Timeline Wednesday 30 September 2015

Events on Wednesday 30 September 2015 2

• 2015 European Migrant Crisis Peaks Over a million refugees and migrants reach Europe More than a million people, many fleeing the Syrian civil war, crossed into Europe in 2015, overwhelming reception systems in Greece, Italy and the Balkans. Germany's decision to admit large numbers of asylum seekers became a defining and divisive policy of the year. The crisis reshaped European politics and border policy for years afterward.
• 2015 Russia Begins Military Intervention in Syria Airstrikes launched in support of Assad government Russia began an air campaign in Syria on 30 September 2015, officially targeting Islamic State but striking a broad range of anti-Assad rebel groups. It marked Russia's first major military intervention outside the former Soviet Union since the Cold War. The intervention shifted the balance of the civil war decisively in favor of President Bashar al-Assad.