2012/2013: 9. April 2012: Laut ILO (International Labour Organization) wächst die Arbeitslosigkeit weltweit - 30 April 2012: ILO warns global employment situation is 'alarming' - 22 May 2012: Youth unemployment rising, ILO report warns - 22 January 2013: World unemployment figures set to rise in 2013, claims UN labour agency

October 2015: 13 October 2015: Global inequality is growing, with half the world’s wealth now in the hands of just 1% of the population, according to a new report

January 2016: 19 January 2016: Unemployment worldwide will rise by about 2.3 million this year to 199.4 million, making existing jobs vulnerable and fuelling potential social unrest as the global economy slows, an International Labour Organization's report warns

January 2018: 22 January 2018: Global unemployment in 2018 is projected to remain at a similar high level to last year’s and vulnerable employment is on the rise, according to ILO - Unemployment rate in 2018 by country

Since January 2020 worldwide crisis and recession due to 2019 Chinese coronavirus outbreak: Since January 2020 international socio-economic impact of the 2019 Chinese coronavirus pandemic, by continent and country - Since February 2020 global stock market crash that began on in February 2020 - 2020 Chinese coronavirus worldwide recession, which has been claimed to have started affecting the world economy due to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, as many economists agree that the recession is already happening, supported by findings from surveys of purchasing managers in the USA, Europe and China, and as the USA currently has almost five times as many unemployment claims as during the previous peak in 1982 - Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic

Since March 2020 daily increase in death rates and expansion of worldwide crisis: 8 March 2020: Economies struggle due to latest Chinese coronavirus developments worldwide, as death toll has surged above 3,500 worldwide, with 105,000 cases recorded in 95 countries and territories - 9 March 2020: New week of the Chinese coronavirus crisis is beginning with another unexpected consequence, an oil price crash driven by the outbreak of relatively unrestricted economic warfare between Saudi Arabia, Russia and the West, as the green revolution in Western and other countries poses an existential threat to the Russian economy, as nations also are shutting borders, ceasing trade and, particularly damaging in an era of global supply chains, locking down supplies within their borders - 9 March 2020: World markets plunge on back of Chinese coronavirus-driven recession fears. as global stock markets suffering their biggest falls since the 2008 financial crisis while the oil price crashed amid panic selling because of the double threat of a coronavirus-driven global recession and an oil price war - Since March 2020 Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war - 30 March 2020: Asian shares with fresh losses as countries reported surging numbers of infections from the coronavirus in many parts of the world

April 2020 expansion of worldwide crisis: 9 April 2020: Half a billion more people could fall into poverty due to covid-19, as Oxfam also warns 'devastating economic fallout of pandemic’ could set back efforts against poverty in some areas of the world by decades - 14 April 2020: Global economy faces worst recession since the Great Depression, IMF says

29 April 2020 1.6 billion people in 'immediate danger of having their livelihoods destroyed': 29 April 2020: 1.6 billion people, almost half the global workforce, are in 'immediate danger of having their livelihoods destroyed' by the economic impact of covid-19, ILO has warned, as of the total global working population of 3.3 billion, about 2 billion work in the 'informal economy', often on short-term contracts or self-employment, and suffered a 60% collapse in their wages in the first month of the crisis

5 June 2020 mining sites around the world hotspots for spread of covid-19: 5 June 2020: Mining sites in Canada, the USA and around the world have become hotspots for the spread of covid-19, and approximately 4,000 mine workers in 18 countries have tested positive, according to a report by an international coalition of non-profit groups

8 October 2020 world’s garment workers face ruin as fashion brands refuse to pay $16bn: 8 October 2020: Powerful USA and European fashion companies have refused to pay overseas suppliers for more than $16bn of goods since the outbreak of covid-19, with devastating implications for garment workers across the world, according to analysis of newly released import data

21 December 2020 Latin America's new 'lost decade' due to covid-19: 21 décembre 2020: La pandémie provoquée par le coronavirus a détruit en 2020 une grande partie de ce que l’Amérique latine était parvenue à réaliser au cours d’années de réformes et d’investissements, la pauvreté a explosé, le chômage a augmenté, et la région doit désormais faire face au spectre d’une nouvelle 'décennie perdue'

30 April 2021 Eurozone falls into double-dip recession: 30 April 2021: Eurozone falls into double-dip recession amid covid-19 pandemic, 'The Guardian' reports live

12 December 2021 covid-19 disrupted health services globally, triggered worst economic crisis since the 1930s: 12 December 2021: More than half a billion people globally were pushed into extreme poverty last year as they paid for health costs out of their own pockets during the height of the covid-19 pandemic, according to the WHO and the World Bank, as the pandemic disrupted health services globally and triggered the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, making it even more difficult for people to pay for healthcare, a joint statement said

14 January 2022 covid-19 created billionaires while 140 million people in Asia plunged into poverty: 14 January 2022: Covid-19 created new ‘pandemic billionaires’ in Asia, while wealthiest got richer, 140m people fell into poverty as jobs were lost, wiping out years of gains for poorest, Oxfam says in new report

26 September 2022 leading economies sliding into recession as Russia's Ukraine war cuts growth, finds OECD: 26 September 2022: The world’s leading economies are sliding into recession as the global energy and inflation crises sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine cuts growth by more than previously forecast, according to OECD

26 September 2022 leading economies sliding into recession as Russia's Ukraine war cuts growth, finds OECD: 26 September 2022: The world’s leading economies are sliding into recession as the global energy and inflation crises sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine cuts growth by more than previously forecast, according to OECD

14 October 2022 IMF's 216 global countries by GDP, 'Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa': 13 October 2022 list of 216 global countries by GDP, listed and updated by 'Wikipedia' - 14 October 2022: IMF's 'Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa', as growth in 2022 is expected to slow sharply to 3.6%, as a worldwide slowdown, tighter global financial conditions, and a dramatic pickup in global inflation spill into a region already wearied by an ongoing series of shocks. Rising food and energy prices are impacting the region’s most vulnerable, and public debt and inflation are at levels not seen in decades. Against this backdrop, and with limited options, many countries find themselves pushed closer to the edge.

18th/19th centuries establishment of the domination of the capitalist mode of production: During the 18th/19th centuries domination of the capitalist mode of production and 'Industrial Revolution', industrialists replaced merchants as a dominant factor in the capitalist system and effected the decline of the traditional handicraft skills of artisans, guilds and journeymen, as industrial capitalism marked the development of the factory system of manufacturing, characterized by a complex division of labor between and within work process and the routine of work tasks and eventually established the domination of the capitalist mode of production, as the surplus generated by the rise of commercial agriculture encouraged increased mechanization of agriculture - British Agricultural Revolution and an increase in agricultural production due to increases in labour and land productivity between the mid-17th and late 19th centuries - 'Enclosure' in England of consolidating (enclosing) small landholdings into larger farms, as by the 19th century unenclosed commons had become largely restricted

Since the 19th century economic recessions: Working conditions, social structure and standards of living during and since the 18th/19th centuries Industrial Revolution, the transition to new manufacturing processes in Europe and the USA in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840, as economic recessions began and occurred from the late 1830s

1844/1885 'The Condition of the Working Class in England': 'The Condition of the Working Class in England' (Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England), an 1845 book by the German scientist Friedrich Engels written during Engels' 1842–44 stay in Manchester, the city at the heart of the capitalist industrial Revolution and compiled from Engels' own observations and detailed contemporary reports, as an English translation was published in 1885

18th/19th centuries Industrial Revolution's effects on cotton production and expansion of slavery: 18th/19th centuries Industrial Revolution's effects on cotton production and expansion of slavery, as cotton became profitable, leading to the widespread growth of cotton plantations in the emerging USA and Brazil, as American countries' labour shortages resulting from destruction of Native American cultures made slavery even more attractive as cotton plantations became highly efficient and profitable - 1783–1815 expansion and rise of the 'Second' British Empire and Britain's imperial century (1815–1914)

Overseas empires and establishments by colonial empire: Overseas empires, as colonists - following the Roman empire since the Middle Ages - initially came from European kingdoms that had more or less highly developed military, naval, governmental, and entrepreneurial capabilities - Establishments by colonial empire

Since 1929 'Weltwirtschaftskrise' and Great Depression: Since 1929 Great Depression, a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the USA, as the timing of the crisis varied across the world lasting until the late 1930s, and as it was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century, commonly described as an example of how intensely the capitalist mode of production and global economy can decline - Seit 1929 Weltwirtschaftskrise zum Ende der 1920er und im Verlauf der 1930er Jahre beginnend mit dem New Yorker Börsencrash im Oktober 1929

Since early 2020 economic impact of the covid-19 pandemic: Since early 2020 economic impact of the covid-19 pandemic, having far-reaching economic consequences including the covid-19 recession, the second largest global recession in recent history - Since 2019 covid-19 economic impact by continent and by country

31 March 2022 Ukrainian and Russian economies will shrink by 20%, 10% amid Putin's aggression against Ukraine: 31 March 2022: The economies of Russia and Ukraine will shrink by 10% and 20% respectively in 2022, according to the EBRD, warning in its first economic forecast since Russian regime’s invasion on 24 February that the war had triggered 'the greatest supply shock since at least the early 1970s' and would have a severe effect on economies far beyond the immediate area of the conflict'

2 April 2022 global food price fears as prices of basics in Africa and the 'Middle East': 2 April 2022: Global food price fears as prices of basics in Africa and the 'Middle East' such as oil and wheat are shooting up and shortages are showing on supermarket shelves in Lebanon, Somalia and Egypt, after Ukraine farmers forced to reduce crop planting

2014/2015 developing world's workers trapped in vulnerable jobs: 27 May 2014: Half of developing world's workers trapped in vulnerable jobs, says ILO - 24 July 2014: More than 2.2 billion people are 'poor or near-poor', amid financial crises, natural disasters, soaring food prices and violent conflicts, UNDP's report says - 19 mai 2015: Une étude de l'Organisation internationale du travail indique que seulement un quart des travailleurs à travers le monde a un emploi stable - 13 October 2015: Global inequality is growing, with half the world’s wealth now in the hands of just 1% of the population, according to a new report

January 2016 vast and growing gap between rich and poor and unemployment: 18 January 2016: The vast and growing gap between rich and poor has been laid bare in a new report showing that the 62 richest billionaires own as much wealth as the poorer half of the world’s population, as a global network of tax havens further enables the richest individuals to hide $7.6 trillion, according to Oxfam - 19 January 2016: Unemployment worldwide will rise by about 2.3 million this year to 199.4 million, making existing jobs vulnerable and fuelling potential social unrest as the global economy slows, an International Labour Organization's report warns

April 2017: 6 April 2017: The risk of human rights tainted tungsten, tin, tantalum and gold (3TG) entering the supply chains of tech firms is extending well beyond the traditional home of 'conflict minerals', DR Congo and the Great Lakes Region of Africa, according to new research from risk analysis firm Verisk Maplecroft - 7 April 2017: Tech companies must do more to avoid using minerals tainted by rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Colombia, Peru, Myanmar and elsewhere, according to Verisk Maplecroft

November 2018: 26 novembre 2018: La croissance des salaires au plus bas en 2017 depuis 2008 et les salaires sont insuffisants pour honorer les besoins de nombreuses personnes dans de nombreuses régions du monde, selon OIT

April 2020 migrant workers are bearing the brunt of the covid-19 in the Middle East: 19 April 2020: Crammed into work camps, stood down from their jobs, facing high rates of infection and with no way home, hundreds of thousands of migrant workers are bearing the brunt of the covid-19 pandemic in the Middle East, migrant advocates and diplomats say

Settler colonialism: Settler colonialism - Colonialism and genocide - Genocide of indigenous peoples

Exploitation colonialism: Exploitation colonialism

During late 19th and early 20th centuries colonial expansion by European powers, USA and Japan: During the late 19th and early 20th centuries colonial expansion by European powers, the USA and Japanese empire

Wars of independence, decolonization (withdrawal of colonial powers): Wars of independence, since 18th/19th centuries first successful following revolutions in colonial power states - Mainly since World War II Decolonization, the withdrawal from its colonies of a colonial power, the acquisition of political or economic independence by such colonies

April 2019 debt repayments by the world’s poorest countries have doubled since 2010: 3 April 2019: 'Debt' repayments by the world’s poorest countries have doubled since 2010 to reach their highest level since just before the internationally organised write-off in 2005, campaigners have warned

September 2019 mining companies' human rights abuses: 5 September 2019: Most of the world’s top companies extracting key minerals for electric vehicles, solar panels and wind turbines have been linked with human rights abuses in their mines, according to the international corporate watchdog BHRRC, revealing that 87% of the 23 largest companies mining cobalt, copper, lithium, manganese, nickel and zinc – the six minerals essential to the renewable energy industry – have faced allegations of abuse including land rights infringements, corruption, violence or death over the past 10 years

January 2015 fast growing gap between rich and poor: 19 January 2015: The gap between the richest people and the majority of the world's population is widening fast as wealth accumulated by the richest 1% will exceed that of the other 99% in 2016, British Oxfam charity says

January 2016: 18 January 2016: The vast and growing gap between rich and poor has been laid bare in a new Oxfam report showing that the 62 richest billionaires own as much wealth as the poorer half of the world’s population, as the wealth of the poorest 50% dropped by 41% between 2010 and 2015, despite an increase in the global population of 400m - April 2016 'Panama Papers', period of release 1970s–2016

2017 rising inequality: 16 January 2017: The world’s eight richest billionaires control the same wealth between them as the poorest half of the globe’s population, Oxfam says blaming rising inequality on aggressive wage restraint, tax dodging and the squeezing of producers by companies, adding that businesses were too focused on delivering ever-higher returns to wealthy owners and top executives - 28 septembre 2017: Les grosses fortunes ont proliféré dans le monde en 2016, selon Capgemini - 14 décembre 2017: Europe, Afrique, Asie ou continent américain, 'les inégalités ont augmenté dans presque toutes les régions du monde', assure un 'rapport sur les inégalités mondiales', qui compare de façon inédite la répartition des richesses au niveau mondial et son évolution depuis près de quatre décennies

January-June 2018 rising inequality: 22 January 2018: The world’s richest one percent raked in 82% of the wealth created last year while the poorest half of the population received none, according to Oxfam report, calling for action to tackle the growing gap between rich and poor, as report shows that 42 people hold as much wealth as the 3.7 billion who make up the poorest half of the world’s population - 7 April 2018: The world’s richest 1% are on course to control as much as two-thirds of the world’s wealth by 2030, according to an alarming projection produced by the House of Commons library that has lead to a cross-party call for action - 2 June 2018: Citizenship for sale, how tycoons can go shopping for a new passport

October 2018: 26 October 2018: World's billionaires became 20% richer in 2017, making more money in 2017 than in any year in recorded history and increasing their wealth to $8.9tn, according to a report by Swiss bank UBS

January 2019 growing concentration of the world’s wealth: 21 January 2019: The growing concentration of the world’s wealth has been highlighted by a British report, showing that the 26 richest billionaires own as many assets as the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of the planet’s population, and that the 'growing gap between the rich and poor is undermining the fight against poverty, damaging economies and fueling public anger across the globe'

September 2019 ranks of super-rich continue to grow: 25 September 2019: Ranks of super-rich continue to grow despite global turmoil, as economic woes fail to stop further 2,124 people becoming ultra-high net worth people

February 2020 record $1.43tn in dividends to shareholders around the world in 2019: 17 February 2020: Companies paid out a record $1.43tn in dividends to shareholders around the world in 2019, as record-breaking annual dividend payout from listed companies (3.5% higher than in 2018) was driven by strong performances in stock markets in North America and emerging economies, including by some unusually high special dividends, although global economic uncertainty slowed the annual pace of growth

3 February 2021 up to 124 million more people were forecast to be living in extreme poverty in 2020: 3 February 2021: Two decades of progress in the reduction of extreme poverty, the elimination of which is one of the sustainable development goals, have been pushed into a sharp reverse by a combination of the impact of the covid-19 pandemic, the growing climate emergency and increasing debt, as with the World Bank warning of a 'truly unprecedented increase' in levels of poverty this year, and renewing calls for debt forgiveness, experts are warning of a growing crisis in multiple areas from education to employment, likely to be felt for years to come

14 January 2022 world’s poorest bear brunt of climate crisis: 14 January 2022: World’s poorest bear brunt of climate crisis, shown by 10 underreported emergencies as 'Care International' report highlights ‘deep injustice’ neglected by world’s media, and as extreme weather along with covid-19 wipes out decades of progress

5 October 2022 goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 out of reach, World Bank report says: 5 October 2022: The world is unlikely to meet a longstanding goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030, the World Bank has said, citing the effects of 'extraordinary' shocks to the global economy, including the covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, saying in its new report released on Wednesday higher food and energy prices had hindered a quick recovery after covid-19 dealt the 'biggest setback' to global poverty in decades

Hunger, Famine, Starvation, and malnutrition - List of famines

World food, hunger crises and and 21st century 'Global Hunger Index': 2022 saw a rapid increase in food prices and shortages of food supplies, food and hunger crises around the world listed by continent and country by 'Wikipedia'. The crises follow food security and economic crises during the covid-19 pandemic and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Food and Agriculture Organization, as well as other observers of the food commodities markets, warned of a collapse in food supply and price increases. Much of the concern is related to supply shortages of key commodity crops, such as wheat, corn, and oil seeds, which could cause price increases. - Global Hunger Index, a tool that measures and tracks hunger globally as well as by region and by country. The GHI is calculated annually, and its results appear in a report issued in October each year. The 2021 Global Hunger Index indicates a critical hunger situation described as arising from the devastating combination of the climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and increasingly severe and protracted conflicts. Progress toward achieving the SDG 'Zero Hunger by 2030', which was already far too slow, has stagnated or even, in some countries, seen reversals

2000-2021 global and regional trends in hunger and country rankings: 2000-2021 global and regional trends in hunger and country rankings

2016 drought drives global rise in hunger: 5 June 2016: Drought drives global rise in hunger, as millions of people are suffering the impact of severe drought across three continents

2017 world hunger rising: 11 March 2017: The world faces the largest humanitarian crisis since 1945 with more than 20 million people in countries in Africa and the Middle East facing starvation and famine, UN official says - 15 September 2017: World hunger rising for first time this century, sparking concern that conflict and climate change could be reversing years of progress, according to the state of food insecurity and nutrition in 2017, a report produced by five UN agencies

2018 world hunger rising: 22 mars 2018: L'intensification des conflits et la sécheresse persistante dans plusieurs régions du monde ont fait grimper à 124 millions le nombre de personnes jugées à la merci d'une famine à la fin 2017, une augmentation de 15% comparé à l'année précédente, selon UE, FAO et PAM

July 2019 world hunger rising: 15 juillet 2019: La faim dans le monde affectait 821,6 millions de personnes dans le monde en 2018, contre 811 l'année précédente, selon un rapport annuel publié par plusieurs organisations de l'ONU qui déplorent une troisième année consécutive de hausse

12 May 2020 malnutrition leading cause of death and ill health worldwide: 12 May 2020: Malnutrition leading cause of death and ill health worldwide, as covid-19 pandemic highlights weakness of food and health systems, and 'Global Nutrition Report' finds one in nine, or 820 million people, of world’s population is hungry

2020 Global Hunger Index by severity: 2020 Global Hunger Index by Severity, as world is not on track to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030, with areas highly vulnerable to a worsening of food and nutrition insecurity exacerbated by the health, economic, and environmental crises of 2020

13 October 2020 ending world hunger by 2030 would cost $330bn according to study: 13 October 2020: Ending world hunger by 2030 would cost $330bn, study finds, as research suggests that by targeting enhanced aid money more effectively and with greater innovation, a solution is possible

5 May 2021 'Global Report on Food Crises' highlights the high severity and numbers of people in crisis: 5 May 2021: 'Global Report on Food Crises' highlights the remarkably high severity and numbers of people in crisis or worse (IPC/CH Phase 3 or above) or equivalent in 55 countries/territories, driven by persistent conflict, pre-existing and covid-19-related economic shocks, and weather extremes, as the number identified in the 2021 edition is the highest in the report’s five-year existence

8 November 2021 45 million people on the edge of famine according to the UN: 8 November 2021: 45 million people on the edge of famine, as the UN food agency says global hunger spiked by three million within a year, with conflict, climate change and covid-19 main driving factors, and as jump from 42 million people earlier in the year was largely down to a food security assessment that found another three million people facing famine in Afghanistan, WFP said

30 November 2021 number of hungry people in Latin America and the Caribbean has risen by 30% since 2019: 30 November 2021: The number of hungry people in Latin America and the Caribbean has risen by 30% since 2019 to reach its highest level in 15 years, a coalition of UN agencies said, calling the situation 'critical', as more than 59 million people across the region currently are not getting enough to eat, an increase of 13.8 million people in just one year, 2021 report says

June-August 2022 WFP's and SISAAP's analysis of Chad’s food security situation: March 2022 WFP and SISAAP's Cadre Harmonisé analysis of Chad’s food security situation projected that a total of 2.1 million Chadians will be severely food insecure (phase 3 and above) during the lean season when food becomes scarce and expensive, especially in the Sahelian belt region - 26 août 2022: Selon un récent rapport du OCHA, plus de 340.000 Tchadiens ont été affectées par des inondations sans précédent causées par des pluies torrentielles survenues dans le pays au cours de ces dernières semaines.

