Tuesday

August 26, 2025

Armed conflicts and attacks

Colombian conflict

August 2025 FARC dissidents clashes

Colombian defense minister Pedro Sánchez reports that at least 34 soldiers have been kidnapped by armed civilians in Guaviare after clashes with dissident factions of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia that killed eleven fighters, including a commander, on Sunday. (Al Jazeera)

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war

Israeli forces carry out a daytime raid on Ramallah in the West Bank, wounding at least 58 Palestinians with gunfire and tear gas. (AP)

Arts and culture

France repatriates three colonial-era skulls from the National Museum of Natural History in Paris to Madagascar under a 2023 law enabling the restitution of human remains, marking the first such handover between the two countries. (Reuters)