April 2013: 21 April: Ongoing pro-democracy protests against Formula One Grand Prix 2013

May 2013: 10 May: The blogger Ali Abdulemam has been smuggled out of the troubled Gulf kingdom and taken refuge in the UK

2016: 2 avril 2016: Après le soulèvement de 2011 sur fond de printemps arabes, la répression dénoncée par les opposants se poursuit à Bahreïn - 13 June 2016: Bahrain detains rights activist Nabeel Rajab in raid that coincides with UN meeting in Geneva, as other activists were barred from attending and as UN official criticises repression - 18 July 2016: Bahraini authorities have stepped up their pressure on Nazeeha Saeed, the France24 correspondent who was detained and tortured 2011, now prosecuted for 'illegal reporting' on behalf of foreign media in what appears to be a renewed crackdown on free expression

2017: 26 January 2017: Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab accused at a court hearing, from which he and his lawyer were excluded, is facing a lengthy prison sentence simply for stating that journalists and international NGOs cannot enter Bahrain - 6 March 2017: Justice ministry files lawsuit to dissolve secular Wa’ad group, the main opposition party, and transfers many civilian judicial cases to a military court, amid fresh crackdown on dissent and human rights

Society, demographics, culture and human rights in Bahrain: Bahraini society

Human rights in Bahrain: Human rights in Bahrain

2017: 15 April 2017: If F1 can't help protect ordinary Bahrainis, stop the grand prix, Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy's Alwadaei says, as the race exacerbates the human rights abuses that take place in Bahrain, with any protest or criticism being silenced to protect financial interests

Demographics and ethnic groups in Bahrain: Demographics of Bahrain - Ethnic groups in Bahrain - Ethnic, cultural and religious groups of Bahrain

Bahrani people: Bahrani people

Filipinos in Bahrain: Filipinos in Bahrain

Indians in Bahrain: Indians in Bahrain, today numbering at an estimated 400,000 people or 31% out of the country's total population of 1.3 million, making them the largest expatriate group in the country

Pakistanis in Bahrain: Pakistanis in Bahrain

Culture of Bahrain and religion: Culture of Bahrain - Religion in Bahrain

Languages of Bahrain: Languages of Bahrain - Bahrani Arabic

Women in Bahrain: Women in Bahrain - Polygamy - legal in Bahrain - Women's rights in Bahrain

Education in Bahrain: Education in Bahrain

Health in Bahrain: Health in Bahrain

Media of Bahrain: Media of Bahrain - Newspapers in Bahrain

Internet in Bahrain: Internet in Bahrain - Internet surveillance and filtering - Arrested bloggers in Bahrain

Crime in Bahrain: Crime in Bahrain

Torture and police brutality in Bahrain: Torture in Bahrain

2012: 29 April 2012: Bahrain's police continues to beat and torture detainees including minors, Human Rights Watch says

2011/2016: 30 May 2011 - 20 January 2016: France 24 correspondent Nazeeha Saeed tortured for covering pro-democracy demonstrations

Prisons in Bahrain: Prisons in Bahrain

Corruption in Bahrain: Corruption in Bahrain

Human trafficking in Bahrain: Human trafficking in Bahrain

Foreign relations of Bahrain: Foreign relations of Bahrain

International reactions to the 2011-2013 Bahraini uprising

Bahrain/India relations: Bahrain/India relations - Indians in Bahrain

Bahrain/Iran relations: Arab-Iran relations: Bahrain - Safavid dynasty, Shia Islam state religion and Safavid rule in Bahrain 1602–1717

Bahrain/Oman relations: 1717 Omani invasion of Bahrain

Bahrain/Pakistan relations: Bahrain/Pakistan relations - Pakistanis in the Middle East - Pakistanis in Bahrain

Bahrain/Portugal relations: Portuguese rule in Bahrain 1521-1602

Bahrain/Philippines relations: Filipinos in Bahrain

Bahrain/Saudi Arabia relations: Bahrain/Saudi Arabia relations - Bani Utbah federation of Arab tribes, which originated from Najd - 1783 Bani Utbah invasion of Bahrain - House of Khalifa, the ruling family of Bahrain and belonging to the Utub tribe that migrated from Najd to Kuwait in the early 18th century

Bahrain/United Kingdom relations: Bahrain/United Kingdom relations

1820 Bahrain British protectorate: Signing the General Maritime Treaty with the United Kingdom in 1820, Bahrain became a British protectorate - General Maritime Treaty of 1820

1971 Bahrain's declaration of independence: After a plebiscite Bahrain declared independence on 15 August 1971

Bahrain/USA relations: Bahrain/USA relations

2012: 11 May 2012: USA partially resumes military supplies to Gulf Arab ally Bahrain

Iraq - Geography of Iraq - History of Iraq - Demographics of Iraq

Wars against Iran 1980-1988, against Kuwait 1990/1991 and war crimes: Iraq/Iran war 1980-1988 - Iraks Krieg gegen Iran 1980-1988 - Irakischer Giftgaseinsatz, USA-Lieferungen u.a. - USA support for Iraq during the Iraq/Iran war - Gulf War 1990/91 - Iraks Angriff auf Kuwait, zweiter Golfkrieg 1990/91 - March/April 1991 (after the Gulf War) uprisings in Iraq held back from continued success by internal divisions as well as a lack of anticipated USA support

Iraq War 2003-2011, Iraq/USA-United Kingdom relations and war crimes: Category: Iraq War 2003-2011 - Irakkrieg seit 2003 - Besetzung des Irak 2003-2011 - "Iraq War Logs" (Tagebuch des Irakkriegs) - 16 December 2011: Alleged Wikileaks activist Bradley Manning due in court - wide criticism of inhuman detention conditions since May 2010

'We don't do body counts' (USA-General Franks): "We don't do body counts" (US-General Franks) - Kriegsverbrechen z.B. der USA - Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse - 17 March 2013: At least 112,000 civilians were killed in the 10 years since the USA-led 2003 invasion of Iraq, according to the Britain-based Iraq Body Count group

2004: Second Battle of Fallujah

2005: USA Haditha massacre 2005

2008: 4,5 millions Iraq War orphans in 2008

2011: Iraq to chase $18bn of Iraqi oil money stolen after the 2003 USA-led invasion - USA rights group (Human Rights Watch) seeks Bush 'torture' inquiry' July 2011 - Human Rights Watch: Getting Away with Torture - 2 August: USA urges 'quick Iraq decision' on troop stay - 6 August 2011: Abu Ghraib abuse ringleader of USA military guards released from military prison - for 'good conduct' - 21. Oktober 2011: USA-Truppen werden vollständig zum Jahresende 2011 aus dem Irak abgezogen - 29 December 2011: USA pushes ahead with arms deals to Iraq including $11bn worth of fighter jets and tanks and coming in the worsening political crisis of the USA war victim

2012: 5 January 2012: Last member of squad of the USA Marine Corps accused of ambushing Iraqi civilians appears in court, six years after the massacre - Haditha massacre 2005 - 24 January: USA 'change' - Marine sergeant Wuterich who told his troops to "shoot first, ask questions later" in a raid that killed unarmed Iraqi women, children and elderly pleaded guilty Monday in a deal that will carry no more than three months confinement - 25. Januar 2012: Das USA-Massaker von Haditha 2005 bleibt ungesühnt - 4. Februar 2012: Wikileaks-Informant über Kriegsverbrechen Manning muß vor Militärgericht - 30 July: More than $200m was wasted on a programme to train Iraqi police that the government in Baghdad neither needed or wanted, US auditors have found

2013: 29 January 2013: British troops in Iraq killed civilians including women, the elderly and children and committed 'terrifying acts of brutality', the British High Court heard today - 3 February: American way of death - 'Al-Shaitan Ramad' named America's deadliest Navy Seal sniper after killing and murdering 160 Iraqis during the Iraq War shot dead at Texas gun range - 4 March 2013: The Al-Sweady Inquiry in London was shown gruesome photographs of bloodied corpses - 5 March: British troops alleged to have murdered up to 20 prisoners after a fierce battle in May 2004 in southern Iraq, and tortured five other captives - 9 mars 2013: Une enquête révèle que la torture était pratiquée en Irak pendant l'occupation américaine et accuse les États-Unis d’avoir couvert des actes de torture

Since 2003 sectarian violence, attacks, terrorism and continued war in Iraq: List of suicide bombings in Iraq since 2003 - Terrorist incidents in Iraq by year

2006-2008: Sectarian violence as part of the Iraq war, February 2006 – May 2008

May 2011: Mai 2011: Bombenanschläge in Kirkuk Mai 2011

September 2011: 30. September 2011: Viele Tote bei Anschlag auf Trauerfeier in Hilla

November 2011: 26 Novemer: Bomb blasts in Baghdad kill at least 15 Iraqis - 22 December: Deadly series of attacks rock Baghdad

December 2011: 26 décembre: Attentat-sucide meurtrier contre le ministère de l'Intérieur

January 2012: 5 January: New bombings target mainly Shia area of the Iraqi capital - 5 January: Wave of bombings leave scores dead across the country - 10 January: Many deaths in series of Iraq attacks - 14 January: Suicide bomb kills dozens in Basra Shia pilgrim attack - 15 January: A series of car and roadside bombs strike Ramadi, targeting the police - 24 January: Deadly blasts in Baghdad's Sadr City - 26 January: Deaths in attacks on Iraq's Sunni districts

February 2012: 23 February: Car bombings, shootings and explosions target mostly Shia neighbourhoods, leaving at least 55 dead across the country

March 2012: 5 March: At least 27 security and police personnel killed, officials say, as gunmen storm checkpoints in city of Haditha - 20 March: Deadly explosions in series of attacks on Iraqi cities

April 2012: 19 April: Several blasts in Iraq capital and northern city leave several people dead and dozens injured

May 2012: 31 May: Six blasts across Baghdad kill at least 17

June 2012: 4 June: Blast strikes Shia charity office in Iraq - 13 juin: Série d'attentats à Bagdad et Hilla

July 2012: 23 July: Deadly attacks and series of explosions in various cities, including capital Baghdad

August 2012: 1 August: At least 19 killed and another 47 wounded in explosions targeting shopping area and passport office in Iraqi capital - 10 August: At least nine people killed in multiple blasts targeting Shia worshippers and security forces in northern Iraq - NZZ 12. August: Sieben Tote bei Angriff auf Schiiten bei Amerili - 16 August: At least 13 people killed in separate explosions north of the capital Baghdad - 17 August: Bombs, attacks kill more than 50 in 15 cities and towns nationwide ahead of Eid

September 2012: 9 September: At least 73 people killed and more than 200 injured in attacks against Iraqi security forces across the country - 26 September: Bombings and shootings mainly targeting Iraqi security forces kill eight people, a day after a wave of attacks against members of the security forces left nine police officers and soldiers dead and 11 wounded - 30 September: Bomb and gun attacks in multiple cities kill at least 37 people and leave more than 90 wounded

October 2012: 28 October: Simultaneous bombs across Iraq target Shia Muslims leaving scores dead and wounding dozens

November 2012: 14 November: A series of car bombs and a roadside explosion have killed at least 20 people across Iraq - 29/30 November: Shia worshippers and security forces targeted in bombings that killed 48 and injured many more across four provinces

December 2012: 17 December: Attacks against Iraqi security forces and Shiites kill at least 20 people - 31 December: Car bombing kills two people south of Baghdad - 31 December: At least 23 people have been killed and scores injured in shootings and bombings in several cities and towns

January 2013: 3 January: A car bomb has killed at least 20 Shia Muslim pilgrims and injured others in the Iraqi town of Musayyib - 16 January: At least seventeen people killed and many others injured in two car bomb attacks in Kirkuk and Tuz Khurmatu - 23 January: Targeting the funeral of a relative of a politician who was killed a day earlier a suicide bomb at the Shiite Sayid al-Shuhada mosque in Tuz Khurmatu in north Iraq killed at least 42 people

February 2013: 3 février: Plusieurs dizaines de morts dans une attaque contre la police à Kirkouk - 4 February: A suicide bomb targeting anti-Qaeda militiamen collecting their salaries north of Baghdad killed at least 22 people and wounded 44 others - 8 February: A spate of car bombs in Baghdad and central Iraq, including two explosions minutes apart at a popular bird market, killed 16 people and wounded dozens - 9 February 2013: Six people including a woman were killed and more than 25 wounded in a rocket attack on an Iranian dissident camp in Iraq's capital Baghdad - 12 February: A suicide car bomber and unidentified gunmen killed at least 12 people in the Iraqi city of Mosul - 16 February: Suicide bombers in Tal Afar and a sticky bomb near Baghdad kill an army intelligence officer and a senior judge

March 2013: 1 March: At least 22 people were killed in a series of blasts in Shi'ite neighbourhoods of Baghdad - 12 March: Attacks across Iraq killed 12 people, including three people who died in a suicide bombing at a police station near a school that also wounded 165 others - 14 March: At least 20 people killed and 50 others injured after after three car bombs and a suicide attack hit the Green Zone of Baghdad - 17 March: Car bomb kills ten people, wounding 16, near the outskirts of the south Iraq city of Basra - 19 March 2013: A series of coordinated car bombs and roadside blasts hit Shi'ite districts across Baghdad and south of the Iraqi capital, killing at least 25 people and wounding 88 others ten years after the beginning of US-led invasion - 26 March: Explosion rips through armoured car, killing two local politicians in town of Tuz Khurmatu - 29 March: Four Shia mosques in Baghdad and one in Kirkuk struck by car bombs, with reports of at least 18 dead and dozens hurt

April 2013: 6 April: A coordinated attack involving a suicide bomber at an open-air election campaign meeting in Baquba in central Iraq kills 25 people - 12 April: A bomb exploded near a Sunni mosque north of Baghdad killing seven people, the latest in an uptick in violence in the run-up to elections next week - 15 April: Seven killed, 118 wounded in a series of car bomb blasts across the country - 23 April: Bomb attacks on Sunni mosques in Iraq killed 13 people and wounded dozens of other people - 24 avril: Après plusieurs jours de violences intercommunautaires où près de 125 personnes sont mortes, des hommes armés ont pris le contrôle de Souleimane Bek au nord de Bagdad - 26 April: Nearly 50 people were killed in clashes on Thursday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul - 27 April: Bomb blasts in Baghdad killed at least 20 more people on Friday - 29 April: Three car bombs exploded south of Baghdad on Monday, killing nine people and wounding 70 others

May 2013: 2 May: At least 22 people were killed in attacks across Iraq on Wednesday - 6 May: A series of attacks including a blast near an Internet cafe in a Sunni area killed nine people and wounded dozens on Sunday in and around Baghdad - 7 May: Shootings and bombings in Iraq, including one targeting a provincial council member, killed seven people and wounded two others - 15 mai: Des vendeurs dans des magasins d'alcool à Bagdad disent craindre pour leur vie au lendemain d'une attaque d'inconnus contre des échoppes vendant de la bière et des spiritueux qui a fait douze morts - 15 May: Bomb attacks in Shi'ite areas of Baghdad and in northern Iraq killed more than 30 people on Wednesday - 16 May: A suicide bomber attacked a Shiite place of worship in Kirkuk, killing 12 people - 18 May: Bombs targeting Sunnis, including two outside a mosque in Baquba and one at a funeral procession, killed 67 people in Iraq on Friday, after dozens died in two days of attacks on Shiites - 18 May: Gunmen raid the house of an anti-terrorism police officer in the southern suburbs of Baghdad, killing five people including him and his sleeping family - 18 May: A string of attacks killed at least 16 people on Saturday, while gunmen abducted eight policemen guarding a post on Iraq's main highway to Jordan and Syria - 20 May: 10 Iraqi policemen killed by militants in attacks on checkpointsin the West of the country - 20 May: Wave of attacks hits Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq, killing at least 86 people - 21 May: Four bombings in a Turkmen Shiite area of Tuz Khurmatu and in Kirkuk killed five people and wounded 69 today - 27 May: More than 70 people were killed in a wave of bombings in markets in Shi'ite neighbourhoods across Baghdad - 28 May: Bombings and gunfire in central and northern Iraq killed at least 11 people and wounded 35 others on Tuesday - 30 May: Car bombs and roadside explosions hit mainly Sunni Muslim districts of Baghdad and a northern city, killing at least 27 people - 31 May: Bombs kill 25 in Sunni-Shiite neighbourhoods across Iraq, three policemen killed by gunmen in Fallujah

June 2013: 6 June: Iraqi officials say two car bomb explosions in Baghdad have killed at least six people and wounded more than two dozen - 7 June: Car bomb in Najaf kills 10 Iranian pilgrims - 10 June: At least 12 people have been killed in a series of bombings in a market north of Baghdad - 10/11 June: A wave of bombings and attacks rocked central and northern Iraq on Monday, targeting market-goers, police posts including an assault on police headquarters in Mosul and killing more than 70 people - 16 June: At least 10 apparently coordinated car bombs and a shooting across Iraq have killed at least 24 and wounded dozens - 17 June: At least 12 people were killed in three bomb attacks in Iraq today, police said - 20 June: A suicide bombing in northern Iraq killed a provincial political party leader and four relatives, ahead of elections - 25 June: Baghdad car bombs kill 23, injures 81 - 25 June: Suicide bombers target Iraqi Turkmen, killing eight - 29 June: A series of bombs near a bakery, at a funeral, inside a senior police officer's car and at a football stadium killed at least 22 people across Iraq - 29 June: Attacks in Sunni Arab areas of Iraq killed 10 people on Saturday

July 2013: 1 July: A bomb planted near a yard where people were playing soccer in Nahrawan, south of Baghdad, killed 12 and wounded 24 people on Sunday - 2 July: More than 2,500 people were killed in Iraq in the past three months, the UN said on Monday as new attacks left 41 people dead - 3 July: Suicide attacks, bombings and shootings erupted across Iraq today, killing at least 17 people - 8 July: In two days of violence 19 people were killed, including six family members shot dead while returning from a wedding - 12 July: Militants killed 25 Iraqi security forces in a wave of attacks, and 15 other people died in other attacks including 10 mourners in twin bombings - 13 July: Bomb attack on a tea house in Kirkuk kills 31 people - 14 July: Two bomb attacks near Sunni mosques in the Iraqi capital killed at least 23 people who had gathered to pray - 19 July: Suicide bomber kills 20 people in a Sunni mosque in the town of Wajihiya - 21 July: A wave of bombings killed 65 people in Baghdad province and the commercial areas of the capital, without a claim of responsibility for the attacks - 22 July: Gunmen raid Iraq's Abu Ghraib and Taji jails, as bombings and shootings kill 13 people on Sunday - 22 July: A suicide bomber attacks an army convoy in the eastern Kokchali district of Mosul, killing at least eight soldiers and two passers-by - 23 July: At least 500 escape in deadly assaults on Iraq prisons - 23 July: Bombs targeting worshippers gathered for evening prayers at three Sunni mosques in Iraq killed nine people on Tuesday - 25 July: Militants killed nine police in an attack with mortars and automatic weapons, while 14 people including six soldiers died in other violence - 25 July: 14 Shia truck drivers shot dead after being stopped by gunmen on main road leading north of Baghdad - 26 July: At least 28 people killed in bombings and shootings across Iraq, including a car bomb that exploded in a busy market killing 14 people in central Muqdadiya - 28 July: A suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into a Kurdish security patrol in northern city of Tuz Khormato killing eight people and wounding five more - 29 July: At least 22 killed and more than 100 injured in coordinated bombings targeting mainly Shia areas in Baghdad and Basra - 31 July: A Shiite and a Sunni mosque in Baghdad have been targeted in bombings that killed at least nine people, officials say

August 2013: 1 August: July deadliest month in Iraq since 2008, UN says - 4 August: Bombings and shootings across Iraq killed 19 people, including an ambush that targeted a military convoy - 7 August: A series of car bombs targeting busy markets and shopping streets in and around Baghdad killed at least 51 people and wounded more than 100 on Tuesday - 11 August: Baghdad car bombs kill dozens in attacks on Shia neighbourhoods - 15 August: Car bombs across Baghdad kill at least 33 people - 24 August: Suicide bombing in a park in northern Baghdad crowded by cafe- and restaurant-goers the bloodiest attack in a day of violence that killed at least 36 people across the country - 28/29 August: Baghdad bomb attacks extending the wave of sectarian bloodshed killed 86 people and wounded 263, police and medical sources say - 30 August: Iraqi officials say bomb blasts at a market north of Baghdad and another on the outskirts of the capital have killed 23 people - 30 August: Two roadside bombs exploded on the edge of the north Iraq town of Tuz Khurmatu, killing at least 13 people, most of them children - 31 August: Gunmen killed five worshippers at a Sunni mosque in Baghdad on Saturday

September 2013: 3/4 September: A series of car bombs exploded across Iraqi capital, killing nearly 60 people in predominantly Shi'ite districts - 10 septembre: Au moins 16 personnes ont été tuées, dont six alors qu'elles lavaient le corps d'un mort avant de l'enterrer - 12 September: Bombings at Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad kill at least 33 - 13 September: A pair of roadside bombs exploded outside of a Sunni mosque in Baquba, killing at least 30 people as they left the building after Friday prayers - 15 September: A suicide bomb attack at a funeral held by members of Iraq’s Shabak ethnic minority near the city of Mosul in northern Iraq killed 26 people and left 46 others injured - 16 September: A wave of car bombings and other attacks in Iraq killed at least 58 people in mostly Shiite-majority cities in south and central Iraq - 22 September: At least 56 killed in Baghdad bombings - 23 September: A suicide bomber struck a Sunni funeral in Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 12 people - 23 septembre: Au moins neuf personnes ont été tuées et 27 blessées lundi dans un attentat contre des funérailles sunnites à Adhamiya, dans le nord de la capitale - 25 September: Militants attacked local government and police buildings in Hawijah with suicide bombings and mortar fire, sparking clashes that killed 14 people, among 24 deaths nationwide - 26 September: Bombs ripped through outdoor markets in and near Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 21 people and wounding dozens - 29 September: At least 40 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shi-ite Muslim funeral in Mussayab, 60km south of Baghdad, on Sunday - 29 septembre: Au moins six personnes ont été tuées dans une série d’attentats à Erbil, au Kurdistan irakien

October 2013: 2 October: Militants shoot down military helicopter in the region of Kirkuk and Salahuddin province, killing all four crew members - 5 October: Gunmen killed two Iraqi journalists in the city of Mosul, as other violence including a suicide bombing at a cafe left 20 people dead - 8 October: Eight explosions in mainly Shi'ite districts in Baghdad, one explosion in a mixed area and another in the predominantly Sunni Muslim neighbourhood of Doura kill at least 38 people - 10 October: 20 people killed on Thursday, among them four anti-Al-Qaeda fighters shot dead by gunmen, eight militants killed by security forces, civilians and police killed by bombings in Baghdad and northeast of Baquba - 12 octobre: Une voiture piégée a explosé au nord de Bagdad, faisant au moins 12 morts - 13 October: More than a dozen bombs exploded in Iraq on Sunday, killing at least nine people and wounding more than 70 others - 15 octobre: Neuf personnes ont été tuées dans un attentat ayant visé mardi des fidèles à Kirkouk, après la prière marquant le début de l'Aïd al-Adha - 17 October: Seven car bombs exploded in Baghdad province, killing at least 24 people and wounding at least 70 - 20 October: Dozens killed in bomb attack on Baghdad cafe while at least another 12 died in a spate of bomb attacks on security personnel and government buildings - 24 October: Iraqi journalist Bashar Abdulqader killed in Mosul - 26 October: Bombings in central Iraq that targeted a market, a cafe and the homes of police officers killed 13 people on Friday - 27 October: Ten bombings mainly targeting Shiite-majority areas of Baghdad province killed at least 41 people, while 20 died in bombings and shootings elsewhere in Iraq

November 2013: 5 novembre: Treize personnes, la plupart des membres des forces de sécurité, ont été tuées mardi en Irak - 8 November: Attacks in Iraq, including a double suicide car bombing targeting a military base in Tarmiyah, kill 30 people across the country - 10 novembre: Au moins sept morts dans des violences dans le nord du pays, principalement à Mossoul - 13 November: Violence across Iraq, including bombings against Shiites, kills twenty three people on the eve of rituals - 17 novembre: Au moins 17 morts dans des attaques à Bagdad - 22 November: A truck bomb tore through an outdoor vegetable market in Sadiyah, the deadliest of a series of attacks that killed at least 48 people - 26 novembre: Un attentat suicide à l'entrée d'une base de l'armée au nord de Bagdad a fait au moins 7 morts et 22 blessés - 29 November: Market bombings, attacks across Iraq kill 29 people - 30 November: 52 people dead in throwback to Iraq's sectarian bloodshed - 30 novembre: Sept personnes morts samedi dans de nouvelles attaques qui ont frappé la périphérie de Bagdad et les environs de Mossoul et Touz Khoumartou

December 2013: 7 décembre: Attaques contre des commerces de boissons alcoolisées, 9 morts - 8 December: 35 people killed in wave of Baghdad area bombings - 13 December: Oil workers massacred in Iraqi town of Muqdadiya in al-Qaida-style attack - 15 December: At least 17 people, most of them Shi'ite Muslims, killed in a wave of bombings and shootings across Iraq - 19 December: Suicide bombers, militant attack kill 41 across Iraq - 20 December: Two bombings in a market and another in a cemetery as people buried victims of the first blasts killed at least 11 people in Tuz Khurmatu - 21 December: At least 18 Iraqi military officers were killed in an ambush in the province of Anbar - 25 December: At least 34 people killed in bomb attacks in Christian areas of Baghdad on Wednesday, some by a car bomb exploding near a church after a Christmas service - 30 December: At least 18 people including soldiers were killed in attacks across Iraq on Sunday

2014-present Iraq War: Iraq War (2014–present)

January 2014: 2 January: Violence in Iraq surged in 2013 to its worst level in five years, fuelled by discontent among the Sunni Arab minority and the civil war in neighbouring Syria - 2 January: Iraqi security forces and armed tribesmen battle al Qaeda-linked jihadist militants who reportedly seized swathes of the two Sunni-majority cities of Fallujah and Ramadi - 3 January: Clashes kill 62 Al Qaeda militants in the Ramadi area - 4 janvier: La ville de Fallouja est passée aux mains des islamistes - 5 janvier: Les autorités irakiennes veulent reprendre la cité de Fallouja à Al-Qaïda - 6 January: Residents are fleeing Fallujah - 13 January: Bomb attacks kill at least 18 in Baghdad and Tuz Khurmatu - 19 January: Attacks across Baghdad, including car bombs at an up-scale shopping mall and near a juvenile detention centre, kill 21 people - 25 January: Shelling against a Shiite Muslim village killed six people on Saturday, including a young boy - 30 January: Baghdad bombs and shooting kill at least 19 people - 31 January: Six suicide bombers burst into a Ministry of Transportation building, took hostages and killed at least 24 people including themselves

February 2014: 5 February: A string of rush-hour bombings has hit Baghdad, killing at least nine people - 13 February: At least 17 civilians and soldiers were killed in bomb attacks across Iraq on Wednesday - 13 February: Sunni Islamists overrun Iraqi town of Sulaiman Pek north of Baghdad after seizing city - 18 February: Bomb blasts in predominantly Shi'ite districts of Baghdad and in Hilla kill at least 49 people

March 2014: 1 March: UN says 703 Iraqis killed and 1,381 wounded in violence in February - 7 March: Shelling in Fallujah and a shooting targeting a local official killed eight people on Friday

April 2014: 2 April: Bombings around Iraq kill eight people ahead of elections - 6 April: An explosion at a booby-trapped house, clashes with militants and roadside bombings killed 21 soldiers in Iraq - 9 April: Six car bombs rocked mainly Shiite-populated areas of Baghdad, killing at least seven people and wounding 30 - 15 April: Shelling in Fallujah killed five people and wounded 16, while mortar rounds and twin suicide bombings in Ramadi left one dead and eight wounded and a man was shot dead in the northern province of Kirkuk - 19 April: Two bombs planted on a street full of shoppers in Baghdad have killed four people and wounded eight - 25 April: Explosions at Iraq election rally in Baghdad kill 31 people

May/June 2014: 4 May: As officials count ballots from the general election, more than 30 people killed in 24 hours in Iraq violence - 12 May: Over 41 people were killed and 30 others injured across Iraq in separate attacks that mainly targeted security forces

June 2014: 8 June: A wave of car bombs exploded across Baghdad, killing more than 60 people, and militants stormed Anbar university campus - 2014 Northern Iraq Isis offensive since 5 June - 10 June: Isis insurgents seize control of Iraqi city of Mosul - 11/12 June: 500,000 people flee Iraq's second city of Mosul after Islamist militants took control and Iraq army capitulates in more cities - 12 June: Isis forces take Tikrit, a day after 35,000 Iraq soldiers reportedly fled an Isis force of 800 in Mosul - 12 June: Iraqi Kurdish forces take Kirkuk after central government's army abandons posts and Isis captured towns - 13 June: Iraq's senior Shi'ite cleric urges followers to fight Sunni militants, who captured two more Iraqi towns - 14 June: Iraqi forces massing in Samarra - 15 June: Series of explosions kills 15 people, wounds 30 in Baghdad as followers of Shia group heading to Baghdad to join the Iraqi army and fight against Sunni insurgents - 17 June: Residents flee as insurgents take the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar after a two-day battle with security forces - 17 June: Scores of Iraqis killed during battle for provincial capital of Baquba, that also shuts main oil refinery - 19 June: Iraqi forces battle Islamists for control of country's largest refinery Baiji, as 250-300 workers are evacuated - 20 June: Iraqi militants seize Saddam's top chemical weapons facility used to make chemical agents including sarin during the Iran-Iraq war, but any weapons found inside reportedly useless - 21 June: Sunni militants seize Syrian border crossing after killing some 30 Iraqi troops in a day of clashes - 24 June: Islamists launch push to seize Baiji oil refinery as Kerry visits Irbil and Maliki agrees to set up new government by 1 July - 24 June: Iraqi air strikes killed at least 32 people as security forces held off attacks on Haditha and Baiji - 26 June: Iraqi Kurds strengthen their positions while Isis advances and Maliki insists that any new government must be based on an election he won - 26 June: With USA troops now deployed in Iraq, the Iraqi army is making a push to drive ISIS back from Baghdad and launches aerial assault against ISIS - 28 June: Thousands from a predominantly-Christian town south of Mosul flee from fighting between Isis and Kurdish forces - 28/29 June: Iraqi army makes push to retake Tikrit from Islamists, claiming Tikrit retaken

July 2014: 4 July: Iraq army reportedly retakes Awja - 6 July: Iranian pilot killed fighting against Sunni Muslim militants in Samarra north of Baghdad - 9 July: The Islamic State extremist group, formerly known as ISIS, has taken control of a vast former chemical weapons facility northwest of Baghdad, where remnants of 2,500 degraded chemical rockets filled decades ago with the deadly nerve agent sarin are stored along with other chemical warfare agents, a threat now played down by the USA, invading Iraq 2003 for alleged threat of weapons of mass destruction - 11 July: Iraq's security forces and allied Shiite militias executed at least 255 Sunni prisoners as they fled a lightning jihadist-led advance last month, Human Rights Watch says - 12 July: Iraq battles assault on the city of Ramadi while the Kurds claim disputed oilfields - 18 July: The escalating violence in Iraq has killed more than 5,500 civilians over the first six months of 2014, UN says - 19 July: Baghdad bombings kill dozens

August 2014: 6 August: Kurds, Islamic State clash near Kurdish regional capital Arbil - 8 August: USA's Barack Obama orders air strikes against IS terrorists in northern Iraq, humanitarian aid drops to threatened people - 9 August: USA forces bomb IS/Isis militant positions targeting frontlines around Kurdish capital of Irbil, food for civilians dropped on Mount Sinjar to help encircled refugees - 10 August: Obama warns of long campaign as Iraq strikes continue against Isis, as minorities flee Islamist onslaught and British planes join relief effort - 10 August: Aided by USA air strikes, Peshmerga forces liberate Zamar, Makhmour and al-Gweir areas northern Mosul, near Irbil - 11 August: USA conducts fourth food, water drop for civilians besieged by jihadists - 12 August: USA urges Abadi to form new government swiftly as fears grow for the besieged Yazidi community and the resistance movement against IS depends on solidarity and inclusion - 13 August: As UN's Ban Ki-moon urges countries to do more for threatened civilians in Iraq, USA sends more 130 troops to support the resistance in the Irbil area< - 14 August: USA team in Iraq assesses that there are far fewer Yazidis on Mount Sinjar than feared adding that the USA will continue to provide humanitarian assistance - 14 August: Thousands of Iraqi refugees reportedly 'still at risk' despite ending of Mount Sinjar siege, as hundreds of thousands driven from their homes by IS terrorists - 15 August: IS militants reportedly murdered some 80 Yazidis in a village in Iraq's north - 17 August: As part of a joint Iraq-USA plan, USA air strikes targeting Islamic State militants near Iraq's Mosul dam - 17/18 August: Key facility retaken by Kurdish forces after major campaign of USA airstrikes near Mosul Dam began

September/October 2014: 11 September: Obama announces expansion of USA campaign against terrorist 'Islamic State' in Iraq and Syria - 12 September 2014: Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Gulf states agree to join USA-led military campaign against Islamic State terror group - 16 September: USA begins expanded air strikes on Islamic State in Iraq - 30 September/1 October: Retaking lost ground in August, Iraqi Kurdish forces capture a strategic border crossing and several villages from Islamic State terrorists, with new signs of cooperation in the border region of northern Iraq - 1 October: As Australia sends two unarmed planes to support USA air strikes in Iraq, British jets bomb Islamic State for first time - 11/12 October: At least 45 people killed in bombings in Baghdad and its rural outskirts as the government continues to fight against jihadists and USA defense secretary says Iraqi forces are in full control of Baghdad - 12 October: Islamic State suicide bombers kill 28 Kurds in an attack on a Kurdish security headquarters and a provincial police chief - 14 October: Rights group accuses Iraqi government of supporting and arming groups of Shiite fighters carrying out kidnappings and killings against Sunni civilians in response to Islamic State - 16 October: Islamic State terrorists target Baghdad with deadly wave of car bombs and mortar attacks - 20 October: After seizing two Kurdish villages, Islamic State terrorists reportedly advanced on the Iraqi town of Qara Tappa disguised as Kurdish peshmerga fighters, new deadly attacks in Bagdad and Kerbala - 24 October: Iraqi forces must be trained, armed and ready before major advances, USA says - 25 October: Kurdish regional forces retook the northern Iraqi town of Zumar and several nearby villages - 26 October: Iraq government forces and militias take control of strategic town of Jurf al-Sakhar south of Baghdad, breaking the grip of Islamic State terrorists after months of fighting - 28 October: As a car bomb kills at least eight people in Baghdad and a suicide bombing left dead at least 14 pro-government fighters south of the capital, the US-led coalition carries out fresh air strikes against terrorists in Iraq and Syria

November/December 2014: 2 November: Islamic State terrorists executed 67 people from a pro-government Sunni tribe in the western Iraqi province of Anbar - 27 November: Iraqi forces backed by tribesmen hold off 'Islamic State' attack on Ramadi - 28 November: New series of USA military air strikes hit 'Islamic State' in Iraq and Syria - 4 December: 'Islamic State' cedes little ground despite coalition's air attacks - 17 December: Iraqi Kurdish forces launch offensive to retake 'Islamic State' held areas - 18 December: Iraqi Kurds backed by USA air strikes reportedly free 'vast area' of Mt Sinjar freeing trapped Yazidis - 21 December: Iraq Kurds deliver aid to Mt Sinjar, expand their offensive against 'Islamic State' and push its militants out of a large area around Mt Sinjar, backed by USA-led air strikes - 28 December: Hundreds of executions by 'Islamic State', also killing its own members, in Syria reported, as Iranian general killed by sniper bullet in embattled Iraqi city - 29 December: Iraqi forces launch offensive on 'Islamic State' in Dhuluiyah

2015: 1 February: Iraq Kurdish forces retake oil field, villages in Kirkuk province from 'Islamic State' terrorists, freeing also 24 workers who had been taken captive - 8 February: At least 40 people killed in Baghdad bombings as decade-old nightly curfew ends, 'Islamic State' claims responsibility for one attack - 9 February: At least 13 civilians killed in a suicide bombing at a security checkpoint in western Baghdad's Shi'ite neighborhood of Kadhamiya - 14 February: Sunni tribal leader and seven others killed in Baghdad ambush - 20 February: Expected operation to retake Mosul from 'Islamic State' terrorists will likely begin in April or May - 24 February: Wave of bombings around Baghdad kills 28 people - 26 February: A USA-led coalition air strike near the Iraqi border town of Al-Qaim reportedly killed at least 17 'Islamic State' terrorists and nine civilians overnight - 28 February: Kurdish fighters rout 'Islamic State' terrorists from Tel Hamees in Syria’s northeastern Hassakeh region near Iraq - 28 February: Iraq bombs kill dozens in attacks north of Baghdad - 2 March: Iraqi forces begin assault on 'Islamic State' stronghold Tikrit - 3 March: USA-led coalition conducts more airstrikes on 'Islamic State' targets in Syria and Iraq, as at least four Shi’ite militias will help try to liberate Mosul - 6 March: Islamic State terrorists 'bulldozed' ancient city of Nimrud, Iraqi ministry says - 9 March: Backed by coalition airstrikes, Kurdish forces attack 'Islamic State' terrorists around Kirkuk - 12 March: Iraqi forces enter 'Islamic State' held Tikrit after 10-day push - 14 March: Evidence that IS used chemical weapons, Iraqi Kurds say - 22 March: Iraqi Sunnis accuse Shi'ite paramilitaries of burning homes outside Tikrit - 1 April: Iraq's defense ministry declares 'magnificent victory' over Islamic State terrorists in Tikrit - 4 April: Shi'ite fighters leave Tikrit under government deal after looting - 14 April: A car bomb in a commercial area in Mahmoudiyah south of Baghdad killed at least seven civilians and wounded 13 others - 16 April: IS terrorists clash with security forces inside Iraq's largest refinery in Anbar province - 18 April: Iraqi forces reportedly retake most of Baiji refinery - 19 April: More than 90,000 people fleeing violence in Iraq's Anbar province as bombings and mortar fire targeting public places kill 14 people around the capital Baghdad, UN says - 28 April: 3 car bombs on busy streets and marketplaces in Baghdad kill at least 19 people, a day after a wave of bombings hit the capital - 1 May: Five car bombs exploded across Baghdad on Thursday evening, killing at least 17 people - 14 May 2015: Five members of one family, including a pregnant woman and girl aged eight, died in Fadhiliya in suspected USA-led air strike, as other victims of the anti-IS air campaign may go unrecorded - 18 May: Ramadi falls to IS terrorists after Iraq military forces have fled abandoning their weapons, dozens of army vehicles and Iraqi PM's calls for reinforcement - 18 May: About 500 people — both civilians and Iraqi soldiers — are estimated to have been killed and thousands fled as Ramadi fell to the IS terrorists - 24 May: Iraqi forces regain ground from Islamic State terrorists east of Ramadi - 29 May: Bombings targeting two top hotels in Baghdad kill 15 people, with another 42 wounded - 4 June: UN appeals for half a billion dollars in international aid to help tackle worsening humanitarian crisis in Iraq triggered by the conflict with Islamic State - 10 June: USA's Obama weighs sending several hundred more USA troops to Iraq - 11 June: USA's expanded military campaign will set up a new base in Anbar Province to advise Iraqi forces on how to plan and organize operations and help them reach out to Sunni tribes and bring them into the battle

12 June 2015 - present 'Battle of Mosul', offensive launched by the Iraqi government and Kurdish forces against 'Islamic State' terrorists - 15 June: Seventeen people killed in battles between 'Islamic State' terrorists and pro-government forces near Iraq's Baiji refinery - 6 July: Heavy fighting as Iraqi Shi'ite fighters and army troops try to surround Falluja - 13 July: Baghdad bombings in Shia Muslim neighbourhoods and blamed on 'Islamic State' terrorists, reportedly kill at least 21 and wound 62 during Ramadan - 13 July: Iraq says operation to retake the country's largest province Anbar from 'Islamic State' underway - 14 July 2015: Iraq conflict leaves nearly 15,000 civilians dead over last 16 months, as UN report estimates death toll is in addition to 30,000 wounded and multiple gross human rights abuses - 18 July: A car bomb claimed by 'Islamic State' terrorists killed at least 80 people including children in a busy market in Iraqi town of Khan Bani Saad, about 20 miles northeast of Baghdad, while Muslims were celebrating end of Ramadan - 22 July: At least 32 people killed in bomb attacks across Iraq, the deadliest incident in northeastern Baghdad - 11 August: Three explosions, two of them suicide bombings, killed at least 33 people near Baquba, the capital of Iraq's eastern province of Diyala - 13 August: 'Islamic State' terrorists' truck bomb attack in the Iraqi capital's Jameela market kills 58 people also wounding at least 89 - 16 August: A series of bombings across Baghdad have killed at least 24 people on August 15 - 26 August: Kurds launch new assault on 'Islamic State' terrorists in northern Iraq - 30 September 2015: Kurds take ground from Islamic State terrorists in north Iraq, driving them out of several villages near the oil city of Kirkuk - 10 October: Iraq says forces advancing in several areas north and west of Ramadi - 17 October: Iraqi forces in huge anti-terrorist push in Baiji as part of their biggest advance against the Islamic State - 22 October: In a raid by Kurdish troops and USA special forces in northern Iraq nearly 70 hostages facing 'imminent mass execution' have been rescued from an Islamic State terrorists' jail, also leading to the first USA combat death since 2011

November/December 2015: November 2015 Sinjar offensive of Kurdish Peshmerga forces to recapture the city of Sinjar from the Islamic State terrorists - 12 November: Kurdish forces launch an extensive push to retake Sinjar city in northern Iraq, 15 months after it was seized by Islamic State terrorists - 13 November: Kurdish forces seize Iraq's Sinjar town from IS terrorists - 22 décembre: L'armée irakienne est entrée dans le centre de Ramadi - 27 décembre: Les forces kurdes ont arrêté et tué plusieurs membres du groupe Etat islamique à Riyadh en Irak - 28 December: Iraqi forces seize key base in Ramadi from 'Islamic State' terrorists - 29 December: Iraq's army will need Kurdish fighters' help to retake Mosul, Iraqi Finance Minister Zebari says, adding that its liberation would mark the end of the caliphate proclaimed by the 'Islamic State' terrorists

October 2016: Since October 2016 Battle of Mosul, a joint offensive by Iraqi forces with allied militias, Kurdish Peshmerga of Iraqi Kurdistan, and international forces to retake the city of Mosul from Islamic State terrorists, following March-September 2016 Mosul offensive against the the so-called Islamic State in the region in a joint effort by Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga, limited USA ground forces, and USA and allied air support - 14/15 October 2016: Iraqi and Kurdish forces are finalising plans to attack the last urban stronghold Mosul of Islamic State terrorists in Iraq, which after a month-long buildup is now largely surrounded by a 60,000-strong force, as terrorists have banned civilians from leaving the city, setting up checkpoints on roads out and blowing up the homes of those who do flee as punishment and to deter others - 15 octobre: Au moins 27 fidèles chiites, qui étaient rassemblés pour la fête de l'Achoura dans le quartier d'Al Chaab, dans le nord de la capitale irakienne, ont été tués dans un attentat-suicide revendiqé par 'l'Etat islamique' - 17 October 2016: Iraqi and Kurdish forces launch assault on Mosul, which has been in the hands of Islamic State terrorists since 2014 - 19 October: Mosul residents who have fled Islamic State say a homegrown resistance, raised over the past six months, has made plans to launch coordinated attacks against the group as Iraqi and Kurdish forces close in - 20 October: After 'Islamic State' terrorist leaders reportedly have begun to flee Mosul, Iraqi army, special forces and Kurdish peshmerga launch 'large-scale' operation to retake Mosul - 21 October: Islamic State terrorists launch a commando raid on Kirkuk as concerns mount over fate of civilians in Mosul - 22 October: Nearly 1,000 people have been treated for breathing problems linked to toxic gases from a sulphur plant which Islamic State terrorists are suspected to have set on fire near the city of Mosul - 28 octobre: Au moins 232 personnes ont été exécutées par le groupe Etat Islamique il y a quelques jours, près de Mossoul, alors que les troupes irakiennes s'approchaient de cette ville, selon l'ONU

November/December 2016: 2 November 2016: Iraqi special forces are holding their positions in Mosul a day after entering the Islamic State-held city for the first time since 2014 - 2 November: Mosul civilians flee heavy fighting and Islamic State terrorists - 4 November: Heavy fighting in Mosul as Iraqi forces launch assault - 7 November 2016: Peshmerga liberate Bashiqa in the joint offensive to liberate Mosul and its countryside - 12 November 2016: As Iraqi troops battle IS terrorists in Mosul, UN reports terrorists's executions, over 47,000 displaced people, and USA-backed forces in Syria advance on jihadist bastion of Raqqa - 15 November 2016: In cleared areas of Mosul, Iraqi troops struggle to provide civilians with food - 24 November 2016: Dozens of people, many of them Iranian Shia pilgrims, have been killed by a suicide bombing claimed by Islamic State terrorists near the Iraqi city of Hilla, 60 miles south of Baghdad - 21 décembre 2016: Des combattants du groupe Etat islamique ont 'délibérément' attaqué des civils refusant de leur servir de 'boucliers humains' dans leur fuite face aux forces irakiennes à Mossoul - 29 December: Iraqi troops resume push to take Mosul from Isis after two-week lull - 31 December 2016: Two bombs explode in a busy market area in Baghdad's central al-Sinek neighborhood on Saturday, killing at least 18 people and wounding dozens

January/February 2017: 2 January 2017: Baghdad car bomb attack leaves at least 16 dead - 8 janvier 2017: Au moins 13 personnes ont été tuées et une cinquantaine blessées dans un attentat-suicide à Bagdad, revendiqué par l'EI - 19 janvier 2017: En retrait en Irak et en Syrie, le groupe djihadiste Etat islamique a perdu 23% de son territoire en 2016 et voit sa cohésion menacée - 19 February 2017: Iraq forces launch operation to retake west Mosul - 21 février: Les forces armées resserrent l'étau à Mossoul - 25 février: Les troupes irakiennes avancent dans Mossoul

March/April 2017: 4 March 2017: Thousands flee Iraq’s Mosul overnight, as fighting rages on to recapture it from Islamic State terrorists - 4 March 2017: UN raises fears of chemical attack in Mosul as patients exhibit 'severe signs associated with exposure to a blister agent' - 8 mars 2017: L'EI recule encore en Syrie et à Mossoul - 14 mars 2017: Les forces irakiennes progressent près de la Vieille ville de Mossoul - 24 March 2017: For almost a week desperate neighbours had scraped through the rubble, searching for shouting children and as many as 130 people who lay buried after three homes in a west Mosul suburb were destroyed by coalition airstrikes, raising fresh questions about USA rules of engagement - 25 March 2017: Iraq suspends Mosul offensive after USA-led coalition airstrike atrocity - 28 March 2017: Residents in Mosul were instructed not to leave their homes ahead of airstrikes last week that are reported to have killed more than 150 civilians, rights group says

May/June 2017: 30 May 2017: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at a popular Baghdad ice cream shop killing 15 people and wounding 24 and claimed by 'Islamic State' terrorists - 30 mai 2017: Les forces irakiennes continuant de progresser dans l'ouest de Mossoul où quelque 200.000 civils piégés sont en grand danger selon l'ONU - 4 June 2017: Isil has surrendered the key town of Baaj in north-west Iraq, a known hideout of the terrorist group’s leader which had been under Islamist militants’ control throughout 14 years of war and insurgency - 13 June 2017: Contaminated food supplied by a UK charity has made hundreds of people severely ill at a camp for Iraqi civilians who have fled Islamic State terrorists and fighting in Mosul - 18 June 2017: Iraqi troops move into Mosul’s Old City, last Islamic State stronghold, as UN says over 100,000 civilians are trapped in battle zone, where terror group is using them as human shields

July/August 2017: 9 July 2017: After thousands of civilians have been killed in the battle for Mosul and after almost one million people have been displaced in nearly nine months of bitter fighting to defeat the terrorist group in the city where it proclaimed its 'caliphate' in 2014, Iraq’s PM Haider al-Abadi declares victory over 'Islamic State' in devastated Mosul - 20 August 2017: Iraq begins battle to retake Tal Afar, Islamic State terrorists' bastion near Mosul - 27 août 2017: Forcés de fuir, les habitants de Tal Afar reviennent chez eux après la reprise de la ville

September 2017: 15 September 2017: More than 80 people dead after militants use car bombs and suicide vests to target checkpoint and restaurants near Nasiriyah

Economy of Iraq: Economy of Iraq - main industries are petroleum, chemicals, textiles, leather, construction materials, food processing, fertilizer, metal fabrication/processing - Companies of Iraq by industry - List of companies of Iraq - Government-owned companies of Iraq

Energy and oil industry: Energy and oil industry - Oil fields of Iraq - Baba Gurgur (Kurdish Babagurgur) near the city of Kirkuk - Majnoon oil field, Basra governorate in southern Iraq - Rumaila oil field, 32 km from the Kuwaiti border - West Qurna Field, near Basra

Oil and gas companies of Iraq: Oil and gas companies of Iraq

2012: 30 mai 2012: Contrats d'exploration de sites pétroliers et gaziers mis aux enchères - 21 July 2012: Blast shuts down Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline - 16. August 2012: Der Irak mit einer täglichen Erdölproduktion von 3,2 Mio. Fass, die zweitgrösste Fördermenge innerhalb der Opec - 14 November 2012: Iraq investment concerns remain

Electricity sector in Iraq: Electricity sector in Iraq - as of January 2016, the output of electricity sector in Iraq averages 13,000 MW, while the demand is 21,000 MW, lack of electricity tends to affect more severely the most vulnerable groups of Iraq’s society and increases their morbidity and mortality

2016: 25 January 2016: Though Iraq is a major OPEC oil producer, the country faces chronic electricity shortages, with its fragile grid struggling meet demand after decades of war, sanctions and neglect, now agreeing a $328.8 million deal with USA's General Electric to boost electricity production starting in 2017

Hydroelectric power stations in Iraq: Hydroelectric power stations in Iraq

Agriculture in Iraq: Agriculture in Iraq, despite its abundant land and water resources, Iraq is a net food importer - in 2004 the main agricultural crops were wheat, barley, corn, rice, vegetables, dates, and cotton, and the main livestock outputs were cattle and sheep

Since 2008/2009 Green Mada'in Association for Agricultural Development

Mesopotamian Marshes, Central, Hawizeh and Hammar Marshes: Mesopotamian Marshes - Draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes - Central or Qurna Marshes, a large complex of wetlands in Iraq that were part of the Tigris-Euphrates river system, along with the Hawizeh and Hammar Marshes

Water in Iraq: Water in Iraq - List of rivers of Iraq - Dams in Iraq

Tigris–Euphrates river system: Tigris–Euphrates river system - the Tigris and Euphrates with their tributaries form a major system in Western Asia, from sources in the Taurus mountains of eastern Turkey they flow by/through Syria through Iraq into the Persian Gulf - Euphrates river - Tigris, the eastern member of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates - Shatt al-Arab of some 200 km in length, formed by the confluence of the Euphrates and the Tigris in the town of al-Qurnah in the Basra Governorate of southern Iraq - Dams in the Tigris–Euphrates river system - Dams in the Euphrates River basin

Water supply and sanitation in Iraq: Water supply and sanitation in Iraq, characterized by poor water and service quality, combined with limited environmental awareness three decades of war have destroyed Iraq's water resources management system - Ministry of Water Resources in Iraq

2012/2013: 20 July 2012: Farmer in south Iraq commits suicide over lack of water which has forced hundreds of families to abandon their homes in recent years - 12 February 2013: A large loss of fresh water reserves in the Tigris and Euphrates river basins since 2003 detected

Tourism in Iraq: Tourism in Iraq - Visitor attractions in Iraq

World Heritage and archaeological sites in Iraq: World Heritage Sites in Iraq - Archaeological sites in Iraq

7 March 2015: Widespread outrage after 'Islamic State' bulldozes ancient Iraq city of Nimrud founded in the 13th century BC

Banking and financial services in Iraq: Banking in Iraq - Central Bank of Iraq - Trade Bank of Iraq - Industrial Bank of Iraq - Agricultural Cooperative Bank of Iraq - Iraq Stock Exchange

Infrastructure and investment in post-invasion Iraq: Infrastructure of Iraq - Reconstruction of Iraq - Economic reform of Iraq since 2003 - Investment in post-invasion Iraq - Development Fund for Iraq

External trade of Iraq: External trade of Iraq

Unemployment in Iraq: 2015: Almost seven million Iraqis, 23% of the total population, live in poverty, rising from 7% in 1990, youth unemployment rate is 30% double the national average of 15%, far from the target of 4% in 2015 and Iraq's economy is unable to produce enough jobs to employ the 450,000 Iraqis entering the labour force each year

Poverty in Iraq: 6 July 2013: Poverty in Iraq - 95% of its exports are from oil, but like other resource-rich countries this abundance of profit potential has not translated to a higher standard of living for the average Iraqi citizen, economic progress and social development has been hindered by ethnosectarian violence, severe setbacks in infrastructure, and poor educational quality

2015/2016: 2 October 2015: Poverty in Iraq grows as budgets squeezed by war with Islamic State terrorists and as more shanty towns are appearing across Baghdad, adding a wave of refugees to those already living in dire poverty - 25 April 2016: Facing poverty and unemployment not being adressed by the authorities, Iraqi families sell organs to overcome poverty as gangs are offering up to $10,000 for a kidney increasingly targeting the country’s poor

Military of Iraq and budget: Iraqi Armed Forces - List of current equipment of the Iraqi Army - Aircraft inventory - Navy equipment

Military budget - 2012 military budget rank 35

2013: 30 December 2013: Iraq's security forces face rising criticism that, with violence at the highest level in years, their heavy-handed tactics and alleged abuses do more harm than good

Politics of Iraq: Politics of Iraq - Demographics of Iraq - Political parties in Iraq - Trade unions in Iraq

Iraqi budget: 2 March 2013: Rafi al-Issawi will be first senior Sunni member to leave cabinet after months of anti-government protests, further intensifying the country's political crisis nearly a decade after the USA-led invasion - 7 March 2013: Iraq's parliament approved a $118.6 billion national budget - 31 January 2016: Iraq needs US$1.56 billion this year to finance its emergency response to the humanitarian crisis caused by the war against Islamic State terrorists, after the conflict has displaced more than 3.3 million people since 2014, according to a government report

Elections in Iraq: Elections in Iraq - Iraqi governorate elections 20 April 2013 - 20 April 2013: Iraq votes in test of stability as violence spikes - 21 April: Turnout for the provincial vote about 51 percent, but 14 candidates were killed in attacks ahead of the polls and a third of Iraq's provinces not voting due to security concerns and political disputes - 4 May: Iraq PM's group wins largest bloc in several areas - Iraqi Kurdistan legislative election 21 September 2013 - 21 September 2013: Iraq's Kurds vote amid rows, regional tensions - 28 September: Iraq president's party falls to third in Kurdish polls, with 95 percent of votes counted the KDP was first with 719,004 votes, the opposition Goran movement second with 446,095, and the PUK third with 323,867

Federal government and politics in Iraq: Federal government of Iraq

2011: 18 December 2011: Political crisis in Iraq as US withdraws - 20 December: Iraq issues arrest warrant for vice-president

2012: 10 September 2012: Fugitive Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi found guilty in absentia of running death squads and is sentenced to death - 10 September: Iraq vice-president rejects death sentence, dismissing verdict as 'politically motivated'

2013: 2 March 2013: Rafi al-Issawi will be first senior Sunni member to leave cabinet after months of anti-government protests, further intensifying the country's political crisis nearly a decade after the US-led invasion - 7 March 2013: Iraq's parliament approved a $118.6 billion national budget - 5 November 2013: The Iraqi government has announced that the parliamentary elections will be held on April 30, 2014

December 2013: 8 December: Two long-time parliamentary allies are distancing themselves from Iraqi PM al-Maliki ahead of April elections, accusing him of a deeply flawed security policy and nepotism- 28 décembre: Les forces de sécurité ont arrêté à l'ouest de Bagdad un député sunnite connu pour son soutien aux manifestants anti-gouvernement, au prix d'un raid ayant coûté la vie à son frère et à cinq gardes

April 2014: 11 April 2014: Iraqis go to the polls as extremism and violence rage - 27 April: In the first national election since USA troops left in 2011 and amid deepening sectarian divisions, Iraqis will vote on Wednesday

30 April 2014 Iraqi parliamentary election: Iraqi parliamentary election 30 April 2014 - 30 April: Iraqis stream to voting centres nationwide with a long list of grievances, ranging from poor public services to rampant corruption, high unemployment, and a deterioration in security - 30 April: Around 60 percent turnout in Iraq election, commission says

July 2014: 1 July: Iraqi parliament session collapses amid political standoff - 2 July: Control of rivers and dams reportedly has become a major tactical weapon for Isis and water supply one key to outcome of conflicts in Iraq and Syria - 8 July: Iraq’s new parliament postponed its next session for five weeks, extending the country’s political paralysis in the face of Sunni Islamist aggression - 10 July: Kurdish ministers boycott Iraqi cabinet meetings in response to prime minister Nouri al-Maliki's branding of Kurdish capital Irbil as haven for Isis militants - 16 July: Iraq's parliament elects new speaker al-Jabouri as Iraqi forces withdraw from Tikrit after heavy resistance - 25 July: USA congratulates Iraq on electing new president Fuad Masum, urging him to form a 'cohesive government' to help fight Islamic militants

August 2014: 10 August: Iraq parliament adjourns for 9 days with lawmakers unable to agree on a nominee for the post of PM - 11 August: USA stresses support for Iraq president after embattled PM al-Maliki accused him of violating the constitution and fears of coup in Baghdad - 12 August: Coalition of Shia parties nominate Haider al-Abadi to replace defiant Maliki as PM in bid to end Baghdad deadlock - 15 August: Iraq PM al-Maliki steps aside

December 2014: 1/2 December: After Iraqi government investigation has found 50,000 'ghost soldiers' on army payroll, Iraq PM sacks 24 senior officials announcing to tackle corruption