March 2014 Assad's army using starvation as a 'weapon of war': 10 March 2014: Assad's army has been using starvation as a 'weapon of war' in its siege of the Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus, according rights group, saying nearly 200 people have died since an army siege was tightened in July 2013 and access to food and medicine cut

Since 2015 starvation as weapon: Use of starvation as weapon during Assad's war against the Syrian people, since 2015 in Madaya

January 2016 siege and starvation in Madaya: 7/8 January 2016: Siege and starvation in Madaya, immediate medical evacuations and medical resupply essential to save lives

November 2017 children starve in siege of Syria's former breadbasket Rif Damashq province: 24 November 2017: Children starve in siege of Syria's former breadbasket Rif Damashq province, as the siege by Assad forces of eastern Ghouta, which also suffered in the deadly 2013 sarin gas attack, has continued for years with conditions getting steadily worse

Since 2016 famine in Yemen: Since 2016 Famine in Yemen

October 2016 starving children fight for lives in hospital: 4 October 2016: Yemen famine feared as starving children fight for lives in hospital

November 2017 extreme hunger and disease: 16 November 2017: International aid group 'Save the Children' says an estimated 130 children or more die every day in war-torn Yemen from extreme hunger and disease

September 2018 more than 5 million children at risk of famine: 19 September 2018: More than five million children are at risk of famine in Yemen as the ongoing war causes food and fuel prices to soar across the country, according to charity 'Save the Children'

October 2018: 15 October 2018: Yemen on brink of 'world's worst famine in 100 years' if war triggered by Iranian-backed Houthis continues, as UN warns that famine could overwhelm country in next three months, with 13 million people at risk of starvation - 23 octobre 2018: Jusqu'à 14 millions de personnes pourraient souffrir de la famine au Yémen si les conditions de vie restent les mêmes, selon l'ONU

February 2019 devastating impact of Yemeni war: 15 February 2019: Starving girl shows devastating impact of Yemeni war

22 July 2020 Yemen on brink of famine again according to UN: 22 July 2020: Yemen on brink of famine again, UN agencies WFP, FAO and Unicef warn, saying millions face devastating hunger if relief efforts are not stepped up in a country ravaged by war, locusts and now covid-19, threatening to reverse recent efforts to stabilise food security in the country

28 October 2020 Yemen on brink of losing entire generation of children to hunger: 28 October 2020: Yemen on brink of losing entire generation of children to hunger, UN warns, as food security crisis means acute malnutrition among under-fives at highest levels since war engulfed the country

3 December 2020 Yemen 'one step away from famine' as donors dry up amid covid-19: 3 December 2020: The window to prevent the return of famine to Yemen is rapidly closing, UN agencies have warned, with a new assessment showing millions could head further into hunger in the coming months as donors dry up amid covid-19

1 March 2021 war and famine could wipe out the next generation of Yemenis: 1 March 2021: War and famine could wipe out the next generation of Yemenis, as after years of violence half the population is going hungry and 400,000 under fives are at risk of dying from malnutrition, 'The Guardian' reports

October 2017 D.R of Congo: 29 October 2017: Millions face starvation in the D.R. of Congo, UN warns

2018 in South Sudan: 10 January 2018: Starvation as a weapon of war in South Sudan

Since 2020 famine in the Tigray War: Since 2020 famine in the Tigray War, an ongoing humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia which resulted from the Tigray War since 2020 leading to death and starvation. As of May 2021 there are 5.5 million people facing acute food insecurity and over 350,000 people experiencing catastrophic famine conditions. It is the worst famine worldwide since the 2011 famine in Somalia

29 September 2021 Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis 'stain on our conscience, as UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths calls for urgent action: 29 September 2021: The crisis in Ethiopia that is pushing the war-scarred Tigray region towards starvation is a 'stain on our conscience', UN humanitarian chief says, as Martin Griffiths issued one of the most sharply worded criticisms to date of the worst famine situation in decades, calling on Ethiopia’s incoming new government to lead the country away from 'the abyss that it’s peering into'

29 January 2022 UN warns that nearly 40% of Tigrayans face 'extreme lack of food': 29 January 2022: In the face of an extended de-facto blockade of the war-hit region with humanitarian groups forced to increasingly curtail activities, WFP's January 2022 report details compounded effect of multiple drivers of food insecurity resulted in 83% (4.6 million people) of the population surveyed in the Tigray Region being classified as food insecure, of which two million (37% of the population) are severely food insecure. The highest prevalence of food insecurity was recorded in the North western, Eastern and Central zones

2021 Madagascar food crisis linked to climate change: Since summer 2021 Madagascar food crisis, after severe drought in southern Madagascar caused hundreds of thousands of people, with some estimating more than one million people, to suffer from food insecurity and being on the verge of famine, as some organizations have attributed the situation to the impact of climate change aggravated by the covid-19 pandemic

27 October 2021 global community urged to step up relief efforts for Madagascar’s drought-hit south: 27 October 2021: Rights group urges global community and Madagascar’s government to step up relief efforts for the island nation’s drought-hit south, as more than a million people on Madagascar’s parched southern tip are on the brink of famine and some are already dying, the global rights watchdog said in a report released ahead of the UN’s climate conference in Glasgow

21 April 2022 World Bank warns of 'human catastrophe' from food crisis: 21 April 2022: World Bank warns of 'human catastrophe' from food crisis, 'The Guardian' reports on the 57th day of Putin's war crimes against the Ukrainian people

December 2017 global call to world's presidents 1,000 days since the escalation of war in Yemen: 19 December 2017: A global call to USA's president Trump, UK's PM May, and France's president Macron, as December 2017 marks 1,000 days since the escalation of a war that has turned the Middle East’s poorest country into the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, leaving Yemen ravaged by preventable diseases and on the verge of a historic famine, and as after 1,000 days of war Yemen can't wait, as USA, UK, and France are permanent members of the UN Security Council and at the same time major weapons suppliers to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, bearing a special responsibility to use the full extent of their leverage to press their partners in the region to end the crisis and to become the brokers of peace, despite Iranian regime's connections with Yemeni Houthis

September 2018 starvation as a weapon of war the new normal: 10 September 2018: Starvation being used as a weapon of war has become the new normal, according to Save the Children, saying that more than half a million infants in conflict zones could die of malnutrition by the end of the year if they do not receive treatment - The impact of conflict-related hunger on children, a lethal weapon of war, 'Save the Children Fund' says in 2018

September 2019 UK, USA and France may be complicit in Yemen war crimes according to UN: 3 September 2019: UK, USA and France may be complicit in Yemen war crimes, UN report says

April/June 2020 Yemen the largest humanitarian crisis in the world according to UN: April 2020: Yemen is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, with more than 24 million people, some 80% of the population, in need of humanitarian assistance, including more than 12 million children, as since Houthis' 2015 coup and escalation the country has become a living hell for the country’s children, according to UN

23 September 2021 16 million in Yemen ‘marching towards starvation’: 23 September 2021: 16 million in Yemen ‘marching towards starvation’ as food rations run low, and as UN aid worker describes ‘horrific’ scenes in one hospital where starving and malnourished children ‘look like skeletons’

22 December 2021 WFP again warns that 16 million Yemenis 'marching towards starvation': 22 December 2021: Nearly 8 years of fighting betweem Iran-backed Houthi rebels and Saudi-backed government forces in Yemen has created what the UN has called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, World Food Programme has said it has been 'forced' to cut aid to Yemen due to a lack of funds, warning there will be a surge in hunger in the war-torn country in the coming months, with four million people internally displaced during the fighting, with WFP targeting 11.1 million for food assistance in November of 2021, as in September, the agency warned that 16 million Yemenis were 'marching towards starvation', saying 'from January, eight million will receive a reduced food ration'

2015: 5 June 2015: Women worldwide are the backbone of healthcare with few rewards for $3tn contribution, report says - 9 September 2015: Women’s economic opportunities and working rights still widely subject to restrictive legislation in 155 countries, having at least one law that limits women’s economic opportunities, while 100 states put restrictions on the types of jobs women can do and 18 allow husbands to dictate whether their wives can work at all, World Bank report says

March 2018: 9 March 2018: International Women's Day was celebrated across the world on Wednesday at a time when the women of the Eastern Ghouta are hiding in the cellars with their children to escape a brutal campaign waged by the Russian and Iranian-backed Syrian regime on the area

28 September 2021 female Afghan judges now hunted by the murderers they convicted: 28 September 2021: Female Afghan judges hunted by the murderers they convicted, as more than 220 trailblazers of women's rights in Afghanistan and the staunch defenders of the law and the country's most marginalised now - after the Taliban takeover - are in hiding due to fear of retribution under Taliban rule. Six former female judges spoke to the BBC from secret locations across Afghanistan.

Violence against women - Causes of sexual violence - Violence against women by country - International rape statistics - Domestic violence - Honor killing - Refugee women and children

2013/2014 over one woman in three globally a victim of domestic violence: 20 june 2013: More than one woman in three around the globe is a victim of domestic violence, the WHO says - 10 June 2014: A four-day summit on sexual violence in war is to begin in London - 30 October: UN's Ban Ki-moon backs Guardian’s global media campaign against FGM

2016 at least 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone some form of FGM: 5 February 2016: On the eve of the international day of zero tolerance for FGM, UN says that at least 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone some form of FGM, as the countries with the highest prevalence are Somalia 98%, Guinea 97% and Djibouti 93%

2016 Syrian women going through unspeakable suffering: 8 March 2016: Syrian Coalition's Suheir al-Atassi says Syrian women have been going through unspeakable suffering, whether due to displacement, loss of loved ones, detention, sexual violence, and death by starvation or under torture or in bombardment by the Assad regime

2018 Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of violence against women: 28 June 2018: India is the world’s most dangerous country for women due to the high risk of sexual violence and being forced into slave labour, according to a Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of 548 experts, ranking Afghanistan and Syria second and third, followed by Somalia and Saudi Arabia and the the USA the only western nation in the top 10 - 26 November 2018: Of a total of 87,000 women murdered globally in 2017 about 50,000 or 58% were killed by the partner or family members, according to UN

23 November 2020 ahead of 'International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25 November': 23 novembre 2020: Flambée des viols au Nigeria ou en Afrique du Sud, hausse des disparitions de femmes au Pérou, augmentation des féminicides au Brésil ou au Mexique, associations débordées en Europe, du Nigeria au Brésil, de la France à l’Inde, aucun pays n’échappe à l’explosion collatérale des agressions subies par les femmes, donnant cette année une résonance particulière à la Journée internationale pour l’élimination des violences, mercredi - 'International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25 November'

24 Februar 2021 abused Iranian woman dies of heart attack before execution, still gets hanged: 24 February 2021: Iranian Zahra Ismaili who died of a heart attack, forced to wait behind 16 men who were executed and watch, shortly before her execution, but was hanged anyway to placate her alleged victim’s mother, as Ismaili’s lawyer Omid Moradi, said her husband, who was a high ranking intel official, was abusive and that she killed him out of self-defense, 'The Times' reported

Infant mortality - List of countries by infant mortality rate - Child mortality

15 October 2019 malnutrition: 15 octobre 2019: Un jeune enfant sur trois est mal nourri, selon un rapport de l’UNICEF

18 October 2019 lack of education: 18 October 2019: 9 out of 10 children in the world’s poorest countries are unable to read a basic book by the age of 10, according to data compiled by the World Bank and the UN

February 2020 every country worldwide failing to shield children’s health and future: 19 February 2020: Every country in the world is failing to shield children’s health and their futures from intensifying ecological degradation, climate change and exploitative marketing practices, says a new report by the WHO, Unicef, and Lancet, calling for radical changes

2 March 2020 CDU and EU von der Leyen's cronyism with Russian, Iranian and Assad regime's war criminals: 2 March 2020: Child drowns at sea off Greece in first fatality of CDU and EU von der Leyen's cronyism with Russian, Iranian and Assad regime's war criminals

Since March 2020 crisis of education and schools amid covid-19: 27 août 2020: La pandémie de covid-19 et la fermeture des écoles se sont traduites par l’impossibilité pour au moins un tiers des élèves dans le monde, soit 463 millions d’enfants, de bénéficier d’un enseignement, faute de pouvoir le faire virtuellement, selon un rapport de l’Unicef

20 August 2021 a billion children at ‘extreme risk’ from climate impacts, Unicef says: 20 August 2021: A billion children at ‘extreme risk’ from climate impacts, Unicef says, as report launched with youth activists paints ‘unimaginably dire’ picture

6 September 2021 education in quarter of countries at risk of collapse, study warns: 6 September 2021: Education in quarter of countries at risk of collapse, study warns, as covid-19, climate breakdown, poverty and war threaten return to school after pandemic kept 1.5bn children out of classes

Child labour and poverty: Child labour - Child labour by country - - List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor - Child labour law

Child poverty

2014 increase of child poverty: 28 October 2014: Child poverty has increased in 23 countries in the developed world since the start of the global recession in 2008, Unicef says

2017 152 million children subject to child labour: 19 September 2017: The ILO have released a companion estimate of child labour, which confirms that about 152 million children, aged between 5 and 17, were subject to child labour in 2016

June 2019 progress on opposing child labour stalls: 14 June 2019: Progress on ending child labour stalls in countries supplying goods to west, as China, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Cambodia among otherwise thriving countries failing to make headway on issue affecting 152 million minors, a study has found

26 May 2021 child labour in poorest countries rose during covid-19 report says: 26 May 2021: Child labour in poorest countries rose during covid-19, says report, as study finds children in Ghana, Nepal and Uganda in dangerous, exploitative work, with long hours and little pay

10 June 2021 child labour worldwide increased since 2016 amid fears of further increase in 2020/21: 10 June 2021: Child labour worldwide increases for first time in 20 years, and the covid-19 crisis threatens to push millions more youngsters towards the same fate, Unicef has said in a joint report with the International Labour Organization, as UN children’s agency also reports that the number in child labour already stood at 160 million at the start of 2020, following an increase of 8.4 million in four years

Child slavery: Child slavery

Child abduction, laundering and trafficking of children: International child abduction - Child laundering - Trafficking of children

Crimes and violence against children and military use: Crimes and violence against children - Military use of children

2014 violence against children tolerated and even accepted as normal in many parts of the world: 5 September 2014: No country immune from violence against children that is tolerated and even accepted as normal in many parts of the world, Unicef report says - 21 October 2014: One child dies every five minutes as a result of violence, but only a minority die in war zones, Unicef report says

2016 torture of children in Syria etc. and chemical attacks: 28 juillet 2016: En Syrie, en Irak et au Nigéria, des milliers d'enfants sont torturés et détenus sous couvert de lutte contre le terrorisme, selon Human Rights Watch - 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

March 2017 5.8 million of Syria’s children are in need of aid: 6 March 2017: Children in Syria are suffering from 'toxic stress', a severe form of psychological trauma that can cause life-long damage, as 5.8 million of the country’s children are in need of aid in Assad's war against the Syrian people since 2011, according to a study of 'Save the Children' and its partner agencies in Syria

October 2017 reports on children in armed conflicts: 5 October 2017: Millions of children caught in conflict, victims and targets of despicable harm, as children from countries such as Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen, suffer an unacceptable level of violations by parties to conflict, according to UN's 2016 Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict - 1 novembre 2017: Trois quarts des enfants âgés entre 2 et 4 ans, environ 300 millions de filles et de garçons dans le monde sont victimes de violences domestiques, selon Unicef

December 2017 children in war zones used as weapons of war, recruited to fight, forced to act as suicide bombers, and used as human shields: 28 December 2017: Children caught in war zones are increasingly being used as weapons of war, recruited to fight, forced to act as suicide bombers, and used as human shields, according to Unicef, summarising 2017 as a brutal year for children caught in conflict and stating that parties to conflicts were blatantly disregarding international humanitarian law

August 2018 4,360 incidents of attacks hitting 1,356 schools in Syria since 2011: 8 August 2018: SNHR said in a report that there were 4,360 incidents of attacks hitting 1,356 schools in Syria since 2011, which caused about half of them to go out of service, documenting the deaths of 528 civilians as a result of attacks on schools and educational institutions, as the Assad regime attacked 996 schools, the Russian forces are responsible for attacking 169 schools and the international coalition forces are responsible for attaching 87 schools - According to SNHR 224,948 Syrian civilians including 29,017 children killed since March 2011

December 2018 Iranian backed Houthis' child soldiers in Yemen: 19 December 2018: Iranian backed Houthis in Yemen have inducted 18,000 child soldiers into their army since the beginning of their war in 2014, a senior Houthi military official acknowledged to the AP, as former child soldiers describe Houthis’ 'efficiency' when it comes to recruitment, deployment and battlefield deaths of young boys and children as young as 10 fight, kill and die

2019/2020 only glimmers of hope to prosecute Assad’s, Iranian and Russian war crimes since 2011 including crimes against Syria's children: 9 March 2019: Facing Russian regime's blocking attempts to investigate Assad’s war crimes, there are only glimmers of hope, due to European and American obsequiousness towards perpetrators - UN Security Council has refused to address war crimes in Syria through ICC since 2011 - 24 December 2019: Justice, Syria and the International Criminal Court, as ally of the Assad regime Russia is vetoing all efforts by the UN Security Council to refer the situation in Syria to the ICC - 19 February 2020: Unicef decried the extremely dire conditions children in northwestern Syria, coming under onslaught by Assad's and Putin's regime, are going through, saying that more than 500,000 children have been displaced in northwest Syria since 1 December 2019

March 2020 el-Sissi forces arrested, forcibly disappeared and tortured children: 23 March 2020: Egyptian security forces under president el-Sissi have arbitrarily arrested, forcibly disappeared and tortured children as young as 12 while prosecutors and judges turned a blind eye, international rights group 'Human Rights Watch' said

21 June 2021 violence against children in conflict and war zones rising: 21 juin 2021: Selon un rapport des Nations Unies publié lundi, les enlèvements d’enfants dans les zones de conflit ont augmenté de 90%, les violences contre les enfants et les viols de mineurs ont explosé

23 November 2021 world’s highest child soldier numbers in West, Central Africa, UNICEF says: 23 November 2021: World’s highest child soldier numbers in West, Central Africa, as more than 21,000 children recruited by government forces and armed groups in conflict-hit region during past five years, UNICEF says

30 January 2022 2,000 children recruited by Yemen’s Houthis died fighting, UN says: 30 January 2022: 2,000 children recruited by Yemen’s Houthis died fighting, as UN report found children aged between 10 and 17 years are being lured into fighting Yemen’s internationally recognised government, and as Iran-backed Yemen’s Houthis sourcing key components for weapon systems from companies in the Middle East, Europe and Asia

Child abuse: Child abuse

School corporal punishment and corporal punishment in the home: School corporal punishment - Corporal punishment in the home

Street children and orphanages: Street children is a term for children experiencing homelessness who are living on the streets of a city, town, or village - Orphanage, a residential institution devoted to the care of children whose biological parents are deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to care for them

Child marriage: Child marriage - Child marriage by region and country

2017: 11 October 2017: Early marriage not only deprives girls of education and opportunities, but also increases the risk of death or serious childbirth injuries, as at least 20,000 girls around the world are married off illegally each day, with child marriage often deeply rooted in tradition despite being outlawed in a growing number of countries, according to new analysis

2016: 14 March 2016: No place for children - the impact of five years of war on Syria's children and their childhoods, Unicef report - 7 September 2016: Child refugee figures have jumped by 75% in five years and children now make up more than half of the world’s refugees, Unicef says calling for urgent action to protect the 50 million child migrants worldwide

September 2018: 2 September 2018: 'Home – Drawings by Syrian Children' is a book filled with the truest international language that we big people need to listen to closely and seriously, documenting journeys of escape, fleeing unimaginable horror, murderous men and the end of their homeland

January 2019: 15 January 2019: Winter weather kills 15 displaced children in Syria, according to UN, saying that freezing temperatures and lack of medical care claimed victims, most aged under a year and one just an hour old, thousands continue to flee fighting

2 March 2020 CDU and EU von der Leyen's cronyism with Russian, Iranian and Assad regime's war criminals: 2 March 2020: Child drowns at sea off Greece in first fatality of CDU and EU von der Leyen's cronyism with Russian, Iranian and Assad regime's war criminals

5 March 2020 over 80% of Syria refugees since December are women and children: 5 March 2020: Over 80% of Syria refugees are women and children, according to UN, telling the Arab League that 'more than 900,000 people have been displaced since 1 December, (and) women and children together comprise 81% of the newly displaced population'

8 May 2021 IRC said UK's government had cut 75% of its funding for Syria: 8 May 2021: IRC said UK's government had cut 75% of its funding for Syria, where more than 12 million people have been displaced by conflict, also saying it was particularly concerned about women and girls living in camps in north Syria who will no longer have access to safe spaces or services

Since 1914-1918 WWI millions of European civilians made refugees by German, Austro-Hungarian empires: First World War 1914-1918, caused by the German Empire and Austria-Hungary, uprooted millions of European civilians who were made refugees either by enemy occupation or by the state’s forcible deportation, the resulting crisis had profound consequences, not only for the individuals directly affected but also for officials and relief workers who attempted to relieve their suffering and for communities that hosted refugees and not ending in 1918

1933-1945 NSDAP ruled German empire's wars, refugee crises and the Holocaust: Between Germany's NSDAP rise to power in 1933 and Germany's surrender in 1945, more than 340,000 Jews emigrated from their country, but after Germany annexed Austria in March 1938 and particularly after the German November pogroms 1938 nations in western Europe and the Americas feared an influx of refugees, placing limits on immigration and often turning back desperate people - MS St. Louis German ocean liner trying to find homes for 908 Jewish refugees from Germany in 1939, but after denied entry to Cuba, Canada, and the USA, the refugees were finally accepted in various European countries, and historians have estimated that approximately a quarter of them died in German death camps during World War II - 'Exodus 1947' was a ship that carried 4,515 Jewish emigrants from France to British Mandatory Palestine in July 1947, mostly Holocaust survivors, but the British Royal Navy seized the ship in a battle and deported all its passengers back to Europe and Germany detaining refugees in camps likened to German concentration camps

April 1942: April 1942 - remembered 18 April 2017: Allies of World War II Soviet Union, United Kingdom and USA, that together opposed the Axis powers' aggression and war crimes, knew of Holocaust in 1942, 2 years before previously assumed, UN documents prove, shedding damning light on refusal to take in refugees. The Holocaust was decided in January 1942 after German empire's 'Blitzkrieg' war - based on some technical 'innovations', tanks and warplanes - against the Soviet Union was stopped - 1919–1939/45 German empire's military evolution, 'Blitzkrieg', leading military commanders Guderian and Rommel, its war on the Eastern Front 1941–1944 and the disastrous end - The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945, and in which Jews were targeted for extermination as part of a larger event involving the persecution and murder of other groups, including in particular the Roma, ethnic Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, as well as political opponents, 'incurably sick', homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses

1939-1945 and since 1945 deportations and displaced persons: During World War II, NSDAP ruled Germany deported between seven and nine million Europeans, mostly to Germany and after Germany's surrender in May 1945, the Allies repatriated to their home countries more than six million displaced persons, but most Jewish survivors, who had survived concentration camps or had been in hiding, were unable or unwilling to return to eastern Europe because of postwar antisemitism and the destruction of their communities during the Holocaust

Following World War II, since 1950s global refugee crises and reports: Since 1950s refugee crises in Africa, in the Americas, in Asia, in Europe, in the Near and Middle East - List of UNHCR registered refugees by country/territory of origin between 2006 and 2014

2016/2017 extent of hidden crises: 22 May 2017: Extent of the hidden crises, that forced 31 million people to flee within their countries in 2016, revealed by Norwegian Refugee Council report

June 2018 68.5 million people fleeing war or persecution worldwide: 19 June 2018: Record 68.5 million people fleeing war or persecution worldwide, including 25.4 million refugees, 40 million internally displaced and 3.1 million asylum seekers, as UNHCR sees five countries accounting for two-thirds of all refugees including Syria (6.3 million), Afghanistan (2.6 million), South Sudan (2.4 million), Myanmar (1.2 million) and Somalia (986,400)

