Armed conflict and attacks
The Congolese Army launches an offensive against FDLR rebels in South Kivu. (AP via ABC News)
Military intervention against ISIL
John Key, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, announces plans to deploy up to 143 New Zealand Defence Force personnel to Iraq on a training mission to last no more than two years. (New Zealand Herald)
A wave of bombings in Baghdad kills at least 37 people. (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates that ISIL kidnapped at least 150 people from Assyrian Christian villages in Syria in a series of February 23 raids. (Reuters)
War in Donbass
Up to 75 British Armed Forces personnel will be sent as military advisors to the Ukrainian Army. (PA via Wandwsorth Guardian)
Boko Haram
Chadian soldiers kill over 200 Boko Haram fighters in a clash near the town of Garambu, close to Nigeria's border with Cameroon. One Chad Army soldier is killed and nine wounded. (Reuters)
Suicide bombers target two crowded bus stations in Potiskum and Kano in northern Nigeria, killing at least 27 people in nearly daily violence in the embattled region. There is no claim of responsibility for either blast, but both bore the hallmarks of militant group Boko Haram. (Voice of America)
Business and economy
Barack Obama, the President of the United States, vetoes a bill approving the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline between Canadian oil sands and refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. (Los Angeles Times)