Friday

August 22, 2025

Armed conflicts and attacks

Middle Eastern crisis

Gaza war

Gaza Strip famine

The UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification officially declares a famine in Gaza Governorate in the Gaza Strip, while conditions in the North Gaza Governorate are estimated to be as severe or worse. The Office for Human Rights states that the famine is the direct result of actions taken by the Israeli government, while the Israeli government disputes the report and its methodology. (The New York Times) (OHCHR)

Red Sea crisis

A Houthi ballistic missile breaks up and a Houthi drone is intercepted over southern Israel. (The Times of Israel)

Sudanese civil war

Darfur campaign

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights reports paramilitary attacks in Darfur, Sudan, left 89 civilians dead in 10 days. (AP)

Russian invasion of Ukraine

A naval drone operated by Ukrainian military intelligence explodes in Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai, Russia after being seized by Russian military divers, killing five of them. (MSN)

Three militants who were involved in the Bucha massacre in 2022 are killed and two others are injured in an explosion at a house in Kalynove, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. (MSN)

Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency

Five police officers are killed in a mass shooting by unknown gunmen while patrolling on a highway in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. (AP)

Syrian civil war

Three people are killed, including both attackers, in an Islamic State suicide bombing and shooting at a checkpoint in Deir ez-Zor, Syria. (Shafaq News)

Disasters and accidents

A part of the under-construction Jianzha Yellow River Bridge collapses into the Yellow River on the border of Jainca County, Qinghai, China, killing twelve people and leaving four others missing. (CBS News)

Five people are killed and 49 others are injured, including several airlifted, when a tour bus loses control and overturns on Interstate 90 West in Pembroke, New York, United States. (WIVB-TV) (BNO News)

At least four people are killed and four others are injured in an explosion at a fireworks warehouse in San Miguel Zacaola, Santo Tomás Hueyotlipan, Mexico. (Municipios Puebla)