November 2018 migration rises worldwide: 1 November 2018: As migration rises worldwide, so has its toll according to an AP tally, saying tens of thousands of people die or simply disappear during their journeys, barely counted in life, these migrants rarely register in death, almost as if they never lived at all

May 2019 new record numbers of people forced from their homes: 10 May 2019: Record numbers of people have been forced from their homes by conflict in a crisis that has received 'pitiful' international attention, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council, finding that a total of 41.3 million people were living in a state of internal displacement by the end of 2018 due to violence

June 2019 over 70 million people fleeing: 19 June 2019: The number of people fleeing conflict and oppression worldwide and forced to flee their homes has exceeded 70 million for the first time since records began, according to the UN’s refugee agency, saying that the figure is a conservative estimate, because the impact of the crisis in Venezuela is still not known, also adding 'year on year the international community is proving unable to make peace'

November 2019 UN accused of trying to starve out refugees: 28 November 2019: The UN has been accused of trying to starve out refugees and asylum seekers who are sheltering for safety inside a centre run by the UN refugee agency in the Libyan capital of Tripoli

18 June 2020 number of refugees worldwide shot up by nearly nine million people last year: 18 June 2020: The UN refugee agency says the number of asylum-seekers, internally displaced people and refugees worldwide shot up by nearly nine million people last year, the biggest rise in its records, as its annual 'Global Trends' report says that the 79.5 million people account for 1% of all humanity amid conflict, repression and upheaval, as 68% of forcibly displaced people come from only 5 countries indluding Myanmar, Afghanistan, Syria, South Sudan and Venezuela

18 June 2021 global displacement hits new record high with 82.4 million in 2020: 18 June 2021: Global displacement hits new high, as the number of people forcibly displaced by conflict, violence and persecution reached a record 82.4 million (48m IDP, 26.4m refugees) in 2020, according to the latest annual 'Global Trends' report released today by UNHCR, as even during a year in which over 160 countries closed their borders at the peak of the pandemic, the world’s population of forcibly displaced people grew by nearly 3 million, a 4% increase from 2019 and the ninth year in a row the figure has risen - June 2021 Global forced displacement at end-year 2020, as Syria comes first with 6,8 million displaced citizens, mostly refugees (92%), as Venezuela comes second followed by Aghanistan, South Sudan and Myanmar - UNHCR reported a whole of 91.9 million forcibly displaced people including people of concern in 2020

17/18 December 2020 EU's containment policies resulted in mental health crisis for refugees: 17 December 2020: Years of entrapment on Aegean islands has resulted in a mental health crisis for thousands of refugees, with one in three contemplating suicide, a report by support experts has revealed, as containment policies pursued by the EU have also spurred ever more people to attempt to end their lives, according to a report released by the International Rescue Committee IRC, ahead of the 'International Migrants Day' observed by all UN member states, committed to Human Rights, on 18 December 2020

Since WWII 20th/21st centuries refugee and migrant crises by global region, timeline: Since World War II 20th/21st centuries refugee and migrant crises by global region and timeline - Modern and contemporary refugee crises by continent and countries

Since 1948 Palestinian refugee crisis, diaspora: Since 1948 Palestinian refugees - Palestinian diaspora - Palestinian refugee camps were established after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War to accommodate the Palestinian refugees who fled or were expelled during the 1948 Palestinian exodus

Internally displaced persons, peopple forced to flee their home but who remain within their country's borders, often referred to as refugees, although they do not fall within the legal definitions of a refugee, as at the end of 2014, it was estimated there were 38.2 million IDPs worldwide, the highest level since 1989, the first year for which global statistics on IDPs are available

Causes of refugee crises include war and civil war, human rights violations, environment and climate crises, economic hardship

Outline of war - List of ongoing armed conflicts - Causes of war - War, history of war and types of war - Lists of wars by date - time is the same for all, but not lifetime

Ethnic conflict

Nationalism and its history - Nation - Nation state - Types of nationalism

Chauvinism, an exaggerated nationalism and a belligerent belief in national superiority

Imperialism, originating from the Roman 'imperium', a policy of extending a state's power and influence through colonization, use of military force and other means, originating from the Roman 'imperium', which means the conquest and rule over large territories for the purpose of slave hunting and submission

Military history, as essential subjects of military history study are the causes of war, the social and cultural foundations, military doctrine on each side, the logistics, leadership, technology, strategy, and tactics used, and how these changed over time

Dictatorship, an authoritarian form of government, characterized by a single leader or group of leaders - Military dictatorship, a dictatorship wherein the military exerts complete or substantial control over political authority, and a dictator is often a high ranked military officer

Arms industry depending on decisions and production processes - Weapons by country - Since 19th/20th century development of modern physics and chemistry linked with industrial revolution and history of technology - History of military technology and world wars - Modern military technology

Forces of self-destruction and weapons of mass destruction: Weapons of mass destruction - Chemical weapon, chemical agents and poison gas - Chemical warfare - Biological warfare - Weapons of mass destruction by country

Forces of self-destruction and nuclear weapons: Nuclear weapon and Nuclear warfare - Nuclear weapon design - List of nuclear weapons - List of states with nuclear weapons - Nuclear weapons debate

Since early 20th century timeline of nuclear weapons development: Timeline of nuclear weapons development since early 20th century

Nuclear proliferation

Since the 1970s Nuclear proliferation to Pakistan and North Korea: Nuclear proliferation to Pakistan and North Korea since the 1970s

Since 1980 Swiss engineer, network trafficking in nuclear proliferation to Pakistan, Iran, Libya, and North Korea: Since 1980 Swiss engineer Friedrich Tinner connected with the Khan network trafficking in the proliferation of nuclear materials and know-how to Pakistan, Iran, Libya, and North Korea and later cover-up to hide the involvement of Urs Tinner with the CIA - 31 May 2008: Nuclear bomb blueprints and manuals on how to manufacture weapons-grade uranium for warheads are feared to be circulating on the international black market, according to investigators tracking the world's most infamous nuclear smuggling racket

2004 Khan's confession and 2011 Tinner nuclear smuggling trial: 4 February 2004: Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear programme, today asked the country's president to forgive him for selling its secrets abroad - 13 December 2011: Switzerland has charged three members of the Swiss Friedrich Tinner family for their role in the Abdul Qadeer Khan nuclear smuggling network, involving Switzerland's defence ministry destroying vital evidence in the case, and blocking the prosecution of the Tinners and the CIA for espionage, after a plea deal which will mean that their claims of collaboration with the CIA will not be examined in court

2015 tactics to trivialize proliferation risks: 28 May 2015: Myth of a peaceful nuclear technology and tactics to trivialize the proliferation risks, as the use of civil facilities and materials in nuclear weapons research or systematic weapons programs has been commonplace and has occurred in at least the following countries Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Egypt, France, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Libya, North Korea, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, UK, USA, and Yugoslavia

2017 threat of nuclear proliferation debate: 18 October 2017: Experts and former senior officials from around the world met in Paris to discuss the threat of nuclear proliferation, something they believe is ignored despite the dire situation and, according to some, worse than it was during the Cold War - October 2017 Conference of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe 'Topical Issues of Nuclear Non-Proliferation'

Social production and reproduction, products and dual-use technology: Produkte als Resultat industrieller und technischer Revolutionen, Computer und EDV als verlängerter Verstand von Menschen mit Sprache(n), sogenannte 'Künstliche Intelligenz' (ein Widersinn oder besser Oxymoron) und militärische Nutzungen

April 2014 Russia leads new robotic arms race: 23 April 2014: Russia is taking the lead in a new robotic arms race, announcing that mobile robots, standing guard over five ballistic missile installations, can detect and destroy targets, without human involvement

April 2018 only 22 countries want global treaty to ban killer robots: 11 April 2018: Only 22 countries of the signatories to the UN's Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons support an outright ban of lethal autonomous weapons systems or killer robots - 11 April 2018: 5 years since the launch of the 'Campaign to Stop Killer Robots', a global coalition of non-governmental groups calling for a ban on fully autonomous weapons, says we’re running out of time to stop killer robot weapons

October 2018 states opposing restrictions on so-called killer robots: October 2018: The latest effort toward imposing binding international restrictions on so-called killer robots was thwarted by Russia and the USA, as a group of states led by France and Germany are opposing a legally binding measure, as another group of two dozen countries and a number of civil society organizations advocate for a legally binding prohibition on use of such weapons

January 2019 61% of people worldwide oppose killer robots: 22 January 2019: Global poll shows 61% of respondents oppose the use of lethal autonomous weapons systems, also known as fully autonomous weapons or killer robots, but their voices are ignored by nationalist and aggressive regimes such as Russian and Chinese and appertaining companies, as opposition was at 59% in Russia, recently frustrating diplomatic talks also at the CCW in November 2018 by using consensus rules to hinder meaningful progress against the wishes of the majority of states

March 2019 Russia, United Kingdom and USA oppose killer robot ban: 29 March 2019: Russia, United Kingdom and USA among those opposing killer robot ban, as UN delegates discussed restrictions to lethal autonomous weapons systems that use AI

August 2019 survey of the tech sector’s stance on lethal autonomous weapons: 19 August 2019: Synesis (Belarus), AerialX (Canada), SenseTime and Yitu (China), EarthCube (France), Roboteam (Israel), BlueBearSystems and Montvieux (United Kingdom), Amazon, Anduril, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle and more (all USA), are named among the world's 'highest risk' tech companies that might be putting the world at risk through killer robot development, according to new global report from PAX, grading 50 companies from 12 countries, all working on big tech, hardware, AI software and system integration, pattern recognition, autonomous and swarming aerial systems, ground robots, as 'anything that's currently a weapon, people are working on autonomous versions, whether it's tanks, fighter aircraft, or submarines' (August 2019 survey of the tech sector’s stance on lethal autonomous weapons)

September 2019 former software engineer supports ban on killer robots: 15 September 2019: Former top Google software engineer Laura Nolan, who quit over military drone project and joined the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, fears AI and 'killer robots', having the potential to do 'calamitous things that they were not originally programmed for', could cause mass atrocities, warning they might accidentally start a war, and saying that killer robots not guided by human remote control should be outlawed by the same type of international treaty that bans chemical weapons

15 September 2021 UN rights chief urges moratorium on AI that risks rights abuses: 15 Setember 2021: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday called for a moratorium on the sale and use of artificial intelligence AI systems that threaten human rights until adequate safeguards are in place to ensure the technology will not be abused, saying 'we cannot afford to continue playing catch-up regarding AI – allowing its use with limited or no boundaries or oversight, and dealing with the almost inevitable human rights consequences after the fact' in a press release

18 December 2021 ahead of Christmas UN talks against killer robots fail, countries incl. Russia, USA opposing: 18 December 2021: Country officials and campaigners have expressed disappointment after UN talks on autonomous weapons systems – known as 'killer robots' – stopped short of launching negotiations into an international treaty to govern their use following opposition from manufacturing states, as - unlike existing semi-autonomous weapons such as drones - fully-autonomous weapons have no human-operated 'kill switch' and instead leave decisions over life and death to sensors, software and machine processes, as UN panel report in March 2021 said the first autonomous drone attack may have occurred in Libya, as the coordinator at 'Stop Killer Robots' Richard Moyes said governments 'need to draw a moral and legal line for humanity against the killing of people by machines', adding 'a clear majority of states see the need to ensure meaningful human control over the use of force. It’s time now for them to lead in order to prevent the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of killer robots'

Weapons trade - Arms trafficking, the trafficking of contraband weapons and ammunition - what constitutes legal trade in firearms varies widely, depending on local and national laws - Small arms trade or the small arms market refer to both authorized and illicit markets for small arms and light weapons and their parts, accessories, and ammunition - Companies by arms sales - List of countries by military expenditures - Weapons by country - List of countries by level of military equipment

2001/2005 Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, as of November 2015 it has 114 parties, including 113 states and the European Union, Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Iceland, Japan, Luxembourg, Monaco, Seychelles, United Kingdom have signed the protocol but have not yet ratified it, three of the top four arms manufacturers in the world — the USA, Russia, and France — did not sign the protocol - 2013/2014 Arms Trade Treaty, a multilateral treaty that regulates the international trade in conventional weapons, 92 states have ratified the treaty, and a further 41 states have signed but not ratified it

2011 rising landmine use: 23 November 2011: Landmine use 'highest since 2004' despite record clearances

2012 rising arms production and trade: 30. Januar 2012: Friedensforschungsinstitut Sipri prangert fehlende Kontrollen von Waffenschmuggel und Transportverboten an - 27. Februar 2012: Waffenindustrien wachsen trotz Wirtschaftskrise - USA und EU Konzerne größte Waffenproduzenten - 19. März 2012: Das Volumen der weltweiten Rüstungsgeschäfte hat in den vergangenen fünf Jahren um 24 Prozent zugenommen - auf die beiden grössten Rüstungsexporteure USA 30% und Russland 24% entfällt mehr als die Hälfte der weltweiten Waffenlieferungen - auf Platz drei folgt Deutschland mit neun Prozent - 29. August 2012: Jährliches Volumen des legalen internationalen Handels mit Kleinwaffen von mindestens 8,5 Milliarden Dollar

2013 arms trade treaty blocked by Iran, North Korea, Syria and not signed by China, Russia, USA: 29 March 2013: Iran, North Korea and Syria block UN arms trade treaty - 2 April 2013: By a vote of 154 in favor, 3 against (Iran, North Korea and Syria) and 23 abstentions (Russia, China, India, Indonesia etc.), UN adopts landmark treaty to regulate multibillion-dollar global arms trade - 3 June 2013: More than 60 countries sign arms trade treaty on first day, but not China, Russia and the USA

2014 SIPRI and AFP reports: 14 April 2014: Military spending continues to fall in the West but rises in China, Russia and Saudi Arabia and everywhere else, SIPRI says - 1 May 2014: European countries have approved billions in transfers of weapons and military-ready technology to China, AFP investigation shows

15 December 2014 Russian arms sales rise: 15 December 2014: Arms sales by Russian firms continue to expand despite a global downturn in defence spending, according to SIPRI

24 December 2014 Global arms trade deal without USA: 24 December 2014: Global arms trade deal takes effect, ratified by 60 nations, but not by the USA, the world's top arms exporter

2015 new killing technologies: 5 January 2015: 3D printing will revolutionize war and foreign policy not only by making possible incredible new designs but by turning the defense industry, IHS Technology, New America Foundation and BAE experts say - 6 October 2015: United Kingdom and USA are seeking to water down agreement over 'killer robots' (lethal autonomous weapons), so that any autonomous weapons deployed before United Nations's talks conclude will be beyond reach of ban, experts say

2015 arms spending rises: 16 March 2015: After Chinese arms sales surged 143% in 5 years, China now the world’s third-largest arms trader, the USA remains the first exporting 31% of global arms in 2010-2014 and Russia exported 27%, SIPRI says - 13 April 2015: Arms spending up globally, except in USA and western Europe, as Russia’s neighbors, like Iran’s, boost defense budgets, SIPRI says - 18 décembre 2015: Pour 2015, les budgets de défense en hausse dans le monde, les dépenses globales atteignent quelque 1650 milliards de dollars, selon un rapport

December 2015 arms for 'Islamic State' terrorists: 8 décembre 2015: Les transferts irresponsables d'armes effectués vers l'Irak depuis des décennies sont à l'origine du redoutable arsenal utilisé par le groupe Etat islamique, provenant d'au moins 25 pays dont une bonne partie de Russie, selon un ONG rapport

2016 arms imports and world military increase: 22 February 2016: Asia (India 14% of global arms imports, China 4.7%) and the Middle East (arms imports rose by 61% between 2006–10 and 2011–15) lead rise in arms imports, the USA (33%) and Russia (25%) remain largest arms exporters, says SIPRI - 3 avril 2016: L'utilisation d'armes interdites a atteint un niveau record depuis 2010 avec un pic entre 2014 et 2015, selon 'Handicap International' - 5 April 2016: World military expenditure totaled almost $ 7 trillion in 2015, according to SIPRI, an increase of 1% in real terms from 2014 also fueled by Mideast conflicts - 26 December 2016: USA and Obama administration increased weapons sales in 2015, maintaining its position as the world’s dominant supplier, as the sale of global arms dropped slightly to $80bn from 2014’s $89bn, according to a new USA congressional study

February 2016 equipment for 'Islamic State' terrorists: 25 février 2016: 51 sociétés de 20 pays (turques, indiennes, chinoises, brésiliennes, russes ou encore américaines) sont impliquées dans la fourniture des composants qui servent à fabriquer les bombes de l'Etat islamique, selon une étude commandée par l'UE

2017 global arms trade rises: 20 February 2017: Global arms trade reaches highest point since cold war era, as Middle East almost doubles weapons imports, as USA and Europe remain the main suppliers, as China joins top-tier exporters, as India was the world’s largest importer of major arms, and as arms imports by states in Asia and Oceania accounted for 43% of global imports in 2012–2016, according to SIPRI - 24 avril 2017: La Russie avec 69,2 milliards de dollars a repris en 2016 à l'Arabie saoudite, malgré la crise économique qu'elle traverse, la troisième place mondiale en matière de dépenses militaires, derrière les Etats-Unis et la Chine, selon SIPRI - 13 September 2017: North Korea singled out alongside Saudi Arabia and Iran as one of the world’s most secretive major exporters of small arms, including Kalashnikovs, rockets and machine guns, according to the Small Arms Survey Trade Update 2017 - 11 December 2017: Sales of arms and military services by the world’s largest arms-producing and military services companies totalled $374.8 billion in 2016, 1.9% higher compared with 2015 and representing an increase of 38% since 2002, according to SIPRI

2018 global transfer of major weapons systems SIPRI report: 12 March 2018: Global transfer of major weapons systems between 2013 and 2017 rose by 10% compared with the precedent period, as the USA, Russia, France, Germany, China and the UK remain the world's biggest weapons exporter, as India, which receives most of its arms from Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE and China were the world’s top five importers, and as 'based on deals signed during the Obama administration, USA arms deliveries in 2013–17 reached their highest level since the late 1990s', according to SIPRI

March 2019 SIPRI report on 2014–2018 period: 11 March 2019: The volume of international transfers of major arms in 2014–2018 was 7.8% higher than in 2009–2013 and 23% higher than in 2004–2008, according to SIPRI, also saying arms flows to the Middle East surge and that the 5 largest exporters in 2014–2018 were the USA, Russia, France, Germany and China

April 2019 military expenditure increase SIPRI report: 29 April 2019: Total world military expenditure rose to $1822 billion in 2018, representing an increase of 2.6% from 2017, according to SIPRI, saying that the five biggest spenders in 2018 were the USA, China, Saudi Arabia, India and France, which together accounted for 60% of global military spending, as military spending by the USA increased for the first time since 2010

December 2019 arms sales rise 4,6%: 9 December 2019: Sales of arms and military services by the sector’s largest 100 companies, excluding those in China, totalled $420 billion in 2018, marking an increase of 4.6% compared with the previous year, according to SIPRI

March 2020 USA and France dramatically increase major arms exports: 9 March 2020: USA and France dramatically increased major arms exports during the past five years, when USA, Russia, France, Germany and China were the largest exporters and the flow of arms to the Middle East, facing brutal and endless wars, has increased, as war crimes committing Russia came to Syrian with its own arms, as Saudi Arabia, India and Egypt are the largest arms importers, and as in 2019, when foreign military involvement in Libya was condemned by the UN Security Council, the UAE had major arms import deals ongoing with Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the UK and the USA, says SIPRI

12 September 2020 French-Greek massive arms deal: 12 September 2020: Amid tensions with Turkey and UN-backed Libyan government, Greece plagued by debt announces massive arms purchase including 18 French-made Rafale warplanes, four multi-purpose frigates and four navy helicopters, anti-tank weapons, navy torpedoes and airforce missiles, while also recruiting 15,000 new troops and pouring resources into the national arms industry and cyber-attack defence

7 December 2020 arms sales in 2019 8.5% more than in 2018: 7 December 2020: Sales of arms and military services by the sector’s largest 25 companies totalled US$361 billion in 2019, 8.5% more than in 2018, as largest companies have a geographically diverse international presence, Sipri says - 23 November 2020: Swiss banks have given loans and hold shares worth nearly $11 billion in companies like Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics, according to a study by independent researchers Profundo, as the Swiss National Bank SNB, UBS and Credit Suisse have the biggest exposure, and as Young Greens Party's Julia Kueng said 'an enormous amount of money comes from Switzerland into an industry which profits from death and destruction' - List of wars, ongoing armed conflicts and deaths by country, including Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Mexico, South Sudan, Libya, Ukraine

3 January 2021 Germany approved $1.41bn in arms exports to the 'Middle East' in 2020: 3 January 2021: German government approved $1.41 billion in arms exports during 2020 in arms deals to Middle East and weapons exports to countries involved in the deadly conflicts in Yemen and Libya, including weapons and military equipment worth €752 million to Egypt worth over €305.1 million to Qatar, over €51 million to the United Arab Emirates, €23.4 million for Kuwait and around €22.9 million to Turkey, and as licenses were granted to Jordan totaling €1.7 million and Bahrain amounting to €1.5 million, as Germany - responsible for two world wars - is among the world's top five weapons exporters

June 1942 Nazi Germany's Leipzig L-IV experiment accident: 23 June 1942 Nazi Germany's Leipzig L-IV experiment accident, as early type of a nuclear reactor L-IV led to the first nuclear accident in history, consisting of steam explosion and reactor fire, shortly after the Leipzig L-IV atomic pile — worked on by Werner Heisenberg and Robert Döpel — demonstrated Germany's first signs of neutron propagation, and as the device was checked for a possible heavy water leak

March 1954 USA's first deployable 'Bikini Atoll hydrogen bomb': 1 March 1954 USA's first deployable 'Bikini Atoll hydrogen bomb' in the Republic of the Marshall Islands with a miscalculation of high levels of fallout, as the 'secret' Castle Bravo test quickly became an international incident, prompting calls for a ban on the atmospheric testing of thermonuclear devices

September 1957 Russia's Kyshtym disaster and radioactive contamination accident: 29 September 1957 Kyshtym disaster, a radioactive contamination accident that occurred at Mayak, a plutonium production site for nuclear weapons and nuclear fuel reprocessing plant located in the closed city of Chelyabinsk in the Russian SFSR, the second worst nuclear incident (by radioactivity released) after the Chernobyl disaster

May 1962 French nuclear test 'Béryl incident' in the French colony of Algeria: 1 May 1962 French nuclear test 'Béryl incident' in the French colony of Algeria, during which soldiers were heavily contaminated by radioactivity, and ongoing health effects including leukemia 22 years later and cancer, as the number of contaminated in Algeria remains unknown to this day, and as the possible contamination of the food chain following the re-flight and local concentration of radionuclides have not been the object of study

