Current events: 2024-12-22

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • Fall of the Assad regime
    • Syrian mass graves
      • An Assad regime mass grave containing the human remains of 93 civilians is discovered in Qarfa village in Daraa Governorate, all of whom were reportedly burnt alive and several of whom were women and children. (SOHR)
  • In the highest-ranking state visit since the regime change, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan holds a meeting with Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus, Syria, to support the transitional government. (Reuters)

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Israeli airstrikes across Gaza kill at least 28 people. (France 24)
• Red Sea crisis
  • The US military states that {{USS|Gettysburg|CG-64|6}} accidentally shot down a Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet and injured one of its pilots in a friendly fire incident following a series of strikes on Yemen, while the Houthis claimed that they shot down the plane. (CNN) (Middle East Monitor)
• Syrian civil war
  • In the highest-ranking state visit since the regime change, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan holds a meeting with Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus, Syria, to support the transitional government. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Gramado Piper PA-42 crash
  • Eleven people are killed and fifteen others are injured when a Piper PA-42 Cheyenne crashes into shops and a hotel while taking off from Canela Airport in Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. (CNN) (ASN)
• All four people onboard an Airbus EC135 ambulance helicopter are killed after it crashes into the Muğla State Hospital in Turkey. (AP)

International relations

• Russia–Slovakia relations
  • Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico holds a previously unannounced meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin. (The Moscow Times)

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