Current events: 2023-09-19

Wikipedia Current Events · Sep 19, 2023

Armed conflicts and attacks

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
- 2023 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes
  - Four Azerbaijani police officers and two civilians are killed by separate mine explosions in Nagorno-Karabakh, with Azerbaijan blaming Armenian sabotage groups. (AFP via Al Arabiya)
  - Azerbaijan launches an offensive on Nagorno-Karabakh and demands the withdrawal of ethnic Armenian forces from the region. (Al Jazeera)
  - The Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan says that Armenia must hand over all weapons in order to stop "anti-terrorism" activities. (Trend)
  - Azerbaijan claims its forces broke through the contact line and captured over 60 military posts in Nagorno-Karabakh. Artsakh forces, however, deny this. (Reuters)
  - According to the Republic of Artsakh government, 25 people are killed due to the fighting, two of which are civilians, including a child with 138 others injured, 29 being civilians including 11 children. Azerbaijan claims one civilian is killed in shelling of Shusha. (AP)
  - Azerbaijani forces strike Stepanakert, the de facto capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, with artillery. Several residential buildings are damaged. (CBC)
2023 Jenin incursion
- Four Palestinians are killed and 30 wounded in an Israeli Army raid in Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. (Haaretz)
Russo-Ukrainian War, War in Sudan (2023)
- Ukrainian officials state that Ukrainian special forces were "likely" behind recent drone strikes and a ground operation against Wagner Group mercenaries in Sudan. (CNN)

Arts and culture

The Institut Européen d'Archéologie Sous-Marine announces the discovery of the site of a temple to god Amun and a Greek sanctuary devoted to Aphrodite in the ancient port city of Thonis-Heracleion in the Abu Qir Bay, Egypt. (CNN)

Law and crime

2023 Polish parliamentary election
- Visagate, Belarus–European Union border crisis
  - Civic Platform MP Michał Szczerba reveals alleged documents from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicating that the Polish embassy in Minsk issued 784,173 visas to individuals from 65 countries with the assistance of a Moscow-based company. It is further claimed by Szczerba that among those issued visas are people who were pushed back from the border during the Belarus–European Union border crisis. (Gazeta.pl via Microsoft Start)
Derna dam collapses
- Protesters burn down the mayor of Derna's house in response to the catastrophic flooding which left thousands of the city's residents dead or missing. Internet and telephone access are subsequently shut down and foreign journalists are ordered to leave the city. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

Science and technology

2023 Hawaii wildfires
- It is reported that the Lahaina Banyan Tree in Lahaina has shown signs of new life a month after wildfires decimated most of Maui, Hawaii. (The Washington Post)