Accidents and incidents involving military aircraft: Accidents and incidents involving military aircraft - Lists of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft since 19th century on the way to World War I and World War II

UAV-related incidents: Lists of UAV-related incidents by period and country

2019 military drone crashes: 9 June 2019: Military drone crashes raise fears for civilians, as two military drones are crashing every month on average, according to research that raises questions about the safety of the technology, both in conflict zones and civilian environments

World War I by country - World War II by country - The Holocaust by country - Aftermath of World War II by country

Prior to WWI August Bebel's 'secret diplomacy' for years to keep the peace: Prior to WWI SPD's August Bebel saw with great concern that the German-British relationship was deteriorating, warning against an expansion of the German navy, as - in particular - his criticism of the naval armor led him to 'flee into secret diplomacy' and for years he had been in contact with British government circles, warning the British government several times that their armaments efforts would be eased, and until shortly before his death, he delivered political assessments and reports to the British, but the United Kingdom missed to take the friend of deceased Karl Marx seriously

Since August 1914 German terror 'Schrecklichkeit' in empire's march through Belgium starting WWI: Since August 1914 German terror, called 'Schrecklichkeit' or 'frightfulness' by English speakers to describe a perceived military policy of the German Army towards civilians in World War I, that was the basis of German actions during their march through Belgium in 1914, later in France, the Russian-held area of Poland, and in Russia

24/25 August 1914 Belgian city of Antwerp first civilian target to be bombed from the air by Germany: 24/25 August 1914 Belgian city of Antwerp the first civilian target to be bombed from the air, when Antwerp - at that moment the National Redoubt of Belgium - was bombed by German empire forces, but instead of targeting the surrounding fortresses, the Zeppelin LZ 25's intention was to bomb the clearly distinguishable historical centre of the city, and after dropping approximately ten bombs, ten people were killed and forty injured

Since August 1914 German bombing of cities during World War I and later: Since August 1914 German bombing of cities during World War I - April 1937 bombing of Guernica, an aerial bombing of the Basque town of Guernica carried out by Franco's allies, the Nazi German Luftwaffe's Condor Legion and the Fascist Italian Aviazione Legionaria, causing hundreds of civilian victims - World War II bombing of cities conducted by Germany - 1940-1941 German bombing campaign against British industrial targets, towns, and cities including Birmingham, Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff, Coventry, Glasgow, Hull, Liverpool, Manchester, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Sheffield, Southampton, killing more than 40,000 civilians beginning with raids on London during the Second World War

German empire's WWI, NSDAP ruled German empire's war crimes in World War II, creation of the UN: German empire's World War I war crimes (including Chemical weapons in warfare, in Belgium, Bombardment of English coastal towns, Unrestricted submarine warfare), NSDAP ruled German empire's war crimes in World War II, massacres and war crimes by location in Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine, as 'Wikipedia' is listing also a timeline of German crimes in this period, that led to the creation of the 'United Nations'

20th, 21st centuries war crimes since 1946–1954 Indochina War, the October 1945 foundation of the UN: 20th, 21st centuries war crimes since the October 1945 foundation of the UN, since 1946–1954 Indochina War and many more following conflicts, listed by 'Wikipedia' by period focused on main global conflicts

2011–present Syrian Assad regime's, Iranian regime's, Russian Putin regime's war against the Syrian people: 2011–present Syrian Assad regime's, Iranian Mullah regime's and Russian Putin regime's war against the Syrian people (including chronologically listed massacres, war crimes, and missed, sometimes began prosecution of war criminals)

Since 24 February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Putin's war against the Ukrainian people, war crimes: 24 February 2022 – present Russian invasion of Ukraine as huge number of multiple buildings such as apartment buildings, hospitals, kindergartens schools, apartment buildings were bombed, as the International Criminal Court ICC has begun to investigate on war crimes

Since 3 March 2022 ICC's full investigation of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine: Since 3 March 2022 International Criminal Court investigation in the situation in Ukraine, an ongoing investigation by the ICC into war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Russo-Ukrainian War, the annexation of Crimea by Russia's regime since 2014, the war in Donbas and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, a forbidden Russian war of aggression. The full investigation obtained jurisdiction on 2 March 2022.

17 March 2022 family says Mariupol now a 'city of death, horror and fear' under constant Russian bombardment: 17 March 2022: A Ukrainian family, who escaped Mariupol, say it has become a 'city of death, horror and fear' with no food, utilities and under constant Russian bombardment

Russian war crimes in Putin regime's 2022 invasion of Ukraine: Russian war crimes in Putin regime's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, listed and documented by 'Wikipedia' with dozens of references

Since the the 1910s terrorist incidents by decade: Since the the 1910s terrorist incidents by decade - Terrorist incidents in the 1910s - Terrorist incidents in the 1920s

Terrorist incidents in the 1930s, in the 1940s and 1939-1945 World War II: Terrorist incidents in the 1930s - Terrorist incidents in the 1940s - 1939-1945 Axis powers' World War II (German, Italian and Japanese empires) - Genocide, the intentional action to destroy a people (usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group) in whole or in part - Mass murder, the act of murdering a number of people, typically simultaneously or over a relatively short period of time and in close geographic proximity and the desire to kill - September 1939 bombing of Frampol occurred during the German invasion of Poland in 1939, when the town of Frampol, without military value, but with a population of 4,000 people was bombed by German bombers under General von Richthofen on 13 September as a practice run for future missions and as German fighter pilots trained strafing techniques on refugees who were trying to flee from the city

Since 1942 (1970) terrorist incidents by year and country and lists: Since 1942 terrorist incidents by year - Since 1970 lists of terrorist incidents by year - Terrorist incidents by country - Lists of terrorist incidents by country

Since 2011 terrorist incidents by year: List of terrorist incidents 2011/I and 2011/II, mostly perpetrated by Islamists, including attacks by violent non-state actors for ideological and/or political motives, as terrorism related to drug wars, cartel violence, and ongoing military conflicts are listed separately

List of terrorist incidents in 2012: List of terrorist incidents 2012/I and 2012/II, mostly perpetrated by Islamists, including attacks by violent non-state actors for ideological and/or political motives, as terrorism related to drug wars, cartel violence, and ongoing military conflicts are listed separately

List of terrorist incidents in 2013: List of terrorist incidents 2013/I and List of terrorist incidents 2013/II, mostly perpetrated by Islamists, including attacks by violent non-state actors for ideological and/or political motives, as terrorism related to drug wars, cartel violence, and ongoing military conflicts are listed separately

List of terrorist incidents in 2014: List of terrorist incidents 2014, mostly perpetrated by Islamists, including attacks by violent non-state actors for ideological and/or political motives, as terrorism related to drug wars, cartel violence, and ongoing military conflicts are listed separately

List of terrorist incidents in 2015: List of terrorist incidents 2015, mostly perpetrated by Islamists, including attacks by violent non-state actors for ideological and/or political motives, as terrorism related to drug wars, cartel violence, and ongoing military conflicts are listed separately

List of terrorist incidents in 2016: List of terrorist incidents in 2016, mostly perpetrated by Islamists, including attacks by violent non-state actors for ideological and/or political motives, as terrorism related to drug wars, cartel violence, and ongoing military conflicts are listed separately

List of terrorist incidents in 2017: List of terrorist incidents in 2017, mostly perpetrated by Islamists, including attacks by violent non-state actors for ideological and/or political motives, as terrorism related to drug wars, cartel violence, and ongoing military conflicts are listed separately

List of terrorist incidents in 2018: List of terrorist incidents in 2018, mostly perpetrated by Islamists, including attacks by violent non-state actors for ideological and/or political motives, as terrorism related to drug wars, cartel violence, and ongoing military conflicts are listed separately

December 2020 Belgian court hearings end on Iran diplomat accused of bomb plot: 4 December 2020: Belgian court hearings end on Iran diplomat accused of bomb plot, as verdict for Assadollah Assadi expected on January 22, and as 48-year-old faces 20 years in prison if convicted of plotting to target 2018 rally outside Paris

4 February 2021 Iranian official Assadi convicted of masterminding a thwarted bomb attack against opposition group in France in 2018: 4 February 2021: Iranian official Assadollah Assadi was convicted of masterminding a thwarted bomb attack against an exiled Iranian opposition group in France in 2018 and sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Belgian court that rejected his claim of diplomatic immunity, as three other defendants also received jail sentences, after Vienna-based diplomat Assadi, earlier detained in Belgium but refused to testify during his trial last year invoking his diplomatic status, did not attend the hearing at the Antwerp courthouse - 4 February 2021: Iranian 'diplomat' Assadi who masterminded a failed bomb attack at a rally outside Paris attended by five British MPs has been sentenced to 20 years in jail by a Belgian court for attempted murder and involvement in terrorism

List of terrorist incidents in 2019: List of terrorist incidents in 2019, mostly perpetrated by Islamists, including attacks by violent non-state actors for ideological and/or political motives, as terrorism related to drug wars, cartel violence, and ongoing military conflicts are listed separately

List of terrorist incidents in 2020: List of terrorist incidents in 2020, mostly perpetrated by Islamists, including attacks by violent non-state actors for ideological and/or political motives, as terrorism related to drug wars, cartel violence, and ongoing military conflicts are listed separately

29 October 2020 Islamist terror attack in Nice: 29 October 2020 Nice stabbing, as three people were killed in a stabbing attack at Notre-Dame de Nice including a woman beheaded by the attacker, and as several additional victims were injured - 29 October 2020: Citizens killed, including a woman whose throat was slit by the assailant, shouting 'Allahu akbar', several injured in stabbing attack at Nice church, as suspected assailant detained after the apparent terror attack, third victim in life-threatening condition, amid high alert in France following 'protests' over 'prophet' Muhammad cartoons

11 November 2020 several hurt in Remembrance Day 'bomb attack' at Saudi cemetery: 11 November 2020: Several people have been hurt in a bomb attack at a Remembrance Day ceremony attended by foreign diplomats in the Saudi city of Jeddah, according to the French foreign ministry, as the 102nd anniversary of the armistice ending German, Austrian-Hungarian and Ottoman empires first world war 1914-1918 is mainly commemorated in several European countries but not in Germany

5 December 2020 38 years later terror suspect Abu Zayed arrives in France: 5 December 2020: Nearly 40 years later Abu Zayed, suspect in deadly 1982 attack on Paris kosher restaurant, arrives in France for terror trial over gun and grenade attack that killed six, injured 22, as France's Yves Bonnet admitted during a hearing there was an 'unwritten contract' between France and the Abu Nidal Organisation

List of terrorist incidents in 2021: List of terrorist incidents in 2021 - List of 2021 terrorist incidents linked to Islamic State

2 January 2021 Tillabéri attacks: 2 January 2021, villages Tchombangou and Zaroumdareye in the Tillabéri Region of western Niger near the border with Mali were attacked, leaving at least 105 people dead and 75 others injured, as more than ten thousand people fled their homes after the attacks, following impunity after the May 2020 Tillabéri attacks, leaving at least least twenty people were killed

3 January 2021 Pakistan Machh attack: 3 January 2021 Pakistan March attack, as Islamic State militants killed 11 Hazara coal miners after being kidnapped, blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs before having their throats slit

4 April 2021 Taliban car bombing near Kabul killed at least 3 Afghan security personnel injuring 12 others: 4 April 2021: A Taliban car bombing near Kabul killed at least 3 Afghan security personnel and injured 12 others in an attack claimed by the Taliban, claiming in a statement that 45 Afghan security force members had been killed or injured in the blast, while - amid unabated attacks in Afghanistan - the violent Taliban has rarely taken responsibility since the formal start of peace talks and an agreement with the USA last year

30 April 2021 Puli Alam bombing as High school students are among 30 people killed: 30 April 2021 Puli Alam bombing, as High school students are among 30 people killed in a car bombing in the capital of eastern Logar province, as Afghanistan has seen a surge in violence since USA's president Biden announced troops would withdraw by 11 September, and aftermath

1 May 2021 car bomb kills students and more citizens in Afghanistan as USA starts farewell of its remaining forces: 1 May 2021: At least 21 people have been killed and nearly 100 wounded after a car bomb exploded in the Afghan city Pul-e-Alam south of the capital - targeting a guesthouse where dozens of people were living – including university students, causing widespread damage in the area, including to a hospital and residential houses -, that president Ashraf Ghani has blamed on the Taliban, as people were breaking their Ramadan fast and came together, timed with the eve of the formal start of the USA’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, now beginning with a murderous attack amid the farewell of USA's remaining forces

8 May 2021 mass murder car bombing at Sayed al-Shuhada school in western Kabul: 8 May 2021 car bombing and IED blasts in front of Sayed al-Shuhada school in Dashte Barchi in western Kabul, leaving at least 90 people dead and 240 injured. The majority of the casualties were girls between 11 and 15 years old. The attack took place in a neighborhood that has frequently been attacked by militants belonging to the regional Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISIL-K)

10 May 2021 at least 11 people killed, dozens injured including women and children by roadside bomb in Zabul: 10 May 2021: At least 11 people have been killed and dozens injured including women and children after a roadside bomb struck a bus in Afghanistan’s southern Zabul province - 10 May 2021: At least 40 people were killed in 10 provinces of the country and over 50 more were wounded in the last 24 hours, as chairperson of the 'Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission' Shahrzad Akbar said 'we repeat our call to the negotiating sides to return to the talks and expedite their efforts to end violence', based in Kabul pursuant to the Bonn Agreement in December 2001, UN General Assembly resolution 48/134, and article 58 of the Afghan Constitution - 19 September 2021: Stay home, female Kabul government workers told by new Taliban mayor of Kabul, ordering female municipal employees to stay home unless their jobs cannot be filled by a man, as in a separate development, the Afghanistan 'Independent Human Rights Commission' said it had been unable to fulfil its duties since the Taliban's takeover, adding in a statement that its buildings, vehicles and computers had all been taken over by the Taliban

15 May 2021 explosion inside mosque on the outskirts of Kabul killed at least 12 people: 15 May 2021: An explosion inside a mosque on the outskirts of the Afghan capital Kabul killed at least 12 people during Friday prayers, also wounding 15 worshippers as they gathered for the Eid al-Fitr holiday

20 May 2021 roadside bombings in southern, central Afghanistan killed 13 people including several children: 20 May 2021: Roadside bombings in southern and central Afghanistan killed 13 people, as one of the bombs struck a car carrying a family of 12 in southern Helmand province, and as several of the nine family members who died were children. The Nad Ali district where the explosion occurred is under Taliban control, as militants also stopped a bus in western Afghanistan, ordered three men to get out and shot and killed them

29 May 2021 deadly roadside bomb hit a bus carrying university staff in Parwan's Charikar city: 29 May 2021: A roadside bomb hit a bus carrying university staff in Parwan's city of Charikar in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing three teachers and wounding 15 others, according to Reuters, as UN says nearly 1,800 Afghan civilians were killed or wounded in the first three months of 2021 during fighting between government forces and Taliban militants amid increased violence since USA announced plans last month to pull out all USA troops by 11 September

29 May 2021 4 people killed, many wounded in a bus explosion in Parwan: 29 May 2021: Four people were killed in an explosion that targeted a University bus carrying lecturers and employees of Alberoni University in Bagram district of Parwan, as chief medical officer at Parwan Hospital Qasim Sangin said 17 others were wounded in the explosion

1 June 2021 explosions targeted two buses with dozens of passengers in Kabul: 1 June 2021: Explosions targeted two buses with dozens of passengers heading toward Dashte-e-Barchi in western Kabul, as TOLOnews reported at least 8 people killed and 14 more wounded in the two blasts, and as eyewitnesses said there were about 30 casualties

9 June 2021 at least 16 people incl. civilians killed, many wounded in Taliban attack on Balkh Police HQ: 9 June 2021: At least 16 people, including 2 civilians, were killed and 117 others, including 67 civilians wounded in a Taliban attack on the police headquarters in Balkh province, as the Taliban claimed responsibility for the deadly attack

9 June 2021 many deminers killed and wounded in an attack by gunmen reportedly Taliban in Baghlan province: 9 June 2021: At least 10 deminers from the HALO Trust organization were killed and 16 more were wounded in an attack by gunmen on their office in the northern province of Baghlan, as Interior Affairs Ministry's spokesman Tariq Arian blamed the Taliban for the attack, as local Taliban denied involvement, but as several districts in Baghlan province have seen fierce fighting between the Taliban and government forces

30 July 2021 UN compound attacked in Herat city: 30 July 2021: UN compound attacked in Herat city and and at least 1 security guard was killed according to UNAMA, as since 'morning the Taliban have launched attacks from several directions on Lashkar Gah city', and as UN report this week said civilian casualties had been surging in Afghanistan with as many killed in May and June as in the previous four months

4 August 2021 Taliban terrorist attack on minister's house in Kabul left at least eight dead: 4 August 2021: An audacious attack on the Afghan defence minister's house in Kabul has left at least eight dead, the first major bombing by militants in the city for nearly a year, as Bismillah Khan Mohammadi fortunately was not at home on Tuesday night as gunmen detonated a car bomb and fired shots near the heavily fortified Green Zone, as four of the gunmen reportedly killed, as Mohammadi's family was evacuated, and as the Taliban said they were behind the attack, also warning of more terrorist attacks against government leaders

26 August 2021 Kabul airport suicide bombing: 26 August 2021 Kabul airport suicide bombing following western states' abandonment since 2020 of their war on terror since 2001 and now during the evacuation from the Asian contested country, as at least 183 people were killed, including 170 Afghan civilians and 13 members of the USA military, its first casualties in the War in Afghanistan since February 2020. The Islamic State – Khorasan Province claimed responsibility

8 October 2021 dozens killed in suicide bombing by ISIL affiliate at Kunduz mosque: 8 October 2021 Kunduz mosque bombing claimed by ISIL, as over 50 people were killed and another 100 were injured, but according to an estimate by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, more than 100 people were killed and wounded - Islamic State – Khorasan Province, an affiliate of ISIL active in South Asia and Central Asia, as ISKP is active in Afghanistan, also including Pakistan, Tajikistan and India, where they claimed attacks, as well as Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Bangladesh where individuals have pledged allegiance to it. The group was created in January 2015 by disaffected Taliban in eastern Afghanistan, although its membership includes individuals from various countries notably Pakistan, Bangladesh, India and Myanmar

15 October 2021 Kandahar bombing: 15 October 2021 Kandahar bombing, as a bomb exploded at a Shia mosque during Friday prayers killing at least 33 people. It came a week after a bombing claimed by the 'Islamic State' (ISIL Khorasan Province) terrorist group at a mosque in Kunduz killed at least 50 people

15 October 2021 UK lawmaker David Ames stabbed to death at meeting with voters from his district: 15 October 2021: British lawmaker David Amess was stabbed to death in a church at a meeting with voters from his electoral district, as police later said that they were investigating the stabbing as a terrorist incident potentially motivated by Islamic extremism, and as Whitehall officials even later confirmed to the BBC that the suspect - who is being held at a London police station under the Terrorism Act 2000 - is Ali Harbi Ali, a British national of Somali heritage

Since 1982 terrorist group 'Hezbollah': Since 1982 terrorist group Hezbollah's suicide and terror attacks in the Middle East and worldwide

1982-1983 Tyre truck bombings: 1982-1983 Tyre truck bombings, suicide bombings against the Israel Defense Forces' headquarters building in Tyre, killing 103 Israelis and 46–59 Lebanese, wounding 95 people, believed to be the responsibility of Hezbollah

1989 Hezbollah targeted Israeli diplomats in Brazil: 6 February 2017: Hezbollah targeted Israeli diplomats in Brazil in 1989, declassified files show

March 1992 attack on Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires: 17 March 1992 attack on Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires

July 1994 attack on the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina in Buenos Aires: 18 July 1994 attack on the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina in Buenos Aires, killing 85 people and injuring hundreds, claimed by Hezbollah front, in 2006 Argentine prosecutors including Alberto Nisman accused the Iranian regime of directing the bombing and the Hezbollah militia of carrying it out

June 1996 Khobar Towers bombing: 25 June 1996 Khobar Towers bombing, killing 19 USA Air Force personnel, a Saudi local and woundign 498 people of many nationalities, in 2006 a USA court found Iran and Hezbollah guilty of orchestrating the attack - 12 September 2018: USA court orders Iran to pay $104.7m for 1996 truck bomb attack that killed 19 military personnel, as 15 military personnel who survived Khobar Towers bombing and 24 family members are entitled to payout

February 2005 assassination of Rafic Hariri: 14 February 2005 assassination of Rafic Hariri, the former PM of Lebanon, killed along with 21 others in an explosion in Beirut, suspected perpetrators Hezbollah terrorists

September 2018: 21 September 2018: Brazil arrests Hezbollah financier Assad Ahmad Barakat, a key figure for the Lebanese terror group, operating in an area where three South American nations meet, considered a haven for smugglers, traffickers and counterfeiters

February 2019: 25 February 2019: The United Kingdom announced that it plans to blacklist Lebanon’s Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in its entirety, including its political wing, saying that it could no longer distinguish between the two branches

8 August 2020 Hezbollah and ammonium nitrate that caused Beirut’s port blast: 8 August 2020: Israeli TV cites assessment Hezbollah's Nasrallah may have intended to use stockpile that caused Beirut port blast in 'Third Lebanon War’, noting cases in Germany and the UK where Hezbollah caught with same material, after British intelligence found four Hezbollah operatives with 3 tons of ammonium nitrate held in flour sacks 2015 in London, and after the discovery in Germany of Hezbollah operatives with enough ammonium nitrate 'to blow up a city' forcing Germany subsequently to ban Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, because amounts of ammonium nitrate are equivalent to amounts of TNT, as in August 2020 seen in the port of Beirut after receiving the chemical compound in 2013, earlier used in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the 2011 Delhi bombings, the 2011 bombing in Oslo, and the 2013 Hyderabad blasts

19 August 2020 Hezbollah behind the assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri and attempts to block a fair investigation: 19 August 2020: Israel responded Tuesday evening to a UN-backed tribunal’s conviction of a Hezbollah member for involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri, saying the terror group was behind both the attack and attempts to block a fair investigation of it, including the trial at tribunal at The Hague

28 December 2020 Iran-backed Hezbollah says its precision missiles doubled in a year can hit all of Israel: 28 December 2020: Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group has doubled the number of its precision missiles over the past year, the organization’s leader Hassan Nasrallah said in an interview, also claiming his Iran-backed Shiite group has the ability to accurately hit any part of Israel

Since 1981/1987 terrorist group 'Islamic Jihad': Since 1981/1987 Islamic Jihad in Palestine, an Islamist terrorist organization whose objective is the destruction of the State of Israel, labelled a terrorist organisation by the USA, the EU, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Israel, as the Iranian regime is a major financial supporter of the terrorist group - Palestinian domestic weapons production

