through unhindered', as terror group Hezbollah and allied Iranian militants announce huge victory - 30 November: Syrian Coalition's letter to UN and UN Security Council presses for stopping Assad’s and Russia’s onslaught on Aleppo

December 2016: 1 December 2016: While UN's Stephen O’Brien tells an emergency session of the UN security council that Aleppo becoming 'one giant graveyard', the recent offensive by Assad regime forces, by Russian air power, Iranian ground forces, militia fighters from Iran, Iraq and Lebanese terror group Hezbollah hasn’t just cost the opposition two-thirds of their held areas, but also displaced more than 20,000 civilians and killed hundreds - 1 December: UN tightens sanctions on North Korea after largest nuclear test yet - 2 December 2016: As the Russian and Assad regime onslaught on Aleppo continues causing an untold humanitarian catastrophe, over 220 civil society organizations from 45 countries have issued a declaration saying that the UN Security Council has 'failed to uphold its responsibility to protect the Syrian people' - 3 December 2016: Thousands of Syrians took to the streets in many towns and cities across Syria to denounce the war crimes being committed by the Assad regime and Russia as well as the Iranian-backed foreign militias in Aleppo, also chanting slogans denouncing 'the international silence' over such crimes - 5 December 2016: 38 civilians confirmed dead including 5 children and 6 persons from the same family including a woman, by Russian airstrikes targeting the city of Maara al-Nuaman in Syria's Idlib province, rising the number of murdered civilians by aerial bombardment to 73 today - 6 December 2016: Syrian opposition calls on international community to shoulder its responsibility to end the bombardment and slaughter in Syria, especially Aleppo, and actively seek to deliver humanitarian aid, as Aleppo medics convert basements into operation rooms to evade airstrikes - 6 December: Syrian Coalition's Ghadbian condemns Russia’s vetoing UN Security Council resolution, drafted by New Zealand, Spain and Egypt, calling for the imposition of a 7-day cease-fire in Aleppo so that humanitarian aid could reach the city’s besieged eastern neighborhoods - 7 December 2016: Assad regime warplanes carried out dozens of air raids using vacuum bombs on the towns and villages of the Idlib countryside, killing six civilians and wounding 15, some of them seriously, as schools in Idlib province have suspended teaching after the regime and Russia’s deadly aerial campaign killed around 70 people, including many children, over the past four days, and as in Aleppo dozens of corpses are still in the streets from Shaar neighborhood, because the ambulances and rescue teams are not able to pull the corpses due to the murderous Russian and Assad's military operations - 8 December: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Turkey issued a statement calling on the UN to hold an emergency special session of the General Assembly to end the Aleppo crisis, also condemning dealing with the Syrian crisis like it was an ordinary event, and critizising the international institution’s incapability to perform the tasks it was established for following World War II - 8 December 2016: Western diplomats have conceded that there are no technical obstacles to a plan to deliver airdrops of food and medicine to Aleppo using a GPS-guided parachute system, but the scheme has been stalled in the face of reluctance among military commanders and an absence of political will - 14 December 2016: 'Aleppo should represent the end of the quest for military victory, not the start of a broader military campaign in a country already ravaged beyond all recognition by five years of war', UN's Ban Ki-moon told an emergency meeting of the Security Council - 18 December: UN Security Council to vote Sunday on Aleppo observers, as thousands look to flee besieged areas of war-ravaged city, and as the Assad regime and Iran were trying to impose new conditions to the evacuation deal - 20 December: UN Security Council unanimously called for UN officials and others to observe the evacuation of people from eastern Aleppo and monitor the safety of civilians who remain in the rebel-held part of the city - 24 December 2016: Confusing the council with a delayed committee of the murderous Roman Empire, UN Security Council condemns Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, destroying the last remainder of UN's credibility, completely incapable to deal with proceeding war crimes against the Syrian people since 6 years - 24 December 2016: Rejecting UN Security Council's resolution which describes the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem and the Western Wall as occupied territory and condemns Israel's settlement policy, Israel's PM Netanyahu says with the necessary clarity, that 'half a million Syrians are being slaughtered in Syria, tens of thousands are butchered in Sudan, the Middle East is up in flames, yet the Obama administration and the UN Security Council choose to set upon the only democracy in the Middle East', but forgets to mention his own recent meetings with war criminal Putin in Moscow, also encouraging the Russians, Iranians and Hezbollah to commit more war crimes - 28 December 2016: Israel’s absence at the UN General Assembly on resolution A/71/L.48 to collect, consolidate, preserve and analyse evidence of violations of international humanitarian law and human rights violations and abuses in Syria since 2011, reportedly the result of 'a cynical deal' between Jerusalem and Moscow

January 2017: 2 January 2017: Syria clashes test fragile truce after UN Security Council approved a resolution supporting a Russian and Turkish initiative - 8/9 January 2017: Jerusalem terror attack by an Israeli Arab citizen, who rammed a truck deliberately into a group of Israeli soldiers disembarking from a bus in the Israeli settlement Armon Hanatziv Esplanade in Jerusalem, killing 4 and injuring 15, condemned by the UN Security Council, emphasizing 'need for those responsible for this reprehensible act of terrorism to be held accountable' - 9/10 January 2017: Syrian Coalition urges the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution calling for the immediate withdrawal of all foreign militias from Syria and to require all parties to stop supporting or providing political and legal cover for the actions of these militias, violating the ceasefire agreement - 10 January 2017: At least 271 people, including 25 women and 34 children, reportedly killed as a result of 399 ceasefire breaches by the Assad regime and Iranian-backed militias since 29 December - 13 January 2017: UNSC urged on Thursday to discuss accountability for chemical weapons attacks in Syria - 14 January 2017: For the first time in a report published Friday, joint international team of investigators for the UN and the OPCW determined that Syrian regime's Bashar Assad and his brother Maher are suspected of being tied to several chemical weapons attacks carried out in the country in 2014 and 2015, according to a document seen by Reuters, as an ICC spokesman says, that 'the only way that (the) ICC would have jurisdiction over the situation would be through a referral by the Security Council' - 19 January: Syrian Coalition urges Russia to adopt resolution under Chapter VII to hold truce violators accountable - 27 January 2017: UN officials urged the UN Security Council to do more to ensure the delivery of life-saving aid to civilians in the besieged areas, as nearly 700,000 people still under siege across Syria and as Assad regime continues to block aid - 31 janvier 2017: Le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU se réunira en urgence après un tir de missile iranien

February 2017: 1 February 2017: UN Security Council's representatives, including Russian regime's, express grave concern about the dangerous deterioration of the situation in eastern Ukraine and its severe impact on the local civilian population, also calling for an immediate return to a ceasefire regime, as the Trilateral Contact Group's representatives, including Russian regime's, will meet in Minsk today - 8 February 2017: Syrian Coalition’s Muhammed Jojah renews calls to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court and to hold the Assad regime accountable for war crimes, especially after further evidence on the scale of torture and murder perpetrated by the regime against civilian detainees has emerged in a rights group's report in February - 8 February 2017: UN reportedly 'horrified' about Amnesty’s report on Saydnaya prison - 14 February 2017: The Assad regime forces conducted coordinated chemical attacks in opposition-controlled parts of Aleppo during the final month of the battle for the city, according to Human Rights Watch - 15 February 2017: France calls on UN Security Council to respond over the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons in Syria with a resolution that would punish those responsible for repeated attacks - 20 February: Russia is breaking promise to investigate civilian casualties of airstrikes in Syria, Human Rights Watch says - 23 February 2017: Human Rights Watch's official Whitson confirms Assad regime responsible for Sarin attack on Eastern Ghouta in 2013 - 24 February 2017: UN Security Council is likely to vote next week on a draft resolution proposing some sanctions on the Assad regime over the use of chemical weapons, but Russia is almost certain to veto the symbolic measures proposed by Britain, France and the USA, including a ban on the sale of more helicopters and a travel ban on 11 Assad regime officials

