Tuesday

July 16, 2024

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel–Hamas war

2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah conflict

Two people injured in an IDF drone attack in southern Lebanon.(Al Jazeera)

2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement

Six people are killed during clashes in Bangladesh as opposition demonstrators protesting government job quotas, which benefit pro-government families, clashes with police and pro-government supporters. (Al Jazeera)

2024 Muscat mosque shooting

The Islamic State claims responsibility for the prior day's mass shooting at a Shi'ite mosque in Muscat, Oman. This is the first attack carried out by the Islamic State in the country. (BBC)

Hezbollah–Israel conflict

Three Syrian children are killed by an Israeli airstrike on the village of Umm al-Tut in southern Lebanon, while two others are killed during a strike on the Kfar Tebnit-Khardali road. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

At least 25 people are killed and 17 others are injured when a bus veers off a cliff and crashes in Ayacucho Region, Peru. (Reuters)

Heavy rainfall across the Midwestern United States causes a dam failure in Washington County, Illinois, prompting an immediate evacuation order in the nearby city of Nashville. (USA Today)

A malfunction causes an emergency shutdown of one of the four reactors at the Rostov Nuclear Power Plant in Rostov Oblast, Russia. Background radiation levels are reported as normal. (Reuters)