March 2018 Iran transfers millions to Hamas and Islamic Jihad: 8 March 2018: Iran transfers $100 million every year to Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip, as $70 million is transferred to Hamas, while Islamic Jihad gets $30 million, and the vast majority of this money is used by the two organizations to further bolster their military wings, instead of aiding the civilian population in the Gaza Strip

January 2019 Islamic Jihad's and Hamas' threats: 6 January 2019: Senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas figures praise Iran’s military support and threaten that in the next war the rocket fire from the Gaza Strip will reach all the cities in Israel

25 February 2019 Iran supported missiles: 25 February 2019: In documentary on Iranian TV, Gaza-based Palestinian terror group 'Islamic Jihad' says Iranian regime helped it make new projectile that can hit Tel Aviv and beyond, as well as precision missiles

Since 1990s terrorist group 'al-Qaeda': Since 1990s timeline of al-Qaeda attacks in the Middle East and worldwide - 18 September 2001: To fight against the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, the Afghan jihad and Osama Bin Laden, who founded the Maktab al-Khidimat, was supported by the USA dollars, pouring $3 billion into the Afghan Islamist movement via the CIA and Bin Laden received security training from the CIA itself

2001 September 11 al-Qaeda attacks against the USA: 2001 September 11 attacks, a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the USA, killing 2,996 people and injuring over 6,000 others

2011 CIA helped to create Osama Bin Laden's terrorist network: July 2011: How the CIA helped to create Osama Bin Laden's terrorist network - 9 December 2014: In USA's and CIA's efforts to support the Mujahideen against the Soviets in a proxy war, the USA's support of the Mujahideen included wealthy Saudi individuals who had the ability to channel money, and tens of thousands of Islamic fighters flooded into the various fighting factions of Afghanistan from around the world, from Libya, Somalia, even the Philippines and never before such an organization has been created, an international military organization unlike any other

Since 1979 rise of mujahideen fighters and Taliban: After the Soviet Union, asked for support in Afghanistan, became highly critical of Karmal's leadership because of the rise of violence and crime during his administration, the country - interested in reform especially under Mikhail Gorbachev - was able to depose Karmal and replace him in 1987 with Mohammad Najibullah, but Islamic mujahideen fighters engaged in war with those Soviet forces, after Pakistan's Zia-ul-Haq sent Akhtar Abdur Rahman to Saudi Arabia to garner support for the Afghan opposition against Soviet forces, while later USA's CIA and Saudi Arabian General Intelligence Directorate funnelled funding and equipment through the Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence Agency to the Afghan mujahideen, as the about 90,000 Afghans, including Mohammed Omar, were trained by Pakistan's ISI during the 1980s, as then British professor Carole Hillenbrand concluded that the 'Taliban' have arisen from those USA-Saudi-Pakistan-supported mujahideen, saying 'the West helped the Taliban to fight the Soviet takeover of Afghanistan', and as in the 1990s Sunni Islamic fundamentalists and military organization 'Taliban' waged war against and within that country - 2/3 December 1989 Malta summit ends Cold War, then hailed as the most important since 1945 when Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt agreed a post-war plan for Europe at Yalta, and as Mikhail Gorbachev and George H. Bush met face-to-face for the first time against a backdrop of fast-moving change in Eastern Europe - 16 April 1992: After president Bush - and Ronald Reagan before him - chose Afghanistan as one of its test cases in foreign policy, administration officials exhibited no exuberance as the bloody Afghan conflict reached its endgame, and as the promising administration appealed Thursday to USA-armed Afghan rebels and terrorists to act with restraint as they drew to within a rifle shot of their goal of controlling the capital of Kabul and seizing president Najibullah - Nach seinem Sturz im April 1992 fand Afghanistans Präsident (seit 1987) Mohammed Nadschibullah (6. August 1947 - 27. September 1996), und im Februar 2017 anerkannt als Politiker mit der Chance Afghanistan zu befrieden, Asyl im Hauptquartier der Vereinten Nationen in Kabul, bis ihn 1996 die von außen unterstützten und aufgerüsteten Taliban abholten, folterten und kastrierten, bevor sie ihn schließlich öffentlich hängten - die Herrschaft der Taliban begann

Since 1996 Taliban massacre campaigns: Since 1996 Taliban massacre campaigns

Since 1996 Taliban violence against Afghan civilians: Since 1996 Taliban violence against Afghan civilians

March 2011 rising death toll of Afghan civilians: 9 March 2011: Over the past 4 years, 8,832 civilians have been killed in the Afghanistan conflict with civilian deaths increasing each year, according to UN, saying anti-government elements were linked to 75% of all civilian deaths as Taliban suicide attacks and improvised explosive devices killed the most Afghan civilians in 2010, taking 1,141 lives

2019 rising terrorist incidents in Afghanistan, targeting democracy, education and civilians: 2019 terrorist incidents in Afghanistan

14 September 2019 Taliban terrorists in Moscow for talks with Putin regime: 14 September 2019: Looking to bolster regional support, with visits also planned for China and Iran, Taliban terrorists have sent a delegation to Russia's Putin regime to discuss prospects for a withdrawal of USA troops from Afghanistan following the collapse of talks with the USA caused by series of terror attacks in the country, mass murder of civilians and killing of USA soldier

15/16 September 2019 Farah, Ghazni and Logar attacks: 16 September 2019: At least five civilians, including women and children, were killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in western Farah province on Sunday, where the Taliban are active, as on Monday a sticky bomb attached to a mini bus belonging to Ghazni University exploded and killed the bus driver, wounding five Ghazni University students

17 September 2019 Taliban envoys in Tehran for talks with Iranian regime: 17 September 2019: Taliban envoys visit Iran

17 September 2019 Taliban attacks, encouraged by Iran and Russia, kill many civilians: 17 September 2019: At least 30 people were killed and dozens wounded in two Taliban attacks on 17 September in Afghanistan, as at least 24 people were killed and 30 more were wounded in a blast near an election rally in Charikar, the capital of Parwan Province - 17 September 2019 Taliban bombings

18 September 2019 Taliban death threats against students and education workers: 18 September 2019: Afghanistan's Taliban terrorist group on Wednesday warned teachers, students and other education workers to avoid the upcoming presidential vote or risk dying in attacks on election centres

19/20 September 2019 Taliban truck bomb kills dozens in Qalat: 19 September 2019: Taliban truck bomb has killed at least 30 people and wounded 95 others including several women, children, health workers and patients in Qalat's hospital when it exploded near hospital in southern Afghanistan's city of Qalat, the capital of Zabul province - 19 September 2019 Qalat Taliban suicide bombing - 20 septembre 2019: Le bilan d'un attentat des talibans ayant touché jeudi un hôpital dans le sud de l'Afghanistan est passé à au moins 39 morts et 140 blessés, selon les autorités de la province de Zaboul

20/21 September 2019 two confirmed Taliban attacks: 21 September 2019: A roadside bomb has killed at least two civilians and wounded five other people when the blast struck a vehicle Friday afternoon in Spin Boldak district in southern Kandahar province where the Taliban are active, and as two more blasts in Kabul on Friday night were claimed by the terrorist group

28 September 2019 Taliban terror attacks during election: 28 September 2019: Afghans head to the polls amid fears that voter turnout would be badly hit by disorganized balloting and threats of violence by Taliban militants, who targeted polling stations in the country's north and south, causing dozens of casualties

October 2019 Taliban election attacks destroying any future: 15 October 2019: 85 civilians were killed by the Taliban in attacks targeting September's Afghan election, according to UN report, saying attacks aiming to disrupt the electoral process also wounded 373 others, including 277 civilian casualties, a third of whom were children

18 October 2019 Haska Meyna mosque bombing: 18 October 2019 Haska Meyna mosque bombing - 19 October 2019: State blames Taliban for blasts targeting worshippers during Friday prayers, killing at least 69 people including children and elders

5 July 2021 Taliban advances in northern Afghanistan continue: 5 July 2021: More than 1,000 Afghan security personnel have fled across the border into Tajikistan after Taliban advances in northern Afghanistan, the Tajik border guard service said on Monday, while dozens of others were captured by the insurgents, after the crossings on Sunday underscore a rapidly deteriorating situation in the country as foreign troops near a complete withdrawal after 20 years of war in Afghanistan and with peace negotiations stalled - 1 May 2021 – present withdrawal of USA troops from Afghanistan

4 August 2021 Taliban terrorist attack on minister's house in Kabul left at least eight dead: 4 August 2021: An audacious attack on the Afghan defence minister's house in Kabul has left at least eight dead, the first major bombing by militants in the city for nearly a year, as Bismillah Khan Mohammadi fortunately was not at home on Tuesday night as gunmen detonated a car bomb and fired shots near the heavily fortified Green Zone, as four of the gunmen reportedly killed, as Mohammadi's family was evacuated, and as the Taliban said they were behind the attack, also warning of more terrorist attacks against government leaders

23 March 2022 Taliban have reversed decision to allow Afghan girls to return to high schools: 23 March 2022: Taliban have reversed a decision to allow Afghan girls to return to high schools, as schools were set to open after months of restrictions after the Taliban seized power last August, but a notice from the education ministry said schools would continue to remain closed, causing confusion, causing anger and disappointment to the last-minute move, the 'BBC' reports - 23 March 2022: Parents of Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui are seeking legal action against the Taliban over their son's death, as the 38-year-old Reuters journalist was killed last year after a Taliban ambush while reporting in Afghanistan, and as his parents have moved the International Criminal Court ICC against six Taliban leaders

Since 2000 Abu Sayyaf: Since 2000 timeline of Abu Sayyaf attacks in the southwestern part of the Philippines and some neighbouring countries

Since 2001 rise of terrorist attacks: 4 December 2012: The number of terrorist attacks each year has more than quadrupled in the decade since September 11, 2001, with Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan the most affected, a study of the Institute for Economics and Peace says

Since 2006 Al-Shabaab: Since 2006 timeline of Al-Shabaab related events in East Africa

Since 2007 Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan: 'Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan' claimed and alleged attacks since 2007

Since 2009 Boko Haram: Since 2009 timeline of Boko Haram terror attacks in Nigeria and some neighbouring countries (28 January 2016)

25 February 2021 Boko Haram attack kills 16, mainly children playing football: 25 February 2021: A deadly attack by Boko Haram in the northeast of Nigeria killed at least 16 people, including children who were playing football in a field, local militia said on Wednesday

Since 2011 Hezbollah's involvement in Assad's war against the Syrian people: Since 2011 Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah's involvement in Assad's war against the Syrian people and timeline of Hezbollah's deployment in Syria - 23 December 2016: Lebanon’s terror group Hezbollah's Nasrallah says that Syrian dictator Assad's army’s recapture of east Aleppo, in fact attacked and destroyed by Hezbollah, Iran and Russia, has put an end to hopes that his regime could be ousted, adding that it is 'present, strong, effective, and no one in the world can ignore it'

Since 2013 Islamic State ISIL terrorists, followint 2003 invasion of Iraq: Since 2013 list of terrorist incidents linked to Islamic State terrorists ISIL in the Middle East and worldwide - 10 December 2015: The international terrorist organization 'Islamic State' is the direct result of the USA-led George W. Bush-era invasion of Iraq since 2003, a rights group's report concludes

June 2015 terrorism-related death toll soared in 2014 with 13,463 attacks in 95 countries: 20 June 2015: Terrorism-related death toll soared in 2014 with 13,463 attacks in 95 countries, Country Reports on Terrorism report says - 17 November 2015: Terrorist killings up by 80% in 2014 with 78% of all deaths and 57% of all attacks in Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan and Syria, with civilians increasingly targeted and fuelling flow of refugees, 2015 Global Terrorism Index says

2016 global terror fears: 1 January 2016: Welcoming in the new year 2016 amid global terror fears - 11 February 2016: Multiple sources reveal that the Russian construction company 'Stroytransgaz' had resumed work in the Tuweinan gas facility in the Syrian Deir Ezzor province after it was captured by 'Islamic State' terrorists in early 2014, that the Russian company sent employees to the facility after it fell to IS terrorists, adding that 'Stroytransgaz' utilized a Syrian subcontractor 'Hesco', owned by Russian-Syrian dual national George Haswani - 25 février 2016: 51 sociétés de 20 pays (turques, indiennes, chinoises, brésiliennes, russes et américaines) sont impliquées dans la fourniture des composants qui servent à fabriquer les bombes de l'Etat islamique, selon une étude commandée par l'UE - 3 March 2016: Islamic State terrorist group is making millions of dollars for its war chest by playing foreign currency markets under the noses of bank chiefs - 12 June 2016: On eve of Tel Aviv terror attack, Hamas called Ramadan 'month of jihad' - In 2016 several terrorist attacks occurred during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan 6 June to 5 July - 4 July 2016 Prophet's Mosque bombing in Medina

5 September 2016 Assad regime's intelligence in connection with twin bombings at mosques in Tripol: 5 September 2016: Lebanon court indicted two Syrian Assad regime's intelligence officers in connection with twin bombings at mosques in Tripoli in 2013, which killed more than 40 people

September 2016 Russia supports terrorism, Syrian Coalition says: 8 September 2016: Russia is one of the biggest supporters of terrorism and the USA has repeatedly reneged on the promises it made to the Syrian people and to the Free Syrian Army, Syrian Coalition's Abdul Ilah Alfahd says

November 2016: 16 novembre 2016: Selon une étude de l'Institute for Economics and Peace, le terrorisme a fait 10% de morts en moins l'an dernier avec les reculs du groupe Etat islamique et de Boko Haram en Irak et au Nigeria, après l'année 2015 aura été la deuxième année la plus meurtrière jamais vue

September 2017 governments and violent extremists in Africa: 7 September 2017: Hundreds of violent extremists in Africa have told researchers that government action aimed at countering terrorism and insurgency across the continent was the 'tipping point' for their decision to join an extremist group

March 2019 SDF liberated final area held by Islamic State terrorists: 23 March 2019: Syrian Democratic Forces announces it has liberated final area held by Islamic State terrorist group in village of Baghouz, saying caliphate is gone but pledging to fight remnants and commemorating 'thousands of martyrs whose efforts made the victory possible'

27 October 2019 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed with Kurdish help: 27 October 2019: Syria’s Kurdish commander Mazloum Abdi, head of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, hailed a 'historic operation' and joint intelligence work following USA media reports that Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed during a USA raid

November 2019 IS terrorist group has exploited Turkey's incursion into Syria and Trump's drawdown of USA troops: 20 November 2019: Islamic State terrorist group has exploited Turkey's incursion into northeastern Syria and Trump's drawdown of USA troops from the region, according to a report by the Pentagon's Inspector General, adding that the group will now likely have the 'time and space' to target the West

2021 list of terrorist incidents linked to ISIL, committed in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan: 2021 list of terrorist incidents linked to ISIL, committed in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan

19 July 2021 Baghdad suicide bombing claimed by ISIL: 19 July 2021 Baghdad suicide bombing - 20 July 2021: A suicide bomber has killed at least 35 people and wounded more than 60 citizens in a crowded market in the Sadr City neighbourhood of Baghdad on Monday, the eve of the Eid al-Adha festival, security and hospital sources said, as Islamic State group terrorists claimed responsibility for the attack

22 March 2022 four Israelis killed, several others wounded in Islamic terrorist attack: 22 March 2022 Beersheba stabbing and vehicle-ramming attack - 22 March 2022 four Israelis have been killed and several others wounded in an attack in the southern city of Beersheba, as three were stabbed to death outside the BIG shopping centre in Beersheba, while a fourth was rammed by a vehicle driven by the assailant, then the attacker was shot dead by a bus driver, as Israel's internal security agency said the assailant was an Israeli Arab who had once been jailed for supporting the Islamic State ISIL group.

February/March 2022 Bucha massacre, the killing of Ukrainian civilians by Russian Armed Forces in Putin's war: February/March 2022 Bucha massacre, the killing and abuse of Ukrainian civilians by Russian Armed Forces during the fight for and occupation of the Ukrainian city of Bucha amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photographic and video evidence of the massacre emerged on 1 April 2022 after Putin regime's forces withdrew from the city.

13 June 2022 at least 50 people died in an attack by terrorists on the village of Seytenga: 13 June 2022: At least 50 people have died in an attack by armed men on the village of Seytenga in north-eastern Burkina Faso, as attackers struck overnight between Saturday and Sunday in Seytenga commune, part of Seno province in borderlands where fighters linked to al-Qaeda and ISIL terrorists are embroiled in an armed uprising, as EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said 'the method used by the terrorist group that carried out the attack, namely the systematic execution of anyone they encountered in the village, is appalling'

Since 1990s/2014 Iranian Mullah regime supported Houthis in Yemen: On 11 January 2021, the USA designated the Iranian Mullah regime supported Houthis in Yemen a terrorist organization, imitating Hezbollah terrorists spreading of Shiite radicalism, formed with the aid of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's followers since 1979 to spread the Islamic Revolution and a distinct version of Islamic Shia ideology 'Valiyat al-faqih or Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists'

Since 1984 Iranian Mullah regime added to USA list of state sponsors of terrorism: On 19 January 1984 Iran was added to the list, according to Country Reports on Terrorism 2013, as Iranian Mullah regime continued its terrorist-related activity, including support for Palestinian groups in Gaza, for Hezbollah, also increasing its presence in Africa and smuggling arms to Houthi separatists in Yemen and Shia oppositionists in Bahrain, as the Iranian Mullah regime uses the 'Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force' and its regional proxy groups to implement foreign policy goals, to provide cover for intelligence operations, and to create instability in the Middle East, as the IRGC-QF is the regime’s primary mechanism for cultivating and supporting terrorists abroad, including Syria as a crucial causeway in its weapons supply route to Hezbollah, after since 2011 Iran continues to provide arms, financing, training, and the facilitation of Iraqi Shia fighters to the Assad regime’s brutal crackdown - State Sponsors of Terrorism USA list

4 February 2021 Iranian official Assadi convicted of masterminding a thwarted bomb attack against opposition group in France in 2018: 4 February 2021: Iranian official Assadollah Assadi was convicted of masterminding a thwarted bomb attack against an exiled Iranian opposition group in France in 2018 and sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Belgian court that rejected his claim of diplomatic immunity, after Vienna-based diplomat Assadi, earlier detained in Belgium but refused to testify during his trial last year invoking his diplomatic status, now did not attend the hearing at the Antwerp courthouse

Since 17 July 2014 flight MH17 shootdown by Putin regime: Cause of MH17 crash - 28 September 2016: Dutch-led joint investigation team including representatives from Australia, Malaysia, Ukraine, and Belgium states that there is 'irrefutable evidence' that a Russian Buk 9M38 missile downed the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 in 2014, killing all 298 people on board, also concluding that the Buk missile system was brought across the border from Russia and later transported back escorted by several other vehicles and by 'armed men in uniform', according to witnesses, photographs, video, damning intercepted telephone calls, radar data, forensic examinations, tests and reconstructions

Since 8 January 2020 Ukrainian passenger plane shot down by Iranian regime's terrorist organization with two Russian-made missiles: 8 January 2020 Ukrainian UIA flight 752 passenger plane shot down by Iranian regime's terrorist organization with two Russian-made missiles shortly after takeoff from Tehran Khomeini airport in Iran - 8 January 2020: Ukrainian passenger plane Boeing 737-800 soon after taking off from Tehran crashed, killing all 176 citizens from Afghanistan, Canada, Iran, Sweden, Ukraine and United Kingdom on board

9-11 January 2020 Bellingcat geolocates footage of apparent Iranian missile strike on UIA flight PS752 to Tehran suburb: 9 January 2020: Bellingcat geolocates footage of apparent missile strike on UIA flight PS752 to Tehran suburb - 11 January 2020: After the supporting and MH17 experienced Russian Putin regime pushed back against Bellingcat and intelligence assesments that Iran shot down the plane with a Russian made surface-to-air missile, after telling the world 'with certainty' that a missile had not caused the crash, but knowing 'with certainty' all facts of its crime, not closing the country’s main international airport and its airspace, Ukraine president now demands punishment and compensation after Iranian regime admitted downing the plane and killing all 176 people on board

15 January 2020 new video footage showing two Iranian missiles killing all 176 passengers and crew: 15 January 2020: New video footage has emerged showing two Iranian missiles tearing through the night sky and hitting a Ukrainian passenger plane, sending the aircraft down in flames and killing all 176 passengers and crew on board

21 January 2020 Iranian threats against USA and the whole world: 21 January 2020: Iranian lawmaker offered a $3 million reward to anyone who killed USA' president Donald Trump and said Iran could avoid threats if it had nuclear arms, as Iran’s war minister Amir Hatami said that regime’s missile attacks on USA bases in Iraq in response to the killing of Soleimani were 'just a slap, vowing to respond forcefully, and as USA secretary of state praises 3 South American countries for declaring Hezbollah a terror group

War crimes by type: War crimes - War crimes by type

War crimes since the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907: List of war crimes since the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 in the age of modern industry and technology

War crimes committed by country: War crimes committed by country

Since 1914 German, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman war crimes: Since 1914 German war crimes, as the government of the German Empire and its military in the age of modern industry and technology ordered, organized and committed war crimes in World War I - Ottoman war crimes and Ottoman World War I crimes - War crimes of World War I 1914-1918

Since August 1914 German 'strategic' bombing during World War I and later: Since August 1914 German 'strategic' bombing during World War I

Since January 1915 German large-scale use of chemical weapons: 31 January 1915 first instance of large-scale use of gas as a weapon, when Germany fired 18,000 artillery shells containing liquid xylyl bromide tear gas on Russian positions on the Rawka River, west of Warsaw during the Battle of Bolimov

Since 1923 Italian war crimes: Italian war crimes have mainly been associated with Fascist Italy in the Pacification of Libya, the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, and World War II - 1923-1932 Second Italo-Senussi War by Italian military forces to crush local resistance in Tripolitania and Cyrenaica

Since early 20th century Japanese war crimes: Japanese war crimes, as war crimes were committed by the Empire of Japan in many Asia-Pacific countries during the period of Japanese imperialism, primarily during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II

Since April 1937 German and Italian bombing in Spain and 'strategic' bombing during World War II: April 1937 bombing of Guernica, an aerial bombing of the Basque town of Guernica carried out by Franco's allies, the Nazi German Luftwaffe's Condor Legion and the Fascist Italian Aviazione Legionaria, causing hundreds of civilian victims - World War II 'strategic' bombing conducted by Germany

Since 1939 war crimes of Germany, Italy, and Japan (and allies) in their World War II 1939-1945: German war crimes in World War II 1939-1945 - War crimes of 'Axis Powers' World War II 1939-1945, as Germany, Italy, and Japan (the Axis Powers) were the most systematic perpetrators of war crimes in history, now in the age of modern industry and technology

