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Armed conflicts and attacks Hamas–Popular Forces conflict 2025 Rafah ambush Yasser Abu Shabab, leader of the Israeli-backed and anti-Hamas Popular Forces, is shot and killed in Rafah, Gaza, by unidentified gunmen. (Middle East Eye) Yemeni civil war 2025 Hadhramaut offensive The Southern...

Armed conflicts and attacks Gaza war Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, Gaza hostage crisis After Hamas returned the remains of an unidentified person to Israeli authorities yesterday, the Israeli government announces it will reopen the Gazan border crossing with Egypt, allowing Palestinians...

Armed conflicts and attacks Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 2025 Bannu ambush A government administrator, two of his guards and a passerby are killed in an ambush against a vehicle in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP) Law and crime Colombian authorities detain 17 children and...

Armed conflicts and attacks Russo-Ukrainian war Dnipro strikes Four people are killed and at least 40 others are injured in a Russian Iskander missile strike on Dnipro, Ukraine. (Reuters) Pokrovsk offensive Russia says its forces have captured the city of Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast after...

Armed conflicts and attacks Russo-Ukrainian war Kyiv strikes One person dies and 19 others are injured overnight after a Russian strike on Kyiv, Ukraine. (ABC) Gaza War Palestinian tunnel warfare in the Gaza Strip The Israeli military says it killed four Hamas militants who attempted to...

Armed conflicts and attacks Gaza war Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip Two Palestinian children are killed from an Israeli drone attack on the town of Bani Suheila, Gaza Strip. (Sky News) (Al Jazeera) Disasters and accidents 2025 North Indian Ocean cyclone season Cyclone Ditwah The...

Armed conflicts and attacks Syrian conflict Israeli invasion of Syria The Israeli military launches a raid in the city of Beit Jinn, Syria, targeting unknown gunmen and carrying out airstrikes, killing 13 Syrians, including two children, and wounding 25 others. Six Israeli soldiers are also...

Armed conflicts and attacks Russo-Ukrainian war Crimea attacks 2022 Crimean Bridge explosion A court in Russia sentences eight people with terrorism charges to life imprisonment after a truck bomb attack on the Crimean Bridge in Crimea killed five people in October 2022. (MSN) Insurgency...

Armed conflicts and attacks Israeli–Palestinian conflict Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Palestinian political violence The Israeli military announces a "broad counterterrorism operation" in the northern Samaria area in the occupied West Bank. (DW) Arts and culture Holy See–Lebanon...

Armed conflicts and attacks Russo–Ukrainian war Kyiv strikes, Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine Six people in Kyiv, Ukraine, and three more in Rostov, Russia, are killed as both countries launches airstrikes at each other. Several more people are wounded in both...

Armed conflicts and attacks Gaza war Humanitarian aid to Gaza The United States and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation announces it will permanently wind down operations after it had already closed most of its distribution sites. (AP) Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 2025 Federal...

Arts and culture International Paderewski Piano Competition Korean Roh Hyunjin wins the 13th Ignacy Jan Paderewski International Piano Competition held at the Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz, Kuyavian–Pomeranian, Poland. (Portal Kujawski) Armed conflicts and attacks Israel–Hezbollah...

Armed conflicts and attacks Gaza war Twenty-two Palestinians are killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, including five in a vehicle in Gaza City and four children in the Nuseirat refugee camp. (Al Jazeera 1) (Al Jazeera 2) Israel–Hezbollah conflict A person is killed in...

Armed conflicts and attacks Russo-Ukrainian war Kupiansk offensive Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov announces that Russian forces have captured the city of Kupiansk, the administrative centre of Kupiansk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast. The Ukrainian military denies this information...

Armed conflicts and attacks Gaza war Five Palestinians are killed in two Israeli attacks in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera) Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Two police officers are killed and four more injured after a bomb explodes near their armoured personnel carrier in Dera...

Armed conflicts and attacks Russo-Ukrainian war Russian attacks on civilians in the Russo-Ukrainian war Dozens of people are killed in a series of Russian missile and drone strikes across Ukraine, including 26 people killed and more than 100 others injured in a ballistic missile strike on a...

Armed conflicts and attacks 2025 Sidon massacre Thirteen people are killed and several others are wounded in an Israeli airstrike against the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon District, Lebanon. (The New Arab) Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present) Two people are killed in...

Armed conflicts and attacks Gaza war Military aid to Israel during the Gaza war, Germany–Israel relations The German government lifts its restrictions on military equipment exports to Israel, which was banned in August due to the siege of Gaza City. (AP) Druze insurgency in Southern Syria...

Politics and elections 2025 Chilean general election Chileans vote to elect their president, who will succeed the term-limited incumbent Gabriel Boric. (CNN) Preliminary results indicate a second round between Jeannette Jara and José Antonio Kast on 13 December. (El País) Nuclear program...

Armed conflicts and attacks Syrian conflict At least two people are killed and several others are injured in a mass shooting attack by unidentified gunmen at a coffeehouse in Homs, Syria. (Syrian Arab News Agency) Disasters and accidents A landslide triggered by heavy rain kills at least...