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2025 July 21

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Colombian conflict
  • Catatumbo campaign
    • The National Liberation Army deploys a drone to attack a military convoy in Catatumbo, Colombia, killing three soldiers and injuring eight others. (AP)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Israeli troops and tanks enter Deir al-Balah in central Gaza for the first time since the start of the war. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The United States and Germany agree to send five Patriot missile defense systems to Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent)
• Syrian civil war
  • Southern Syria clashes
    • Hundreds of Bedouin civilians are evacuated from Suwayda, Syria, as part of a ceasefire following clashes that left hundreds dead. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Dhaka fighter jet crash
  • At least 31 people are killed and more than 50 others are injured after a Bangladesh Air Force FT-7BGI training aircraft crashes into a college and school campus in Uttara, Dhaka, Bangladesh. (AlJazeera)
• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • At least 22 people are killed and more than 90,000 people are displaced as Tropical Storm Wipha hits the Philippines and South Korea. (Gulf News)

International relations

• El Salvador–Venezuela relations
  • The Venezuelan attorney general’s office opens a formal investigation into Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele and his government’s alleged mistreatment of Venezuelan migrants detained in the United States and sent to the CECOT megaprison, built to hold alleged gang members. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Christophe Mirmand is sworn in as the new minister of state of Monaco, succeeding acting minister of state Isabelle Berro-Amadeï. (L’Observateur de Monaco)
• Jagdeep Dhankhar resigns as the Vice President of India citing health reasons. (NDTV)

Sports

• The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee announces a ban on transgender women competing in women’s sports in compliance with an executive order issued earlier this year. (NPR)

2025 July 20

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • At least 85 Palestinians are killed while attempting to access aid across the Gaza Strip. (AP)
• Somali Civil War
  • 2025 Shabelle offensive
    • The Somali National Army and African Union forces, primarily Ugandan troops, abruptly withdraw from the towns of Sabiid and Anole, after al-Shabaab militant group recaptures these locations, which are situated approximately 40 kilometres southwest of Mogadishu in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region. (The Soufan Center)

Disasters and accidents

• Seventeen people are killed and 11 others are missing in torrential rains in South Korea. (AP)
• Six people, including a pregnant woman, are killed in a fire on the passenger ferry KM Barcelona 5 just before it reaches Sulawesi, Indonesia. (AP) (Hindustan Times)

Law and crime

• Terrorism in Egypt
  • Egyptian police kill two suspected militants belonging to the Hasm Movement, an affiliate of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, during a raid on their hideout in Giza. One passerby is also killed. (Al-Ahram)
• Ecuador extradites José Adolfo Macías Villamar, leader of the Los Choneros cartel, to the United States where he faces federal charges related to drug trafficking. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Japanese House of Councillors election
  • Japanese citizens vote for 125 of the 248 members of the House of Councillors, the upper house of the National Diet. (NHK)
  • The ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Komeito lose their majority in the House of Councillors, marking the first time in LDP’s 70-year history that it leads a coalition in the Diet without a majority in either house. (NHK)

2025 July 19

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • Southern Syria clashes
    • Street-to-street fighting in Suwayda, Syria, is reported between local Druze forces and pro-government Bedouin tribesmen. (i24)
    • An Agence France-Presse war correspondent reports witnessing armed men looting and setting fire to Druze-owned shops in Suwayda. (BBC News)
• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • At least 32 Palestinians are killed trying to reach Gaza Humanitarian Foundation food distribution sites. (AP)
• M23 campaign
  • The M23 paramilitary group and the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo sign a declaration of principles stating that a full ceasefire and final peace agreement will be signed no later than August 18, and that it will be aligned with the earlier DR Congo–Rwanda agreement. (CNN)

Disasters and accidents

• Sinking of the Wonder Sea
  • At least 38 people are killed, 11 are rescued and eight others are reported missing, including children, when a storm causes the tourist boat Wonder Sea to capsize in the Hạ Long Bay in Quảng Ninh province, Vietnam. (News18)
• At least 21 people are killed and 34 others are injured after a bus overturns and crashes in Kavar, Fars province, Iran. (The New Arab)
• Eight people are killed and six others are injured when a truck collides with two passenger vans in Aurora, Isabela province, Philippines. (Xinhua) (Manila Bulletin)

Law and crime

• At least 30 people are injured, including seven critically, in a vehicle-ramming attack at a night club in Los Angeles, California, United States. (AP) (Los Angeles Fire Department)
• Turkish involvement in the Somali civil war
  • The Puntland Maritime Police Force confiscates a Turkish vessel illegally transporting high-grade weaponry, including armoured personnel carriers and crates of weapons, to Mogadishu in Bareeda, Ras Aseir region. (Idil News) (Marine Insight)
• At least 12 people are killed in a mass shooting at a pool hall in Playas, Guayas Province, Ecuador. (Diario Extra)