Since 1945 war crimes in and committed by country: War crimes in country - War crimes committed by country

1946-1954 French war crimes during France's Indochina War: French war crimes during 1946–1954 Indochina War, France's struggle against the independence movement claiming 500,000 to 1.5 million Vietnamese lives from 1945 to 1954, French concentration camps, torture, and massacres

1945–1949 Dutch war crimes during Indonesian War of Independence: Dutch war crimes during 1945–1949 Indonesian War of Independence

1950-1953 Korean War and war crimes: 1950-1953 Korean War and war crimes, including USA, North Korean and South Korean perpetrated crimes - Bombing of North Korea 1950-1953

1952-1960 British war crimes in Kenya: 1952–1960 Mau Mau uprising in Kenya and British attempt to suppress the insurgency, as British colonial authorities suspended civil liberties within the country. moved 320,000–450,000 Kenyans into concentration camps and created 'enclosed villages' - British war crimes in Kenya

1954–1962 Algerian War and French war crimes: 1954–1962 Algerian War and French war crimes - Algerian war's casualties, as the FLN estimated in 1964 that nearly eight years of revolution effected 1.5 million deaths from war-related causes - French use of torture in Algeria

1955–1975 USA's Vietnam War, war crimes and massacres: 1955–1975 USA's Vietnam War, USA's war crimes and massacres - Vietnam War crimes

1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and war crimes: 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and war crimes

1975 Indonesian Invasion of East Timor: 1975 Indonesian invasion of East Timor

1975–1990 Lebanese 'Civil War' and war crimes: 1975–1990 Lebanese 'Civil War', involving the Iranian regime, the Syrian dictatorship, Hezbollah terrorists, Lebanese militias, the PLO, and war crimes

1978–present war in Afghanistan and war crimes: 1978–present civil war and war in Afghanistan, involving many countries, the UN and the Nato, and war crimes

1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War and war crimes: 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War and war crimes

1990 Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait: 1990 Iraq's invasion of Kuwait

1994–2009 Russia-Chechnya Wars: 1994–1996/1999–2009 Russia-Chechnya Wars and Russian war crimes

Agust 2008 Russia's war with Georgia: 21 January 2021: Russia committed human rights violation in Georgia war, ECHR rules, as European court of human rights says in a landmark judgment Putin regime responsible for murder of civilians, looting and burning of homes and the torture of Georgian prisoners of war in 2008 war with Georgia, and as evidence included witness statements, satellite footage, and video and phone intercepts

2003–2011 USA's and United Kingdom's Iraq War: 2003–2011 USA's and United Kingdom's Iraq War and war crimes

2011–present Assad's war against the Syrian people: 2011–present Assad's war against the Syrian people - Syrian Civil War crimes

Since 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine and war crimes: Since 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine and war crimes

March 2016 wars are being fought as in 'barbarian times': 7 March 2016: Wars are being fought as in 'barbarian times', warns Médecins Sans Frontières' Joanne Liu, as attacks against civilians in war zones across the world have grown more indiscriminate due to a focus by the major global powers on fighting terrorism and failure in their duty to uphold the rules of conflict

April 2019: 26 April 2019: The Syrian National Coalition has said that the mounting evidence of war crimes committed by Assad and his inner circle is enough to mount a successful prosecution

Since 2011 timeline of Assad's, Iran's, Hezbollah's and Russia's war in Syria: Daily updated timeline of war and war crimes in Syria committed by Assad, Iranian, Hezbollah and Russian forces since 2011

September 2015 announced probe of Assad regime's crimes against humanity: 30 September 2015: France opens probe into Assad regime for crimes against humanity

2016 devastation of 4 years of Assad's, Russian and Iranian war against Syrians: 4 February 2016: Drone footage of Homs in western Syria, the country's third largest city, shows the devastation of four years of Assad's, Russian and Iranian war against Syrians - 11 February 2016: Fatalities caused by dictator Assad's, Russian and Iranian war against Syrians, directly and indirectly, amount to 470,000, according to the Syrian Centre for Policy Research, a far higher total than the figure of 250,000 used by the United Nations until it stopped collecting statistics 18 months ago

2017 wave of hospital attacks: 29 September 2017: Syrian doctors decry fresh wave of hospital attacks, accusing the international community of ignoring attacks on medical facilities

2018 ferocious bombing campaign by Assad backed by Russia and 2018-2020 timelin: In the February 2018 Rif Dimashq offensive eastern Ghouta is coming under a ferocious bombing campaign by regime forces who are backed by Russian air force - Since 2011 daily updated timeline of war and war crimes in Syria committed by Assad, Iranian, Hezbollah and Russian forces

14 April 2020 109 violations of Idlib ceasefire by Assad regime and Russia since March 5: 14 April 2020: Emergency Response Coordinators Team in northern Syria said that it had recorded at least 109 violations of the ceasefire agreement by the Assad regime forces and its Russian ally since March 5

2 March 2021 UN says mass arbitrary detentions in Syria may be war crimes: 2 March 2021: UN says mass arbitrary detentions in Syria may be war crimes, noting 'massive scale of detention' and abuses perpetrated by Syria's Assad regime, also listing other detentions

2011-2021 daily updated timeline of Assad's and allies' war in Syria: 2011-2021 daily updated timeline of war and war crimes in Syria committed by Assad, Iranian, Hezbollah and Russian forces

29 July 2021 Syria's Assad regime attacks former opposition in Daraa province, Russian airstrikes: 29 July 2021: Bashar al-Assad has attacked a former opposition stronghold with missiles and artillery shelling in an attempt to crush a simmering insurrection, in an unprecedented development in Syria’s decade-long war, as Deraa al-Balad and its surrounds, a district of Deraa city in the southern province of the same name, was targeted with heavy weaponry in tandem with a ground push on three axes from two Syrian army divisions and allied Iran-backed militias early on Thursday morning, in a large offensive which continued throughout the day - 29 July 2021: SOHR activists have documented a spike in the death toll of the massacre committed by regime forces in al-Yadoudah town in Daraa countryside, as five civilians, a woman and her little son and three other children, were killed in rocket fire by regime forces on the town, near Daraa city - 29 July 2021: SOHR activists have documented the death of eight civilians due to regime rocket fire on populated residential neighbourhoods in Daraa province. - 29 July 2021: Russian fighter jets renewed their airstrikes this afternoon, targeting positions in Ihsim and Mar’ian in Jabal al-Zawiyah in southern Idlib with over 5 airstrikes, which resulted in the injury of at least one man and caused material damage

2012: 1 September 2012: Syrian Assad regime forces filmed dropping 'barrel bomb' on Homs

2016: 12 July 2016: Assad regime surrounds Aleppo, opposition groups resist despite intensified airstrikes using cluster, vacuum and barrel bombs, also targeting and killing civilians - 20 July 2016: Assad regime forces pounded the district of Daraya west of Damascus with at least 748 barrel bombs during June, killing at least 28 civilians and causing massive destruction in the rebel-held district - 21 July 2016: Assad's air strikes hit Al-Mashtal Park, Al-Jamaa and Al-Kastana neighborhoods in Idlib, killing at least 15 people

September 2018: 12 September 2018: Assad's forces fired chlorine, a banned chemical weapon, on a rebel-held Damascus suburb and on Idlib province this year, in attacks that constitute war crimes, bringing to 39 the number of chemical attacks which the Commission of Inquiry on Syria has documented since 2013, UN human rights investigators said on Wednesday

October 2018: 15 October 2018: A BBC investigation shows for the first time the extent to which chemical weapons have been crucial to Assad's war-winning strategy, saying there is enough evidence to be confident that at least 106 chemical attacks have taken place in Syria since September 2013, when Assad signed the international Chemical Weapons Convention and agreed to destroy the country's chemical weapons stockpile following the Ghouta chemical attack

2011-2021 daily updated timeline of Assad's and allies' war in Syria: 2011-2021 daily updated timeline of war and war crimes in Syria committed by Assad, Iranian, Hezbollah and Russian forces

December 2015: 20 December 2015: Russian air strikes kill at least 73 people in rebel-held Idlib - 23 Decembert 2015: Amnesty International says Russian air strikes in Syria may amount to war crimes after gathering reports on, hundreds of civilians killed in their homes, medical facilities and other public spaces

2016: 24 January 2016: Intense Russian and Syrian bombing raids reportedly killed scores of children and civilians in recent days - 30 June 2016: Thanks in no small part to Russia, Hezbollah is now a full-fledged army, learning Russian methods of war, becoming familiar with advanced Russian weaponry, coming to understand the latest Russian technologies, and in some cases actually fighting alongside Russian special forces - 29 September 2016: Syria hospital attacks are 'war crimes', UN's Ban Ki-moon says - Daily updated timeline of war crimes in Syria committed by Assad, Iranian, Hezbollah and Russian forces since 2011

March 2018: 26 March 2018: The 'United Nations' 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, according to 'The Telegraph' - 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 - 27 March 2018: As more than half million people killed in seven years of brutal ground and aerial bombing by the Assad regime and its allies, and as Syrian children have taken the biggest share in the horrible death toll, the unstoppable roar of Russia's warplanes has caused a heart attack for Lojain Said, taking the life of the schoolgirl who lived in the northwestern town of Jisr al-Shughour, the Civil Defense rescue group says

August 2018: 22 August 2018: Russian regime's military have been key to propping up Syrian Assad regime and helping him reclaim key ground, as Russian ministry said Wednesday that over 63,000 Russian troops, including 434 generals, have fought in Syria and about 90% of Russian combat pilots have flown in Syria, using the operation to test some of its most advanced weapons, including the latest jets and cruise missiles, helping turn the tide of war in Assad’s favor and the Assad regime in August 2018 five years after the Ghouta chemical attack controls nearly two thirds of the country, compared to just one third back in 2014

September 2018: 30 September 2018: More than 18,000 people, nearly half of them civilians, have been killed in Russian air strikes on Syria since Putin regime began its assault three years ago, according to SOHR

November 2018: 1 November 2018: 'Syrian Archive' said that it had documented more than 1,400 attacks by Russian forces on civilians and civilian infrastructure since the start of the Russian direct military intervention on the side of the Assad regime in September 2015, as verified videos show that the Russian forces targeted at least 35 hospitals, 27 mosques, 23 schools and 27 public markets

2018/2019: 5 January 2019: The Assad regime and Russia are responsible for the majority of the recorded 223 massacres that took place across Syria in 2018, according to SNHR

January 2019: 5 January 2019: The Russian warplanes carry out a new round of aerial bombardment and of their first targeting to the western countryside of Aleppo leaving 16 citizens dead and wounded including children - 30 January 2019: Russian warplanes return to kill Syrians and raise to more than 18,100 the number of casualties of the Russian bombardment in 40 continuous months

February 2019: 9 February 2019: Russian regime’s ambassador in Lebanon Zasypkin hails country’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group for fighting alongside Russia in Syria, also saying USA policies toward Iran could set off a fresh war between Israel and Lebanon - 9 February 2019: 4 civilians, including a woman, were wounded in rocket and artillery shelling by the Assad regime on the villages of Tal Minnis and Ma'arshammarin south of Idlib, and 8 civilians were killed and many others reportedly wounded in explosions of previously dropped cluster bombs by the Assad regime and Russian air forces in eastern rural Hama

March 2019: 1 March 2019: As a part of the aerial escalation, warplanes return to bomb Idlib and target major cities and towns along with ground shelling on several areas in the countryside of the province and Sahl Al-Ghab - 4 March 2019: Assad regime and Russia’s relentless bombing campaign on towns and villages in Hama and Idlib provinces forces tens of thousands to flee - 23 March 2019: Russian airstrikes killed at least 15 people, including four children and two women, and injured 27 others in at least 11 attacks on residential areas in rural Idlib including the town of Kfariya

April 2019: 8/9 April 2019: Suspected Russian long-range missiles hit the town of Jisr al-Shughour in rural Idlib, according to Syrian Civil Defense, as local observatory reported that the source of the missiles is the Russian warships stationed in the Mediterranean, wounding 12 civilians, including 10 children and a woman, and destroying a large amount of civilian property and infrastructure - 9 April 2019: The ongoing bombing campaign by the Assad regime and Russia has so far killed no fewer than 244 civilians since February 2, according to aid group - 17 April 2019: SNHR said that it had documented nearly 457 attacks in Syria by the Assad and Russian forces using cluster munitions, 24 of which occurred following the Sochi Agreement in September 2018 - 23 April 2019: Continuing Russian and Iranian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime and allied forces shell places and carry out raids on areas in Hama and Idlib province, amid aerial bombardments by Russian warplanes - 26 April 2019: Russian warplanes renew their airstrikes today evening on Sahl Al-Ghab and Jabal Shashabo leaving wounded and people stuck under the rubble in Al-Amqiyyah village - 27 April 2019: Warplanes and helicopters carried out a new round of shelling, as Russian warplanes reportedly killed 15 civilians in the countryside of Idlib and Hama - 27 April 2019: After killing 15 civilians, the Russian warplanes continue their escalation within 'Putin-Erdogan' areas and carry out more raids, as Assad regime forces continue shelling targeting southern countryside of Idlib, southern countryside of Aleppo and Hama province

July 2019: 7 July 2019: At least 544 civilians have been killed and over 2,000 people injured since a Russian-led assault on the last rebel bastion in northwestern Syria began two months ago, according to rights groups and rescuers - 12 July 2019: Assad and Russian forces have escalated their airstrikes in northwestern Syria, especially in Idlib and its countryside, killing and injuring dozens of civilians including children as well as knocking out six vital civilian centers since Thursday morning - 13 July 2019: After they killed 2 families, the Russian warplanes renew their bombardment on the countryside of Hama and Idlib, and bombardment by the regime’s warplanes on a village east of Idlib leaves about 11 casualties and wounded - 13 July 2019: It rose to 14, the number of casualties documented by SOHR following a massacre carried out by Russian warplanes targeting agricultural lands in the vicinity of Khan Shaykhun, as aerial and ground bombardment by regime’s forces south of Aleppo continues - 13 July 2019: Two months of intensive airstrikes by Syrian government forces and their Russian allies, coupled with a fierce ground assault on rebel-controlled Idlib province, have killed hundreds of people and caused massive displacement while achieving little to no gain for Assad's and Putin's murderous regime - 14 July 2019: Russian warplanes renewed their airstrikes on the Hama countryside, where they carried out more raids also targeting Maarrat al-Nu’man water pumping station and water reservoir as part of the systematic policy by the Russians and Assad regime to target vital and public facilities - 22 July 2019: Assad/Russian air strikes on a popular market and residential neighbourhoods killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens on Monday in an attack on Maarat al-Numan, a densely populated opposition-held city in southern Idlib province, rescuers and residents said - 22 July 2019: It rose to 23 (19 citizens including 2 children, a woman and a member of the Civil Defense, and 4 unidentified people), the number of casualties who were killed as a result of airstrikes carried out by Russian warplanes on a local market in Maarrat Al-Nu’man city

August 2019 crimes by the Assad regime and Russian air forces: 2 August 2019: Three million civilians in the province of Idlib are being subjected to daily violations and crimes by the Assad regime and Russian air forces, Syrian Civil Defense Corps said - 6 August 2019: Russian warplanes renew the airstrikes on the northern countryside of Hama - 17 August 2019: A suspected Russian airstrike hit a displaced people's gathering in the town of Hass south of Idlib province on Friday, killing at least 13 people, including at least four children, activists and war monitor SOHR said

September 2019 Russian airstrikes continue: 12 September 2019: UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria said that the Assad regime forces backed by Russian warplanes may have committed war crimes in a report issued on Wednesday - 13 September 2019: Warplanes of the Russian 'guarantor of the truce' continue raids in Idlib once again, bombarding areas in its western countryside

26 September 2019 Russia expanding air base in Syria: 26 September 2019: Russian regime is expanding its Hmeimim air base in Syria and rebuilding a second landing strip to allow the facility to serve more aircraft, expanding the Russian/Iranian version of dialogue during UN general assembly meeting in New York, saying 'give us friendly words, a propaganda stage and markets, we will give you bombs and poison gas'

13 October 2019: 13 October 2019: Russian regime's warplanes target Idlib countryside once again amid renewed rocket shelling by Assad regime forces on the area - 13 October 2019: Extensive evidence gathered and analyzed over months by USA newspaper proves that Russian warplanes bombed four Syrian hospitals in the span of 12 hours in May as part of Putin regime’s effort to keep Syria's Bashar Assad in power, saying 'recklessly or intentionally bombing hospitals is a war crime, but proving culpability amid a complex civil war is extremely difficult'

15 October 2019: 15 October 2019: The Russian air force used cluster bombs to hit the village of al-Bara south of Idleb city, killing a mother and her child, reports Zaman Al Wasl, after two civilians were killed and four others injured when Assad regime forces carried out surface-to-surface missiles attack on Birnas village

16 October 2019: 16 October 2019: Russian warplanes target Latakia Mountains and south Idlib

19 October 2019: 19 October 2019: Russian warplanes carry out raids on positions in Jabal al-Akrad and the southern countryside of Idlib, and dozens of raids on the countrysides of Hama, Idlib, and Latakia

23 October 2019: 23 October 2019: Assad's barrel bombs and air raids by Russian warplanes target Latakia countryside in conjunction with ground shelling on the southern countryside of Aleppo and Russian aerial bombardments of Idlib countryside

25 October 2019: 25 October 2019: Assad regime and Russian forces resumed their deadly attacks in rural Idlib as regime airstrikes hit a vegetable market in al-Janoudiya in northwestern rural Idlib, killing six civilians and wounding 16 others, and as two other people, one of them a child, were injured in Russian airstrikes that hit the Kafranbel in southern rural Idlib

6 November 2019: 6 November 2019: Russian regime's airstrikes on Idlib countryside kill 3 children of the same family, who displaced from Al-Lataminah city in Hama countryside a month ago, due to bombardment by the Russian warplanes on the residential neighborhoods in Al-Dar al-Kabirah village in the southern countryside of Idlib - 6 November 2019: Russian warplanes bombard Idlib countryside along with tens of ground strikes that targeted the eastern countryside of Idlib - 6 November 2019: As airstrikes return to escalate in 'Putin-Erdogan' area, the murderous Russian warplanes target children’s hospital in Jabal al-Zawiyah and leave casualties of the medical staff

20 November 2019 Russian and Assad's bombing has killed 1,300 people since April: 20 November 2019: Bombing by Assad and Russian regime forces of the last opposition-held pockets of Syria has killed 1,300 people and displaced almost 1 million more since April, according to monitors

21 November 2019 Russian torture and killing of a prisoner in Syria in 2017 documented: 21 November 2019: Russian-speaking man who filmed the torture and killing of a prisoner in Syria has been identified as a member of Wagner, a Russian private military company with ties to Putin's regime that has aggressively expanded into the Middle East and Africa in recent years

25 November 2019 Idlib offensive as Russian warplanes bombard hospital: 25 November 2019: Russian warplanes bombard a hospital in Jabal Al-Zawiya, as more than 80 raids and barrel bombs target Idlib countryside - 25 November 2019: With intensive support from Russian warplanes, Assad regime forces continue to advance southeast of Idlib and control new villages and locations in the area

31 December 2019 Putin's warplanes take 11 hospitals and medical facilities out of service: 31 December 2019: Russian and Assad regime’s warplanes and their murderous crews were not only content to kill, injure and displace hundreds of thousands of civilians, but they also target infrastructure, as Putin's warplanes take 11 hospitals and medical facilities out of service in the latest flare-up of violence in Idlib

Since January 2020: Since January 2020 timeline of Russian regime's and Assad's war against the Syrian people - Casualties of Russian regime's and Assad's war against the Syrian people

1 January 2020 Russian warplanes target the vicinity of Idlib city with more than 22 air strikes: 1 January 2020: Murderous Russian warplanes targeted the vicinity of Idlib city with more than 22 air strikes after midnight, where the area includes the Central Prison of Idlib, which has been hit before by Russian air strikes, while Assad regime forces shelled areas in villages located in rural Maarat al-Numan, also shelling the opposition-held village of Sarmin in the country's northwest, hitting a school and killing at least six people, including a female teacher and four students, as SOHR documented Assad's new year's massacre

3 February 2020 Russian and Assad regime continue to murder civilians as Turkey retaliates: 3 February 2020: Over 220 regime and Russian airstrikes pound Aleppo and Idlib countryside since early morning, as SOHR documented a spike in the number of civilians who were killed today as a result of aerial bombardment on Aleppo countryside, and as 4 children and 3 females among 9 civilians were killed after targeting by regime jets to a vehicle carrying displaced people in Jam’eyyat Al-Rahal - 3 February 2020: Russian and Assad regime airstrikes in Idlib killed at least 11 civilians, as 9 of the civilians were killed by strikes carried out by Russia while two were killed by Assad regime, according to Syrian civil defense group - 3 February 2020: Russian and Assad regime airstrikes in Idlib killed at least 11 civilians, as 9 of the civilians were killed by strikes carried out by Russia while two were killed by Assad regime, according to Syrian civil defense group - 3 February 2020: Turkish, Assad regime troops killed as regime forces face off in Idlib, and as Erdogan says initial information shows some 30 Assad regime soldiers 'neutralized in operation' involving F-16 warplanes on some 40 targets in Hama, Latakia and Idlib province - 3 February 2020: Turkish soldiers killed as battle for control of Idlib escalates, amid Russian airstrikes, which have already driven 700,000 civilians to the Turkish border

9/10 February 2020 Russian and Assad regime continue to murder civilians as UN remains silent: 9 February 2020: SOHR documented today a massacre of 9 citizens including a woman, as the Russian warplanes bombed Kafr Noran town in the western countryside of Aleppo, also documenting the death of at least 3 people in Russian airstrikes targeting Orem al-Soghra area, also documenting the death of 4 citizens including a child by barrel bombs on al-Atareb in the countryside of Aleppo, while two citizens were killed in Sheikh Ali village in Aleppo countryside by the Russian murderous warplanes, as Assad regime killed two citizens by bombing and groundshelling in Idlib province - 10 February 2020: Russian air strikes Monday killed at least five civilians in the last major opposition bastion in northwestern Syria - 10 February 2020: Death toll of Russian jets’ massacre rises to 9 in Abyan, west of Aleppo, including 6 children, 2 women and a man, including displaced persons, while Russian raids left at least 20 people injured, including 7 children and 2 women - 10 February 2020: With full Turkish support, Turkish-backed factions and Turkish troops begin intensive rocket attack on Assad regime forces positions, east of Idlib, as Turkish forces also targeted with heavy artillery Jab al-Ramlah airstrip in Hama countryside, and as intensive aerial bombardment continued by Assad's and Russian jets and helicopters in western and southwestern rural Aleppo

