No checkpoint is the same, some want paperwork, others wave you through after a brief look inside - but from Damascus to Latakia, there are a lot of checkpoints, and in one way or another, you are checked every time.
A father has said his only son, who died in a nightclub fire in North Macedonia, had "only [just] started to live" and that more than 150 families have been left "devastated" by the tragedy.
Military chiefs from around the world will meet next week to discuss the "operational phase" of protecting Ukraine as part of a peacekeeping force, Sir Keir Starmer has announced.