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Armed conflicts and attacks Syrian civil war Iranian involvement in the Syrian civil war A drone strike on a pro-Iran weapons factory by an unknown attacker in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria, kills seven people and injures 15 others, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which...

Armed conflicts and attacks 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Execution of Tymofii Shadura, War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Ukraine releases the name of a prisoner of war who was summarily executed in a graphic video. (BBC) Syrian civil war Iran–Israel conflict during the...

Armed conflicts and attacks Insurgency in Balochistan At least nine police officers are killed and 16 other people are injured in Sibi District, Balochistan, Pakistan, when a separatist suicide bomber riding on a motorcycle strikes a police vehicle. (DW) Disasters and accidents 2023...

Armed conflicts and attacks Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Three Armenian police officers and two Azerbaijani soldiers are killed during border clashes near the Lachin Corridor. Both nations accuse each other of opening fire first. (DW) Yemeni civil war Jihadist group al-Qaeda in the Arabian...

Armed conflicts and attacks 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Battle of Bakhmut Heavy street fighting takes place between Russian and Ukrainian troops in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast. The city's deputy mayor Oleksandr Marchenko says "not a single building" has remained untouched by fighting, and...

Disasters and accidents 2023 Plumpang oil depot fire Seventeen people are killed and fifty others are injured by a fire in a fuel storage station in Koja, Jakarta, Indonesia. (Reuters) Sixteen people are killed when a pipeline explodes in Emohua, Rivers State, Nigeria. (AP) One person is...

Armed conflicts and attacks 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Attacks on civilians in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine A Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the city of Zaporizhzhia kills three civilians and wounds at least four others, according to Ukrainian police...

Disasters and accidents Two people are killed after a boat carrying around 30 migrants capsizes near the coast of Kos, Greece. (AP) International relations Enlargement of NATO Finland–NATO relations The Finnish Parliament votes 184–7 to formally approve the country's accession to NATO, and...

Armed conflicts and attacks Israeli–Palestinian conflict An Israeli-American man is killed in a drive-by shooting on a highway in the city of Jericho, in the West Bank. (Al Jazeera) Islamic State–Taliban conflict The Taliban announce that the leader of operations and intelligence of Islamic...

Armed conflicts and attacks Kivu conflict M23 offensive M23 rebels seize the town of Rubaya and the Rubaya coltan mines in North Kivu, DRC, after government forces withdraw from the area. (Anadolu Agency) Disasters and accidents Aftermath of the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake List of...

Armed conflicts and attacks Insurgency in Balochistan Four people are killed and 14 others are injured by a bombing at a market in Barkhan, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera) Palestinian intifada (2022–present) Two Israeli settlers are shot and killed in Huwara, in the occupied West Bank by...

Armed conflicts and attacks Nineteen people are injured by small explosions during the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope in Buea, Southwest Region, Cameroon. (Reuters) Business and economy Russia halts oil imports to Poland via the northern branch of the Druzhba pipeline, says refiner PKN Orlen...

Armed conflicts and attacks 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Russia–Ukraine peace negotiations, China and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine China unveils a 12-point position paper on ending the war in Ukraine, ahead of an expected speech by Xi Jinping on the conflict. Ukraine says it hopes...

Disasters and accidents Philippine authorities confirm that all four people aboard a Cessna 340 aircraft that crashed on February 18 on Mayon Volcano, Albay are dead. Retrieval operations have begun. (The Philippine Star) (CNN) A Russian Air Force Su-25 jet crashes in Orekhovo, Belgorod Oblast...

Armed conflicts and attacks Israeli–Palestinian conflict 2023 Nablus clashes Israeli troops clash with Palestinians in Nablus, West Bank, killing ten Palestinians and injuring 102 others, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. (Al Jazeera) Disasters and accidents At least two...

Armed conflicts and attacks 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Southern Ukraine campaign Russian forces shell the city of Kherson, killing at least six people and wounding 12 others, according to local officials. (Reuters) Somali Civil War The Somali National Army kills 42 al-Shabaab...

Disasters and accidents Aftermath of the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake A magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes southeastern Turkey and Syria, killing three people and wounding 600 more. It is also felt in Lebanon and Egypt. This aftershock comes fourteen days after the main quake killed more than...

Law and crime Six people are killed, including the vice mayor of Aparri, when their car is ambushed in Bagabag, Philippines, by unknown gunmen. (Philippine Daily Inquirer) Science and technology Nuclear program of Iran Nuclear inspectors in Iran detect uranium enriched to 84% purity, just...

International relations United States and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine At the Munich Security Conference, United States Vice President Kamala Harris says that U.S. has determined that Russia has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine. (NBC News) 2023 Damascus airstrike Reports...

Armed conflicts and attacks 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Battle of Bakhmut Russian forces shell Bakhmut with artillery and Grad rockets, killing five people and injuring nine others. (The Kyiv Independent via Yahoo! News) Russian forces and Wagner forces capture Paraskoviivka, a village...