2015: 9 August 2015: In the face of mass protests against power cuts, corruption and bad government, Iraq’s cabinet approves wide-ranging reform plan that would abolish the three vice-presidential posts as well as the office of deputy PM in order to slash spending and improve its performance - 17 August: Iraq's parliament endorses a report calling for the trial of former PM Nuri al-Maliki and dozens of other top officials in connection with the fall of the northern city of Mosul to 'Islamic State' terrorists last year

2016: 16 April 2016: Iraqi government is teetering on the edge of collapse as PM Abadi tries to reshuffle his cabinet and rid the country of corruption, while members of Parliament continue to protest his efforts to appoint new leaders, calling for his ousting, and while Shiite clerics are pressuring Abadi to press forward with his reform movement - 30 April 2016: State of emergency declared in Baghdad after supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who demands to end corruption and political and sectarian quotas, stormed the Green Zone and entered the parliament building - 6 July 2016: Iraq’s interior minister Ghabban has resigned saying a deputy would take over his responsibilities, a few days after the deadliest of many car bombings in Baghdad since the Iraq war

Social movements and protests in Iraq: Protests in Iraq - 2011 Iraqi protests - 2012–14 Iraqi protests concerning corruption, unemployment, poor national security, poor public services, marginalization of Sunnis, unfair treatment of prisoners, poor salaries of Sahwa militia, abuse of De-Baathification laws, Iranian interference in Iraqi affairs

2011: 9 April 2011: Tens of thousands in Baghdad calling for an end to USA-presence - 26. Mai 2011: Zehntausende protestieren in Baghdad gegen die USA - 9 September 2011: Iraqis mourn murdered radio journalist Hadi al-Mehdi amid protests

2012: 22 January 2012: Iraq government abusing protesters and harassing journalists criticised by rights report - 19. März 2012: Bis zu einer Million Demonstranten und Anhänger von Moktada as-Sadr werfen Ministerpräsident Nuri al-Maliki Versagen bei der Bekämpfung der Armut vor - 26 December: Tens of thousands of protesters gather in Anbar province to denounce allegedly sectarian policies of PM Nouri al-Maliki - 28 December: In Anbar province tens of thousands of protesters in fresh rallies against the al-Maliki government - 30 December: Iraq protesters clash with official's guards in Ramadi

2013: 4 January: Tens of thousands of Sunni Muslims in Iraq have been staging anti-government protests in Baghdad and other cities - 11 January: Tens of thousands of people continue to protest in numerous cities, including Ramadi, Samara and Mosul - 26 January: Amid heightened tensions after troops killed seven anti-government protesters on Friday gunmen killed two soldiers and kidnapped three others in a series of shootings in Fallujah - 26 January: Thousands of mourners gathered in the Iraqi city of Fallujah on Saturday at the funerals of Sunni protesters killed by army troops a day earlier - 1/2 February: Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis protesting against alleged discrimination and PM Nuri al-Maliki in new rallies in Sunni-majority parts of the country - 22 February: Anti-al-Qaeda fighters targeted near Baghdad as fresh demonstrations are held against Maliki's Shia-led government - 24 April: After Iraqi forces raided a Sunni protest camp and deadly clashes between security forces and protesters in a wave of revenge attacks, gunmen seized control of Sulaiman Bek north of Baghdad - 31 August: Thousands of protesters in and around Baghdad and south Iraq angrily railed against lawmakers' lavish benefits

2014: 8 March 2014: Iraqi women protest bill permitting marriage of girls aged 9

2015: 8 February 2015: Baghdad residents are relieved following the end of their city's curfew after a decade - 1 August 2015: Several hundred Iraqis took to the streets of Baghdad to vent their anger at the electricity shortages, which they blamed on government corruption 12 years after Iraq's infrastructure was severely damaged during the 2003 USA-led invasion and chronic power shortages ever since - 5 August: Iraqis complain of poor government services as heat rises - 8 August: Thousands of demonstrators turned out on Friday in Baghdad and southern Iraq to protest against rampant corruption and abysmal electricity services, calling for officials to be held to account

2016: 26 April 2016: Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Baghdad to protest at a months-long political crisis and lack of reform - 21 May 2016: At least four anti-government protesters have been killed and 90 injured as police forces ejected them from Baghdad’s heavily fortified green zone, according to medical sources

2017: 11 février 2017: Les forces de sécurité irakiennes ont utilisé des gaz lacrymogènes contre plusieurs milliers de partisans du religieux chiite Moktada al Sadr qui manifestaient à Bagdad, les heurts ont fait au moins sept morts

Iraqi society, culture, religion and human rights in Iraq: Iraqi society

Governorates and districts of Iraq: Governorates (provinces) of Iraq - Districts of Iraq

Baghdad Governorate: Baghdad Governorate - City of Baghdad - Neighborhoods of Baghdad - History of Baghdad

2014: 6 May 2014: Iraq faces challenge to find solution for growing slums

2015: 8 February 2015: Baghdad residents are relieved following the end of their city's curfew after a decade - 21 February 2015: Baghdad’s first female mayor Zekra Alwach to take reins - 11 November 2015: Baghdad's slums, fertile recruiting ground for political parties

Al Anbar Governorate: Al Anbar Governorate, geographically the largest Iraqi governorate Population of Al Anbar- 2015 Al-Karmah offensive

2015: 13 August 2015: Iraq's Anbar governor announces to implement a package of reforms as part of PM's campaign to combat corruption and end sectarian and party quotas for government positions

Demographics and minorities in Iraq: Demographics of Iraq - Ethnic groups in Iraq - Minorities in Iraq

Arabs in Iraq: Arabs in Iraq - Arabs have been the majority in Mesopotamia since the Sasanian Empire 224-637, from the eighth century following the Muslim conquest of Persia Arabic became the dominant language of Iraqi Muslims

Assyrians in Iraq: Assyrians in Iraq or Iraqi-Assyrians are an ethnoreligious and linguistic minority in present-day Iraq with significant populations in Baghdad, Dohuk and Nineveh Governorates - History of the Assyrian people - Assyrian homeland

Jews in modern Iraq: History of the Jews in modern Iraq

Kurds in Iraq: Kurds in Iraq, the largest ethnic minority in Iraq, comprising between 15% and 20% of the country's population, as Sunni Islam became the dominant religion of the Kurdish people Kurds made sure to keep spiritual identity separate from national identity and today many Muslim Kurds do not consider themselves particularly religious but secondary practices of Islam have a stronghold in Kurdish culture - History of the Kurdish people - Iraqi Kurdistan - Disputed territories of Northern Iraq

2016: 8 September 2016: Iranian Kurdish rebel group Kurdistan Freedom Party received military training in weapons and explosives from USA and European advisers as part of the international program backing Kurds in the war against Islamic State terrorists in Iraq

2017: September 2017 Iraqi Kurdistan independence referendum, scheduled to be held on 25 September 2017

Palestinians in Iraq: Palestinians in Iraq, most of whom have been residing in Iraq after they were expelled from their homeland in 1948, before 2003, there were approximately 34,000 mainly concentrated in Baghdad, however, since the 2003 Iraq war, the figure lies between 10,000 - 13,000

Iraqi Turkmens: Iraqi Turkmens are a Turkic ethnic group, mainly residing in northern Iraq, and the third largest ethnic group in Iraq after Arabs and Kurds

Yazidis: Yazidis are an ethnically Kurdish religious community indigenous to northern Mesopotamia

2016: 17 September 2016: Yazidi Nadia Murad Basee Taha, who survived rape and abuse as a sex slave of Islamic State terrorists, became a UN goodwill ambassador for the dignity of survivors of human trafficking, calling for justice for the victims of the terrorists and argued that the 2014 attack on the Yazidis should be recognised as a genocide

Religion in Iraq: Religion in Iraq - Freedom of religion in Iraq

Shia–Sunni relations in modern Iraq: Shia–Sunni relations in modern Iraq

June 2017: 22 June 2017: In another devastating blow to Iraq’s heritage, Islamic State terrorists blows up Mosul’s iconic leaning minaret and the adjacent mosque, that had stood for over 840 years, and where al-Baghdadi in 2014 declared himself 'caliph', as Iraqi PM said that the destruction of the Grand Nouri mosque is an admission by the militants that they are losing the fight for the country’s second-largest city

History of the Jews in Iraq: History of the Jews in Iraq - Talmudic Academies in Babylonia - History of the Jews in modern Iraq

Human rights in Iraq: Human rights in post-invasion Iraq - Human rights in Iraq - Law of Iraq

Culture and languages of Iraq: Culture of Iraq - History of Mesopotamia - Architecture of Mesopotamia - Languages of Iraq - Modern Standard Arabic - Kurdish languages - Syriac language - Armenian language - Neo-Aramaic languages

Mesopotamian Arabic

Women in Iraq: Women in Iraq - Women's rights - Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq

2014: 6 February 2014: Iraqi security forces are detaining thousands of women illegally and subjecting them to torture and abuse, Human Rights Watch says - 8 March 2014: Iraqi women protest bill permitting marriage of girls aged 9

Children in Iraq:

2016: 30 June 2016: 3.6 million children in Iraq face risks of death, injury, sexual violence and recruitment, and a third of all Iraqi children need humanitarian aid, with conditions only getting worse following ongoing conflicts, Unicef says

2017: 5 July 2017: Years of living under Islamic State has left the children of Mosul with such dangerous levels of psychological damage they are unable to show emotion or play and are haunted by waking nightmares, according to 'Save the Children', based on discussions with children who had escaped to the Hammam al-Alil camp for displaced persons

Youth in Iraq: Youth in Iraq, Iraqis between 15–24 years old represent 19.6% of Iraq’s population of 32 million, the population continues to rise, but the youth population have experienced poor health from the effects of both malnutrition and poverty and securing employment is difficult for youth in Iraq

2014: 22 October 2014: Youth make up a major part of Iraq's population and almost 1 million of them aged 15-24 are registered as unemployed, Unesco says

Education in Iraq: Education in Iraq

Schools in Iraq: List of schools in Iraq

2017: 29 July 2017: Schoolgirls in Iraq’s Mosul aim to catch up on lost years after years of war, IS rule and despite difficult conditions

Universities in Iraq: Universities in Iraq

Violence against academics in post-invasion Iraq: Violence against academics in post-invasion Iraq since 2003

Health in Iraq: Health in Iraq

Water supply, quality and sanitation in Iraq: Water supply and sanitation in Iraq

2007 Iraq cholera outbreak: 2007 Iraq cholera outbreak

Healthcare in Iraq: Healthcare in Iraq - Childbirth in Iraq

List of hospitals in Iraq - Medical education in Iraq

Media of Iraq: Media of Iraq - Media coverage of the Iraq War - Newspapers in Iraq - TV in Iraq - 28 April 2013: Iraqi authorities announced that they had revoked the operating licenses of pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera and nine other satellite TV channels, alleging that they are promoting a sectarian agenda as the country grapples with a wave of violence - 24 October 2013: Iraqi journalist Bashar Abdulqader killed in Mosul

Internet in Iraq: Internet in Iraq

Crime in Iraq: Crime in Iraq - War crimes in Iraq - Religiously motivated violence in Iraq

Terrorism in Iraq: Terrorism in Iraq - Terrorist incidents in Iraq by year

Since 2004: Chlorine bombings in Iraq began as early as October 2004, when terrorists in Al Anbar province started using chlorine gas in conjunction with conventional vehicle-borne explosive devices

2013: 2 June 2013: A suspected al Qaeda cell captured that planned to produce chemical poisons such as mustard gas, government says

Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2016: Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2016

2017: Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2017

'Islamic State' terrorists: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - Timeline of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant events in 2014 - 2014 ISIL beheading incidents

2014: 25 September 2014: ISIS kill lawyer Samira Salih al-Nuaimi for 'apostasy' when she criticised them on Facebook for being religious bigots - 4 October 2014: Isis video shows murder of British hostage Alan Henning, who had gone to Syria to help victims of conflict by joining an aid convoy and was taken captive on December 26

2015: 18 February 2015: Iraq accuses Islamic State of harvesting organs, demanding UN investigation into reports of bodies with surgical incisions found in mass graves - 8 March 2015: Nigeria's Boko Haram reportedly pledges allegiance to '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 - 8 décembre 2015: Le nombre de combattants djihadistes présents en Syrie et en Irak, originaires de 86 pays différents, a plus que doublé en un an et demi pour atteindre au moins 27'000, selon un Soufan Group rapport

2016: 18 avril 2016: Les revenus de l'EI ont chuté de 30% en 9 mois

May 2016: 17 May 2016 Baghdad bombings, killing at least 101 people and injuring 194

July 2016: On 3 July 2016, coordinated IS bomb attacks were carried out in Baghdad, resulting in mass civilian casualties

14 July 2016: 'Islamic State' terrorist group admits 'minister for war' Omar the Chechen is dead

2017: Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2017 - 16 February 2017: 51 people killed in Islamic State's car bombing in Shi'ite area, a crowded street full of garages and used car dealers, of Baghdad

Persecution of Yazidis and Assyrians by the 'Islamic State': Persecution of Yazidis by Islamic State - Persecution of Assyrians by the Islamic State

2014: 22 October 2014: UN's Ivan Simonovic says evidence strongly indicates that the Islamic State's assault on Yazidis is 'an attempt to commit genocide' - 23 December 2014: Yazidi women and girls tortured, raped, sold into sexual slavery under 'Islamic State' control, report says

Destruction of cultural heritage by 'Islamic State' terrorists: Destruction of cultural heritage by Islamic State terrorists

Capital punishment in Iraq: Capital punishment in Iraq - 7 October 2012: Bringing the number of executions this year to at least 113, Iraq executes 11 people despite international outcry - 27 March 2013: Iraq executed 18 people this month, despite global condemnation over its ongoing executions - 16 April: Iraq executes 21 in one day on 'terror' charges

Torture in Iraq: Torture in Iraq - 6 March 2013: Dozens of families in Fallujah say their relatives sentenced to hang on anti-terrorism charges have been tortured - 1 June 2013: Britain must investigate torture in Iraq, Afghanistan, UN says

Corruption in Iraq: Corruption in Iraq

2014: 6 September 2014: Corruption remains a salient feature of the political and economic landscape of Iraq and poses and threatens its full economic and social development, USA's office says - 12 October 2014: More than $1bn earmarked for the reconstruction of Iraq was stolen and spirited to a bunker in Lebanon as the USA and Iraqi governments ignored appeals to recover the money, investigator Stuart Bowen says

2016: 3 April 2016: Iraq to investigate claims Of Unaoil corruption against top officials including former oil minister Hussein al-Shahristani

Human trafficking in Iraq: Human trafficking in Iraq

Law and law enforcement in Iraq: Law of Iraq - the Republic of Iraq's legal system is in a period of transition following the 2003 invasion - Legal history of Iraq - Constitution of Iraq, the current constitution was drafted and approved in 2005 - October 2005 Iraqi constitutional referendum - Amendment to the Constitution of Iraq - the government of Iraq has established a committee to consider a proposed amendment - Federalism in Iraq

Judiciary of Iraq: Judiciary of Iraq - Supreme Court of Iraq

Law enforcement in Iraq: Law enforcement in Iraq

Iraqi Police - Facilities Protection Service - Iraqi Intelligence Service

Refugees of Iraq: Throughout the past 30 years, there have been a growing number of refugees of Iraq due to war or persecution - Homelessness in Iraq - Iraqi diaspora - Iraqis in Jordan - Iraqis in Lebanon - Iraqis in Syria - Iraqis in Turkey - Iraqi diaspora in Europe

2007: 27 October 2007: Homeless in Iraq, the country's growing insecurity is illustrated by the number of people fleeing their homes

2014: 2014 UNHCR's Iraq operations profile - 22 June 2014: Displaced by ISIS militants, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis seek shelter

Iraqi Kurdistan: Iraqi Kurdistan - Geography - Kurdish population - Demographics - Kurdish language - Kurdish culture

Iraqi–Kurdish conflict 1918-2003, disputed territories and regional government: Iraqi–Kurdish conflict 1918-2003 - 16 March 1988 Halabja poison gas attack, genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people

Disputed territories of Northern Iraq - Kurdistan Regional Government

Peshmerga: Peshmerga, the military forces of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan

Economy of Iraqi Kurdistan: Economy of Iraqi Kurdistan - main industries include petroleum, petroleum refining, natural gas, hydrocarbons, construction materials, light weapons and small arms and ammunition, electrical equipment, auto assembly, radio equipment, pharmaceuticals, textiles, clothing and footwear, food processing

Kirkuk–Ceyhan Oil Pipeline: Kirkuk–Ceyhan Oil Pipeline

2015 Financial and economic crisis in the Kurdistan region: 2015 Financial and economic crisis in the Kurdistan region

2015: 4 December 2015: Iraqi Kurdistan's cash crisis hits banks

Iraqi Kurdistan society, politics and human rights: Iraqi society - Human rights in Iraqi Kurdistan

Elections and politics in Iraqi Kurdistan: Iraqi Kurdistan legislative election 25 July 2009

Iraqi Kurdistan legislative election 21 September 2013 - 21 September 2013: Iraq's Kurds vote amid rows, regional tensions - 28 September: Iraq president's party falls to third in Kurdish polls, with 95 percent of votes counted the KDP was first with 719,004 votes, the opposition Goran movement second with 446,095, and the PUK third with 323,867

2012/2013: 28 July 2012: Kurd leader Massoud Barzani warns against budget cuts by Iraq - 10 January 2013: Syrian Kurds find refuge in northern Iraq - camp Domiz is home to about 30.000 Syrian Kurds who are allowed to move freely and work in the region - 14 mai: Les premiers rebelles du PKK arrivent en Irak après leur retrait de Turquie - 11 June 2013: More than 1,000 Kurdish career soldiers in the Iraqi army have deserted and want to be integrated into the Kurdish former rebel peshmerga militia - 26 June 2013: A Kurdish bloc won the most seats in one of two provinces that held delayed elections last week, surprisingly beating out the governor's Sunni Arab party - 28 July: A suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into a Kurdish security patrol in northern city of Tuz Khormato killing eight people and wounding five more - 18 août 2013: Des milliers de Kurdes syriens affluent dans la région autonome du Kurdistan irakien en quête d'un peu de répit, loin des privations et des combats contre les jihadistes

2014/2015: 4 July 2014: With large parts of Iraq in militant hands, Iraqi Kurdistan's Barzani calls for independence referendum - 1 August 2015: Iraq's Kurdistan laments caught in middle of Turkey-PKK fight, calling for both sides to return to a ceasefire - 1 August 2015: Kurdish regional government, desiring to protect civilians from Turkish airstrikes, demands withdrawal of PKK

2016: 22 January 2016: The president of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish north Massoud Barzani calls on global leaders to acknowledge that the Sykes-Picot pact that led to the boundaries of the modern Middle East has failed, and urges them to broker a new deal paving the way for a Kurdish state - 17 March 2016: A delegation of Iraqi Kurds will visit Moscow in April to discuss Russian regime's weapons supplies, according to Iraqi Kurd representation office in Russia

2017: September 2017 Iraqi Kurdistan independence referendum, scheduled to be held on 25 September 2017 - 19 September 2017: Curfew imposed by Iraqi authorities in the northern city of Kirkuk before Kurdish independence vote

Foreign relations of Iraq: Foreign relations of Iraq - External trade of Iraq

Iraq/Arab League relations: Iraq/Arab League relations: 28 March 2012 - Arab League begins key Baghdad summit - water shortages and regional economy top the agenda at 21-nation bloc's first meeting since the Arab Spring uprisings

Iraq/Canada relations: Iraq/Canada relations - 8 March 2015: Canadian soldiers wounded and killed after ignoring an order to stay in their car and showing up at the frontline unannounced, Kurdish peshmerga say

Iraq/PR of China relations: Iraq/PR of China relations - 11 March 2015: China says Muslim Uighurs have gone overseas to fight with Islamic State, which controls sections of Syria and Iraq, and returned to take part in plots at home

Iraq/Egypt relations: Iraq/Egypt relations relations - 31 August 2013: Qaeda in Iraq urges Egyptians to rise against army

Iraq/Iran relations: Iraq/Iran relations - Safavid conversion of Iran to Shia Islam - conversion in Iraq - Iraq/Iran war 1980-1988

2012: 22 août 2012: L’Iran s’appuierait sur l’Irak pour contourner les sanctions internationales

2013: 9 February 2013: Six people including a woman were killed and more than 25 wounded in a rocket attack on Iranian dissident camp in Iraq's capital Baghdad - 10 February: UN condemns attack on Iranian exile camp and demands investigation by Iraqi authorities into deadly attack on dissident base that left at least six dead - 15 June: Two people killed in a mortar attack on Iranian dissident camp in the Iraqi capital - 6 September 2013: US intercepts an order from an Iranian official instructing Shi'ite militants in Iraq to attack US interests in Iraq - 27 December: Rockets struck near Baghdad airport in what an exiled Iran opposition group said was an attack on their camp that left three dead and around 50 wounded

2014-present Iranian intervention in Iraq: Iranian intervention in Iraq (2014–present)

2014: 25 February: Iraq broke UN embargo on Iran by purchasing weapons worth $195 million - 25 June: Gunmen kill three Iranian security guards in an ambush near the Iraqi border - 6 July: Iranian pilot killed fighting against Sunni Muslim militants in Samarra north of Baghdad

2015: 22 September 2015: The eight-year Iraq-Iran war looms large in Iran with 8,000 Iranian soldiers still unaccounted for

2017: 23 July 2017: Iran and Iraq signed an agreement on Sunday to boost cooperation in a host of military fields, including training and logistical, technical and military support

Iraq/Israel relations: Iraq/Israel relations - History of the Jews in Iraq

2014: 21 June 2014: Israel accepts first delivery of disputed oil from Iraqi Kurdistan's pipeline

2017: 25 July 2017: Yazidi survivor of Islamic State captivity Nadia Murad urged the Knesset to recognize the terror organization’s crimes against Iraq’s Yazidi minority as a genocide, and lawmaker Ksenia Svetlova pledged to seek official Israeli recognition through Knesset legislation

Iraq/Japan relations: Iraq/Japan relations - Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto the first Japanese nationals to be held hostage by 'Islamic State' terrorists 2014-2015 - 21 January 2015: Japan's PM Abe rushes home from the Middle East to take charge of response after 'Islamic State' terrorists threatened to kill two nationals unless Japan pays ransom - 25 January: Reported execution of journalist Haruna Yukawa by 'Islamic State' condemned by Japan's PM Abe - 1 February 2015: Japan mourns slain hostage Kenji Goto as caring, courageous reporter remembering him for devotion to world’s refugee camps and orphanages

Iraq/Jordan relations: Iraq/Jordan relations - 22 June 2014: ISIS militants capture Iraqi border crossing with Syria, Jordan - 28 January 2015: Secret talks in Jordan try to secure release of 'Islamic State' hostages - 3 February: 'Islamic State' terrorists burn Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh alive - 4 February: Jordan executes two Iraqi militants in response to 'Islamic State' murder of pilot following Jordan's offer to swap Sajida al-Rishawi for the pilot

Iraq/Kuwait relations: Iraq/Kuwait relations - Rumaila oil field - Invasion of Kuwait 1990/91 - Kuwait–Iraq barrier

Iraq/Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) relations: Member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation

2014: 17 June 2014: Crises and situations in Iraq, Syria, in Central Africa, Libya, Myanmar, Nigeria and Mali on the agenda of the OIC Foreign Ministers Conference, 41st session in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) 18/19 June 2014

Iraq/OPEC relations: OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) membership - OPEC quotas and production of petroleum - World oil reserves - Key oil producing countries and petroleum politics

Iraq/Russia relations: Iraq/Russia relations - 9 October 2012: Iraq's Maliki in Russia for huge arms deal - 11 November: Iraq's defence minister denies reports that $4.2bn arms deal with Russia has been scrapped over corruption fears - 17 October: Iraq receiving arms from Russia under a historic $4.3-billion deal it signed last year but then scrapped amid corruption allegations - 29 June 2014: While USA has begun sending military advisers to Iraq once more and is flying armed drones over Baghdad, Iraq receives Russian jets - 15 April 2015: Israel's PM Netanyahu urges Russia's Putin in vain not to supply Iran with the S-300 missile system, warning it will boost regime’s aggression

Iraq/Saudi-Arabia relations: Iraq/Saudi Arabia relations - Saudi–Iraqi neutral zone since 1922 - Saudi support 1980-1982 for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq war - Battle of Khafji January 1991 - Operation Southern Watch 1992-2003 - Proposed Saudi–Iraq barrier since 2006 - 21 November 2013: Six mortar bombs at Saudi Arabia in an attack by an Iranian-backed Iraqi Shi'ite militia, saying it was warning the kingdom to stop meddling in Iraqi affairs - 3 July 2014: Saudi Arabia deploys 30,000 soldiers to Iraq border after Iraqi soldiers abandoned the area, but Iraq's government says the frontier is remaining under its full control

Iraq/Switzerland relations: Iraq/Switzerland relations - 10 October 2013: Iraq and a Swiss company signed a $6 billion deal for the construction and operation of an oil refinery

Iraq/Syria relations: Iraq/Syria relations - Euphrates river - 12 juillet: L'ambassadeur de Syrie à Bagdad rejoint les rangs de l'opposition - 20 July: Democratic forces seize control of Syria's border crossings with Iraq - 8 September: Mortar rounds or rockets fired from Syria killed a young Iraqi girl and wounded four people in a border town in western Iraq

2013/2014: 23 December 2013: Iraqi crude from Egypt was Assad's secret lifeline in the last nine months, documents reveal - 26 June 2014: Al-Maliki confirms and welcomes Assad airstrikes carried out against ISIS in Iraq

2016: 7 September 2016: Iraqi Shi'ite Militia Sends Over 1,000 Fighters to Aleppo to fight alongside Assad's army, Hezbollah, Iranian forces and other militias against insurgents battling to topple Syrian dictator Assad

Iraq/Turkey relations: Iraq/Turkey relations - Euphrates river - 21 July: Blast shuts down Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline- 10 October: Russia warms up to Iraq with arms deal - don’t drag NATO into Syria, Baghdad warns Ankara - 17 November 2013: Iraqi Kurdish president in Turkey to back PM's peace effort - 11 June 2014: Isis militants kidnap Turkish diplomats after seizing consulate in Mosul - 1 August 2015: Iraqi Kurdistan urges Turkey to halt PKK bombardment - 1 August: Iraq's Barzani condemns Turkish bombing he says killed civilians - 5 December 2015: Iraq tells Turkey to 'immediately' withdraw forces, including tanks and artillery, it has deployed in the country’s north without Iraq’s consent

Iraq/United Kingdom relations: Iraq/United Kingdom relations

1920: Iraqi revolt against the British 1920 - Alleged British use of gas in Mesopotamia 1920 - The 'Guardian' 2003: Our last occupation - Gas, chemicals, bombs: Britain has used them all before in Iraq 1920

1922-1988: RAF Iraq command 1922-1941 - AHQ Iraq command 1941-1955 - Britische Herrschaft und Königreich 1920-1958 - British support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war 1980-1988

British/USA-led Iraq War (2003-2011) and aftermath: Iraq War (2003-2011) - Category: Iraq War since 2003 - Bush and Blair determined to go to war regardless of the facts - memo of the meeting 31 January 2003 - Besetzung des Irak seit 2003 - "Iraq War Logs" (Tagebuch des Irakkriegs) - 104.924 recorded Iraqi deaths including 66.081 civilian deaths until 2009 - 20 October 2012: The families of two soldiers killed in Iraq have been told they can sue the Ministry of Defence for negligence - 21 December: Britain has paid out $22.7m to Iraqis who accused UK troops of illegally detaining and torturing them following the 2003 invasion - 29 January 2013: British troops in Iraq killed civilians including women, the elderly and children and committed 'terrifying acts of brutality', the High Court heard today - 17 March 2013: At least 112,000 civilians were killed in the 10 years since the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq, according to the Britain-based Iraq Body Count group - 1 June 2013: Britain must investigate torture in Iraq, Afghanistan, UN says

2014: 27 February 2014: Iraq commemorates 1920 uprising against British occupation in new museum

13 September 2014: British aid worker David Cawthorne Haines captured by ISIL in 2013 and later executed by beheading on 13 September 2014 - 4 October: Islamic State beheads British man Alan Henning, who had gone to Syria to help victims of conflict by joining an aid convoy and was taken captive on December 26

Iraq/United Nations relations: United Nations Security Council and the Iraq War - 10 February 2013: UN condemns attack on Iranian exile camp and demands investigation by Iraqi authorities into deadly attack on dissident base that left at least six dead - 27 avril 2013: L'ONU appelle à la 'retenue' en Irak après au moins 200 personnes sont mortes ces quatre derniers jours, principalement dans des heurts entre forces de l'ordre et manifestants sunnites hostiles au PM chiite al-Maliki - 12 June 2014: UN official to Iraq briefs Security Council saying there is no immediate threat to Baghdad - 2 July: UN and USA sharply criticised Iraqi leaders, warning time is running out after chaos in parliament despite calls for unity in the face of Isis offensive - 15 August: Iraq PM al-Maliki's decision to step down welcomed by UN's Ban Ki-moon, who urges meeting on nuclear-free Mideast - 20 September 2014: UN urges global support for Iraq to fight terror, reaffirms support for its force in Golan - 24 September: As USA-led coalition's campaign against 'Islamic State' continues in Iraq and Syria, a UN Security Council committee blacklists more than a dozen foreign extremist fighters, fundraisers and recruiters tied to militant groups in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Tunisia and Yemen - 18 October: UN Security Council urges the international community to further strengthen support for the Iraqi government including Security Forces in the fight against Islamic State - 18 February 2015: Accusing Islamic State of harvesting organs, Iraq demands UN investigation into reports of bodies with surgical incisions found in mass graves

Iraq/USA relations: Iraq/USA relations - Category: Iraq War 2003-2011 - 9 mars 2013: Une enquête révèle que la torture était pratiquée en Irak pendant l'occupation américaine et accuse les États-Unis d’avoir couvert des actes de torture - 31 octobre 2013: Le Premier ministre irakien Nouri al-Maliki, en visite aux Etats-Unis, réclame une "troisième guerre mondiale" contre le "virus" Al-Qaïda

United States/Bradley Manning trial since 3 June 2013: 2013 United States v. Bradley Manning - July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike - release of 39 minutes of classified cockpit gunsight footage in 2010

2014: 17 June 2014: Despite Obama's vow, USA to deploy 275 military personnel in Iraq - 29 June 2014: While USA has begun sending military advisers to Iraq once more and is flying armed drones over Baghdad, Iraq receives Russian jets - 27 September: USA-led coalition forces hit IS oil targets seeking to destroy the jihadists’ business as Britain, Belgium and Denmark promise warplanes to join the USA-led air armada battering IS targets in Iraq and as Turkey's Erdogan signals more active role in anti-IS fight, calling for no-fly zone over Syria

October 2014: 22 October 2014: After seven years four Blackwater employees were tried and convicted in USA federal court, one of murder and the other three of manslaughter of a group of unarmed civilians at a crowded Baghdad traffic junction in September 2007

2015: 12 April 2015: Iraq's prime minister to seek billions in military aid and modern USA arms with deferred payment, after Islamic State terrorists took equipment in 2014

Environment of Iraq: Environment of Iraq

Climate of Iraq: The climate of Iraq, mainly a hot desert climate or a hot semi-arid climate to the northernmost part, averages high temperatures are generally above 40°C during summer months while averages low temperatures can drop to below 0°C during winter, most of the rainfall occurs from December through April and averages between 100 and 180 millimeters annually

Water in Iraq: Water in Iraq - List of rivers of Iraq - Dams in Iraq

Environmental issues in Iraq: Environmental issues in Iraq

Natural disasters in Iraq - heatwaves, droughts, flooding:

2012/2013: 29 December 2012: Iraq sees worst flooding in years - residents blame corruption and political infighting for poor civic amenities as Baghdad is inundated with water - 12 February 2013: A large loss of fresh water reserves in the Tigris and Euphrates river basins since 2003 detected - 17 February 2013: NASA images reveal Middle East water woes - vanishing rivers and increase in well drilling cause drastic loss of region's freshwater resources - 20 novembre 2013: Des inondations ont fait onze morts en Irak dans les régions de Bagdad, Nassiriyah, Diwaniyah et Hilla

2015: 4 August 2015: Middle East swelters in heatwave as temperatures top 50C - 2 November 2015: Iraq's government declared an emergency in areas overwhelmed by heavy rain that has caused widespread flooding and multiple deaths

2016: 22 July 2016: Middle East locations Mitribah in Kuwait and Basra in Iraq hit 129 degrees, hottest ever in Eastern Hemisphere

2017: 10 August 2017: While Europe does battle with a heatwave named Lucifer, the Middle East is enduring a summer so brutal that even those accustomed to Baghdad’s searing August are labelling it 'ungodly', reaching 48C or higher since weekes

Israel - Geography of Israel - History of Israel - Demographics of Israel

Economy of Israel: Economy of Israel - main industries are high-technology products (including aviation, communications, telecommunications equipment, computer hardware and software, computer-aided design and manufacturing, medical electronics, fiber optics), pharmaceuticals, potash and phosphates, metals products, chemical products, plastics, diamond cutting, petroleum refining, textiles - List of companies of Israel - Companies of Israel by industry

Manufacturing companies of Israel: Manufacturing companies of Israel

Energy in Israel: Energy in Israel - Power companies of Israel

Solar energy in Israel: Solar energy companies of Israel - Arava Power Company since 2006 - Enlight Renewable Energy since 2008 - GreenSun Energy since 2009

30 March 2015: Knesset unveils solar field on roof producing up to 1/3 of parliament’s power

Oil and gas companies of Israel: Oil and gas companies of Israel - 30 March 2013: Israel begins gas delivery from offshore Tamar field

Grand Technion Energy Program: Grand Technion Energy Program since 2007

High tech companies in Israel: High tech companies

Israel Aerospace Industries: Israel Aerospace Industries

Science and technology in Israel: Science and technology in Israel - Israel National Museum of Science, Technology, and Space in Haifa

2014: 31 January 2014: Israel plans to land an unmanned spacecraft on the moon as early as 2016

2017: 2 August 2017; Israel launches first environmental research satellite Venµs in a joint venture between ISA and its French counterpart CNES, to obtain high-resolution photographs of specific sites to track environmental issues such as desertification, erosion, pollution, natural disasters, and other phenomena linked to climate change

Defense industry of Israel: Defense industry of Israel - Elbit Systems Ltd. Israel-based international defense electronics company engaged in a wide range of programs throughout the world, founded 1996 - Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. producing aerial systems for both military and civilian usage and wholly owned by the government of Israel, founded 1953 - Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. develops and produces weapons, military, and defense technologies for the IDF and for export abroad, founded 1948 - Israel Military Industries Ltd. manufactures firearms, ammunition and military technology mainly for Israeli security forces, in Ramat HaSharon and founded 1933

2015: 24 May 2015: Weapons industry exports to Africa up 40% in 2014 compared to 2013, sales worldwide drop by nearly $1 billion, Asian and Pacific countries acquired Israeli military technology and arms worth $3 billion in 2014

Agriculture in Israel: Agriculture in Israel - crops grown in the country include wheat, sorghum, corn, vegetables include tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, zucchini, fruit include citrus, avocados, kiwifruit, guavas, mangoes, grapes, melons, bananas, dates, apples, pears, cherries, furthermore, grape vineyards are found across the country - Israeli wine industry - Kibbutz

2016: 24 April 2016: Nearly half of Israel's farmland threatened by over-processing and climate change

Irrigation in Israel: Irrigation in Israel

Agricultural research in Israel: Agricultural research in Israel

Israel Land Administration and Authority: Israel Land Administration, an Israeli government authority responsible for managing land in Israel which is in the public domain, it manages 93% of the land in the country - Israel Land Authority, created as a part of a reform in Israel to replace the Israel Land Administration - Jewish National Fund - Israeli land and property laws

Forests in Israel: Forests of contemporary Israel are mainly the result of a massive afforestation campaign by the Jewish National Fund

Fishing in Israel: Fishing in Israel

Water in Israel: Water in Israel - Bodies of water of Israel

Rivers of Israel: Rivers of Israel - The Kishon River flows into the Mediterranean Sea near the city of Haifa - The Yarkon River flows west through Gush Dan and Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park into the Mediterranean Sea

Jordan River, Sea of Galilee and Dead Sea: The Jordan River, a 251-kilometre long river is an important water resource for Israel and, to a much lesser extent, for Jordan, flowing to the Dead Sea - Sea of Galilee, a freshwater lake in Israel partly fed by underground springs although its main source is the Jordan River which flows through it from north to south - Water politics in the Jordan River basin - Jordan Valley - Jordan Rift Valley - Water politics in the Jordan River basin - Israeli–Palestinian Joint Water Committee

Water supply and sanitation in Israel: Water supply and sanitation in Israel - National Water Carrier of Israel - Israel's water economy and 'Water Authority', the government's executive branch in charge of Israel's water economy

1964-1967: 1964-1967 'Battle over Water' refers to a series of confrontations between Israel and its Arab neighbors over control of water sources in the Jordan River drainage basin, contributing to the June 1967 Six-Day War

2015: 29 August 2015: Israel and the Palestinian territories are projected to be among the countries most prone to acute water shortages and resultant conflict in the coming decades, according to a new report

2016: 6 September 2016: Israel's water crisis isn’t over, as Dead Sea, Lake Kinneret and aquifer levels are all down and continued drought, over-pumping and the needs of a growing population are playing havoc with the country’s ecology

2017: 4 June 2017: Water flow into Sea of Galilee at lowest level in a century, as with ongoing drought more water has evaporated than entered the Kinneret, leading to rising salinity rates, says Water Authority

Transport in Israel: Transport in Israel - Roads in Israel - Bus service - Rail transport in Israel

Ports and harbors in Israel: Ports and harbors in Israel - Port of Haifa - Port of Ashdod - Port of Eilat

Air transport in Israel: Air transport in Israel - Aviation in Israel - Israeli airports - Ben Gurion Airport

July 2014: Airlines stop flights after a Hamas rocket landed about a mile from Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport 22 July 2014

Tourism in Israel: Tourism in Israel - National parks and nature reserves of Israel - World Heritage Sites in Israel - Jerusalem old city - Archaeology of Israel - Masada

2014: 22 July 2014: The fighting with Hamas in Gaza is badly slowing the flow of foreign tourists into Israel, but Israelis, it turns out, have decided to wait out the turmoil

External trade of Israel: External trade of Israel

2012/2013: 6 March 2012: Asia - main markets India and China - overtakes USA as target market for Israeli exports, as EU remains primary market for Israeli goods - 2012/2013 Israel-USA trade facts - 28 March 2013: The Israeli and the Palestinian national committees of the ICC signed an agreement to establish a center for arbitration between Palestinian and Israeli businesses, as the commerce between Israel and the Palestinians is about $20 billion annually

Banking in Israel: Banking in Israel - Banks of Israel

Financial services in Israel: Financial services in Israel - Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

Binary options trading in Israel: Binary options trading in Israel - binary options comprises 63%, or $1.25 billion, of Israel's $2 billion securities and derivatives industry, which contributed 0.7% of the country's gross domestic product during 2016

2016: 23 March 2016: An industry turning over hundreds of millions of dollars, employing thousands of people, is cynically cheating naive would-be investors worldwide via a range of corrupt practices, doing terrible harm to its victims, the 'Times of Israel' reports

June 2017: 18 June 2017: The Israeli cabinet approved a bill to ban the entire binary options industry, a multi-billion dollar, widely fraudulent, Israel-based enterprise, whose activities have been exposed in a series of articles by the 'Times of Israel' since March 2016

Business cycles: 1983 Israel bank stock crisis - 1985 Israel Economic Stabilization Plan

2014: 9 July 2014: After June kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers and ongoing heavy Hamas rocket fire into Israel, business in Israel's south hurting, workers, shoppers stay home, factories cut back production, malls are empty and tourists cancel hotel reservations - 15 July: Israeli retailing dropped in first week of Protective Edge, decline in number of Israeli Arabs shopping in Jewish-area malls - 15 July: Government says fighting is costing Israel $32.1 million a day at present, but Finance Minister Lapid says Israel can cover costs of extended conflict in Gaza - 16 July: Hamas rocket attacks finally slam into Israeli business as the impact now is being felt in all sectors, from tourism to farming

Taxation in Israel: Taxation in Israel

Standard of living in Israel: Standard of living in Israel - 8 December 2013: Israel poverty high despite strong economy, OECD says

Israel Defense Forces: Israel Defense Forces - History of the Israel Defense Forces - Structure and internal organization of the Israel Army - Military units and formations of Israel - Military Intelligence Directorate - Military equipment of Israel

2015: 13 February 2015: Even after four decades of a declining defense burden, Israel spends more on arms relative to the size of its economy and population than any of 11 major world economies - 21 November 2015: Israel has 115 nuclear warheads, USA research institute says

Israeli Air Force and defense missile systems: Israeli Air Force - Israel Air Forces equipment

Air defense missile systems - Iron Dome

2012: 26 November 2012: A new Israeli air shield against rockets more powerful than those intercepted by Iron Dome in the Gaza conflict passed its first field test

Conscription in Israel, reserve duty and women in the Israel Defense Forces: Conscription in Israel - Reserve duty - Women in the Israel Defense Forces

Israeli military personnel: Israeli military personnel

2017: 30 March 2017: The family of Yosef Avrahami, one of two IDF soldiers murdered in a lynching in Ramallah 17 years ago, said that it was not informed by either the military or the government that one of the culprits was released after reaching a plea deal in a retrial

Members of the Israel Defense Forces who are missing in action: Members of the Israel Defense Forces who are missing in action

2006-2011: Gilad Shalit captured by Hamas militants in a cross-border raid via underground tunnels near the Israeli border on 25 June 2006, held captive for over five years, until his release on 18 October 2011 in exchange for 1,027 Palestinians as part of a prisoner exchange deal

Exemption from military service in Israel: Exemption from military service in Israel

2014: 2 March 2014: Ultra-Orthodox Haredim protest at law ending Israeli military exemption

Refusal to serve in the IDF: Refusal to serve in the IDF

Israeli security forces: Israeli security forces

Israeli Intelligence Community: Israeli Intelligence Community - Mossad - On 11 May 1960 Adolf Eichmann abducted, smuggled to Israel and tried

Foreign relations of Israel: Foreign relations of Israel - International recognition of Israel

Jewish population by country: Jewish population by country following the Roman destruction of Judea in 66–136 CE, resulting in the Jewish diaspora

2015: 28 June 2015: The world’s Jewish population has grown to be nearly as large (16.5 million) as it was on the eve of the second world war before the Holocaust, Jewish People Policy Institute says in its annual report

Immigration to Israel: Immigration to Israel - Aliyah - the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to the land of Israel - The 'One Million Plan' was an official policy formulated by David Ben-Gurion in 1943–44 to bring one million Jews from Europe, North Africa and the Middle East to Mandatory Palestine in order to establish a state in the territory - Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries - Palestinian migration to Israel - 1990s Post-Soviet aliyah

2014: 22 September 2014: Immigration to Israel figures hit five-year high up 28% from last year primarily due to an influx from France and Ukraine

Israel/Africa relations: Israel/Africa relations - African diaspora in Israel - Illegal immigration from Africa to Israel

2013-2015: 16 December 2013: African migrants flee new Holot detention center, as hundreds of demonstrators, prevented from boarding buses to Jerusalem, begin walk to capital to protest their detention - 19 December 2014: African migrants speak out about life in Israel's detention centres still open, after in September the supreme court ruled that Holot detention centre should close within 90 days - 25 July 2015: Several weeks after his release from Holot detention facility, Sudanese asylum seeker Mutasim Ali is still not sure why he was freed but his 1,700 peers remain incarcerated

2016: 6 March 2016: 'Innovation Africa', the Israeli organization led by Israeli women and employing Israeli technologies, has brought solar energy, improved irrigation and cleaner water to as many as 1 million people to better the lives of rural villagers in Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa and elsewhere

Israel/Algeria relations: Israel/Algeria relations

Israel/Armenia relations: Israel/Armenia relations - 22 April 2015: Israel sends delegation to Armenian genocide ceremony over the weekend, marking the remembrance of the mass murder of Armenians by Turkish forces during World War I

Israel/Australia relations: Israel/Australia relations - 13 février 2013: Le suicide d'un Australien présenté comme un agent du Mossad qui était détenu dans le plus secret en Israël selon une télévision australienne confirmé par Israel sans révéler son identité ni les charges pesant contre lui

Israel/Belgium relations: Israel/Belgium relations - May 2014 Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting - 25 May: An Israeli couple and two museum workers killed in the terror attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels - 25 May: Israel's Netanyahu offers to aid Belgium probe of Jewish Museum attack

Israel/Brazil relations: Israel/Brazil relations

Israel/Bulgaria relations: Israel/Bulgaria relations - 18 juillet: Explosion mortelle d'un bus transportant des touristes israéliens vers l'aéroport bulgare de Bourgas - 21 July: Police struggle to identify Bulgaria bomber, who was 'not a Bulgarian citizen' - 5 February 2013: Bulgaria blames Hezbollah for bombing that killed five Israelis, in a move that may open way for EU to join in branding Iranian-backed Hezbollah a terrorist organization

Israel/Canada relations: Israel/Canada relations

Israel/China relations: Israel/China relations

Israel/Egypt relations: Israel/Egypt relations - 20 August 2011: Israel apologises to Egypt for killing troops after Cairo threatened to withdraw its ambassador and protests in the city - 10. September 2011: Demonstranten stürmen israelische Botschaft in Kairo - 24. Oktober 2011: Auch Israel und Ägypten vereinbaren Gefangenenaustausch

2012: 22 April 2012: Egypt terminates gas deal with Israel - 18 June: An Israeli civilian and at least one militant have been killed in an exchange of fire near the southern border with Egypt, officials said - 6 August: The Israeli army has found the bodies of five gunmen who attacked a checkpoint on the border with Egypt, killing 16 Egyptian policemen - 21 September 2012: One Israeli soldier and three armed men killed in clashes along the Israel-Egypt border

2013: 10 August: An Israeli drone strike killed five suspected Islamic militants and destroyed a rocket launcher in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula

Rocket attacks on Eilat and Aqaba 2005-2014 - 17 April 2013: Islamist militants in Sinai claim responsibility for a rocket attack on the Israeli Red Sea resort of Eilat on Wednesday - 13 August: Iron Dome battery successfully intercepts rocket targeting Eilat - 31 January 2014: Iron Dome intercepts rocket over Eilat

2015: 19 March 2015: Israel to sell $1.2 billion of natural gas to private customers in Egypt - 30/31 August: Egypt gas find could shake up Israel's energy plans

Israel/European Union relations: Israel/European Union relations - 27 March 2012: Two EU ambassadors called to foreign ministry over their support for UN inquiry into impact of West Bank settlements - 3 December: UK, France and Sweden have summoned Israeli ambassadors over the plan to build 3.000 more homes on Palestinian land - 27 février 2013: L'Union européenne condamne la colonisation israélienne à Jérusalem-Est occupé et annexé - 16 July 2013: Israel condemns EU exclusion rules over settlements - 26 novembre: Accord UE-Israël sur la coopération scientifique - 13 February 2014: Knesset walkout during speech of EU Parliament chief Schulz and comments about Palestinians of this German SPD-politician, accused of selective hearing and 'false' claims - 9 March 2014: EU's Catherine Ashton, on visit in Tehran and meeting Rohani and Zarif, told by Israel's Netanyahu to ask Iran about its Gaza-bound arms boat - 7 August 2014: Israel ready to consider European proposal calling for international mechanism to demilitarize Gaza Strip, ease restrictions on movement, trade and fishing - 17 December: Israel expects the EU to put Hamas back on the terror blacklist immediately, PM Netanyahu says - 17 December 2014: After an EU court's decision, body led by EU foreign Policy chief Federica Mogherini releases statement saying that the EU upholds the 'Quartet principles' that bans engagement with Hamas until it forswears terrorism

Israel/France relations: Israel/France relations - 8 November 2011: Sarkozy called Israeli PM Netanyahu 'liar' - 21 March: The three children and teacher killed by a gunman in Toulouse have been buried in Jerusalem - 22 March: French gunman who shot dead 3 Jewish children in Toulouse killed in siege - 18 novembre 2012: Laurent Fabius en route pour Israël pour obtenir un 'cessez-le-feu' - 17 novembre 2013: French president Hollande visits Israel amid stalled Iran nuclear talks - 18 novembre 2013: François Hollande a appelé devant le Parlement israélien à un partage de Jérusalem et au maintien des sanctions contre l'Iran

2015: 8 January 2015: Demonstrators rally at French Consulate in Jerusalem in support of victims of the attack at Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris - 22 April: On Independence Day, Israel sees upsurge in emmigration from France and Ukraine - 24 December 2015: A record number of French Jews moved to Israel this year, an immigration official says, citing anti-Semitic violence and economic insecurity in the European country as causes - 3 June 2016: Paris summit was a ‘missed opportunity,’ Israel says

2016: 13 July 2016: Israel responds with anger to a reported meeting between French FM Ayrault and members of the Lebanese terror organization Hezbollah, suggesting the move was comparable to meeting with representatives of the Islamic State group

Israel/Germany relations: Israel/Germany relations

1952: CIA-Akten 2006: Aufenthaltsort Adolf Eichmanns dem BND und CIA bereits 1958 bekannt - BND-Akten: Aufenthaltsort Eichmanns sogar schon 1952 bekannt

1953-1963: 1953-1963 CDU-member and racist Nazi-jurist Hans Globke director of the Federal Chancellory of West Germany, 1933-1945 high-profile Nazi-jurist in NSDAP-Germany, drafting the law for the 'Protection of the German Blood' and serving as chief legal advisor in the Office for Jewish Affairs in the Ministry of Interior, the section headed by Adolf Eichmann that implemented the Holocaust bureaucratically, knowing 'that the Jews were being put to death en masse'

1961: April-December 1961 Adolf Eichmann's, one of the major organisers of the Holocaust, trial before the Jerusalem District Court after capture in Argentina in 1960

2012: 8 April 2012: Interior Minister Eli Yishai condemns Gunter Grass' 'poem' (claiming that Israel is a threat to world peace) and says that he is declared a persona non grata in Israel for wearing SS uniform in the past

2013/2014: 5 September 2013: At Munich massacre memorial ceremony Jewish leaders criticized the bungled rescue, the former IOC president Brundage, who announced 1972 the continuation of the Munich Olympics, and the lack of commemoration during the 2012 London Olympics - 14 June 2013: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, visiting the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, says the Jewish state would act - alone if necessary - to prevent a repetition of the Holocaust - 22 February 2014: Israel’s ambassador to Germany Yakov Hadas-Handelsman invites Jews in Europe who feel unsafe in the wake of recent anti-Semitic attacks to come to Israel at any time

2016: 2016 Bavarian republication of Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' in Germany - 9 January 2016: New Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' Bavarian publication in 2016 'a slap in the face to Holocaust survivors' - 15 January 2016: This Day in Jewish History 1919 - communist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg together with her co-founder murdered by Ebert regime's 'Freikorps' in Berlin - 20 November 2016: Yair Lapid calls for Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to order a criminal investigation into a multi-billion shekel deal for Israel to purchase German submarines, which was pushed by PM Netanyahu and in which his personal lawyer Shimron is alleged to have an interest

Israel/Greece relations: Israel/Greece relations relations - Maccabean Revolt 167–160 BCE against the Seleucid Empire by refusing to worship the Greek gods

Since 1999: Greek island affair since 1999

2014: 14 December 2014: UN security council condemns attack on Israeli embassy in Athens

2015/2016: Energy Triangle refers to the joint natural gas extraction between Cyprus, Israel and Greece to begin in 2015 - EuroAsia Interconnector is a proposed interconnector to link Greek, Cypriot and Israeli power grids via the world's longest submarine power cable expected 2016

Israel/Guinea relations: Israel/Guinea relations

2017: 4 August 2017: Senegal and Guinea are sending their first-ever ambassadors to Israel next week, as Israel continues to expand its outreach to Africa

Israel/Hungary relations: 17 July 2012: Hungarian president assures Netanyahu of his opposition to anti-Semitism

Israel/India relations: Israel/India relations - 25 December: Dozens of members of the Bnei Menashe tribe in India said to be lost descendants of ancient Israelites have emigrated to Israel after the government lifted a visa ban

Israel/Iran relations: Israel/Iran relations - Antisemitism in Iran - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Israel

2006: 2006 Iranian 'International Holocaust Cartoon Competition' - Tehran Holocaust denial conference December 2006: 'International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust'

2011: NZZ 5. November 2011: Israels Präsident Peres weist auf die internationale Verpflichtung hin für Israel bedrohliche iranische Atombestrebungen zu stoppen - schwere Aufgabe für die IAEA, bevorstehender Bericht - 6 November: French FM Juppé says hardening sanctions preferation to the irreparable consequences of a military attack on Iran - 7 novembre: Moscou met en garde contre une intervention israélienne - 9 November: IAEA says Iran worked on nuclear weapons

2012: 14 February 2012: Israel blames Iran for embassy attacks in India and Georgia - 25 April: Iran undecided on nuclear bomb, Israel military chief Benny Gantz says - 19 July: Israelis killed in Bulgaria bus blast - PM Netanyahu called blast 'an Iranian terror attack' - 17 août: La 'tumeur cancéreuse' d'Israël va bientôt disparaître, dit Ahmadinejad à Téhéran à l'occasion de la Journée d'al-Qods - 28 September: Netanyahu says in UN speech, that a 'red line' should be drawn to prevent Iran from building a nuclear bomb - 8 octobre: Drone abattu en Israël le 6 octobre - Tel-Aviv voit la main du Hezbollah et de Téhéran - 11 October: Hezbollah admits launching drone over Israel

2013: 14 June 2013: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, visiting the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, says the Jewish state would act - alone if necessary - to prevent a repetition of the Holocaust - 2 August 2013: In Quds Day remarks broadcast on state TV and in one of his last public speeches Iran's outgoing President Ahmadinejad warns Israel will be 'uprooted' - 2 August: After Israeli criticism, Iran's media changed their version of Rohani remarks, that Israel had inflicted a 'wound' on the Muslim world and that the Israeli wound 'must be cleansed', now taking out the reference to 'cleansing' - 19 September: Rohani says Iran wants peace, but slams Israel as 'occupier that does injustice to the people of the region' - 25 septembre: Plusieurs membres du gouvernement israélien ont jugé mercredi que la condamnation par le président iranien Hassan Rohani des "crimes des nazis envers les juifs" n'était pas suffisante, réclamant qu'il désavoue les dirigeants de son pays ayant nié l'Holocauste - 2 October: PM Netanyahu at UN makes strongest-ever Israeli public threat to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities - 2 October: Iran now has a window of opportunity to prove its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, UN's Ban Ki-moon reportedly told PM Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting in New York - 24 November: Israel slams 'bad' deal between Iran, world powers

2014: 5 March: Israel seizes ship in the Red Sea with medium-range missiles heading from Iran to Gaza as USA military was prepared to get involved in the seizure - 9 March: Israeli troops in Eilat unload 40 short-range rockets from Gaza-bound ship - 10 March: Israel displays seized Iranian weapons shipment, inviting foreign journalists to exhibit and press conference - 5 May: Senior military aide of Khamenei boasts West's failure in Syria is Iran's victory, saying that Iran's frontline has now reached Israeli border - 25 July 2014: Keep arming Palestinians until Israel is destroyed, Iran's Khamenei says

2015: 19 January: Six Iranians killed in Israeli strike in Syria, including commanders and Revolutionary Guards general, as well as six members of Hezbollah - 8 February: Israel no foe of Iranian people, but regime must never get nukes, Israel's Isaac Herzog tells security conference in Munich

2016: 28 February 2016: Israel's PM Netanyahu said that Israel welcomes the cease-fire in Syria but stressed that the agreement must include halt to 'Iranian aggression against Israel from Syrian territory'

2017: 6 August 2017: Israel will allow entry to Iranian journalist Neda Amin, fleeing persecution in her home country, and who could face the death penalty in Iran after writing op-eds for an Israeli news site, according to Interior Minister Arye Dery

Israel/Iraq relations: Israel/Iraq relations - Israeli–Kurdish relations - History of the Jews in Iraq

2014: 21 June 2014: Israel accepts first delivery of disputed oil from Iraqi Kurdistan's pipeline - 30 June: Netanyahu calls for Kurdish independence from Iraq

Israel/Italy relations: Israel/Italy relations

Enlight Renewable Energy since 2008

Israel/Jordan relations: Israel/Jordan relations - 1949 Armistice Agreements - Israel–Jordan Treaty of Peace 1994

Jordan River - Water politics in the Jordan River basin

2013/2014: 10 December 2013: Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian officials agree to share and increase water resources in the arid region, including measures to save the Dead Sea - 11 March 2014: Israeli government expresses regret to Jordan after judge killed by Israeli fire at the Allenby crossing and agrees to let Jordan join investigation

July 2017: 24 July 2017: Israeli government says, Israeli Embassy guard is protected from arrest and investigation by Vienna Convention, as Jordan won’t let him leave the country after he shot dead a Jordanian man who attacked him with a screwdriver at Israel’s embassy compound in Amman - 25 July 2017: Jordan investigation concludes Jordanian teen attacked Amman security officer, who then shot his assailant, killing him and another Jordanian national by accident

Israel/Kenya relations: Israel/Kenya relations - 2002 Mombasa attacks - 22 septembre: Des forces spéciales israéliennes seraient entrées dans le centre commercial de Nairobi, assiégé par des islamistes shebab, afin de secourir et d'évacuer les otages et les blessés

Israel/Lebanon relations: Israel/Lebanon relations - Hasbani River

Israel–Lebanon border - Green Line (Israel and its neighbours since 1949)

2006: 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War - Russian and Iranian weapons for Lebanese Hezbollah, classified as a terrorist organization by the governments of the USA, Netherlands, France, Gulf Cooperation Council, UK, Australia, Canada, the European Union and Israel

2010: 2010 Israel–Lebanon border clash

2012: 18 August 2012: Hizbollah leader Nasrallah threatens punishing missile strikes deep inside Israel in case it attacks Iran