March 2017: 1 March 2017: France, UK and USA want sanctions on Syria's Assad regime over chemical weapon use, but Russia and China veto UN resolution - 6 March 2017: Call made for emergency UN security council meeting after North Korea's missile launches on Monday shocked international community - 15 March 2017: Syrian Coalition calls for an emergency UN Security Council session to discuss the serious findings of the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria - 30 March 2017: Syrian Coalition slams Russia’s support for Assad as dozens killed in airstrikes in rural Idlib, saying that Russia, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, is responsible for maintaining international peace and security and is obliged to respect the Syrian people

April 2017: 1 April 2017: Airstrikes hit a hospital supported by medical aid group in Latamnah in Hama province last week, killing two people, with evidence chemical weapons were used, according to Medecins Sans Frontieres - 4 April 2017: At least 35 people have been killed in a suspected chemical attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhun in the central province of Idlib, according to SOHR - 5 April 2017: Syrian opposition blames international community for allowing conditions for further attacks on civilians after reported chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun, demanding to hold the perpetrators of these crimes accountable and to take urgent action to protect civilians from the daily crimes committed against them since March 2011 - 5 April 2017: Warplanes thought to be Russian carried out heavy and concentrated airstrikes on rescue centers and medical facilities which were treating victims of the chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun, Civil Defense in Idlib countryside says - 10/11 April 2017: Russian air force have intensified bombing raids on towns and villages in the provinces of Hama and Idlib in revenge attacks, causing dozens of civilian casualties and using internationally banned weapons - 12 April 2017: Using its veto power the eighth time to protect the Assad regime, Russian regime vetoed a UN draft resolution expressing the council’s full backing of OPCW's investigation and demanding the Assad regime's cooperation with the investigators of the sarin gas attack on Khan Sheikhun in Syria's Idlib province - 13 April 2017: USA intercepted communications between Syrian military and chemical weapons experts discussing plans for Khan Sheikhun poison gas attack in Idlib province, according to USA media, citing an intelligence official, as samples taken from the chemical weapons attack in Syria last week tested positive for the nerve agent sarin by British delegation to OPCW and as OPCW's investigators are already testing samples from Khan Sheikhun deadly poison gas attack - 14 April 2017: Asking 'how long can the UN endure the shame of chemical attacks on Syrian citizens?', France's and UK's foreign ministers urge the international community to 'go further' in punishing those responsible for the chemical weapons attack in Syria on 4 April 2017 - 19 April 2017: Considering the situation in the Ukrainian Crimea, occupied by Russia, and Donbas, Ukraine’s delegation has called on the UN Security Council members to pay special attention to the observance of human rights on the temporarily territories

June 2017: 3 June 2017: UN Security Council expanded targeted sanctions against North Korea after its repeated missile tests, adopting the first such resolution agreed by the USA and North Korea's only major ally China - 17 June 2017: Syrian Coalition's Riad Seif sends letter to UN, international organizations and 26 countries to urge action to stop the brutal onslaught being waged by the Assad regime and its allies on Daraa and surrounding towns and villages

July 2017: 5 July 2017: UN Security Council to hold emergency meeting on North Korea, after the regime had tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile, a new threat

August 2017: 5 August 2017: On the eve of Hiroshima Day and aimed at increasing economic pressure on North Korean regime to return to negotiations on its nuclear and missile programs, UN Security Council unanimously approved tough new sanctions against the regime including a ban on coal and other exports totaling more than $1 billion, a huge bite in its total exports, valued at $3 billion last year - 7 August 2017: Carla Del Ponte resigns from UN’s independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria, decrying Security Council inaction to hold criminals accountable in the war-battered country, saying 'for five years we’ve been running up against walls', 'the states in the Security Council don’t want justice' - 12 August 2017: Blaming Russia for blocking solution in Syria by using its repeated use of its veto power in the UN Security Council, Carla del Ponte held the council partly responsible for the continued tragedy in Syria as it has not yet put pressure on Putin regime - 14 August 2017: Enough evidence to convict Assad of war crimes, according to del Ponte, saying that 'the preparatory work has been done', but 'there is no prosecutor and no court' - 16 August 2017: UNSC discussed sending an instigative mission to determine responsibility for the April 4 sarin attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rural Idlib, as rights group SNHR issued its 27th report on the use of chemical weapons in Syria - 22 August 2017: Two shipments of North Korean chemical weapons bound for Syria's Assad regime and part of a Damascus-Pyongyang arms deal have reportedly been intercepted by UN member states in the past six months, as activities between Assad and North Korean regime under investigation includes Scud missile programs and surface-to-air missiles systems - 30 August 2017: UN strongly condemns the latest ballistic missile launch by the North Korean regime, which flew over Japan, as well as the series of launches that took place on 25 August

September 2017: 3 September 2017: The international community including the UN security council should react quickly and firmly to North Korea’s latest nuclear test, democratic countries demand - 4 September 2017: At an emergency session the USA urged the UN Security Council to impose the 'strongest possible measures' against North Korea in response to its sixth and most powerful nuclear test - 6 septembre 2017: Des enquêteurs de l’ONU ont indiqué pour la première fois que le régime de Damas était responsable de l’attaque au gaz sarin sur la localité de Khan Cheikhoun le 4 avril en Syrie, qui avait fait 87 morts - 11 September 2017: UN security council unanimously agrees new North Korea sanctions including ban on the country’s textile exports and capping imports of crude oil, after USA watered down initial tougher version to avoid veto by China - 29 September 2017: The Syrian opposition calls on the UN to act urgently to stop war crimes being committed by Syrian and Russian air forces, as warplanes continue to bomb towns and villages in the liberated areas

October 2017: 24 October 2017: The international community, especially the UN Security Council, is obliged to shoulder its responsibilities to put an end to the ongoing suffering of civilians in eastern Ghouta, Syrian Coalition says - 24/25 October 2017: After UN war crimes investigators said last month they had evidence that Assad regime's air force was behind the nerve gas attack in Khan Sheikhun murdering more than 87 people, Russian regime's veto puts an end to Syria chemical weapons probe, as USA Ambassador says Moscow again siding 'with the dictators and terrorists who use these weapons', as 11 countries back extending the mandate, Bolivia joins Russia in voting against and China and Kazakhstan abstain from the vote - 26 October 2017: Head of Amnesty International’s UN office Sherine Tadros says that the 'routine abuse of the veto has become the equivalent of a green light for war crimes' and that 'UN Secretary General as well as Security Council members can no longer idly stand by' - 26/27 October 2017: Syria’s Assad forces are responsible for the deadly sarin gas attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhun that killed scores of people in April, UN expert panel’s report says, as USA reaffirms Assad’s rule must end