Sports

• In boxing, Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk defeats British challenger Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium in London, England, via a fifth-round knockout to become a two-time undisputed heavyweight champion. (BBC Sport)

2025 July 18

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • At least 41 Palestinians, ten of which were seeking Humanitarian aid are killed by artillery shelling and gunfire. (The Hindu) (Al Jazeera)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Nine people are killed while at least 15 others are abducted in an attack by gunmen in Talata Mafara,Zamfara State, Nigeria. (Al Jazeera)
• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Israeli invasion of Syria
    • Southern Syria clashes
      • Israel and Syria agree to a ceasefire, following a de-escalation of the conflict after Syrian government troops withdrew from Sweida. (Reuters)
  • Red Sea crisis
    • Israel intercepts a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis, who say it was targeting Ben Gurion International Airport. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Three people are killed in a stampede during a public celebration in Garut, West Java, Indonesia. (Jakarta Globe)
• At least three people are killed in an explosion at a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department training facility in Monterey Park, California, United States. (KABC-TV)
• Four people are killed and over a dozen are injured in a multiple-vehicle collision on Interstate 35 in San Antonio, Texas, United States. (AP)
• Five people are killed in Pedda Amberpet, India, after a car rammed into the back of a lorry. (The Hindu)
• Six illegal miners are killed and four others injured after a hoist system malfunctioned in a mine in Mashonaland Central Province, Zimbabwe. (Zimeye)
• At least 15 are injured after a three storey structure collapsed in Bandra, India. (The Indian Express)

International relations

• Germany–Russia relations
  • Russia withdraws from its military technical cooperation agreement with Germany. (The Kyiv Independent)

Law and crime

• 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
  • The Seoul Central District Court rejects former president Yoon Suk Yeol’s petition to release him due to an unreasonable request more than a week after he was re-arrested on charges related to a failed martial law attempt on December 3, 2024. (The Korea Herald)
• March 2025 American deportations of Venezuelans
  • The governments of El Salvador, the United States, and Venezuela conduct a prisoner swap involving over 200 Venezuelans incarcerated at the Terrorism Confinement Center in exchange for the release of ten Americans from Venezuelan custody. (Reuters)
• Political ineligibility of Jair Bolsonaro
  • The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil orders former president Jair Bolsonaro to wear an electronic ankle bracelet and places him on nightly house arrest, and forbids him from approaching embassies, foreign ambassadors, and diplomats. (AP)
• The United States government declares the Pakistani militant group The Resistance Front a terrorist group after it committed an attack in Pahalgam in April. (DW)

Politics and elections

• The Trinidad and Tobago government declares a state of emergency after uncovering a plot by criminal organizations to allegedly target and kill government officials. (AP)

2025 July 17

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Attacks on religious sites during the Israeli invasion of Gaza
    • Three people are killed and nine others are injured when Israeli forces strikes the Holy Family Church in Gaza City, the only Catholic church in Gaza. (BBC News)
• Somali Civil War
  • At least six people are killed and ten others are injured after a fresh outbreak of tribal violence in the Galgaduud region of Somalia. (Hiiraan Online)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Kut shopping mall fire
  • At least 69 people are killed, 11 are reported missing, and 43 others are injured in a fire at a shopping mall in Kut, Wasit Governorate, Iraq. The Iraqi government declares three days of mourning and the provincial government files lawsuits against the owners of the mall. (Reuters) (CNN) (NDTV)
• At least four people are killed, two others are seriously injured and more than 1,000 others are evacuated after torrential rainfall submerges buildings and causes a landslide in Gyeonggi and South Chungcheong provinces, South Korea. (Reuters) (The Korea Herald)
• A child is killed and 21 people are injured when a coach bus crashes in Somerset, England. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• The Ukrainian parliament appoints Yulia Svyrydenko as the new prime minister, succeeding Denys Shmyhal. (Reuters)
• The British government announces it will lower the voting age to 16, allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in the upcoming general election. (NPR)