24 February 2020 Russian and Assad regime continue to murder civilians: 24 February 2020: SOHR documented the killing of five civilians in Russian aerial bombardment on Kawkaba and Faterah in Jabal Al-Zawiya, amid ongoing bombardment by regime and Russian jets on towns and villages - 24 February 2020: Assad regime and Russian jets target Turkish post south of Idlib, killing and injuring ten soldiers, as the number of raids carried out by regime and Russian jets on Monday rose to 120, and as civil defense center in Balion put out of service after being directly targeted by Russian jets

2 March 2020 UN says Russia committed war crimes in Syria as world expects end of impunity: 2 March 2020: Russia committed war crimes in Syria, finds UN report, as Putin regime blamed for indiscriminate attacks in civilian areas without 'a specific military objective', also documenting 'unprecedented levels of displacement and dire conditions for civilians' in Syria

5 March 2020 Russian aerial attack leaving more than 25 civilians dead or injured: 5 March 2020: 15 civilians killed in Russian aerial bombardment on assembly of internal displaced people in rural Idlib - 5 March 2020: Russian jets target consentrations of displaced persons near Ma’rat Misrin in Idlib countryside, leaving more than 25 civilians dead or injured, as Russian jets carried out more raids on the vicinity of Idlib city

9 June 2020 Russian regime's new deadly airstrikes: 9 June 2020: Russian jets have executed nearly 15 airstrikes since Tuesday, targeting places in Kansafrah, Balyon, Al-Bara, Al-Mawzarah, Al-Fterah, Kafr Oweid and other areas in Jabal Al-Zawiyah in the southern countryside of Idlib, as the intensive airstrikes killed a civilian in Balyon, while others sustained various injuries - 9 June 2020: SOHR documented the killing of three children due to the explosion of an old unexploded bomb in Idlib city

14/15 July 2020 escalating Russian airstrikes on northern Syria: 14 July 2020: Russian jets step up airstrikes on Kabana, while other airstrikes hit southern Idlib, amid aerial attacks escalation - 14 July 2020: Russian jets renew shelling Jabal Al-Zawiya, and over 20 air raids hit 'de-escalation zone' today, as SOHR documented the death of a civilian in a rocket attack by Assad regime forces on Ariha - 14 July 2020: More Russian air raids hit 'de-escalation zone' and man and his child killed in ground shelling on Ariha - 15 July 2020: Assad regime forces renew intensive shelling on areas in Jabal Al-Zawiyah

21 July 2020 Russian Putin regime's jets flying and Assad regime killing civilians: 21 July 2020: Russian jets fly over Idlib and Assad regime forces renew rocket attacks on Idlib countryside, targeting Al-Fterah, Kansafra, Sfuhen, Saan, Majdaliyah - 21 July 2020: SOHR activists have documented the killing of two civilians in regime rocket attacks in the past few hours on Barratah village

3 August 2020 Russian airstrikes kill civilians and support attack by Assad regime: 3 August 2020: Russian airstrikes hit rural Idlib, killing a family of three persons - 3 August 2020: Russian airstrikes pave the way for fierce attack by Assad regime forces on Al-Haddadah frontlines, as SOHR activists monitored Russian jets flying over the northern countryside of Latakia, along with executing several airstrikes on the hills of Kabana and Al-Haddadah frontline in Jabal Al-Akrad, as areas of Kabana, Al-Tuffahiya and Al-Haddadah also came under intensive artillery and rocket fire power by regime forces

16 August 2020 Saudi Mohammed bin Salman known for the Khashoggi assassination 'encouraged' Russia intervention in Syria since 2015: 16 August 2020: Saudi strongman Mohammed bin Salman 'encouraged' Russia intervention in Syria, turning his country’s foreign policy on its head and gave a covert green light for Russia’s intervention in Syria, according to a lawsuit by former top intelligence official Saad Aljabri filed in a federal court in Washington, also alleging that the abrupt switch of course by the man who is now Saudi Arabia’s crown prince alarmed the then CIA director John Brennan, who met Aljabri in July and August of 2015 to pass on a rebuke from the Obama administration

9 September 2020 Russian airstrikes continue: 9 September 2020: Russian airstrikes on Kabani hills in Jabal Al-Akrad in the northern countryside of Latakia, as Jabal Al-Zawiyah in the southern countryside of Idlib came under intensive rocket attacks by Assad regime forces - 9 September 2020: Assad regime forces continue shelling positions in Jabal Al-Zawiyah, while Russian reconnaissance drones fly over the area

11 September 2020 Russian airstrikes on areas between Idlib city and Sheikh Yousef village: 11 September 2020: SOHR monitored Russian jets flying this morning over Idlib province, along with executing two airstrikes on the area between Idlib city and Sheikh Yousef village, as a civilian died affected by his injuries he had a few days in Assad regime rocket fire on Ariha area in southern Idlib, as regime ground forces fired several rockets on Al-Ruwayha and Bayanin village in Jabal Al-Zawiyah in the southern countryside of Idlib, coinciding with flights by Russian reconnaissance drones over the area

15 September 2020 Russian airstrikes targeting Idlib province: 15 September 2020: Squadron of six Russian jets executed nearly 15 airstrikes this morning, targeting north-western Idlib province, as Russian jets are still flying over the area, as Assad regime forces renewed their bombardment targeting southern Idlib, as reconnaissance drones were seen flying over the area, and as Russian airstrikes leaving casualties, according to SOHR

21 October 2020 Russian airstrikes on Al-Rami village in Jabal Al-Zawiyah: 21 October 2020: Russian jets strike positions in Jabal Al-Zawiyah for the second day, as targeted village of Al-Rami hosts large number of refugees and displaced people - 21 October 2020: SOHR documented the injury of six civilians, including women and two children, in today’s airstrikes by Russian fighter jets on Al-Rami village in Jabal Al-Zawiyah in the southern countryside of Idlib - 21 October 2020: Opposition factions repel regime attack on Fulayfel, south of Idlib

26 October 2020 more deadly Russian airstrikes north-west of Idlib: 26 October 2020: Russian airstrikes on a rebel camp in northwestern Syria on Monday killed more than 50 fighters and wounded nearly as many, according to Syrian opposition and war monitor SOHR, reporting that death toll of the Russian airstrikes continues to rise, with 56 fighters killed and over 100 injured so far in Russian airstrikes on camp of al-Sham Corps close to Turkey, north-west of Idlib, as SOHR monitored more and renewed Russian airstrikes on the 'de-escalation zone' in the area of Jabal al-Dawila north-west of Idlib, and as the targeted area hosts camps for displaced people

7 November 2020 more Russian airstrikes on southern Idlib: 7 November 2020: SOHR monitored the flight of Russian jets over Idlib, along with executing nearly seven airstrikes on Shenan, Freka, Sarja, and Bayanin in Jabal Al-Zawiyah in the southern countryside of Idlib, 12 days after Al-Dwaylah massacre - 7 November 2020: Russian fighter jets flying over Jabal Al-Zawiyah in southern Idlib, executing further airstrikes on the region, bringing the number of airstrikes since morning to 13

10 November 2020 more Russian airstrikes on northern Syria: 10 November 2020: SOHR activists say that Russian airstrikes on Idlib province rose to five, targeting the outskirts of the towns of Benin and Shenan in Jabal al-Zawiya in the southern countryside of Idlib

13 November 2020 more Russian airstrikes on northern Syria and Assad regime attacks: 13 November 2020: SOHR has monitored Russian fighter jets executing airstrikes on Jabal al-Zawiya in the southern Idlib countryside, coinciding with intensive shelling by the Assad regime forces with rocket-propelled grenades on the villages and towns of southern Idlib countryside

28 December 2020 more Russian airstrikes on northern Syria: 28 December 2020: SOHR has monitored Russian jets executing airstrikes on Kabana frontlines in Jabal al-Akrad in Latakia province, coinciding with the flight of four Russian fighter jets over the area of 'Putin-Erdogan', as SOHR also monitored Assad regime forces shelling of areas in southern and eastern Idlib countryside, as Russian reconnaissance drones fly over the region

9 January 2021 more Russian airstrikes on northern Syria for first time in 2021: 9 January 2021: SOHR monitored this morning Russian jets flying Jabal al-Akrad in northern countryside of Latakia, executing airstrikes on Kabana frontlines, for first time in 2021, also monitoring rocket attack by Assad regime forces on Idlib countryside, also targeting five towns in southern Idlib

6 March 2021 Russian warships and Assad attack oil market and oil refineries: 6 March 2021: After attacks with surface-to-surface missiles fired by Russian warships and Assad regime forces stationed in military barracks in Aleppo on an oil market and oil refineries in Tarhin and Al-Hamaran in areas under the control of Turkish forces and their proxy factions, nearly 30 people killed and wounded, while fire brigades still extinguishing blazes - 6 March 2021: Assad regime forces renew shelling areas in Idlib and Hama and rocket attacks targeting positions in Kansafrah, Al-Faterah, the surrounding areas of Al-Bara, Bayanin and Al-Ruwayha in southern Idlib, as Russian reconnaissance drones were seen flying over the 'de-escalation zone'

21 March 2021 many Syrians killed and wounded in rocket attack on Al-Atareb hospital and airstrikes: 21 March 2021: Many people killed and wounded in Assad regime rocket attack on Al-Atareb hospital in the western countryside of Aleppo, as victims include a child and a medic in the hospital, as the death toll is expected to rise further, and as the bombardment left civilians and medics injured, some seriously, after yesterday SOHR sources reported two Russian airstrikes on the bushes of Bayanin village in Jabal Al-Zawiyah in southern Idlib, also on Bakfala village in the northern countryside of Jisr Al-Shughur with vacuum missiles

10 June 2021 Russian airstrikes: 10 June 2021: 15 Russian airstrikes and Assad regime 150 rocket fire caused eight killed and wounded people including a civilian and her kid in southern Idlib, as SOHR activists have reported death of at least 8 fighters by regime forces in southern Idlib countryside, and as rocket fire has targeted a civilian car in Ibleen, and as some factions fighters who have arrived to the site of attack have been also targeted by another rocket causing casualties, and as Russian airstrikes targeted areas in eastern Idlib countryside, with jets still hovering over the region - 10 June 2021: Deaths rise to 10 including three civilians amid large wave of displacement in Jabal al-Zawiyah

5 August 2021 Russian airstrikes: 5 August 2021: Russian warplanes have bombarded areas around al-Barah town, nearby the Turkish military post in the neighborhood, as on the other hand, regime forces have bombarded Tiqad town in western Aleppo countryside - 5 August 2021: Russian jets target Idlib and Hama countryside with five airstrikes, while regime forces renew shelling positions in Sahl al-Ghab

20-22 August 2021 Russian airstrikes: 20 August 2021: Russian warplane targeted with six raids posts of the factions in Ain Shaib area in Idlib countryside for the second day on row - 21 August 2021: In renewed airstrike Russian jets attack positions in the 'de-escalation zone', bringing the number of airstrikes since early August to 41 - 21 August 2021: 15 children and one woman among 18 civilians killed in 11 days, amid military escalation by Russian and regime forces, as SOHR documented the death of a little girl affected by the injury she had in yesterday’s bombardment by regime forces on Kafr Nuran town, as the girl’s little brothers had been also injured in that bombardment, as the kids were visiting their father’s grave - 22 August 2021: SOHR that Russian fighter jets have executed several airstrikes with high-explosive missiles on the outskirts of Kansafra, Mar’yan and al-Mawzarah towns in the southern countryside of Idlib, as airstrikes coincided with frequent flights by Russian reconnaissance drones, and as Assad regime forces shelled, with heavy artillery, the villages of Kherbet al-Naqous, al-Sarmaniya, Qulaydeen, al-Qaherah, al-Ankawi, al-Daqmaq and al-Zaqoum in Sahl al-Ghab in the north-western countryside of Hama

19 September 2021 Russian airstrikes: 19 September 2021: SOHR reported flights by Russian reconnaissance drones over south Idlib countryside, west Hama countryside and south Aleppo countryside, as Assad regime forces fired several rockets on the villages of al-Fterah, Fulayfil, al-Bara and Kansafra in Jabal al-Zawiyah in southern Idlib, also targeting Sheikh Suleiman frontline in the western countryside of Aleppo with mortars and heavy machineguns - 19 September 2021: Assad regime rocket attacks on Jisr al-Shughur kill child, with ongoing intensive Russian airstrikes on 'de-escalation zone' - 19 September 2021: Russian jets attack positions in south of M4 highway, amid ongoing inaction by Turkey - 19 September 2021: Russian jets target more areas in 'de-escalation zone', bringing the number of today’s airstrikes to 17

25 September 2021 continuing Russian airstrikes: 25 September 2021: Russian jets attack positions in eastern Idlib in ongoing airstrikes, as a kamikaze drone, believed to be Russian, attacked the outskirts of al-Bara and Jabal al-Zawiyah in southern Idlib - 25 September 2021: Russian fighter jets renew targeting positions in 'de-escalation zone'

6 December 2021 ongoing Russian airstrikes on North-west Syria: 6 December 2021: SOHR reported that Russian fighter jet has executed two airstrikes on Al-Barah town in Jabal al-Zawiyah in the southern of Idlib countryside, where Turkish bases and posts are located, coinciding with the ongoing flying of Russian fighter jets over the de-escalation zone

25 December 2021 ongoing Russian airstrikes on North-West Syria: 25 December 2021: SOHR reported that 3 airstrikes by Russian fighter jet hit the vicinity of Maarat Masrin city north of Idlib, after on December 11 SOHR activists documented the death of a civilian and the injury of 12 others three caused by Putin regime's airstrikes on Al-Yaqoubiyan area

Since 1 January 2022 ongoing Russian airstrikes on North-West Syria: 1 January 2022: SOHR documented the death of a woman and two children and the injury of ten others, including children, in airstrikes by Russian fighter jets which hit makeshift tents of displaced people from Aleppo countryside in the countryside of the northern city of Jisr Al-Shughur, West of Idlib as Russian fighter jets also have bombed more than 12 areas near Idlib and Jabal Al-Zawiyah south of Idlib - 2 January 2022: Russia fighter jets target Jericho city in third day of growing escalation in Putin-Erdoghan area, as Russia escalates aerial bombardments with ten Russian raids targeting various areas in Idlib - 3 January 2022: Amid the continuous Russian escalation for the fourth consecutive day, SOHR documented ten raids by Russian fighter jets on Al-Bara region, Jabal Al-Zawiyah in south Idlib, and more raids - 3 January 2022: Civilians, including children, injured amid Russian airstrikes also targeting poultry farm NW of Idlib - 4 January 2022: SOHR reports that four Russian fighter jets have targeted areas in Al-Barah town and its surroundings in Jabal Al-Zawiyah in south Idlib countryside, as the attacks left wounded people and material damages

6 February 2022 ongoing Russian airstrikes on North-West Syria: 6 February 2022: SOHR activists reported a new Russian aerial bombardment, when Putin regime's fighter jets have executed four airstrikes, targeting Kafr Shalaya area in Jabal Al-Zawiyah in the southern Idlib countryside, coinciding with the flight of Russian reconnaissance aircraft over the area, as regime's fighter jets conducted in January 50 airstrikes on the so-called 'de-escalation zone' that caused the death of a women and three children

23 April 2022 ongoing Russian airstrikes on North-West Syria: 23 April 2022: SOHR reported renewed aerial bombardment by Russia in 'Putin-Erdogan' area, where Russian fighter jets have executed airstrikes, targeting Kabbanah frontlines in Jabal Al-Akrad in northern Latakia countryside, shortly before noon - 23 April 2022: Russian air-to-air missiles hit safe zone in Aleppo countryside, igniting panic and fear among civilians

11 May 2022 ongoing Russian airstrikes on North-West Syria: 11 May 2022: SOHR reported that Russian fighter jets carried out two airstrikes on Harsh Bayannin in southern Idlib countryside, as Assad regime forces fired more than 20 rockets on areas in Kafr Nuran frontline in the western countryside of Aleppo and also shelled Al-Fatirah, Fulayfil, Bayannin, Svohn and Al-Bara in Jabal Al-Zawiyah

14 May 2022 ongoing Russian airstrikes on North-West Syria: 14 May 2022: SOHR reported that Russian fighter jets have executed four airstrikes in the western countryside of Aleppo, coming after a bus carrying regime-backed shiite militants from Nubl and Al-Zahra was hit by the opposition factions in the western Aleppo countryside, leaving ten regime-backed militiamen killed

6 July 2022 ongoing Russian airstrikes on North-West Syria, amid ongoing war against Ukraine: 6 July 2022: SOHR monitored further Russian airstrikes on Wednesday, as the number of raids by Russian fighter jets on Al-Ruwaihah, Shannan, Sarjah, Bayannin and forest of Bayannin in southern Idlib coutryside has risen to ten, as activists in Putin-Erdogan area have monitored renewed Russian aerial bombardment for the first time in nearly two months

22 July 2022 murderous Russian air attack in northern Syria’s opposition-held Idlib province: 22 July 2022: Seven civilians, including four children from one family, have been killed in a Russian air attack in northern Syria’s opposition-held Idlib province, according to the Syrian Civil Defence, as well as family members and medical staff. Friday’s attack on the village of al-Jadidah, near the city of Jisr al-Shughour, also injured 12 others, including eight children.

31 August 2022 ongoing Russian airstrikes on North-West Syria, amid ongoing war against Ukraine: 31 August 2022: Russian fighter jets have carried out two airstrikes in 'Putin-Erdogan' area for the second time in August, bombarding the perimeter of Sarjah village in Jabal Al-Zawiyah and the vicinity of Al-Kounsourah, west of Idlib, after on 23 August SOHR activists reported that 14 Russian airstrikes hit the perimeter of Idlib city - 31 August 2022: SOHR activists reported that hours after Russian airstrikes Assad regime ground forces shelled areas in 'Putin-Erdogan' area, where heavy artillery shells hit the vicinity of Kansafra town in southern Idlib countryside, and B9 shells hit the vicinity of Bastroun and Al-Shaikh Sulaiman villages in Aleppo countryside

8 September 2022 ongoing Russian airstrikes on North-West Syria: 8 September 2022: Russian fighter jets carried out airstrikes on areas in the vicinity of Hafsarja, Sejer and the vicinity of Al-Ghafar village in Sahl Al-Roj area in western Idlib countryside, the first aerial bombardment carried out by Russian fighter jets in this September - 8 September 2022: SOHR documented the death of a civilian and his son and the injury of others in Russian airstrikes on a house and industrial facility in Al-Sheikh Yusuf area in western Idlib countryside, as the number of airstrikes executed by Russian fighter jets has risen to 12, targeting areas hosting civilians - 8 September 2022: Assad regime forces shelled Bayannin village and the vicinity of Shanan village in Jabal Al-Zawiyah in southern Idlib countryside, and Maklbis village in western Aleppo countryside

27 September 2022 ongoing Russian airstrikes on North-West Syria: 27 September 2022: Assad regime forces shell 12 towns and villages in Putin-Erdogan area, coinciding with an intensive flight of reconnaissance aircraft over the targeted areas - 27 September 2022: Russian fighter jets executed at least three airstrikes on areas in Bab Al-Hawa area and Sarmada perimeter north of Idlib, as the targeted areas are crowded with displaced person camps, and hosts headquarters of Jayish Al-Izzah faction. Russian aerial bombardment comes amid an intensive flight of reconnaissance aircraft over the area. - 27 September 2022: Assad regime forces bombard areas in western Aleppo countryside in 'Putin-Erdogan' area, coinciding with Russian airstrikes in the northwestern region of Syria - 27 September 2022: SOHR reported that Russian warplanes have executed airstrikes over 'Putin-Erdogan' area, with two of them being 'air-to-air' missile in an area where displacement camps are located in the vicinity of Al-Atareb area and Ma’arat Al-Na’san, and Taftanaz city in Idlib countryside

September/October 2022 Russian jets execute 40 airstrikes and commit massacre: September 2022 Russian jets execute 40 airstrikes and commit massacre, while ground attacks kill 26 people, including civilian, according to SOHR on 3 October 2022

11 October 2022 Russian jets execute several airstrikes in North-West Syria: 11 October 2022: Russian fighter jets have executed several airstrikes with vacuum missiles, targeting areas controlled by factions and jihadist groups in the northern countryside of Latakia, and the vicinity of Za’iniyeh town of Jisr Al-Shughour in the western countryside of Idlib, in 'Putin-Erdogan' area

Since 2013 timeline of increasing Iranian involvement in Assad's war and expansionism: With increasing Iranian involvement in Assad's war against the Syrian people from 2011 onwards, the Iranian regime's struggle against Israel, its declared aim to dissolve the Jewish state and the resulting Iran–Israel conflict shifted from a proxy war into a direct confrontation by early 2018 - Iranian regime's expansionism and Iran–Israel proxy conflict

November 2015 Iran recruiting Afghan refugees to fight and support Assad's regime: 5 November 2015: Iran is recruiting Afghan refugees to fight in the foreign military contingent supporting Assad's regime in Syria, promising a monthly salary and residence permits

January 2016 increased Iranian intervention: 27 January 2016: Syrian children protest against Iranian intervention, increased since Rouhani came to office

June 2016: 30 June 2016: Iranian regime covertly recruits Afghan soldiers to fight in Syria and to support the Assad regime

August 2018 war critic jailed: 27 August 2018: Ex-mayor of Tehran Karbaschi sentenced to year in jail for panning Iran’s actions in Syria, telling rally in Isfahan in 2017 there must be better way to help Syrians than by 'killing and pounding'

January 2019 Iran says 'fully ready and impatient' to eliminate Israel 'from the Earth': 21 January 2019: As Iranian regime's general Aziz Nasirzadeh, saying 'fully ready and impatient to confront the Zionist regime and eliminate it from the Earth', uses Syrian territory for Iranian crimes, Israeli military strikes Iranian targets inside Syria

July 2019 Iranian expansionism: 1 July 2019: Iranian militias are continuing to expand their influence in the southern and eastern Aleppo countrysides, and are purchasing land and property around their bases after blocking their owners from accessing them

7/8 September 2019 Iranian oil supplies to Assad: 7 September 2019: Iranian regime's oil tanker Adrian Darya 1 appears near Tartus naval base in Syria - 8 September 2019: Iran says tanker last seen off coast of Syria has reached its destination, and oil has been sold

9 September 2019 Iran-backed rockets at Israel: 9 September 2019: Iran-backed militia in Syria, operating under the command of Iran’s Quds Force, fired several rockets toward northern Israel in the predawn hours of Monday morning