November 2017: 8 novembre 2017: La Russie, soutien de Damas, s'est à nouveau opposée aux Occidentaux sur l'implication du régime syrien dans des attaques chimiques, lors d'une réunion mardi à l'ONU sur le mandat des enquêteurs internationaux chargés d'en désigner les auteurs - 9 November 2017: Facing 'the largest famine the world has seen for many decades', according to the UN, following Iranian-backed Houthi militia's 2015 coup d'état, UN Security Council reiterates the need for the Houthis and the anti-Houthi coalition 'to provide full, safe, rapid and unhindered access for humanitarian supplies and UN personnel to the population of all affected governorates, including by air, land and sea' - 13 November 2017: Roundly rejecting Russian aspersions against the task force, Israel endorses a UN watchdog report on Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons, saying it 'unequivocally' proves Assad used poison gas and must therefore be punished by the international community - 17 November 2017: In response to Russia’s vetoing of the draft resolution calling for the extension of the mandate for the UN-OPCW investigation panel, Syrian Coalition’s Ahmad Ramadan says 'it is a disgraceful day in the history of humanity that the UN Security Council failed once again to redress thousands of victims of chemical weapons in Syria or hold war criminals accountable' - 18 novembre 2017: La Russie a opposé vendredi un deuxième veto en deux jours contre une résolution présentée devant le Conseil de sécurité, qui visait à renouveler de 30 jours le mandat de la commission d'enquête sur l'utilisation d'armes chimiques en Syrie, un message clair que Moscou n'accorde aucune importance aux victimes des attaques chimiques en Syrie, selon Mme Haley - 23 November 2017: After refusing to back extension of investigative mechanism that blamed Assad for April attack, Russian regime declares 'death' of body probing Syria chemical attacks, saying it will only discuss replacing expert panel, fearing itself investigation after Putin-Assad coalition committed war crimes in Syria, among others during aerial bombing campaign of opposition-controlled territory in Aleppo in 2016 - 29 November 2017: UN Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting for Wednesday afternoon at the request of Japan, South Korea and the USA following the launch of North Korean nuclear-capable intercontinental missile

December 2017: 1 December 2017: Remnants of four ballistic missiles fired into Saudi Arabia by Yemen's Houthi rebels from May to November 2017 appear to have been designed and manufactured by Iranian regime, despite regime denying it supplies Houthis, a confidential report by United Nations sanctions monitors said, bolstering a push by the USA to punish the Tehran government - 2 décembre 2017: Le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU se réunira le 15 décembre pour évoquer le programme d'armement de la Corée du Nord, une autre réunion prévue le 11 décembre sera consacrée aux violations des droits de l'homme du régime de Pyongyang

15/23 December 2017: 15 décembre 2017: Autorisée par l’ONU, la Russie s’apprête à livrer des armes à la Centrafrique, malgré l’embargo imposé au pays depuis 2013 - 23 décembre 2017: La Russie a obtenu du Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU une exemption à l’embargo sur les armes imposé à la Centrafrique - Since 2014 Wagner Group, a Russian paramilitary organisation and Putin-linked military company, whose contractors take part in various conflicts, including operations in Assad's war against the Syrian people, in the War in Donbass against the Ukrainian people and since 2017/2018 in the Central African Republic

Since 18/19 December 2017: 18/19 December 2017: USA vetoes a UN Security Council draft resolution condemning the USA's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, as Ambassador Haley defends USA's sovereignty and explains the honest and courageous recognition of reality, also noting that the USA has given more than $5 billion to the Palestinians since 1994, more than any other country, as Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu thanks the USA for vetoing the resolution, saying 'truth defeated lies' - 23 December 2017: UN Security Council slapped new sanctions on North Korean regime that will restrict oil supplies vital for its missile and nuclear programs, also ordering North Korean workers abroad back home and a crackdown on smuggling, after latest regime's ballistic missile launch - 23 December 2017: UN Security Council condemns this week’s ballistic missile attack by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen against Saudi Arabia’s capital 'in the strongest possible terms', calling on Houthis to cease announced further attacks and urging implementation of arms embargo on group - 30 décembre 2017: Des navires russes ont fourni ces derniers mois des produits pétroliers à la Corée du Nord au moins à trois reprises en octobre et en novembre, en violation des dispositions adoptées à l'ONU - 31 December 2017: North Korean regime vows to press on with nuclear agenda as Russian regime denies trade violations

January 2018: 5 January 2018: After the USA asked the council to show support for anti-regime protesters, UN Security Council to meet on 2017/2018 Iranian protests - 5 January 2018: UN Security Council discusses deadly protests across Iran, told about rising poverty after the Iranian regime had spent $6 billion every year propping up the regime in Syria, as Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi urges USA and the international community to support the nationwide protests in Iran with sanctions, but not economic measures that could hit the general population - 6 January 2018: During 2017 129 massacres were committed by Assad regime forces, 83 by the Russian forces, and 113 by the international coalition forces, according to SNHR, calling on the UN to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court and stop blocking the UN resolutions - 12 January 2018: Iran has violated a UN arms embargo by failing to block supplies to Yemen's Houthi rebels of ballistic missiles that were fired at Saudi Arabia, according to a UN experts' report - 19 January 2018: In the eighth year of Assad's Iranian-Russian backed war against the Syrian people, UN's Guterres renews calls for revival of Syria chemical weapons probe to punish those responsible, adding that the use of chemical weapons in Syria had challenged the 'global taboo' against these weapons of mass destruction - 23 January 2018: UN-Security Council discussed Turkey's aggression against Kurds in Syria and the worsening humanitarian crisis in the country, but did not condemn or demand an end to the Turkish military operation, as USA's ambassador Nikki Haley did not attend the meeting - 27 January 2018: UN's Antonio Guterres is again calling on the UN Security Council to refer Syria to the International Criminal Criminal Court, pointing to 'serious violations' including blocking aid deliveries and medical care to millions

