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- Syrian civil war
- October 2023 Northeastern Syria clashes
- Turkey launches a series of airstrikes targeting the Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern Syria, killing at least two people and wounding three others. (i24 News)
- 2023 Turkish drone shootdown
- A Turkish Air Force Bayraktar UAV is shot down by an international coalition (CJTF–OIR) F-16 Fighting Falcon in Al Hasakah, Syria, after reportedly operating too close to U.S. forces in the vicinity. (SOHR) (The Independent)
- 2023 Homs drone strike
- At least 112 troops and civilians are killed and 120 more injured by a drone attack on a Syrian military graduation ceremony in Homs, Syria. (Al Jazeera) (SOHR)
- At least six people are killed and 38 more are injured during a series of airstrikes by the Syrian Air Force on Idlib. (Al Jazeera)
- October 2023 Northeastern Syria clashes
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- A day after it is announced that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has decided against supplying Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine for the time being, Scholz pledges a second Patriot air defense system to Ukraine. A Patriot system costs the equivalent of about three billion euros. (Spiegel) (Spiegel)
- The United States transfers 1.1 million rounds of Iranian ammunition to Ukraine after the U.S. Navy seized them from a shipment enroute to Yemen in December. (BBC News)
- Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Hroza missile attack
- Ukraine says Russia struck a store and cafe with a ballistic missile in Hroza, Kharkiv Oblast, killing at least 51 civilians, including children. (AP)
- Russia says one minor has been killed and three injured while trying to dismantle cluster munitions fired from Ukrainian forces, in the occupied city of Horlivka. The claim has not been verified. (Al Jazeera)
- Hroza missile attack
- Russia announces the successful test of the Burevestnik, a nuclear-powered and nuclear-capable cruise missile with a potential range of thousands of miles. (Reuters)
- Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Arts and culture
- Jon Fosse is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his innovative plays, prose and style, which has come to be known as Fosse minimalism. (CNN)
Law and crime
- Italian authorities impound the Open Arms vessel used by Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms to rescue migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. (Reuters)
- The Dutch platform supply vessel VOS Pace rescues 79 migrants in the Atlantic Ocean, nine of whom mutiny. They are arrested in Fuerteventura, Canary Islands. (NOS)
Politics and elections
- By 279 votes to 173 (33 abstentions), the EU Parliament votes in favor of the appointment of Wopke Hoekstra as the new EU Commissioner. (Zeit) (Tagesschau)
- Mexico–United States border
- The Biden administration announces it will waive 26 federal laws in Starr County, Texas, to allow border wall construction to prevent illegal entry into the country. (AP)
- Kenyan foreign minister Alfred Mutua is replaced by Musalia Mudavadi following a controversy over the country's involvement in the crisis in Haiti. (BBC News)
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