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Armed conflicts and attacks Somali Civil War 2025 Shabelle offensive 2025 Beledweyne hotel attack Somali security forces end the 24-hour siege at a hotel in Beledweyne, Hiran, Somalia, with more than fifteen civilians and all six Al-Shabaab attackers killed. (BBC) (AP) Following the attack...

Armed conflicts and attacks Somali civil war 2025 Shabelle offensive Cairo hotel attack At least ten people are killed after five Al-Shabaab militants detonate a car bomb and attack a hotel in Beledweyne, Hiran, Somalia. (BBC News) (First Post) Syrian civil war Western Syria clashes...

Armed conflicts and attacks Syrian civil war Western Syria clashes 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites, March 2025 Western Syria clashes The number of reported civilians killed by extrajudicial massacres in western Syria rises to 1,068, the majority of whom are Alawites in addition to several...

Armed conflicts and attacks Syrian civil war Western Syria clashes 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites, March 2025 Western Syria clashes Over 1,300 Syrians are killed over the course of 72 hours amid ongoing clashes between the Syrian transitional government and pro-Assad holdouts. At least...

Armed conflicts and attacks Somali Civil War (2009–present) 2025 Shabelle offensive Al Shabaab seizes the town of Cadale and some villages including Bushra Sheekh, Ceel Xarar and Xaruur, being at about 70 kilometers of Mogadishu. Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud asks Ethiopian Prime...

Armed conflicts and attacks Syrian civil war Western Syria clashes 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites, March 2025 Western Syria clashes A Syrian war monitor reports that Syrian security forces executed 52 Alawite men in Latakia province after clashes broke out the day prior against the new...

Armed conflicts and attacks Syrian civil war Western Syria clashes March 2025 Western Syria clashes At least 16 members of the security forces and 28 pro-Bashar al-Assad’s militants are killed in a series of ambushes and shootouts in Latakia, Syria. (Al Arabiya) (France 24) Four smuggling...

Armed conflicts and attacks Russian invasion of Ukraine Kryvyi Rih strikes A Russian missile strikes a hotel in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, killing two people and injuring seven others. (Reuters) Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus Russia's Federal Security Service says that it killed...

Armed conflicts and attacks Russian invasion of Ukraine Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine A Ukrainian drone strikes an oil pipeline in Rostov Oblast, Russia, setting the pipeline ablaze for several hours before being put out by firefighters. Russia also reports its air...

Armed conflicts and attacks Russian invasion of Ukraine United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine U.S. President Donald Trump orders a pause on all U.S. military aid to Ukraine with immediate effect. (Bloomberg) Arab–Israeli conflict A 70-year-old Arab Israeli man is killed and...

Armed conflicts and attacks Gaza war 2025 Gaza war ceasefire Israel agrees to a United States-led plan to extend the first phase of the ceasefire through Ramadan and Passover, during which half of the 59 remaining hostages will be released. Hamas rejects the proposal, insisting that the deal...

Armed conflicts and attacks War on terror Syrian civil war United States Central Command says that it has carried out a precision airstrike in Syria, targeting and killing Muhammed Yusuf Ziya Talay, a senior military leader in Hurras al-Din. (Al Arabiya) At least one person is killed and...

Attacks and armed conflicts 2025 Darul Uloom Haqqania bombing Five people, including Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani, the head of a faction of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S) party and son of Sami-ul-Haq, are killed and twenty others are injured in a suicide bombing inside of a mosque in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...

Armed conflicts and attacks Israeli–Palestinian conflict Gaza war 2025 Gaza war ceasefire As part of the first stage of the ceasefire deal, Hamas releases the bodies of four Israeli hostages in return for the Israeli government releasing 617 Palestinian prisoners. The second phase of the...

Armed conflicts and attacks Somali Civil War African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia The Somalian government and the African Union finalize the troop distribution for the new peacekeeping mission AUSSOM, resolving prior disputes with Ethiopia and later Burundi. The mission...