February 2018: 2 February 2018: Between 2012 and 2017 North Korea has supplied weapons to Syria and Myanmar, according to a confidential report by independent UN monitors which also said Pyongyang's regime violated UN sanctions to earn nearly $200m in 2017 and ballistic missile and chemical weapons programmes may have benefited - 6 February 2018: The UN Security Council failed to adapt a resolution to stop such attacks or to adopt a draft resolution on the use of chemical weapons, as ferocious onslaught by the Assad regime forces and Iranian militias backed by the Russian air force continues to target civilians in many parts across Syria, and as UN's Panos Moumtzis says 'We can no longer stay silent', calling for a one-month ceasefire to ease an 'extreme situation' that 'we haven’t seen before' at any point during the war, which is soon to enter its eighth year - 9 February 2018: Damascus provincial council called upon the UN Security Council to take action to address the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the suburb of eastern Ghouta and put an end to the Assad regime's relentless bombardment of civilians - 9 February 2018: As many as 45 local non-government aid groups have issued a joint statement calling for an end to the systematic targeting of health facilities by the Assad regime forces and their allies - 9 February 2018: The suffering in Syria grows and the world turns away, the British 'Guardian' says, as the UN warns of unprecedented levels of suffering in the country that has already witnessed so many crimes and such desperation in 7 years, but as its calls for a ceasefire are ignored - 10 février 2018: Suède et Koweit tentent de faire examiner par le Conseil de sécurité une résolution visant une trêve d'un mois à des fins humanitaires, mais le régime russie, alliée du régime d'Assad, a de manière répétée bloqué toute initiative du Conseil qui viserait Assad - 13 February 2018: UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric says 'that we are witnessing (in Syria) some of the worst fighting of the entire conflict, with reports of hundreds of civilian deaths and injuries, massive displacement and the destruction of civilian infrastructure, including medical facilities' and that 'history will record failure to stop the fighting and will lay the blame on those responsible' - 14 February 2018: UN once again calls for Syria cease-fire, as UN's 'Deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis' Rajasingham says it is 'very possible' - 16 February 2018: Amid military escalation by the Assad regime and its allies in many parts across Syria, described by the UN as the worst throughout the course of Assad's war in Syria, Sweden and Kuwait presented a revised draft UN Security Council resolution calling for a 30-day ceasefire, revised to obtain backing by Russian war criminals - 16 February 2018: Russia bombs seventh hospital in Syria in 2 weeks in the village of Hass in Idlib province - 21 February 2018: Fears and outrage over bloodshed in Syria, also described as a 'hell on earth' by the UN, but once again no action of the UN disabled by the Russian perpetrator (11 vetoes), China and others, as families in Ghouta take to basements in attempt to survive, and as Ghouta's desperate civilians say they've been abandoned to their fate with aid groups denied access to the devastated Syrian enclave - 23 February 2018: As Assad regime and Russian war criminals are destroying eastern Ghouta's healthcare, systematically targeting hospitals, and as Médecins Sans Frontières say 13 hospitals it supported had been destroyed or damaged in the past three days alone, Russian Putin regime blocks UN resolution on eastern Ghouta ceasefire - 23 February 2018: After 5 days of massacres which left about 2,550 civilian casualties and wounded, the escalation continues on the Eastern Ghouta by the Assad regime and its allies - 24 February 2018: Over 400 people killed and 1,000 injured as UNSC fails to stop carnage in Eastern Ghouta, according to UN, as SOHR reports about 520 civilian casualties and more than 2,500 wounded in the vicious attack on the Eastern Ghouta - 24 February 2018: Blocked by Russian perpetrators, UN Security Council once again delayed a vote on demanding a 30-day ceasefire in Syria to Saturday at noon, as USA's ambassador asks 'how many more people will die before the Security Council agrees to take up this vote', as Syrian Coalition calls for preventing Russian perpetrators from voting on Syria-related resolutions at UN Security Council, and as deaths mount in Syria - 24 February 2018: Syrian teenager tweeting the horror of life in Ghouta - 24 février 2018: Les bombes du régime syrien ont encore frappé la Ghouta orientale dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi, 21 civils sont morts - 24 February 2018: UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution demanding a 30-day cease-fire across Syria 'without delay' to deliver humanitarian aid to millions and evacuate the critically ill and wounded, after many countries have been pressing for immediate UN action as deaths mount in an Assad bombing campaign in eastern Ghouta and as USA's Nikki Haley was sharply critical of Russian regime for delaying the vote, saying it cost lives - 25 February 2018: New regime strikes hit Eastern Ghouta on Sunday despite UN Security Council demand for a ceasefire, as residents doubt Security Council resolution will be implemented, while UN diplomats say it was 'watered down' to avoid Russia veto - 25 February 2018: Iranian and Syrian Assad regime will continue attacks on Damascus suburbs despite February 2018 UN resolution demanding a 30-day truce across Syria - 26 February 2018: The wording of UNSC resolution let Russia resume bombing within hours, sidelining the UN as a decision maker and setting up Putin and his military as ultimate arbiters of who gets fed, or killed - 27 February 2018: Russian regime ordered a daily five-hour 'humanitarian pause' in the besieged eastern Ghouta, effectively replacing UN security council resolution that had demanded a month-long ceasefire in the embattled region, replaced by a choice of forced displacement and decline or being killed in Russian-backed bombardment and siege - 27 February 2018: Russian Putin regime vetoed a British-drafted UN resolution that promised action against violations of a UN arms embargo on Yemen and pointed to a report by experts that cited Iran as a violator, as the vote was 11 in favor, Russia and Bolivia opposed, and China and Kazakhstan abstaining, as 17 million people in Yemen, 60% of the total population, are in need of food aid, of whom seven million are on the brink of famine - 28 February 2018: USA and three European allies condemned Iran, after the UN found Iranian regime had violated the arms embargo on Yemen by failing to block supplies of missiles and drones to Houthi rebels, but Russia vetoed British-drafted resolution

March 2018: 1 March 2018: Speaking at a monthly Security Council meeting devoted to the Syrian conflict, UN under secretary general for humanitarian affairs Mark Lowcock says there has been no access for humanitarian convoys, nor authorization by the regime to go into the besieged areas, nor medical evacuations, on the contrary, the bombings have continued, and deaths and wounded have mounted, since the Security Council resolution was passed - 5 March 2018: USA slams Russia, Iran over 'brutal’ assault on Syria’s Eastern Ghouta, accusing them of killing 'innocent civilians under the false auspices of counterterrorism operations', as shelter still withhold by the international community and homemade shelters are tombs for the living - 5 March 2018: Residents in the besieged Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta have begun using UN aid bags as shrouds for children killed in the devastating bombardment by the Assad regime to express their frustration over the organization's inaction - 9 mars 2018: 'Le Conseil de sécurité a échoué à l'égard du peuple syrien' en raison d'oppositions de la Russie, selon l'ambassadeur britannique adjoint à l'ONU Jonathan Allen - 10 March 2018: UN aid barely suffices 25% of eastern Ghouta residents as Syrian Coalition reiterates calls for implementation of UNSC resolution 2401 - 10 March 2018: Terrifying escalation in the death toll of the Eastern Ghouta raises it to about 1,100 civilian casualties, including 227 children and 154 women, killed by aerial, rocket and artillery shelling, more than half of them since UNSC resolution, and 4,378 wounded citizens, including hundreds of children and women - 12 March 2018: Following repeated violations by the Syrian regime of the previous ceasefire resolution passed a fortnight ago, the USA demands to end chemical attacks and 'inhuman suffering', as it proposes a new binding resolution imposing an immediate 30-day ceasefire in Eastern Ghouta and signals readiness to act unilaterally, as when it attacked airbase last year - 14 March 2018: The UK has called for an urgent meeting of the UN security council to update council members on the investigation into the 'Novichok' nerve agent attack in Salisbury - 15 March 2018: Describing a pattern of Russian regime's behavior and calling to take action, allies back UK at UN security council and condemn Russia, as the Russian regime, denying known facts and Russian chemist Vil Mirzayanov's evidence of novichok, claims that it never made or even researched novichok nerve agents, and laughs at the victims suggesting that the British government might have carried out the attack itself in an effort to 'tarnish' Russia ahead of the football World Cup this summer, as attacked people are fighting for their lives, once again also in British hospitals - 16 March 2018: Tens of Russian airstrikes target the southern section of the Eastern Ghouta leaving 10 casualties and tens of wounded in Saqba - 17 March 2018: Air strikes by Assad regime and Russian jets on Eastern Ghouta killed at least 30 civilians on Saturday, according to SOHR, as rights group slams seven years of 'catastrophic failure' of the international community in Syria - France and Britain urge UNSC to enforce resolution 2401, warning of massacres in eastern Ghouta - 17 March 2018: Doctors and civil leaders among signatories to open letter to the UN, demanding action to stop massacre by Russian-backed Assad forces - 20 March 2018: Syrian Coalition calls for sending urgent commission of inquiry to eastern Ghouta - 20 March 2018: At least 738 civilians, including 116 children killed by the Assad and Russian forces in eastern Ghouta since adoption of UN Security Council resolution 2401, according to SNHR and SOHR - 20 March 2018: Russian warplanes reportedly hit a school basement in eastern Ghouta, killing at least 15 children, as in New York the UN human rights chief was blocked from addressing the Security Council on the carnage in Syria - 22 March 2018: Syrian Coalition sends letter to UK urging action against use of chemical weapons stressing that the failure of the international community had encouraged the use of chemical weapons on both Syrian and British territory - 22 March 2018: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights al-Hussein calls on the UN Security Council to refer human rights violations being committed by the Assad regime and its allied militias in Syria to the International Criminal Court ICC - 22 March 2018: Syrian Coalition calls on international community to hold Russia and Assad regime accountable for their crimes - 26 March 2018: Syrian Coalition's Mohammed Yahya Maktabi said that the mass forced displacement taking place in the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta is a 'war crime' as he condemned Russian’s major role in these crimes, adding that regime forces, the Iranian militias, and Russian air force are killing civilians, targeting popular markets, residential areas and public facilities and bombing hospitals, medical centers, and rescue workers - 26 March 2018: The UN has come under fire for sharing the coordinates of hospitals in the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta with Russia, only for one of them to be bombed days later killing at least one patient by what medics suspected to be a 'bunker-buster' bomb, according to 'The Telegraph' - 26 March 2018: 871 civilians killed in eastern Ghouta since adoption of UN-security council resolution 2401, according to SNHR - 30 March 2018: The International community and the UN failed to solve humanitarian crises in Syria and other countries, outgoing UN Undersecretary General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman said Friday - 31 March 2018: Despite fierce opposition by Israel and the USA, and requests to postpone the meeting until after the Passover holiday, the UN Security Council convenes during the Passover Seder to discuss the situation in Gaza and renewed deadly Gaza-Israel border clashes, as Israeli army says fatalities include Hamas gunmen trying to breach fence and warns of further escalation amid an already-disastrous humanitarian situation worsened after the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority refused to pay for Gaza’s electricity, in part to press it’s political rival Hamas to loosen control of the area

