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| 1958 |
| | Egypt and Syria merge as the United Arab Republic (but disengage three years later) | |
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| 1961 |
| | Syria withdraws from the United Arab Republic (UAR) seeing it as unacceptably dominated by Egypt | |
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| 1963 |
| | A military coup in Syria brings the Ba'th party to power | |
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| 1967 |
| | Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria in the Six-Day War | |
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| 1970 |
| | Ba'thist leader Hafiz al-Assad takes power in a military coup in Syria | |
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| 1971 |
| | The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), expelled from Jordan, makes a new base in Lebanon | |
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| 1982 |
| | Israeli Minister of Defence Ariel Sharon heads Israel's invasion of Lebanon to expel the PLO | |
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| 1982 |
| | Yasser Arafat and the PLO move to Tunisia, after being driven out of Lebanon by Israel | |
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| 1982 |
| | Christian militiamen massacre Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Chatila camps in Lebanon | |
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| 1982 |
| | Hezbollah emerges in Lebanon as an Iranian-sponsored resistance movement against the Israeli occupation of the southern part of the country | |
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