2013: 25 avril 2013: L'armée israélienne abat un drone et accuse le Hezbollah - 22 August 2013: Two rockets from Lebanon explode in northern Israel, Iron Dome intercepts third - 23 August: Israel strikes terror site near Na'ameh following the firing of at least three rockets into Israel on Thursday - 16 December: Israeli soldier killed by a Lebanese soldier who opened fire across the border into Israel, Israel complains to the UN force - 16 December: After Israeli killed on border Israeli army shoots two Lebanese soldiers - 29 December: Two missiles fired from southern Lebanon into Israel prompt Israel shelling

2014: 25 February: Israeli planes attack Hezbollah targets on Lebanon-Syria border - 27 February: Israel faces military dilemma as Hezbollah amasses weapons - 28 February: Israel warns Lebanon to curb Hezbollah threats - 5 March: Israel army opens fire at Hezbollah fighters on Israel-Syria border, trying to plant bomb - 14 July 2014: Rockets fired at Israel from southern Lebanon, drawing retaliatory artillery fire from Israeli forces, in the third such rocket attack from Lebanon since Friday

2015: 28 January 2015: At least 5 Kornet missiles fired in Hezbollah ambush of IDF soldiers on a road in the village of Ghajar killing two IDF soldiers and injuring seven, the IDF used artillery guns and tanks to fire at Hezbollah targets following the incident

2016: 7 December 2016: Israeli defense ministry acknowledges that Israel was responsible for recent attacks in Syria, saying that they were meant to prevent 'advanced weapons, military equipment and weapons of mass destruction' from reaching Hezbollah

List of Lebanese rocket attacks on Israel: List of Lebanese rocket attacks on Israel

Israel/Lithuania relations: Israel/Lithuania relations - 14 March 2015: Israel opens its first embassy in Lithuania, pre-war home to 250,000 Jews

Israel/Mexico relations: Israel/Mexico relations

2017: 29 January 2017: Mexico chides Israel's PM Netanyahu for apparently endorsing USA president Trump’s plan to build a wall along its border with the USA - 29 January 2017: Facing Mexico’s fury, spokesperson says Netanyahu’s statement declaring USA southern barrier a 'great idea’ is not a comment on USA-Mexico relations, after Netanyahu also declared that USA's Trump was 'right' in pushing for a wall along the USA-Mexico border to block illegal immigration - 29 January 2017: Mexican Jews alarmed by Netanyahu tweet on Trump’s wall - 30 January 2017: Mexico calls on Netanyahu to apologize for tweet about USA border wall, after Israeli PM praised Trump’s executive order at weekend - 31 January 2017: Jewish community south of the USA border pans Israel's PM Netanyahu as Trump’s 'lackey', condemning his support for Trump’s border wall as disappointing and shameful

Israel/New Zealand relations: Israel/New Zealand relations

2016: 24 December 2016: Israeli ambassador to New Zealand recalled in protest at UN vote role, demanding a halt to all Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem

Israel/Pakistan relations: Israel/Pakistan relations

2016: 25 December 2016: Pakistan makes nuclear threat to Israel, in response to fake news featuring non-existent quote concerning Syria by ex-Israeli defense chief Ya’alon, who left ministry in May and was replaced by current minister Liberman

Israel/Poland relations: Israel/Poland relations - History of the Jews in Poland - Poland was a centre of Jewish culture thanks to a long period of statutory religious tolerance and social autonomy ending with the Partitions of Poland which began in 1772

1939-1945 German war crimes and the Holocaust in occupied Poland during World War II: German war crimes in occupied Poland during World War II 1939-1945 - Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland - The Holocaust in occupied Poland 1939-1945 - Rescue of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust

October 1940 to May 1943 Warsaw Ghetto: 1940-1943 Warsaw Ghetto, the largest of all the Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, the death toll among the Jewish inhabitants of the Ghetto, between starvation, disease, deportations to extermination camps, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and the subsequent razing of the ghetto, is estimated to be at least 300,000

1944–1946: Anti-Jewish violence in Poland, 1944–46 - Kielce Pogrom against the Jewish community July 1946

Israel/Qatar relations: Israel/Qatar relations

2014: 23 July 2014: Israel singles out Qatar as key Hamas terror sponsor

2017: 7 August 2017: Israeli government moves to impose ban on the Qatari state-funded al-Jazeera news network, as broadcaster slams move, saying that minister Kara undermines Israeli claims to be the Middle East's sole democracy, and that it will take legal action

Israel/Russia relations: Israel/Russia relations - History of the Jews in Russia - Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest population of Jews in the world - Antisemitism in the Russian Empire - Jewish agricultural colonies in the Russian Empire - The Holocaust in Russia - Antisemitism in Russia

Since 1985: Russian and Iranian weapons for Lebanese Hezbollah, classified as a terrorist organization by the governments of the USA, Netherlands, France, Gulf Cooperation Council, UK, Australia, Canada, the European Union and Israel - 10. Juni 2012: Israel: 'Russland im schlimmsten Fall Mittäter in Syrien' - 29 May 2013: Israel warns Russia of action if it delivers missiles to Syria - 1 November: Israel reportedly destroyed Hezbollah-bound missile shipment in Syria, targeting Russian-made SA-125 missiles

2014/2015: 14 April 2014: After Russian regime's annexation of Crimea Israeli government finds itself seemingly in a dilemma - 20 April 2015: Israeli PM Netanyahu refuses to attend Victory Day parade in Moscow and plans to attend an Israeli ceremony on 7 May - 10 September 2015: Israel adds voice to concerns over Russian regime's reported military buildup in Syria's areas controlled by Assad - 22 September 2015: Israel's Defense Minister Ya'alon says Jewish state will not allow advanced Russian weapons to end up in the hands of Hezbollah

2016: 11 January 2016: Hezbollah terrorists reportedly receive long-range missiles, laser-guided rockets and other sophisticated weaponry directly from Russia in Syria, and are free to use that weaponry against Israel, following recent Netanyahu visit of servility to Moscow, including the shaking of bloody hands, amid fears in Israel that the Russian military aggression against Syrian people will threaten its defence and fears that Russian-supplied weapons will end up in the hands of Hezbollah - 7 June 2016: Israel's Netanyahu says Iranian regime cannot be allowed to use Hezbollah as a proxy to attack Jewish state, ahead of Putin meeting - 9 October 2016: Russian missile deployment in Syria facilitates Hezbollah's smuggling of advanced weapons, following Netanyahu's visit in June encouraging the Putin regime to commit more war crimes in Syria and Ukraine

Israel/Saudi Arabia relations: Israel/Saudi Arabia relations - 2 September 2013: As Barack Obama blinks on Syria after Assad's war crimes, Israel and Saudis make common cause - 5 June 2015: Israel and Saudi Arabia have held five secret meetings since the beginning of 2014 to discuss the common threat Iran posses to the region

Israel/South Africa relations: Israel/South Africa relations

2014: 4 August 2014: More than 12,000 people gathered in South Africa's Johannesburg on Sunday for a solidarity rally for Israel, as thousands of Christians from all across the country joined Jews to call for peace and security for Israel

Israel/South Sudan relations: Israel/South Sudan relations - 18 June: Israel deports South Sudanese migrants

Israel/Spain relations: Israel/Spain relations

20 July 2015: Consortium of Israeli and Spanish companies to build 121-megawatt facility in Negev desert

Israel/Switzerland relations: Israel/Switzerland relations - 7.12.1999: Schlussbericht des Volcker-Komitees über Schweizer Banken - u.a. 417 identifizierte Konten von Verfolgten, die von den Banken während des Zweiten Weltkriegs auf Anweisung der Nationalsozialisten aufgelöst und deren Guthaben den Nationalsozialisten ausgehändigt worden waren - UBS activities in World War II - 2001/2002 Reports of the Independent Commission of Experts Switzerland – Second World War - 27 janvier 2013: La Suisse, les réfugiés et la Shoah - documentation photographique du 14 mai 1942 sur les atrocités commises sur le front de l'Est

FIFA Fédération Internationale de Football Association à Zurich: 29 May 2015: Israel's PM hails diplomatic victory as FIFA thwarts Palestinian suspension bid

Israel/Syria relations: Israel/Syria relations

June 1967: June 1967 'Six-Day War' between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, known at the time as the United Arab Republic, Jordan, and Syria

Since 1967: Purple Line - ceasefire line between Israel and Syria after the 1967 Six Day War

Since 2012: Since 2012 Israeli–Syrian ceasefire line incidents during Assad's war against the Syrian people

2013: 30/31 January 2013: Israel conducted an airstrike inside Syria near the border with Lebanon, hitting a convoy of trucks with weapons bound for Hezbollah in Lebanon while Assad's army (and television) says an Israeli airstrike targeted a military research centre in Jamraya, causing large-scale material damage and killing two people - 4 February: Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak strongly implied that his country was behind an air strike on Syria last week - 24 March: Israel's army fires anti-tank missile at Syrian army post after coming under fire for second time in 12 hours and vows an 'immediate' answer to 'every violation of Israeli sovereignty and shooting from the Syrian side' - 29 April: Israeli official says intelligence services worldwide have evidence of Assad's chemical weapons use - 'these are not intelligence estimates' - 4 May: US reports quoting unnamed officials say, that Israeli warplanes have launched an air strike in Syria, likely targeting a weapons site - 5 May: Israeli missiles struck a research center near the Syrian capital Damascus - 21 mai: L'armée sraélienne réplique après avoir été la cible de tirs depuis la Syrie - 6 June: Israel reacts angrily to Austria's withdrawal from Golan Heights due to clashes in Syria - 14 July: Israel reportedly targeted advanced anti-ship cruise missiles near Latakia in an air attack on July 5 - 18 août: Israël réplique après des tirs d'obus syriens - 21 August: Israel says Syria regime used chemical weapons - 22 August: Israeli intelligence backs reports of latest chemical weapons attack in Syria as intelligence minister criticizes international community over inaction - 25 August: PM Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the world must not tolerate the use of chemical weapons in Syria, adding that Israel was 'poised and ready' and would always know how to defend itself - 28 August: Israeli intelligence 'intercepted Syrian regime talk about chemical attack', information passed to US by Israeli Defence Forces's 8200 unit, former official says - 1 November: Israel reportedly destroyed Hezbollah-bound missile shipment in Syria, targeting Russian-made SA-125 missiles

2014: 27 January: Israel Air Force bombed a Syrian base in the Latakia airport, Lebanese media reports - 11 February 2014: District Court Judge jails Israeli Arab for 18 months for trying to join fight against Assad - 5 March: Israel army opens fire at Hezbollah fighters on Israel-Syria border, trying to plant bomb - 16 March: Syrian opposition willing to trade Golan claims for Israeli military support, wanting Israel to enforce a no-fly zone - 19 March: Israel strikes Assad's army targets that 'enabled and aided' Tuesday's attack on IDF troops which left four Israeli soldiers wounded - 28 March: Israeli army shoots two people near Syria border trying to damage border infrastructure - 27/28 May: Syria's oldest synagogue in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus destroyed by Assad forces in the months-long bombardment of Jobar - 23 June: In response to a cross-border missile shooting which killed an Israeli boy and wounded his father and two other civilians, Israel Air Force struck nine targets belonging to the Syrian military, among them command centers - 7 July: Israel fires into Syria after mortar shell hits Golan - 13 July: Mortar fired from Syria hits Israeli side of the Golan Heights - 23 September: IDF shoots down Syrian fighter plane over Golan after infiltrating Israeli airspace - 8 December 2014: Hezbollah drones, anti-aircraft missiles destroyed in alleged IAF attack, says Syrian opposition

2015: 18 January: An Israeli strike on targets in the Syrian Golan Heights reportedly killed 10 people, including eight Hezbollah members - 27 January: IDF retaliates after two suspected Hezbollah rockets fired from Syria explode on Golan Heights, sending locals and some 1,000 visitors to the Mount Hermon ski site fleeing for cover - 28 January: Following Golan rocket attacks Israel Air Force struck Assad's army artillery targets - 25 April: Israeli Air Force jets reportedly target Syrian bases of strategic missile brigades 155 and 65 in Kalamoon and Hezbollah targets in Syrian-Lebanese border region - 26 April: Israeli airstrike kills a group of four militants placing mine inside Israel at Syria frontier - 12 June 2015: Israeli official said to meet with secular Syrian opposition, contacts reportedly focused on common foes, including Iran, Hezbollah - 22/23 June: Syrian war casualty killed as Israeli Druze attack IDF ambulance - 24 June: Druze community condemn Golan Heights ambulance attack - 29 June: Israel acknowledges it is helping Syrian rebel fighters, thus keeping the Druze in Syria out of immediate danger - 30 July: Israel strikes targets near Israel-Syria border, reportedly killing two Hezbollah operatives and three Syrian regime militiamen of the National Defense Forces in the Golan Heights - 5 September 2015: As hundreds of thousands seek sanctuary, Israel has a duty to take in Syrian refugees from the war and push for the establishment of an urgent international conference on the issue, opposition leader Isaac Herzog says - 6 September: Israel should take in thousands of refugees, deputy minister Ayoub Kara says - 22 September: Israeli company SodaStream offers to take in Syrian refugees and employ them in its new factory in the Negev Desert - 31 October: IAF reportedly targets Hezbollah assets in Syria - 24 November: Israel strikes Hezbollah positions in Syria, killing 13 - 4 December 2015: Israeli jets carry out strikes north of Damascus, targeting a four-truck Syrian army convoy loaded with ballistic missiles

2016: 5 May 2016: When Germany's Adolf Hitler first sent Jews to die, Europeans and Americans agreed that it was not their problem, but also Israel today may be about to make the same and repeated mistake about Assad's killings in Syria, Shlomo Bolts says - 14 October 2016: Syria is suffering 'a small holocaust’ as 'every day not far from here, as we sit here, men, women and children are murdered in Syria, and particularly in Aleppo', Israeli chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef says, demanding that Jews must not be silent in the face of genocide across northern border - 22 November 2016: Israeli activists launch awareness campaign to express their solidarity with the civilians in the face of a military escalation being carried out by Russia, Assad and his allied militias, calling for communal prayers on Jewish holiday for the 'hundreds of Syrians who are dying daily in Syria, men, women and children, while the world is silent' - 30 November 2016: Israeli warplanes were said to have struck a military compound in the Syrian capital of Damascus, while a raid reportedly targeted a weapons convoy led by Hezbollah, as Hezbollah has thousands of fighters in Syria, providing military support to Assad regime and Iranian forces and after Israel already had carried out strikes against Hezbollah to prevent the terror group from obtaining advanced weapons - 7 December 2016: The Israeli military reportedly fired missiles from Golan Heights at the important Syrian regime Mazzeh airbase outside Damascus, hosting the headquarters of the feared air force intelligence service and its notorious prison, as terrorist group Hezbollah sites and guided missile sites belonging to Hezbollah near the Syrian capital were also targeted overnight by airstrikes that killed and injured a number of fighters in the Shiite militia - 7 December 2016: Israeli defense ministry acknowledges that Israel was responsible for recent attacks in Syria, saying that they were meant to prevent 'advanced weapons, military equipment and weapons of mass destruction' from reaching Hezbollah - 11 December 2016: The Israeli airstrike on an Assad regime airbase outside Damascus last week targeted a convoy of chemical weapons en route to the Shiite terror group Hezbollah, a Syrian opposition spokesman Fahed al-Masri says, adding that jihadist and Iranian militants will continue to advance on northern border as long Assad remains in power - 18 December 2016: Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial's Chairman Avner Shalev expresses 'deep concern over the appalling images of massacres' in Syria, saying that the world must put an end to the killing - 28 December 2016: Israel’s absence at the UN General Assembly on resolution A/71/L.48 to collect, consolidate, preserve and analyse evidence of violations of international humanitarian law and human rights violations and abuses in Syria since 2011, reportedly the result of 'a cynical deal' between Jerusalem and Moscow

January/February 2017: 2017 Israeli–Syrian ceasefire line incidents during Assad's war against the Syrian people since 2011

13 January 2017: Missiles reportedly hit weapons depot at Mazzeh airbase, also killing high-ranking Assad regime officials, and blamed on Israel by the regime threatening 'repercussions' after 'flagrant' attack - 18 January 2017: Israel’s help is vital, says representative of Free Syrian Army Issam Zeitoun in rare meeting with Israelis, as Zionist Union MK Ksenia Svetlova insists Assad must go, adding that 'in 2017 we will see the increasing influence of Hezbollah ... we will have to make hard choices in regard to action or inaction in Syria' - 22 February 2017: Israeli aircraft reportedly targeted Syrian Army positions near Lebanese border, including a convoy bearing weapons for the Hezbollah terrorist group

March/April 2017: 17 March 2017: IAF 'Arrow’ battery intercepts Syrian missile after Assad regime fired three anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli jets - 18 March 2017: Israel's PM says that Syria raids targeted ‘advanced’ Hezbollah arms, and that Israel will continue to operate against weapons transfers from Assad regime to Shiite terror group - 19 March 2017: After Israeli officials have warned of the possibility Hezbollah and Iran could attempt to set up a base to attack Israel near the border with the Israeli Golan Heights, and hours after Israel's defense minister threatened to destroy Assad's air defense systems targeting Israeli aircraft, an Israeli aircraft reportedly struck a truck driving near the town of Khan Arnabeh in the Quneitra province on the road to Damascus, killing a pro-Assad fighter - 20 March 2017: Israeli jets reportedly took out a number of targets near the Lebanon-Syria border including a Hezbollah weapons convoy and Syrian military sites - 22 March 2017: Israeli jets were reported to have carried out airstrikes in the Mount Qasioun region near Damascus early Wednesday, hours after PM Netanyahu vowed to continue hitting weapons convoys and rebuffed claims Russia had ordered the strikes halted - 4 April 2017: Holocaust horrors compel Israel to aid gassed Syrians, says Israeli president Rivlin, urging international community to act immediately to bring an end to ‘murderous madness' as finance minister Moshe Kahlon says Israel has resources to help - 23 April 2017: After three mortars fired from Syria landing in the Golan Heights on Friday, an Israeli attack on a Syrian camp for pro-Assad regime forces reportedly killed three fighters near the Golan Heights on Sunday - 27 April 2017: Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz appears to confirm reports that Israel was behind an overnight airstrike near the Damascus airport, saying that 'the incident is completely compatible with our policy of preventing weapons transfer to Hezbollah', the Lebanon-based terror group supported by the Syrian regime and Iran - 28 April 2017: Four cargo planes originating from Iran landed at airport outside Damascus just hours before Syria accused Israel of attacking a military compound nearby

May 2017: 16 May 2017: Israeli minister Yoav Galant says revelation the Syrian president is executing prisoners and burning their bodies ‘crosses a red line’, adding that 'anyone who murders people and burns their corpses does not have a place in this world'

June 2017: 24 June 2017: After around 10 mortar shells hit the Israeli Golan Heights and 2 Assad regime soldiers reportedly killed in IDF retaliation, defense minister and PM say Israel won’t accept challenges to its security - 28/29 June 2017: Israeli warplanes hit Assad's army in the countryside of Quneitra, targeting a regime position on Wednesday night after stray mortar fire struck the Golan Heights - 30 June 2017: Israeli plane hits firing Assad regime's army post after shell lands in Golan in 16th spillover incident this week

August/September 2017: 24 August 2017: Taking Israeli aid, Syrian rebel and militia commander says Jewish state’s assistance is life-saving and crisis on Golan overrides old hatreds - 7 September 2017: Israeli jets have reportedly bombed a Syrian regime's facility in the north-west of the country believed to be associated with Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons programme - 10 September 2017: Israeli satellite images show impact, geo-strategic sensitivity of airstrike attributed to Israel on an Assad regime site where chemical weapons, missiles were believed to have been produced - 14 September 2017: Israel will 'act to enforce' Syria red lines, the transfer of major weapons to Hezbollah and the establishment of a permanent Iranian beachhead in the country, its USA ambassador Ron Dermer says

Israel/Tunisia relations: Israel/Tunisia relations - 1 November: Israel admits responsibility for 1988 assassination of Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad) in Tunisia

Israel/Turkey relations: Israel/Turkey relations - 2011: Erdogan fordert von Israel Entschuldigung wegen tödlicher Kommandoaktion 2010 - Aufhebung des Embargos gegen Gazastreifen verlangt - 19 August 2011: Israel firm on not apologising over flotilla 2010 and killing of nine Turkish citizens - 2. September 2011: Türkei weist Israels Botschafter aus - 4 septembre 2011: La Turquie va saisir la 'Cour internationale de justice' pour contester la légalité du blocus de Gaza

2013: 2 February 2013: Turkish prime minister criticized for his comments equating Zionism with a 'crime against humanity' - 23 March 2013: Israel and Turkey agree to restore full diplomatic relations after PM Benjamin Netanyahu apologised for the deadly naval raid against a Gaza-bound international flotilla in 2010 and also agreed to compensate the families of the victims

2016: 27 June 2016: Israel and Turkey to announce a reconciliation deal ending a six-year diplomatic standoff that started when nine Turkish activists on a flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip were killed by Israeli forces

Israel/Ukraine relations: Israel/Ukraine relations - History of the Jews in Ukraine - 6 March 2014: Israeli Kaplan hospital receives Ukrainians wounded in Kiev clashes last month - 7 March: At a meeting Israeli envoy Din El and Right Sector leader Dmitry Yarosh agree to 'prevent provocation' and denounce the anti-Semitic tendencies of Ukraine's nationalist camp - 28 August 2015: Israel and Poland see eye-to-eye on Ukraine - 28 December 2015: 20-year old frontline medical volunteer Yana Zinkevych, credited with saving the lives of hundreds of wounded Ukrainian soldiers following Russia's invasion of east Ukraine in early 2014, and who was injured in early November, recovering in Tel Aviv

Israel/United Kingdom relations: Israel/United Kingdom relations - 30 June 2014: Leviathan partners sign preliminary deal with British oil and gas company BG to export gas to Egypt

2015: 13 July 2015: Seeing the reality that exists today in the Middle East and also British demands to exert pressure on Israel, Daniel Taub says that his country wanted peace and security since its re-foundation and steps towards peace have taken place when the international community has been most receptive to its concerns

2017: 14 April 2017: Israel's PM and president send condolences to family of British Hannah Bladon after a Palestinian East Jerusalem resident, said to be a mentally ill, killed the exchange student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on tram in capital

Israel, Palestine and the United Nations: Israel, Palestine and the UN

2012: 26 March 2012: Israel ends contact with UN Human Rights Council after it decided to investigate Jewish settlements in the West Bank - 3 December: UN's Ban Ki-moon warns Israel of 'fatal blow' to peace - 20 December: UN Security Council members, except for the US, call for immediate halt to plans to build homes in occupied territories

2013: 29 January 2013: Remembering a decision last year to investigate Jewish settlements in the West Bank Israel boycotts UN rights council in unprecedented move - 31 January 2013: UN inquiry concludes all Israeli settlement activity in West Bank is unlawful and must cease 'immediately', and calls for sanctions against Israel over West Bank settlements - 26 February 2013: The United Nations has called for an independent inquiry into the death of Palestinian Arafat Jaradat in Israeli custody - 2 October: Iran now has a window of opportunity to prove its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, UN's Ban Ki-moon reportedly told PM Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting in New York - 29 October: Israel returns to UN rights forum after 1.5 year boycott

2014: 19 January 2014: Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu condemns UNESCO decision to postpone an exhibit tracing 3,500 years of ties between the Jewish people and Israel, following pressure from Arab countries - 28 February: Israel urges IAEA to issue full report on Iran nuclear research - 13 March: UN's Ban Ki-moon strongly deplores heavy rocket barrage on Israel from Gaza - 22 June: UN envoy Robert Serry denies claim he tried to funnel $20m to Hamas behind Israel's back - 17 July: 20 missiles found in UN-run school in Gaza, confirming Israel’s oft-repeated claim that Hamas and other Gazan terror groups use civilian infrastructure to hide weapons - 20 July 2014: 'United' Nations agency UNRWA handed 20 missiles found in Gaza school back to Hamas, not to International Criminal Court - 22 July: For the second time in less than a week, rockets have been found in a school in Gaza operated by the UNRWA - 23 July 2014: UN's Ban Ki-moon is 'alarmed' to hear that rockets placed in UN-run school in Gaza now 'have gone missing', demanding a full review - 24 July 2014: In Geneva the UN human rights council voted to launch an international inquiry to investigate violations of international human rights and humanitarian law in Gaza, with the USA opposing the move and 17 countries abstaining - 14 August: Having no faith in the planned UN investigation into the Gaza war, IDF conducting own inquiry into Gaza civilian deaths - 22 October: UN's Ban Ki-Moon debriefing Security Council will push forward on an investigation into the destruction in Gaza also of UN-buildings, including incidents when Hamas weapons were found in UN schools

2015: 21 February 2015: Israel asks UN to condemn Iran Holocaust cartoon contest, as upcoming Tehran competition to offer first place prize of $12,000 for best drawing on Shoah denial - 8 April: Some 100 representatives from Arab and Muslim states expected in Jerusalem next week for summit on banning nuclear testing sponsored by the UN and organized by CTBTO - 26 April: After 20 years, Israeli delegation will attend UN nuclear disarmament summit to encourage negotiations with 'moderate countries' - 6 June 2015: UN agencies in Israel and the Palestinian territories reported an alarming number of child victims in last year's war in the Gaza Strip but were split on whether Israel should be put on a list of violators of children's rights - 22 August 2015: Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor calls for the UN to condemn Syrian-Iranian Thursday’s rocket fire on Israel, and not simply make do with a general statement regarding both sides

2016: 21 December 2016: 'International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Those Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011' resolution, adopted by a recorded vote of 105 in favour and 15 against, with 52 abstentions, with Israel’s absence at the UN General Assembly on this resolution A/71/L.48 - 24 December 2016: Israel rejects 'shameful' UN resolution, demanding a halt to all Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem after Obama administration refused to veto - 28 December 2016: PM Netanyahu, who reportedly acceded to Russian request not to vote for war crimes investigative mechanism at the UN General Assembly, days before anti-settlements resolution passed at UN Security Council with Moscow’s help, loses confidence

2017: 30 March 2017: Israel cuts UN payment again by $2 million over 'anti-Israel’ bias following votes critical of Israel at the Geneva-based Human Rights Council, and condemns the 'obsessional discrimination against Israel on the part of the United Nations and its agencies' - 14 April 2017: Israel's PM and president send condolences to family of British Hannah Bladon after a Palestinian East Jerusalem resident, said to be a mentally ill, killed the exchange student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on tram in capital - 27 May 2017: The mother of USA yeshiva student Ezra Schwartz, who was shot to death in November 2015 by a Palestinian terrorist in the West Bank, told a UN forum that the perpetrator 'and his family should not be compensated for murdering innocent people (in) just another way to glorify and encourage terrorism', as Israel's UN envoy said that the Palestinian Authority paid out nearly $130 million to terrorists in prisons in Israel and another $175 million to the families of terrorists killed during their attacks, who are recognized as martyrs - 30 May 2017: Denial of Israel’s right to exist is anti-Semitism, UN's Guterres says, rejecting efforts to deny Jewish history in the Holy Land

Israel/USA relations: Israel/USA relations - 20 May 2011: Netanyahu rejects Obama '1967 borders' view - 25 May 2012: Israel denies African migrants' rights, says US - 28 August: Court rules Israel not at fault for death of US activist Rachel Corrie in 2003 - 17 septembre: Israël exhorte les États-Unis à fixer 'une ligne rouge' à Téhéran - 1 December: US secretary of state says the decision of Israel's security cabinet to build 3.000 settler homes in occupied territories is a set back for peace - 21 March 2013: Making his first official visit to Israel US President Barack Obama promises enduring support amid ongoing concern over a nuclear-armed Iran

Since July 2013 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks: 2013 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks - 30 July 2013: Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will aim to reach a 'final status' agreement over the next nine months to end the conflict

August-December 2013: 3 September: Israel and US carry out joint missile defense test in the Mediterranean - 30 September: US President Obama said at the end of his White House meeting with PM Netanyahu that the USA has not given up the option of a military attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities - 3 November: Israel is not only a US ally, but also a target for USA spying, a USA journal reports - 11 November: Sanctions imposed on Iran would only be slightly eased if nuclear agreement is reached, US officials tell Israel - 22 December: Israel calls on US to stop spying on Israel - 23 December: Israeli PM condemns US and UK spying on predecessor as 'unacceptable'

2014: 15 janvier: Moshé Yaalon a dû s'excuser après avoir dit que John Kerry n'avait 'rien à lui apprendre sur le conflit' israélo-palestinien - 18 March 2014: Defense minister Ya'alon says Obama administration is acting feebly and demonstrating weakness the world over, from China through the Mideast to Ukraine - 1 April: Israel and USA agree about the potential Iranian threat to the Middleeast and what to do about it, USA's Martin Dempsey says after Jerusalem visit - 20 December: Obama signs Israel strategic partnership bill laying groundwork for increased trade, military cooperation

2015/2016: 10 October 2015: According to former USA peace envoy to the Middle East Dennis Ross, Israel's PM Netanyahu said in 2010 that Israel could pull out of most of the West Bank if the Jewish state’s security requirements were answered, telling then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton what he could do to move the peace process with the Palestinians along - 18 December 2016: As USA's Jews fear rise in anti-Jewish sentiment, right-wing Israelis say it’s a fringe phenomenon, focus on boosting settlements

January 2017: 21 January 2017: As demonstrators gathered outside of the USA Embassy in Tel Aviv as part of worldwide women’s marches and as hundreds of thousands massed in the USA’s capital Washington and in cities around the globe to send Donald Trump an emphatic message that they won’t let his agenda go unchallenged over the next four years Israel's PM Netanyahu tweeted 'Congrats to my friend President Trump' - 22 January 2017: Reflecting the Torah portion, joyous rebellion as women march, as part of the 21 January 2017 Women's March in cities around the world, initially centered around Washington D.C. to promote women's rights and to address racial inequities, workers' issues, and environmental issues, an estimated 2.9 million people attended the 408 marches across the USA and other marches occurred in 168 countries around the world

May 2017: 17 May 2017: We must reassess what info we share with USA, Israeli intelligence says, after Trump revealed highly classified information to Russians in recent White House meeting, putting Israeli spy’s life at risk - 17 May 2017: Ex-Mossad head Shavit says in an interview that USA's Trump is like a ‘bull in a china shop… If tomorrow I were asked to pass information to the CIA, I would do everything I could to not pass it to them’, as another former head of the Mossad Danny Yatom demands to penalize the USA over Trump’s leak because his acts could endanger Israeli sources - 20 May 2017: 'Horrified’ Israeli intelligence officials ‘were shouting at US counterparts’ over Trump leak to Russian war criminals, as the now endangered Israeli spy was also reportedly a major asset in gaining information on the actions of Iran in Syria, through its Revolutionary Guards Corps and Hezbollah terrorists, both of which have been fighting for Bashar Assad

August 2017: 16 August 2017: Israeli politicians reject Trump claim of two sides to Virginia hate march and racist terror attack, saying 'when neo-Nazis march in Charlottesville and scream slogans against Jews and in support of white supremacy, the condemnation has to be unambiguous'

Israel/Vatican relations: Israel/Vatican relations - Siege of Jerusalem (63 BC) - Siege of Jerusalem (37 BC) - Judea, province of the Roman empire 6 CE–135 - First Jewish–Roman War 66–73 CE - Siege of Jerusalem in the year 70 CE was the decisive event of the First Jewish-Roman War - Siege of Masada 73 to 74 CE - Jewish–Roman wars 66–136 (70 years) - Jewish diaspora after the Roman destruction of Judea - History of the Jews in the Roman Empire - Jewish history since the Roman rule in the land of Israel, since 63 BCE - Anti-Judaism in the pre-Christian Roman Empire - Antisemitism in early Christianity - Antisemitism and the New Testament - Persecution of Jews - Anti-Judaism - Christianity and antisemitism - History of the Jews in Germany - Holocaust during World War II

2014: 23 May 2014: Papal Israel visit may lead Vatican to open Holocaust-era files - 25 May: Pope Francis arrives in Israel as part of Middle East tour

Israel/Vietnam relations: Israel/Vietnam relations

2017: 28 July 2017: Vietnam and Israel want to boost bilateral ties, suggesting ways to improve co-operation in diplomacy, trade, investment, finance, agriculture, science-technology, culture and education, targeting annual two-way trade of US$3 billion

Politics of Israel: Politics of Israel - Unwritten constitution of Israel - instead of a formal written constitution, and in accordance with the Harari Decision of 1950 adopted during the Israeli Constituent Assembly, the State of Israel has enacted several Basic Laws of Israel dealing with the government arrangements and with human rights - Israeli Central Elections Committee

Political parties in Israel: Political parties in Israel - Ahdut HaAvoda - Israeli Labor Party was established in 1968 by a merger of Mapai, Ahdut HaAvoda and Rafi - Meretz founded in 1992 with the union of Ratz, Mapam, and Shinui - Hadash since 1977 - Yesh Atid since 2012 - Kulanu founded on 27 November 2014 - Likud founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties - The Jewish Home founded in 2008 as the successor party to the National Religious Party - Shas is an ultra-orthodox religious political party founded in 1984 - United Arab List founded in 1996 - The Joint List is a political alliance founded on 23 January 2015 of four Arab-dominated parties Hadash, Balad, United Arab List, and Ta'al - Arab members of the Knesset

28 March 2012: Israel's main Kadima opposition party has elected Shaul Mofaz as its new leader, who will replace current leader Tzipi Livni - 1 May: Tzipi Livni resigns as member of Israeli parliament - 26 October: Israeli PM Netanyahu says his Likud Party is to merge with the ultra-nationalist group Yisrael Beitenu for January's general election - 28 December 2012: Palestinian-Israeli politician and Knesset member Haneen Zoabi is appealing a court ruling barring her from running in January general elections - 30 December 2012: Supreme court rules ban on Haneen Zoabi's candidacy is unconstitutional - 19 March 2015: Zehava Gal-On decides not to quit as Meretz chief after party rises to 5 mandates in final count

Elections in Israel: Elections in Israel

2012/2013 next Legislative election: Next 22 January 2013 Israeli legislative election - 3. Mai 2012: Knesset für 4. September als Datum für vorgezogene Wahlen - 9 October: Israel's prime minister has called an early general election, which could come as soon as January 2013 - 16 octobre: La Knesset a voté sa dissolution et convoqué des élections législatives anticipées pour le 22 janvier 2013

Haneen Zoabi - 28 December 2012: Palestinian-Israeli politician and Knesset member Haneen Zoabi is appealing a court ruling barring her from running in January general elections - 30 December: In unanimous ruling High Court rules that Israeli Arab MK Hanin Zuabi can run in upcoming election

January 2013: Israeli legislative election 22 Januar 2013 - 22 January 2013: Voting begins in Israel's early general elections with more than 30 parties - 23 janvier 2013: Le bloc de centre gauche, comprenant le parti Yesh Atid, le Parti travailliste et les partis arabes, et le bloc de droite, mené par Likoud-Israël Beiteinou, obtiennent chacun 60 sièges

February/March 2013: 3 February: Netanyahu asked to form new government and has now four weeks to forge a coalition, which he says will focus on security issues and the economy - 14 March: After weeks and a series of delays PM's Likud party has reached deal with centrist party to form new government - 18 March: Knesset approves Netanyahu’s four-party coalition government

October 2013: Israeli municipal elections 22 October 2013 - 22 October: Voter turnout in Israel's municipal election low across country

10 June 2014 Israeli presidential election: Israeli presidential election 10 June 2014 (indirect) - 10 June 2014: Reuven Rivlin is elected Israel's 10th president, declaring that he is 'no longer partisan but rather a man of the nation'

December 2014: 3 December: Knesset to vote on dissolving itself as Israel elections loom, following PM Netanyahu’s firing of Yair Lapid and Tzipi Livni - 3 December: Israeli legislators agree on 17 March 2015 parliamentary election

17 March 2015: 17 March 2015 Israeli legislative election - 17 March: 5.8 million Israelis head to the polls - 17 March: Central Elections Committee reports voter turnout at 71.8%, the highest turnout since 1999 and 4.1% more than 2013 - 18 March: Likud set to win 30 Knesset seats, Zionist Union gets 24 - 24 March: CEC to sort out voting irregularities and finalize counts of 2015 legislative election

March-May 2015: March-May 2015 Israeli government formation - 7 May 2015: PM Netanyahu finally manages to put together his fourth government, Habayit Hayehudi and Likud sign coalition deal and Habayit Hayehudi will hold education, justice and agriculture portfolios

2016: 20 May 2016: Leaving politics, Ya’alon warns of 'dangerous’ forces who 'took over’ Likud, Israel - 27 mai 2016: Les ministre de la défense et de l'environnement ont claqué la porte en protestation contre le retour d'Avigdor Lieberman

Politics and government in Israel: Israeli system of government

Taxation and government budget in Israel: Taxation in Israel - Israel Government Budget

2009: Thirty-second government of Israel - second Netanyahu government since 2009

April/May 2011: 28. April 2011: Israel und die palästinensische Vereinbarung vom 27. April - 20 May: Netanyahu rejects Obama '1967 borders' view

July-December 2011: Israeli lawmakers pass West Bank settlement boycott law (47 to 36 votes, 120 members of Knesset) 11 July - 13. Juli: Klage in Israel gegen Boykottgesetz - 4. August: Israel forciert Siedlungsbau - 930 weitere Wohnungen auf besetztem Gebiet am Südrand Jerusalems - 11. August: Israels 'endgültige Genehmigung' für 1.600 neue Wohnungen in Ost-Jerusalem - 16 August: Israel parliament (only opposition) meets in an emergency session on Tuesday to discuss social protests - 27. September: Israels Regierung läßt laut UN-Experten immer mehr Häuser von Palästinensern im besetzten Westjordanland zerstören, Vertreibung und Zerstörung weiterer Lebensgrundlagen - 16 October: Israel names 477 Palestinian prisoners to be freed - 18. Oktober: Gilad Shalit an Ägypten übergeben, heute Rückkehr nach Israel - 1 November: Israel orders new building in East Jerusalem after Unesco membership of Palestine - 11. Novemer: Israels Armee erschießt jüdischen Siedler an Straßensperre im Westjordanland - 28 December: Israel appoves more homes in east Jerusalem

January-June 2012: 9 January 2012: Israel to increase defence budget by $700m - 25 March: Israel's Supreme Court rejects a deal that would have given the government three years to evacuate Migron, the West Bank's biggest and oldest settlement outpost - 24 April: Israel approves three West Bank settlements - 9 May 2012: Israeli parliament approves Likud-Kadima coalition deal - 7 June: Netanyahu announces plans for 300 settler homes in Beit El even after Knesset rejects bill to 'legalise' existing homes on Palestinian land - 13 June 2012: Government report criticises Netanyahu decision-making in 2010 naval raid on Gaza-bound flotilla - 26 June: Israel evicts West Bank settlers after landmark ruling

July-December 2012: 8 July: After large rally Israeli PM's party announces to back full conscription - 17 July: Kadima quits Israel government over conscription law - 2 September: Evacuation of Migron outpost begins, in advance of Supreme Court deadline - 6 October: Israeli air force downs unmanned aircraft after it entered the south of the country - 11 October: Hezbollah admits launching drone over Israel - 30 November: Netanyahu/Lieberman security-cabinet authorises 3.000 units in illegal settlements in occupied territory, a day after UN General Assembly upgraded Palestine's status - 2 December: Israel halts Palestinian tax transfer - 13 December: Israeli FM Avigdor Lieberman charged with fraud and breach of trust - 14 December: Lieberman resignation signals shift in Israeli politics - 17 December: Israel pushes ahead with plans to build 1.500 settler homes in east Jerusalem - 21 December: PM Netanyahu says that he is not interested in what UN says about settlement construction - 25 December: Israel endorses first university in West Bank near Nablus - 26 December: Israel has advanced the process of building 942 more settler homes in East Jerusalem under a new fast-track plan to tighten its grip on the territory - 28 December 2012: Palestinian-Israeli politician and Knesset member Haneen Zoabi is appealing a court ruling barring her from running in January general elections

January-June 2013: 13 January: Early Sunday Israeli police evicted Palestinian protesters and other multi-national activists from a hilltop camp they set up in a West Bank area slated for Jewish settlement - 13 January: Just hours after Israeli troops dragged anti-settlement protesters from the site, Israel's Netanyahu pledges to move ahead with building a Jewish settlement in the area - 28 January: According to a certified map of the West Bank settlement of Eli at least 166 homes in Israeli settlement built on private Palestinian land - 9 February: Israeli forces removed tents set up by Palestinians in an open area near Hebron, the fifth tent village in the West Bank in the past few weeks - 10 February: Former FM and charged A. Lieberman says Palestinian peace accord impossible

Thirty-third government of Israel - third Netanyahu Government sworn in on March 18th 2013

17 April: At least two rockets exploded in Israel's Red Sea resort town of Eilat causing no casualties but prompting the authorities to close the airport - 9 May: Israel has authorised the construction of 296 new settler homes in the West Bank - 30 mai: Israël va construire un millier de logements dans des colonies à Jérusalem-Est - 13 juin: Israël va construire des centaines de nouveaux logements dans une colonie du nord de la Cisjordanie

July-December 2013: 30 juillet: "J’ai tué beaucoup d’Arabes dans ma vie – et il n’y a aucun problème avec ça", a affirmé le chef de 'Foyer juif' et ministre israélien de l'Économie Naftali Bennett - 4 August: Israel adds 20 West Bank settlements to its list for public aid in housing, infrastructure, education, cultural activities and security spending - 11 August: Israel to start building nearly 1,200 new units in West Bank and East Jerusalem - 12 August: Almost all prisoners, slated to be released as a gesture toward the Palestinian Authority in the renewed peace talks, were convicted of murdering Israelis - 8 September: The Israeli government on Sunday approved the allocation of 5,000 work permits for Palestinians from the West Bank - 17 September: Israel strikes down law targeting African migrants - 29 October: Government body funds call center marketing illegal West Bank homes - 12 novembre: 20.000 projets de construction en Cisjordanie annulés - 12 December: Defense Ministry changes housing regulation in West Bank according to whether the houses belong to Jews or Palestinians

January-June 2014: 6 January: Israel approves new plan for 272 new homes in West Bank settlements - 10 January: Israel announces plans for 1,400 new settlement homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem - 11/12 January: Israelis mourn former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, who died after eight years in a coma at Tel Hashomer hospital - 30 April: PM Netanyahu condemns the recent anti-Arab attack in the Israeli Arab town of Fureidis

July-December 2014: 2 July: After three murdered teenagers Eyal Yifrah, Gilad Shaar and Naftali Fraenkel were laid to rest side-by-side, Cabinet convenes to determine response to kidnapping and rockets - 6 July: PM Netanyahu responds to Lieberman, Bennett, who criticized Israel's lenient reaction to Gaza rockets, and cautions against 'inflammatory' rhetoric - 7 July: Israeli FM Lieberman ended a 20-month political alliance between his rightwing nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party and Likud, although his faction will remain in government - 11 July: PM Netanyahu says operation in Gaza will continue until quiet is restored to Israel, blames Hamas for Gaza civilian casualties - 31 July: Despite Israeli casualties and world criticism, a near-consensus in Israel supports the government’s conduct of the Gaza war, views Hamas as the aggressor and considers outsiders’ moralizing as hypocritical, ignorant, recent opinion polls show - 31 July: Israel calls up 16,000 more reservists as army presses campaign - 26 December 2014: High Court orders the evacuation of the Amona outpost in the West Bank within two years

January-June 2015: 21 January 2015: NGO report calls on government to open inquiry over Operation Protective Edge 2014, saying that Gazans had no place to hide during IDF bombings - 16 April: Knesset holds Every Man Has a Name ceremony for Holocaust Remembrance Day

Since 6 May 2015: Thirty-fourth government of Israel - fourth Netanyahu Government - 14 May 2015: After stormy debate Knesset approves Israel's 34th government in vote of 61-59

July-December 2015: 29 July 2015: High Court orders Beit El’s Dreinoff settlement buildings torn down - 9 August: As the funeral of Palestinian Dawabsha, the father of a toddler killed when their home was firebombed by Jewish extremists, was attended by thousands, Israeli security forces search 7 homes in hilltop settlements, detain at least 9 people - 7 September: Record number of Palestinian structures slated for demolition in West Bank - 14 September: Netanyahu calls emergency meeting on stone throwing and fire bombs in Jerusalem and its vicinity - 28 November 2015: 'Liberman’s understanding of the war on terror amounts to the automatic firing of empty slogans, which have a merely coincidental relation to reality', Likud says after ex-FM calls PM’s handling of terror wave 'catastrophic'

2016: 31 January 2016: Israel would consider invitation to peace talks with Palestinians, an Israeli government official says but two Israeli cabinet ministers say Israel should boycott France's conference plan - 8 February: Israel to approve work permits for 30,000 more West Bank Palestinians - 20 May 2016: Leaving politics, Ya’alon warns of 'dangerous’ forces who 'took over’ Likud, Israel - 21 May 2016: Avigdor Lieberman should answer questions before becoming defense minister, Israeli newspaper 'Haaretz' demands - 27 mai 2016: Les ministre de la défense et de l'environnement ont claqué la porte en protestation contre le retour d'Avigdor Lieberman

29 September 2016: Israelis pay respects to former president Shimon Peres as he lies in state at Knesset, as Hamas terror group says 'Palestinian people are very happy’ at former president’s death, calling it 'a new phase of weakness’ for Israel

9 November 2016: PM Netanyahu's response to TV journalist Ilana Dayan's critical report on workings of his bureau, and interference by his wife Sara, is disproportionate and indicative of his determination to respond aggressively to critical reports, even PM's associates agree

November/December 2016: 14 November 2016: Israel's agriculture minister Uri Ariel helped to set back cutting-edge Israeli research and also apparently overstepped government regulations on gifts by giving the only scientific research helicopter of its kind in the country to murderous Russian regime's PM Dmitri Medvedev, after Israeli chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said in October 2016, that Syria is suffering 'a small holocaust’, as 'every day not far from here, as we sit here, men, women and children are murdered in Syria, and particularly in Aleppo', demanding that Jews must not be silent in the face of genocide across northern border - 13 December 2016: Interior Minister Aryeh Deri says that he had asked PM Netanyahu to officially request an emergency UN Security Council session on the worsening humanitarian situation in Syria, asserting that, 'as Jews, we cannot ignore these atrocities' - 28 December 2016: PM Netanyahu, who reportedly acceded to Russian request not to vote for war crimes investigative mechanism at the UN General Assembly, days before anti-settlements resolution passed at UN Security Council with Moscow’s help, loses confidence

2017: 6 February 2017: Israel legalizes West Bank outposts with sweeping new legislation, as controversial law recognizing building on private Palestinian land passes final Knesset votes by 60 to 52 - 28 February 2017: Blistering Gaza 2014 war report scorches Netanyahu, Ya’alon and Gantz over tunnel failures, Netanyahu to be questioned in April by lawmakers on report - 24 May 2017: In Jerusalem Day speech Israel's president Rivlin says that Israel must act immediately to improve the quality of life in the predominantly Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, which are among the nation’s poorest - 18 June 2017: The Israeli cabinet approved a bill to ban the entire binary options industry, a multi-billion dollar, widely fraudulent, Israel-based enterprise, whose activities have been exposed in a series of articles by the 'Times of Israel' since March 2016 - 3 August 2017: Israel's Superintendent Gabi Biton, who investigates financial fraud and money laundering, told a Knesset panel that Israeli crime kingpins are behind the binary options industry and that organized crime in the country has been massively enriched and strengthened as a result of law enforcement’s failure for many years to grasp the vastness of the problem

Social movements and protests in Israel: Protests in Israel

2011: 2011 Israeli social justice protests - 23 July 2011: Tens of thousands protest against rising housing costs and social inequalities in Israel - July 2011: Israeli Chamber Orchestra playing Wagner at Bayreuth - Israel announces housing reforms amid large protests - 31 July 2011: Mass protests in Israel over high prices continue - Haaretz 1 August: Israeli municipalities declare general strike in solidarity with housing protests - 6 August 2011: Hundreds of thousands of Israelis rally in Tel Aviv and other cities for reforms protest demanding social justice - 13 August: Across the country Israeli protesters call for economic reforms (housing prices, education, jobs) on Saturday - 14 août: Le mouvement pour la justice sociale gagne du terrain et s'étend à douze nouvelles villes - 27. August 2011: Wieder Samstag-Demonstrationen für soziale Gerechtigkeit - 3 September: Israel's 'march of a million' - ongoing protest on Saturday - 4 September: Despite largest turnout to date for Israel's protest movement there are questions over the socio-economic issues - 7 novembre: Grève générale limitée à 4 heures dans le secteur public lundi matin - 6. Dezember 2011: Parlament beschließt Steuerreform mit Entlastungen für israelische Mittelschicht

2012: 9 February 2012: General strike to force government to hire contract workers and improve conditions - 13. Mai 2012: In Tel Aviv haben wieder Tausende gegen die hohen Lebenshaltungskosten und soziale Ungerechtigkeit demonstriert - 24 June: Scores arrested after Israel protests - 8 July: Tel Aviv rally of thousands of protesters calls for all citizens, including ultra-Orthodox and Arabs, to perform military or community service - 14 July: An Israeli protester has set himself alight at rally to mark one year of nationwide protests - NZZ 20. Juli: Demonstrant, der sich bei den Protesten gegen soziale Ungerechtigkeit in Tel Aviv selbst angezündet hatte, ist seinen schweren Verletzungen erlegen - 22 July: Disabled Israeli war veteran Akiva Mafi is said to be in a serious condition after setting himself on fire at a bus stop near Tel Aviv - NZZ 1. August: Armeeveteran Akiva Mafi stirbt nach Selbstanzündung - 5 August 2012: Mass rallies held across Israel against tax hikes and spending cuts implemented by PM Netanyahu's Likud party

2013: 11 May 2013: Thousands in Tel Aviv protest Lapid budget, which includes a rise in VAT, cuts to welfare benefits and civil servants' salaries, and an increase in income tax - 1 August 2013: Hundreds of people - Israeli Arabs and Jews - protested in the Negev desert against plans to resettle up to 40,000 Bedouin and demolish 40 villages in the region - 28 October 2013: Thousands protest Israeli government's planned release of Palestinian prisoners and family members of those killed in attacks by prisoners gather outside Ofer prison

2014: 6 January 2014: Thousands of African migrants marched in Tel Aviv hoping to call attention to the state's refusal to recognize the migrants' asylum requests - 29 June 2014: Thousands rally in Tel Aviv for kidnapped Israeli teens - 14/15 August 2014: In an event organized by municipal leaders, over 10,000 people gather in Tel Aviv in a show of support for the rocket-ravaged southern communities demanding peace and security - 17 August: As Israel and Hamas envoys expected back in Cairo to resume talks, thousands of Israelis call for dialogue at Tel Aviv peace rally saying 'Yes to a diplomatic solution' and 'Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies' - 19 November: Thousands attended the funeral of sergeant-major Zidan Nahad Seif who was wounded while attempting to stop the terror attack at the Kehilat Bnei Torah synagogue a day before - 14 December 2014: Hundreds of protesters in Jerusalem gathered in Zion Square to protest racism, following an arson attack on a Jewish Arab school and after months of tension between the Jewish and Arab populations in the capital

2015: 4 January 2015: Workers at cash-strapped food processor Pri Hagalil, one of the largest employers in northern Israel, barricaded themselves next to the factory to protest closure and management’s failure - 8 January 2015: Demonstrators rally at French Consulate in Jerusalem in support of victims of the attack at Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris - 18 February 2015: Hundreds of people attended the funeral of 4-year-old Adele Bitton, who was critically injured in a 2013 rock-throwing attack in Yakir - 4 March: Thousands of Israeli women, including Jews and Arabs, gathered outside Knesset urging a peace agreement with the Palestinians - 7 March: An estimated 40,000 demonstrators took part in a rally on Rabin Square in Tel Aviv calling for a change in government and in the Israeli policy, ten days before Israelis go to the polls on March 17 - 13 March 2015: Groups participating in annual Marathon include coexistence proponents, terror victims and disabled people, as tens of thousands took part in Jerusalem Marathon - 16 April: Thousands attend funeral for Jerusalem car-ramming victim Shalom Sherki - 4 May 2015: After a Sunday protest against racism and police brutality initiated by Ethiopian Israelis left 68 people injured and 43 arrested PM Netanyahu to meet with Ethiopian community leaders and IDF soldier Damas Pakada, recorded being beaten by police - 19 May: For second time in two weeks, protesters rally in Tel Aviv, calling for an end to discrimination against Ethiopians - 21 June: Thousands rally for peace at torched Galilee church - 22 June: Hundreds of Ethiopian Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv against the closure of an investigation against policeman who was videotaped beating a uniformed Ethiopian-Israeli soldier - 2 July: Israelis protest in Jerusalem against deadly Palestinian attacks - 1 August 2015: Thousands across Israel protest violence, incitement after arson attack that killed 18-month-old Palestinian Ali Saad Dawabsheh - 5 October 2015: Thousands protest at PM’s home demanding action on terror against Jews - 31 October 2015: 100,000 in Tel Aviv square marking 20 years since the assassination of PM Yitzhak Rabin

October 2016: 11 October 2016: On the eve of Yom Kippur, Israeli groups unite across the country to call for aid for victims of six-year Assad's war against the Syrian people, with the involvement of rabbis and communal leaders under the banner 'The world is silent, we are not'

November 2016: 5 November 2016: As tens of thousands turn out to mark 21 years since Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, Netanyahu critizised after his coalition chairman denies the murder was political

January 2017: 21 January 2017: Thousands of Arab Israelis protest home demolitions, discrimination - 21 January 2017: Demonstrators gathered outside of the USA Embassy in Tel Aviv as part of worldwide women’s marches as hundreds of thousands massed in the USA’s capital Washington in a demonstration against sexism and sexual violence, calling for women's rights, and in cities around the globe to send Donald Trump an emphatic message that they won’t let his agenda go unchallenged over the next four years - 23 January 2017: A celebratory Western Wall women’s prayer and Torah reading held by the 'Original Women of the Wall' group on Monday morning tested a recent interim order by the High Court, with mixed results

April/May 2017: 1 May 2017: Memorial ceremonies are held, families and friends visit the graves of loved ones, as some 1.5 million Israelis visit the nation’s 52 military cemeteries and hundreds of smaller military sections in civilian cemeteries on Memorial Day, which is also marked by candle lightings and the Israel media - 23 May 2017: Protesters outside USA consulate demonstrate against Donald Trump in Jerusalem, showing him that not everyone in Israel supports his visit, condemning his policies on healthcare, the environment, women’s rights, as well as his entanglements with Russian regime and Congress - 27 May 2017: Thousands of people participated in a pro-peace demonstration in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, also saying '50 years is enough, peace now'

July 2017: 23 July 2017: Thousands of mourners gathered in the central Israeli city of Modiin, as the three members of the Salomon family who were murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in a deadly stabbing attack were laid to rest

Society, demographics, culture and human rights in Israel: Israeli society - Human rights in Israel

Districts, local councils and cities in Israel: Districts of Israel - Local councils in Israel - List of cities in Israel

Jerusalem: Jerusalem - Geography of Jerusalem - Neighbourhoods of Jerusalem - List of places in Jerusalem

History and economy of Jerusalem: History of Jerusalem and timeline - Economy of Jerusalem

2015: 13 May 2015: 75% of east Jerusalem residents live below poverty line, NGO says - 4 June 2015: Police used stun grenades to disperse hundreds of Palestinians who were protesting against annual Israeli light festival at the Old City of Jerusalem

2016: 1 February 2016: Historic deal allows men and women to pray together at Western Wall - 22 June 2016: Four out of five East Jerusalemites live in poverty as separation wall cited as key reason for growing impoverishment, along with the upsurge in violence and lack of welfare benefits

Demographics, culture and education in Jerusalem: Demographic history of Jerusalem - Jerusalem culture - Education in Jerusalem

Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv - Timeline of Tel Aviv

Demographics and ethnic groups in Israel: Demographics of Israel - Ethnic groups in Israel - Aliyah - Immigration to Israel

Israeli Jews, Israelis: History of the Jews and Judaism in the Land of Israel - Israeli Jews - Growth of population and paternal country of origin - Israelis are citizens of the modern state of Israel, which is a multiethnic society that is home to people of different national backgrounds, the largest ethnic group in Israel today are Mizrahi Jews

Ashkenazi, Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews: Ashkenazi Jews - Mizrahi Jews - Sephardi Jews

Ethiopian Jews in Israel: Ethiopian Jews in Israel - Aliyah from Ethiopia - Beta Israel

Arab citizens of Israel: Arab citizens of Israel

2016: 4 June 2016: Jewish and Arab pupils talk of unity, but Israel has never been so divided as rightwing populism dominates

Negev Bedouin: Negev Bedouin - Negev Bedouin women - the marginalization as a woman stems from traditional gender norms and expectations within Negev Bedouin society and manifests in employment, educational, and health care outcomes

2017: 18 January: An Israeli policeman was killed in a suspected car-ramming attack during clashes over home demolitions in the long-contested Bedouin town of Umm al-Hiran - 21 January 2017: Autopsy on Bedouin driver may discredit claims of terrorism - 30 January 2017: At Bedouin village, a breakdown in talks led to demolitions and deaths

Israeli Druze: Israeli Druze

2015: 16 June 2015: Thousands of Israeli Druze took to the streets in the northern towns of Isfiya and Majdal Shams in a solidarity protest on behalf of members of their community caught up in the turmoil of the ongoing civil war across the border in Syria

Culture and languages in Israel: Culture of Israel - Languages of Israel - Israeli literature - Music of Israel

Religion in Israel and Judaism: Religion in Israel - Judaism, an ancient monotheistic Abrahamic religion, with the Torah as its foundational text - Gender and Judaism - Gender separation in Judaism - Women in Judaism - Orthodox Judaism

Jewish studies: Jewish studies, an interdisciplinary academic discipline centered on the study of Jews and Judaism and combining aspects of history (especially Jewish history), Middle Eastern studies, Asian studies, Oriental studies, religious studies, archeology, sociology, languages (Jewish languages), political science, area studies, women's studies, and ethnic studies

