Current events: 2025-03-14

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • Western Syria clashes
    • 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites, March 2025 Western Syria clashes
      • Wildfires allegedly set by members of the Syrian Ministry of Defense destroy large areas of forest and Alawite-populated lands in Latakia Governorate, potentially threatening the lives of several civilians who escaped from sectarian massacres to the countryside. (SOHR)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Four people, including Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam district chief Maulana Abdullah Nadeem, are injured in a bombing at the Maulana Abdul Aziz Mosque mosque in South Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Indian Express)
• War against the Islamic State
  • Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
    • Iraq announces that a senior leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was killed in the Al Anbar Governorate during a joint operation between Iraqi security forces and the United States. (Reuters) (VOA)

Disasters and accidents

• Tornado outbreak of March 14, 2025
  • Three people are indirectly killed by storms as a regional risk for an outbreak of severe weather is outlined by the Storm Prediction Center over much of the United States. A rare high risk convective outlook is issued for tomorrow over the Deep South. (Storm Prediction Center)
• At least two people are killed and one other is injured in a landslide at a salt mine in Karak District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Aaj News)

International relations

• South Africa–European Union relations
  • President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announces that the European Union will invest {{Euro}}4.7 billion (US$5 billion) in aid and development projects in South Africa after the United States ended most of its USAID programs. (DW) (Reuters)
• Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • U.S. President Donald Trump publicly asks Russian President Vladimir Putin to spare the lives of "thousands of Ukrainian soldiers" said to be surrounded in Kursk Oblast. (ABC News)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election
  • Mark Carney is sworn in as the 24th Prime Minister of Canada. (CBC News)

Science and technology

• March 2025 lunar eclipse
  • A total lunar eclipse occurs in the morning hours across the Western Hemisphere at night. (Space.com)

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