April 2018: 1 April 2018: USA blocks UN resolution condemning Israel for deaths in Gaza clashes, as Israeli military on Saturday night identified 10 of the 16 people reported killed during violent protests along the Gaza security fence as members of Palestinian terrorist groups, and published a list of their names and positions in the organizations, also saying it only shot at protesters charging Gaza border

7 April 2018 Douma chemical attack: International reactions to the 7 April 2018 Douma chemical attack - 11 April 2018: 'The number of dead bodies that can be established through open source data is 34+', and 'aircraft spotters reported two Mi-8 Hip helicopters heading southwest from Dumayr Airbase, in the direction of Douma, 30 minutes before the chemical attack in Douma, and two Hip helicopters were observed above Douma shortly before the attack' according to Bellingcat Investigation team

Since 8 April 2018: 8 April 2018: Israeli officials on Sunday called on the international community to intervene in Syria, where the Russian-backed Assad regime killed dozens in a chemical attack in Douma and a series of airstrikes over the weekend, according to rescuers and medics, as USA State Departement said that 'the Assad regime and its backers must be held accountable and any further attacks prevented immediately', adding that 'Russia ... ultimately bears responsibility for these brutal attacks' - 8 April 2018: Aid workers and local medics have described apocalyptic scenes in the besieged city of Douma, the site of a chemical attack that has killed at least 42 people, as they scrambled to save the survivors of the latest atrocity in Syria, as Haaretz' Anshel Pfeffer describes how the West failed to prevent one Syrian chemical attack after another, saying that in the history of war, no war crime has been so well documented and so predictable to those who had it in their power to prevent it from recurring - 8 April 2018: 'What’s happening in Syria is genocide of women and children in its cruelest form, using weapons of mass destruction', Israeli chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef says in a statement, adding that 'we have a moral obligation not to keep quiet and to try and stop this massacre' - 8 April 2018: France and eight countries seek urgent UN Security Council meet on Syria - 9/10 April 2018: As Israeli government says that Syrian chemical attack is a 'crime against humanity’, the UK ambassador to the UN, Karen Pierce, calls on the security council to conduct a thorough investigation of the alleged chemical weapons attack, demanding that Russia must uphold the chemical weapons convention, UK's Theresa May condemns 'barbaric' targeting of civilians, saying Bashar al-Assad and his Russian backers must be held to account if found responsible for the chemical attack on Douma, and USA's Trump to decide on USA response to gas attack 'within 48 hours' - 10/11 April 2018: After UN clash with Russian regime, USA readies response to Syria attacks, consulting with international allies on possible joint military response - 12 April 2018: Israel ambassador to the UN Danny Danon accompanied a group of fellow diplomats to the world body in participating in the March of the Living on Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day visiting the death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, telling fellow ambassadors that the 'international community must act with determination to ensure that such things never happen again', and warned of 'rising anti-Semitism’ - 13 April 2018: UN Security Council met for the fourth time this week over the gas attack by Assad forces on Douma, which killed dozens of people

14 April 2018 allied military strikes against Assad's chemical weapons: 14 April 2018 allied military strikes, involving manned aircraft and ship-based missiles, against multiple Assad regime sites in Syria - 14 April 2018: Following UN's failure since 2011 to stop and to take action against Assad's, Iranin and Russian war crimes, France, United Kingdom and USA take part in strikes on targets associated with chemical weapons in the wake of gas attack on Douma

14 April 2018: Russian regime has been defeated in its bid to have the USA, France and UK airstrikes condemned in the UN security council with 8 countries voting against, and 4 abstentions of Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Peru and Equitorial Guinea, confirming how isolated Putin has become on the Syrian issue - 14 April 2018: Widespread support for allied military strikes against Assad regime, as European Union and NATO, Australia, Canada, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey immediately voiced support - 14 April 2018: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says all NATO allies have expressed their full support for last night's military actions to degrade the Syrian regime's chemical weapons capability

15/16 April 2018: 15 April 2018: Britain, France and the USA have launched a new bid at the UN to investigate chemical weapons attacks in Syria in the missile strikes against Assad’s regime, also calling for unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid, enforcement of a ceasefire and a demand that Syria engage in UN-led peace talk - 16 April 2018: Pressure grows on Russia to stop protecting Assad’s regime, as USA, UK and France press for inquiry into its use of chemical weapons and as UN security council’s 15 members will meet on Monday to discuss a call for a wider push to eliminate the covert Syrian regime stockpiles

18 April: 18 April 2018: OPCW's international chemical weapons inspectors were not able to go into the town of Douma in eastern Ghouta on Wednesday, a UN source in Syria told Reuters, as the USA, UK and France earlier accused Russian and Assad's regime of trying to tamper with the evidence in site of the crime

24/25 April 2018: 24 April 2018: After 7 years of Assad's Iranian and Russian backed war against the Syrian people, Western nations want to end the years-long paralysis at the UN over Syria by referring the issue of chemical weapons use to the entire UN general assembly, where Russia’s security council veto would not apply - 25 April 2018: Head of the UN’s humanitarian task force for Syria Jan Egeland warns Idlib could be next Syrian disaster zone in 'marathon of pain', now lasting 'two years longer than the second world war'