Freedom of religion in Israel, Islam and Christianity: Freedom of religion in Israel - Islam in Israel - Muslims, who are mostly Arab citizens of Israel, constitute 17.4% of the Israeli population, making them the second largest religious group in Israel after Israeli Jews - Christianity in Israel is one of the recognized religions in Israel and is practiced by more than 161,000 Israeli citizens (about 2.1% of population), including 127,000 Arab Christians

Religious relations in Israel: Religious relations in Israel

Women and women's rights in Israel: Women in Israel - Women's rights in Israel - 1951 Women's Equal Rights Law of Israel

2016: 31 January 2016: Historic deal allows men and women to pray together at Western Wall - 2 November 2016: Scuffles broke out at the Western Wall Wednesday morning, during the first of a series of events planned by liberal Jewish groups for the day in protest of the ongoing restrictions on non-Orthodox worship at the foot of Judaism’s holiest site

Women in the workforce in Israel: Women in the workforce in Israel

2016: 7 March 2016: Israeli women earn 22% less than men, study finds

Women in the Israel Defense Forces: Women in the Israel Defense Forces

Women in politics and governments of Israel: Women in governments of Israel - Female representation in local government in Israel - Israeli women in politics

Childhood and youth in Israel: Childhood in Israel - Youth in Israel

Child welfare in Israel: Child welfare in Israel - Since 1980 'Israel National Council for the Child', an Israeli independent non-profit non-governmental organization that advocates for children's rights and well-being, serving all religions, ethnicities, and income levels in Israel

Children in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Children in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Education in Israel: Education in Israel

2014: 17 December 2014: Israel slowly reducing 'separation barriers' between Arabs, Jews in education, Taub report finds

List of schools in Israel: List of schools in Israel

Israeli universities and colleges: List of Israeli universities and colleges

Science and technology in Israel: Science and technology in Israel - Israel National Museum of Science, Technology, and Space in Haifa

List of Israeli museums in Israel: List of Israeli museums - Israel Museum founded 1965 as Israel's national museum is situated on a hill in the Givat Ram neighborhood of Jerusalem - Yad Vashem is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust located on the western slope of Mount Herzl on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem - Bible Lands Museum - Tower of David Museum of 4,000 years of Jerusalem's history, from its beginnings as a Canaanite city to modern times - The Ghetto Fighters' House - Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum - founded in 1949 located in the Western Galilee - Israel National Museum of Science, Technology, and Space in Haifa - Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Archaeology of Israel: Archaeology of Israel - Near Eastern archaeology

3 December 2014: An Israeli archaeologist set out to find the Jewish fighter who left behind an inscription at Jerusalem's Kishle prison dating back to the First Temple period - 15 December 2014: Israeli archaeologists uncovered a massive 2,800-year-old farmhouse in the area of modern day Rosh Ha’ayin, indicating that the ancient residents were engaged in the wine industry and in growing cereal

Health in Israel: Health in Israel

Healthcare in Israel: Healthcare in Israel - Israel has a system of universal healthcare as set out by the 1995 National Health Insurance Law - Medical and health organizations based in Israel

List of hospitals in Israel: List of hospitals in Israel by district and city

Sport in Israel: Sport in Israel

2015: 13 March 2015: Tens of thousands take part in Jerusalem Marathon

Media in Israel: Media of Israel

2015: 26 September 2015: Commander of troops seen attacking foreign AFP journalists removed from post

August 2017: 7 August 2017: Saying that minister Kara undermines Israeli claims to be the Middle East's sole democracy, and that it will take legal action, Al Jazeera slams move to ban network, after Israel's communications minister Kara said on Sunday he plans to close the local offices of Al Jazeera, following allegations by PM Netanyahu of incitement

Newspapers in Israel: Newspapers in Israel - Haaretz, Israel's oldest daily newspaper founded in 1918

3 May 2014: Activist Abir Kopty objects to her inclusion in Haaretz's 66 Israeli women project saying 'I’m not an Israeli woman'

Internet in Israel: Internet in Israel

2015: 19 May 2015: Visiting Tel Aviv to get prize for role in 'information revolution', Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales says he aims for facts about Israeli-Palestinian conflict to overwhelm bias

2017: 23 June 2017: To stop Russia and other hackers, we need to overhaul the internet, Israeli cyber expert Prof. Isaac Ben-Israel says ahead of next week’s Tel Aviv University 'Cyber Week 2017', calling for a radical overhaul of the internet in order to counter cyber warfare - 25-29 June 2017 Tel Aviv University 'Cyber Week'

Crime and law enforcement in Israel: Crime in Israel

Roman Empire's war crimes in Israel, the persecution of the Jews and Aliyah: Siege of Jerusalem (63 BC) - Siege of Jerusalem (37 BC) - Judea, province of the Roman empire 6 CE–135 - First Jewish–Roman War 66–73 CE - Siege of Jerusalem in the year 70 CE was the decisive event of the First Jewish-Roman War - Siege of Masada 73 to 74 CE - Jewish–Roman wars 66–136 (70 years) - Jewish diaspora after the Roman destruction of Judea - History of the Jews in the Roman Empire - Jewish history since the Roman rule in the land of Israel, since 63 BCE - Anti-Judaism in the pre-Christian Roman Empire - Antisemitism in early Christianity - Antisemitism and the New Testament - Persecution of Jews - Aliyah, the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to the land of Israel - First Aliyah 1882-1903

Israeli–Palestinian conflict since 1878: Israeli–Palestinian conflict - Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict 1878-2013 (ongoing) - List of massacres in Israel - List of Palestinian suicide attacks

Terrorism in Israel: Terrorism in Israel - Palestinian terrorism

2006: Terrorist incidents in Israel in 2006 - April 2006 Tel Aviv shawarma restaurant bombing

2008: 2 July 2008 Jerusalem bulldozer terrorist attack, when an Israeli Arab attacked cars on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, killing three people and wounding at least thirty other pedestrians - 22 September 2008 Jerusalem vehicular attack, when a Palestinian drove a BMW saloon car into a group of civilians and off-duty soldiers in a terrorist ramming attack in Jerusalem, injuring 19

2011: Terrorist incidents in Israel in 2011

2012: Terrorist incidents in Israel in 2012 - November 2012 Tel Aviv bus bombing

2013: Terrorist incidents in Israel in 2013 - List of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel 2013 - 23 December 2013: A bomb that Israeli authorities suspect was planted by Palestinian militants exploded in a bus near Tel Aviv on Sunday after passengers were evacuated

2014: List of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel 2014 - Terrorist incidents in Israel in 2014 - 22 October 2014 Jerusalem vehicular attack - 23 October 2014: Hamas, Fatah officials praise terrorist, urging Palestinians to 'escalate the confrontations', after Hamas member al-Shaludi killed Israeli baby in deadly car ramming attack in Jerusalem - 5 November 2014 Jerusalem vehicular attack - 5 November 2014: Vehicular terror attack in Jerusalem claimed by Hamas, after Hamas member and operative al-Akari rammed van into a group of pedestrians waiting for the Light Rail in Jerusalem, killing one person and wounding a number of others - 18 November 2014 Jerusalem synagogue attack - 12 January 2017: Iran and Syria ordered by Washington D.C. District Court to pay $178m to family of American-Israeli infant Chaya Zissel Braun killed in 22 October 2014 Jerusalem terror attack by member of the Hamas terrorist organization al-Shaludi, because the two countries financially back Hamas and as the 'criminal regimes in Tehran and Damascus are the biggest state sponsors of terrorism in the world', according to chairwoman Darshan-Leitner

2015: List of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel 2015 - Terrorist incidents in Israel in 2015 - 3 October 2015 Jerusalem Lions' Gate stabbings - 19 November 2015 Tel Aviv synagogue stabbing

January 2016 Tel Aviv shooting: On 1 January 2016 suspected gunman Nasha'at Melhem opened fire on several businesses on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv, killing two people and injuring seven others - 2 January 2016: Tel Aviv on high alert as manhunt continues for Arab Israeli who killed two in New Year’s Day shooting - 2 January 2016: Tel Aviv shooting suspect reportedly 'wanted to avenge cousin's death' - 4 January 2016: Suspected gunman Nashat Milhem who shot up a bar in Tel Aviv, killing two, fired into two other establishments, fled the scene on foot, hailed a cab, and rode to north Tel Aviv where he murdered the driver before abandoning the vehicle, police says - 8/9 January: Israeli police kill New Year's Day Tel Aviv shooting's suspect Nashat Melhem at mosque in home Wadi Ara town of Ar’ara

April 2016: 18 April 2016 Jerusalem bus 12 bombing - 18/19 April 2016: A bomb exploded on a bus in Jerusalem Monday afternoon, injuring over 20 people as it and other vehicles were engulfed in flames, one man remains in life-threatening condition a day later, while 11 others are still hospitalized - 20 April: Hamas claims one of its own was responsible for Jerusalem bus bomb, praising Abu Srour’s death and declaring him a martyr for jihad

June 2016: 8 June 2016 Tel Aviv shooting - 8 juin 2016: Trois personnes ont été tuées et six autres blessées à Tel-Aviv, quand deux individus ont ouvert le feu dans un quartier de restaurants et de bars proche du Ministère de la défense - 10 June: Israel's army makes more arrests in hometown of Tel Aviv gunmen, who used homemade weapons to kill 4 in rampage

November 2016: 27 November 2016: Two Israeli Arabs arrested on suspicion of deliberately starting brush fires have confessed to the crimes, according to police - November 2016 Israel fires

January 2017: 8 January 2017 Jerusalem vehicular attack - a truck was deliberately rammed by an Israeli Arab citizen into a group of soldiers disembarking from a bus in the Israeli settlement Armon Hanatziv Esplanade in Jerusalem, killing 4 and injuring 15 - 9 January 2017: Families, friends mourn 4 soldiers killed in Jerusalem terror attack, condemned by the UN Security Council, emphasizing 'need for those responsible for this reprehensible act of terrorism to be held accountable'

Israel Prison Service: Israel Prison Service - 31 May 2013: Over 100 inmates have been held in complete isolation at Israeli prisons for months or years under harsh conditions, a stormy debate in the Knesset Interior Committee revealed

Palestinian prisoners in Israel: Palestinian prisoners in Israel

2015: 14 August 2015: Security forces brace for riots as hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Allaan's condition worsens, protesting being held without trial - 19 August: Israel suspends detention of Palestinian lawyer Allaan who suffered brain damage

Anti-Arabism in Israel: Anti-Arabism in Israel - Racism in Israel

2014/2015: 6 August 2014: Murder trial begins for three Israelis accused of killing Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir - 18 August 2014: Police blocked more than 200 far-right Israeli protesters objecting to marriage of Jewish woman and Muslim man, as they shouted 'death to the Arabs' - 8 December: Police have arrested several suspects in the 29 November arson of a Jewish-Arab bilingual school in Jerusalem - 25 February 2015: A mosque in a village near Bethlehem was set alight early Wednesday morning and anti-Arab graffiti was daubed on it walls, no reports of injuries

July 2015 Duma arson attack: 31 July 2015 Duma arson attack - 24 December 2015: Police have opened an investigation into events surrounding a video released Wednesday showing far-right wing Israeli extremists at a wedding dancing in celebration of the murder of three members of Palestinian Dawabsha family in July - 29 December 2015: Israeli police arrests two suspects in connection with the 'wedding of hate' and Yakir Ashbel for questioning, whose wedding was featured in a video clip showing dozens of far-right guests celebrating the Duma firebombing attack that killed three members of Palestinian Dawabsha family in July

2016: 1 January 2016: Soldier whose rifle was brandished at ‘hate wedding’ gets 21 days in jail - 3 January 2016: 2 suspected Jewish extremists indicted for July 2015 Duma killings

Religiously motivated violence:

2015: 26 February 2015: A Greek Orthodox institution in Jerusalem was set fire to early Thursday morning in what police believe is likely an anti-Christian hate crime

Corruption and political scandals in Israel: Political scandals in Israel - List of Israeli public officials convicted of crimes or misdemeanors

2001/2013: Avigdor Lieberman assault, fraud and corruption case, convicted for assault on 24 September 2001 and ongoing legal proceedings - NZZ 3. Januar 2012: Israels Außenminister Lieberman wegen Betrugs vor Gericht geladen - 13 December 2012: Israeli FM Avigdor Lieberman charged with breach of trust in connection with a long-running financial scandal - 30 December 2012: Indictment served against former FM Avigdor Lieberman, facing now counts of breach of trust and fraud - 17 February 2013: Israel ex-FM Lieberman and key ally of PM Netanyahu accused of promoting diplomat in return for information on police probe into his affairs

2011: Moshe Katsav rape and sexual harassment case sentenced on 22 March 2011 - NZZ 10. November 2011: Oberstes Gericht Israels bestätigt Urteil gegen früheren Staatspräsidenten Katsav

2012-2016: Ehud Olmert corruption and bribery case, on 10 July 2012 Olmert convicted of breach of trust - 5 January: Former Israel PM Olmert indicted in corruption case - 10 juillet 2012: L'ex-Premier ministre Olmert coupable de corruption dans l'affaire dite du 'Centre d'investissement' - 24 September: Former Israel PM Ehud Olmert given a one-year suspended sentence for breaching the public's trust - 31 March 2014: Former PM Ehud Olmert convicted of accepting bribes in Holyland case - 13 May 2014: Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert sentenced to 6-year jail term for corruption - 30 March 2015: Former PM Olmert convicted of fraud, breach of trust in retrial - 25 May 2015: Ex-premier Olmert sentenced to eight months in jail for taking cash from USA businessman and fundraiser Morris Talansky in exchange for political favors - 29 December 2015: Israel’s Supreme Court partially upheld the conviction of Ehud Olmert, who is one of eight former officials and businessmen in the so-called Holyland real estate corruption case, sending the former PM to prison for 18 months - 2 February 2016: Olmert faces fresh conviction after admitting case tampering

2013: 9 July 2013: According to the numbers, Israeli political and cultural institutions are among the most corrupt of the OECD member countries, but Israelis are more willing than their international peers to take the fight against corruption into their own hands

2014/2015: 24 December 2014: A year-long corruption investigation had led to the arrest of 30 suspects, including a deputy minister, a former minister, a ministry director, Israeli police says - 12 January 2015: Yisrael Beytenu MK Kirschenbaum resigns from politics after corruption probe

2016: 5 April 2016: Israel launches probe into firms exposed in tax haven leaks concerning Mossack Fonseca, the Panama-based law firm at the heart of the so-called 'Panama Papers' scandal - 29 May 2016: Israel police recommend indicting Sara Netanyahu over irregularities at PM's residence

2017: 10 July 2017: Six people including a number of former senior public officials, suspected of corruption in the potentially fraudulent purchase of naval vessels, questioned as part of the ongoing investigation into the 'submarine affair', in which PM Netanyahu’s personal lawyer David Shimron is suspected of attempting to sway multi-billion-shekel deals in favor of the German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp, which he represented in Israel

Law and law enforcement in Israel: Israeli law - Constitution of Israel - Basic Laws of Israel, the constitutional laws of the State of Israel dealing with the formation and role of the principal institutions of the state, with the relations between the state's authorities and some of them also protecting civil rights - Law enforcement in Israel

List of the Basic Laws of Israel: List of the Basic Laws of Israel since 1958

Israel's judicial system and Israeli courts: Israel's judicial system consists of secular courts and religious courts, as the law courts constitute a separate and independent unit of the Ministry of Justice and as the system is headed by Israel's Supreme Court and the Minister of Justice - Israeli courts

Supreme Court of Israel: Supreme Court, consisting of 15 justices who are appointed by the Judicial Selection Committee, is the highest court in Israel and has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all other courts and, in some cases, original jurisdiction

2004/2005: Israeli Supreme Court decisions of 2004 and 2005 on the West Bank Barrier

2017: 5 January 2017: Supreme Court head Miriam Naor says attacks on IDF justices who convicted Hebron shooter Azaria 'have no place in civilized society’, adding that 'pointed criticism of verdicts are of course legitimate, but what is happening now crosses all lines of legitimate discourse and represents a threat to the rule of law and democracy'

Israeli Military Courts: Israeli Military Court of Appeals, the supreme military court of the Israel Defense Forces, considering and judging over appeals submitted by the Military Advocate General which challenge decisions rendered by the District Military Tribunals

2016/2017: Investigation and trial of the 24 March 2016 Hebron shooting incident in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hebron, when a Palestinian assailant who stabbed an Israeli soldier was shot - 5 January 2017: Israeli police see wave of online incitement against 3 members of military court after manslaughter conviction for IDF soldier Azaria who killed incapacitated Palestinian assailant in March 2016 - 21 February 2017: Families of soldier Elor Azaria and Palestinian assailant Abdel Fattah al-Sharif he killed both lament sentence

National law enforcement agencies of Israel: National law enforcement agencies of Israel - Israel Police is the civilian police force of Israel - Israel Border Police is the gendarmerie and border security branch of the Israel National Police since 1953 - Military Police Corps of the Israel Defense Forces is the Israeli military police and provost

2015: 5 July 2015: Head of Israel Police fraud unit Ephraim Bracha commits suicide, following reports that the Police Internal Investigations Department was looking into claims that Bracha had given information about bribery cases to suspects - 6 July 2015: The Justice Ministry on Sunday cleared fraud squad officer Ephraim Bracha of wrongdoing, hours after he committed suicide in the wake of corruption allegations

Environment of Israel: Environment of Israel - Geography of Israel - Mediterranean climate - Israeli coastal plain - Jordan Rift Valley - Negev desert and semidesert region of southern Israel, in the north the region's largest city and administrative capital Beersheba (pop. 203,604), at its southern end the Gulf of Aqaba and the resort city of Eilat

Natural history of Israel: Natural history of Israel - Biodiversity in Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip

Environmental issues in Israel: Environmental issues in Israel - Conservation in Israel - Protected areas of Israel - Nature reserves in Israel - National parks of Israel

Ministry of Environmental Protection in Israel - Environmental organizations based in Israel - Israel Nature and Parks Authority

Water in Israel: Water in Israel - Bodies of water of Israel - Rivers of Israel

Forests of contemporary Israel: Forests of contemporary Israel are mainly the result of a massive afforestation campaign by the Jewish National Fund

Blueprint Negev: Blueprint Negev is a Jewish National Fund project to construct new Jewish communities in the Negev region of Israel and boost Jewish settlement in the region

Air pollution and climate change in Israel: Air pollution and climate change in Israel

Natural disasters in Israel: Natural disasters in Israel

Storms and floods in Israel:

2013 Middle East cold snap and floods: 2013 Middle East cold snap and floods

2015 Dust storm: 7 October 2015: Syrian civil war was one of causes for unusual dust storm a few weeks ago, say Israeli scientists

Wildfires in Israel:

1989: September 1989 Mount Carmel forest fire

2010: December 2010 Mount Carmel forest fire

2016: 15 May 2016: Massive heat wave leads to brush fires across Israel

November/December 2016, 2017: November 2016 Israel wildfires, a wave of over 200 wildfires in various regions in Israel - 24 November 2016: Several hundred people were evacuated from their homes in a number of locations across Israel including Haifa as a wave of wildfires continued to wreak havoc across the country, bolstered by high winds and dry conditions that have contributed to vast damage caused over the past two days, as international firefighters arrive to help - 24 November 2016: Palestinian Authority sends a team to help combat blazes - 25 November 2016: Officials say evidence of widespread arson unclear as fires burn overnight in many parts of Israel - 27 November 2016: The wildfires that have raged across Israel over five days have left at least 133 people injured, rendered hundreds of homes unlivable and consumed tens of thousands of dunams of protected parks and nature reserves, as firefighters gain control of most of the blazes - 27 November 2016: Two Israeli Arabs arrested on suspicion of deliberately starting brush fires have confessed to the crimes, according to police - 18 December 2016: Three Palestinians arrested for suspected arson attacks after they were spotted by security cameras on 25 November attempting to ignite a blaze outside of Ariel, Shin Bet says - 5 February 2017: 3 Palestinians accused of arson in November West Bank fire

Droughts in Israel:

1998-2012, 2016: 22 March 2016: Following the release of a new NASA study, showing that a drought from 1998-2012 in the eastern Mediterranean was the area’s worst drought in 900 years, Israeli water experts say that a combination of water from rainfall, recycling of wastewater, desalination of seawater and a large-scare water conservation campaign has made Israel nearly drought-proof

Palestinian territories - Outline of the Palestinian territories - Gaza Strip - West Bank - History of Palestine (region) - History of the Palestinian people - Demographics of Palestine - Demographics of the Palestinian territories

Economy of the Palestinian territories: Economy of the Palestinian territories - main industries include cement, quarrying, textiles, soap, olive-wood carvings, mother-of-pearl souvenirs, food processing - Economy of Gaza - 5 July 2012: The economic potential of Palestinian communities in the Jordan Valley area of the West Bank is being jeopardised by Israeli settlement activity, a report by the UK charity Oxfam says - 3 July 2013: Israeli controls hold back Palestinian economy, the IMF says - 8 September 2013: The Israeli government on Sunday approved the allocation of 5,000 work permits for Palestinians from the West Bank - 13 July 2014: Hamas rocket strikes power line in Gaza Strip, cutting off power to 70,000 Palestinians - 17 September 2014: The Palestinian economy is expected to contract 4% this year for the first time in seven years, the result of the recent Gaza war - 29 September 2015: The Palestinian economy has worsened for a third consecutive year, the World Bank says, citing drop in donor aid, Israeli restrictions and political instability

Agriculture in the Palestinian territories: Agriculture in the Palestinian territories - Olive production in Palestine

2014: 7 October 2014: Gaza farming and livestock devastated by recent war with Israel 2014

Gaza fishing industry: Gaza fishing industry and effects of Israeli sea blockade

2017: 5 June 2017: Easing naval blockade for Ramadan, Israel extends for another two weeks the expanded Mediterranean fishing zone granted for Palestinian fisherman living in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip

Water supply and sanitation in the Palestinian territories: Water supply and sanitation in the Palestinian territories - Palestinian Water Authority - Israeli–Palestinian Joint Water Committee

2016: 21 June 2016: After tens of thousands of Palestinians have been suffering the harsh effects of a drastic cut in the water supply in June, Israel says region's intense heatwave combined with Palestinian Water Authority's refusal to approve additional infrastructure had led to 'old and limited pipes being unable to transfer all the water needed'

2017: 13 July 2017: USA's Middle East envoy Greenblatt announces water deal between Israelis and Palestinians

Water supply effects of the Gaza war 2008/2009 and the Gaza blockade: Effects of the Gaza war 2008/2009 and the Gaza blockade

2014/2015: 16 July 2014: Gaza’s water system collapsing due to escalation in Gaza-Israel conflict since June, says Red Cross - 6 March 2015: Israel’s decision to double water supplies to Gaza is an improvement but still inadequate, experts say

2016/2017: 3 February 2016: UN agency says that Gaza, with 1.8 million inhabitants, could be uninhabitable by 2020, in part because of lack of potable water - 23 March 2017: More and more Gazans are falling ill from their drinking water, as 'more than 97% of the water table is unfit for domestic use because of salinization never before seen', according the general manager of the strip’s water utility Shoblak

Jordan River: Jordan River - Water politics in the Jordan River basin - 26 septembre 2013: La vallée fertile du Jourdain charrie la désolation palestinienne

Banking in the Palestinian territories: List of banks in Palestine - Palestine Monetary Authority located in Ramallah

Poverty in the Palestinian territories: Poverty in the Palestinian territories

2015: 22 November 2015: Eight in 10 people in the Gaza Strip live below the poverty line, but among them a wealthy elite co-exists

Palestinian society and demographics of the Palestinian territories: Palestinian society - Demographics of the Palestinian territories

2015: 12 May 2015: Palestinian Bureau of Statistics says it recorded a population of 12.1 million people, of whom 2.8 million live in West Bank, 1.8 million in Gaza, 1.5 million in Israel and 6 million abroad

Culture and languages of Palestine: Culture of Palestine - Languages of Palestine - Arabic language - Palestinian Arabic is a Levantine Arabic dialect subgroup spoken by the Palestinians in the Palestinian Territories, in the Arab community of Israel and in most Palestinian refugee populations around the world

Palestinian women: Palestinian women

2014: 27 February 2014: Palestinian women seek tougher laws to combat honor killings, after killings doubled in 2013 to 26 - 25 March 2014: Outrage rising among Palestinians over steady increase in 'honor killings'

Education in the Palestinian territories: Education in the Palestinian territories - Education in Gaza - Education in the West Bank

Since 1950: UNRWA education programme in the Middle East with 700 schools employing more than 20,000 mostly Palestinian teaching and support staff - Palestinian curriculum and Antisemitism - Antisemitism in the Arab world in the twentieth century - Antisemitism in the Palestinian territories

2013: 1 April 2013: Hamas law promotes gender segregation in Gaza schools - 17 octobre 2013: Des écoliers palestiniens escortés par des soldats israéliens

2014: 14 September 2014: Half million Gaza children make delayed return to school after the devastating 50-day conflict that killed more than 2,100 Palestinians and damaged hundreds of school buildings - 3 October 2014: Dispute over freedom and radicalization has erupted since Haaretz reporter Amira Hass was ordered to leave conference at Ramallah’s Bir Zeit University last month - 29 December: Hamas prohibits Gaza children from Israel conciliatory trip

Palestinian militant misuse of children and youths: Palestinian militant misuse of children

2013: 24 January 2013: Hamas to establish military academy for schoolkids

2015: 9 February 2015: Some 17,000 child soldiers graduate course as Hamas fighters - 8 June 2015: At West Bank kindergarten graduation ceremony, preschoolers wore military uniforms, brandished toy machine guns and performed to song promising enemies will be turned into 'body parts'

2017: 12 June 2017: Gaza’s Hamas rulers have detained a young man who criticized the Islamic militant group’s call for protests at the border that have set off deadly clashes with Israeli troops, posting a video on YouTube in which he accused the group of 'pushing the youths to death' to stay in power

Children in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Children in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

2015: 9/10 January 2015: Two Palestinian babies have died in the Gaza Strip due to cold weather and inadequate housing facilities after Gaza war

2016: 1 April 2016: Gaza child labor doubled in the last 5 years, Palestinians say - 11 June 2016: As child labor drops globally, wars and poverty force Gaza children to work

Libraries and museums in the Palestinian territories: List of libraries in the Palestinian territories - List of museums in the Palestinian territories

Health in the Palestinian territories: Health in the Palestinian territories

Health care in the Palestinian territories: Health care in the Palestinian territories - Since 1950 UNRWA the main healthcare provider for the Palestinian refugee population - List of hospitals in the Palestinian territories - Palestine Children's Relief Fund, a registered, non-governmental organization established in 1991, by people in the USA to address the medical and humanitarian crisis facing Palestinian youths in the Middle East

2017: 1 August 2017: Palestinian Authority's Saeb Erekat has a serious lung disease and is currently on the waiting list for a transplant in Israel and the USA

Palestinian media: Palestinian media

Palestinian newspapers - Television stations in Palestine - Internet in Palestine

2013/2014: 14 November 2013: Israel detains Palestinian journalist on charges of endangering Israeli national security - 11 August 2014: Foreign press group condemns Hamas intimidation in Gaza - 3 October 2014: Dispute over freedom and radicalization has erupted since Haaretz reporter Amira Hass was ordered to leave conference at Ramallah’s Bir Zeit University last month

2015: 4 February: A suspected positive caricature of the prophet Mohammed in a West Bank Palestinian newspaper prompts President Abbas to set up a committee to investigate, but the well-known cartoonist denies image in cartoon is the Prophet - 13 August 2015: Palestinian rights group sues PA over prison torture, after student was detained and beaten for five days after criticizing local government on social media

2016: 13 January 2016: Gaza journalist Ayman al-Aloul, who often criticized enclave’s rulers, says he will not do so anymore after torture in Hamas jail

2017: 5 September 2017: Palestinian security forces have arrested Issa Amro, one of the most prominent human rights activists, after he criticised the arrest of a Palestinian journalist in a Facebook post

Religion in the Palestinian territories: Religion in the Palestinian territories

Islam and freedom of religion in the Palestinian territories: Islam in the Palestinian territories - Freedom of religion in the Palestinian territories - Palestinian attitude towards Christians

2014: 7 August 2014: Gaza archbishop admits Greek Orthodox compound, which sheltered hundreds of Palestinians during shelling, used by Hamas as launching site firing rockets from church

2015: 12 October 2015: Gaza cleric Muhammad Sallah, brandishing knife during Friday sermon, calls on young men in West Bank to form 'stabbing squads' to stab Jews

Human rights in the Palestinian National Authority: Human rights in the Palestinian National Authority - Human rights in the Gaza Strip

Human rights organizations in the Palestinian territories: Human rights organizations based in the Palestinian territories

Crime in the Palestinian territories: Crime in the Palestinian territories

2004/2013: Death of Yasser Arafat November 2004 - 14 October 2013: Swiss radiation experts found traces of polonium on clothing used by Yasser Arafat which "support the possibility" the veteran Palestinian leader was poisoned 2004 - 6 November: Swiss forensic team has found that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned in 2004 with radioactive polonium, discovering levels of polonium at least 18 times higher than normal in his remains - 4 December: Yasser Arafat did not die of poisoning, French tests conclude

2012: 7 April 2012: Hamas hangs Gaza prisoners, including one 'collaborator' with Israel - 1 August 2012: Palestinians protest murder of battered wife - 17 September: A Hamas-run military court in the Gaza Strip has convicted four Palestinians for their involvement in the abduction and murder of the Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni in April 2011 - 3 October: Palestinians in the Gaza Strip face 'serious abuses' in the justice system, according to a report of Human Rights Watch

2013: 7 February 2013: Palestinian Anas Said Awad sentenced to a year in prison for Abbas Facebook 'insult', posting next to a picture of Abbas kicking a football the words 'a new striker for Real Madrid' - 8 April 2013: Police in Hamas-ruled Gaza shaves heads of Gaza youths with long hair - 22 June: Hamas hanged two men accused of collaborating with Israel - 13 November: Hamas 'torturing political prisoners', Palestinian rights group says

2014/2015: 7/8 August: Hamas says it has executed several Palestinians on suspicion of helping Israeli forces during the month-long Gaza conflict as separate reports surface that Hamas top official and former spokesman Ayman Taha was executed for maintaining contact with intelligence services in Egypt, other Arab countries - 9 February 2015: Vehicle of senior Hamas official blown up by Palestinian assailants - 27 May 2015: Hamas tortured, killed Gaza civilians during war with Israel, rights group says - 19 July 2015: Six vehicles explode in apparent coordinated and suspected 'Islamic State' attack targeting, Hamas and Islamic Jihad officials and injuring some people

2016: 19 August 2016: Two Palestinian security forces, two others killed in ongoing battle in heart of West Bank city as PA tries to crack down on illegal weapons

2017: 20 March 2017: Palestinian police officer killed overnight Monday during an arrest raid in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus, wanted man seriously injured in exchange of fire - 25 March 2017: Thousands of Hamas supporters called for 'revenge' during the Gaza funeral of top terrorist Mazen Faqha, as leaders of the terror group continued to blame Israel for his killing and threatened retribution - 25 May 2017: Hamas will execute three Palestinian men on Thursday who were found guilty this week of assassinating senior member Mazen Faqha of the terror group in March - 20 July 2017: The Palestinian Authority systematically tortured dozens of suspected collaborators with Israel between 1990 and 2003, and must compensate them for the physical and mental harm it caused them, a Jerusalem court ruled this week - 3 August 2017: Israel breaks up alleged Hamas Turkey-Hebron money laundering ring

Corruption in the Palestinian territories:

2015: 12 August 2015: Leaked documents trigger outrage over Palestinian corruption

Nationalism, racism and antisemitism in the Palestinian territories: Palestinian nationalism - Racism in the Palestinian territories - Antisemitism in the Arab world in the twentieth century - Antisemitism in the Palestinian territories

Palestinian political violence and Hamas: Palestinian political violence - Palestinian terrorism - Fatah–Hamas conflict 2006 – present

Hamas - The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (1993-present) is the military wing of political organisation Hamas

2015: 5 July 2015: A year after Operation Protective Edge, some 100,000 Gazans remain homeless, with unemployment and poverty even more crippling than they were a year ago - 31 July 2015: 'Every Israeli is now a legitimate target' following Duma terror attack, Hamas says

2017: 15 January 2017: Hamas and Islamic State terrorists' affiliate in Sinai reportedly resume close cooperation despite pressure from Egypt - 22 March 2017: Hamas’s leader in the Gaza Strip Sinwar vows to 'continue in the path of Yassin for the liberation of all of Palestine’

Palestinian domestic weapons production: Palestinian domestic weapons production

2014: 15 August 2014: Hamas TV shows Gaza missile production during war saying terror group has replenished stocks of thousands of rockets launched at Israel - 16 August: Lebanese news channel films and shows fighters from Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades preparing rockets in tunnels - 15 August: Hamas deported foreign journalists for filming missile launches

2016: 17 October 2016: Hamas test-fires long-range rocket into sea off Gaza, conducting trial launches to improve range, accuracy

Palestinian tunnel warfare in the Gaza Strip: Palestinian tunnel warfare in the Gaza Strip

2006: 2006 Gaza cross-border raid, two IDF soldiers and two Palestinian militants were killed, four IDF soldiers were wounded, and one wounded soldier Gilad Shalit was captured and taken to the Gaza Strip

2013: 26 October 2013: How Hamas dug its terror tunnel stretching from the outskirts of Khan Yunis to the fields of Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha, and how the IDF found it

2014: 28 July 2014: Use of child labor not stopped by police in Gaza, where children's 'nimble bodies' help dig the tunnels that lead into Israel and Egypt - 11 August 2014: Hamas executed Gazan tunnel excavators so they couldn't pass any information on the terror tunnels to Israel, a Mako report says

2015: 18 January: Egypt finds Gaza-bound smuggling tunnel laden with explosives

Palestinian law: Palestinian law

Law enforcement in the Palestinian National Authority: Law enforcement in the Palestinian National Authority

Palestinian Security Services: Palestinian Security Services - Palestinian National Security Forces - Part of the Palestinian Security Services, the Palestinian Civil Police is tasked with traditional law enforcement duties in the autonomous territory governed by the Palestinian National Authority - Palestinian Civil Defence, one of the main branches of the Palestinian Security Services and responsible for emergency services and rescue in the areas under control of the Palestinian Authority - Palestinian Presidential Guard - Palestinian Preventive Security is an internal intelligence organization and part of the Palestinian Security Services

Taxation and budget in the Palestinian territories: Taxation in the Palestinian territories - International aid to Palestinians - Budget

2013: 29 March 2013: Palestinian cabinet passes $3.9 billion budget for 2013, 25% is earmarked for defense

2016: 8 September 2016: As the residents of the Gaza Strip endure daily hardships due to the dire economic situation in the enclave, their Hamas leaders spend over $100 million a year on the group’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, according to estimates by both Israeli and Palestinian sources

Israeli withholdings of tax revenues: Israeli withholdings of tax revenues - 30 November 2011: Israel is to release millions of dollars in Palestinian tax revenues it had frozen as a punitive sanction for Unesco vote to admit Palestinian Territories as a member - 12 December 2012: Israel to withhold Palestinian funds in response to his UN statehood campaign, Israel's FM says - 3/4 January 2015: Israel freezes tax revenues it collects on behalf of the Palestinians in retaliation for their move to join the ICC - 29 March 2015: Israeli decision to transfer Palestinian tax funds also welcomed by EU and USA

Palestinian National Authority: Palestinian National Authority - 5 January 2013: Palestinian Authority officially changes name to 'State of Palestine' - Political parties in the Palestinian National Authority - Trade unions in the Palestinian territories

Social movements and protests in the Palestinian territories: Protests in the Palestinian territories

2011: 2011 Palestinian protests - 21 September 2011: Tens of thousands of Palestinians rally in support of full UN membership for Palestinian state

2012: 2012 Palestinian protests - 3 September 2012: Mohamed Abu Nada, 18, died in Gaza after setting himself alight in apparent protest against his family's living conditions - 8 September: Palestinians stage anti-PM protest over prices

2015: 29 April 2015: A Palestinian unity rally attended by hundreds in Gaza on Wednesday ended in scuffles - 15 May 2015: Palestinians marked Nakba Day on Friday with demonstrations in Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strips and in refugee camps in neighboring countries - 8 September 2015: Thousands attend funeral of Reham Dawabsheh, the mother of slain Palestinian toddler Ali, five weeks after arson attack killed her son and her husband

2017: 8 April 2017: Tens of thousands of Palestinians protested in Gaza City on Saturday against recent salary cuts announced by the Palestinian Authority

Elections and politics of the Palestinian National Authority: Elections in the Palestinian National Authority

2011: 2011 Palestinian local elections

April 2011: 28. April 2011: Einigung von Fatah/Hamas auf Neuwahlen

July/August 2011: 26 July 2011: Hamas executes 2 Palestinians convicted of collaboration - Palestinian Authority faces cash shortage - 13 August: Palestinians to bid for UN state recognition next month - 15. August 2011: Nach Hamas-Kontrollversuchen die Arbeit internationaler Hilfsorganisationen mit US-Finanzierung wieder möglich

September-November 2011: 21 September: Tens of thousands of Palestinians rally in support of full UN membership for Palestinian state - 23 September: Palestinians celebrate Abbas' UN speech: 'Palestine is being reborn' - one Palestinian shot by Israeli troops near Nablus - 16. November 2011: Einigung von Fatah und Hamas auf Wahlen im Mai 2012 - 24 November: Election date in May 2012 confirmed following a meeting in Cairo

February-May 2012: 6 February 2012: Abbas 'proposed as PM' in unity government - 16. Mai 2012: Mangels Einigung mit Hamas neue palästinensische Regierung im Westjordanland unter Leitung von Ministerpräsident Salam Fajjad vereidigt

October-December 2012: 2. Oktober: Hamas-Exil-Chef Chaled Meschaal hat Syrien verlassen und ist in Katar - 6 October 2012: Municipal elections in the Palestinian Authority-controlled West Bank will take place on 20 October 2012 - 20 October: Local elections are being held in the West Bank, the first Palestinian polls in more than six years - 21 octobre: Le Fatah revendique déjà la victoire, but fails to win big in West Bank vote - 8 December: Khaled Meshaal has told tens of thousands marking the 25th anniversary of the Hamas founding that it will not recognise Israel - 14 December: Palestinian authority permits rally in the Israeli-occupied territory as Hamas supporters celebrate its anniversary

Palestinian general election 2013: Next Palestinian general election (2011 or 2012) - Palestinian general election 2013

January 2013: 4 January: Hundreds of thousands of supporters of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction have held rallies in Gaza to mark the group's 48th anniversary

April 2013: 14 April 2013: Abbas accepts Palestinian PM Fayyad's resignation - 17 April: Caretaker PM Fayyad calls for Palestinian elections to rebuild the Palestinian political system

June 2013: 6 June 2013: Palestinians swear in new prime minister Rami Hamdallah - 20 June: New Palestinian PM Rami Hamdallah resigns - 21 June: Palestinian PM Hamdallah withdraws resignation - 23 June: President Abbas accepts the resignation of his newly appointed PM Hamdallah, agency says

2014: April 2014 Fatah–Hamas Gaza Agreement - Fatah–Hamas conflict 2006 – present - 23 April: Fatah and Hamas reportedly sign reconciliation agreement and will hold elections within six months, with a unity government headed by Abbas until that time - Palestinian government of 2014 formed on 2 June 2014 under President Abbas - 7 July: Hamas claims responsibility for rocket fire on Israel - 10 July: Fatah joins Hamas and Islamic Jihad in missile launches as armed wing linked to Mahmoud Abbas’s faction says it shot rockets at Ashkelon, Sderot and elsewhere - 18 July: Hamas left isolated by its refusal to accept a truce as death toll rises and UN chief heads for the region to help broker peace

August 2014: 8 August 2014: As Gaza rocket fire continues and Hamas rejects extending truce, a new poll says that 92% of Palestinians in Gaza are in favor of a long-term ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and 72% hope their leaders will work to achieve a lasting peace agreement - 10 August: Hamas threatens major escalation in rocket strikes on Israel as Gazans in addition to hundreds of victims, destruction and unemployment struggle with rising prices - 13 August: The annihilation of the state of Israel has begun, says the official PLO envoy Salah al-Zawawi in Tehran, as Hamas representative in Iran Khaled al-Kadoumi says, that he hopes its weapons will become more advanced with the help of the Iranians - 15 August: After weeks of war, some fearless Gazans are starting to speak out questioning Hamas’s handling of the crisis - 17 August: Hundreds of Fatah members under Hamas house arrest in Gaza - 18 August: Israel arrested 93 Hamas men in West Bank over terror network targeting Palestinian Authority - 17 December 2014: Two-thirds of Palestinians say they are afraid to criticize Mahmoud Abbas, according to a poll

2014 Palestinian general election, delayed 'until further notice': Palestinian general election is scheduled to be held less than 6 months from June 2014, delayed 'until further notice'

2015: 12 January: Hamas slams Abbas ‘hypocrisy’ for his attendance at Paris rally in solidarity with the victims of terror attacks - 4 May 2015: Hamas security HQ in Gaza bombed after threat - 3 June 2015: New taxes instituted by Hamas, price hikes and its failure to rebuild the Strip foment discontent in Gaza - 4 July: PA arrests 21 students affiliated with Hamas in West Bank

September 2016: 8 September 2016: Palestinian court postpones long-awaited local elections in October, heralded as first large-scale ballot for Palestinians since 2006

October 2016 Palestinian local elections, postponed: 8 October 2016 Palestinian local elections, postponed

2017: 13 February 2017: Hamas elects convicted murderer Yahya Sinwar as Gaza chief, who rejects reconciliation with Israel

May 2017 Palestinian local elections: 13 May 2017 Palestinian local elections - 11 May 2017: Municipal voting being held Saturday in West Bank only, highlighting the persistent inability of rival movements Fatah and Hamas to overcome deep divisions

Foreign relations of the Palestinian National Authority: Foreign relations of the Palestinian National Authority

Arab League and the Arab–Israeli conflict: Arab League and the Arab–Israeli conflict - 17 November 2012: Arab League foreign ministers support Gaza as Hamas chief meets Egyptian president, Qatari emir and Turkish PM - 9 December: Arab League foreign ministers have agreed to send hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinian Authority to make up for punitive measures imposed by the Israeli government after a successful bid for recognition at the United Nations - 27 March 2013: The Arab League approved a Qatari proposal to set up a $1 billion fund for Arab East Jerusalem

Palestine/Brazil relations: Palestine/Brazil relations

Palestine/Bulgaria relations: Palestine/Bulgaria relations - 15 February 2013: Bulgaria ordered three visiting Palestinian Hamas politicians to leave the country, saying they posed a security risk to the EU member state

Palestine/China relations: Palestine/China relations

Palestine/Czech Republic relations: 3 January 2014: Weapons found at Palestinian envoy Jamal al-Jamal's Prague home, killed by an exploding safe on New Year's Day - 14 January: Palestinian diplomats apologise for illegal arms at Prague embassy

Palestine/Egypt relations: Palestine/Egypt relations - History of the Middle East

From 1948 to 1967 occupation of the Gaza Strip by Egypt: Occupation of the Gaza Strip by Egypt between 1948 and October 1956 and again from March 1957 to June 1967

2012: NZZ 23. Juli 2012: Ägypten erlaubt Palästinensern visafreie Einreise - 20 November: Efforts are underway in Cairo for reaching a Gaza truce - 30 December: Egypt has allowed a shipment of construction materials to enter the Gaza Strip from its territory for the first time since 2007

2013/2014: 16 août 2013: Le Hamas et les islamistes à Amman et à Khartoum manifestent pour Morsi - 17 July 2014: Abbas taking center stage in Egypts’s cease-fire proposal negotiations - 28 July 2014: Hamas official claims it rejected Egyptian deal to avoid recognizing Israel - 11 August: Following reports that Egypt would agree to the deployment of some 1,000 PA policemen along the Egypt/Gaza border, Hamas reportedly will let the PA monitor Rafah crossing

Palestine/European Union relations: Palestine/European Union relations - 31 July 2012: Suha Arafat asks French court to launch murder investigation into the death of the Palestinian leader over poison claim - 6/7 August 2014: European countries propose EU mission to open Gaza crossing with a plan for the rehabilitation of Gaza, which calls for its demilitarization but at the same time demands Israel ease the blockade of the enclave - 27 October 2015: In Brussels meeting with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, PA president Abbas cites disappointment among young generation, feeling of hopelessnes, fearing deterioration amid wave of terror attacks

Palestine/France relations: Palestine/France relations

Palestine/India relations: Palestine/India relations - 6 August 2014: Indian TV shows Hamas rocket fired near Gaza hotel after reporter watched and filmed launch 'bang in the middle of what is a residential area full of apartment buildings'

Palestine/Indonesia relations: Palestine/Indonesia relations

Palestine/Iran relations: Palestine/Iran relations

2012: 21 novembre 2012: Depuis le dernier conflit d’envergure avec l’armée israélienne 2008/2009, le Hamas a quasiment multiplié par deux la portée de ses roquettes iraniennes

2014: 5 March 2014: Israel seizes ship in the Red Sea with medium-range missiles heading from Iran to Gaza as USA military was prepared to get involved in the seizure - 15 March 2014: Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehqa praises Palestinians for firing on Israel and says they have yet to display their actual missile capabilities - 25 July 2014: Keep arming Palestinians until Israel is destroyed, Iran's Khamenei says - 28 July 2014: PFLP chief says Syria, Iran, Hezbollah armed Hamas

2017: 28 August 2017: Hailing fully restored relations with Iranian regime, Yahya Sinwar says his group doesn’t want war yet but is building up military power for ‘the liberation of Palestine’

Palestine/Iraq relations: Palestine/Iraq relations

Palestine/Jordan relations: Palestine/Jordan relations - Jordan River

1948–1967 Jordanian occupation of the Jordan river 'West Bank' territory: Jordanian occupation of the West Bank 1948–1967 - 1948 Palestinian exodus - Palestine refugee camps in Jordan since 1949 - 1967 Palestinian exodus

1970-1971 violent conflict between the PLO and Jordan's King Hussein: Black September conflict (September 1970 - July 1971) between the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Jordanian Armed Forces and King Hussein - Palestinians in Jordan

Palestine/North Korea relations: Palestine/North Korea relations

2014: 27 July 2014: Hamas reportedly in talks to buy missiles from North Korea

2017: 30 April 2017: Palestinian Hamas thanks North Korean regime for its support against 'Israeli occupation' - 15 August 2017: Abbas praises North Korean freedom fighters in friendly telegram to Kim Jong Un

Palestine/Lebanon relations: Palestinians in Lebanon - Palestine refugee camps in Lebanon since 1948

Palestine/Norway relations: 18 August 2014: Norway says invitations for donor conference for Gaza reconstruction will be extended once an agreement on a sustainable ceasefire has been reached

Palestine/Pakistan relations: Palestine/Pakistan relations

Palestine/Qatar relations: 23 July 2014: Israel singles out Qatar as key Hamas terror sponsor

Palestine/South Africa relations: Palestine/South Africa relations

Palestinian-authority/Switzerland relations: Palestinian-authority/Switzerland relations - 29 May 2015: Palestinian protesters interrupt FIFA congress in Zurich, calling to expel Israel from world soccer

Palestine/Syria relations: Palestinian refugee camps in Syria - Palestinian refugees as part of the Syrian refugee crisis

Since 1948: Palestinian refugee camps in Syria - Since 1957 Yarmouk Camp

2014: 17 January 2014: Assad regime’s helicopters dropped barrel bombs on the Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk, reportedly killing at least 9 people and wounding many - 18 January 2014: Damascus Yarmouk refugee camp receives aid for first time in months after reports that people have died of hunger and lack of medical care - 10 March 2014: According to Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar Palestine's Mahmoud Abbas told Syrian opposition to trust Russia's Putin regime, not USA - 28 December 2014: 2,589 Palestinian-Syrians had been killed since March 2011, rights group says

Palestine/Thailand relations: 24 July 2014: A day after a Thai national was killed by shrapnel from a mortar shell launched by Hamas in Gaza Thailand demands Israel relocate the 4,000 Thai nationals currently employed in southern Israel

Palestine/Turkey relations: Palestine/Turkey relations

Palestine/United Arab Emirates relations: Palestine/United Arab Emirates relations

Palestine/United Kingdom relations: Palestine/United Kingdom relations

1920-1948: Mandatory Palestine 1920-1948 after World War I - British Mandate for Palestine by the Council of the League of Nations 24 July 1922, ending 14 May 1948

2014: 31 July 2014: British PM David Cameron calls for an 'unconditional, immediate humanitarian cease-fire' in Gaza, blaming Hamas for violating several cease-fires

Palestine/United Nations relations: Palestine/United Nations relations

Since 1947: United Nations Special Committee on Palestine UNSCOP created on 15 May 1947 in response to a United Kingdom government request - report of the Committee dated 3 September 1947 to the UN General Assembly - United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine recommended a partition - on 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution recommending the adoption and implementation of the plan as resolution 181 - List of the UN resolutions concerning Israel and Palestine since 1947 - UNRWA United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East since 1949

Since 1950: Since 1950 UNRWA the main healthcare provider for the Palestinian refugee population

Since 2003: UNRWA accused of hiring known militants, perpetuating Palestinian dependency, demonizing Israel, and funneling money from Western governments to line the pockets of the Palestinian Authority and purchasing arms for terrorists

December 2007: 3 December 2007: How UNRWA creates dependency

February 2009: 8 February 2009: Ex-UNRWA official blasts agency for politicizing Palestinian refugee issue - 26 February 2009: Australian lawmaker Michael Danby said Australia’s $30 million in funding for Palestinians since 2007, largely through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, was being 'diverted to arms purchases, terrorist operations and anti-Israel incitement, as well as into the pockets of the Palestinian Authority leadership'

2013: 5 avril 2013: En colère contre coupes budgétaires une foule de manifestants s’en est pris au QG de l'ONG dans la bande de Gaza, en réponse l’ONU suspend son aide

2014: 12 February 2014: The Syrian crisis that has left millions of people dependent on international aid has caused the reduction of funds to assist Palestinians, UN says - 13 March 2014: UN's Ban Ki-moon strongly deplores heavy rocket barrage on Israel from Gaza - 13/14 July 2014: Palestinian representative to the UN Human Rights Council Kraishi says every missile fired from Gaza at Israel is a crime against humanity because it is directed at civilian targets and, unlike IDF, 'we never warn anyone about where these missiles are about to fall' - 19 July: UN's Ban Ki-moon joins efforts for ceasefire negotiations after Hamas's rejection and as death toll reaches 350 - 20 July 2014: 'United' Nations agency UNRWA handed 20 missiles found in Gaza school back to Hamas, not to International Criminal Court - 22 July 2014: Israeli newspaper asks wether is was a war crime that UNRWA handed rockets over to Hamas - 23 July 2014: UN's Ban Ki-moon is 'alarmed' to hear that rockets placed in UN-run school in Gaza now 'have gone missing', demanding a full review - 28 July 2014: Hamas fired anti-tank missile from UNRWA school in Beit Hanoun on Thursday, yard was empty when IDF responded, IDF investigation says - 30 July 2014: UN agency for Palestinian refugees admits that a stockpile of Hamas rockets for the third time since the onset of Operation Protective Edge was found in UNRWA’s Gaza schools, but was not publicized by UNRWA - 30 July 2914: Three Israeli soldiers were killed and 15 injured in an explosion at a booby-trapped UNRWA 'health clinic' in Gaza's Khan Yunis that housed the opening of a Hamas tunnel for terrorist attacks in Israel - 2 August 2014: UN's Ban Ki-moon condemns Hamas violation of humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and demands the immediate, unconditional release of captured Israeli soldier Goldin - 18 December: Jordan formally submitted Palestinian-drafted resolution to the UN Security Council calling for peace between Israel and the Palestinians within one year and an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank by the end of 2017 - 31 December: UN Security Council rejects resolution on Palestinian statehood, with the Palestinians failing to get the minimum nine yes votes

2015: 1 January 2015: Palestinians turn to ICC after UN bid fails - 7 January: UN's Ban Ki-moon says Palestinians to join ICC on April 1 - 19 February: UN official alarmed by Hamas rearming, warning that financial crisis could reignite hostilities - 27 April: Palestinian militants put UN schools at risk during Gaza war, UN's Ban Ki-moon says based on the conclusions of the Board of Inquiry

Palestine/USA relations: Palestine/USA relations - 30 July 2012: Palestinians accuse US presidential candidate Romney of 'racist' remark as this tax evader says on his visit in Israel he believes 'culture' has made Israel more successful than occupied Palestine - 19 July 2013: Palestinians undecided on Kerry peace talks plan - 20 July: Agreement on basis to resume Mideast peace talks, John Kerry says - 1 August 2014: USA blames Hamas for the breakdown of a ceasefire with Israeli forces, accusing Hamas of launching a barbaric attack to capture Israeli soldier Goldin - 23 February 2015: USA jury orders the PLO and the Palestinian Authority to pay more than $218m for supporting al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and Hamas terrorists, after USA victims and their families had sued over attacks in the Jerusalem area more than a decade ago - 15 August 2017: PLO condemns USA lawmakers' move to slash aid to the Palestinian Authority over its stipends to terrorists and their families

Palestine/Venezuela relations: Palestine/Venezuela relations

2017: 21 August 2017: Israeli Defense Ministry coordinator in West Bank sharply criticized Palestinian Authority's Abbas for sending medical aid to distant Venezuela while cutting down on help to the beleaguered Gaza Strip

Palestine/Vietnam relations: Palestine/Vietnam relations

International recognition of the State of Palestine: International recognition of the State of Palestine - Proposals for a Palestinian state - 31 octobre 2011: La Palestine devient membre à part entière de l'Unesco - 107 countries voted in favour while USA, Israel, Germany and some others voted against membership - 7 January 2012: Hamas leader's Tunisia visit angers Palestinians - 29 June: Bethlehem sites given Unesco World Heritage status - NZZ 23. Juli: Arabische Liga unterstützt UN-Antrag der Palästinenser - 28 September: President Abbas says he will seek a vote at UN General Assembly to approve Palestine as a 'sovereign country' - 23 October: Qatar emir calls for Palestinian unity on visit to Gaza - 12 November: Palestinian Authority decides to move forward with a bid for elevated UN status - 30 November: In the UN General Assembly 138 countries voted (41 others abstained) to recognise Palestine as a non-member observer state, despite Israel and US criticism

Palestinian refugee: Palestinian refugee - Palestine refugee camps

2013/2014: 22 October 2013: Palestinian refugees in Syria face 'extreme vulnerability', UN official says - 7 April 2014: Clashes between rival Palestinian groups in a refugee camp near Sidon in Lebanon have killed seven people

2015: 27 March 2015: Palestinians in Mideast find their position more precarious in wake of Syria war

2017: 19 April 2017: Human rights watchdog calls for the release of 1,200 Palestinian detainees from Syrian regime prisons held by Assad since 2011, including women with children, as group releases report claiming 461 prisoners have been executed or killed under torture since 2011 - 1 August 2017: A total of 3,542 Palestinian-Syrians, including 463 women, have been killed at the hands of the Assad regime since March 2011, rights group says

Environment of the Palestinian territories: Environment of Palestine (region) - Environment of the Palestinian territories - Environment of the Gaza Strip - Environment of the West Bank

Biodiversity in Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip

The Environmental Provisions of Oslo II Accords - Ministry of Environmental Affairs (Palestine) - Environmental organizations based in the Palestinian territories

Water and water supply in the Palestinian territories: Water in the Palestinian territories - Rivers of Palestine - Water supply and sanitation in the Palestinian territories - Israeli–Palestinian Joint Water Committee

Natural disasters in the Palestinian territories: Natural disasters in the Palestinian territories

Middle East cold snaps: 2013 Middle East cold snap and floods

2015: 10 January: Three dead in Gaza, including two infants due to freezing temperatures and delays in reconstruction leaving tens of thousands of Palestinians without shelter

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Israeli-Palestinian conflict - Arab-Israeli conflict

History of the Middle East - Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire - List of modern conflicts in the Middle East

Israel and the Roman Empire, since 63 BC: 63 BC Siege and conquest of Jerusalem by the Roman empire, end of Jewish independence and incorporation of Judea into the Roman Empire as a client kingdom - William L. Westermann: The Slave Systems Of Greek And Roman Antiquity, Philadelphia 1955 - Siege of Jerusalem (37 BC) - Judea, province of the Roman empire 6 CE–135 - Jewish–Roman wars 66–136 (70 years) - First Jewish–Roman War 66–73 CE - Romam siege and destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70 CE was the decisive event of the First Jewish-Roman War - First-century Romano-Jewish scholar and historian Josephus claims that 1.1 million people were killed during the siege, of which a majority were Jewish, men and women, old and young, insurgents and priests, those who fought and those who entreated mercy, were hewn down in indiscriminate carnage, and 97,000 were captured and enslaved - The Arch of Titus, celebrating the Roman war crimes, the sack of Jerusalem and destruction of its famous Second Temple, still stands in Rome - Tisha B'Av is an annual fast day in Judaism which commemorates the anniversary of a number of disasters in Jewish history, primarily the destruction of both the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem - Siege of Masada 73 to 74 CE - 351-352 Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus in Syria Palaestina province, destruction of several Jewish cities, several thousand rebels killed

Since 136 Jewish diaspora, persecution of Jews: Jewish diaspora after the Roman destruction of Judea - History of the Jews in the Roman Empire - Jewish history since the Roman rule in the land of Israel, since 63 BCE - Anti-Judaism in the pre-Christian Roman Empire - Antisemitism in early Christianity - Antisemitism and the New Testament - Persecution of Jews

History of Jerusalem: History of Jerusalem - Timeline of Jerusalem

Since 130 AD: Aelia Capitolina, Roman colony built under the emperor Hadrian on the site of Jerusalem, which was in ruins since the siege of 70 AD, leading in part to the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132–136 AD, remaining the official name of Jerusalem until 638 AD when the Arabs conquered the city following the decline of the Roman Empire since the 4th/5th century

Since 1860: Since 1860 Mishkenot Sha’ananim, the first Jewish neighborhood built outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, on a hill directly across from Mount Zion

2014: 4 August 2014: Gazan patients hospitalized in East Jerusalem, looking for hope and answers