10 September 2019 Iranian regime breaches assurances: 10 September 2019: UK's Foreign Office accuses Iranian regime of selling oil from seized tanker to Syria's Assad, saying regime breaching assurances with sale to 'Assad’s murderous regime’

3 October 2019 Adrian Darya 1: 3 October 2019: Satellite images show that once-detained Iranian-flagged oil tanker Adrian Darya 1 sitting off the coast of Syria has been approached by a smaller Iranian tanker, with mooring lines between them and a crane deployed on the larger vessel

8 December 2020 Iran's Rohani urges Assad to confront Israel 'until liberation of all occupied lands': 8 December 2020: Iran's Rohani urges Assad to confront Israel 'until liberation of all occupied lands', saying his country will continue to 'support' Syria

9 January 2020 Bellingcat geolocates footage of apparent Iranian missile strike on UIA flight PS752 to Tehran suburb: 9 January 2020: Bellingcat geolocates footage of apparent missile strike on UIA flight PS752 to Tehran suburb

11 January 2020 Iranian and Russian crimes and 'certainty': 11 January 2020: After the supporting and MH17 experienced Russian Putin regime pushed back against Bellingcat and intelligence assesments that Iran shot down the plane with a Russian made surface-to-air missile, after telling the world 'with certainty' that a missile had not caused the crash, but knowing 'with certainty' all facts of its crime, not closing the country’s main international airport and its airspace, Ukraine president now demands punishment and compensation after Iranian regime admitted downing the plane and killing all 176 people on board, as Iranians protest against regime in Tehran, calling for 'supreme leader' to resign, saying 'down with dictator', as anger mounts over government’s conduct, as angry civilians are using social media to express their outrage, and as police said to use force to quell protests

14 January 2020 Iran arrests person who filmed the footage showing Ukrainian passenger plane being shot down: 14 January 2020: Iranian regime arrested the person who filmed the footage showing a Ukrainian passenger plane being shot down by a missile, said to be detained on charges related to 'national security', and in reality destroyed by the Iranian Khamenei, Rouhani, Zarif Mullah regime

15 January 2020 new video footage showing two Iranian missiles killing all 176 passengers and crew: 15 January 2020: New video footage has emerged showing two Iranian missiles tearing through the night sky and hitting a Ukrainian passenger plane, sending the aircraft down in flames and killing all 176 passengers and crew on board

15/16 December 2020 Iran's probe into downing of airliner has major flaws Canada report says: 15 December 2020: Iran is not conducting its investigation into the downing of a civilian airliner in January properly - 16 décembre 2020: Un rapport indépendant canadien sur le crash d’un Boeing ukrainien, abattu en janvier au-dessus de Téhéran, estime mardi que l’Iran ne devrait pas être autorisé à 'enquêter sur lui-même' et appelle à changer les règles de l’aviation civile en la matière

7 January 2021 no justice for victims of downed plane but families harassed, intimidated by Iranian regime: 7 January 2021: Iranian authorities have failed to conduct a transparent and credible investigation into the shooting down of Ukraine International Airline flight 752 on 8 January 2020, which killed all 176 passengers and crew onboard, Human Rights Watch said today

Since 2011 terrorist group Hezbollah's involvement in Assad's war: Since 2011 terrorist group Hezbollah's involvement in the Syrian Civil War has been substantial, and turned into active support and troops deployment since 2012 in support of the Assad regime forces across Syria

Since 2011 timeline of war crimes in Syria committed by Assad, Iranian, Hezbollah and Russian forces: Daily updated timeline of war crimes in Syria committed by Assad, Iranian, Hezbollah and Russian forces since 2011

February 2019: 9 February 2019: Russian regime’s ambassador in Lebanon Zasypkin hails country’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group for fighting alongside Russia in Syria, also saying USA policies toward Iran could set off a fresh war between Israel and Lebanon

15 September 2020 UN peacekeepers rescued refugees mostly Syrians from a boat off the Lebanese coast as one passenger had already passed away: 15 September 2020: A UN peacekeeping force rescued 36 people, mostly Syrians, and recovered the body of a passenger from a boat off the Lebanese coast on Monday, according to the UN refugee agency, as the destination of the boat was not immediately clear, but Lebanon and neighboring Cyprus have reported several migrant vessels trying to leave the Middle Eastern country in recent weeks

15 September 2020 USA's Pompeo warns France over Iran-backed Hezbollah's weaponry: 15 September 2020: USA Secretary of State warned France that efforts to resolve the crisis in Lebanon would be in vain without immediately tackling the issue of Iran-backed Hezbollah's weaponry, after French president said Hezbollah's elected arm has a legitimate political role, as Pompeo added that the USA 'has assumed its responsibility and we will stop Iran buying Chinese tanks and Russian air defence systems and then selling weapons to Hezbollah'

January 2018 Turkish aerial bombardment targeting Afrin: 21 January 2018: SOHR documented the death of 6 citizens including a child under the age of 8, because of the aerial bombardment by the Turkish warplanes, which targeted today areas in Afrin city and its countryside, as Turkey bring more military reinforcements amid continued aerial and missile shelling on the area, and as UN officials underscore the obligation on all parties to the conflict in Syria and the international community, to protect civilians from atrocity crimes, as dozens of people in eastern Ghouta and Idlib province have been killed in recent airstrikes, and schools and hospitals are being deliberately destroyed by the Assad regime and its allies

Since 9 October 2019 Turkey's Rojava offensive, an ongoing military operation conducted by the Turkish Armed Forces against areas under the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, commonly called Rojava - Turkish military action against the Syrian Democratic Forces and 2019 military intervention - International reactions to the 2019 Rojava offensive and reactions in Syria and Turkey

Since 9 October 2019 Turkish regime attacks Kurds in Syria: 9 October 2019: Turkey vows to press ahead with attack on Kurdish-led forces in Syria, as Kurds claim border is already being shelled, and Turkish regime says it will not be 'controlled by threats’ by the USA - 9 October 2019: Turkish troops advance into Syria as Trump washes his hands of the Kurds, as video footage shows civilians fleeing towns and as observers said at least seven civilians had been killed so far

10 October 2019: 10 October 2019: Turkish offensive triggers exodus of aid workers from Syria - 10 October 2019: Despite the intense ground shelling, Turkish forces fail to achieve any advancement east Euphrates and continue their shelling on Tal Abyad and Ras Al-Ayn

11 October 2019 civilian casualties of Turkey’s aggression: 11 October 2019: At least 11 civilians have died and dozens of fighters from the Kurdish-led SDF and Turkish invaders have been killed, reports say, as tens of thousands of people have fled their homes, amid growing international criticism of the offensive

11/12 October 2019 Erdogan's war crimes: 11 October 2019: Erdogan's bloodied clothes, body bags and corpse parts of innocent civilians in Syria - 12 October 2019: Kurdish civilians flee as Turkish forces bomb Syria for third day

13 October 2019 execution of Syrian civilians: 13 October 2019: Turkish proxies leading Erdogan's ground offensive on Kurdish towns in north-eastern Syria have executed nine civilians, including Kurdish politician Hevrin Khalaf and her driver, SOHR reported, as SDF said in a statement 'this is a clear evidence that the Turkish state is continuing its criminal policy towards unarmed civilians'

16 October 2019: 16 October 2019: Turkish military operation east Euphrates kills more than 70 civilians including many children so far and forces nearly 300 thousand people to displace from their areas - 16 October 2019: Video shows the moment the Turkish warplanes targeted a humanitarian support convoy in Ras al-Ayn 3 days ago, killing 19 people and injuring tens of others

16/17 October 2019: 16 October 2019: Turkish forces and their loyal factions carryout a new attack in Ras Al-Ayn city under a cover of heavy and violent aerial and ground bombardment - 17 octobre 2019: Les autorités kurdes en Syrie ont accusé jeudi la Turquie d'utiliser des armes non conventionnelles comme le napalm dans le nord de la Syrie - 17 October 2019: Humanitarian groups in northeastern Syria are scrambling to provide aid to hundreds of thousands of people, as rapidly shifting battle lines make it increasingly difficult to reach them, and as Save the Children says 'we have to leave', because Turkish onslaught displaces people, forcing them to flee to makeshift refugee camps

18 October 2019 Turkish war crimes: 18 octobre 2019: Les forces turques et leurs supplétifs ont commis des 'crimes de guerre' lors de leur offensive contre les forces kurdes en Syrie, selon Amnesty International, dénoncant des 'exécutions sommaires' et des attaques meurtrières contre des civils

18 October 2019 Turkish agression continues depite ceasefire agreement: 18 October 2019: Despite an announcement from the USA vice-president Mike Pence, that Turkish regime had agreed to a five-day ceasefire to allow the USA supervision of the withdrawal of Kurdish forces from the area, Turkish agression is continuing on the border between Syria and Turkey - 18 octobre 2019: Au moins cinq civils ont été tués vendredi dans le nord de la Syrie dans un raid aérien de la Turquie visant un village près de la localité frontalière de Ras al-Aïn

20 October 2019: 20 October 2019: Ras al-Ayn (Sari Kani) city under Turkish siege amid catastrophic humanitarian conditions, as 28 civilians lost their lives during the past 5 days in the city, as shelling and attacks by Erdogan-loyal factions continue, and as a new medical convoy is expected to enter and evacuate victims of Erdogan's agression - 20 October 2019: Turkish border guards kill a Syrian citizen as he tries to cross border from western countryside of Idlib

26 October 2019 Turkish war crimes: 26 October 2019: Calls for war crimes investigations into the conduct of militias used by Turkey in Syria are mounting after a spate of new videos depicting Ankara-linked fighters torturing Kurdish fighters and captives and mutilating dead bodies, after 170,000 Kurds have fled a battle zone along the Turkish border after a weeklong operation to push Kurds further into Syria - 26 October 2019: SOHR reveals medical reports confirming Turkey’s use of internationally prohibited weapons in northern Syria, calling on the international community to investigate and hold officials accountable

November 2019 IS terrorist group has exploited Turkey's incursion into Syria and Trump's drawdown of USA troops: 20 November 2019: Islamic State terrorist group has exploited Turkey's incursion into northeastern Syria and Trump's drawdown of USA troops from the region, according to a report by the Pentagon's Inspector General, adding that the group will now likely have the 'time and space' to target the West

2014/2016 flight MH17 shootdown by Putin regime: 28 September 2016: Dutch-led joint investigation team including representatives from Australia, Malaysia, Ukraine, and Belgium states that there is 'irrefutable evidence' that a Russian Buk 9M38 missile downed the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 in 2014, killing all 298 people on board, also concluding that the Buk missile system was brought across the border from Russia and later transported back escorted by several other vehicles and by 'armed men in uniform', according to witnesses, photographs, video, damning intercepted telephone calls, radar data, forensic examinations, tests and reconstructions - Cause of MH17 crash

2016 Ukrainian casualties: 31 May 2016: 10,000 Ukrainians killed by Russian-terrorist forces, more than 20,000 have been wounded and 1.8 million forced to flee their homes over the past two years, according to Ukrainian Defence Council - Casualties of the Ukrainian crisis and the Russian military intervention

2014-2018 MH17 shot down by Russian army: 24 May 2018: Joint Investigation Team, comprising the authorities from Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Ukraine announces that the missile launcher used to shoot down flight MH17 in July 2014, killing 298 passengers and crew from 17 countries, was Russian army, specifically Russia's 53rd anti-Aircraft Brigade

May 2018 MH17 victims families' open letter to the Russian people: 22 May 2018: In an open letter to the Russian people families of the victims in downing of MH17 hold the Russian regime as ultimately responsible for the deaths of their family members, expressing confidence in the thoroughness and impartiality of the work conducted by the Joint Investigation Team, and condemning reports on MH17 coming out of the Russian regime and state media, asking 'do Russian people really want to live in a country where the truth has ceased to exist'

November 2018 Kerch Strait incident and Russian violations of international law: November 2018 Kerch Strait incident - 26 November 2018: Countries across the world and various politicians have reacted to Russia's attack on Ukrainian vessels in the Sea of Azov and called on Russia to stop violating international law - 28 November 2018: Following Russian regime’s seizure of three Ukrainian navy ships and crew, regime to deploy new missiles to annexed Crimea, as Ukraine president warns regime, saying 'I don’t want anyone to think this is fun and games. Ukraine is under threat of full-scale war with Russia' - 29 novembre 2018: La Russie bloque deux ports ukrainiens de la mer d'Azov

December 2018: 1 December 2018: Shooting of Ukraine's 'Berdyansk' boat by Russian regime most likely took place in international waters, as Ukrainian tug 'Yani Kapu' was intentionally rammed at least four times over a period of at least an hour, Bellingcat said - 1 December 2018: Russia must return Ukraine's sailors, vessels before administration consider rescheduled Trump-Putin summit, USA's Pompeo says - 2 décembre 2018: Poutine a affirmé que 'la guerre va continuer' dans l'est rebelle de l'Ukraine tant que les autorités ukrainiennes actuelles 'resteront au pouvoir'

19 June 2019 first trial of three Russian nationals and a Ukrainian suspect announced: 19 June 2019: Marking the beginning of the Dutch criminal proceedings, Dutch prosecutors say three Russian nationals and a Ukrainian will be tried on murder charges for their role in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine, saying that evidence showed a direct line of military command between Ukrainian separatists and Russia's Putin regime, as suspects will be tried for murder in the case set to start in March 2020, according to Silene Fredriksz-Hoogzand, the mother of one of the 298 victims - 19 June 2019: Identifying the separatists linked to the downing of MH17 by Bellingcat Investigation Team

16 October 2019 Putin's victims in the sixth year: 16 October 2019: Russia's hybrid military forces on October 15 mounted 26 attacks on Ukrainian Army positions in Donbas, killing two Ukrainian soldiers and wounding another four, as one of the Ukrainian troops shot dead by a sniper was a young woman who joined army ranks after her father, also a Ukrainian military, was killed in Donbas hostilities back in 2015

17 October 2019: 17 October 2019: On October 16, Russian occupation forces violated the ceasefire 30 times in the Donbas war zone, killing one Ukrainian soldier and wounding another one

14 November 2019 MH17 investigators say phone calls show Ukraine rebels' ties to Russia: 14 November 2019: MH17 investigators say phone calls show Ukraine rebels' ties to Russian Putin regime, as intercepts suggest separatists sought guidance from Russia before jet was shot down

28 January 2020 at least one of the suspects in the MH17 downing probe ready to stand trial: 28 January 2020: At least one of the suspects in the MH17 downing probe is ready to stand trial, according to the District Court of The Hague, not disclosing the name of the suspect

9 March 2020 trial of Russians and one allied Ukrainian accused of murdering 298 people in MH17 case: 9 March 2020: The trial of three Russians and one Ukrainian accused of murdering 298 people in the shooting down of the MH17 aircraft over eastern Ukraine has begun in the Netherlands, as presiding judge Hendrik Steenhuis said 'the loss of so many lives and the manner in which they so abruptly ended is barely conceivable', and as murderous and coward Russian Putin regime has always denied any involvement in the shooting down of the plane

11 March 2020 several witnesses in MH17 case in ‘fear for their lives’ if their identities are revealed: 11 March 2020: Several witnesses in ‘fear for their lives’ if their identities are revealed, hearing into shooting down of airliner is told, as Dutch prosecutors have accused Russia of trying to sabotage the investigation into the downing of MH17 flight in Ukraine in 2014, saying this has cast 'a dark shadow' over the impending trial of four suspects Russians Sergey Dubinsky, Oleg Pulatov and Igor Girkin and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko

28 April 2020 key MH17 figure identified as senior FSB official Burlaka: 28 April 2020: Key 2014 MH17 shoot-down figure identified as senior Russia's FSB official Andrey Ivanovich Burlaka, who was in a crucial role supervising militant activities in Donbas and authorizing the flow of weapons across Ukrainian/Russian border, 'Bellingcat' investigation says

3 May 2020 journalists in Russian-occupied areas must be protected Ukraine says on World Press Freedom Day: 3 May 2020: Journalists in Russian-occupied areas must be protected, MFA Ukraine says on World Press Freedom Day

14 July 2020 three Ukrainian soldiers killed and another two wounded by Russia-led forces: 14 July 2020: Three Ukrainian soldiers were killed and another two were wounded as Russia-led forces mounted 18 attacks in eastern Ukraine on Monday 13 July, continuing since 2014

12 November 2020 violations of latest ceasefire agreement by Russia-led forces on 11 November also known as WWI 'Remembrance Day': 12 November 2020: Ukraine Command have reported 3 violations of the latest ceasefire agreement by Russia-controlled armed groups in the Donbas warzone on 11 November, also known as 'Remembrance Day' of World War I

1 April 2021 Lavrov threatens Ukraine could be 'destroyed' as Putin regime prepares Donbas escalation: 1 April 2021: Ukraine could be 'destroyed' in case of Donbas escalation, Russian regime's Lavrov threatens, as his statement comes amid regime's amassing troops and military hardware along Ukrainian border under the pretext of drills

11 April 2021 another Ukrainian soldier reportedly killed in artillery fire from Russia-backed troops: 11 April 2021: The Ukrainian military said a soldier was killed and another seriously wounded in artillery fire from Russia-backed separatists, violating the ceasefire ten times, as hostilities rose sharply in the east of the country where 27 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed this year, more than half the number who died in all of 2020, as attacks have intensified in recent weeks and Russia's Putin regime has built up troops along the Ukraine border

11 April 2021 voices of Russian indictees in the MH17 downing case, Dubinsky and Girkin, revealed: 11 April 2021: Dutch public broadcaster NOS has released transcripts of intercepted communications as part of the probe into the downing of MH17 passenger jet in the skies over Donbas in July 2014, as the tapes have captured, among others, the voices of the two indictees in the MH17 downing case, Sergei Dubinsky and Igor Girkin

7 June 2021 bitter week for families as evidence to be read in the murder trial: 7 June 2021 bitter week for families as evidence to be read in the murder trial in the Netherlands against four fugitive suspects accused of shooting down a Malaysian airliner over rebel-held eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing 298 people in 2014

6 September 2021 MH17 plane crash trial hears trauma of relatives demanding justice: 6 September 2021: The families of those killed in the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014 have begun to testify at the trial of four suspects, as about 90 relatives will speak at the high-security court in Schiphol over the next three weeks, and as international investigators say the plane was shot down with a missile fired by pro-Russian rebels

21 December 2021 amid growing tensions over attacked Ukraine Putin threatens Nato: 21 December 2021: After Russia's Putin regime annexed Crimea in 2014, also since 2014 sparking and supporting a conflict in east Ukraine that has left more than 14,000 dead, Putin is now demanding 'security guarantees' from Nato amid a Russian buildup of tanks and artillery for what could constitute an invasion force into Ukraine within weeks, even saying and threatening he will consider a military response if Russia feels 'threatened' by Nato

22 December 2021 Dutch prosecutors demand life sentences in MH17 downing by Russians and allied Ukrainian: 22 December 2021: Dutch prosecutors demand life sentences in MH17 downing, saying Russians Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinsky and Igor Pulatov, and Ukrainian separatist Leonid Kharchenko formed a team in 2014 to bring down planes using a missile system trucked in from a Russian military base, then targeting Malaysian passenger jet, killing all 298 passengers and crew by using Russian missile

September 2019 ECHR Russian Crimea annexation case: 11 September 2019: The Russian state directed and ran the 2014 military coup in Crimea, its subsequent annexation and is complicit in human rights abuses since 2014, Ukraine has told the European court of human rights

October 2019 UN report on the situation of human rights in Crimea: 15 October 2019: UN report on the situation of human rights in Crimea and the city of Sevastopol in Ukraine notes that Russian regime violates Geneva conventions by deliberately resettling people from mainland Russia to the Ukrainian Crimea in attempts to alter demographics in the area

Reactions to 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis of many states, international organizations and civil society groups: Reactions to 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis, as many states, international organizations and civil society groups have reacted to the crisis between Russia and Ukraine that began in 2014, when the European country Ukraine defended its independence, after self-important Yanukovych and his 'Party of Regions' on behalf of Russia's Putin regime tried to create a 'controlled democracy' in Ukraine, tried to destroy the opposition, but sparked the 2014 Euromaidan protests in Kyiv and a renewed Ukrainian revolution in the traditional colors blue and yellow used as a symbol of Ukrainian lands since 12th century, established in the July 1410 Battle of Grunwald, and as a national flag officially used since the 1848 'Springtime of the Peoples' across the continent of Europe, defeated by Austrian, emerging German, and already existing Russian empire, as Russia's relative stability was attributed to the revolutionary groups' inability to communicate with each other

27 January 2022 USA rejects Russia's demand to bar Ukraine from Nato: 27 January 2022: The USA has rejected Russia's demand to bar Ukraine from Nato, amid warnings Russia might invade its neighbour, as Secretary of State Antony Blinken was giving Russia a formal response but gave no concessions saying that he was offering Russia 'a serious diplomatic path forward, should Russia choose it', and as a Russian minister said his country would study Mr Blinken's response, delivered in coordination with Nato

27 January 2022 USA says Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline won’t open, Germany vowed to hit with 'strong sanctions': 27 January 2022: Russian regime's Putin is being briefed on a USA paper reaffirming support for Ukraine’s right to pursue Nato membership, as USA further says Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline won’t open if Russia invades Ukraine, as Germany has vowed to hit Russia with 'strong sanctions' if it invades Ukraine, including on the disputed Nord Stream 2 pipeline, 'The Guardian'reports live

3 February 2022 NRC's Jan Egeland warns against an escalation of Russian aggression against Ukraine: 3 February 2022: 'We Need Peace', but war in Ukraine would be humanitarian catastrophe for millions in the region, says NRC's Jan Egeland on the messages he is hearing from Ukrainians in their country - 3 February 2022: NRC Secretary General Jan Egeland warns that an escalation of Russian aggression against Ukraine would have catastrophic consequences for millions of civilians in the border regions, already suffering since 2014

7 February 2022 USA and EU 'in unity’ in response to Russia-Ukraine tensions: 7 February 2022: USA and EU ‘in unity’ in response to Russia-Ukraine tensions, USA Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, as president Joe Biden to meet German chancellor at White House while France’s Emmanuel Macron is to meet Russian regime's Putin - responsible for the crisis - in Moscow, 'The Guardian' reports live

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine since 24 February, as Russian ground forces enter Ukraine. At about 06:00 Moscow time, Russian regime's Vladimir Putin announced a military operation in eastern Ukraine. Minutes later, missile strikes began at locations across the country, including in the capital Kyiv. The Ukrainian Border Service stated that its borders with Russia and Belarus were attacked. Multiple countries have condemned the attack on Ukraine, part and latest chapter of the Russo-Ukrainian War since winter/spring 2014, started by Vladimir Putin, today globally criticized as a war criminal