Current events: 2025-02-23

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Armed conflicts and attacks

War against the Islamic State
- Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
  - Puntland counter-terrorism operations
    - At least three ISIS fighters were killed and no civilians were harmed after Puntland armed forces, working with U.S. Africa Command, launched an airstrike targeting ISIS militants hiding in the Cal Miskaad Mountains in the Bari Region of Puntland, Somalia. (Horseed Media) (Hiiraan Online)
Australian frontier wars
- The University of Newcastle publishes the final findings of its eight-year long attempt to record and map all major massacres of Indigenous Australians during the colonisation of Australia, finding that at least 10,000 were killed. (The Guardian)
Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Israel launches airstrikes in the Baalbek area in northeastern Lebanon and other areas in the south of the country. (Times of Israel)

International relations

Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that he is "ready" to resign from the presidency in exchange for NATO accession as part of a potential peace agreement. (CNN) (AP)

Law and crime

American Airlines Flight 292 is forced to divert to Rome Fiumicino Airport in Rome, Italy, after a bomb threat. The New York - Delhi flight was flying over the Caspian Sea near Turkmenistan when it diverted back towards Europe. (English Jagran)

Politics and elections