History of the Jews in Europe and return to Israel: History of the Jews in Europe - History of the Jews in Germany - Timeline of antisemitism - Antisemitism in Germany - Racism in Germany

Rising antisemitism in Europe in the 19th century: History of the Jews in Russia - Pale of Settlement in Russia (since 1786/1791) - Anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire

1882: May Laws in Russia 1882 - J.A. de Gobineau (théoricien du racialisme) mort 1882 - 1882 premiere of Wagner's 'Parsifal' in Bayreuth - H.St. Chamberlain (Autor antisemitischer Schriften) 1879-1888 in Dresden, später Bayreuth

1882-1903 First Aliyah (return of Jews to Israel): First Aliyah 1882-1903 (return to Israel)

1914-1918 World War I and the rise of antisemitism: 1914-1918 World War I - Antisemitism and World War I

1933-1945 antisemitism in Germany, the genocide of Jews in Nazi Germany and German-occupied territories and attempts to escape: Anti-Jewish legislation in prewar Nazi Germany - Jewish emigration from Nazi Germany - World War II - The Holocaust - The 'One Million Plan' was an official policy formulated by David Ben-Gurion in 1943–44 to bring one million Jews from Europe, North Africa and the Middle East to Mandatory Palestine in order to establish a state in the territory

1929-1939 Fifth Aliyah, the fifth wave of the Jewish immigration to Palestine from Europa and Asia: Fifth Aliyah refers to the fifth wave of the Jewish immigration to Palestine from Europe and Asia between the years 1929 and 1939

1947/2017: 9 July 2017: Survivors of 'Exodus' ship voyage to Israel gather in Mediterranean port of Sete to mark anniversary, after 70 years ago some 4,500 Jews, most of them survivors of Nazi concentration camps, gathered aboard a rickety old steamer destined for a journey that would help spur the creation of an independent Jewish state

Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine since late 19th century and violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 1920 and since 1948: Since late 19th century Arab nationalism and Arab response to Zionism - Timeline of intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine

1920-1948 violence in the intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine: Since 1920 violence in the intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine - Killings and massacres in Mandatory Palestine

1948 Israeli Declaration of Independence: Israeli Declaration of Independence 1948

1948-1949: 1948–49 Arab–Israeli War

1948-1966: 1948-1966 Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

June 1967: June 1967 'Six-Day War' fought by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt (known at the time as the United Arab Republic), Jordan and Syria

Since 1967: Since 1967 Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Since 2001 Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel: Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel - Hamas/Hezbollah relationship, Hezbollah is a role model to Hamas in terms of its military, political, and media operations, the two groups share common tactics and common goals as well as close ties to Iran, and Hezbollah reportedly assists Hamas with bomb production - Violence and terrorism in pursuit of Hamas' goals

List of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel 2001, 2002-2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

Since 1995 Lebanese rocket attacks on Israel: List of Lebanese rocket attacks on Israel since 1995 - Lebanese Hezbollah's relationships to other Islamic movements

Since 2005 rocket attacks on Eilat and Aqaba: Rocket attacks on Eilat and Aqaba since 2005 - Hamas and Sinai-based terrorism

Violent incidents in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 2011: List of violent incidents in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2011

May 2011: 15 May 2011: Palestinians killed in 'Nakba' clashes - 15. Mai 2011: Tote bei Protesten am 15. Mai auf dem Golan etc. - 25 May 2011: Egypt will open Rafah border permanently - 28. Mai 2011: Grenze Ägypten/Gazastreifen geöffnet

June/July 2011: 5. Juni 2011: Israel tötet Demonstranten auf dem Golan - Friedensdemonstration in Tel Aviv - 6 June 2011: Israel kills 'Naksa' protesters - 6 June 2011: Hamas shuts Rafah crossing, pretending 'protest' - 26. Juni 2011: Israel baut Sperrzaun teilweise ab - 6. Juli 2011: UN-Kritik an unverhältnismäßiger Gewalt der israelischen Armee gegen 'Nakba'-Demonstranten

August 2011: 16. August: Israelischer Luftangriff auf Gazastreifen - ein Toter und etliche Verletzte - 18 August: Several people killed in a series of attacks on vehicles in southern Israel - 18. August: Israel reagiert mit tödlichen Luftangriffen auf den Gazastreifen nach tödlichen Anschlägen in Südisrael - 19. August: Weitere tödliche Luftangriffe Israels auf Gazastreifen - 19 August: Israelis in Ashdod injured by Gaza rockets on Friday - 19 August: Egypt protests to Israel over killings of security officials - 20 August: Israel continues deadly air strikes on Gaza - 20. August: Kairo zieht Botschafter aus Israel ab - 20 August: Israel regrets killing by its troops after Cairo threatened to withdraw its ambassador and protests in the city - 21 August: Egypt says Israel's regret is not enough - 21 August: Death toll rises in Gaza-Israel violence - 21 August: Cairo meeting of Arab League condemning Israel for Egyptian deaths - 22. August: Brüchige Waffenruhe zwischen Israel und militanten Palästinensern - 24 August: Israel kills Islamic Jihad leader in Gaza air strike - 25. August: Israel setzt tödliche Luftangriffe auf Gazastreifen in der Nacht fort - 27. August: Militante Palästinenser feuern wieder Rakete auf Südisrael - 29 August: Palestinian stabs Israelis in Tel Aviv

October 2011: 27. Oktober: Wieder Luftangriffe auf den Gazastreifen - 29 October: Israel airstrike kills five Gaza fighters - 29. Oktober: Tote und Verletzte bei Angriffen zwischen Israeli und Palästinensern - 30 octobre: Les factions palestiniennes de Gaza rétablissent un cessez-le-feu - 30 October: Israel launches fresh air strike

November 2011: 6 November: New Israeli air raids kill Gaza militant wounding other Palestinians

December 2011: 9 December: New deadly Israeli strikes hit Gaza - 28 December: Israel launches multiple air raids in Gaza killing and injuring Palestinians - 30 December: Israeli Gaza airstrike on Friday kills one, injures one

January 2012: 18 January: Israel launches deadly airstrike on Gaza

February 2012: 12 February: One man has been killed and four others wounded in Israeli airstrikes in different parts of the Gaza Strip - 12 February: Hundreds of Palestinian inmates join Khader Adnan, who has gone 56 days without food or water to protest his pre-trial detention - 18 February: Massive show of support for jailed Palestinian Khader Adnan, who is 'in immediate danger of death', medical NGO says - 21 février: Khader Adnane arrête sa grève de la faim et sera relâché le 17 avril

March 2012: 3. März: Israelische Soldaten und Beamte stürmen die Studios des palästinensischen Lokalfernsehens Watan TV und des Fernsehprogramms der Kuds-Universität, die nicht mehr senden können - 10 March: At least 11 Palestinians have been killed and a dozen others wounded, including children, in a series of Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, medics say - 11 March: Israel launches fresh air strikes on Gaza - rocket attacks of Gaza militants - 11 mars: Un garçon de 12 ans tué dans le raid israélien au nord de Gaza - 12 March: The Palestinians and Israelis have made rival calls for the UN Security Council to act - 12 mars: Deux Palestiniens ont été tués lundi matin dans la bande de Gaza lors de nouveaux raids aériens israéliens - 12. März: Israel fliegt weitere Angriffe auf den Gazastreifen - 13 March: Israel confirms reaching 'understanding' on truce with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to end four days of violence - 14. März: Brüchige Waffenruhe - Israels Luftwaffe beantwortet in der Nacht palästinensische Raketenangriffe mit neuen Luftschlägen im Gazastreifen - 30 March: Palestinians set for Land Day demonstrations - 30 March: Demonstrator killed by Israeli troops in Gaza and more than 120 people wounded in riots in the West Bank

April 2012: 5 April: No reports of casualties in Eilat in attack Israeli police suspect was launched from Egypt - 8 April: Gaza rockets hit southern Israel early on Sunday after drone attack - 16 April: An Israeli soldier has been suspended after video footage showed him hitting a foreign pro-Palestinian activist in the face with his gun during a bicycle rally in the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli military - 17 April: The Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan, a who went on a 66-day hunger strike over his detention without charge by Israel, has been released

May 2012: 2 May: UN's Robert Falk says he is appalled by the 'continuing human rights violations in Israeli prisons', as some 1.550 Palestinian inmates continue a mass hunger strike - 9 May: Peaceful resistance of Palestinian prisoners a challenge to Israel - 14 May: Palestinian inmates in Israel end mass hunger strike as Israel conditionally agrees not to renew detentions without charge - 15 May: Thousands of Palestinians mark 'Nakba Day'

June 2012: 1 June: Israeli and Palestinian killed in Gaza border clash - 20 juin: Tirs du Hamas contre Israël - des raids aériens israéliens dans la bande de Gaza et six Palestiniens tués - 23 June: Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip kill two Palestinians, injuring women and children just days after a ceasefire was brokered

July 2012: 12 July: Israeli air strike kills one Palestinian, and Israeli troops open fire east of Gaza City, injuring at least three people - 13 July: At least two Palestinians killed in separate incidents in Gaza, as Israeli armed forces opened fire near the border - 30 July: One Palestinian killed and two others wounded by Israeli troops at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank

August 2012: 21 August: Police in Israel have arrested seven suspects in connection with an attack on a Palestinian youth beaten almost to death onlookers standing by in the centre of West Jerusalem

September 2012: 2 septembre: La colonie sauvage de Migron israélienne évacuée en Cisjordanie - 6 September: At least six Palestinians have been killed in two Israeli strikes in Gaza - 18 September: Palestinian hunger strikers 'close to death' - 20 September: Israeli airstrike near Rafah town in Gaza Strip kills two security officials and wounded another - 29 September: The Israeli navy have killed a Palestinian fisherman and wounded another in the northern Gaza Strip

October 2012: 8 October: At least one Palestinian killed and number of bystanders injured in an Israeli air strike on the southern part of the Gaza Strip - 8 October: Israeli tanks fire shells at Gaza Strip after Palestinian groups retaliate with rockets for Sunday's deadly Israeli airstrike - 14 October: One Palestinian killed and two others wounded, including a child, in an Israeli air strike in the northern town of Jabaliya - 14 October: Israeli air strikes leave four dead in 24 hours - 24 October: At least four alleged militants have been killed and several other people injured in Israeli air strikes in Gaza - 25 October: Ceasefire between Israel and armed Palestinian groups in Gaza, negotiated with the help of Egypt - 28 October: On Sunday morning an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip kills a Hamas militant and wounded another, after they fired mortar shells at Israeli tanks on an incursion near the southern town of Khan Younes - 29 October: Eleven rockets fired from Gaza into southern Israel without harming anyone, hours after an Israeli air strike killed a Hamas militant

November 2012: 1 November: Israel admits responsibility for 1988 assassination of Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad) in Tunisia - 6 November: Israeli military court sentences Palestinian activist Bassem Tamimi to four months in prison for his part in a protest last month - 8 November: A Palestinian boy has been killed by shots from an Israeli army helicopter in the Gaza Strip - 11 November: At least five Palestinians killed and 30 others wounded in Israeli shelling on two districts east of Gaza City after militants attacked an Israeli jeep, injuring four soldiers - 13 November: The Israeli airforce has launched fresh raids on targets in the Gaza Strip after six rockets were fired at southern Israel - 14 November: Brokered by Egypt, Gaza and Israel agree to hold fire but warn to resume fighting if attacked again - 14/15 November: Air strikes continue as Netanyahu says Israel sent a 'clear message' to Hamas through the killing of its military chief Ahmad Jabari - several other people including children killed - 15 November: In Kiryat Malachi in southern Israel three people have been killed by rockets fired from Gaza, amid escalating violence - 16 November: Israeli military to halt strikes conditionally during Hesham Qandil's brief solidarity meeting with Hamas rulers - 17 November: Gaza children at risk in crowded urban battle zone - 17 November: Four Palestinians are killed, as Israeli warplanes hit Hamas government compounds, tunnels and power transformers - 18 November: Israeli military attacks two buildings used by both Hamas and foreign media outlets - 18 November: Israel is continuing its assault on the Gaza Strip for a fifth straight day, bombarding the Palestinian enclave from both the air and sea - in the morning of this Sunday three rockets fired from Gaza into Israel's coastal city of Ashkelon - 18/19 November: Twelve Palestinians from one family killed in Israeli rocket attack in single biggest loss of life since crisis began - 19 November: Ongoing Israeli offensive amid pressure for Gaza truce - 19 November: Going to Cairo UN's Ban Ki-moon calls for an immediate ceasefire as Israel's pounding of Gaza enters its sixth day - 19 November: Two deaths attributed to shooting by Israeli security forces as anger over Gaza bombardment leads to protests in the West Bank - 20 November: Civilians killed and media centre hit for a second day by Israeli forces as the death toll in the Palestinian territory passes 100 and Gaza ceasefire efforts stepped up - 21 November: Hamas says a Gaza ceasefire agreement is being 'held up' by Israelis, who have yet to confirm that a deal is imminent - 21 novembre: Le bâtiment du bureau de l'AFP à Gaza touché par un raid israélien - 21 November: Israeli forces renew their bombardment on Gaza as Palestinian death toll increases - 22 November: Israel and Hamas agree to truce - 22 November: The ceasefire took hold on Thursday around and in celebrating Gaza after a week of cross-border violence that killed at least 160 people - 23 November: Calm returns as Gaza-Israel ceasefire holds - 23 November: In the first reported killing since the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel Israeli soldiers opened fire at the border near Khan Younis killing one Palestinian and wounding 10 others, but leaving intact the fragile two-day-old cease-fire - 24 November: As part of truce deal, Israel allowing farmers to visit land and fishermen to head further out to sea - 24 November: Tens of thousands of children are returning to school in the Gaza Strip after eight days of cross-border fighting between Israel and Hamas - among 156 killed Palestinians are 33 children, rockets from Gaza killed six Israelis, more than 1.000 Gaza civilians are wounded, dozens of Israelis are hurt, Palestinian Center for Human Rights says - 25 November: As Israel eases Gaza curbs Hamas leader defiant saying that they would go on smuggling in weapons 'by all possible means', including via Iran - 26 novembre: Pourparlers au Caire entre Israël et le Hamas sur le blocus de Gaza

December 2012: 3 December: Israeli security forces have shot dead the Palestinian Hatem Shabib, driving a car between the settlements of Shavei Shomron and Einav in the West Bank - 9 December: The Hamas leader in exile Khaled Meshaal has rejected any concessions over a future Palestine state at a rally marking the 25th anniversary of the armed Palestinian group - 25 December: Decision to grant college in Jewish settlement near Nablus university status condemned by Palestinian officials - 25 December: Israel's moves to build 942 more homes in east Jerusalem in effort to tighten grip on territory criticized by Palestinian President

January 2013: 1 janvier: Violents heurts entre soldats israéliens et Palestiniens dans le village de Tamoun lors d'une opération spéciale et déguisée en arabes - 12 January: Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian trying to sneak from the occupied West Bank into the Jewish State to get to a job - 13 January: Early Sunday Israel forces have forcefully evicted Palestinian and other multi-national activists from a hilltop protest camp they set up in a West Bank area slated for Jewish settlement - 13 January: Just hours after Israeli troops dragged anti-settlement protesters from the site, Israel's Netanyahu pledges to move ahead with building a Jewish settlement in the area - 16 January: A court in Jerusalem has convicted US-born Israeli Jack Teitel of murdering two Palestinians in 1997 - 19 January: 15 Palestinian and Israeli activists arrested, including a woman with her two-year-old baby, trying to access Palestinian lands in the South Hebron Hills and a fifteen year old Palestinian severely wounded after being shot by soldiers - 20 janvier: L'armée israélienne ordonne l'évacuation du camp militant à Beit Iksa en Cisjordanie - 23 January: A Palestinian woman has been shot dead by Israeli troops in the West Bank near al-Arroub College - 26 January: On Saturday around 200 Palestinians demonstrating in solidarity with prisoners held by Israel hurled stones at troops in the West Bank and soldiers responded with tear gas - 28 January: According to a certified map of the West Bank settlement of Eli at least 166 homes in Israeli settlement built on private Palestinian land

February 2013: 2 February: Activists and residents of an area near Burin south of Nablus, protesting illegal Israeli settlement activity, forcefully removed by Israeli authorities - 9 February: Israeli forces removed tents set up by Palestinians in an open area near Hebron, the fifth tent village in the West Bank in the past few weeks - 10 February: Israel's Lieberman says Palestinian peace accord impossible - 15 février: Dizaines de Palestiniens blessés lors d'affrontements en Cisjordanie - 15 February: Israeli soldiers have clashed with Palestinian protesters at a rally in support of the hunger strike to protest incarcerations - 22 February: Thousands rally for Palestinian prisoners - 23 February: A Palestinian medic says a 24-year-old demonstrator was shot in the stomach during clashes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank village of Kusra - 24 February: Palestinian PM Fayyad expressed shock at the death of prisoner Arafat Jaradat in Israeli occupation prison and called for full details of what happened - 24 February: Thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody launched a one-day hunger strike Sunday over the death of Arafat Jaradat in Israeli occupation prison - 24 February: Citing a Palestinian doctor who took part in the autopsy Palestinian government is alleging that Arafat Jaradat was tortured to death - 26 février: Une roquette tirée de la bande de Gaza a explosé près d'Ashkelon (sud d'Israël) sans faire de blessé - 26 February 2013: The United Nations has called for an independent inquiry into the death of Palestinian Arafat Jaradat in Israeli custody

March 2013: 1 March: Gunfire in Gaza and clashes in the West Bank as Palestinians mark eight years of protests against separation wall - 4 March: Israel’s Palestinian-only buses draw accusations of segregation and apartheid - 6 March: Palestinian children detained by the Israeli military are subject to widespread, systematic ill-treatment that violates international law, a UNICEF report says - 7 March: Palestinian Mohammed Asfour shot in the head by Israel's military during protests in support of a hunger strike in the occupied West Bank two weeks ago dies of his wounds - 8 March: Israeli police, Palestinians clash at Jerusalem mosque - 11 March: Highway project to connect illegal Israeli settlements threatens to destroy Palestinian neighbourhood in Jerusalem - 13 March: Palestinian Mahmoud AlTiti killed and eight others wounded in Hebron after Israeli troops use live fire on protesters - 21 March 2013: On the second day of President Barack Obama's visit to the region, Gaza militants have fired two rockets at southern Israel, one exploding in the courtyard of a house in the border town of Sderot - 24 March: Hundreds of Israeli police dismantled a Palestinian protest camp on the outskirts of Jerusalem overnight

April 2013: 3 April 2013: After Palestinians launched three rockets at Israel, causing no damage or injuries, Israel launched air strikes (the first such attacks since an eight-day war in November), bombarding an open area in northern Gaza, causing no injuries - 4 April: Israeli troops shoot dead two Palestinians aged 17 and 18 in West Bank as confrontations enter a third day following the death of a Palestinian prisoner - 21 April: Israeli PM Netanyahu vowed Israel would 'exact a price' from the Gaza militants who fired missiles from Sinai at the southern resort city of Eilat on Wednesday - 26 April: Israeli troops break up Palestinian march toward West Bank settlement - 30 April: Israeli stabbed and killed by Palestinian in West Bank's Tapuach Junction - 30 April: The Israel Air Force kills Gaza militant in first targeted strike since Pillar of Defense in 2012

June 2013: 24 June: Israeli military aircraft struck targets in the Gaza Strip after rockets from the territory were launched at Israel, officials say

July 2013: 2 juillet: Un Palestinien a été tué dans la nuit de lundi à mardi lors d'affrontements avec l'armée israélienne près d'Hébron

August 2013: 4 August: Israel to free 26 Arab prisoners on August 13 - 11 August: Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian who crossed in from Gaza on Saturday, fearing he was a security threat though he proved to be unarmed - 14 August: After a rocket was fired from Gaza at southern Israel, just as Israel began releasing Palestinian prisoners ahead of Wednesday's peace talks, Israeli jets attacked concealed rocket launchers in northern Gaza - 26 August: Two Palestinians killed in clashes as police unit was attacked by 1,500 Palestinians while conducting arrest of terror suspect

September 2013: 6 September: Israeli police fired stun grenades at stone-throwing Palestinian protesters after Friday prayers in Jerusalem's Old City, arresting 15 of them, police says - 22 September: In a second attack since Friday suspected Palestinian sniper fired shot that killed Israeli soldier near Tomb of Abraham during Jewish festival in Hebron

October 2013: 1 October: Israel soldiers opened fire on two Palestinians that approached the Israel-Gaza border fence, killing one and wounding the other - 11 October: An Israeli man was killed and a woman injured in an apparent militant attack by Palestinians on their West Bank home - 17 octobre: Les mises en chantier augmentent de 70% dans les colonies israéliennes en Cisjordanie et à Jérusalem-Est - 17 octobre 2013: Des écoliers palestiniens escortés par des soldats israéliens - 17 October: Israeli troops kill Palestinian who forced his way into a West Bank army base - 28 October: Israel bombed the northern Gaza Strip Monday after militants fired two rockets at the city of Ashkelon

November 2013: 1 November: Five Israeli soldiers wounded in attack during operation to destroy a part of a tunnel network - 1 novembre: 4 combattants du Hamas tués lors de violents accrochages avec Israël, déclenchés par l'explosion de l'engin explosif - 7 November: A Palestinian man shot dead by Israeli forces after attacking Israelis with fireworks at a junction south of the West Bank city of Nablus - 8 November: Israeli border police shot dead a Palestinian at a checkpoint near Jerusalem, saying the man ran at a border police officer with a knife - 13 November: An Israeli soldier died after a Palestinian youth stabbed him on a bus at the Afula bus station - 14 November: Israeli warplanes bombed two targets in the Gaza Strip after Palestinian militants fired projectiles across the border - 19 November: Israel carried out four air strikes on the Gaza Strip in retaliation for rocket fire against southern Israel - 26 November; Israeli security forces killed two Palestinian militants after attempting to arrest them near the West Bank city of Hebron

December 2013: 7 décembre: Un Palestinien âgé de 15 ans a été tué par l'armée israélienne, lors d'un affrontement dans un camp de réfugiés près de Ramallah - 19 December: Israeli force kills Palestinian during military operation in West Bank - 24 December: Israeli Defense Ministry contract worker killed in Gaza border shooting, in separate incident, Israeli forces shoot Palestinian who approached security fence - 24 December: Israel launched a series of airstrikes Tuesday on targets in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for the deadly shooting of an Israeli civilian, killing at least two people, Hamas says - 26/27 December: After second rocket firing in 24 hours into southern Israel, Israel Air Force strikes Gaza targets, attacking a weapons manufacturing plant and a weapons storage facility according to Israeli military

2014: List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, 2014 - July-August 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict

January 2014: List of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, 2014 - 16 January 2014: After militants fired five rockets towards Ashkelon in southern Israel, five people including four children injured in Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip - 22 January: An Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip killed two Palestinians including a militant who fired rockets during the funeral of former PM Ariel Sharon

February 2014: 11 February 2014: Israel Air Force strikes Hamas targets in Gaza in response to rockets fired on southern Israeli towns over the past weeks - 14 February: Two Gaza rockets hit southern Israel, causing no casualties - 28 February: Israel Air Force strikes rocket launcher in Gaza Strip

March 2014: 3 March: One dead, two wounded in Israel Air Force strike on Gaza against group preparing to fire rockets into Israel - 5 March: Israel seizes ship in the Red Sea with medium-range missiles heading from Iran to Gaza as USA military was prepared to get involved in the seizure - 12 March: In response to a barrage of rockets that targeted southern Israel, Israel Air Force carried out strikes in the Gaza Strip Wednesday evening - 14 March: Nine rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip at Israel on Thursday despite an announcement of a cease-fire by the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad - 16 March: Palestinian injures four Israeli border policemen, driving a stolen car into group of troops - 22 March: Israeli forces kill four Palestinians in Jenin refugee camp raid to capture a Hamas militant - 27 March: Arabs stab soldier, who is lightly wounded, in East Jerusalem and escape

April 2014: 4 April: Four rockets fired from Gaza toward Israel, Israeli aircraft struck several Gaza targets in response - 5 April: Palestinians protesting Israel's refusal to release prisoners clash with soldiers near Ramallah, some Palestinians wounded - 6 April: Israel Air Force strikes in Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire earlier on Saturday - 15 April: One Israeli killed and two wounded after an assailant opened fire on three cars driving through the West Bank

May/June 2014: 20 May: UN's Fernandez-Taranco calls for an investigation into the deadly shooting of two Palestinian youths by Border Police officers during a Nakba Day protest last week - 2 June: Two Israeli air strikes were carried out in response to the firing of rockets into Israel - 12 June: One man killed and two other Palestinians, including a 7-year-old boy, wounded after Israel Air Force strikes Gaza, targeting Mohammed Awar reportedly involved in firing rockets at Israel

June 2014 kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers: June 2014 kidnapping and murder of Israeli teens - 14 June: Three Israeli boys believed to have been kidnapped by Palestinian militants from hitch-hiking spot near West Bank settlement

14/15 June: IAF strikes Gaza after rockets fired from Gaza land in southern Israel - 15 June: Three Israeli teens were kidnapped by terrorist organization, Netanyahu says - 17 June: IAF strikes targets in Gaza in retaliation for rocket attack, Palestinian and two Israelis wounded in West Bank incidents as search for kidnapped students continues - 20 June: IDF soldier lightly wounded and Palestinian teen killed by IDF gunfire during clashes in West Bank - 22 June: Israeli troops reportedly shot dead a Palestinian man in Nablus in their operation to find abducted Israeli teenagers and clashes with stone-throwing Palestinian youths - 23 June: Protesters clash with Israeli, Palestinian forces - 23 June: Concerned by increase of Palestinian casualties and fearing more clashes, Israel's military will shift focus to intelligence gathering in West Bank operation to locate kidnapped teens - 23 June: Palestinians mock kidnapping in video - 23 June: Hamas chief Meshal congratulates the kidnapping of three Israeli teens, says prisoners must be freed from the 'prisons of the occupation' - 24 June: Iron Dome intercepts two rockets fired from Gaza at southern Israel, the fourth such interception since the kidnapping of the three Israeli teens 12 days ago - 25 June: A 3-year-old girl reportedly killed and three other people wounded, including two children, by one of the Kassam rockets exploding in the northern Gaza Strip when launched toward Israel - 25 June: Deal reached with Palestinians to call off administrative detainees' hunger strike is 'a grave mistake', kidnapped teens' families say - 26 June: Clashes after Palestinian shot by Israel Defense Forces dies of wounds - 27 June: Hamas militants named as West Bank kidnappers - 28 June: IDF strikes four targets in Gaza after Iron Dome intercepts two rockets over the Ashkelon area - 30 June: 15 Gaza rockets fired on Israel's south, two homes damaged by shrapnel in Negev

July 2014: 1 July: Israeli forces find bodies of three kidnapped teens, murdered shortly after kidnapping - 1 July: Following over 18 rockets fired at Israel since Sunday evening, Israeli jets strike 34 targets in Gaza Strip - 2 July: Israeli and Palestinian tensions mount after suspected revenge killing of a Palestinian teenager - 3 July: Israeli troops destroyed the family home of Hamas operative Ziad Awad, previously released in the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange, suspected of murdering a senior police officer on Passover eve - 3 July: One of Gaza rockets scores direct hit on house in Sderot, IAF responds to rockets with air strikes on Gaza targets, rocket fire from Gaza continues on Thursday morning - 4 July: Five rockets fired from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel early Friday morning, Israel-Hamas ceasefire expected - 5 July: Rockets and mortar shells from Gaza continued to batter Israel's south as Palestinians and police clash in East Jerusalem - 6 July: Barrage of rocket fire from Gaza hits Israel's South amid calls for Gaza operation - 6 July: A suspect arrested in connection with the murder of Jerusalem teen Muhammad Abu Khdeir reportedly confessed after being arrested Sunday, implicating a number of other suspects as well - 7 July: Palestinian protests and riots were reported in East Jerusalem neighborhoods, in Israel’s south, in Nazareth and in Nablus, where Palestinians tried to burn Joseph’s Tomb - 7 July: More rockets were fired into Israel's south, one soldier was wounded by shrapnel in the Eshkol Regional Council, Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip killed nine Palestinian militants, two from Islamic Jihad and seven from Hamas when a tunnel collapsed on top of them, Hamas threatened to hit back - 7 July: Three Israelis arrested for the killing of a Palestinian teenager confess to the attack, an Israeli official says

Operation Protective Edge 8 July 2014 – Ongoing - 8 July: After barrage of at least 40 rockets hits deep inside Israel and Hamas threatens to target Tel Aviv, Israel pounds dozens of Gaza targets in major counteroffensive - 9 July: Israel's Iron Dome intercepts two Hamas rockets over Tel Aviv, as some 165 rockets have been fired at Israel over the last 24 hours - 9 July: Syrian-made M302 long-range rocket fired by Hamas at Hadera - 9 July: Terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip fired over 150 rockets into Israel, reaching farther into the country than ever before, and Israeli Air Force jets and Navy ships bombarded Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets - 9 July: Hamas attempted to hit the nuclear reactor in Dimona firing rockets, one intercepted - 10 July: Threatened Israeli towns now in rocket range from both directions, from Hamas and Hezbollah - 10 July: Fatah joins Hamas and Islamic Jihad in missile launches as armed wing linked to Mahmoud Abbas’s faction says it shot rockets at Ashkelon, Sderot and elsewhere - 10 July: While rocket fire from Gaza intensifies and rockets downed over Tel Aviv, many Palestinians killed and injured in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip - 11 July: Rockets fired at Israel from Lebanon as attacks from Gaza continue, three persons hurt in Ashdod gas station strike, a woman dies on way to shelter after siren sounds in Haifa, several Palestinians killed in IAF airstrikes - 12 July: Hamas continues to fire rockets into Israel and the Palestinian death toll caused by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza reaches 107 - 12/13 July: Rockets from Lebanon at Israel's north, Gaza's police chief wounded and IDF special forces raid long-range rocket launching site in Gaza - 13 July: After rocket barrage on Tel Aviv area, an IDF response with airstrikes and commando raid, and as others towns and regions are attacked with rockets, Hamas rejects Egyptian ceasefire proposal - 14 July: IDF arrests Palestinians in the West Bank linked to Hamas in connection with the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers last month, as Gaza hospitals are reporting a dire shortage of medicine and equipment - 14 July: As Hamas rocket fire resumes, IDF strikes dozens of targets in Gaza, downs Hamas drone over Ashdod - 14 July 2014: Rockets fired at Israel from southern Lebanon, drawing retaliatory artillery fire from Israeli forces, in the third such rocket attack from Lebanon since Friday - 14/15 July: Egypt proposes Tuesday ceasefire - 15 July: Israel accepts Egyptian ceasefire proposal, Hamas rejects deal as the Arab League, the USA and PA leader Mahmoud Abbas urge approval and as rockets hit Eilat - 15 July: After Hamas rejects ceasefire, rockets rain down on Israel setting off sirens in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh and Israeli civilian volunteer Dror Chanin killed at Erez crossing - 16 July: Hamas rockets shot down over Tel Aviv, IDF warns Gazans of heavy air raids and planes strike homes of Hamas leaders - 17 July: Israel, Hamas accept temporary 5-hour ceasefire set to start at 10 a.m. Thursday - 17 July: IDF thwarts major cross-border attack ahead of humanitarian truce, Israel and Palestinian teams in Cairo for ceasefire contacts - 17/18 July: After Hamas, which failed with a pre-dawn terror attack from a tunnel near a border kibbutz, fired rockets into Israel throughout the day, Israel launches major ground offensive against Hamas - 18 July: IDF soldier Eitan Barak and 14 Hamas fighters reportedly killed in Gaza operation as large numbers of troops tackling Hamas tunnels and its infrastructure - 18 July: Hamas, that rejected ceasefire yesterday, and Gaza militants fire rockets barrage at Israel's south, center and Coastal Plain - 19 July: IDF continues ground offensive after uncovering 13 terror tunnels, as more Hamas rockets target Israel and Abbas speaks to Kerry about need for ceasefire as soon as possible - 20 July: After two soldiers killed in raid and more rockets fired from Gaza on Saturday, Israel's army expands anti-tunnel operation - 20 July: Hamas rockets are targeting Israel, an Israeli civilian killed by a rocket that struck near Dimona in southern Israel, more victims on both sides - 21 July: Kerry heads to Cairo for ceasefire bid, as Israel names soldiers killed in heavy fighting in Hamas stronghold of Shejaiya - 21 July: Israeli casualties as IDF thwarts tunnel attacks from Gaza - 22 July: A 25-year-old Israeli man is in serious condition after being shot in the West Bank by a Palestinian gunman, in a suspected terrorist attack - 22 July: As more rockets fired at central Israel, striking greater Tel Aviv, Ashdod schoolyard, causing damage to Yehud home, and as Hamas still trying to carry out attacks in Israel through tunnels, more Israelis and Palestinians victims of conflict escalated by Hamas - 22 July: For the second time in less than a week, Hamas rockets have been found in a school in Gaza operated by the UNRWA - 22/23 July: UN’s Ban in Tel Aviv condemns rocket fire and calls for return to talks, but Hamas is still trying to carry out attacks in Israel through tunnels, rockets are still being fired and Israel's Protective Edge continues - 23 July 2014: UN's Ban Ki-moon is 'alarmed' to hear that rockets placed in UN-run school in Gaza now 'have gone missing', demanding a full review - 24 July: As death toll in the Gaza/Israel conflict rises, officials indicate that ceasefire may take time - 24 July 2014: Parents in Gaza and Israel do not want their children to grow up to kill or be killed in a senseless war that has no end - 24 July: More than a dozen Palestinians killed when UNRWA school in Beit Hanoun hit by a projectile - 25 July: Iron Dome intercepts rocket over Eilat - 25 July: Two Palestinians killed and about 200 wounded in West Bank clashes, as USA's John Kerry presents new cease-fire proposal and Hamas and Israel will respond today - 26 July: After more Israelis and Palestinians died and also West Bank violence continued to escalate, 12-hour humanitarian truce in effect until 8 pm - 26 July: USA's John Kerry in Paris to meet with European foreign ministers to promote a cease-fire in Gaza - 26 July: Israeli official says, that Israel agrees to extend Gaza cease-fire by four hours, three rockets fired at Israel just after 8 p.m., not clear if Hamas agrees to extension - 26/27 July: As Israel agrees to extend ceasefire until midnight on Sunday at request of UN, truce in peril after Hamas resumes its attacks on Israel, firing rockets and later rejecting Israel's offer to extend a humanitarian cease-fire - 27 July: IDF resumes naval, air strikes after hours of rocket fire from Gaza - 27 July: Hamas reportedly in talks to buy missiles from North Korea - 28 July: After Israeli and PA criticism of John Kerrys handling of the Gaza crisis UN security council agrees on demand for Gaza cease-fire, but Hamas rocket fire continues - 29 July: As John Kerry now says that disarmament of Hamas and all terrorist groups needs to be part of any framework that ends the current conflict, more rockets fired at Tel Aviv and central Israel, intense Israeli bombing reported and more victims on both sides - 30 July: Rockets fired at Israel, heavy fighting reported in Gaza City, as Hamas military chief says no halt without lifting blockade and Israeli troops destroy 3 tunnels and military facilities, discover weapons, maps and explosives - 30 July: Video showing Hamas gunmen emerging from a tunnel, infiltrating an Israeli army base and killing five soldiers, demonstrates why Gaza operation must go on, Israeli officials say - 30 July: In Israel, 79-year-old Holocaust survivor worries about her Gazan daughter - 30 July: Hamas launches rockets at Tel Aviv area, rockets intercepted over Ashkelon, Ashdod, sirens sounds in Rishon LeZion and Rehovot - 30 July 2014: As Israeli cities targeted by waves of Palestinian rockets and the seek-and-destroy mission of locating and eradicating Hamas network of tunnels revealed to extend deep into Israeli territory, there is a fighting over casualty lists and images - 30 July 2914: Three Israeli soldiers were killed and 15 injured in an explosion at a booby-trapped UNRWA 'health clinic' in Gaza's Khan Yunis that housed the opening of a Hamas tunnel for terrorist attacks on Israel - 30 July: Jerusalem area comes under rocket fire after quiet week - 31 July: In a relatively quiet night three rockets were fired at the Eshkol and Sha'ar HaNegev regional councils, a grad rocket was fired at Be'er Sheva on Thursday morning - 31 July: An Israeli delegation spent several hours in Cairo discussing Egypt’s efforts to broker a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip

August 2014: 1 August 2014: Israel and Hamas agree to a 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire beginning Friday, IDF will still tackle tunnels, Israeli and Palestinian teams will go to Cairo for talks on a more durable truce - 1 August: UN condemns Hamas truce violation (killing two Israeli soldiers and abducting a third), Obama calls for unconditional release of captured Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin, 90 rockets fired at Israel, several Israelis hurt by mortar fire, ongoing IDF strikes at Hamas targets in Gaza and tunnel demolitions - 2 August: Gazan terrorists launched rockets at Israel's largest population centers in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area early Saturday morning, rocket sirens heard in Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak, Givat Shmuel, Givatayim, Ramat Gan, Givat Hashlosha, Gat, Rimon, Kfar Sirkin, Petah Tikva, Ra'anana, and Iron Dome intercepts more rockets - 2 August: Rocket barrage fired at central Israel, Israel bombards Gaza as it searches for missing soldier Hadar Goldin - 2 August: Finnish reporter admits Gaza rockets launched from hospital - 3 August: Soldier Hadar Goldin is dead, not kidnapped, IDF says - 3 August: Army will redeploy according to Israel’s security needs once last tunnels demolished, Israeli PM Netanyahu says as more Hamas rockets are fired at Israel - 3 August: Israeli army confirmed the death of missing soldier Lieutenant Hadar Goldin: 'What we know for sure was that one suicide bomber and at least three or four other gunmen came out of a tunnel. One blew himself up, killing two on the spot, and the others were shooting — they grabbed Hadar and snatched him down into the tunnel. Only in the aftermath, with the forensic investigation, were we able to conclude that he was killed,' the army says - 4 August: Pulling most troops from Gaza Israel declares 7-hour truce for Monday, but rocket fire at Israel's south persists - 4 August: Pedestrian Avraham Walz killed and six people injured in excavator terror attack in Jerusalem - 5 August: An Israeli soldier seriously wounded when he was shot in the stomach at a bus stop in Jerusalem by a man who fled on a motorbike - 4/5 August: Israel, Hamas agree to Egypt proposal for 72-hour truce, officials in Cairo for talks on long-term deal after military says all tunnels from Gaza into Israel destroyed - 5 August: Israeli army pulls out of Gaza as ceasefire begins - 5 August: According to Gaza officials, 1,867 Palestinians were killed, including 750-1000 Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other militants, IDF says, adding that Hamas and Islamic Jihad launched 3,356 rockets during the course of the war - 5 August: Israel arrests suspected Hamas-linked ringleader of cell that murdered teens in June - 5 August: An Indian TV-reporter witnessed and filmed a Hamas rocket silo being created under a tent right next to the hotel where the TV-team was staying, and minutes later the rocket being fired - 6 August: Egypt government reportedly pushing for Palestinian Authority to manage Gaza rehabilitation and Rafah crossing - 6 August: Suspected head of the terror cell that killed Israelis in June tells interrogators that money for attack came from Gaza's Hamas - 7 August: Israel agrees to ceasefire extension, Hamas does not, gives up on immediate demand for airport, seaport but threatening to renew rocket fire - 7 August: Gaza archbishop admits Greek Orthodox compound, which sheltered hundreds of Palestinians during shelling, used by Hamas as launching site firing rockets from church - 8 August 2014: As Gaza rocket fire on Israel continues, Hamas spokesman Abu Zuhri says his organization rejects a ceasefire extension deal but will continue negotiations - 8 August: Dozens of rockets fired at Israel as Hamas ends ceasefire, IDF hits back - 9 August: Due to Hamas rockets talks on new ceasefire in Cairo remain deadlocked - 9 August: 70 rockets fired at Israel since Friday, IDF warns Hamas of continued strikes - 10 August 2014: Israeli government says no negotiations under fire as rocket fire on Israel continues, as Hamas says it will quit Cairo and Gazans in addition to hundreds of victims, destruction and unemployment struggle with rising prices - 10 August: Israel agrees to 72-hour ceasefire with Hamas to begin at midnight - 11 August: After massive rocket fire on Israel's south on Sunday, Gaza ceasefire steady as Israeli delegates said to arrive in Cairo - 12 August: Israel reportedly sees another 72 hours needed to reach a 2014 deal with Hamas, as Egypt says it will not discuss Rafah crossing with Palestinians until long-term truce - 13 August: After new Egyptian ceasefire proposal, that would ease but not lift blockade of Gaza and postpone Israeli calls for Hamas to disarm to later negotiations, Cairo ceasefire talks to resume - 13/14 August: After Israel and Hamas agreed to extend ceasefire by five days tenuous new truce appears to hold - 15 August: Hamas officials reportedly say group interested in long-term ceasefire - 15 August: Draft terms for long-term Gaza truce revealed in Egyptian newspaper, including agreements to open border crossings and to deploy PA security forces in the Strip - 17 August: After Gaza rulers threaten Israel with war of attrition and Abbas urges defiant Hamas to accept ceasefire terms, Israel and Hamas envoys expected back in Cairo to resume ceasefire talks - 18 August: Egypt looking to extend truce as Abbas expected in Cairo and Israel braces for rockets Monday night - 19 August: Cairo talks ongoing after 24-hour extension of Israel-Gaza truce - 20 August: After Hamas ended truce and as its rocket fire renews with sunrise, Israel confirms attempted hit on Hamas commander Muhammad Deif - 26 August: Talks in Cairo lead to long-term ceasefire accord, though central demands of both sides postponed for later negotiations

September 2014: 10 September: Palestinian killed by Israeli fire during West Bank clash - 10/11 September: Israel's Military Advocate General instructed the Military Police to open criminal investigations into five Gaza war cases in which the IDF is suspected of violating international law - 12 September: Two weeks after the end of the Gaza war even Hamas acknowledges its forces fired rockets from civilian areas - 16 September: 2014 war left four million tons of rubble in Gaza, says environmental group - 16 September: Gaza mortar shell lands in Israel for first time since cease-fire - 16 September: Israel and Palestinians reach Gaza reconstruction deal under UN supervision - 23 September: Two main Palestinian suspects behind the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens on June 12 killed during capture attempt

October 2014: 12 octobre: La communauté internationale va tenter au Caire de réunir 4 milliards de dollars réclamés par l'Autorité palestinienne pour la reconstruction de la bande de Gaza, dévastée par la guerre - 13 October: Donor conference in Cairo pledges $5.4 billion in Gaza aid - 17 October: A Palestinian boy was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers when he threw a firebomb at a unit leaving the village of Beit Liqia - 23 October: A three-month old baby was killed in Jerusalem and eight other people wounded when Palestinian Al-Shaludi's speeding car drove onto a pavement crowded with pedestrians - 23 October: Violence in capital continues as Palestinians hurl stones at kindergarten in east Jerusalem - 23/24 October: Hamas calls for escalation of violence in Jeruslaem, as two men werde injured in Tel Aviv stabbing - 25 October: Palestinian-American teen killed by IDF gunfire during West Bank clashes - 26 October: Assailants throw stones at Jerusalem Light Rail near Beit Hanina - 27 October: Karen Yemima Mosquera, who died of her wounds sustained during Wednesday terrorist attack in Jerusalem, was laid to rest before dawn on Monday - 27 October: Firebombs were thrown at a police force in east Jerusalem's Silwan neighborhood Monday night - 29 October: Yehuda Glick, an advocate for greater Jewish access to Temple Mount, seriously wounded in a witnessed drive-by shooting by an Arab man outside the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem - 30 October: Palestinian Muatnaz Hijazi, suspected of shooting Yehuda Glick, opened fire on Israeli forces who arrived at his home to arrest him and was shot dead - 31 October: Police were set to reopen the Temple Mount to visitors on Friday, despite calls from Fatah to hold a 'day of rage' in Jerusalem and the West Bank

November/December 2014: 1 November: Clashes in West Bank as flashpoint mosque in Jerusalem reopens - 1 November: Gaza rocket or mortar shell fired at Israel, second since Operation Protective Edge, no damage reported - 5 November: A Border Police officer killed and 13 people wounded when the car of Ibrahim al-Akri from Shoafat hits pedestrians in a Jerusalem terror attack - 7 November: Jerusalem vehicular attack claims second victim 17-year-old Shalom Badani - 18 November: Rabbi Moshe Twersky, Americans and a Briton killed in Jerusalem synagogue terror attack - 1 December: A Palestinian woman stabbed an Israeli civilian in the Etzion bloc of Jewish settlements near Jerusalem and was then shot and wounded by security forces - 4 December: After stabbing at his West Bank store, supermarket owner Levy calls on public not to be deterred, so assailants don’t achieve their goals - 11 December: Conflicting accounts of Israeli and Palestinian officials over the results of an autopsy on Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein who died at a West Bank protest - 12 December: Israeli family attacked with acid in West Bank - 16 December: Palestinian killed in early morning clash with IDF troops attacked during arrest operation in Qalandiya refugee camp - 19 December: A third rocket fired from Gaza since the end of the 50-day war in August hit southern Israel, without causing casualties or damage, Israeli police says - 20 December: IDF identifies four rocket launch tests from Gaza into sea in past 24 hours - 20 December: Following earlier rocket fire IDF aircraft strike targets Hamas terror infrastructure in the southern Gaza Strip - 24 December: After Palestinian snipers opened fire at troops guarding construction work at the security fence near the southern Gaza Strip and wounded an IDF soldier seriously, IDF responded with tank and aircraft fire and killed Hamas Al-Qassam Brigades' Taysr Asmiri - 26 December: 11-year-old Ayala Shapira in serious condition after vehicle hit by Molotov cocktail outside Ma’ale Shomron settlement - 26 December: Two Border Police officers were stabbed and lightly hurt near the Old City’s Lions Gate in East Jerusalem Friday morning - 27 December: Palestinian men behind Ma’ale Shomron firebombing confess to carrying out attack, Shin Bet says - 29 December: An Israeli, entering Hebron, gets beaten and robbed - 30 December: IDF returns fire at Palestinian vehicle, injuring two - 31 December: Palestinian Kawasme convicted of masterminding summer abduction and murder of Israelis near Hebron

2015: List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, 2015

January-June 2015: 3 January: Three Palestinians reportedly injured during clashes with Israeli settlers and IDF troops near Nablus - 6 January: The mastermind behind the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in June 2014 sentenced to three life terms in prison - 21 January 2015: Several people injured in knife attack on Tel Aviv bus leaving at least four in serious condition, before suspected Palestinian attacker was shot and captured and as Hamas official praises terror attack, calling it 'a brave and heroic act' - 31 January: A Palestinian man shot dead by Israeli army troops when two men throw firebombs at cars near Yitzhar, south of Nablus - 9 February: After weapons and explosives cache found in underground passage leading from Gaza into Israel, IDF destroys 2014 discovered Gaza tunnel - 13 February 2015: Examining 247 airstrikes that hit residential compounds, out of the some 5,000 Israeli strikes during Gaza war 2014, AP report finds that 508 of those dead - just over 60 percent - were children, women and older men, all presumed to be civilians - 22 February: A Jewish man stabbed in the stomach by a Palestinian assailant near the entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem is reportedly in moderate condition - 24 February: One Palestinian killed and one soldier wounded in clash with Israeli army near Bethlehem - 24 February: Hamas warns it could 'surprise' Israel more than last Gaza war - 25 February: A mosque in a village near Bethlehem was set alight early Wednesday morning and anti-Arab graffiti was daubed on it walls, no reports of injuries - 6 March: Five people including policewomen wounded in a terror attack in Jerusalem by an assailant wielding an iron rod who first plowed his car into a crowd - 26 March: Citing indiscriminate fire and use of civilians for cover during fighting, rights group says also armed Palestinian organizations committed war crimes during the 2014 Gaza-Israel conflict - 26 March: 20-year-old Palestinian Ali Mahmoud Safi who was seriously injured in clashes with IDF troops near Ramallah last week died of his wounds - 8 April: An Israeli national suffered stab wounds in Shiloh in the northern West Bank after a Palestinian assailant attacked him with a knife - 16 April: Man killed, woman badly injured in possible Jerusalem car attack under investigation by police - 19 April: Second victim Shira Klein of Wednesday’s apparent terror attack in Jerusalem still in serious but stable condition - 24 April: Israel fires at Gaza site after rocket strike - 25 April: 16-year-old Palestinian shot dead in attempt to stab a border police officer at a checkpoint near Ma’aleh Adumim - 27 April: Palestinian Koutineh indicted for killing Israeli Shalom Sherki and attempted murder of Shira Klein in Jerusalem car-ramming on April 15 - 28 April: 18-year-old Palestinian, who was shot by Israeli troops while trying to cross the security barrier in the northern West Bank, died of his injuries - 15 May 2015: Palestinian 'Nakba Day' protests in Jerusalem, Gaza, Lebanon mark the 'catastrophe' of the establishment of Israel in 1948, in West Bank at least 17 Palestinians wounded in clashes with IDF - 18 May: Israel's 'Jerusalem Day' ends in clashes with Palestinians - 20 May: Palestinian Amran Abu Dhaim, who plowed his vehicle into a group of border policemen in Jerusalem, reportedly had Hamas ties and was related to the gunman responsible for an attack in 2008 that killed eight Jewish students - 24 May: Two Israeli teens stabbed and injured by a Palestinian suspect near Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate - 27 May: After rocket attack, Israeli jets strike targets in Gaza Strip - 4 June 2015: Israeli planes strike Gaza after rockets hit south and as Salafist group takes responsibility for rocket fire - 7 June: Israeli jets hit Gaza in retaliation for rocket attack on southern Israel - 10 June: A Palestinian man claimed by Hamas as a member was shot and killed by Israeli security forces, after he attempted to hurl a bomb at troops in the Jenin refugee camp - 11 June 2015: Rocket shot from Gaza toward Ashkelon region in fresh attack, as Israel's army says there were indications the rocket had hit a house inside the strip - 12 June 2015: Israeli army ends probe into strike that killed four Gaza children in July 2014 - 14 June: Palestinian man, suspected of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the IDF soldiers, killed their jeep flips near Ramallah - 14 June: Two police officers lightly hurt when car rams into patrol on Herzog street and cop lightly wounded in East Jerusalem riot - 19/20 June 2015: Hamas linked group asserting responsibility for killing of Danny Gonen from Lod on Friday is named after terrorists who murdered 3 Israeli teens last summer - 21 June: Israeli border policeman critically wounded in a stabbing attack at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, but managed to shoot the attacker before collapsing - 24 June: An Israeli farmer who was found badly beaten in a field in central Israel, allegedly by Palestinians who were in Israel illegally, succumbed to his injuries hours later - 29 June: Female Israeli soldier wounded in Bethlehem stabbing attack - 29 June: Four Israelis injured in suspected drive-by shooting near Shvut Rachel West Bank settlement - 30 June 2015: Malachi Moshe Rosenfeld wounded in West Bank terror shooting dies in Jerusalem hospital

July–December 2015 List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: July–December 2015 List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

July 2015: 3 July 2015: Palestinian stone-thrower killed by IDF troops near the Qalandiya checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah - 6 July 2015: A year after the war, Gaza grieves for its child casualties - 9 July 2015: Hamas holding 2 Israelis captive in Gaza for months - 15 July 2015: A Palestinian assailant, a teenage girl, stabbed an Israeli soldier, outside the Israeli settlement of Nahliel in the West Bank - 16 July 2015: After Gaza rocket hits area near southern city of Ashkelon, Israel's air force strikes hours later in response - 20 July: Palestinians freed in Shalit deal in 2011 killed six Israelis since 2014 - 23 July: IDF soldiers kill Palestinian Falah Abu Maria during arrest raid in the village of Beit Omar - 26 July: Palestinian rioters attack police on Temple Mount, wounding several with rocks, Molotov cocktails with the intention of attacking thousands of Jewish worshipers gathered nearby for prayers to commemorate the destruction of the first and second Jewish Temples - 27 July: A Palestinian youth fell to his death from a roof after he was shot by Israeli soldiers who were attempting to arrest him in Qalandia

31 July 2015 Duma village arson attack, the firebombing of a Palestinian family resulting in the loss of life of three of the family members - 31 July: Suspected Jewish extremists' arson attack on a Palestinian family, in which an infant was burned to death, condemned by Israel's PM Netanyahu - 31 July: Riots in Jerusalem and Hebron were reported in the wake of the arson attack that killed 18-month-old Palestinian Ali Saad Daobasa in the West Bank

August 2015: 1 August 2015: Hamas blamed the Israeli government for the the deadly arson attack in Douma on Friday, and called for a 'fitting response' from Palestinians - 1 August 2015: Palestinian killed by IDF fire in the West Bank, another said to be killed in north Gaza approaching border fence with Israel in protest at deadly West Bank arson attack - 2 August: Slain baby’s grandfather Hussein Dawabsha hopes he was 'the last casualty of this terror war', saying he helped build the Israeli hospital where his daughter is fighting for her life after Molotov cocktail attack - 2 August: Two rockets fired from Gaza, land near border fence - 3 August: Three people injured in a Jerusalem firebombing attack on an Israeli car Monday night - 7 August: After a rocket shot from Gaza landed in Israel, Israeli planes struck a Hamas military facility in the central Gaza Strip - 8 August: Saad Dawabsha, the father of Palestinian baby killed in Duma arson attack, dies of injuries - 9 August: Israeli man lightly wounded in stabbing north of Jerusalem, assailant killed - 10 August: Israeli Yehuda Ben Moyal who was stabbed multiple times by a Palestinian terrorist in gas station attack says Arab onlookers didn’t help him - 15 August: IDF soldier lightly wounded in stabbing north of Jerusalem, Palestinian attacker shot and wounded at scene - 19 August: An explosive device was detonated on the Tunnel Bypass Road in Jerusalem, moderately wounding an Israeli soldier - 27 August: After Gaza rocket explodes in Eshkol region, Israel's air force targets Hamas' weapons facility - 30 August: An Israeli resident of the West Bank injured in drive-by shooting attack by unknown assailants

September 2015: 1 September 2015: Rocket fired from Gaza lands on Palestinian side of the border - 1 September 2015: Israeli officer wounded in shootout with Palestinians in Jenin - 7 September: Riham Dawabsha is the third member of her family to succumb to injuries from July arson attack, only 5-year-old Ahmed survives - 9 September: Shots fired at Israeli woman in an apparent drive-by shooting south of Nablus, woman was treated for shock - 13 September: Clashes between Palestinians and police rock temple mount on eve of Rosh Hashanah - 14 September: Clashes resume at Temple Mount after day of violence, arrests following operation that led to discovery of pipe bombs at the site - 14 September: An Israeli man died after sustaining critical wounds in a car crash in Jerusalem late Sunday night, which police suspect may have been caused by stone throwing - 15 September: After protesters in al-Aqsa Mosque hurl stones at access point to Temple Mount, police enters the compound clashing for third day - 15 September: Stones thrown by Palestinians, injuring an Israel soldier near Nablus, in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat, and a Molotov cocktail thrown at an Israeli vehicle near Alon Moreh - 16 September: In Israel, more Jewish holy sites desecrated than Christian, Muslim ones combined, Common Ground study says, documenting religious violence since 2011 - 16 September: A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip at Israel early Wednesday fell short of the border and landed in the Palestinian coastal territory - 17 September: Bus attacked with stones by Palestinians as it was driving through East Jerusalem’s Ras al-Amud neighborhood and set ablaze, driver flees bus after being attacked with stones - 18 September: Iron Dome intercepts Gaza rocket over Ashkelon, hours after a similar attack near a residential area of Sderot causing some damage to property, several people needed treatment for shock - 19 September: Following rocket fire late Friday at cities in southern Israel, Israeli jets bombed targets in the northern Gaza Strip early Saturday morning - 20 September: Israeli motorists pelted with stones in several West Bank areas - 21 September: An IDF soldier wounded after his unit was attacked by rocks and Molotov cocktails throwing Palestinians near the Tomb of Joseph outside the West Bank city of Nablus - 21 September: A rocket was fired into southern Israel's Ashkelon region from Gaza Strip early Monday morning, causing neither injury nor damage - 22 September: After attempting to stab an Israeli soldier in Hebron a Palestinian woman was shot and injured, hours after suspected teenage terrorist blows himself up near Hebron - 27 September: On last day of Eid al-Adha, rocks and firecrackers thrown at Israeli security forces, as police clash with Palestinians on Temple Mount in fresh violence - 28 September: Firebombs, rocks hurled at police on Temple Mount as rioting renews - 30 September: Israel strikes Gaza in response to rocket fire

