Wednesday

August 20, 2025

Armed conflicts and attacks

Middle Eastern crisis (2023-present)

Syrian civil war

US intervention in the Syrian civil war

American special forces carry out a raid in Northern Syria and kills an ISIS leader with the reported assistance of Syrian government forces. The slain ISIS leader was purportedly in succession to succeed as the caliph of ISIS's Syrian branch. (Fox News)

Gaza war

Russian invasion of Ukraine

Mexican drug war

The Guatemalan Immigration Institute grants temporary humanitarian status to 161 Mexican nationals, including 92 adults and 69 children from Chiapas, allowing them to remain legally in Guatemala after fleeing cartel-related violence in the border municipality of Frontera Comalapa. (Anadolu Agency)

Disasters and accidents

At least two people are killed and two others are injured in a rockfall on the Égratz Viaduct in Chamonix, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. (Le Dauphiné libéré in French)

One person is killed and 19 others are injured, including three seriously, after a migrant shipwreck is found drifting off the southern coast of Mallorca, Spain. (Euronews)