2025 July 16

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Gaza war
    • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
      • At least 21 Palestinians are killed in a crowd crush at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) site in the Gaza Strip. The GHF attributed the stampede to armed agitators, while Hamas and Palestinian eyewitnesses said that Israeli soldiers sprayed people with pepper gas and opened fire. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
  • Israeli invasion of Syria, Southern Syria clashes
    • The Israeli Air Force bombs the Syrian Defense Ministry headquarters and the presidential palace in Damascus. (Al Jazeera) (The Times of Israel)
    • Israeli forces launch an attack on the Druze city of Suwayda in As-Suwayda Governorate, Syria, after scattered clashes continue in spite of the ceasefire announcement by the Syrian Armed Forces. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
• Bangladesh quota reform movement
  • The Bangladesh military clashes with supporters of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina in Gopalganj District, leading to four deaths and many others injured. (AP)
• Herder-farmer conflicts in Nigeria
  • At least 27 people are killed when unidentified gunmen attack a village in Riyom, Plateau State, Nigeria. (BBC News) (AP)
• Spillover of the Somali civil war
  • Al-Shabaab militants claim to have killed three Kenyan soldiers patrolling a road in the east of the country near the Somali border. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pakistan floods
  • Torrential rains in Punjab, Pakistan, kill at least 63 people. (BBC News)
• One person is killed and thirteen others are injured in a lightning strike at an archery range in Jackson Township, New Jersey, United States. (BNO News)
• A tsunami advisory is issued after a Mw 7.3 earthquake strikes the southern coast of Alaska, United States. (WAGA-TV)

International relations

• Pakistan–United Kingdom relations
  • The United Kingdom ends its five-year ban on Pakistani airlines from landing in the UK due to significant improvements in aviation safety standards. (DW) (Dawn)

Law and crime

• Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
  • Puntland counter-terrorism operations
    • The Ethiopian National Intelligence and Security Service detains dozens of suspected Somalian Islamic State militants, whom it alleges were trained and deployed to conduct operations throughout the country, especially in the Cal Miskaad mountains of the Bari region in Puntland. (Reuters)
• Opioid epidemic in the United States, Anti-fentanyl legislation in the United States
  • U.S. president Donald Trump signs into law the HALT Fentanyl Act, reclassifying all fentanyl-related substances, including synthetic drugs, as Schedule I controlled substances. (The Hill)
• Internet censorship in Russia
  • The Russian State Duma introduces new legislation that introduces fines for searching for prohibited material online. The legislation is passed on July 22. (The Washington Post) (Euronews)
• Two people are killed and two others are injured in a mass shooting on a street in Taranto, Italy. (Rai News) (Taranto Today)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Surinamese general election
  • Jennifer Geerlings-Simons is sworn in as the first female president of Suriname. (RFI)
• Cabinet of Benjamin Netanyahu
  • The Shas party quits the Netanyahu cabinet due to disagreements over Haredi Jews conscription exemptions from military service in Israel, but remains in the governing coalition. (Al Jazeera)

2025 July 15

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 99 Palestinians are killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City and the Gaza Strip. (Hazzretz)
• Aftermath of the Syrian civil war
  • Southern Syria clashes, Israeli invasion of Syria
    • Israeli warplanes carry out strikes targeting Syrian government forces as they attempt to enter the Druze-majority city of Suwayda in southern Syria. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims he ordered the strikes for the protection of the Druze from forces aligned with the Syrian transitional government. (Reuters) (The Times)
• Somali Civil War
  • Constitutional crisis in Somalia
    • The Puntland interior ministry reports at least five militant casualties in Dhahar, Haylan region, following a coordinated campaign as Puntland’s defence forces repels an assault backed by the Somali federal government. (Idil News) (Garowe Online)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • At least 12 people are killed in Israeli air strikes in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley. The missiles struck a number of military compounds belonging to the armed group Hezbollah, including training camps affiliated to its elite Radwan Force. These were the deadliest strikes since a ceasefire ended a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• A pick-up truck veers off a road in Pithoragarh, India, and plunges into a 300-meter gorge, killing eight people and injuring five others. (MSN)
• A building under demolition collapses in Kurume, killing two workers. (Kyodo News)

International relations

• Indonesia–United States relations
  • U.S. president Donald Trump announces a new trade deal with Indonesia, where Indonesia will purchase $15 billion in energy and $4.5 billion in agricultural products, along with 50 Boeing jets. Indonesia will also allow importation of U.S. products without tariffs, while the U.S. will maintain a 19% tariff on all goods coming from Indonesia. (Financial Times)

Law and crime

• US airstrikes on Yemen
  • The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany dismisses a case brought about by Yemeni plaintiffs accusing the German government of failing to prevent deaths from US drone strikes on Yemen coordinated from Ramstein Air Base, citing the lack of a “sufficient connection” to the German state’s authority and “a serious danger of systematic violation” of international law. (AP News)
• Protests against Donald Trump
  • Protests against the second presidency of Donald Trump, June 2025 Los Angeles protests
    • The Trump administration announces that it has ordered 2,000 troops from the National Guard to leave Los Angeles after being sent to deal with the protests against the ICE raids. (AP)
• At least 86 guns and 974 rounds of ammunition are recovered in a joint operation by security forces in Manipur amid ongoing ethnic violence in the state. (The Times Of India)

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