October 2015: 1 October: A woman and her 6-month-old baby were lightly wounded when their car was pelted with rocks by Palestinians south of Jerusalem - 2 October 2015: Fatah armed wing claims responsibility for terror attack that killed Eitam and Naama Henkin, while they were driving home with their four children near Itamar - 3 October: Two Israeli men died of their wounds after being stabbed in Jerusalem’s Old City in a terror attack, as one man’s wife was in serious condition and their two-year-old baby was lightly wounded - 4 October: In second attack, Israeli teen stabbed near Jerusalem’s Old City reportedly in moderate condition, assaulting Palestinian Israeli shot dead by police - 4 October: After four people killed, several wounded in multiple terror attacks, Israel decides to prohibit Palestinians from entering site of Temple Mount - 5 October: 'I yelled 'please help me!' and they just spat at me', says Adele Banita of the surrounding Palestinian shopkeepers whom she said looked on and did nothing as Palestinian Halabi attacked her family in the Old City, giving account of terror assault in which her husband Aharon and Old City resident Nehemia Lavi were murdered - 5 October: An 18-year-old Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces in clashes near the West Bank city of Tulkarem - 5 October: After missiles launched from Palestinian territory and one exploded in Eshkol region, Israeli aircraft struck 'a Hamas terror site in the northern Gaza Strip' - 5 October: 5-man Hamas cell that killed Naama and Eitam Henkin arrested - 5 October: Third Palestinian youth said killed in clashes with IDF - 7 October: Israeli woman injured in a wave of West Bank rock throwing and other attacks - 7 October: A Palestinian woman stabbed an Israeli man in the Old City of Jerusalem on Wednesday morning and was then shot at the scene - 8 October: Israeli soldier moderately injured in Afula in fourth Palestininan stabbing of day, as crowds in Afula at the scene attacked a Channel 2 TV crew broadcasting, as nine police hurt during fighting in Shuafat refugee camp, as confounding Arab League condemns 'aggressive and racist Israeli practices', and as USA's State Department says Palestinian stabbings are 'acts of terror' - 9 October: Several people - Israelis and Palestinians - dead or wounded as violence continues in Israel and Palestinian territories - 10 October: More injured and dead people as riots and clashes between Palestinians and police continue - 10 October: Rocket from Gaza hits southern Israel - 11 October: Rock throwing incidents continue into the night - 11 October: Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile defense system shot down a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip over the Hof Ashkelon region in southern Israel Saturday night - 11 October: Following rocket attacks at Israeli towns, Israeli jets bomb two Hamas installations in Gaza - 11 October: Palestinian woman seriously injured after detonating a bomb in her car near Ma’ale Adumim outside Jerusalem, wounding police officer - 12 October: Gaza cleric Muhammad Sallah, brandishing knife during Friday sermon, calls on young men in West Bank to form 'stabbing squads' to stab Jews - 12 October: Tensions between Israel and the Palestinians continue as four Israelis were stabbed by an Israeli Arab assailant in northern Israel on Sunday evening and as an assailant tried to stab a border policeman in Jerusalem before being shot by security forces on Monday morning - 13 October: Terrorists open fire and stab people on bus in Armon Hanatziv, run car into pedestrians in center of capital, more injured in separate knife attacks in central town of Ra’anana, as violence in Israel and Palestinian territories reportedly continues - 14 October: Army units to bolster Israeli police forces following multiple terror attacks in Jerusalem and Central Israel - 15 October: Israel releases photos of hospitalized Palestinian boy Abbas claimed was 'executed', but was injured after taking part in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem - 15 October: 13-year-old Palestinian Ahmed who allegedly took part in a stabbing spree in which an Israeli his age was critically wounded Monday, and who PA President Mahmoud Abbas claimed was killed in cold blood by Israeli police, reportedly admitted Thursday to carrying out the attack in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Zeev - 16 October: Palestinian rioters set fire to Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus - 16 October: Amid ongoing violence Israeli police limits access to Temple Mount for Friday prayers to men over the age of 40 and women - 17 October: In the string of Palestinian stabbing attacks, assailant critically wounded by his would-be victim - 17 October: In the second such incident in less than an hour a Palestinian man was shot dead after he tried to stab Border Police officers in Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood on Saturday morning - 18 October: Jews attacked at Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus by Palestinian police, extracted by IDF - 18 October: Hamas praises 'quality' terror attack in Beersheba, that left an IDF soldier dead and several more people injured - 20 October: IDF officer lightly injured in West Bank stabbing and an Israeli wounded near Hebron when Palestinian hurled objects at his car, as incitement and violence continues - 21 October: Israeli injured in suspected West Bank car-ramming attack - 22 October: Attacks on Wednesday left six Israelis injured by car rammings, one by stabbing and rockets fired from Gaza land in open area, as Hamas chief Mashaal says in South Africa that attacks on Israelis will go on - 23 October: Israeli soldier stabbed in West Bank, hits assailant in the knee as violence continues amid renewed calls for restraint - 25 October: One person injured in West Bank stabbing attack outside settlement of Metzad south of Jerusalem, after exiting his car when it was pelted with stones - 25 October: A Palestinian man stabbed an Israeli at a bus stop on the side of a West Bank highway near the settlement of Ariel, as Hamas’s chief Haniyeh declared Sunday that 'no power in the world' would be able to stop the ongoing surge in Palestinian violence against Israel - 25 October: Rabbi Haim Rothman, who was in a coma since terror attack that killed 5 others last year, died of his wounds on Saturday - 26 October: An Israeli soldier reportedly wounded in stabbing attack near the Beit Einun junction, north of Hebron, attacker shot and killed - 26 October: IAF strikes Gaza after rocket hits southern Israel - 27 October: Richard Lakin, who was critically injured in a terror attack on a bus in Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood two weeks ago, succumbed to his wounds at the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital - 29 October: Palestinian assailant shot and killed by security forces, after IDF soldier lightly wounded in Hebron stabbing - 30 October: Two Palestinians attempt stabbing attack in West Bank - 30 October: An eight-month-old Palestinian baby has died after inhaling teargas inside his family home in Beit Fajjar south of Bethlehem, on another day of killings and clashes in the West Bank - 31 October: A Palestinian armed with a knife trying to stab Israeli guards at a crossing near Jenin was shot dead

November 2015: 2 November 2015: One Palestinian killed, another arrested near checkpoint north of Jenin, in a second suspected stabbing attempt in three days - 3 November: Four Israelis stabbed in separate attacks, Palestinian attacker dead as violence spikes - 8 November 2015: Five Israelis including a pregnant woman were wounded in West Bank car-ramming and stabbing attacks, two of them seriously in the car-ramming attack at Tapuah Junction, assailants were shot - 8 November 2015: A 19-year-old Border Policeman who was critically wounded in a vehicular attack last week in the West Bank died of his wounds - 9 November 2015: Israel strikes Hamas site in Gaza after rocket attack - 10 November: Two Arab teens stab Jerusalem light rail guard in Pisgat Ze’ev - 12 November: Undercover Israeli troops raid Hebron hospital and kill a Palestinian during an attempt to detain another man suspected of carrying out a stabbing - 14 November: An Israeli father and son were shot dead in an apparent ambush near Hebron Friday on a day that also saw three Palestinians die after being shot by Israeli soldiers - 16 November: Israeli troops shot dead at least two Palestinians during a confrontation in Qalandia near Ramallah - 18 November 2015: Gaza rocket fire prompts IDF retaliatory strike - 19 November: Five people have been killed and up to a dozen injured in two attacks by Palestinians in Tel Aviv and the Gush Etzion bloc of settlements in the occupied West Bank - 22 November: Four Israelis were stabbed and wounded in the southern city of Kiryat Gat on Saturday while violence continued to roil the West Bank - 22 November: A Palestinian girl from Nablus tried to stab Israelis and was fatally run down by a Jewish settler in the West Bank on Sunday while, in a second incident a Palestinian was shot dead after an attempted attack - 22 novembre: Une Israélienne a succombé à ses blessures dimanche après avoir été poignardée par un Palestinien en Cisjordanie occupée - 23 November: On Monday morning a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip exploded in an open area in the Eshkol Regional Council - 23 November: On Monday morning two people injured in a stabbing attack near Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market, security forces shoot both assailants, killing one - 25 November: Israeli soldier seriously injured in Hebron-area stabbing attack, assailant dies after being shot during attack - 26 November: A Palestinian man tried to stab security forces at a checkpoint near Tapuah and was shot and killed during the attack - 26 November: 11-year-old Palestinian boy, who stabbed train guard in the head, says he 'wanted to die a martyr' - 27 November: Six Israeli soldiers were wounded in a second car-ramming attack at the entrance to the village of Beit Ummar - 29 November: Israeli border police shot dead a Palestinian who stabbed an officer in Jerusalem on Sunday - 30 November: Israeli police shot dead a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem on Sunday night after a day of violence in the city left two people wounded and an attacker killed - 30 November: Two Jewish minors were found guilty on Monday of the 2014 murder of Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khudair in Jerusalem

December 2015: 1 December: Palestinian woman shot dead as she tries to stab an IDF officer at Einav Junction - 3 December: Two Israelis hurt in shooting north of Jerusalem, attacker shot dead at Hizme checkpoint - 3 December: Israel says suspects arrested over July arson attack on a Palestinian home in Duma - 4 December: Three Palestinians were reported injured in an Israeli artillery strike on the Gaza Strip Friday morning - 8 December: Palestinian killed during clash with Israeli soldiers in Bethlehem - 11 December: Palestinian driver killed as he attempts to ram soldiers north of Hebron - 14 December: Israeli jets targeted 2 Hamas posts in the Gaza Strip, hours after a rocket fired from the territory exploded in Israel - 15 December: The terrorist who carried out a car-ramming attack, that injured 14 people, including a baby, in Jerusalem on Monday was a member of Hamas - 16 décembre: Deux Palestiniens ont lancé leurs voitures contre des soldats israéliens lors d'une opération de l'armée dans un camp de réfugiés près de Ramallah et sont tués - 17 December: West Bank stabbing attempt thwarted by Israeli soldiers outside Nablus - 20 December: A Palestinian woman attempting to stab a policeman in Hebron on Sunday morning shot by security forces - 22 December: Israeli soldiers arrest knife-wielding Palestinian woman in Hebron - 22 December: In suspected extremist attack smoke grenades thrown into home near Ramallah where a Palestinian couple and their 9-month-old baby boy were sleeping - 23 December: At least three Israelis wounded, one critically, in a stabbing attack Wednesday at the Old City’s Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem - 24 December 2015: Four people dead in Jerusalem stabbings, after an Israeli stabbed to death, and Palestinian assailants shot - 24 December: Driver shot and killed at Adam junction north of Jerusalem after running car into soldiers on side of road - 24 December: One Palestinian died and one Israeli soldier injured during an exchange of gunfire in the Qalandiya refugee camp in the West Bank - 26 décembre 2015: Un Palestinien tué dans une attaque contre un policier - 28 December: Palestinian dies of wounds days after being shot in fence clash east of the Maghazi refugee camp in the center of the Hamas-ruled coastal strip - 30 December: Israeli father-of-two Genadi Kaufman who was stabbed outside of Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs three weeks ago died on Wednesday morning - 31 December: One Israeli soldier injured in a suspected car-ramming attack near the West Bank settlement of Tapuah, Palestinian driver shot dead

2016: List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict 2016

January 2016: 1 January 2016: Suspected gunman Nasha'at Melhem opened fire on several businesses on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv, killing two people and injuring seven others - 2 January 2016: After rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip Israeli air force launched airstrikes targeting Hamas facilities - 3 January 2016: Tel Aviv schoolchildren stay home as manhunt for Dizengoff Street shooter goes into day three - 11 January 2016: Following a stabbing attack of two Palestinians, who were shot and killed on Saturday night when they attempted to stab soldiers in the Jordan Valley settlement of Beka’ot, Israeli troops shot and injured a Palestinian who attempted to stab them near the Hermesh settlement - 13 January: Hamas threatens retaliation for deadly strike on bomb-planting cell - 17 January 2016: Attacker stabs Israeli woman from settlement of Otniel to death, who tried to fight off assailant in front of three children in the entrance to the family’s home - 19 January: Escalation feared after a new knife attack Monday on a street in a West Bank settlement wounded pregnant Michal Froman - 23 January 2016: An Israeli border police officer shot dead a 13-year-old Palestinian girl who tried to stab him as he guarded the entrance to a West Bank settlement - 24 January: Rocket shot from Gaza hits southern Israel - 26 January: Israeli Shlomit Krigman dies after Palestinian knife attack outside food store in Beit Horon - 31 January: Three Israelis were wounded, when a Palestinian man opened fire at an IDF checkpoint near Beit El in the West Bank, and was shot dead

February-April 2016: 4 February 2016: More stabbing attacks in 2016, in Central Israeli City of Ramle by suspected 13-year-old Israeli Arab female assailants - 14 February: 2 Palestinian teens killed as IDF soldiers come under fire - 2 March: Israeli soldiers shot dead two Palestinian teens who had attacked an Israeli settler at his home in the occupied West Bank - 4 March 2016: A Palestinian woman rammed her car into an Israeli soldier wounding him in the occupied West Bank on Friday and was then shot dead by troops at the scene - 9 March 2016: Fatah, the largest faction within the PLO, and the party of Palestinian Authority's Mahmoud Abbas, celebrates the Tuesday murder of a tourist in Jaffa, after Palestinian Mashala went on a stabbing spree in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, killing Vanderbilt graduate student and USA citizen Taylor Force and wounding 12 others - 11 March: At least four rockets launched from the Gaza Strip landed in an open field near the southern Israeli city of Sderot - 12 March: After rockets were fired into Israel, Hamas base was targeted by IDF strike that killed two children of a family living near Hamas base - 17 March: Two Palestinians stabbed and wounded an Israeli woman and were then shot and killed outside a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank - 19 March: A Palestinian teenager, who stabbed and wounded a Border Police officer in Hebron, was shot dead by another policeman - 24 March 2016: An Israeli soldier has been arrested after he shot in the head a Palestinian man who stabbed another soldier in an attack in Hebron, but was then lying on the ground, wounded, and did not pose a threat to security forces, according to a video provided by a rights group - 25 April: A survey of young Palestinians found support for knife attacks targeting Israelis, with a majority of those polled saying terror attacks serve the Palestinian cause - 27 April: Two Palestinians shot dead after attempted knife attack at West Bank checkpoint

May/June 2016: 3 May 2016: Three soldiers hurt in suspected West Bank car-ramming attack near Dolev, suspected assailant shot dead - 5 May 2016: In response to ongoing attacks against Israeli forces near border fence, IAF strikes Hamas targets in Gaza, as second Gazan tunnel leading into Israel found - 26 May: Israel's air force hits two Hamas sites in coastal territory in Gaza Strip in response to rocket attack - 10 June: Hamas test-fires dozens of short-range rockets in Gaza - 21 June 2016: 15-year-old Palestinian was killed and four were Palestinians wounded, three seriously, after two tourists and one Israeli were wounded along Israel's Route 443 - 21 June: 15-year-old Palestinian died and four others were wounded in West Bank after Israeli soldiers mistook them for stone-throwers - 24 June 2016: An Israeli couple injured in likely car-ramming attack in West Bank, suspected Palestinian woman killed - 30 juin: Une adolescente israélienne a été poignardée jeudi par un Palestinien dans une colonie de Cisjordanie

July/August 2016: 1 July 2016: The head of the Otniel yeshiva Miki Mark, described by friends and family as a pillar of his community, was killed in a Hebron terror attack Friday in which his wife and two of his children were injured - 1 July 2016: A rocket fired from Gaza hit a building in the southern Israeli town of Sderot on Friday night, causing damage to the building - 2 July: Israel army deploys 2 battalions to secure settlements, main roads as troops, intel agencies work in tandem to halt terror attacks - 3 July: Israeli troops arrested eight Palestinians, including the sister of the terrorist who murdered the teenage girl in the settlement of Kiryat Arba and is now praised by his sister, in overnight sweeps in the West Bank - 27 July 2016: Hamas terrorist who murdered Rabbi Miki Mark in 1 July shooting attack dies in West Bank firefight with Israel’s security forces - 21 August: Gaza rocket strikes near homes in Sderot, causing no damage, Israel strikes back at Hamas targets in northern Strip - 27 August: IDF opens probe into death of Palestinian Hamad said to have charged at troops

September 2016: 5 September 2016: Palestinian assailant was killed in East Jerusalem Sunday night when he and a second man attempted to run over police and Border Police forces in East Jerusalem - 17 September 2016: Palestinian assailant fatally shot by Israeli security forces after two Palestinians and one Jordanian shot and killed in three unrelated attacks in Jerusalem, Hebron and Kiryat Arba - 19 September: Two police officers wounded, one seriously, in a stabbing attack outside Herod’s Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday morning, the assailant reportedly shot and critically wounded

October-December 2016: 6 October 2016: Gaza official reportedly claims Hamas is working to prevent further violence following air force bombardment in reprisal for rocket attack on Sderot - 9 October 2016: A Palestinian assailant, firing from a car, shot and wounded at least seven people, two critically, in Jerusalem on Sunday and was then killed by Israeli police, according to police describing the incident as a terror attack - 9 octobre 2016: Deux des personnes blessées par des tirs d'un Palestinien dimanche à Jérusalem-est sont décédées, selon l'hôpital - 22 November 2016: A Palestinian man armed with a knife was shot and killed by Israeli security forces as he attempted to stab a guard at a crossing outside Jerusalem - 8 December 2016: A Palestinian assailant attempted to stab Israeli guards at a West Bank junction and was shot and killed by troops, police said - 18 December 2016: A Palestinian teenager was shot dead early Sunday during clashes with Israeli security forces, as army and border police were pelted with rocks in village near Ramallah and one Israeli officer was injured - 22 December 2016: Palestinian shot dead throwing bomb at soldiers during operation to raze East Jerusalem home of terrorist, army says - 25 December 2016: Hamas’s deployment at the Gaza border carries echoes of South Lebanon - 25 December 2016: Suspected Palestinian gunman opened fire near the West Bank settlement of Beit El on Sunday morning - 30 December 2016: Security forces reportedly shot and wounded a Palestinian woman at the Qalandiya checkpoint in the West Bank after she tried to carry out a stabbing attack

2017: List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, 2017

January 2017: 3 January 2017: Islamic Waqf guards try to boot veteran Israeli archaeologist and guide Gabriel Barkay for using the term 'Temple Mount' in a lecture to USA students - 3 January 2016: Two Border Police officers were injured in the northern West Bank, when several motorcycles attempted to ram through a temporary roadblock set up by security forces - 4 January 2017: 19-year-old IDF soldier Azaria, who killed wounded stabber in March 2016, convicted of manslaughter - 8 January 2017 Jerusalem truck attack was a vehicle-ramming attack - 8 January 2017: A truck rammed into a group of IDF soldiers in Jerusalem on popular Armon Hanatziv promenade killing three women, one man and injuring at least 15, the driver reportedly shot dead - 9 January 2017: After terror group praised deadly Jerusalem truck-ramming, Israeli troops rounded up five members of the Hamas terror group in raids across the West Bank and arrested six more suspects for low-level attacks - 10 January 2017: The Israeli military says that a Palestinian man had been shot, later dying of his wounds, while trying to stab IDF soldiers who were conducting an arrest raid near Nablus - 15 January 2017: Israeli troops doing work near the Gaza security fence came under fire on Sunday, in response, an army tank shelled a Hamas position in the southern Gaza Strip, IDF says

February/March 2017: 2 February 2017: Two Israeli policemen and a civilian were lightly wounded when a Palestinian woman drove her vehicle into a police car and a guard post outside West Bank Geva Binyamin community in a suspected car-ramming attack - 6 February 2017: Gaza rocket falls south of Ashkelon, in response Israeli planes and tanks bomb Hamas posts in northern Strip - 27 February 2017: A rocket fired from Gaza struck an open field in southern Israel early Monday morning - 27 February 2017: Israeli jets hit Gaza after overnight rocket attack - 1 March 2017: Gaza rocket strikes field south of Ashkelon in second attack in three days, coming after Hamas threatens to hit back over Israeli retaliatory bombardment of Strip - 6 March 2017: An alleged Palestinian terrorist was killed in an exchange of gunfire with Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Ramallah - 10 March: Rocket fired from Gaza falls short of border fence - 13 March 2017: After 2 police officers were hurt in Jerusalem stabbing attack and the assailant was shot, critically wounded during the attack and later died, police raided an East Jerusalem home of a Palestinian named in Arab media as the assailant - 16 March 2017: Israeli Air Force jets struck two Hamas installations in the north of the Gaza Strip in response to the latest rocket fire from the territory at Israeli communities nearby - 18 March 2017: Rockets launched from Gaza, Israel responds with tank fire at Hamas targets - 22 March 2017: An eighteen-year-old Palestinian was reportedly killed and two others injured by Israeli tank fire while nearing the Gaza border into Israel overnight - 29 March 2017: Palestinian Siham Rateb Nimir who was shot dead in the Old City on Wednesday as she attempted to stab border guards may have been motivated by grief over her son’s death at the hands of Border Police in September, after an apparent misunderstanding at an East Jerusalem checkpoint

April/May 2017: 1 April 2017: A teenage assailant stabbed two young men and a police officer in Jerusalem’s Old City, wounding them before being shot and killed by security forces - 6 April 2017: One person killed and another lightly wounded as Palestinian car rams into West Bank bus stop at Ofra junction, driver apprehended - 15 April 2017: British student Hannah Bladon killed in Jerusalem stabbing attack by a Palestinian from East Jerusalem, who has been apprehended - 27 April 2017: An Israeli security forces operation overnight reportedly uncovered an illegal weapons-making workshop in the West Bank town of Abu Dis, along with ammunition and bullet magazines, 14 terror suspects arrested and handed over for questioning in other operations - 13 May 2017: Israeli police officer who was stabbed by a Jordanian man in Jerusalem Saturday before shooting his attacker dead said he acted 'to save civilians' as well as his own life - 14 May 2017: Jordanian FM on Sunday dismissed an Israeli accusation that it was justifying terrorism in condemning the killing of a Jordanian assailant in Jerusalem on Saturday, calling the defense 'a heinous crime'

June/July 2017: 1 June 2017: IDF soldier wounded in stabbing attack in northern West Bank by Palestinian female assailant, who was shot and critically injured at front gate of Mevo Dotan settlement - 6 June 2017: Police cars set alight, other cruisers pelted with stones and officers attacked by rock-throwing protesters, one protester killed and investigation launched, as residents in the Israeli Arab city of Kafr Qassem riot against police - 16 June 2017 Jerusalem attack - 16 June 2017: Policewoman Hadas Malka succumbs to injuries in stabbing at Damascus Gate after fighting her attacker while trying to draw weapon, four other police officers injured at Zedekiah’s Cave, three attackers, all of whom were members of Palestinian terrorist groups, were shot dead in the course of the attacks - 26 June 2017: Gaza rocket hits open area in southern Israel, no injuries - 28 June 2017: A Palestinian man in Hebron, who opened fire on Israeli soldiers searching for illegal weapons, shot dead - 12 July 2017: Two Palestinians said killed in clashes with IDF troops in Jenin

14 July 2017 Arab Israeli Temple Mount terrorist attack and aftermath: 14 July 2017 Temple Mount shooting - 14 July 2017: Two of the Israeli police officers wounded in Friday morning's shooting attack at the Temple Mount have died of their wounds, all the three assailants were shot and killed, identified as Arab Israelis from Umm Al-Fahm - 14 July 2017: Palestinian terror groups praised the deadly shooting attack at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount on Friday - 15 July 2017: Arab League scolds Israel for Temple Mount closure, failing to mention attack - 22 July 2017: Abbas to freeze contacts with Israel until recent decisions on 'Al Aqsa' backtracked - 23 July 2017: Police install hi-tech security cameras outside Temple Mount, as Muslim worshipers vow to keep up fight against security measures and as IDF and Shin Bet detain 29 members of Hamas terror group after deadly terror attack in Halamish - 25 July 2017: Cameras come down along with metal detectors at Temple Mount, following an Israeli security cabinet decision to replace the metal detectors with security measures based on 'advanced technologies' - 28 July 2017: After weeks of tension, Friday’s Muslim prayers in Old City end peacefully despite widespread efforts of inciting

Since 16 July 2017: 16 July 2017: Palestinian gunman Amar Ahmad Halil of Nabi Saleh, who was behind a drive-by shooting attack on Saturday near the West Bank settlement of Atere, was killed during an overnight raid after he attempted to open fire on Israeli soldiers who came to arrest him - 16 July 2017: Israeli officials bolster security as Temple Mount set to reopen after attack - 18 July 2017: Protesters rioted in East Jerusalem neighborhoods overnight against new security measures at the Temple Mount, throwing stones and petrol bombs at police and shooting fireworks at Israeli forces, at least 50 Palestinians and one officer were reported hurt - 21 July 2017: Three Palestinians were reported killed in clashes that erupted between protesters and Israeli police on Friday in East Jerusalem and the West Bank as thousands demonstrated against the installation of metal detectors at the entrances to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount to avert more terrorist attacks - 21 July 2017: Israeli father, son and daughter stabbed to death in West Bank home, mother in serious condition after Palestinian terrorist sneaks into settlement of Halamish, stabs family at Shabbat dinner as young children hide, killer shot and wounded by IDF soldier on leave - 22 July 2017: IDF raids Halamish terrorist’s home, arrests his brother - 22 July 2017: 2 Palestinians said killed as heavy clashes again erupt and police use tear gas, stun grenades and water cannons in West Bank and Jerusalem to disperse rock-throwing rioters - 23 July 2017: Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip fired a rocket at the Ahskelon coast region in southern Israel, but the projectile breaks apart in mid-air, army says, and does not cause injury or damage - 24 July 2017: Second Gaza rocket hits open area in southern Israel, no injuries, IDF launches retaliatory strike at Hamas position - 28 July 2017: Palestinian Takaatka from Bethlehem wielding a knife rushed at IDF soldiers at the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank on Friday and was shot dead

August 2017: 2 August 2017: Palestinian teenager stabbed an Israeli man in an apparent terror attack, critically wounding him, at a supermarket in the central Israeli city of Yavneh, as soldiers catch Palestinian with knife near the Etzion junction in the West Bank south of Jerusalem - 7 August 2017: Three East Jerusalem residents suspected of firebombing an armored security car were arrested on Sunday night - 9 August 2017: Israeli jets hit Hamas targets in Gaza following rocket strike

War 2008/2009 and ongoing blockade of the Gaza-Strip: Gaza-Israel conflict: War 2008/2009 and blockade - Gaza-Strip blockade since 2007, ongoing - Gaza War 2008/2009 - Gaza conflict, UN report 2009

May 2010: Gaza flotilla raid 2010

June 2010: 4 June 2010: Nine Turkish men on board were shot a total of 30 times, in head at close range, autopsy results reveal - The 'Guardian': The nine victims - Legal assessments of the Gaza flotilla raid 2010

August 2011: 23. Juli 2011: Erdogan fordert von Israel Entschuldigung wegen tödlicher Kommandoaktion 2010 - Aufhebung des Embargos gegen Gazastreifen verlangt - 19 August 2011: Israel firm on not apologising over flotilla 2010 and killing of nine Turkish citizens

September 2011: 1 September: UN calls Israeli raid on flotilla 'excessive' - 4 septembre: La Turquie va saisir la 'Cour internationale de justice' pour contester la légalité du blocus de Gaza - 6 septembre: Erdogan souhaite se rendre à Gaza - 8. September: Türkei will nächste Hilfslieferungen nach Gaza mit Kriegsschiffen begleiten

October 2011: - 11 October 2011: Israel and Hamas agree deal to free Gilad Shalit - 18 October: Prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel under way - Gilad Shalit returning to Israel - 19 October: Deported Palestinians arrive in exile

November/December 2011: 3 November: Israel to prevent aid ships reaching Gaza - 4 November 2011: Israel's navy boards two boats taking medical aid to Gaza about 50 nautical miles in international waters - 18 December: Israel frees last Palestinian detainees in Shalit swap

June/July 2012: 13 June 2012: Government report criticises Netanyahu decision-making in 2010 naval raid on Gaza-bound flotilla - 23. Juli 2012: Ägypten erlaubt Palästinensern visafreie Einreise

September 2012: 3. September: Im Gaza-Streifen hat sich ein junger Palästinenser aus Protest gegen die Armut selbst verbrannt

October 2012: 17 October: Israel's envoy asked the UN to try to persuade a Swedish ship carrying rights activists not to try to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip - 18 October: Document in Israel reveals army calculated minimum calories Gazans needed to eat during blockade to avoid malnutrition - 20 October: Ship carrying pro-Palestinian activists seeking to reach Gaza is seized by Israeli soldiers - 24 octobre: L'émir du Qatar à Gaza, une visite 'historique'

December 2012: 30 December: Gaza construction convoy crosses from Egypt

March 2013: 23 March 2013: Israel and Turkey agree to restore full diplomatic relations after PM Benjamin Netanyahu apologised for the deadly naval raid against a Gaza-bound international flotilla in 2010 and also agreed to compensate the families of the victims

October 2013: 14 October: Israel freezes Gaza supplies after discovering a sophisticated tunnel into the Jewish state from the Palestinian territory - 30 octobre: L'Egypte a détruit des centaines de tunnels de contrebande creusés sous la frontière avec la bande de Gaza

2014: 6 February 2014: Water crisis in Gaza Strip, over 90% of water un-potable - 18 May 2014: Algerian convoy brought medicines and medical equipment for opening of proposed new hospital in southern Gaza town of Khan Yunis - 24 May: Ugur Suleyman Soylemez, who was injured during the Israeli takeover of the Mavi Marmara flotilla in 2010 died after four years in a coma

July-August 2014: July-August 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict

August-December 2014: 10 August 2014: Trucks carrying flammable material were nearly struck by shells fired from Gaza, prompting the decision to shut border crossing at Kerem Shalom - 2 October 2014: Israel eases Palestinian travel restrictions for Muslim holiday, allowing Gazans to pray in Jerusalem, visits of relatives in the West Bank and Israel, and permits to export agricultural produce to the West Bank - 2 December: With cement in short supply, Gaza reconstruction after the 2014 war could take over 30 years - 25 December: Corruption hampers effort to rebuild Gaza after summer conflict

2015: 6 March 2015: Israel’s decision to double water supplies to Gaza is an improvement but still inadequate, experts say - 13 April: 45 aid organizations sign on to report that insists only open borders and a durable Israel-Hamas ceasefire can bring economic, social and political stability to Gaza - 30 April: As protesters in three Israeli cities urge an end to Gaza blockade, Hamas violently disperses parallel rally in Gaza - 23 May 2015: Gulf States, Turkey give only 12 percent of $2b pledge for Gaza reconstruction - 29 June: Israeli Navy intercepts Gaza-bound ship 'Marianne', escorting the Swedish-registered vessel to Ashdod Port - 5 July 2015: A year after Operation Protective Edge, some 100,000 Gazans remain homeless, with unemployment and poverty even more crippling than they were a year ago - 2 September 2015: Gaza could soon become uninhabitable, UN report predicts

2016: 31 January 2016: Homeless Gazans struggle during harsh winter - 8 February: Palestinian man killed when Gaza smuggling tunnel caves in - 3 February 2016: UN agency says that Gaza, with 1.8 million inhabitants, could be uninhabitable by 2020, in part because of lack of potable water

Israeli settlements, civilian communities inhabited by Israeli citizens, almost exclusively of Jewish ethnicity, built predominantly on lands called the Palestinian territories, which Israel has militarily occupied since the 1967 Six-Day War, and partly on lands considered Syrian territory also militarily occupied by Israel since the 1967 war, such settlements within Palestinian territories currently exist in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and within Syrian territory in the Golan Heights - June 1967 Six-Day War's aftermath, the cease-fire agreement following the 1967 Six-Day War leaves Israel in control of a number of areas - Administration and local government

Types of Israeli settlements: Mixed Israeli settlements, having a specific heterogeneous non-religious and religious Jewish residential policy - Non-religious Israeli settlements - Religious Israeli settlements - Unauthorized Israeli settlements - Israeli outpost

Resettlement of former Jewish communities: Resettlement of former Jewish communities - Since 20th century timeline of Hebron and 1929 Hebron massacre in Mandatory Palestine by Arabs incited to violence by rumors that Jews were planning to seize control of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem - History of Hebron - Gush Etzion, a cluster of Jewish settlements located in the Judaean Mountains, including four Jewish agricultural villages that were founded in 1940-1947 on property purchased in the 1920s and 1930s and destroyed by the Arab Legion in the Kfar Etzion massacre before the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, but the area was left outside of Israel with the 1949 armistice lines and the settlements were rebuilt after the 1967 Six-Day War

Population statistics for Israeli settlements in the West Bank: Population statistics for Israeli settlements in the West Bank

2017: 9 February 2017: Yesha Council says 421,000 Israelis now living in West Bank as the number of settlers has grown by 3.9% since 2015, twice the rate of population growth inside Israe

Israeli settlement timeline since 1967: Israeli settlement timeline

Since 1960s: Since 1960s timeline of Hebron - History of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in Hebron since 1967

1968: Since 1968 Kiryat Arba, an urban Israeli settlement on the outskirts of Hebron, in the Judean Mountains region of the West Bank, in 2015 it had a population of 7,108

1977: Halamish, also known as Neveh Tzuf, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, located in the southwestern Samarian hills to the north of Ramallah, established in 1977 it is organised as a community settlement and falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Binyamin Regional Council and had a population of 1,278 in 2015

1995: Amona, an Israeli outpost since 1995 in the central West Bank located on a hill overlooking Ofra within the municipal boundaries of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council

2017: 2 February 2017: Fearing violence, Israeli police begin removing last protesters from Amona outpost - 30 March 2017: Israel okays first new settlement in decades to replace Amona, as Israeli guidelines point to unilateral policy on settlement building

28 February 2017: Police began evacuating settlers and hundreds of protesters who gathered in nine buildings in the West Bank settlement of Ofra, ahead of a court-ordered demolition of the houses found built without permits on private Palestinian land

In the 21 July 2017 Halamish stabbing attack three Israelis were killed and one severely wounded by a Palestinian assailant from nearby village, who identified with Hamas and had previously been arrested several times by Palestinian security forces, and was now shot by a neighbor and arrested - 25 July 2017: IDF arrests mother of Halamish terrorist on suspicion of incitement, after she called on Palestinians to kill Jews

Peace process in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict - List of Arab–Israeli peace proposals and treaties - Quartet on the Middle East - Roadmap for peace - Direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians (2010-2011)

April 2011: 28. April 2011: Israel und die palästinensische Vereinbarung vom 27. April

May 2011: Netanyahu rejects Obama '1967 borders' view

July 2011: Israeli lawmakers pass West Bank settlement boycott law 11 July - Abbas vows to continue UN statehood bid

September 2011: 1 September: UN calls Israeli raid on flotilla 'excessive' - 2. September: Türkei weist Israels Botschafter aus - 3 September: Ban Ki Moon urges Israel and Turkey to fix ties - 4 septembre: La Turquie va saisir la 'Cour internationale de justice' pour contester la légalité du blocus de Gaza - 4. September: USA wollen UN-Abstimmung über Palästinenserstaat verhindern - Vorschlag zu neuer Runde jahrzehntewährender Friedensdiplomatie - 13 September: Palestinian state an obligation, says Erdogan in an adress to Arab states meeting in Cairo - 14. September: Präsident Abbas strebt Anerkennung Palästinas bei den UN als Stärkung der Verhandlungsposition an, nicht als Ende von Verhandlungen - 15 September: UN secretary-general says he hopes for meaningful dialogue in run-up to Palestine's statehood bid - 16 September: Abbas to seek full UN membership for Palestinian state - 19 September: Global poll supports Palestinian state - 26 September: UN Security Council has begun consultations on the request of Palestinian membership - 27. September: UN-Sicherheitsrat schiebt Entscheid über Palästinenser-Antrag auf lange Bank - 28. September: Sogar US-Kritik an israelischer Siedlungspolitik

October 2011: 5 October: Unesco clears way for Palestinian membership vote - 31 October 2011: Unesco appoves Palestinian membership bid - 107 yes votes

November 2011: NZZ 1. November: Israels Lieberman-Ministerium nennt die Entscheidung der Unesco und damit von 107 Ländern 'ein einseitiges palästinensisches Manöver, ... das die Möglichkeiten einer Friedensvereinbarung in weitere Ferne rücken läßt' (d.h. wegen der Reaktion dieser israelischen Regierung auf die Entscheidung) - 1 November: Israel orders new building in East Jerusalem after Unesco membership of Palestine - 1 November: PLO to seek membership in more UN agencies - 2 November: Israel's accelerated settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem condemned by European states - 2 November: US joins criticism of Israel's settlement plan - 8 November: Sarkozy called Israeli PM Netanyahu 'liar'

December 2011: 26 December: Israel's foreign minister describes peace with Palestinians as 'currently unachievable' saying that 'Abu Mazen proves time after time that he is not a partner for anything'

January 2012: 2 January: On Tuesday Israeli envoy Yitzhak Molcho and Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat to meet in Jordan - 3. Januar: Israeli und Palästinenser wollen Gespräche in Jordanien fortsetzen - 26. Januar: Ergebnisloses Ende der Gespräche zwischen Israelis und Palästinensern

March 2012: 26 March: Israel should boycott the UN Human Rights Council after it voted to authorize a probe of Israeli settlements, Israels foreign minister Lieberman says calling the council a 'hypocritical organization' that 'has nothing to do with human rights' - ... and Israel's Supreme Court? - 26. März: Israel stellt aus Protest gegen eine geplante Untersuchung der Siedlungspolitik des Landes die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Uno-Menschenrechtsrat ein

April 2012: 3 April: Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are to hold renewed talks, in what would be their first public meeting in more than two months

December 2012: 3 December: Israeli settlement plans in a strategically sensitive area of occupied land near East Jerusalem would deal 'an almost fatal blow' to peace hopes, UN head Ban Ki-moon has warned - 9 December: Qatari PM brands the Quartet 'a failure' and calls for rethink of peace process

June 2013: 30 June 2013: Israelis and Palestinians remain pessimistic despite US Kerry's shuttle diplomacy

July 2013: 2013 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks - 20 July: Agreement on basis to resume Mideast peace talks, John Kerry says - 20 July: Israeli PM Netanyahu has called the resumption of talks with the Palestinians 'a vital and strategic interest' for Israel - 28 July: Israel's Cabinet approved the release of 104 long-held Palestinian prisoners, clearing a hurdle toward a possible resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks - 30 July: Israelis and Palestinians open talks to set out framework for negotiations for first time in three years, as US hosts both parties - 30 July: Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will aim to reach a 'final status' agreement over the next nine months to end the conflict, a second meeting between the two sides will be held in the next two weeks

August 2013: 9 August: Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will resume peace talks in Jerusalem on 14 August - 14 August: As Israelis and Palestinians are to launch talks in Jerusalem, Abbas greets released prisoners, vows to free all jailed Palestinians - 15 August: Israel, Palestine agree to meet every week for peace talks - 20 August: Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met secretly in Jerusalem on Tuesday - 26 August: Palestinian negotiators say they canceled meet with Israelis after deadly clashes

September 2013: 9 September: Kerry pledges to peace talks during Abbas meeting in London - 26 septembre: Le président palestinien Abbas affirme à l'ONU que son objectif est d'arriver à un accord de paix 'définitif' avec Israël

October/November 2013: 22 October 2013: Palestinian and Israeli negotiators in a new round of peace talks in Jerusalem focused on the issue of water resources - 5 novembre: Les Palestiniens refusent de négocier avec Israël tant que la colonisation continue - 6 novembre: Kerry à Jérusalem pour tenter de sauver le processus de paix - 13 novembre: Israël renonce à un vaste projet de colonies en Cisjordanie - 14 November: Palestinian peace negotiating team resigns in protest against Israeli settlement building

December 2013: 10 December: Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian officials agree to share and increase water resources in the arid region, including measures to save the Dead Sea - 19 December: Israel-Palestinian talks may need extra year, chief Palestinian negotiator Erakat said - 31 décembre: Israël libère 26 prisonniers palestiniens

January 2014: 5 January: Israel rejects USA proposals on Jordan Valley, saying that 'security must remain in our hands'

April 2014: 3 April: Israel freezes fourth prisoner release, Palestinians demand capital in East Jerusalem - 7 April: After talks ended in deadlock, USA envoy Indyk held a second meeting in Jerusalem on Monday evening with the Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams - 24 April: Israel suspends peace talks with Palestinians after Fatah-Hamas deal on Palestinian unity

July 2014: 10 July 2014: Hamas' rockets and Israel-Gaza conflict prompts emergency UN security council meeting - 10 July: During council's emergency meeting UN's Ban Ki-moon says ground offensive and 'all-out escalation' are preventable 'only if Hamas stops rocket firing'

2015: 19 May 2015: EU's Federica Mogherini heads to Mideast to reboot peace talks, wanting a more active role for the EU in seeking peace between Israel and the Palestinians and saying that Israeli-Palestinian status quo is not an option - 16 June: Hamas officials arrive in Qatar to discuss potential long-term truce with Israel, including an agreement to create a detached, floating Gaza port - 27 October 2015: EU's Mogherini urges Abbas and Netanyahu to meet Quartet ‘in days’, saying Israeli-Palestinian conflict will only get worse with each round of violence

Arab-Israeli peace projects: Arab-Israeli peace projects

2014: 28 March 2014: Palestinian students visit Auschwitz in first organized visit in a program, that aims to teach Israeli and Palestinian students about the other side's suffering in effort to study how empathy could facilitate reconciliation - 19/20 May 2014: With the collapse of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, hundreds of thousands of young people across the Middle East are talking reconciliation online, Uri Savir says

2015: 1 September 2015: Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstain calls on Israel’s Arab neighbors at a global conference to visit Israel and discuss environmental cooperation 'people to people', urging leaders not to wait for peace agreements but rather to build up confidence from the ground up, Iran walks out on speech

2016: 28 May 2016: A group of Israelis and Palestinians has teamed up in a movement calling for a European-style confederation between Israel and a future state of Palestine, that would allow citizens from both sides of the conflict to live in either country but retain their original nationality

2017: 19 February 2017: Sixteen deaf Palestinian children were able to hear for the first time after Jerusalem medical center carried out 16 cochlear implant surgeries as part of Peres Center for Peace project

Israeli–Palestinian economic peace efforts: Israeli–Palestinian economic peace efforts

Arava Institute for Environmental Studies: 'Arava Institute for Environmental Studies' located at Kibbutz Ketura on the Israeli side of the Arava Valley, seeking under the motto that 'nature knows no borders' to train leaders of the Middle East in environmental issues so that they will be able to cooperate in solving regional environmental problems

Valley of Peace initiative: The 'Valley of Peace initiative' is an effort to promote economic cooperation between Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians, based around efforts and joint projects in the Arava/Arabah Valley, along which runs the southern portion of the Israel/Jordan border

Red Sea–Dead Sea Water Conveyance: 'Red Sea–Dead Sea Conveyance' is a planned pipeline that runs from the coastal city of Aqaba by the Red Sea to the Lisan area in the Dead Sea, that will provide potable water to Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories, bring sea water to stabilise the Dead Sea water level and generate electricity to support the energy needs of the project

Middle East economic integration: Middle East economic integration - Economy of the Middle East by country and territory

Kuwait - Geography of Kuwait - History of Kuwait - Demographics of Kuwait

Economy of Kuwait: Economy of Kuwait - main industries include petroleum, petrochemicals, cement, shipbuilding and repair, desalination, food processing, construction materials - Companies of Kuwait

Petroleum industry in Kuwait: Petroleum industry in Kuwait - Oil and gas companies of Kuwait - Oil reserves in Kuwait - Oil fields of Kuwait - Burgan field

External trade and finance of Kuwait: External trade and finance of Kuwait

Military of Kuwait and budget: Military of Kuwait - Kuwaiti army equipment - Kuwait air force inventory

Kuwaiti military budget

Society, demographics and human rights in Kuwait: Kuwaiti society - Human rights in Kuwait

Demographics and ethnic groups in Kuwait: Demographics of Kuwait - expatriates account for 70% of Kuwait's total population, Kuwaitis are only 30% of the total population - Ethnic groups in Kuwait

Kuwaiti people: Kuwaiti people - Kuwaitis are only 30% of Kuwait's total population as expatriates account for 70% of the country's total population

Filipinos in Kuwait: Filipinos in Kuwait, as of 2012, there are roughly 180,000 of Filipinos in Kuwait, mostly migrant workers, and approximately 60% of Filipinos in Kuwait are employed as domestic workers - Pinoys in Kuwait - Philippines news in Kuwait

Indians in Kuwait: Indians in Kuwait, there are around 681,288 Indians as on 1 January 2013, constituting the largest expatriate community in Kuwait

Nepalis in Kuwait: Nepalis in Kuwait

Pakistanis in Kuwait: Pakistanis in Kuwait, there are arounc 100,000 - 130,000 Pakistanis in Kuwait

Syrians in Kuwait: Syrians in Kuwait, estimated at around 120,000 people in 2015

Freedom of religion and repression in Kuwait: Freedom of religion in Kuwait - 29 March 2012: Kuwaiti authorities arrest a local man for insulting the Prophet Mohammad on his Twitter account - 4 June: Kuwaiti jailed for 10 years for Twitter 'blasphemy' - 7 March 2013: A court in Kuwait sentenced two opposition activists to prison terms on charges of writing remarks on their Twitter accounts that were deemed offensive to the emir - 31 March: Opposition tweeter Hamed al-Khaledi sentenced to two years in jail on charges of insulting emir - 10 June: A Kuwaiti court sentenced a woman teacher to a total of 11 years in jail for insulting the emir, inciting regime change and insulting a religious sect via Twitter

Women and women's rights in Kuwait: Women in Kuwait - Women's rights in Kuwait - Polygamy in Kuwait

Migrant workers in Kuwait: Migrant workers in Kuwait

Education in Kuwait: Education in Kuwait - Universities in Kuwait

Health in Kuwait: Health in Kuwait

Kuwaiti media: Kuwaiti media - Radio stations in Kuwait - TV in Kuwait

Newspapers in Kuwait

Crime in Kuwait: Crime in Kuwait - Human trafficking in Kuwait

Terrorism in Kuwait: Terrorism in Kuwait

June 2015: June 2015 Kuwait mosque bombing - 26 June: A suicide bomber killed 27 people wounding 227 inside a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Kuwait city during Friday prayers - 29 June: As mourners pray in front of the Kuwait mosque suicide bombing victims' coffins and 'Islamic State' terrorists release audio clip of the suicide bomber, Kuwait identifies the bomber behind its worst militant attack as a young Saudi Arabian man

Politics of Kuwait: Politics of Kuwait - Political parties in Kuwait - Youth Association of Kuwait

Political issues in Kuwait: Political issues in Kuwait - Election reform - Foreign workers - Women's rights

Elections and politics in Kuwait: Elections in Kuwait - Kuwait National Assembly

2011: 31 March 2011: Kuwait's emir accepts cabinet's resignation - 28 November: Kuwait's PM and cabinet resign over protests against corruption

July 2013 Kuwaiti general election: Kuwaiti general election 27 July 2013 - 28 July: Liberal and tribal groups have emerged the main winners, voter turnout was an estimated 52.5% and Kuwait's minority Shia MPs have lost more than half of their seats in the parliamentary election - 28 July 2013: Kuwait government resigns after parliamentary polls

November 2016 Kuwaiti general election: 26 November 2016 Kuwaiti general election - 26 novembre 2016: Les Koweïtiens votent pour élire leur septième Parlement en seulement une décennie dans ce riche émirat agité depuis des mois par la réduction des subventions à la population, consécutive à la chute des revenus pétroliers - 27 novembre: Les groupes de l'opposition koweïtienne et leurs alliés, dont une moitié d'islamistes, ont remporté près de la moitié des 50 sièges du Parlement, une seule femme a remporté un siège, selon les résultats des législatives annoncés dimanche

Since 2011 Kuwaiti protests, repression and politics: Since 2011 Kuwaiti protests

March 2011: 31 March 2011: Kuwait's emir accepts cabinet's resignation

November 2011: 28 November 2011: Kuwait's PM and cabinet resign over protests against corruption

February 2012: Kuwaiti parliamentary election 2 February 2012 - 2 February 2012: Kuwaitis vote to choose new government - 3 February: Kuwaiti Islamist-led opposition wins majority securing 34 seats of 50

June/July 2012: 27 June 2012: Thousands of Kuwaitis have protested against a court ruling that dissolved the opposition-dominated parliament - NZZ 29. Juli: Mitglied der Herrscherfamilie Scheich Meshaal al-Malek al-Sabah wegen Kritik an Monarchie und Korruption von Kuwaits Geheimdienst festgenommen

September 2012: 11 September: Thousands of protesters demand a free election of a prime minister

October 2012: 7 October: Emir al-Sabah dissolves parliament, paving the way for snap elections - 16 October: At least 5.000 people took part in a demonstration warning the emir he would not be allowed to 'take Kuwait into the abyss of autocracy' - 22 October: Kuwaiti riot police battle tens of thousands of angry protesters, using tear gas, sound bombs and rubber bullets as activists reported several people injured and many arrests - 31 octobre: Des milliers de protestataires en colère qui ont marché en direction de la prison où est détenue Musallam Al-Barrak ont dispersé par la force

November 2012: 1 November: Kuwait opposition to meet after violent clashes - 4 November: Police try to disperse thousands of protesters outside the capital calling for the repeal of a new electoral law - 11 November: Tens of thousands ralliy to demand the repeal of a disputed electoral law - 30 November: Tens of thousands of people were protesting in Kuwait City against controversial electoral law and national assembly elections due to take place on Saturday

December 2012: Kuwaiti parliamentary election December 2012 - 1 December: Kuwait votes for parliament amid boycott calls and growing unrest - 2 December: Shiite candidates bagged 17 of the 50-seat, Sunni Islamists were reduced to a small minority of four MPs as the voter turnout was 26.7 percent (information ministry: 38.8 percent) in polls hit by opposition boycott - 9 December: Tens of thousands of Kuwaitis have staged a peaceful protest against the parliament elected last week under voting rules deemed unfair by the opposition

February 2013: 3 February: For insulting the emir, Kuwait tweeter sentenced to five years in jail

March 2013: 7 March 2013: A court in Kuwait sentenced two opposition activists to prison terms on charges of writing remarks on their Twitter accounts that were deemed offensive to the emir - 31 March: Opposition tweeter Hamed al-Khaledi sentenced to two years in jail on charges of insulting emir

April 2013: 15 April 2013: Kuwaiti opposition leader and former MP Mussallam al Barrak sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of making statements insulting the country's ruling emir al-Ahmad al-Sabah - 15 April: Thousands of Kuwaitis demonstrated Monday night after the lower court sentenced key opposition leader Mussallam al-Barrak to five years in prison - 18 April: Riot police fired tear gas and stun grenades at thousands of opposition activists who were protesting against authorities for raiding the house of opposition leader Mussallam al-Barrak

July 2013: 21 July: Rights group blasts Kuwait over jailing of female activist for 'offending the emir'

January-July 2014: 26 January: A five-year prison sentence followed by permanent exile for the Kuwaiti activist Abd al-Kareem over his Twitter emir's criticism - 7 July: Kuwait police fire tear gas to disperse hundreds of opposition protesters who were demanding the release of detained opposition leader Mussallam al-Barrak

Foreign relations of Kuwait: Foreign relations of Kuwait - External trade and finance of Kuwait

Migrant workers in Kuwait - Politics and rights of foreign workers

Kuwait/Iraq relations: Kuwait/Iraq relations - Rumaila oil field - Invasion of Kuwait 1990/91 - Kuwait–Iraq barrier

Kuwait/Israel relations: Kuwait/Israel relations

Kuwait/India relations: Kuwait/India relations - 26 January 2013: Indian community in Kuwait celebrate Republic day

Kuwait/Pakistan relations: Kuwait/Pakistan relations

Kuwait/Saudi Arabia relations: Kuwait/Saudi Arabia relations

Kuwait/Syria relations: Kuwait/Syria relations - 18 January 2015: Kuwait to host third UN Syria donors conference - 29 March 2015: On 31 March 2015 world leaders will meet in Kuwait, where the UN will request their support to fund the £5.6bn required to keep millions of Syrians alive - 31 March: Donors at conference in Kuwait pledge $3.8Bn in Syria aid

Kuwait/USA relations: Kuwait/USA relations

Lebanon - Geography of Lebanon - History of Lebanon - Lebanese Civil War 1975-1990 - Demographics of Lebanon

Economy of Lebanon: Economy of Lebanon - main industries include banking, tourism, winery, food processing, jewelry, cement, textiles, mineral and chemical products, wood and furniture products - Companies of Lebanon by industry

Tourism in Lebanon: Tourism in Lebanon

Agriculture in Lebanon: Agriculture in Lebanon - Lebanese wine

Water supply and sanitation in Lebanon: Water supply and sanitation in Lebanon

Banking and financial services in Lebanon: List of banks in Lebanon - Banque du Liban - Beirut Stock Exchange

Taxation and budget of Lebanon: Taxation in Lebanon - 11 March 2013: After a year of slowing growth due to the Syrian civil war and domestic political instability, Lebanon's budget deficit jumped 67 percent in 2012 to $3.93 billion

Lebanese Armed Forces: Lebanese Armed Forces

Shi'a Islamic militant group Hezbollah since 1985: Shi'a Islamic militant group Hezbollah since 1985 - Funding of Hezbollah - Hezbollah armed strength and rocket force - Hezbollah military activities - Hezbollah supports Assad regime in the Syrian civil war - Hezbollah foreign relations

2013: 22 July 2013: EU designates Hezbollah’s armed wing as terrorist group - 1 November 2013: Israel reportedly destroyed Hezbollah-bound missile shipment in Syria, targeting Russian-made SA-125 missiles - 4 December: Hezbollah commander killed outside home in Beirut - 17 December: Car bomb hits Hezbollah stronghold in east Lebanon

2014: 25 May 2014: Hezbollah's Nasrallah warns Europe against global jihadist threat of radical fighters returning from Syria

2015: 18 July 2015: Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah reportedly arrests 175 of its own fighters after they refused to take part in intense battles in the Syrian city of Zabadani

Politics of Lebanon: Politics of Lebanon - Constitution of Lebanon - National Pact in Lebanon - Political parties in Lebanon - March 14 Alliance - Future Movement - Progressive Socialist Party - Social Democrat Hunchakian Party - Democratic Left Movement

Elections and politics in Lebanon: Elections in Lebanon - Lebanese general election 2009

Ruling coalition since June 2011: Ruling coalition since June 2011: March 8 Alliance - March 8 Alliance member: Hezbollah - March 8 Alliance member: Syrian Social Nationalist Party - 13 June 2011: Lebanese new cabinet Miqati, dominated by Hezbollah - 20 octobre 2012: Au lendemain de l'attentat attribué par les experts et l'opposition au régime syrien le Premier ministre Mikati a annoncé qu’il resterait à la demande du président - 23 March 2013: PM Najib Mikati steps down after impasse in his cabinet over election preparations and senior security officials' dispute - 23 March: Lebanese president accepts Mikati's resignation over divisions on several domestic issues, asking him to continue in caretaker capacity

April 2013: Lebanese government of April 2013 - 6 April: Former minister of culture Tamam Salam to form the new cabinet after 124 of the 128-member parliament chose him for the job

December 2013: 27 December 2013: Former PM Saad al-Hariri indirectly accuses Hezbollah of responsibility for the bomb attack that killed his adviser Mohamad Bahaa Chatah and four others - 28 décembre: La coalition hostile à Damas dite du "14 mars", veut un gouvernement sans le Hezbollah - 28 December: Lebanese opposition calls for investigation into Chatah murder

2013 general election postponed until 2014: Lebanese general election 2013 - 31 May 2013: Lebanon's government to postpone elections until 2014

2014: 15 February: Tammam Salam, taking up office as PM with hopes for presidential and parliamentary elections in coming months says, that the new cabinet is a mandate for Lebanon to fight its growing security problem, which he linked to Syria - Lebanese presidential election sixteenth round is scheduled for 10 December 2014, it will precede a parliamentary election - Lebanese general election 2014

2016: 9 mai 2016: La liste soutenue par les principaux partis politiques libanais a remporté dimanche les élections municipales à Beyrouth malgré une très faible participation d'à peine plus de 20%

October 2016: 31 October 2016: Lebanon’s newly elected president Michel Aoun laid out his plans in his first presidential address Monday, including the need to 'liberate' Lebanese lands from Israel, to 'protect' the country from Israel, saying that 'arming and supporting the Lebanese Army will be my main priority'

May 2017 Lebanese general election: 21 May 2017 Lebanese general election

Protests in Lebanon: Protests in Lebanon - Protests in the Middle East

2011/2012 Lebanese protests: 2011 Lebanese protests - 21 octobre 2012: Des milliers de personnes attendues aux funérailles de Wissam al-Hassandu - 21 October: Clashes outside government offices in Beirut after thousands attended the funeral of Wissam al-Hassan - 22 October: Opposition leaders urge calm as gunbattles erupt in Beirut, after assassinated Wissam al-Hassan is laid to rest

2013 Lebanese protests: 9 June 2013: Lebanese protester Hashem Salman was killed outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut after gunmen from the Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia Hezbollah opened fire on unarmed anti-Hezbollah Shi'ite demonstrators

2014: 9 March: Thousands of people march through Beirut to demand politicians pass a law against domestic violence

August/September 2015: 2015 Lebanese protests, series of protests in response to the government's failure to dispose accumulated waste after the capital's main landfill was closed a month ago - 23 August 2015: Lebanese police fired tear gas and water cannon and shot in the air to try to disperse thousands of protesters in Beirut calling on the Salam government to step down for mishandling a dispute which left rubbish uncollected in the streets for weeks - 29 August: Thousands of protesters waving Lebanese flags took to the streets of Beirut for an unprecedented mobilisation against sectarian politicians they say are incompetent and corrupt - 5 September: Thousands of protesters rally in Beirut over politician's call to elect Lebanon's president by popular vote to address the crisis that has paralysed government and parliament

2016: 9 January 2016: Lebanese citizens protest near Al-Masnaa’ border crossing against Hezbollah’s siege of the Syrian town of Madaya

Society, demographics, culture, religion and human rights in Lebanon: Lebanese society - Human rights in Lebanon

Demographics and ethnic groups in Lebanon: Demographics of Lebanon - Ethnic groups in Lebanon

Culture and languages of Lebanon: Culture of Lebanon - Languages of Lebanon

Lebanese Arabic

Education in Lebanon: Education in Lebanon

Women in Lebanon: Women in Lebanon - Gender equality in Lebanon, Gender Index 2012 - 25 March 2012: Over 30 NGOs demonstrate in Beirut for women's rights - 9 March 2014: Thousands of people march through Beirut to demand politicians pass a law against domestic violence

Health in Lebanon: Health in Lebanon

Media of Lebanon: Media of Lebanon - Newspapers in Lebanon - Television in Lebanon

2016: 22 November 2016: Channel, which is owned by Lebanese president Michel Aoun, has sparked a wave of anger against the station after it aired an episode portraying a Syrian refugee being insulted for entertainment, in a way many observers considered to be racist

Internet in Lebanon: Internet in Lebanon

Freedom of religion in Lebanon: Constitution of Lebanon - National Pact in Lebanon - Religion in Lebanon - Freedom of religion in Lebanon - Secularism in Lebanon

History of the Jews in Lebanon - Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries

Christianity in Lebanon - Orthodox Christianity in Lebanon - Maronites in Lebanon

Armenians in Lebanon - 25 April 2015: Hosting a number of Syrian Armenian refugees who have been forced to flee fighting in neighboring Syria, for many Armenians the genocide of 1915 is not a thing of the past