May 2018: 5 May 2018: Proposed UN security council statement expressing 'serious concern' about Abbas’s anti-Semitic remarks that Holocaust was not caused by anti-Semitism but rather by Jews’ 'social behavior', rejected by Kuwait arguing that Abbas had already apologized and that it was one-sided, and fails to win UN backing - 11 May 2018: Israel demands UN condemn Iran barrage as Novichok/Sarin-Guterres calls for calm and Iranian regime revenews threats to destroy Tel Aviv and Haifa - 14 May 2018: Iran is funding Hamas’s campaign to promote violence and attacks against Israel under the cover of mass demonstrations at Gaza border, keeping its own gunmen back ready to enter Israel if fence is breached to carry out terror attacks, the Shin Bet security service says releasing findings of interrogations of suspects - 15 May 2018: USA blocks UN Security Council call for probe of Gaza deaths and UN statement that would have expressed 'outrage at killing of Palestinian civilians exercising their right to peaceful protest', as Israel blames Hamas for the deadly violence, saying the terror group had encouraged and led the protests, which included attacks on Israeli troops and attempts to breach the border fence - 17 May 2018: Hamas co-founder al-Zahar admits 'we are deceiving the public’ about peaceful Gaza border protests, saying in an interview that 'this is not peaceful resistance', the option of armed struggle 'is growing and developing', 'this is a peaceful resistance bolstered by a military force and by security agencies' - 22 May 2018: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees UNRWA says that the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in Damascus lies today in ruins, with hardly a single building that has not been destroyed or damaged - Foreign involvement and support for Assad's war against the Syrian people by the Russian and the Iran regime, allied with Hezbollah and Hamas - 30 May 2018: The UN Security Council will meet Wednesday at the request of the USA to discuss Palestinian militants' rocket and mortar attacks on Israel, as Israeli army says some rockets, mortars fired from Gaza in recent attacks were made in Iran - 31 May 2018: USA blasts Security Council as measure condemning Hamas' rocket attacks on Israel blocked

June 2018: 1 June 2018: The UN Security Council is set to vote on a draft resolution presented by the USA that would give warring sides in South Sudan until June 30 to end fighting or face possible sanctions - 1 June 2018: China, France and Russia were among the countries that voted in favor of the draft put forward by anti-Israel Kuwait, four countries, Ethiopia, the UK, the Netherlands and Poland abstained, and the USA opposed, bringing its own proposal condemning Hamas for its role in the escalation of violence in Gaza in the last two months, that also failed - 6 June 2018: UN Security Council condemns continuous violations of the ceasefire regime, especially the use of heavy weapons prohibited by the Minsk agreements, reaffirming its full support for resolution 2166 on the downing of flight MH17 - 9 June 2018: Israel has appealed to the UN to intervene in southern Lebanon, saying that the Palestinian terror group Hamas is working with Hezbollah to establish missile factories and camps to train thousands of fighters there, adding that 'Hamas is tightening its ties with Hezbollah with the blessing and support of Iran, which is working to entrench its own forces also on Lebanese soil' - 15 June 2018: UN security council has rejected a move to demand an immediate end to the fighting around the strategic Yemeni port of Hodeidah, with the USA and UK both voicing opposition to the text introduced by Sweden - 27 June 2018: Syrian Negotiations Commission calls for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the war crimes being committed by the Assad regime and its allies in the province of Dara’a, demanding an immediate cessation of military operations as they violate international resolutions on Syria - 29 June 2018: Number of displaced triples to 160,000 during Assad's and Russian assault in south Syria, according to UNHCR - 29 June 2018: Assad and Russian airstrikes pounded rebel-held areas in southwestern Syria on Thursday, killing at least 17 civilians in an underground shelter and driving thousands more from their homes, as displaced people protest near the Israeli border demanding international protection

July 2018: 4 July 2018: The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting after Jordan and Israel refuse to take in some 300,000 Syrians who have been displaced by Russian-backed bombings in Daraa province - 4/5 July 2018: Fears are mounting about the safety of more than 270,000 civilians who have fled recent Russian-backed offensive in southern Syria, with aid groups and local doctors issuing urgent appeals for people stranded in the desert without shelter, also worrying about insects and scorpions that come at night - 5 July 2018: Waves of air strikes pounded southern Syria on Thursday as Russian-backed regime forces with hundreds of missiles and barrel bombs launched their most intensive murderous bombing campaign yet in the two-week-old offensive in Daraa province - 5 July 2018: As UN's Security Council as a whole - except Russia - has shown a 'strong unity' to denounce the ongoing military offensive in southwest Syria and its humanitarian consequences, Russian regime blocks Council statement, after there has been a fruitless push to persuade the regime to accept a declaration based on the need to deliver humanitarian aid - 6 July 2018: Held in parallel with relentless Russian airstrikes on the town of Saida in eastern rural Dara’a resulting in the death of civilians including children, UN Security Council once again failed to stop the carnage civilians in Syria by the Assad regime forces and their allies, according to Syrian Coalition's Badr Jamous, saying that the indifference being shown by the international would remain a dark stain on humanity's conscience - 18 July 2018: Dozens of civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in Assad regime and Russian airstrikes on border villages in Syria's provinces of Quneitra and Daraa in the past 24 hours, as UN-Security Council remains silent - 19 July 2018: Continuing Russian and Iranian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places and carry out raids on areas in Daraa province, amid aerial bombardments by helicopters and warplanes, and in Hama province - 21 July 2018: After massacres of 26 civilian casualties, including 11 children, Russian warplanes continue to destroy and incinerate Yarmouk Basin area in Daraa province

28 July 2018: 28 July 2018: Virginia Gamba, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, told the UN Security Council that the first quarter of 2018 saw a 348% increase in killing and maiming of children in Syria compared to the previous quarter, also saying that over 100 attacks on hospitals and medical facilities or personnel have been verified since the beginning of 2018, as Guterres supports Assad's regime and therefore Assad's, Russian and Iranian war crimes

August 2018: 1 August 2018: SNHR said that the collapse of the 'de-escalation zones' agreement in southern Syria was another failure of the UN Security Council as it failed to maintain security and peace in the war-torn country, saying that at least 281 civilians, including 84 children and 63 women, were killed in the offensive the Assad regime and Russia launched in southern Syria - 4 August 2018: North Korea has not stopped its nuclear and missile programmes and is violating UN sanctions, according to UN report, also saying that North Korean regime continues military cooperation with Syria's Assad regime - 18 August 2018: In a joint letter to the UN signed by Qatar and Liechtenstein on behalf of 41 countries, including the USA, the UK, Spain, Australia, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Morocco, Mexico, Austria, Italy, Turkey, France, Canada, and the Netherlands, about the Assad regime’s recent issuance of thousands of death notices for detainees who died under torture in its prisons, condemning the Assad regime's systematic violations, torture and execution of detainee - 27 August 2018: SNHR says in a new report that the UN Security Council is still ‘dead’ despite the compelling evidence about the Assad regime’s responsibility for enforced disappearance in Syria - 31 August 2018: Russia has blocked the publication of a UN report on the implementation of sanctions against North Korea, which AFP obtained a copy of earlier this month, listing violations of a ban on North Korean exports of coal, iron, seafood and other products that generate millions of dollars in revenue for Kim Jong Un's regime

