Current events: 2025-03-22

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • Western Syria clashes
    • 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites
      • The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reports that thousands of Syrian civilians are still missing following sectarian reprisal massacres committed by Syrian government-affiliated forces that killed at least 1,614 coastal civilians, including many Alawites and Christians. (SOHR)
      • The SOHR also reports several efforts by pro-government forces to hide the scale of the atrocities by gathering unaccounted bodies into mass graves, through cremation, or retaining hundreds of unidentified corpses from families. (SOHR)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Zaporizhzhia strikes, Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • An overnight Russian drone attack on Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, kills three people and wounds twelve others. Several apartments in residential areas are targeted during the attack. (AP)
  • Pokrovsk offensive
    • Russian artillery targets Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast, killing three people and injuring one other person. (Reuters)
• Israeli–Lebanese conflict
  • Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • Six people, including a child, are killed by Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon in the heaviest exchange of fire since the ceasefire with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah almost four months ago. The strikes were carried out in retaliation for rockets from Lebanon being fired into Israel. (CTV News)
• Ethiopia Civil War
  • Ethiopian National Defense Forces claimed to have killed more than 300 fighters from the Fano armed group in two days of clashes in the northern Amhara region of Ethiopia. (Reuters)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • At least 100 Al-Shabaab militant fighters were killed in an airstrike carried out by the Somali Air Force in the Lower Shabelle region of the South West State of Somalia. (TRAC)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Battle of Khartoum
    • The Sudanese Armed Forces say that they seized control of the main headquarters of the central bank from Rapid Support Forces as it continues to make advances in the city. (Al Jazeera)
• 2025 Fambita mosque attack
  • Niger declares three days of national mourning after yesterday's attack in which 44 people were killed in a mosque in {{ill|Fambita|de}}. (Al Jazeera)
• Red Sea crisis
  • A ballistic missile disintegrates over Saudi Arabia after being fired by the Houthis from Yemen against Israel. (Jerusalem Post)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Somalia DHC-5 crash
  • A cargo plane with four crew members on board en route from Dhobley in Lower Juba, Jubaland, to Somalia’s capital city, Mogadishu, crashes in the Ceel Xabaaloow settlement in Lower Shabelle, South West State. Three people are killed and one other sustains life-threatening injuries. (Anadolu Agency) (Idil News)
• March 2025 South Korea wildfires
  • Three firefighters and a civilian are killed after multiple wildfires sweep across a large forested area in South Korea. (DW)

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