Islam in Lebanon - Sunni Islam in Lebanon - Shia Islam in Lebanon

Druze

Crime in Lebanon: Crime in Lebanon

Civil war and conflicts: War crimes in Lebanon - Lebanon - Civil War 1975-1990 and beyond - Cedar Revolution 2005 - 2006 Lebanon war - 2007 Lebanon conflict - 2008 conflict in Lebanon

Violence and terrorism in Lebanon: Terrorism in Lebanon

Since 2004 Lebanon bombings and assassinations: Lebanon bombings and assassinations since 2004

February 2005 assassination of Rafic Hariri: On 14 February 2005 the former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafic Hariri was assassinated along with 21 others in Beirut - UN International Independent Investigation Commission 2005-2009 - Special Tribunal for Lebanon since 2009 - 30 June 2011: Hariri murder - Special Tribunal for Lebanon charges four Hezbollah members and issues arrest warrants - 17 August: UN tribunal releases Hariri indictment lifting confidentiality restrictions - 13 May 2012: Two killed in sectarian clashes in Tripoli - 21 May: Two die in first Beirut clashes over Syria conflict - 3 June: Pro- and anti-Syrian groups clash in Lebanon - 3 June: Extra forces are deployed to Tripoli after deadly Syria-linked sectarian clashes 19 June 2012: Palestinians killed at Lebanon refugee camps - 24 October 2012: Judges rule UN-backed court can try four over Hariri murder - 16 January 2014: The trial of four men accused of murdering former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri is set to begin at an unprecedented tribunal at The Hague

Since 2011 conflict in Lebanon and Syrian Assad regime's war spillover: Since 2011 conflict in Lebanon and Syrian Assad regime's war spillover

2012 assassination of Wissam al-Hassan: 2012 Beirut bombing - assassination of Wissam al-Hassan - 19 October: Prominent Lebanese security official Wissam al-Hassan, ally of opposition leader Saad Hariri, is among the dead in a car bombing in the capital Beirut that has killed at least eight people and wounded up to 80 others

2013: 24 mai 2013: À Tripoli, sunnites et alaouites se déchirent comme en Syrie - 26 May: Firefights in northern Lebanon between Sunni Muslims and Alawites have killed 30 people - 26 May 2013: Four people were wounded on Sunday when two rockets exploded in the Shiite-majority Hezbollah heartland of south Beirut - 9 July: A car bomb rocked Beirut's southern suburbs, a stronghold of Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah movement, injuring at least 53 people - 15 August: Twenty people were killed in an explosion which struck the southern Beirut stronghold of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group - 23 August: As locals were finishing Friday prayers in the largely Sunni Muslim city of Tripoli, bombs hit two mosques, killing at least 42 people and wounding hundreds - 30 August: Lebanon on Friday charged five men, including a Sunni Muslim cleric close to the Syrian government and a Syrian military officer, over bomb attacks on two mosques in the northern city of Tripoli last week that killed at least 42 people - 28 September: Gunbattles between Hezbollah fighters and local residents in the city of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon kill at least three people, including two Hezbollah members, leaving several others wounded - 19 November: Seven people reportedly killed as explosions struck near the Iranian embassy in Beirut

December 2013 assassination of Mohamad Chatah: 27 December 2013 assassination of former finance minister Mohamad Chatah - 27 December: Former Lebanese minister Mohamad Chatah killed in Beirut blast, killing at least five people and wounding 70 - 28 December: Death toll in Beirut blast rises to seven

2014: 3 January: Deadly car bomb strikes Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut - 16 January: At least three people killed and several more wounded when a car bomb exploded near a local government building in Hermel - 21 January: Suicide bombing kills four people in the Haret Hreik area of Beirut - 2 Februry: Deadly car bomb hits Hezbollah stronghold Hermel - 3 February: A suicide bomber blew himself up in a passenger van in Beirut, wounding at least six people - 19 February: A blast in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Wednesday reportedly killed four people and wounded 19 - 16 March: Suicide bomb kills three people in Nabi Osmane in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley - 23 March: One person was killed and 10 people wounded in clashes in Beirut between Assad loyalists and opponents - 24 June 2014: Beirut suicide bombing wounds 19 people as conflict in Syria causes unrest across border - 14 July: Six dead as Hezbollah battles Syria rebels on Lebanon border

2015: 10 January: 'Islamic State' claims responsibility for double suicide attack in Lebanon - 23 January: Five Lebanese soldiers killed in clashes near border with Syria

12 November 2015 Beirut bombings, two suicide bombers detonated explosives in Bourj el-Barajneh - 12/13 November: Dozens of people have been killed and more than 180 wounded in Lebanon’s worst terrorist attack this year after a double suicide bombing in south Beirut upended a fragile peace in Syria’s neighbour, claimed by Islamic State terrorists - 18 November 2015: International and Lebanese media organizations have widely neglected to acknowledge that at least 18 Syrians were killed in the suicide attack on the Burj el-Barajneh neighborhood - 5 December 2015: A suspected Islamist militant and two members of his family killed in northern Lebanon, after the man blew himself up during an army raid

2016: 28 June 2016: Two waves of suicide bombings have struck eastern village of al-Qaa near Lebanon’s border with Syria in pre-dawn attacks

September 2016: 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

Foreign relations of Lebanon: Foreign relations of Lebanon

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

Lebanon/Armenia relations: Lebanon/Armenia relations - Armenians in Lebanon - Armenian diaspora in the Middle East - 11 May 2000: Lebanese parliament voted to recognize the Armenian genocide

Lebanon/Bulgaria relations: Lebanon/Bulgaria relations - 5 February 2013: Bulgaria blames Hezbollah for bombing that killed five Israelis, in a move that may open way for EU to join in branding Iranian-backed Hezbollah a terrorist organization

Lebanon/Brazil relations: Lebanese Brazilians

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

Lebanon/European Union relations: Lebanon/European Union relations - 22 July 2013: EU declares Hezbollah's military wing terror group

2016: 21 March: The decision by Lebanese security to restrict any Syrian travelling from Europe to Beirut’s Hariri International Airport who does not have a departure stamp from Turkish territory has raised questions about the aims and rationale of the move at this time

Lebanon/France relations: Lebanon/France relations - 4 November: French President Hollande visiting Beirut pledges to 'protect' Lebanon against destabilisation by Assad regime

Lebanon/Iran relations: Lebanon/Iran relations - Russian and Iranian weapons for Lebanese Hezbollah - Iran's military support - November 2013 Iranian embassy bombing - 20 November 2013: Twin explosions rocked a southern neighbourhood of Beirut near the Iranian Embassy compound, killing at least 23 people and injuring 146

Lebanon/Israel relations: Lebanon/Israel relations - Hasbani River

Israel–Lebanon border - Green Line (Israel and its neighbours since 1949)

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

2006: 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War

2009: 11 September 2009: UN criticizes rocket attack from southern Lebanon on Israel

2010: 2010 Israel–Lebanon border clash

2012: 18 August 2012: Hizbollah leader Nasrallah threatens punishing missile strikes deep inside Israel in case it attacks Iran

2013: 22 August 2013: Two rockets from Lebanon explode in northern Israel, Iron Dome intercepts third - 23 August: Israel strikes terror site near Na'ameh following the firing of at least three rockets into Israel on Thursday - 16 December: Israeli soldier killed by a Lebanese soldier who opened fire across the border into Israel, Israel complains to the UN force - 16 December: After Israeli killed on border Israeli army shoots two Lebanese soldiers - 29 December: Two missiles fired from southern Lebanon into Israel prompt Israel shelling

2014: 25 February: Israeli planes attack Hezbollah targets on Lebanon-Syria border - 28 February: Israel warns Lebanon to curb Hezbollah threats - 5 March: Israeli troops shot Hezbollah fighters near Golan Heights, trying to plant a bomb - 14 March: An explosive charge detonates near Har Dov in the vicinity of the Israel-Lebanon border targeting an IDF force - 15 March: Lebanon's new government agrees to a statement that fell short of explicitly enshrining Hezbollah's role in confronting Israel - 7 April: Nasrallah says March bombing of Israeli patrol was intended to highlight Hezbollah's ability to fight Israel despite battle in Syria - 14 July 2014: Rockets fired at Israel from southern Lebanon, drawing retaliatory artillery fire from Israeli forces, in the third such rocket attack from Lebanon since Friday - 7 October: Hezbollah claims responsibility for blasts near Israel-Lebanon border, after two Israeli soldiers wounded

2015: 28 January 2015: At least 5 Kornet missiles fired in Hezbollah ambush of IDF soldiers on a road in the village of Ghajar killing two IDF soldiers and injuring seven

2017: 16 July 2017: Israel won’t tolerate Iranian bases in Lebanon and Syria, Israeli PM Netanyahu says in Paris after a ceremony earlier in the day marking 75 years since the roundup and deportation of more than 13,000 French Jews during the Holocaust, also saying that Syria ceasefire deal, hammered out by the USA and Russia, will create a long-term threat on Israel’s northern border by cementing Tehran’s presence

List of Lebanese rocket attacks on Israel: List of Lebanese rocket attacks on Israel

Lebanon/Pakistan relations: Lebanon/Pakistan relations - 23 septembre 2013: Malala soutient un projet éducatif pour des enfants syriens au Liban

Lebanon/Palestine relations: Palestinians in Lebanon - Palestine refugee camps in Lebanon since 1948 - 7 April 2014: Clashes between rival Palestinian groups in a refugee camp near Sidon have killed seven people - 25 August 2015: Two people were killed in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon in renewed overnight clashes between the Palestinian Fatah and Islamists

Lebanon/Russia relations: Lebanon/Russia relations - Russian and Iranian weapons for Lebanese Hezbollah, classified as a terrorist organization by the governments of the USA, Netherlands, France, Gulf Cooperation Council, UK, Australia, Canada, the European Union and Israel - Hezbollah armed strength

2014/2015: 7 December 2014: Russian deputy foreign minister meets Hezbollah chief Nasrallah in Beirut - 16 November 2015: Russia does not consider Hezbollah a terrorist group, encouraging their common agression in Syria

2016: 11 January 2016: Russia supplies Islamist terrorists Hezbollah with heavy weapons - 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

Lebanon/Saudi Arabia relations: Lebanon/Saudi Arabia relations - 29 December: Lebanon announces $3 billion grant from Saudi Arabia for army

Lebanon/Syria relations: Lebanon/Syria relations

1976-2005 Syrian occupation of Lebanon: Syrian occupation of Lebanon 1976-2005

Since 2011 Iranian-backed Hezbollah's involvement in Assad's war against the Syrian people: Since 2011 Iranian-backed Hezbollah's involvement in Assad's war against the Syrian people and timeline of Hezbollah's deployment in Syria

Since 2011 Syrian Assad regime's war spillover in Lebanon: Syrian Assad regime's war spillover in Lebanon June 2011 – present

Since 2011 refugees of Assad's war against the Syrian people in Lebanon: Since 2011 Refugees of Assad's war against the Syrian people in Lebanon

2012: 13. Mai 2012: Kämpfe in Syrien greifen auf Libanon über - Zwei Tote bei Gefechten zwischen Gegnern und Anhängern Asads - 7 July 2012: At least three people have been killed and nine injured in northern Lebanon in shelling from across the Syrian border - 7. Juli 2012: Das syrische Militär hat mehrere Dörfer im Norden Libanons beschossen und drei Menschen getötet und zahlreiche weitere verletzt - 10 juillet: Des obus du côté syrien s'abattent au Liban après échange de tirs - 11 August: Syrian security chief accused of terrorist plot, Lebanon's military prosecutor general says - 16 August: Lebanon revenge kidnappings raise tensions - 22 août: Touché par le conflit syrien neuf personnes tuées et 84 blessées à Tripoli - 24 August: Syria spillover clashes escalate in Lebanon - 20 October: Lebanese opposition politicians blame President Assad for bombing that kills senior security official Wissam al-Hassan and seven others in Beirut - 21 octobre: L'opposition libanaise appelle à un grand rassemblement contre le régime syrien - 23 October: Lebanon opposition MPs receive 'Syria threats' by SMS - 5 December: At least two people were killed in clashes between Sunni-dominated Bab al-Tebbaneh and Alawite-dominated Jabal Mohsen in Tripoli - 6 December: At least six people killed in two days of fighting between gunmen loyal to opposing sides in Syria's conflict - 10 December: Deadly clashes continue in Tripoli after Lebanon received bodies from a group of 14 Lebanese killed in Syria

2013: 5 February 2013: A Lebanese judge issues arrest warrant for top Syrian intelligence official Ali Mamlouk for his alleged involvement in bomb plot - 24 February: One killed in fierce Syria-Lebanon border fighting as Lebanese president Sleiman demanded that Syria 'refrain from firing towards Lebanese territory' - 19 March: Assad's Russian warplanes bomb Lebanon border area targeting Syrian opposition in Lebanese Arsal town - 3 April: Syrian Assad jet fires missile into Lebanon border town Arsal - 24 April: As fierce clashes continue in the border villages of al Qusayr, there are growing fears that Lebanon is being drawn further into the Syrian conflict - 9 May: Hezbollah says Syria to supply 'game-changing arms' - 20 May: As Assad's warplanes bomb Qusair and as his army is hitting the town with tanks and artillery from the north and east, Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah is firing mortar rounds and multiple rocket launchers from the south and west - 28 May: Gunmen kill three Lebanese soldiers on Syria border east of Arsal - 3 June: Lebanon sees worst clashes yet from Syria - 12 June: After a helicopter gunship attacked the eastern town of Arsal, Lebanon army warns will hit back against any new Assad raids - 20 June: As Iraq and Lebanon are alarmed at spreading Syria war, Lebanon's president urges his country's Hezbollah movement to pull its fighters out of the conflict - 24 juin: La ville côtière de Saïda, nouveau foyer de tensions sunnito-chiites - 3 August: Near the border with Lebanon an Assad warplane has killed at least nine people including six members of the same family and wounded nine others, targeting the opposition-held Syrian town of Yabroud just across the border from the Lebanese town of Arsal - 24 August: Lebanon is to observe a day of national mourning Saturday for 42 people killed in powerful bombings outside two Sunni mosques in a city riven by strife over Syria's war - 30 August: Lebanon on Friday charged five men, including a Sunni Muslim cleric close to the Syrian government and a Syrian military officer, over bomb attacks on two mosques in the northern city of Tripoli last week that killed at least 42 people - 19 octobre: Libération de neuf otages libanais détenus en Syrie depuis mai 2012 - 30 November: Four people were killed in Tripoli on Saturday in exchanges of fire between neighborhoods that support rival sides in Syria's civil war - 2 December: Gun battles and rocket fire in Tripoli killed at least 10 people and wounded dozens more over the weekend - 31 December: Lebanese army fires at Syrian aircraft after border raid

2014: 17 January 2014: Assad rockets kill seven people in Lebanese border town of Arsal wounding at least 15 - 27 January: Syrian refugees in Lebanon exceed 890,000 - 2 February: Explosion kills four people in Hermel, a Hezbollah stronghold near Syria - 2 February: Explosion kills four people in Hermel, a Hezbollah stronghold near Syria - 22 February: A suicide bomber killed two Lebanese soldiers and a civilian with a car bomb at an army checkpoint in Hermel - 16 March: Suicide bomb kills three people in Nabi Osmane in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley - 29 March: Car bomb kills three soldiers in attack on Lebanese army checkpoint in Arsal - 3 April: The number of Syrians registered as refugees in Lebanon has surpassed one million, UN says - 20 May: Lebanon is desperate for help as tens of thousands of Syrian refugees continue to stream into the small country that will have 1.5 million refugees by year end, UN says - 21 May: A shortfall in international support has left many Syrian refugees in Lebanon unable to access crucial medical care, rights group says - 3 August: Eight Lebanese soldiers have been killed in clashes with fighters in eastern Lebanon, near the border with Syria - 7 August: Syrian Coalition's Nora al-Ameer says that Hezbollah’s denial of any involvement 'as an unacceptable attempt to evade responsibility for the humanitarian catastrophe that afflicts the Syrian refugees in Arsal' - 18 October: Lebanon blocks Syrian refugees from entering, UN says - 25 October: Lebanon army fights gunmen in Tripoli, six soldiers killed

2015: 5 January: Lebanon imposes visas on Syrians as the country struggles to deal with more than 1.1 million Syrian refugees - 23 January: Five Lebanese soldiers killed in clashes near border with Syria - 31 March: Lebanese authorities arrest a group of Assad regime collaborators responsible for the kidnapping and returning of defected soldiers escaping Syria - 19 November 2015: A number of Syrian refugees, including three children, were wounded in a Lebanese air strike on a camp in the border town of Arsal

2016: 21 March: Lebanon blocks refugees arriving from Europe - 20 June 2016: With more than one million displaced persons from Syria, refugees are seeking a way out of the country as numbers swell - 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

November 2016: 16 November 2016: Hezbollah staged a military parade in the Syrian town of Qusayr, which it retook from Syrian rebels in 2013 in its first major victory after it intervened in support of Assad’s regime, showing its advanced Russian and USA weaponry including tanks, armored vehicles and anti-aircraft batteries, as USA's Obama administration supplies equipment to Lebanon’s army saying that the USA would be 'gravely concerned' if it ended up in Hezbollah’s hands - 24 November 2016: Russia and terror organization Hezbollah have begun 'official' military coordination in Syria at the behest of Russian regime, establishing 'continual' communication and shared channels between the two sides over what’s happening on the battlefield, as Russia is especially interested in coordinating with Hezbollah’s infantry on the ground in Aleppo

December 2016: 21 December 2016: Hezbollah terrorists are fighting in Syria with USA weapon systems supplied by the USA to the Lebanese Army, a senior Israel Defense Forces officer says, adding that Israel has supplied the USA administration with evidence, including photographs - 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'

2017: 10 July 2017: A young refugee, whose only crime was to cross paths with members of the Lebanese Army as he returned home from night shift at Al-Rahma Hospital in Arsal, reportedly killed under torture by Lebanese Army, as there are still around 400 other Syrian refugees detained by the Lebanese Army with unknown fate - 22 July 2017: Human Rights Watch renews its calls for an independent and transparent investigation into the recent deaths of Syrians in Hezbollah supported Lebanese army custody, as well as allegations of torture and ill-treatment of the detained - 24 July 2017: Lebanese Future Movement stresses that the Hezbollah militia does not have the legitimacy to intervene in Syria and participate in battles in which Syrian civilians are being killed, also saying that Hezbollah’s intervention in Syria serves Iranian and Assad regime

Lebanon/Turkey relations: Lebanon/Turkey relations - 9 August 2013: Turkey has called on its citizens to leave Lebanon following abduction of two Turkish Airlines pilots by armed men in Beirut linked to Lebanese Shi'ite Muslims

Lebanon/United Nations relations: UN resolutions relating to Lebanon - Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon - United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon - South Lebanon security belt

2004: 2 September 2004: UN Security Council Resolution 1559 calling for 'the disbanding and disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militia'

Since 2009: Special Tribunal for Lebanon since 2009

2013: 27 May 2013: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is 'deeply concerned' by Hezbollah's growing role in Syria's civil war and calls for greater efforts to halt the spread of the conflict toward other countries

2014: 16 January 2014: The trial of four men accused of murdering former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri is set to begin at an unprecedented tribunal at The Hague

Lebanon/USA relations: Lebanon/USA relations - Kidnapping in Lebanon of 96 foreign hostages of 21 national origins between 1982 and 1992 - 21 August 2012: USA seizes $150m 'linked to Hezbollah money-laundering' from the Lebanese Canadian Bank - 22 October 2012: The US will help to investigate the car bomb which killed Wissam al-Hassan - 24 October: US urges Lebanon stability amid escalating tensions sparked by the killing Wissam al-Hassan

2014: 10 July 2014: USA imposes sanctions against Hezbollah-affiliated Stars Group Holding in Beirut, after it bought electronics in USA, Canada and Europe to help Hezbollah making drones for military activities in Syria and to conduct surveillance operations in Israel

Environment of Lebanon: Environment of Lebanon - Bodies of water of Lebanon - Orontes River - Beirut River - Litani River

2006 Jiyeh Power Station oil spill: 2006 Jiyeh Power Station oil spill

Natural disasters in Lebanon: 2013 Middle East cold snap and floods

Qatar - Geography of Qatar - History of Qatar - Demographics of Qatar

Economy of Qatar: Economy of Qatar - main industries are crude oil, production and refining, ammonia, fertilizers, petrochemicals, steel reinforcing bars, cement

Energy in Qatar: Energy in Qatar - Fossil fuels in Qatar - Petroleum in Qatar - State owned 'Qatar Petroleum' operates all oil and gas activities in Qatar, including exploration, production, refining, transport, and storage - Natural gas in Qatar - Fossil fuel power stations in Qatar

Agriculture in Qatar: Agriculture in Qatar - 24 December 2012: Researchers in Qatar find new way to bring poor-quality land into cultivation even in harsh environments

Financial services in Qatar: Financial services in Qatar - Financial services companies of Qatar - Investment companies of Qatar

Since 2005 Qatar Financial Centre and Qatar Investment Authority: Qatar Investment Authority is Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, specializing in domestic and foreign investmen since 2005 - Qatar Financial Centre Authority business and financial centre in Doha, providing legal and business infrastructure for financial services since 2005

Banking in Qatar: Banking in Qatar - Banks of Qatar - Qatar Central Bank - Qatar Islamic Bank, the country's largest Shari’a-compliant lender since 1982 - HSBC Bank Middle East Limited is the largest and most widely represented international bank in the Middle East

Wealth in Qatar: Wealth in Qatar - Qatari billionaires

2014: 29 December 2014: Wild animals on sale in Qatar, as there is a thriving market for dangerous animals as pets

2016: 11 March 2016: Social media erupted when someone captured on video a tiger roaming the streets of Doha, as earlier this month the local newspapers reported that a young man had been attacked by a lioness while he was trying 'to train it' - Qatar and 2016 Panama Papers, set of 11.5 million leaked documents detailing attorney–client information for more than 214,000 offshore companies associated with the Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca - 13 April 2016: Panama Papers leak helps show that Qatar's former PM is a billionaire

Poverty and ethnic groups in Qatar: Ethnic groups in Qatar - Qatar's population of about 2.3 million is 75% male and 94% are immigrants - Labour and forced labour in Qatar

2013: 25 September 2013: Workers from Nepal and other Asian countries go to Qatar to find a way out of poverty, instead many are trapped into 12-hour days and nights in overcrowded, filthy camps and some never make it home alive

Tourism in Qatar: Tourism in Qatar

Sport competitions in Qatar: Sport competitions in Qatar

Since 2011 Qatar FIFA World Cup 2022 controversies and corruption allegations: List of 2022 FIFA World Cup controversies - 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar

2013/2014: 26 September 2013: Qatar's construction frenzy ahead of the 2022 World Cup is on course to cost the lives of at least 4,000 migrant workers before a ball is kicked, the International Trade Union Confederation claims - 1 June 2014: Fifa faces calls to quash Qatar World Cup vote after corruption allegations

2015/2016 FIFA corruption case: 2015/2016 FIFA corruption case - 23 June 2015: After Qatar paid $1.8 million to make World Cup bid to African congress the emirate won the right to host the 2022 World Cup later the same year at a controversial FIFA vote now under investigation by Swiss authorities

Military of Qatar: Qatar Armed Forces - Qatar Air Force - Air Force equipment - origin

2014: 27 March 2014: Qatar buys helicopters, missiles in $23 bln arms deals

Politics of Qatar: Politics of Qatar - Political parties are banned in Qatar - Trade unions in Qatar

Consultative Assembly of Qatar, following the 2013 election, it will have 30 elected and 15 appointed members - The first elections for the Consultative Assembly will be held in Qatar in June 2013

Central Municipal Council

Society, demographics, immigrant labor, human rights and crime in Qatar: Qatari society - Human rights in Qatar

2015/2016: 2015/2016 'Human Rights Watch' Qatar report examining migrant workers’ rights, freedom of media, women’s rights, sexual orientation and gender identity, key international actors - United Nations OHCHR monitoring Qatar's compliance with obligations of human rights treaties

Demographics of Qatar: Demographics of Qatar - Qatari people by ethnic or national origin - 18 December 2013: Qatar is home to many different nationalities, with Qataris themselves only representing a minority

Indians in Qatar: Indians in Qatar - the vast majority of about 545,000 Indians in Qatar in 2013 work as contract labourers in the booming construction industry

Filipinos in Qatar: Filipinos in Qatar - around 200,000 Filipinos work as construction workers, domestic helpers, or in the travel industry in 2005

Culture in Qatar: Qatari culture

Islam Qatar's state religion: Religion in Qatar - Islam is the state religion - 'Freedom' of religion in Qatar

Women and women's rights in Qatar: Women in Qatar - Women's rights in Qatar

2012: 26 October 2012: The parents of 13 children killed in a mall fire at a daycare facility owned by the daughter of Qatar's culture minister last May are demanding the Gulf nation move ahead with a trial after repeated delays - Citizens and a family: Al Thani's coup d'état 1995 - 21 November 2012: Violence against women at home, in the workplace, continues to rise, Qatar rights group says

2014: 23 April 2014: Desperate lives of women domestic workers exposed to appalling exploitation, physical violence and sexual abuse in Qatar, rights group says - 23 April 2014: Hundreds of migrant workers and Qatar maids who have had documents seized by employers are being held for months in deportation centre

2015: 24 January 2015: Polygamy needs to be eliminated, Women's Refugee Commission's Sarah Costa says in Doha, outlining that economic independence, education and information on birth control methods are essential for women's emancipation

Education in Qatar: Education in Qatar - Schools in Qatar - Bangladesh M.H.M High School & College, Doha-Qatar - Doha Modern Indian School

Media in Qatar: Qatari media - Newspapers in Qatar

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press in Qatar and role of the government: Freedom of expression in Qatar - Freedom of the press in Qatar

2010: 2 June 2010: Five women journalists resign as presenters from Qatar-based TV station as a result of a dispute with the management

2012: 10 May 2012: Qatar government imposes upon the practice of the rights to free speech and the right to free press

2015: 5 May 2015: Reporters Without Borders condemns the arbitrary detention of journalists investigating the conditions of the migrant workers who are building the infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar

Internet in Qatar: Internet in Qatar

Crime and Human rights in Qatar: Crime in Qatar

Human rights and Sharia law in Qatar: Human rights in Qatar - Sharia law is the main source of Qatari legislation according to Qatar's Constitution

2011 Detention of Sultan al-Khalaifi: Detention of Sultan al-Khalaifi

Since 2011 arrest and imprisonment of Mohammed al-Ajami: Detention of Mohammed al-Ajami, charged with insulting Al Thani - 30 October 2012: Human rights groups urge Qatar to free the poet Mohammed al-Ajami detained last year for what they say was peaceful criticism - 27 January 2013: Qatar poet Mohammed al-Ajami final verdict expected on February 25 - 25 February: Jailed for criticizing Arab governments that restrict freedoms and lauding the Tunisian popular uprising, poet al-Ajami denounced Qatar's legal proceedings - 25 February: Muhammad al-Ajami's life sentence, criticised by rights groups that have called for his release, reduced to 15 years by 5 judges unanimous in their decision

Capital Punishment: Capital Punishment: espionage, apostasy etc.

Terrorism and alleged state-sponsored terrorism in Qatar: Alleged state-sponsored terrorism in Qatar

2014: 20 September 2014: How Qatar is funding the rise of Islamist extremists - 16 November 2014: Terror financiers are living freely in Qatar, USA discloses - 10 December 2014: Qatar allows money to flow to Islamic State and other terrorists

Human trafficking in Qatar: Human trafficking in Qatar - Discrimination between expatriates and citizens, residency

Immigrant labor in Qatar: Qatar does not maintain wage standards for its immigrant labor, and does not permit labor-unions - Barwa Al Baraha area for laborers in Qatar

2013: 7 February 2013: Human Rights Watch says Qatar has not made significant reforms despite promises to improve working conditions, criticising that migrant workers in the Gulf state work under a '19th century labour system' - 26 September 2013: Qatar is facing growing international pressure to act against the growing death toll of migrant workers preparing for the 2022 World Cup as unions warned another 4,000 people could die in the Gulf emirate before a ball is kicked - 10 novembre 2013: L'ONU veut améliorer la condition des travailleurs immigrés - 18 novembre: Organisation des droits de l'homme pointe dans un rapport les insoutenables conditions de travail des migrants employés au Qatar - 18 December: Unpaid workers in Qatar running low on food

2014: 24 January 2014: 185 Nepalese men died in 2013, building the infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup - 26 February: Qatar's foreign domestic workers subjected to slave-like conditions, a report says - 20 March: As more than 900 already killed in Qatar's preparation for World Cup, pressure growing to hold new bid for host country in 2022 - 31 March: UN agency ILO criticises Qatar over migrant workers' rights after 36 Nepalese and Indian workers died in February in Qatar - 23 April 2014: Hundreds of migrant workers and Qatar maids who have had documents seized by employers are being held for months in deportation centre - 14 May 2014: Qatar promises to reform labour laws in the wake of an international outcry over conditions for migrant workers - 28 July: In a project directly commissioned by the Qatar government migrant workers building luxury offices for Qatar's 2022 football World Cup organisers, have told British newspaper they have not been paid for more than a year and are now working illegally - 23 December: Despite Qatar’s promises to improve conditions for Qatar’s 2022 World Cup workers, Nepalese migrants have died at a rate of one every two days in 2014, excluding deaths of Indian, Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi workers

2015: 17 March 2015: The UN human rights investigator for North Korea Marzuki Darusman says he would investigate allegations of North Koreans working in slave-like conditions abroad, mainly in China, Russia and the Middle East, building World Cup 2022 facilities in Qatar - 21 May: Qatar still failing migrant workers ahead of the 2022 World Cup, rights group says

2016: 24 March 2016: Qatar has been given 12 months to end migrant worker slavery or face a possible UN investigation - 13 April 2016: Migrants, mostly from south Asia, make up 94% of Qatar’s workforce, but they face daily segregation from Qataris in Doha documented by recent footage showing men who appear to be south Asian escorted from a busy square and a bustling park deemed 'family zones’

Foreign relations of Qatar: Foreign relations of Qatar

Multilateral relations of Qatar: Multilateral relations of Qatar

June 2017 Qatar diplomatic crisis: June 2017 Qatar diplomatic crisis - 5 June 2017: Arab states Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and UAE cut ties to Qatar, accusing Doha of meddling in internal affairs, supporting Iran-backed terror and destabilizing region - 6 June 2017: Panic buying in Qatar as shoppers stockpile food due to Saudi 'blockade' - 9 June 2017: Qatar crisis grows as Arab nations draw up terror sanctions list, which includes politicians and members of ruling family - 17 June 2017: United Arab Emirates says a western monitoring mechanism will be needed to force Qatar to abide by any agreement to end its alleged support for terrorism - 23 June 2017: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Bahrain and other Arab countries that have cut ties to the Emirate of Qatar issued a steep list of demands, insisting that their Persian Gulf neighbor cut back diplomatic ties to Iran, close down a Turkish military base in Qatar, sever all ties with the Muslim Brotherhood and with other groups including Hezbollah, al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group, and shutter al-Jazeera, accusing the Doha-based satellite broadcaster of fomenting unrest in the region

International (re)actions in the June 2017 Qatar diplomatic crisis: USA's and other (re)actions in the June 2017 Qatar diplomatic crisis - 8 June 2017: United Nations' António Guterres urges countries in the Middle East to avoid escalating tensions, encouraging diplomatic means and is ready to support such efforts - 9 June 2017: After Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had earlier urged Saudi Arabia and allies to ease blockade against Qatar, Donald Trump accuses the emirate of sponsoring terrorism at the highest levels - 11 June 2017: Iranian regime sends 5 planes of food to embargo-stricken Qatar, also shipping hundreds of tons of food by sea to Gulf state

Bilateral relations of Qatar: Bilateral relations of Qatar

Qatar/Afghanistan relations: Qatar/Afghanistan relations - 20 June: US welcomes Qatar's decision to take down a sign that cast the Taliban's new office in Doha as a rival Afghan embassy saying the militant group can't represent itself 'as an emirate, government or sovereign' - 20 June: Afghan government anger at opening of Taliban office in Qatar leads US to suspend plans to attend talks

Qatar/Bangladesh relations: Qatar/Bangladesh relations

Qatar/Egypt relations: 8 January 2013: Qatar has lent Cairo a further £1.25bn and donated an extra £300m in an effort to control a currency crisis prompted by Egypt's political turmoil - 8 juillet 2013: Des collaborateurs d'Al-Jazeera en Egypte ont démissionné en raison d'un désaccord sur la ligne éditoriale de leur employeur - 14 July 2014: Following Morsi’s ouster, Qatar’s support to Egypt in question - 22 December 2014: Egypt, Qatar announce mending of relations - 19 February 2015: Qatar recalls ambassador to Egypt over air strikes in Libya

Qatar/France relations: Relations entre la France et le Qatar - 26 February 2015: Al-Jazeera journalists arrested for flying drone over centre of Paris at a time of heightened vigilance in the French capital after the Charlie Hebdo killings, 'filming a report' confirmed by the Qatar-based media organisation - 3 March: Paris court fines UK journalist Redman from the Qatar-based network al-Jazeera for flying drones over city

Qatar/Germany relations: Qatar/Germany relations - 18 April 2013: More than 50 German Leopard 2 tanks and about 20 PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzers bought by Qatar - 19. Mai 2014: Scheich aus Katar wird grösster Einzelaktionär der Deutschen Bank

Qatar/India relations: Qatar/India relations - Indians in Qatar

Qatar/Iraq relations: 30 September 2014: Qatar defended government's connections with armed terror groups in the Middle East and its involvement in negotiating the release of hostages

Qatar/Israel relations: Qatar/Israel relations - 21 July 2014: The Qatar-owned Al Jazeera media company reportedly has been supporting Hamas’s narrative since the latest conflict in Gaza began - 23 July 2014: Israel singles out Qatar as key Hamas terror sponsor - 28 October 2015: No room for cooperation with Israel, Qatari FM says

Qatar/Mauritania relations: 2013 Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya appointed as a teacher at the Ahmed Bin Mohammad Military School, which is a military Academy in Qatar - 23 March 2015: Islamic State terrorists, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram reportedly training together in Mauritania

Qatar/Nepal relations: Qatar/Nepal relations - 26 September 2013: Qatar is facing growing international pressure to act against the growing death toll of migrant workers preparing for the 2022 World Cup as unions warned another 4,000 people could die in the Gulf emirate before a ball is kicked - 26 September 2013: Nepal recalls envoy Maya Kumari Sharma after she called Qatar an 'open jail' - 24 January 2014: 185 Nepalese men died in 2013, building the infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup - 2 June 2015: Nepal's labor minister urges Qatar to scrap a sponsorship scheme which prevents the free movement of migrant workers, calling it a violation of the rights of its nationals working in Qatar

Qatar/Pakistan relations: Qatar/Pakistan relations - Pakistanis in Qatar

Qatar/Palestine relations: 23 July 2014: Israel singles out Qatar as key Hamas terror sponsor

Qatar/Philippines relations: Filipinos in Qatar

Qatar/Russia relations: Qatar/Russia relations

Qatar/Syria relations: Qatar/Syria relations - 28 March 2013: Syria opposition opens embassy in Qatar

Qatar/Turkey relations: Qatar/Turkey relations - 30 September 2014: Qatar defended government's connections with armed terror groups in the Middle East and its involvement in negotiating the release of hostages

Qatar/United Kingdom relations: Qatar/United Kingdom relations

1916-1971 British control of Qatar: British control of Qatar 1916–1971

Qatar/United Kingdom economic relations: Qatar/United Kingdom economic relations - Iraq Petroleum Company's (Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Royal Dutch Shell) operations outside Iraq and oil drilling in Qatar since 1938

2011: 28 August 2011: Qatar is the world's largest liquefied natural gas exporter, with many of the world's largest energy companies having stakes in the emirate's projects, including Shell, Exxon, Total, Mitsui

2012: 10 March 2012: From the ruins of the financial crisis, the tiny Gulf state Qatar has snapped up a range of famous British assets

2016: 13 January 2016: Diplomatic immunity of Qatar's billionaire Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani questioned in high court, as lawyers for Fawaz al-Attiya, a British citizen and former official spokesman of the emirate, claiming he was kidnapped and tortured, say the Sheikh’s position as a diplomat in London is a sham

Qatar/United Nations relations: Qatar/United Nations relations - 2012 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Qatar - 25 November 2012: As Qatar welcomes world leaders to the 18th UN climate change conference, its own environmental record has come under criticism as a major contributor to greenhouse gases - 26 November 2012: About 17.000 delegates expected in Doha to attend the latest round of the climate talks, with carbon permits on the agenda - 10 novembre 2013: L'ONU veut améliorer la condition des travailleurs immigrés - 31 March 2014: UN agency ILO criticises Qatar over migrant workers' rights after 36 Nepalese and Indian workers died in February in Qatar - 25 April 2014: UN calls on Qatar to end exploitation, trafficking of domestic workers and to overhaul labour laws to include domestic workers - 24 March 2016: Qatar has been given 12 months to end migrant worker slavery or face a possible UN investigation

Qatar/USA relations: Qatar/USA relations - Military facilities of the United States in Qatar - 27 March 2014: Qatar buys helicopters, missiles in $23 bln arms deals, including $7.6 billion deals with the USA

Natural disasters in Qatar:

2015: 26 November 2015: Qatar and Saudi Arabia hit by floods, where one person was killed during flooding, shutting schools and blocking roads

Saudi-Arabia - Geography of Saudi-Arabia - Pre-Islamic Arabia - List of expeditions and battles of Muhammad - Caliphates in the Arabian Peninsula after Muhammad's death in 632 - Ottoman Arabia 1517-1918 - Unification of Saudi Arabia military and political campaign 1902–1932 - 'Modern' history of Saudi Arabia begins with the unification of Saudi Arabia in a single kingdom in 1932 - Demographics of Saudi-Arabia

Economy of Saudi-Arabia: Economy of Saudi-Arabia - main industries are crude oil production, petroleum refining, basic petrochemicals, industrial gases, commercial ship repair, commercial aircraft repair, construction - Companies of Saudi Arabia

Energy in Saudi-Arabia: Energy in Saudi-Arabia - Solar power in Saudi Arabia

Petroleum in Saudi Arabia: Petroleum in Saudi Arabia - the petroleum sector accounts for roughly 92.5% of budget revenues, 90% of export earnings, and 55% of GDP - Oil and gas companies of Saudi Arabia - 'Saudi Aramco' Saudi Arabian national petroleum and natural gas company based in Dhahran, founded 1933 as California-Arabian Standard Oil Co. - State owned Petromin Corporation

2016: 17 avril 2016: Douze ouvriers ont péri et onze sont blessés dans un incendie dans une usine pétrochimique samedi à Jubail dans l'est de l'Arabie saoudite

History of the oil industry in Saudi Arabia: History of the oil industry in Saudi Arabia - Oil reserves in Saudi Arabia - Oil fields of Saudi Arabia - Natural gas fields in Saudi Arabia

Petroleum politics in Saudi Arabia: Petroleum politics in Saudi Arabia

23 January 2015: Oil prices have surged following the death of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, as markets speculate about a possible policy shift of allowing crude prices to fall

Nuclear energy in Saudi Arabia: Nuclear energy in Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia has plans to create a domestic nuclear industry and in February 2011 it signed its first nuclear accord with France - Nuclear program of Saudi Arabia

Retail companies of Saudi Arabia: Retail companies of Saudi Arabia - 28 January 2013: Saudi authorities have ordered shops employing both men and women to build separation walls to enforce the strict segregation laws

Agriculture in Saudi Arabia: Agriculture in Saudi Arabia - Irrigation in Saudi Arabia

Water supply: Water supply and sanitation in Saudi Arabia - Water resources - Groundwater, desalination - Zamzam Well

Foreign workers in Saudi Arabia: Foreign workers in Saudi Arabia - about 80% of the labor force (7.63 million in 2009) is non-national - 'Saudization' policy

2013: 7 April 2013: Saudi Arabia's king ordered a three-month delay to a crackdown on migrant workers which has led to thousands of deportations - 28 April: Saudi Arabia has plans to replace the eight million expatriate workers with locals - 28 May: Tens of thousands of foreign workers are trying to leave Saudi Arabia - 30 May: Every day hundreds of 'illegal' foreign workers, mostly South Asians, queue in the scorching heat outside an immigration office seeking to get their papers in order or leave - 9 June: 180,000 foreign workers leave Saudi Arabia in 2 months - 10 July 2013: Saudi Arabia to expel foreigners disrespecting Ramadan - 5 novembre: Arrestation de milliers d'immigrés illégaux, l'économie perturbée - 10 November: No leniency for illegal foreign workers, Saudi Arabian authorities say - 10 novembre 2013: Deux personnes ont été tuées et 68 autrres blessées dans un quartier de Riyad lors d'affrontements impliquant des immigrés

2015: 30 August 2015: A fire swept through an oil workers' residential compound, leased by Saudi Aramco, in Al Khobar on Sunday, killing 11 people and injuring over 200 others of various nationalities, some critically - 9 October: Saudi Arabian employer accused of chopping off Indian maid’s hand in Riyadh after she tried to escape harassment, torture, and non-payment of wages by her employer

Poverty in Saudi-Arabia: 1 January 2013: In Saudi-Arabia an estimated quarter of Saudis live below the poverty line

Budget of Saudi-Arabia: 28 December 2014: Saudi 2015 budget based on oil price around $60 a barrel for Brent crude

Military budget of Saudi-Arabia: Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia budget - Saudi-Arabia among world's largest military budgets - Saudi-Arabia rank 7 of countries by military expenditures

Absolute monarchy, military and religion in Saudi-Arabia: Absolute monarchy in Saudi-Arabia - Kingdom of Saudi-Arabia - Custodian of the two 'Holy Mosques'

Religious sites in Saudi-Arabia: Holiest sites in Sunni Islam - Holiest sites in Shia Islam - Pilgrimage to Mecca - Religious significance of Medina in Islam

Major organizations headquartered in Jeddah - Organisation of Islamic Cooperation

Incidents preparing and during the Hajj: Incidents during the Hajj

2006: 2006 Hajj stampede resulted in the deaths of at least 364 pilgrims on 12 January 2006 during the Hajj in Mecca - 2006 Mecca hostel collapse - hostel housing Muslim pilgrims performing Hajj collapsed, killing 76 people and injuring 62

2015: September 2015 Mecca crane collapse - 11/12 September 2015: Over 100 people die as crane crashes on to Mecca’s Grand Mosque - 24 September 2015 Hajj stampede - 24 September 2015: At least 717 people have been crushed to death and more than 850 injured in a stampede outside Mecca during hajj - 26 September: Saudi grand mufti al-Sheikh absolves Saudi crown prince of blame for more than 700 deaths, saying that Hajj stampede was fate, beyond human control and that 'fate and destiny are inevitable', as Haj death toll rises to 769 and as demands are growing that Saudi officials should be tried in an international court - 9 October: 24 September Hajj stampede death toll raised to 1,453 and is nearly twice official Saudi estimate

Military of Saudi-Arabia: Armed Forces of Saudi-Arabia - Saudi-Arabian army - equipment and states of origin

2011/2012: 1 July 2011: Saudi troops quietly pull out of Bahrain after crackdown on anti-government protests - 200 German tanks 'Leopard' to Saudi-Arabia - Saudi sources confirm German tanks deal - 44 tanks already bought - 29 December 2011: USA sells $30 billion of Boeing F-15 fighter jets to Saudi-Arabia, formally announced on Thursday from Hawai where Obama is on Christmas holiday - 17 June 2012: Saudi Arabia wants to buy 600-800 Leopard battle tanks from Germany, more than twice as many as originally envisaged

2015: 8 March 2015: Saudi Arabia has passed India to become the world’s biggest arms importer in 2014, as spending rose 54% to $6.5 billion and imports will increase 52% to $9.8 billion in 2015, accounting for $1 of every $7 spent globally, according to data released Sunday by IHS

Politics of Saudi-Arabia: Politics of Saudi-Arabia - Political parties are banned in Saudi-Arabia - Basic Law of Saudi Arabia

Government of Saudi Arabia - Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia - Elections in Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabian municipal elections 2011 - Saudi Arabian municipal elections 2015

2013: 20 février 2013: Des Saoudiennes à l'Assemblée: 'Une avancée significative mais symbolique' - 29 August 2013: Saudi Arabia outlaws domestic abuse

2014: 21 December 2014: Saudi Arabia says won't cut oil output amid the market's biggest slump in years

2015: 30 August 2015: In first, Saudi women register to run in local elections, still facing other obstacles to political participation, such as inability to travel freely - 29 September 2015: A senior Saudi prince has launched an unprecedented call for regime change in Riyadh, as country faces challenges of its management of Mecca, scene of hajj and other tragedies, of war and plummeting oil prices - 11 December 2015: Tight social restrictions mean the female candidates running for public office for the first time in Saudi Arabia have had to be creative with communication

12 December 2015 Saudi Arabian municipal elections: 12 December 2015 Saudi Arabian municipal elections - 13 December 2015: Running against seven men and two women, Salma bint Hizab al-Oteibi elected to the council of Madrakah, a region in the city of Mecca, with votes still being counted in first ever poll open to female voters and candidates - 13 December: At least 19 Saudi women have won seats on local municipal councils

2017: 24 April 2017: Following calls for protests in four Saudi cities over the weekend, Saudi Arabia reinstates financial allowances for civil servants and military personnel after better-than-expected budget figures, ending unpopular cuts to a key perk triggered by low oil prices and cheering the stock market - 21 June 2017: Saudi king ousts nephew to name 31-year-old son Mohammed bin Salman in charge of economy and war in Yemen as first in line to throne

Human rights organizations in Saudi-Arabia: Human rights organizations in Saudi-Arabia - Association for the Protection and Defense of Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia - The Saudi Women Revolution Statement - Women to drive movement - Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in the Arabian Peninsula - Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association - Human Rights First Society - Society for Development and Change

Religion, sharia, polygamy and crime in Saudi Arabia: Religion in Saudi Arabia - Islam in Saudi-Arabia - History of Islam - Spread of Islam - Polygamy in Saudi Arabia

Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia: Wahhabism - the majority of the world's Wahhabis are from Qatar, UAE and Saudi Arabia - Shia Islam in Saudi Arabia - 'Freedom' of religion in Saudi Arabia

Terrorism, violation of human rights and crime in Saudi Arabia: Crime and state terrorism in Saudi Arabia

Terrorism in Saudi Arabia: Terrorism in Saudi Arabia - List of militant incidents in Saudi Arabia

2015: 28 April 2015: Second suspect in Saudi police killings in suspected Islamic State terror attack arrested - 18 July: Saudi interior ministry announces it has thwarted suicide bomb attack on mosque in east of country and arrested more than 400 people accused of involvement in several attacks, mostly Saudis linked to 'Islamic State' - 6 August: Islamic State claims responsibility for suicide bombing that killed 15 at Saudi mosque in Abha near Yemeni border

2016: 4 July 2016 Prophet's Mosque bombing in Medina - 4 July 2016: Blast at Prophet’s Mosque in Medina carried out by a suicide bomber, targeting security patrol who were breaking Ramadan fasts, reportedly killed four and injured a number of security guards - 5 July 2016: At least seven people dead as multiple suicide blasts hit Saudi Arabia

2017: 24 June 2017: Six foreign pilgrims reportedly hurt in Mecca when a suicide bomber targeting the area around the Grand Mosque blew himself up as Saudi security foiled the terror plot

Committee for the promotion of virtue and the prevention of vice - religious police of Saudi Arabia: Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice - Religious police of Saudi Arabia 'Mutaween'

Sharia, legal system, decapitations, stoning and 'human rights' in Saudi Arabia: Sharia - Blasphemy law in Saudi Arabia - persons accused of blasphemy may be subjected to torture - Legal system of Saudi-Arabia - Judiciary of Saudi Arabia

Human rights in Saudi-Arabia: 'Human rights' in Saudi-Arabia

2013/2014: 13 May 2013: A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced two men to lashes and prison terms for converting a woman to Christianity and helping her flee the kingdom - 26 August 2014: Saudi Arabia continues its outrageous repression of human rights activists

2015: 23 January 2015: Five worst human rights abuses in the reign of King Abdullah, torture, denied freedom of expression, persecution of minorities, non-Muslims and Shias, beheadings, violations of women's rights

2015/2016: United Nations OHCHR monitoring Saudi-Arabia's compliance with obligations of human rights treaties

Torture in Saudi-Arabia: Torture in Saudi-Arabia

Stoning in Saudi-Arabia: Stoning in Saudi-Arabia

Capital punishment and public decapitations in Saudi-Arabia: Decapitation - Capital punishment in Saudi-Arabia

2011: 8 October 2011: Saudi public beheading of eight Bangladesh workers condemned - 13 December 2011: Saudi Arabia beheads woman for 'sorcery'

2012: 6. Januar 2012: UN-Menschenrechtskommission alarmiert über deutlich angestiegene Zahl von Hinrichtungen in Saudi-Arabien - 19 June: A Saudi man has been beheaded on charges of sorcery and witchcraft

January 2013 execution of Rizana Nafeek: Execution of Rizana Nafeek - 9 January 2013: Sri Lankan maid Rizana Nafeek beheaded in Saudi Arabia - 10 January: Human rights groups condemn execution of Rizana Nafeek

March 2013: 5 March 2013: Saudi Arabia is scheduled to execute seven reportedly tortured men for crimes committed when they were juveniles aged under 18 - 5 March: Saudi Arabia delays execution of seven men - 13 March: Saudi Arabia executed seven men despite last-minute appeals by international rights groups, a witness in Abha said

2015: 26 May 2015: Saudi Arabia passes execution total for all of 2014 as 88th person is put to death indicating that number of prisoners being executed has accelerated under King Salman amid activists’ concerns that trials are not being conducted fairly - 25 August 2015: Saudi Arabia has executed at least 175 people over the last 12 months, mostly by beheading and on average one person every two days, rights group says - 24 September 2015: UN issues urgent call for Saudi Arabia to stay execution of juvenile Ali Mohammed al-Nimr and his crucifixion after taking part in demonstrations three years ago for democracy and equal rights - 22 November 2015: Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayad gets Saudi death sentence for 'apostasy' - 23 December 2015: Saudi authorities have reduced a Sri Lankan woman’s sentence for adultery from death by stoning to a three-year jail term after an appeal

2016: 2 January 2016: With at least 157 executions in 2015, coinciding the number of people executed for non-lethal offences and drug-related crimes is on the rise in the kingdom of Saudi-Arabia, which follows Sharia law - 2 January 2016: Saudi Arabia executes 47 people for terrorism, including Shia cleric

2017: 12 August 2017: Ten Nobel Peace Prize winners including Desmond Tutu and Kailash Satyarthi have appealed to Saudi Arabia’s king and crown prince to show mercy and halt the executions of 14 young people sentenced to death for participating in protests in 2012

Domestic violence and rape in Saudi Arabia: Domestic violence in Saudi Arabia - Rape in Saudi Arabia

Human trafficking in Saudi Arabia: Human trafficking in Saudi Arabia

Society, demographics and ethnic groups in Saudi-Arabia: Saudi Arabian society - Demographics of Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabic - Arabic is a Semitic language that originated on the Arabian peninsula - Varieties of Arabic

Saudi Arabian people by ethnic or national origin: Saudi Arabian people by ethnic or national origin - Ethnic groups in Saudi Arabia

Bangladeshis in Saudi-Arabia: In 2009 hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis were working in Saudi-Arabia

Indians in Saudi-Arabia: Indians constitute at least 7% of Saudi-Arabia's population, in 2013 they were about 2,450,000 people

Pakistanis in Saudi-Arabia: Pakistanis in Saudi Arabia - 29 August 2012: The number of Pakistani expats in Saudi Arabia is consistently increasing and currently exceeds 1.5 million

Filipinos in Saudi-Arabia: Over one million Filipinos in the work force make them the fourth-largest group of foreigners in Saudi Arabia

Indonesians in Saudi-Arabia: In 2004 an estimated 500,000 Indonesians were working in Saudi-Arabia

Turks in Saudi Arabia: In 2004 an estimated 120,000 to 160,000 Turks live in Saudi Arabia

History of the Jews in Saudi Arabia: History of the Jews in Saudi Arabia goes back to Biblical times - there were three main Jewish tribes in Medina before the rise of Islam in Arabia, the Banu Nadir, the Banu Qainuqa, and the Banu Qurayza - Jewish tribes of Arabia - History of Jewish immigration, after the collapse of Kingdom of Judah in 586 BCE, after the Roman conquest of Judea, after the Jewish rebellion in 66 CE, after the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus in 70 CE, and after 135 CE survivors of the Bar Kochba Revolt

Women, Islam and women's rights in Saudi-Arabia: Women in Saudi Arabia - Women's rights in Saudi-Arabia - Polygamy in Saudi Arabia - Domestic violence in Saudi Arabia - Rape in Saudi Arabia - Association for the Protection and Defense of Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia

Since 1990: Women to drive movement

2002: On 11 March 2002 a fire at a girls' school in Mecca killed fifteen young girls after Saudi Arabia's religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving the burning building and hindered rescue workers because the girls were not wearing correct Islamic dress - 15 March 2002: Religious police role in school fire criticized - 22 July 2002: In the March 2002 Mecca school fire none of the victims were princesses, they came from families with little money, no connections, no influence

2012-2014: 13. Februar 2012: Kopf-ab-Saudiarabien, die Polygamie, ihr Prophet und die heilige Zahl 4 - 12 July: Saudi women - a judoka and an 800m runner - to compete at London Olympics 2012 - 26 September: 908 Nigerian women pilgrims travelling to Mecca face deportation from Saudi Arabia for traveling without male relatives - 15 June 2013: A Saudi court handed two Saudi women 10-month jail sentences for seeking to help a Canadian woman who wanted to leave her Saudi husband with their children - 11 July 2013: Saudi princess Meshael Alayban charged with human trafficking for allegedly holding a domestic worker against her will at a California condominium - 29 August 2013: A new law passed by Saudi Arabia makes domestic abuse a crime in the country for the first time, with perpetrators facing up to a year in prison - 29 September: Women's rights supporters condemn Saudi Arabia as two prominent female rights activists, who went to the aid of a woman they believed to be in distress, ordered to jail - 27 October: At least 16 Saudi women fined for taking the wheel on a day set by activists to defy the ban on female driving - 17 February 2014: Somayya Jabarti, a Saudi woman, named first editor-in-chief of newspaper Saudi Gazette

2014: February 2014 death of King Saud University student Amna Bawazeer after paramedics prevented from entering because the student was not fully covered - 6 February 2014: Death of Saudi female student Amna Bawazeer stirs uproar

Children in Saudi Arabia: 11 February 2013: Saudi Arabian human rights activist Prof Fawziah al Bakr calls for a child abuse law in the kingdom after Fayhan al-Ghamdi, an Islamic cleric, charged with beating to death his five-year-old daughter Lama was freed after paying 'blood money'

Education in Saudi-Arabia: Education in Saudi Arabia - Girls' and women's education

Health care in Saudi Arabia: Health care in Saudi Arabia

2012-2014: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak in Saudi Arabia since 2012 - 21 May 2013: Saudi Arabia reports latest death from SARS-like virus, death toll rises to 16 - 29 August: New MERS-coronavirus cases in Saudi Arabia bring global total to 102, WHO says - 11 May 2014: 13 new MERS deaths in Saudi Arabia as the WHO prepares for an emergency meeting over worries about the spread of the disease - 3 June 2014: Saudi review uncovers over 100 more MERS infections

2015: 24 December 2015: At least 31 people have died and 107 been injured after fire breaks out in intensive care unit and maternity department of Jazan hospital

Media of Saudi Arabia: Media of Saudi Arabia - Television in Saudi Arabia - Newspapers in Saudi Arabia

2012: Since 2012 persecution, imprisonment and life-threatening punishment of Raif Badawi, founder of the website Free Saudi Liberals

2014: 17 February 2014: Saudi woman named first editor-in-chief of newspaper Saudi Gazette

2015: 11/12 septembre 2015: Reporters sans frontières réclame la libération du journaliste Alaa Brinji, emprisonné de manière arbitraire sans procès ni charges depuis plus d'un an

Internet in Saudi Arabia: Internet in Saudi Arabia

Censorship in Saudi Arabia: Censorship in Saudi Arabia - Internet censorship in Saudi Arabia

Repression, social movements and protests: Since 2011 Saudi Arabian protests - Timeline of the 2011–13 Saudi Arabian protests - Women to drive movement and protests since 1990

March-May 2011: 21 March 2011 arrest and detention of Acpra co-founder Mohammed Saleh al-Bejadi - 29. Mai 2011: Frauen in Saudi-Arabien fordern Recht auf Autofahren

June/July 2011: 17. Juni: Protest gegen Frauenfahrverbot - auch mittels Internet (17. Juni) - Freed Saudi woman driver vows to continue campaign 21 July

September-November 2011: 25 September: Women in Saudi Arabia to vote and run in elections beginning 2015 - 28. September 2011: Frauenrechtlerin Sheima Jaztaniah zu zehn Peitschenhieben wegen Autofahrt verurteilt - 28 septembre: Le roi Abdallah gracie Mme Jaztaniah condamnée pour avoir conduit - 22 November: Saudi security forces fire on protesters near the Eastern Province city of Qatif - 1 December: Saudi-Arabia accused of reacting to the Arab Spring by launching a wave of repression

January/February 2012: 13 January: Saudi forces clash with protesters in Qatif killing one person and injuring others - 10 February: A protester has been killed by security forces in eastern Saudi Arabia, activists say - 11 February: Second protester shot dead in eastern Saudi-Arabia - 12 February: Malaysia deports Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari

March/April 2012: 9 March: At least 50 female students have been injured after security forces tried to break up a protest earlier this week at the King Khalid University in the Saudi town of Abha - 27 March: Row over speakers at Saudi youth forum in Kuwait - Hala al-Dosari, a well-known women's rights activist in Saudi Arabia, managed to give her speech via Skype - 11 April: A Saudi human rights group voiced alarm about the health of one of its jailed members Mohammad al Bajadi, who has been on hunger strike for almost a month and has recently stopped drinking water also - 18. April 2012: Saudiarabischer Aktivist Al-Bajadi zu vier Jahren Haft verurteilt - Al-Bajadi soll Menschenrechtsgruppe aufgebaut haben

