Armed conflicts and attacks
Syrian civil war
Anti-Turkish riots occur in Turkish-occupied Northern Syria following anti-Syrian riots in Kayseri, Turkey, yesterday. (SOHR) (Middle East Monitor)
Four people are killed and over 20 are injured as Turkish soldiers open fire against protestors in Afrin, Syria. (Syriahr)
Israel–Hamas war
The Israel Defense Forces order a mass evacuation of Palestinians from the entire eastern half of Khan Yunis and surrounding areas in anticipation of a new ground assault on the city. (AP)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Russia says that it has captured the villages of Novopokrovske in Donetsk Oblast and Stepova Novoselivka in Kharkiv Oblast. (Al Arabiya)
Disasters and accidents
A car driving the wrong way in central Seoul, South Korea, strikes pedestrians waiting at a traffic light, killing nine people and injuring four others. (AP)
An Air Europa Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft experiences severe turbulence while flying from Madrid, Spain, to Montevideo, Uruguay, injuring 40 people and forcing the flight to divert to Natal, Brazil. (BBC News)
At least 89 migrants are killed after their boat, which carried 170 migrants, capsized off the coast of Ndiago, Mauritania. (CNN)
2024 Atlantic hurricane season
Hurricane Beryl makes landfall on the island of Carriacou, Grenada, as a category 4 hurricane. (CNN)
Hurricane Beryl intensifies to a category 5 hurricane, becoming the earliest on record in the basin, and kills at least one person on the Windward Islands. (CNN)