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Armed conflicts and attacks 2023 Sudan clashes Sudan cancels all flights in and out of the country for all of its citizens, also closing the country's airspace. Kenya likewise suspends all flights to and from Sudan. (Flight Global) (Kenyans Co-Ke) China, Malaysia, and the United States urge...

Armed conflicts and attacks Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso Thirty-four VDP and six soldiers are killed during an ambush in the village of Aorema, Ouahigouya. Thirty-three other people are injured. (Al Jazeera) Nigerian bandit conflict At least 33 people are killed as armed bandits storm...

Armed conflicts and attacks 2019–2026 Sudanese transition to democracy 2023 Sudanese Armed Forces-Rapid Support Forces confrontation Fighting breaks out across Sudan three days after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces mobilized. The RSF claims to have captured Khartoum International...

Armed conflicts and attacks Yemen civil war A major prisoner swap begins between rival factions in Yemen as a first flight between Houthi-controlled Sanaa and government-controlled Aden will see nearly 900 prisoners freed. (AFP via France 24) Disasters and accidents 2023 Tunisia migrant...

Armed conflicts and attacks Russian invasion of Ukraine Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine The European Council agrees to donate one billion euros worth of ammunition to Ukraine through an EU financing instrument. (tagesschau) The German government approves a request by...

Business and economy NPR announces it will no longer use Twitter after the social media site labeled it and the BBC "government-funded media". Shortly thereafter, Twitter CEO Elon Musk decided to revise BBC as "publicly-funded media".(BBC) (CNBC) Disasters and accidents Ten people are killed...

Armed conflicts and attacks Armenia–Azerbaijan border crisis Fighting breaks out near the Armenian village of Tegh, with casualties on both sides. (Armenia News) Insurgency in Balochistan Four police personnel and one terrorist are killed in an exchange of fire during an police operation in...

Armed conflicts and attacks Israeli–Palestinian conflict A 15-year-old boy is killed by Israeli soldiers in Jericho, in the occupied West Bank. (Al Jazeera) Insurgency in Balochistan 2023 Kandahari Bazar bombing Four people are killed and 15 more injured when a motorcycle bomb targeting a...

Armed conflicts and attacks Israeli–Palestinian conflict Israeli–Syrian ceasefire line incidents during the Syrian civil war Israel launches retaliatory airstrikes on Syrian territory after several rockets were launched towards the Golan Heights. (The Guardian) Russian invasion of Ukraine...

Disasters and accidents At least ten people are killed in Migori, Kenya, when a lorry loses control, rams into passers-by, and crashes. (Pulse) International relations Chad declares its German ambassador Gordon Kricke persona non grata. (Deutschlandfunk) Law and crime Police in Iran...

Armed conflicts and attacks Israeli–Palestinian conflict 2023 Tel Aviv ramming attack An Italian tourist is killed and seven other tourists are injured during a vehicle-ramming attack in Tel Aviv, Israel. (BBC News) Two British nationals, living in Israel since 2005, are killed and their...

Armed conflicts and attacks Russian invasion of Ukraine 2022 Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations Deputy Head Andrii Sybiha says that Ukraine is willing to hold talks on the future of Crimea should a Ukrainian counter-offensive reach the Crimean administrative border. (The Guardian) 2023...

Armed conflicts and attacks Israeli–Palestinian conflict 2023 Al-Aqsa clashes Israeli police storm Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem in response to rioting, injuring seven Palestinians and resulting in clashes in the West Bank and in Gaza, where nine rockets were launched. (Arab News) Disasters...

Armed conflicts and attacks Syrian civil war Israel's role in the Syrian civil war The Israeli Air Force launches airstrikes near Damascus, killing two civilians, according to Syrian state media. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says an "unknown number" of Iran-backed militants were...

Armed conflicts and attacks Russian invasion of Ukraine Battle of Bakhmut Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Group, claims "legal control" of Bakhmut, although Ukraine denies this with its troops present in the city's western districts. (CNBC) Israeli–Palestinian conflict A Lions'...

Armed conflicts and attacks Russian invasion of Ukraine Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine Russian forces shell Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, killing six civilians and injuring eight others, according to the Ukrainian government. (Reuters) 2023 Saint Petersburg bombing...

International relations Russia takes over the Presidency of the United Nations Security Council as part of the standard monthly rotation among the council's 15 members amid protests from Ukraine. (BBC) Continue reading...

Armed conflicts and attacks Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea Pirates kidnap some crew members of a Danish-owned ship which they later abandon near São Tomé and Príncipe. (Al Arabiya) Disasters and accidents Indore stepwell collapse At least 35 people are killed and 18 others injured when a...

Armed conflicts and attacks Internal conflict in Myanmar Eight people are killed by a bombing in a village in Chin State, Myanmar. (AP) Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Four people are killed and six others are injured by two roadside bombings in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP) Russian...

Armed conflicts and attacks Colombian conflict ELN militants launch homemade mortar shells at a military base in El Carmen, Norte de Santander, Colombia, killing nine soldiers and wounding nine others. (ABC News) Law and crime Myanmar's ruling military junta dissolves the National League...