May 2012: 26 May: Saudi woman confronts religious police over painted nails

June 2012: 15 June: Saudi women petition king for right to drive - 18 June 2012 Acpra co-founder Al-Qahtani charged in a Saudi court - 24 June: Saudis allow women to compete in the Olympics 2012 for the first time

July 2012: 8 July: Protests erupt in Qatif after government critic Shia cleric was shot and arrested - 9 July: Religious police caused the death of a man and the injury of his wife and two children in a car chase for loud stereo - 23. Juli: Mit der Verhaftung des regimekritischen Nimr al-Nimr Proteste im Osten Saudiarabiens neu entflammt - 27 July: Anti-riot police opened fire on Shia protesters in the Qatif district, wounding several of them as hundreds marched to demand the release of detainees - 28 July: Saudi commentators hail the first ever participation of women in the Olympics, but criticised placing female athletes behind the men in the opening ceremony - 28. Juli: Saudi-Arabien lässt regimekritischen Blogger Nasir al-Maschid nach 16 Monaten Haft ohne Anklage frei

September 2012: 1 September: Human rights activist and Acpra co-founder Mohammad al-Qahtani has gone on trial in Saudi Arabia - 1 September 2012 political trial of Acpra co-founder Abdullah al-Hamid - 24 September: Relatives of Saudi inmates hold protest over detentions in Qassim province - 29 September: A Saudi teenager has died of wounds sustained four days ago in a police raid

March 2013 rights activists Mohammed Fahd al-Qahtani and Abdullah Hamad sentenced to 10 years in prison: 9 March 2013: A Saudi Arabian court sentenced the two prominent political and human rights activists Abdullah al-Hamid and Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani to at least 10 years in prison

18 March: 3,000 Saudis urge Shura council to debate women's driving

July-December 2013: 30 July: A Saudi court sentenced the rights activist Raef Badawi to seven years in jail and 600 lashes for setting up the 'Saudi Liberal Network' and calling for religious liberalisation - 10 October: Saudi women are increasingly getting behind the wheel in defiance of a driving ban ahead of a nationwide campaign - 26. Oktober: Frauen fahren Auto – trotz Drohungen der Behörden - 30 October: Saudi schoolteacher who supported ending his country's ban on women driving has been detained, HRW says - 4 December: Saudi women in new drive to get behind the wheel on December 28

February-April 2014: 6 February 2014: Death of Saudi female student Amna Bawazeer, after paramedics prevented from entering university because the student was not fully covered, stirs uproar - 30 March: Saudi authorities arrest three citizens who posted YouTube videos urging the kingdom to improve their living standards and criticising corruption - 17 April: As Saudi Arabia tightens curbs on domestic dissent, Sunni Islamists, Shi'ite Muslims, liberal reformers, atheists and human rights advocates targeted through a series of arrests and new laws

May-December 2014: 7 May: 'Free Saudi Liberals' website founder Raif Badawi sentenced to 10 years jail and thousand lashes - 7 July: Saudi human rights lawyer Waleed Abulkhair jailed for 15 years - 27 December: Saudi women detained for nearly a month for driving referred to terrorism court

January-March 2015: 9/10 January: Raif Badawi, sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for criticizing Saudi Arabia’s powerful clerics on a liberal blog he founded, flogged in public 50 times, as regime started carrying out his sentence and USA State Department released a statement - 14 January: Saudi blogger Badawi faces next 50 lashes as government ignores global protests - 16 January: Raif Badawi’s case referred to supreme court, says his wife - 21 February: Saudi blogger Raif Badawi sentenced to flogging spared for 6th consecutive week following protests - 27 March: Raif Badawi jailed since 2012 pretextual for insulting Islam after criticising Saudi Arabia’s notorious religious police, tells of flogging ordeal in letter from Saudi prison describing how he 'miraculously survived' the first 50 of 1,000 lashes

May-October 2015: 26 May 2015: Tens of thousands of mourners poured into the streets of al-Qudeeh in eastern Saudi Arabia to attend a mass funeral for victims of last week’s suicide bombing attack at a Shiite mosque claimed by the Islamic State terrorists - 26 mai 2015: La femme de Raïf Badawi, condamné à 10 ans de prison, 1000 coups de fouets et 200.000 euros d’amende pour avoir dit la vérité, souhaite que la communauté internationale va maintenir la pression pour sauver son mari - 7 June: Despite worldwide outrage Saudi supreme court upholds verdict against blogger Raif Badawi onfirming punishment of 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison - 7 October 2015: Flogged Saudi blogger Raïf Badawi wins Pinter free-speech prize, accepted in London for Badawi, who is serving 10-year sentence for his liberal blog

November/December 2015: 20 November 2015: A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh to death for apostasy, abandoning his Muslim faith, according to Human Rights Watch - 10 December 2015: Imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi reportedly on a hunger strike since Tuesday after being transferred to a new, isolated prison - 16 décembre 2015: Ensaf Haidar a reçu le prix Sakharov pour la liberté de l'esprit du Parlement européen au nom de son mari Raef Badaoui, détenu en Arabie saoudite pour 'insulte' envers l'islam

January 2016: 12 January 2016: Saudi human rights advocate Samar Badawi, the sister of jailed blogger Raif Badawi, has been arrested and is being held in the same prison as her brother, believed for posting to a Twitter account and for publishing of photo of Waleed Abu al-Khair in jail - 14 January 2016: Hundreds of writers in 44 countries take part in a coordinated worldwide reading in support of poet Ashraf Fayadh of Palestinian origin, who has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia after being accused of renouncing Islam

March-May 2016: 27 March 2016: Saudi Arabia has sentenced journalist Alaa Brinji to five years in jail for insulting the kingdom's rulers and 'inciting public opinion' on Twitter - 17 May 2016: Saudi activist Raif Badawi's wife endures her husband’s brutal sentence describing his fate in a new book, Raif Badawi, The Voice of Freedom

September 2016: 26 September 2016: Thousands of Saudis have signed an online petition calling for the government to abolish the country’s guardianship system, which prevents women from engaging in fundamental tasks without the permission of a male relative

Foreign relations of Saudi-Arabia: Foreign relations of Saudi-Arabia

Wars involving Saudi Arabia (since 1746): Since 1746 List of wars involving Saudi Arabia

Treaties of Saudi Arabia: Treaties of Saudi Arabia

Since 1960 OPEC and since 1968 OAPEC: Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC, an intergovernmental organization of 13 nations, founded in 1960 in Baghdad by the first five members Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela - Since 1968 Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries OAPEC - Petroleum politics

Since 2015 International reactions to the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen: Since 2015 International reactions to the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen

Since June 2015 WikiLeaks' Saudi Cables: 20 June 2015: WikiLeaks is in the process of publishing more than 500,000 Saudi diplomatic documents to the Internet - Since 19 June 2015: WikiLeaks publishes The Saudi Cables - over half a million cables and other documents from the Saudi Foreign Ministry

December 2015 Islamic Military Alliance: Islamic Military Alliance, an intergovernmental counter-terrorist alliance of multiple Muslim majority countries - 15 December 2015: Saudi Arabia announces 34-nation military alliance against terrorism, including 18 Arab countries, the other 16 countries are from Asia and Africa

Bilateral relations of Saudi Arabia: Bilateral relations of Saudi Arabia

Saudi-Arabia/Australia relations: 7. Dezember 2011: Saudi-Arabien maßt sich an einen Australier wegen kritischer Äußerungen zur Islamgeschichte zu 500 Peitschenhieben und einem Jahr Freiheitsstrafe zu verurteilen - 13. Februar 2012: Kopf-ab-Saudiarabien, die Polygamie, ihr Prophet und die heilige Zahl 4

Saudi-Arabia/Bangladesh relations: Saudi-Arabia/Bangladesh relations - Bangladeshis in Saudi-Arabia - 21 May 2013: Saudi-Arabia appoints 10 agencies to recruit more workers from Bangladesh

Saudi-Arabia/Canada relations: Saudi Arabia/Canada relations - 15 June 2013: A Saudi court handed two Saudi women 10-month jail sentences for seeking to help a Canadian woman who wanted to leave her Saudi husband with their children

Saudi-Arabia/Egypt relations: Saudi-Arabia/Egypt relations - 28. April 2012: Saudiarabien zieht Botschafter aus Kairo ab wegen Protesten gegen die Verhaftung eines ägyptischen Anwalts und Menschenrechtsvertreters in Saudiarabien - 11 July 2012: New Egypt president in Saudi on first foreign trip - 10 July 2013: Saudi Arabia will give Egypt $5 billion in aid - 7 March 2014: Saudi Arabia deems Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah terrorist groups

Saudi-Arabia/European Union relations: Saudi-Arabia/European Union relations

20158 June 2015: EU vows to make 'every effort' to free Saudi blogger Badawi - 29 October 2015: Saudi Arabia urged by EU lawmakers to free blogger Raif Badawi sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam, as he wins the EU’s Sakharov prize for human rights

Saudi-Arabia/France relations: 18 octobre 2013: La France 'partage la frustration' des Saoudiens' face à la Syrie et sur la paralysie de l'ONU, mais elle critique les raisons 'étranges' de l'Arabie Saoudite pour refuser ce siège à l'ONU - 20 July 2015: French public beach closure between Antibes and Marseille due to Saudi royal family holiday angers locals - 3 August 2015: Some 150,000 residents signed petition protesting the closure of French public beach outside Saudi king Salman's villa

Saudi-Arabia/Germany relations: Saudi-Arabia/Germany relations

2011: 1 July 2011: Saudi troops quietly pull out of Bahrain after crackdown on anti-government protests - 3 July 2011: 200 German tanks 'Leopard' to Saudi-Arabia - 4 July: Saudi sources confirm German tanks deal - 44 tanks already bought

2012/2013: 17 June 2012: Saudi Arabia wants to buy 600-800 Leopard battle tanks from Germany, more than twice as many as originally envisaged - 30 December: The German government is close to completing another 100 million-euro arms deal with Saudi Arabia to sell 30 armoured vehicles, and Berlin's national security council has already signaled its backing - NZZ 10. Februar 2013: Saudi-Arabien will deutsche Patrouillenboote im Wert von 1,5 Milliarden Euro kaufen, Voranfrage der Bremer Lürssen Werft vom Bundessicherheitsrat positiv beschieden

2016: 6 August 2016: Saudi Arabia reportedly linked to German terrorist attacks in Würzburg and Ansbach in July 2016

Saudi-Arabia/India relations: Saudi-Arabia/India relations - Indians in Saudi Arabia

2015: 17 September 2015: Saudi diplomat accused of holding captive, beating and repeatedly raping two Nepali women hired as domestic servants has left India under diplomatic immunity, protected by the Saudi Arabian embassy

Saudi-Arabia/Indonesia relations: Indonesians in Saudi Arabia - 4 April 2014: Indonesia pays nearly $2 million in 'blood money' to free maid Satinah in Saudi Arabia just days before she was to be executed - 28 September 2015: The number of Indonesians killed in a stampede at the haj in Mecca rose to 41 Monday with scores more still missing

Saudi-Arabia/Iran relations: Saudi-Arabia/Iran relations - Arab-Iran relations: Saudi-Arabia

Shia–Sunni relations - Successors of Muhammad

1980-1988: 1980-1988 during the Iran–Iraq war Saudi authorities pledged US$25 billion of aid to the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein - July 1987 Mecca incident, clash between Shia pilgrims and demonstrators and the Saudi Arabian security forces during the Hajj pilgrimage, which led to the deaths of over 400 people

2015: 16 March 2015: Any terms that world powers grant Iran under a nuclear deal will be sought by Saudi Arabia and other countries, risking wider proliferation of atomic technology, Saudi-Arabian regime fears - 26 May 2015: Iran reportedly summons Saudi envoy over Yemen airstrike

2016: 3 January 2016: Saudi Arabia severs ties with Iran after attacks on embassy in Tehran and Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei's threat of 'divine vengeance' for the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr

Saudi-Arabia/Iraq relations: Saudi-Arabia/Iraq relations - Saudi–Iraqi neutral zone since 1922 - Saudi support 1980-1982 for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq war - Battle of Khafji January 1991 - Operation Southern Watch 1992-2003 - Proposed Saudi–Iraq barrier since 2006 - 21 November 2013: Six mortar bombs at Saudi Arabia in an attack by an Iranian-backed Iraqi Shi'ite militia, saying it was warning the kingdom to stop meddling in Iraqi affairs - 3 July 2014: Saudi Arabia deploys 30,000 soldiers to Iraq border after Iraqi soldiers abandoned the area, but Iraq's government says the frontier is remaining under its full control - 8 July: Saudi Arabia reports three shells hit the Arar area inside the country along its border with Iraq

Saudi-Arabia/Israel relations: Saudi-Arabia/Israel relations - History of the Jews in Saudi Arabia goes back to Biblical times - there were three main Jewish tribes in Medina before the rise of Islam in Arabia, the Banu Nadir, the Banu Qainuqa, and the Banu Qurayza - Jewish tribes of Arabia - History of Jewish immigration

2013: 2 September 2013: As Barack Obama blinks on Syria after Assad's war crimes, Israel and Saudis make common cause

2015: 4 June 2015: Israeli college conducting an opinion poll in Saudi Arabia, concludes that the Saudi public is far more concerned about the threats of Iran and the 'Islamic State' than Israel, and that the vast majority of Saudis support a decade-old peace offer to Israel - 5 June: Israel and Saudi Arabia have held five secret meetings since the beginning of 2014 to discuss the common threat Iran posses to the region

Saudi-Arabia/Lebanon relations: Saudi-Arabia/Lebanon relations - 29 December: Lebanon announces $3 billion grant from Saudi Arabia for army - 7 March 2014: Saudi Arabia deems Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah terrorist groups

Saudi-Arabia/Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) relations: Organisation of Islamic Cooperation - Member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation

Saudi-Arabia/OPEC relations: OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) membership - OPEC quotas and production of petroleum - World oil reserves - Key oil producing countries and petroleum politics

Saudi-Arabia/Palestinian territories relations: 20 April 2015: Hamas organization’s treasurer arrested in Saudi Arabia and accused of money laundering, smuggling

Saudi-Arabia/Philippines relations: Filipinos in Saudi Arabia - 4 November 2013: Filipinos allege abuse in Saudi immigration crackdown - 14 November: Some 300 Filipinos camping outside their consulate in Jeddah for weeks waiting for documents and help to leave Saudi Arabia, as a crackdown on illegal migrants intensifies

Saudi-Arabia/Russia relations: Saudi-Arabia/Russia relations - 30 March 2015: Assisted by Egypt's al-Sisi, Saudi Arabia slams Putin over support for Syria's Assad, telling Arab League summit that Putin should not express support for the Middle East while fueling instability by supporting Assad regime

Saudi-Arabia/Sri Lanka relations: Saudi-Arabia/Sri Lanka relations - Sri Lankans in Saudi Arabia - Rizana Nafeek - 9 January 2013: Sri Lankan maid Rizana Nafeek beheaded in Saudi Arabia - 24 January 2013: Following an international outcry over the beheading of Rizana Nafeek, Sri Lankan information minister Rambukwella announced that women under 25 were now banned from going to the Arab state to work as maids in a first step towards a worldwide travel ban for low-paying jobs

Saudi-Arabia/Sweden relations: 9 March 2015: Saudi Arabia blocked Swedish foreign minister Margot Wallström's speech to the Arab League, in which she was due to 'celebrate women’s achievements' and focus on women’s rights and representation - 11 March 2015: Sweden cancels arms deal with Saudi Arabia worth billions of crowns to its industry after criticism of regime's human rights record sparked a diplomatic row - 11 March: Saudi foreign ministry recalls its ambassador to Sweden over criticism of its human rights record, following Stockholm’s tearing up of arms agreement - 20 March: Saudi Arabia to stop visas for Swedish citizens amid human rights row - 29 March: After the Saudis decided to send their ambassador back to Stockholm, the story ends with Saudis, rather than Europeans, being forced to lie

Saudi-Arabia/Syria relations: Saudi-Arabia/Syria relations - 11 September 2014: Saudi Arabia agrees to host training camps for moderate Syrian rebels as part of USA broad strategy to combat Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq - 3 January 2015: Saudi cleric al-Assiri with the 'Islamic State' killed in Syria while battling Kurdish defenders of Kobani - 20 April 2015: Saudi Arabia to take in Syrian expatriates in Yemen amid lawlessness caused by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia - 9 December 2015: At meeting in Riyadh Syria’s opposition seeks unity against Assad - 11 December: Syrian opposition will form committee to hold further negotiations

Saudi-Arabia/Tunisia relations: Saudi Arabia/Tunisia relations - 30 January 2013: Tunisian Constituent Assembly president Mustapha Ben Jafaar has officially asked Saudi Arabia to extradite former dictator Ben Ali

Saudi-Arabia/Turkey relations: Saudi-Arabia/Turkey relations

Saudi-Arabia/United Kingdom relations: Saudi-Arabia/United Kingdom relations

Since 1985: Al Yamamah, series of a record arms sales by the United Kingdom to Saudi Arabia, which have been paid for by the delivery of up to 600,000 barrels of crude oil per day to the UK government, the prime contractor has been BAE Systems and its predecessor British Aerospace

2012: 10 July 2012: A Saudi woman, the granddaughter of the nation's founder, is seeking asylum in Britain over fears she could be persecuted by members of her family - 15 October 2012: Saudi Arabia says it is 'insulted' by a parliamentary inquiry into how the UK deals with the country, Bahrain and democratic movements

2014/2015: 1 September 2014: British Peter Howarth-Lees living in Saudi Arabia was set upon and beaten up by religious police after using a women-only cash till with his wife at a local supermarket - 13 October 2015: After lobbying discreetly for their ill father, children of Briton Karl Andrees now appeal to British PM to intervene to save their father from being subjected to 350 lashes in Saudi Arabia over alleged homemade wine

2016: 8 January 2016: Supporters of Raif Badawi, the jailed Saudi activist and blogger, to give a petition with 250,000 signatures to the Saudi embassy in London calling for his release

Saudi-Arabia/United Nations relations: United Nations Development Programme in Saudi Arabia

2013: 12 January 2013: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed dismay at the execution of the Sri Lankan housemaid Rizana Nafeek in Saudi Arabia, insisting that all women and men in Saudi Arabia - regardless of their migration status or nationality - be treated under international human rights law - 18 October 2013: Saudi Arabia declines UNSC seat, cites failure to tackle conflicts, saying UN Security Council 'double standards' stop it 'from properly shouldering its responsibilities towards world peace', from ending the war in Syria and acting on other Middle East issues - 21 October 2013: Saudi rights abuses, including the death penalty and discrimination against women, criticised at UN review

2015: 24 September 2015: UN issues urgent call for Saudi Arabia to stay execution of juvenile Ali Mohammed al-Nimr and his crucifixion after taking part in demonstrations three years ago for democracy and equal rights

2016: 9 June 2016: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon admitted today that the Saudi Arabia-led coalition in Yemen was removed from the UN's blacklist of groups that kill children, because the UN was threatened by reduced funding, rejecting that member states exert undue pressure as scrutiny is necessary part of the work of the UN - 29 September 2016: Saudi Arabia and other Arab states have fended off the threat of an independent UN-sanctioned inquiry into human rights abuses in Yemen, but have been forced to accept that UN investigators will be tasked with documenting rights violations

Saudi-Arabia/USA relations: Saudi-Arabia/USA relations - Saudi-Arabian army main equipment from the USA - 30 July 2011: USA and Saudi-Arabia to discuss nuclear cooperation - 29 December: US sells $30 billion of Boeing F-15 fighter jets to Saudi-Arabia, formally announced on Thursday from Hawai where Obama is on Christmas holiday - 6 February 2013: CIA operates drone base in Saudi Arabia - 11 July: Saudi princess Meshael Alayban charged with human trafficking for allegedly holding a domestic worker against her will at a California condominium - 17 October 2013: US to sell $10.8 bln in missiles, bombs to Saudis, UAE - 28 January 2015: USA first lady’s decision to not cover her head as she and her husband met Saudi king without action by Saudi religious police, followed by plenty of positive responses on Twitter - 4 February 2015: Terrorist Moussaoui claims that Saudi Arabian officials supported al-Qaeda financially in the years leading up to 9/11 and discussed shooting down Air Force One during Bill Clinton's presidency - 5 February: Lawyers for victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks say they have new evidence that agents of Saudi Arabia 'directly and knowingly' helped the hijackers

2015: 19 February: USA prosecutor Sean Buckley asks jury to find Saudi Khalid al-Fawwaz guilty of conspiring with al Qaeda in the 1990s when he allegedly managed a training camp in Afghanistan and then served as Osama bin Laden's agent in London

2016: 16 July 2016: A long-classified congressional report on possible ties between Saudi-Arabia and the 9/11 terrorist plot, classified in December 2002 on orders of then president George W Bush and now released almost 14 years later, is almost certain to feed public suspicions that the Saudi government gave extensive support to Osama bin Laden before 9/11, and perhaps even directly to the 9/11 plotters themselves

Saudi Arabia/Yemen relations: Saudi Arabia/Yemen relations

Since March 2015 Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen: Since March 2015 Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen - 25 March 2015: Saudi Arabia moves military equipment to border with Yemen - 26 March 2015: Saudi-led coalition attacks Houthi-controlled airport in Sanaa, declaring airspace a 'restricted zone' - March-July 2015 Battle of Aden

26 October 2015: On 26 October 2015 a Saudi Arabian-led coalition airstrike completely destroyed the Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Saada, in northwestern Yemen, including the operating room

2016: 16 September 2016: More than one-third of all Saudi, backed by its USA and British allies, air raids on Yemen including repeat attacks have hit civilian sites, such as school buildings, hospitals, markets, mosques and economic infrastructure, according to the Yemen Data Project, as rights organisations have documented repeated violations by the Houthis, including the use of landmines and indiscriminate shelling, and it is noted that Yemeni civilians 'suffer serious laws of war violations by all sides' - 29 September 2016: Saudi Arabia and other Arab states have fended off the threat of an independent UN-sanctioned inquiry into human rights abuses in Yemen, but have been forced to accept that UN investigators will be tasked with documenting rights violations - 15 October 2016: After at least 140 people were killed, most of them civilians, and several hundred people were injured in an airstrike on 8 October, Saudis blame funeral hall bombing on mistake

2017: 15 February 2017: Five women reportedly killed and dozens of people were wounded in a Saudi-led airstrike on a funeral near Yemen’s rebel-held capital, as Doctors Without Borders warn of a worsening situation in Taiz, where attacks on hospitals, ambulances and medical staff have severely limited the group’s activities in the city, which has been partially besieged by the Houthis since April 2015

Natural disasters in Saudi Arabia: Natural disasters in Saudi Arabia

2009: 2009 Saudi Arabian floods affected Jeddah, on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia, and other areas of Makkah Province

2013: 1 May 2013: At least 13 people have died and four other are missing in flash floods in Saudi Arabia

2015: 26 November 2015: Qatar and Saudi Arabia hit by floods, where one person was killed during flooding, shutting schools and blocking roads

Syria

Geography and history of Syria: Geography of Syria - Upper Mesopotamia - Geography of Mesopotamia

History of the Middle East - 1516–1918 Ottoman Syria - 1828–1908 Decline and modernization of the Ottoman Empire - 1914-1918 Ottoman Empire in World War I - 1923-1946 French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon - 1939-1945 Middle East Theatre of World War II and Vichy French controlled Syria and Lebanon - Modern history of Syria

Demographics of Syria: Demographics of Syria - Ethnic groups in Syria

Syrian foreign relations: Foreign relations of Syria

International reactions to the Syrian Civil War: International reactions to the Syrian Civil War

2012: 29 May 2012: Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Germany, Gulf states, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the USA expel Syrian diplomats by reason of the Houla massacre - 6 June: Assad regime bars a string of European and US diplomats a week after governments around the world expelled its top diplomats - 26 June 2012: NATO chief condemns Syria over jet downing - 23. Juli 2012: Das Assad Regime droht, im Falle eines 'ausländischen Angriffs' auch Chemiewaffen einzusetzen - 16 August: UN to close Syria observer mission - 16 août 2012: La Syrie mise au ban de la communauté musulmane par l'OCI - 25 septembre: À l’ONU, Obama et Hollande accordent leur discours contre Bachar al-Assad - 28 September: USA and France unveil new aid for civilians as UN remains uncapable of working for long-term prospects of the Syrians - 5 octobre 2012: Le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU condamne les tirs syriens en Turquie et exige que 'de telles violations du droit international cessent immédiatement' - 13 décembre: L'opposition obtient un appui de taille des Arabes et des Occidentaux

January 2013: 8 January 2013: The World Food Program says it is helping 1.5 million Syrians, but continued fighting and an inability to use the port of Tartus to deliver food mean many people are not receiving aid - 11 January: A day after UN-Arab League emissary Brahimi says Assad is dispensable, foreign ministry in Damascus replies with accusations - 31 January: UN conference in Kuwait responds to the call for help from Syria's desperate people with pledges of 1,5bn $ of aid money

February/March 2013: 13 février: La Russie continuera de livrer des armes à la Syrie - 17 February 2013: The UN human rights chief said Bashar al-Assad should be probed for war crimes and called for immediate action by the international community, including possible military intervention - 29 March 2013: Iran, North Korea and Syria block UN first-ever international arms treaty to regulate the $70bn global conventional weapons trade

April 2013: 20 April 2013: 'Friends of Syria', the main international backers of Syria's opposition, gather in Istanbul with the rebels hoping Western and Arab countries will step up their support, including with arms

June 2013: 18 June 2013: As the G8 summit calls for immediate peace talks on Syria, isolated Russian Putin clashes with other leaders - 22 June: Friends of Syria agree to provide 'all the necessary materiel and equipment' to Syrian opposition to counter the brutal attacks launched by the Assad regime and its allies

Since August 2013: International reactions to the 2013 Ghouta chemical weapons attacks

October 2013: 17 October: Opposition to attend Friends of Syria meet on October 22 in London - 23 October: Syria's opposition resisted calls from Western and Arab countries to commit to attending peace talks, saying they would not take part if there was any chance Assad could cling to power - 22/23 October: After SNC's Ahmad al Jarba listed the conditions to attending Geneva 2 conference, Syria talks in London agree on no future role for Bashar al-Assad

October/November 2015 Syria conference in Vienna: October 2015 Syria conference in Vienna at the level of foreign ministers of the USA, the European Union, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the UAE - 30 October 2015: Amid ongoing war crimes committed by Assad's, the Iranian and Russian regimes talks under way in Vienna on Friday, but the opposition is not invited - 30 October: 'Holding the Vienna dialogue without the presence of any Syrian representative is proof that all parties involved are not concerned with the will of Syrian people, despite their claims', London School of Economics' Dr. Rim Turkmani says - 31 October 2015: Making reference to the 'brazen and brutal erosion of respect for international humanitarian law', which was characterized by indiscriminate attacks on civilians areas, such as one reported yesterday in a marketplace in Syria and credited to government forces, UN's Ban Ki-moon along with the head of the ICRC calls for action to stop suffering by ending conflict - 2 November 2015: Assad regime’s air force is dropping dozens of barrel bombs on areas across Syria, just one day after Russia's ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin’s announcement that the Assad regime stopped the use of barrel bombs - 14 November 2015: Paris Islamic State's terror attacks and daily terrorism in Syria heighten pressure at Vienna Syria talks - 18 November 2015: 'The Vienna statement is a reflection of Russian efforts, which began with a military intervention in Syria, killing Syrians for a month and a half', Syrian Coalition says - 9 December 2015: At meeting in Riyadh Syria’s opposition seeks unity against Assad - 11 December: Syrian opposition will form committee to hold further negotiations

Syria/Arab League relations: 27 November 2011: The Arab League adopts sanctions against Syria, including an asset freeze and an embargo on investments

2012: 15 mars 2012: Les pays arabes du Golfe ferment leurs ambassades à Damas - March 2012 Arab League summit without Syria - 2. Juli 2012: Der Generalsekretär der Arabischen Liga Nabil al-Arabi sagt beim zweitägigen Treffen mit der syrischen Opposition in Kairo, die Schuld an dem blutigen Konflikt trage das Regime von Präsident Bashar al-Asad - 23 July: Arab League foreign ministers have called Bashar al-Assad to step down - 26 September: Speaking at the UN General Assembly, Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad says Arab forces must act where the Security Council has failed - 8 November: Arab League chief says Bashar al-Assad's regime will not stay in power for much longer, urging opposition to bridge their differences - 13 November: Arab League welcomes new opposition bloc and recognises the Syrian National Coalition as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people

2013: 6 March 2013: Syrian National Coalition, the opposition umbrella group, asked to send representative to Arab League summit later this month - 24 March: Arab League gives Syrian seat to opposition - 26 March: Syrian opposition to attend summit of Arab League in Doha - 27 August: Arab League accuses Assad regime of chemical attack - 1 September: Arab League urged the UN and the international community to take 'deterrent' action against the Syrian Assad regime over chemical attack

2015: 15 May 2015: Syrian National Coalition's Ahmad Jarba stressed the importance of the upcoming Syrian opposition conference to be held in Riyadh

Syria/Armenia relations: Syria/Armenia relations - Armenians in Syria - Armenian diaspora in the Middle East

Syria/Canada relations: Syria/Canada relations - 26 April 2013: Canada's FM John Baird says no reason to doubt reports of chemical weapon use in Syria wanting to see a full UN investigation - 10 March 2014: Canadian photojournalist Ali Mustafa was killed in a helicopter barrel bomb attack in Aleppo along with 10 other civilians and four opposition members

Syria/PR of China relations: Syria/PR of China relations

Syria/Egypt relations: Syria/Egypt relations - 30 August 2012: Assad's delegation walked out after Egyptian President Morsi called for solidarity with the Syrian opposition at Tehran NAM summit - 7 February 2013: At the summit of 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Egyptian in Cairo president Morsi urges Assad regime not to put its interests above those of the nation - 16 June 2013: President Morsi announces closure of embassies in Damascus and Cairo, calls for the imposition of a no-fly zone against the Assad regime and demands that Hezbollah must leave Syria

Syria/European Union relations: Syria/European Union relations

2011: 9. Mai 2011: EU-Sanktionen - 1 December 2011: EU tightens sanctions on Syria including bans in energy and financial sectors

2012: 25. Juni 2012: Die EU und Australien verschärfen ihre Sanktionen gegen Syrien - 19 November: EU says it views the National Coalition to be the 'legitimate representatives' of the Syrian people - 11 December: EU boosts status of Syrian opposition bloc

2013: 19 février 2013: Quelques modifications à l'embargo sur les armes, 'afin de fournir un soutien non létal pour la protection des civils' en Syrie - 24 March 2013: Syrian National Coalition leader al-Khatib resigns, expressing frustration at the lack of international support: 'All the destruction of Syria's infrastructure, the detention of tens of thousands of people, the forced flight of hundreds of thousands and other forms of suffering have been insufficient for the international community to take a decision to allow the people to defend themselves' - 23 avril 2013: L'Europe veut aider les rebelles avec le pétrole, pas les armer - 27 May: EU to discuss arms embargo on Syria, ending this week either helping Syrian opposition or the Assad regime - 28 May: EU ends arms embargo on Syrian opposition, maintaining stiff economic sanctions against Assad's regime - 28 May: Missing a firm decision taken by the EU Syria's opposition denounced as 'too little, too late' the EU decision to lift an arms embargo on rebels fighting the Assad regime

September 2013: 7 September: The EU calls the chemical weapons attack in Damascus a war crime and a crime against humanity, adding that it was probably carried out by the Syrian government and that a strong response is essential to make clear there is no impunity

October 2013: 13 octobre 2013: Après le naufrage au sud de Malte qui a coûté la vie à des dizaines de migrants en majorité syriens, le Premier ministre maltais Muscat a déploré que la 'Méditerranée soit en train de devenir un cimetière'

2014: 11 April 2014: With all doors rapidly closing shut, tens of thousands of refugees from war-torn Syria end up in the EU's poorest state Bulgaria

2015: 20 April 2015: Syrian Coalition regrets the ongoing failure of the international community to find a solution for the problem of displaced Syrians who are drowning in the Mediterranean Sea while trying to seek refuge in Europe

Syria/France relations: Syria/France relations

2012: 30. Mai 2012: Frankreichs Präsident Hollande will Russland und China von Notwendigkeit von Strafmassnahmen überzeugen und schliesst Militäreinsatz in Syrien mit Zustimmung der UN nicht aus - 24 août: La France évoque l'hypothèse d'une zone d’exclusion aérienne en Syrie - 13 November: France the first western country to recognise the united Syrian opposition as the only representative of the Syrian people - 15 novembre: La France va demander à l'UE la levée de l'embargo sur 'les armes défensives' pour aider l'opposition en Syrie - 17 November: Mounzir Makhous named opposition envoy to France after talks in Paris

2013: 24 February 2013: French freelance photographer Olivier Voisin, who was seriously wounded by shrapnel from an exploding shell while covering the operations of an armed opposition group near Idlib last month, died of his injuries in Turkey - 14 March: France and Britain are prepared to arm Syrian opposition, Laurent Fabius says - 29 March and its truth: France backtracks on arming Syria's opposition, changing course from just two weeks ago, according to latest comments by Hollande - 5 June 2013: French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says there is 'no doubt' that Assad’s regime has used chemical weapons after tests confirm traces of the deadly nerve agent sarin on samples taken from the country - 5 June: French foreign minister says Syrian resistance fighters need arms - 2 September: Assad forces carried out a 'massive and coordinated' chemical attack on August 21 near Damascus posing a major threat to national and global security, according to a declassified French intelligence report - 10 September: France says that a Russian proposal to have Assad hand over his chemical weapons arsenal was acceptable only if it came after a UN Security Council resolution spelling out consequences if he failed to comply - 20 September: President Hollande suggests that France is ready to begin supplying weapons to rebels fighting Assad regime - 30 September: French authorities investigates French assets of Assad's uncle

2014/2015: 19 April: As Assad airstrikes targeting Syrians and violence in the country continue four French journalists free after 10-month hostage ordeal - 20 April 2014: Indications that Assad still using chemical weapons, president Hollande says - 7 September 2015: Syrian Coalition's Mustafa Osso criticizes France's government attributing the refugee crisis to Islamic State terrorists and its ignoring the real cause of terrorism, which is the Assad regime and its allied sectarian militias - 14 November 2015: Syrian Coalition strongly condemns Paris Islamic State's terrorist attacks, saying that 'the Syrian people, who are daily experiencing Assad and ISIS terrorism, stand in solidarity with the French nation against all kinds of terrorism'

Syria/Germany relations: Syria/Germany relations - 4 September: A Hezbollah official has said Bashar al-Assad ordered poison gas attack near Damascus on August 21, according to German spy agency - 18 September 2013: Germany exported 111 tons of chemicals to Syria between 2002 and 2006 that could be used in the production of sarin gas, according to a government document - 20 August 2015: Syrian Coalition calls for sit-in in Berlin on 2nd anniversary of Ghouta chemical massacre, to show solidarity with August 2015 Douma massacre victims, to pay homage to the victims of the 2013 Ghouta massacre and to all victims of Assad’s war on the Syrian people, and to decry the international silence and passiveness - 2 April 2016: Syrian Coalition’s representative to Germany Bassam al-Abdullah calls upon the Friends of the Syrian People Group and sponsors of the political process to deter the Assad regime’s repeated breaches of the ceasefire agreement, especially after the horrible massacre regime forces committed in Deir al-Assafir

Syria/India relations: Syria/India relations - 13 June 2012: India can halt Russian arms flowing to Syria, activists say - 12 December: Three-year-old Indian boy Abdul Rahman Mohammed, boarding a vehicle with his mother, was run over by a speeding car in the Saudi capital Riyadh

Syria/Iran relations: Syria/Iran relations - Iran's involvement in the Syrian civil war

2012: Iranian support for Assad regime in the Syrian civil war since 2011 - Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline - NZZ 16. Mai 2012: Syrien erhält weiterhin illegale Waffenlieferungen aus dem Iran - 5 août: Une vidéo montre des Iraniens aux mains de la brigade Al-Baraa de l'Armée syrienne libre affirmant '48 miliciens iraniens étaient en mission de reconnaissance à Damas' - 7 août: L'émissaire iranien Saïd Jalili en Syrie estime que 'la situation en Syrie n'est pas une crise interne mais un conflit entre l'axe de la résistance dans cette région' contre Israël et les Etat-unis - le peuple syrien, les enfants sont les victimes de cette estimation - NZZ 20. September: Iran unterstützt laut Geheimdienstbericht Assad Regime in grossem Stil mit Waffen und Soldaten

2013: 1 February 2013: Washington accuses Tehran of sending personnel to help President al-Assad's forces in their fight against opposition - 3 February: Syrian National Coalition's Mouaz al-Khatib has met the foreign ministers of Russia and Iran in first talks raising hope to a possible breakthrough - 16 June: As positive reactions emerge from governments in France, the UK and the US following Hassan Rohani's victory in Iran's election, the Syrian National Coalition calls on Iran’s president-elect to reconsider the country’s position on Assad's war against democracy and his people - 16 June 2013: Iran to send 4,000 troops to help Syria’s Assad - 27 June 2013: Iran, Russia and China prop up Assad economy - 25 septembre: Plus de cent officiers supérieurs de l'Armée syrienne libre ont signé un appel à "boycotter" toute conférence sur la Syrie impliquant le régime iranien - 4 November: Iran has repeatedly denied it has troops fighting in Syria, but Assad's media say that an Iranian commander of the Revolutionary Guards was killed near Damascus

2014: 21 February 2014: Iran steps up support for Assad regime providing elite teams to gather intelligence and train troops along with deliveries of munitions and equipment from Russia

2015: 28 March: On the Syrian Golan, unlike in Yemen, an Iranian offensive fails, as joint operation by Hezbollah, Revolutionary Guards, and Syrian forces, designed to clear opposition near Israel’s border, grinds to halt - 17 September 2015: Under relentless assault led by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the Hezbollah militias, the medical staff working in the town of Zabadani sent an urgent appeal for help to humanitarian and medical organizations to protect what remained of civilians and medical personnel trapped inside the town

2016: 21 March 2016: Media in Iran broadcast Assad’s words on Iran being considered the chief supporter for his war against the Syrian people since 2011, including support of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps IRGC, special IRGC unit Quds Force and militias employed by the Iranian administration - 4 April 2016: The Syrian Coalition says that the Iranian regime’s announcement that it sent troops from its special 65th brigade unit to Syria provides yet further proof of Iran’s attempts to undermine efforts aimed at reaching a political solution in Syria - 16 May 2016: 1,200 Iranian 'revolutionary guards' killed in Syria in past four years, according to IRGC commander Tabrizi - 20 June 2916: A coalition of rebel and FSA groups has captured four militants affiliated with the Iranian-backed foreign militias fighting alongside regime forces in southern rural of Aleppo

Syria/Iraq relations: Syria/Iraq relations - Euphrates river - 11 July: Syria's ambassador to Iraq defects from the Assad regime - 20 July: Democratic forces seize control of Syria's border crossings with Iraq - 8 September: Mortar rounds or rockets fired from Syria killed a young Iraqi girl and wounded four people in a border town in western Iraq - 23 December 2013: Iraqi crude from Egypt was Assad's secret lifeline in the last nine months, documents reveal - 26 June 2014: Al-Maliki confirms and welcomes Assad airstrikes carried out against ISIS in Iraq

Syria/Israel relations: Syria/Israel relations

June 1967: June 1967 'Six-Day War' fought by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, known at the time as the United Arab Republic, Jordan, and Syria

Since 1967: Purple Line - ceasefire line between Israel and Syria after the 1967 Six Day War

2012: 10. Juni 2012: Israel: 'Russland im schlimmsten Fall Mittäter in Syrien' - 11 November 2012: In response to mortar fire of Assad's army in the Golan Heights area Israeli troops fired warning shots - 18 novembre 2012: Israël fait feu vers la Syrie après des tirs sur un véhicule militaire - 4 December 2012: UN chief accuses Syria of violating Golan accord - 20 December 2012: A report by two Israeli journalists has been picked up by the Assad regime as proof that the insurgents are siding with the Israeli 'enemy'

Since 2012: Since 2012 Israeli–Syrian ceasefire line incidents during Assad's war against the Syrian people

January-March 2013: 30/31 January 2013: Israel conducted an airstrike inside Syria near the border with Lebanon, hitting a convoy of trucks with weapons bound for Hezbollah in Lebanon while Assad's army (and television) says an Israeli airstrike targeted a military research centre in Jamraya, causing large-scale material damage and killing two people - 1 February: Israeli air raid in Syria struck surface-to-air missiles and a nearby military complex suspected of housing chemical agents on the outskirts of Damascus, as Israel feared the weapons would be transferred to Hezbollah, a US official said - 24 March: Israel's army fires anti-tank missile at Syrian army post after coming under fire for second time in 12 hours and vows an 'immediate' answer to 'every violation of Israeli sovereignty and shooting from the Syrian side'

April/May 2013: 29 April: Israeli official says intelligence services worldwide have evidence of Assad's chemical weapons use - 'these are not intelligence estimates' - 4 May: US reports quoting unnamed officials say, that Israeli warplanes have launched an air strike in Syria, likely targeting a weapons site - 5 May: Israeli missiles struck a research center near the Syrian capital Damascus - 21 May: Israeli troops shot at a military vehicle across the Syrian frontier on Tuesday in response to gunfire that struck its forces in the Golan Heights - 31 May: Bashar al-Assad talks of new front with Israel

June-December 2013: 6 June: Israel reacts angrily to Austria's withdrawal from Golan Heights due to clashes in Syria - 14 July: Israel reportedly targeted advanced anti-ship cruise missiles near Latakia in an air attack on July 5 - 18 août: Israël réplique après des tirs d'obus syriens - 21 August: Israel says Syria regime used chemical weapons - 22 August: Israeli intelligence backs reports of latest chemical weapons attack in Syria as intelligence minister criticizes international community over inaction - 28 August: Israeli intelligence 'intercepted Syrian regime talk about chemical attack' - 26 September 2013: We have weapons that can blind Israel in seconds, Assad says - 1 November: Israel reportedly destroyed Hezbollah-bound missile shipment in Syria, targeting Russian-made SA-125 missiles - 10 December: Golan bomb was activated by Assad forces, Israeli army says after a bomb detonated near the border fence and damaged an IDF jeep

2014: 27 January: Israel Air Force bombed a Syrian base in the Latakia airport, Lebanese media reports - 16 March: Syrian opposition willing to trade Golan claims for Israeli military support, wanting Israel to enforce a no-fly zone - 19 March: Israel strikes Assad's army targets that 'enabled and aided' Tuesday's attack on IDF troops which left four Israeli soldiers wounded - 28 March: Israeli army shoots two people near Syria border trying to damage border infrastructure - 2 June: Israel forces responded with artillery after Syrian fire in the northern Golan Heights - 23 June: In response to a cross-border missile shooting which killed an Israeli boy and wounded his father and two other civilians, Israel Air Force struck nine targets belonging to the Syrian military, among them command centers - 7 July: Israel fires into Syria after mortar shell hits Golan - 9 July 2014: Syrian-made M302 long-range rocket fired by Hamas at Hadera - 13 July: Mortar fired from Syria hits Israeli side of the Golan Heights - 23 September: IDF shoots down Syrian fighter plane over Golan after infiltrating Israeli airspace - 8 December 2014: Hezbollah drones, anti-aircraft missiles destroyed in alleged IAF attack, says Syrian opposition

2015: 12 January: An Israeli citizen who tried to join the rebels in Syria was captured and tortured by Bashar Assad's forces - 27 January: IDF retaliates after two suspected Hezbollah rockets fired from Syria explode on Golan Heights, sending locals and some 1,000 visitors to the Mount Hermon ski site fleeing for cover - 28 January: Following Golan rocket attacks Israel Air Force struck Assad's army artillery targets - 24 April: On Israel's Independence Day, Free Syrian Army sends warm wishes - 4 May: Two UN peacekeepers wounded by Syrian mortars on Golan Heights - 22/23 June: Syrian war casualty killed as Israeli Druze attack IDF ambulance - 21 August: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards behind Thursday’s rocket fire on northern Israel from Syria, Israel's army says

2016: 3 May 2016: Druze resident of Israel Awidat, who disappeared in Damascus in 2004, freed after 12 years in Syrian prison

2017: 2017 Israeli–Syrian ceasefire line incidents during Assad's war against the Syrian people since 2011

13 January 2017: Missiles reportedly hit weapons depot at Mazzeh airbase, also killing high-ranking Assad regime officials, and blamed on Israel by the regime threatening 'repercussions' after 'flagrant' attack - 10 February 2017: Refugees in Syria will soon be receiving donated winter supplies, but they won’t know that the coats and boots keeping them warm came from Israel, called 'enemy state' by Assad - 17 March 2017: IAF 'Arrow’ battery intercepts Syrian missile after Assad regime fired three anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli jets - 26 April 2017: The Israel Air Force destroyed around 100 Syrian missiles in its attack last month on weapons in Syria, many of which were due to be delivered to Hezbollah - 27 April 2017: Israeli missile downs Syrian drone that entered Israeli airspace over Golan Heights - 28 April 2017: Four cargo planes originating from Iran landed at airport outside Damascus just hours before Syria accused Israel of attacking a military compound nearby

Syria/Italy relations: Syria/Italy relations - 14 September 2013: Nearly 500 boat people, mainly Syrian, have been rescued off of Italian coasts in the past 24 hours - 17 September: Two boats carrying around 270 mainly Syrian asylum seekers landed on Italian shores - 17 October: Syrian refugees stranded at Milan rail hub

Syria/Jordan relations: Syria/Jordan relations - Yarmouk River

2011: 14 November 2011: Jordan calls on Assad to resign - 28 July 2012: Assad's troops kill six-year-old fleeing into Jordan

2012: Zaatari refugee camp - 29 July 2012: Jordan opens Syria refugee camp at Za'atari - 8 August: Jordan confirms hosting defecting Syria PM Riyad Hijab - 11 August 2012: Syrian-Jordanian fighting breaks out after Syrian troops reportedly fire on fleeing refugees - 20. August: Jordanisches Grenzgebiet erneut von Syrien aus beschossen

2013: 1 February 2013: New Syrian refugee arrivals spark expanded ACTED intervention

2014: 27 May 2014: Jordan gives Assad regime's ambassador 24 hours to leave after violation of diplomatic protocol, in response Assad regime expels Jordan's ambassador

Syria/North Korea relations: Syria/North Korea relations

2012/2013: 3 July 2012: North Korea violating sanctions against Assad regime, according to UN report - 6 June 2013: Between 11 and 15 North Korean military officers are advising the Assad regime forces in tactics and the use of artillery against the opposition - 27 August 2013: North Korea tried to export gas masks to Syria but they were seized in Turkey along with arms and ammunition

2017: 9 May 2017: Assad sends 'Thank You' to North Korea's Kim Jong Un, pointing to 'harmony' of positions between the two regimes

Syria/Lebanon relations: Syria/Lebanon relations

1976-2005 Syrian occupation of Lebanon and assassinations since 2004: Syrian occupation of Lebanon 1976-2005 - Lebanon bombings and assassinations since 2004 - On 14 February 2005 the former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafic Hariri was assassinated along with 21 others in Beirut - UN International Independent Investigation Commission 2005-2009 - Special Tribunal for Lebanon since 2009 - 27 December 2013 assassination of former finance minister Mohamad Chatah

Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon since 2011: Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon June 2011 – present - Refugees of the Syrian Civil War in Lebanon

2012: 13. Mai 2012: Kämpfe in Syrien greifen auf Libanon über - Zwei Tote bei Gefechten zwischen Gegnern und Anhängern Asads - 7. Juli: Das syrische Militär hat mehrere Dörfer im Norden Libanons beschossen und drei Menschen getötet und zahlreiche weitere verletzt - 10 juillet: Des obus du côté syrien s'abattent au Liban après échange de tirs - 11 août: Le patron de la Sécurité syrienne soupçonné de fomenter des attentats au Liban - 20 October: Lebanese opposition politicians blame President Assad for bombing that kills senior security official Wissam al-Hassan and seven others in Beirut

2014: 17 January 2014: Assad rockets kill seven people in Lebanese border town of Arsal wounding at least 15 - 27 January: Syrian refugees in Lebanon exceed 890,000 - 20 March: After clashes with rebels near border kill 12 people and wound more than 40, Assad regime closes crossing near Wadi Khaled - 23 March: One person was killed and 10 people wounded in clashes in Beirut between Assad loyalists and opponents - 3 April: The number of Syrians registered as refugees in Lebanon has surpassed one million, UN says

2015: 24 February 2015: Assad plotting to assassinate Michel Samaha, Lebanon's Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi says

2016: 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

Syria/Morocco relations: 16. Juli: Marokko weist syrischen Botschafter aus

Syria/Norway relations: Syria/Norway relations - 11 October 2013: Chemical weapons watchdog OPCW wins Nobel Peace Prize for Syrian mission - 11 October: Syrian opposition calls Peace Prize 'premature'

Syria/Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) relations: Member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation

2012: 16 August 2012: OIC suspends Syria, citing al-Assad's suppression of the Syrian opposition

Syria/Pakistan relations: Syria/Pakistan relations - 13 July 2013: Pakistani Taliban sending fighters to Syria - 23 September: Malala Yousafzai backs schooling for Syrian refugee children

Syria/Palestine relations: Palestinian refugee camps in Syria - Palestinian refugees as part of the Syrian refugee crisis

Yarmouk Camp - 17 January 2014: Assad regime’s helicopters dropped barrel bombs on the Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk, reportedly killing at least 9 people and wounding many - 18 January 2014: Damascus Yarmouk refugee camp receives aid for first time in months after reports that people have died of hunger and lack of medical care - 28 December 2014: 2,589 Palestinian-Syrians had been killed since March 2011, rights group says

2015: 31 January 2015: Palestinian refugees in Syria again cut off from emergency aid - 19 February 2015: 166 people died due to hunger and lack of food and medical care in the Yarmouk refugee camp, rights group says, adding that 2,651 Palestinian refugees died either by regime snipers, indiscriminate shelling, under torture in Assad’s prisons, or because of hunger since 2011 - 27 March 2015: Palestinians in Mideast find their position more precarious in wake of Syria war

2016: 17 April 2016: UNRWA says, that up to 10,000 residents of the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in the south of the Syrian capital have gone without food or water for more than a week as battle rages in Damascus

2017: 9 May 2017: The Action Group for Palestinians in Syria says it has documented 1,600 cases of enforced disappearance among Palestinian refugees in the prisons of the Assad regime since 2011 - 1 August 2017: A total of 3,542 Palestinian-Syrians, including 463 women, have been killed at the hands of the Assad regime since March 2011, rights group says

Syria/Qatar relations: Syria/Qatar relations - 28 March 2013: Syria opposition opens embassy in Qatar

Syria/Russia relations: Syria/Russia relations

Since 1971: Since 1971 military, economic and political cooperation and support, Russia became Syria's main arms supplier

2011: Russia plays a strategic role in the Syrian civil war since 2011

2012: 30 January 2012: Russian arms shipments bolster Syria's embattled Assad - 19. März 2012: Stark gestiegene Waffenimporte aus Rußland - 10 June: Russia will continue to oppose attempts by the UN Security Council to sanction military intervention in Syria, FM Lavrov says - 10. Juni: Israel: 'Russland im schlimmsten Fall Mittäter in Syrien' - 9. Juli: Russland kündigt an, keine Waffen mehr an Syrien zu liefern, bis sich die Lage dort beruhigt hat - 11 July: Russia sends a large flotilla of 11 warships to Syria in show of support to Assad - 20. Juli: Russische Regierung stoppt angeblich erneut seine Waffenlieferungen an Assad, diesmal im Juni fast angelieferte, dann dementierte Kampfhelikopter - 24 August: Russia's Polonium-Putin regime says Syria's Assad regime has guaranteed it will not deploy its arsenal of chemical weapons - 13 December: Syrian government 'losing control', Russian envoy says - 20 December: Russia's Polonium-Putin recognizes need for change in Syria - 23 December 2012: Russian advisers deployed with surface-to-air systems bolster Assad's forces and complicate outcome of any future strikes

2013: 16 January 2013: Bashar al-Assad and his family are living on a warship guarded by the Russian navy, reports say - 23 January: Russians flee Syrian conflict on planes from Beirut - 27 January: PM Medvedev says Assad's chances of keeping power are getting 'smaller and smaller' as war rages - 3 February: Syrian National Coalition's Mouaz al-Khatib has met the foreign ministers of Russia and Iran in first talks raising hope to a possible breakthrough - 13 février: La Russie continuera de livrer des armes à la Syrie - 29 May: Russia to send Assad regime air defence system - 31 May 2013: Russia to sell at least 10 MiG fighters in an advanced version to Assad regime, that bombs and kills the own people - 27 June: Iran, Russia and China prop up Assad economy - 11 July: Syria opposition denies Russian chemical attack allegation as Russia blocks a draft UN Security Council resolution calling for a stalled UN chemical weapons investigation team to be allowed to visit Syria

2014: 17 January 2014: Russia steps up military supplies to Assad's regime, including armored vehicles, drones and guided bombs

2015: 21 March 2015: Syrian Coalition decides not to go to Moscow II meetin - 12 September 2015: The Syrian Coalition strongly condemns Russia’s direct military intervention in Syria, stressing that by this aggressive act, Russia has moved from supporting Assad in his genocidal war to directly intervene in Syria on the regime's side - 14 September 2015: Russia sends artillery and T-90 tanks to Syrian Assad regime as part of continued military buildup - 18 September: Russia's direct military intervention in Syria undermine all efforts aimed at reaching a political solution and will serve the interests of the extremist forces that feed on chaos and instability, Syrian Coalition says - Since 30 September 2015 Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War, first attacking areas in Latakia, Homs, and Hama province and murdering 36 civilians, including five children, and wounding Free Syrian Army members - 1 October: Syrian Coalition and rebel factions condemn the Russian aggression against the Syrian people pointing out that the airstrikes on Homs and Hama where over 50 people were killed have exposed Russia's real intentions in front of the international community - 1 October: East Ghouta protest against Russia's military intervention in Syria condemning the massacres committed by the Russian air force against civilians and rejecting all forms of foreign intervention in Syria - 2 October: Syrian Coalition appeals to Syrians, Arabs and the free world to raise their voice high and protest in front of the Russian embassies against Assad's, Russian and Iranian murderous aggression on the Syrian people - 4 November: Syrian Coalition will not attend a meeting called for by Moscow's regime while Russian forces are killing the Syrian people - 24 November 2015: FSA's General Ahmed Berri said that Turkey downed a Russian jet fighter after it bombed civilians in the town of Jisr al-Shughur and violated the Turkish airspace, revealing that the FSA fighters captured the one of the pilots while the second one was killed - 26 November: Syrian Coalition strongly condemns the Russian air force’s targeting of a relief aid convoy near Izaz, which left six civilians killed and burnt eight trucks, as Russia also intensified air strikes on the rebel-held villages along the Turkish border in northern rural Latakia - 27 November 2015: Russia renewed its air strikes on aid vehicles near the Turkish border, targeting a convoy in Sarmada in Idlib province

Syria/Spain relations: Syria/Spain relations

2014: 30 March 2014: Spanish journalists freed in Syria after six-month ordeal

2017: 4 February 2017: Lawyers representing the sister, who is a Spanish national, of a Syrian man alleged to have been tortured to death in a detention center in Damascus in 2013 have launched a criminal complaint against members of the Assad regime security forces in Spain's national court in Madrid

Syria/Sweden relations: Syria/Sweden relations - 22 February 2015: Swedish reporter says freed after being held by Assad regime forces

Syria/Switzerland relations: Swiss embassy closed 15 February 2012 - 15 February 2012: As the Assad regime seeks to crush the nearly year-long rebellion, Switzerland is closing its embassy in Damascus - 11. Januar 2013: Die Schweiz fordert mit Unterstützung von 52 Staaten, daß der Internationale Strafgerichtshof die Vorwürfe von Kriegsverbrechen in Syrien untersucht - 2 September: Syria sought WMD material in Switzerland, Swiss officials say

Syria/Tunisia relations: Syria/Tunisia relations: Tunesien ruft Mitte August 2011 Botschafter aus Syrien zurück

Syria/Turkey relations: Syria/Turkey relations - Euphrates river

2012: 15. März 2012: Zwei türkische Journalisten in der Gewalt von Assads Geheimdienst - 26. März: Türkei schliesst Botschaft in Syrien - 10. April: Türkeis Ministerpräsident Erdogan verurteilt die Schüsse auf Flüchtlinge an der türkisch-syrischen Grenze als 'klare Grenzverletzung' durch Syrien - 23 June: Syrian military says it downed Turkish fighter jet - 25 June: Turkey says that Syria shot down its military aircraft in international airspace - meeting of NATO allies on Tuesday - 25 June: Turkey says Syria fired on one of its planes that was taking part in a rescue operation for a warplane shot down by Syrian forces - 2 July: Ongoing tensions between Turkey and Syria, as Ankara says that it scrambled fighter jets after Syrian helicopters flew close to the border - 3 July: Assad 'regrets' F-4 jet's downing - 20 July: Democratic forces seize Turkey and Iraq border posts, celebrations in Aleppo, fightings in Damascus - 7 September: At least 61 people are reported to have died after a boat carrying mainly Arab immigrants sank off the Turkish coast - 8 September: Turkish captain charged over the capsizing of a boat carrying mostly Arab refugees which left 61 dead, mostly women and children - 22. September: Türkei stationiert schwere Waffen an Grenze zu Syrien nach Artilleriefeuer und Schußwunden türkischer Zivilisten - 4 October: In response to a mortar attack from Syrian territory that killed family of five in border town of Akcakale Turkish armed forces have launched artillery attacks on a Syrian area near its border - 5 October: Turkey's parliament has authorised cross-border military action against Syria, if deemed necessary by the government - 8 octobre: Pour un autre jour consécutif l'armée turque continue de répondre coup pour coup aux tirs syriens - 9 October: NATO makes plans to defend Turkey from Syria attacks - 11 October: The Syrian passenger plane forced to land in Turkey was carrying 'illegal cargo', according to