Current events: 2026-07-15

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2026 Iran war
    • 2025–2026 Iran–United States negotiations
      • 2026 Iran war ceasefire
        • Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says that ceasefire negotiations aimed at ending the war have not closed despite renewed fighting between Iran and the United States. (The New York Times)
    • 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis
      • 2026 Strait of Hormuz campaign
        • 2026 United States naval blockade of Iran
          • The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) says that American forces have redirected two commercial vessels since the blockade resumed. (AA)
      • Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed "until the United States ends its acts of aggression". (Euractiv)
    • CENTCOM announces the U.S. has launched new strikes against Iran for a fifth consecutive day aimed at coastal defense systems, cruise missile storage, and launch sites in the Greater Tunb Island. (AFP via NDTV) (Politico)
  • Gaza war
    • Gaza peace plan
      • Morocco signs an agreement with the Board of Peace to join the International Stabilization Force for Gaza. (Reuters)
    • Nirim attack, Gaza war hostage crisis
      • Israel's military claims to have killed an alleged militant from the Hamas branch Al-Qassam Brigades who they state participated in the abduction of soldiers Col. Asaf Hamami, St.-Sgt. Tomer Yaakov Ahimas, and Sgt. Kiril Brodski during the October 7 attacks on the Kibbutz Nirim. (The Jerusalem Post) (Haaretz)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Darfur campaign
    • The Sudanese Armed Forces-allied Joint Forces announce that they have recaptured the Orshi Reservoir area in Sudan's North Darfur state, a month after the Rapid Support Forces seized the area. (AA)

Health and environment

• 2026 Ebola epidemic
  • The total amount of cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo exceed 2,000. (Medical Xpress)

International relations

• United Kingdom–European Union relations
  • Effect of Brexit on Gibraltar
    • The United Kingdom and the European Union remove the land-border fence between Gibraltar and Spain under a post-Brexit treaty, allowing free movement while introducing joint British-Spanish checks at Gibraltar's airport and port. (AP)

Law and crime

• Bhutanese refugees scam
  • A district court in Kathmandu, Nepal, sentences former deputy prime minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi to four years in prison and former home minister Bal Krishna Khand to two years for roles in forging documents for a fraudulent Bhutanese refugee resettlement scheme. (Reuters)
• Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
  • The Democratic Republic of the Congo establishes a council composed of mostly international war crimes lawyers to advise state institutions seeking accountability and reparations for victims of violence in the country's east. (Reuters)
• Detention of Craig and Lindsay Foreman
  • The family of British national Craig Foreman says an Iranian court has added two years to his 10-year espionage prison sentence for speaking to the media, as he and his wife Lindsay continue a hunger strike. (CBS News)
• Moroccan prosecutors release journalist Ali Lmrabet after questioning him over online posts allegedly defaming unnamed individuals and institutions, while the criminal investigation continues. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• France's National Assembly gives final approval to a bill allowing eligible adults with incurable, life-threatening illnesses to obtain lethal medication under strict conditions. The measure awaits Constitutional Council review before taking effect. (AP)

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