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Some 13,000 Palestinian structures in the West Bank are currently under Israeli demolition orders, leaving residents and homes "in a state of chronic uncertainty and threat".

• 07 сентября 2015, 14:06

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would not allow Israel to be "submerged" by refugees after calls for the Jewish state to take in those fleeing Syria's war.

• 07 сентября 2015, 13:10

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was willing to hold early parliamentary elections and share power with the "healthy" opposition.

• 05 сентября 2015, 14:27

Britain promised to take in thousands more Syrian refugees and give 100 million pounds in extra aid, as their plight raised pressure on European leaders.

• 05 сентября 2015, 10:57

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was slammed by Jewish groups after saying that Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria were worse than Nazis.

• 03 сентября 2015, 14:25

Russia said it was considering details of how to establish a UN team to investigate chemical weapons attacks in Syria.

• 03 сентября 2015, 13:09

A market in fake Syrian passports has sprung up, particularly in Turkey, to help migrants and refugees enter the EU, the head of Europe's border agency Frontex said.

• 01 сентября 2015, 17:01

A blast rocked the ancient ruins in Syria's Palmyra on Sunday but the site's famed Temple of Bel appeared to be largely intact.

• 31 августа 2015, 18:06

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was appalled by reports that Islamic State militants had demolished a temple in Syria's ancient Palmyra.

• 25 августа 2015, 12:48

The UN's humanitarian chief fiercely condemned attacks against civilians in Syria at a press conference in Damascus on Monday.

• 17 августа 2015, 16:39

A truck bombing claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least 54 people in a Shiite-majority area of Baghdad, the deadliest single attack in Iraq's capital in months.

• 14 августа 2015, 11:39

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, and called on regional countries to "fight terrorism and extremism".

• 13 августа 2015, 12:29

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned against what he called unfounded claims that Syria has chemical weapons.

• 10 августа 2015, 13:43

US President Barack Obama believes Bashar al-Assad's backers in Moscow and Tehran may see the writing is on the wall for the Syrian regime.

• 08 августа 2015, 13:45

According to Kazakhstan’s political scientist Yerlan Karin, the number of fighters that the ISIS or Daish, its Arabic acronym, is luring has been decreasing.

• 30 июля 2015, 19:06

NATO strongly backed Turkey's fight against Islamic State militants in Syria at emergency talks.

• 29 июля 2015, 15:27

Turkey's foreign minister said that Kurdish rebels "never respected" the peace process with Ankara, with a ceasefire now in tatters after a series of attacks and cross-border offensives.

• 28 июля 2015, 12:13

Malala Yousafzai told world leaders they were failing Syria's children, as the Nobel Peace Prize winner spent her 18th birthday on the Syrian border.

• 13 июля 2015, 11:12

UNESCO condemned the destruction by Islamic State group jihadists of antiquities in the Syrian city of Palmyra.

• 04 июля 2015, 15:07

The head of the UN cultural organisation called for a campaign against the "culture cleansing" being carried out by Islamic State jihadists.

• 02 июля 2015, 12:33