September 2018: 5/6 September 2018: Two Russian nationals Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov named and charged by British police and prosecutors over the novichok poisoning of Sergei and Julia Skripal in March in Salisbury, as Britain to lay out case against Russian regime at UN with PM Theresa May saying suspects were GRU officers, pointing to Putin, explicitly blamed by security minister Ben Wallace - 6 September 2018: Russia has come under a sustained barrage of almost universal condemnation as nations lined up at the UN security council to decry its role in the Salisbury chemical weapons attacks - 6 September 2018: In a joint statement with the UK, Canada, France, Germany and the USA reiterate their outrage at the use of a chemical nerve agent, known as Novichok, in Salisbury on 4 March, having full confidence in the British assessment that the two suspects were officers from the Russian military intelligence servic and that their operation was almost certainly approved at a senior government level

14 September 2018: USA calls UN Meeting on efforts by some countries 'to undermine and obstruct' sanctions against North Korea, after USA's ambassador accused Russian regime on Thursday of pressuring an independent panel of UN experts to alter a report on North Korea sanctions - 17 September 2018: At UN, USA accuses Russian Putin regime of 'cheating' on North Korea sanctions, citing 'evidence of consistent and wide-ranging Russian violations'

October 2018: 29 October 2018: SNHR called on the UN Security Council to put forward a recommendation to the UN General Assembly to suspend the membership of the Assad regime in response to the atrocious crimes and violations it has been committing against the Syrian people over the past seven years

November 2918: 14 November 2018: Security Council meeting ends with no action, as UN debates Gaza violence and Israel envoy sounds rocket siren - 26 November 2018: UN Security Council to hold emergency meeting over Russian aggression near Kerch Strait - 29 November 2018: Facing war, famine and cholera, Yemen ceasefire resolution blocked at UN, after the USA and other member states argued that the resolution should be delayed until the start of planned peace talks between the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels in Stockholm, which UN's Martin Griffiths hopes to broker at some point between 3 and 13 December 2018 4 years since Houthi's coup d'état 2014–15

December 2018: 4 December 2018: The UN Security Council will meet behind closed doors on Tuesday at the request of France and Britain to discuss resolution calling on Iranian regime to refrain from testing missiles capable of carrying a nuclear weapon, after they accused the regime of test-firing respective medium-range missile - 14 December 2018: Russia and China abstain on UN Central African Republic vote to extend peacekeeping mission - 20 December 2018: The USA is demanding that UN resolution on Yemen ceasefire contains reference to Iran’s role in arming the Houthis, a proposal that has led to Russian threats to veto it - 20 December 2018: UN fails to take action against Hezbollah terror tunnels, but several Security Council members join Israel in condemning Lebanese terrorist group for tunneling under the border

16 January 2019: 16 January 2019: UN trying to prevent the collapse of the ceasefire agreement in Yemen by endorsing a fresh security council resolution urgently increasing the number of monitors overseeing the deal in Hodeidah

19 January 2019: 19 January 2019: Illegally shipped Iranian fuel financing Yemen Houthi rebels' war, UN report finds - 23 January 2019: UN envoy to the Mideast Nikolay Mladenov tells Security Council that international forces are being prevented from inspecting the source of the Hezbollah cross-border tunnels uncovered by Israel, protesting Lebanon not giving peacekeepers access - 23 January 2019: Assad regime's envoy to the UN warned Tuesday that if the world body did not halt Israeli strikes on his country, the regime would retaliate with an attack on Ben Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv

March 2019: 4 March 2019: Syrian Coalition demands accountability for chemical weapons attack launched against civilians in eastern Ghouta's Douma in the spring of 2018 - 8 March 2019: USA urges UN to toughen restrictions on Iran over missile tests - 11 March 2019: UN experts are investigating possible violations of UN sanctions on North Korea in about 20 countries, from alleged clandestine nuclear procurement in China to arms brokering in Syria and military cooperation with Iran, Libya and Sudan - 26 March 2019: UN envoy for the Middle East Nickolay Mladenov urged the Security Council to condemn the 'continued indiscriminate firing of rockets by Hamas towards Israel' - 28 March 2019: USA slammed at UN Security Council for recognizing Golan as Israeli, as USA says it wants peacekeepers to stay

April 2019: 2 April 2019: Britain, France and Germany accused Iran of developing missile technology in contravention of a UN resolution, drawing attention to regime’s ballistic missile efforts and their potential relevance for a nuclear weapons program, and called for a full UN report on recent activities, according to a letter released Tuesday - 8 April 2019: UK urges France to condemn Haftar’s assault on Tripoli, as EU foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels to condemn an assault on Tripoli by the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar and call for all sides to revert to UN-led political discussions about the riven country’s future, after UK-led moveto pass a security council statement condemning Haftar at the UN on Sunday was blocked by Russia - 19 avril 2019: Le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU s'est réuni sur la Libye sans établir de stratégie claire pour réclamer rapidement un cessez-le-feu aux belligérants, alors que les Etats-Unis et la Russie continuent d'opposer de la résistance à un projet de résolution britannique, tandis que l'émissaire Ghassam Salamé a aussi réclamé que le conseil prenne une position forte sur les violations de l'embargo sur les armes imposé sur le théâtre libyen - 20 April 2019: Libya addressed a letter to the Security Council requesting the formation of an international fact-finding mission to investigate the violations committed by Haftar's forces during their attack on Tripoli, including the killing and displacement of innocent civilians, destruction of private and public property, the recruitment of children, and the targeting of densely populated neighbourhoods with heavy weapons - 23 April 2019: The UN has backed a resolution on combatting rape in conflict by 13 votes in favour, as China and Russia abstained, excluding references in the text to sexual and reproductive health after vehement opposition from the USA, but making for the first time specific calls for greater support for children born as a result of rape in conflict, as well as their mothers, amid calls for practical steps to achieve reality

28 April 2019: 28 April 2019: Libya’s Tripoli government held the UN Security Council responsible for refraining from taking action regarding attacks on the Libyan capital by warlord Haftar and decries UN 'silence’ - 28 April 2019: Airstrikes by Khalifa Haftar's self-proclaimed Libyan National Army killed four people and wounded 20 others in Tripoli, according to Libya's internationally recognized unity government

May 2019: 5 mai 2019: Après le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU n'a pas réussi à s'entendre sur une résolution britannique demandant un cessez-le-feu en Libye, la 'communauté' internationale accepte donc de facto la poursuite d'une autre guerre périlleuse - 6 May 2019: Warlord Khalifa Haftar orders troops to fight harder during Ramadan, just hours after the UN called for a week-long humanitarian truce following a month of fighting for the capital Tripoli that has displaced 50,000 people, killed around 400, and badly damaged some southern districts

8 May 2019: 8 May 2019: Described as an 'unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe', renewed bombardment in north-west Syria that has displaced 200,000 people and destroyed 12 healthcare centres could have been sparked by Russia and Turkish moves to entrench their zones of influence and landgrab - 8 May 2019: Syrian Coalition calls for stopping Assad regime and Russia's fierce onslaught on Hama and Idlib

9-11 May 2019: 9 May 2019: Kuwait, Germany, Belgium call for urgent Syria meeting at UN, as calls emerge to stand up to the Russian and Assad regime’s deadly attacks on Syrian civilians and protect civilians in Hama and Idlib province - 11 May 2019: Assad regime troops expand offensive on rebels in northeast Syria as members of the UN Security Council call on Assad to honor cease-fire urging a return to 'calm', after UN chief Antonio Guterres supported Assad’s regime in 2018

17/18 May 2019: 18 May 2019: 'Despite our warnings our worst fears are now coming true', UN emergency relief coordinator Lowcock told the UN Security Council, saying that the Assad regime and its Russian ally have intensified attacks against Idlib province, bombing hospitals with the WHO reporting 20 attacks on 18 facilities in the past three weeks, repeating some key questions put to his office in recent weeks by Member States, NGOs, doctors and families, including 'Who is bombing all these hospitals?', 'Is the information being provided about the locations of hospitals in fact being used not to protect hospitals but to target them?', 'What is your advice to parents of children who live in the de-escalation zone?', 'Hasn’t the Security Council passed a resolution reinforcing that countries shouldn’t bomb hospitals?', 'What is the point of the Security Council passing resolutions like that if States are not going to comply with them?'

21-23 May 2019: 21 mai 2019: La bataille pour Tripoli 'n'est que le début d'une guerre longue et sanglante', a déclaré mardi au Conseil de sécurité l'émissaire de l'ONU pour la Libye, en réclamant des mesures pour arrêter le flot d'armes arrivant dans le pays, malheureusement sans citer les noms 'des pays (qui) alimentent ce conflit sanglant', y compris la Russie - 22 May 2019: The international community lacks the moral motivation to end the Libyan civil war and largely views the country as a prize to be captured, UN’s special envoy for Libya Salamé said, as warlord Khalifa Haftar, who launched a military offensive to capture Tripoli, ruled out an immediate ceasefire in talks with French president Macron in Paris, and as the Macron administration is accused of giving support to Haftar - 23 May 2019: Libya's UN-recognized government head urges stopping war

27-30 May 2019: 27/28 May 2019: Syrian Coalition said that the Assad regime and its allies are using 'all that tactics and weapons that are prohibited under international law against civilians in Idlib and rural Hama', calling upon active members of the UN international organisations to take action to stop attacks in Idlib and Hama and protect civilians - 29 May 2019: SNHR issued a new report detailing attacks by the Assad regime and Russian forces on healthcare facilities in northwestern Syria, as Syrian Coalition said that these attacks are aimed at putting more pressure on civilians and forcing them to flee - 29 May 2019: As Assad regime and Russian forces have further escalated the bombing campaign against towns and villages in Idlib, Aleppo and Hama provinces, targeting mainly populated areas, public markets and hospitals, UN warns more Idlib military action will overwhelm aid needs - 29 May 2019: Assad's continued assault on Idleb has killed a further 18 people in Idleb, including women and children, according to Alsouria Net, as SOHR documented about 500 air and ground strikes during the 30th day of Assad's and Russian escalation - 30 May 2019: Assad regime and their Russian backers reportedly destroyed over 20 hospitals in an assault that has killed at least 265 civilians in the past weeks - 30 May 2019: Assad's and Russian aerial bombardment continues causing more casualties in a massacre by regime’s warplanes in Maarrat al-Nu’man

30 May 2019: 30 May 2019: After 'over the past few hours, the Assad regime forces, the Russian occupation jets, and the Iranian militia have carried out four deadly attacks in Idlib and Aleppo provinces, bombing more than 35 towns and villages in the two provinces', the Syrian Coalition says 'these crimes have cast serious doubt about the very mission around which the United Nations was established, mainly to maintain international peace and security. These crimes have also shown how this institution, since it has been unable to intervene to resolve the most serious international conflicts, has become wholly irrelevant'

June 2019: 1 June 2019: Russia bears primary responsibility for Assad’s bombing of civilians, according to Syrian Coalition’s Riad al-Hassan, saying that the atrocities taking place against civilians in northwestern Syria constitute war crimes under the international law and international humanitarian law - 2 June 2019: Dozens of prominent doctors have called for urgent action to halt the bombing campaign by Syrian and Russian planes that has targeted more than 20 hospitals in Syria’s north-west, putting many out of action and leaving millions of people without proper healthcare, after coordinates for many of those hit had been shared with the regime and its Russian backers by the UN - 4 June 2019: Russia blocked the UN Security Council on Monday from issuing a statement expressing concern about attacks on civilians, the increasing fighting in and around Syria's Idlib province and the possibility of a humanitarian disaster, a council diplomat said

5 June 2019: 5 June 2019: Chinese regime, backed by Russia, blocked a bid at the UN security council to condemn the killing of civilians in Sudan and issue a pressing call from world powers for an immediate halt to the violence, after paramilitaries killed at least 60 people when they attacked pro-democracy protesters in Khartoum, injuring hundreds

7 June 2019: 7 June 2019: During a briefing to the UN Security Council, the UAE along with Saudi Arabia and Norway presented the preliminary findings of an investigation the 'sophisticated and coordinated' attacks on oil tankers on 12 May, pointing to the likelihood that a state was behind the bombings, as the council will also receive the final results of the probe to consider a possible response, and as USA and Saudi Arabia both pointed finger at Iranian regime

19 June 2019: 19 juin 2019: L'ONU attire l'attention sur la situation à Idleb, demandant à la Russie et la Turquie de stopper la 'catastrophe humanitaire' en cours - 19 June 2019: UN warned of threats to the Middle East as a result of the continued military escalation by the Assad regime and Russia in the ‘de-escalation zone’ in northwestern Syria, as UN political chief Rosemary DiCarlo told the council members that 'the continuing fighting in Idlib has become a threat to regional stability'

19 June 2019: 19 June 2019: ICC's chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda is urging Sudan's transitional authorities to hand over or prosecute ousted president Omar al-Bashir and four others for alleged war crimes in Darfur, telling the UN Security Council she is ready to engage with authorities 'to ensure that the Darfur suspects face independent and impartial justice, either in a courtroom in The Hague, or in Sudan' if the latter court meets international standards

19/20 June 2019: 19/20 June 2019: Following her renewed call for full State accountability for the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, UN-appointed independent investigator Agnes Callamard said she believed the UN chief 'should be able to establish a follow-up criminal investigation without any trigger' by other UN bodies or member states, adding 'it would be absurd to limit the intervention of the UNSG to such scenarios', as defenders of human rights and press freedom demand justice for Khashoggi, saying 'impunity in this case poses too great a risk to the safety of journalists everywhere'

24/25 June 2019 Iranian, Russian and Assad's warfare: 25 June 2019: In a unanimous press statement drafted by Kuwait, UN council condemned recent attacks on oil tankers, calling them a threat to the world’s energy supply and to international peace and security, as Iranian regime's envoy to the UN Ravanchi rejected regime talks with the USA, outside the Security Council, because regime is not a member, and as Russian regime rejected a mention of a 'state actor' - 25 June 2019: In Jerusalem, USA's John Bolton urged Iranian regime to step back from its 'malign behavior' and enter into 'real negotiations' over its nuclear weapons program, ballistic missile development, and backing for international terror groups, accusing Tehran regime of supporting violence throughout the region, from Hezbollah in Lebanon to the Assad regime in Syria, as well as Shiite militias in Iraq, Yemen’s Houthi rebels, and terror attacks on USA forces in Afghanistan, and of threatening Middle Eastern oil supplies, as Israeli PM Netanyahu told murderous Russian regime's Nikolai Patrushev that Israel will do 'anything it takes' to ensure Iran does not obtain nuclear weapons, saying 'I’m certain that Russia understands what it means for us when a regime calls for our annihilation, and acts on a daily basis to achieve that aim', amid Assad's and Russian regime's northwestern Syria offensive since April 2019, murdering hundreds of civilians, and as Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah is now giving orders to Assad’s army, using it to spy on Israel along Golan border