Sunday

July 6, 2025

Armed conflicts and attacks

Middle Eastern crisis

Gaza war

Israeli–Lebanese conflict

Israel conducts four drone strikes in Bint Jbeil, Shebaa, and Shaqra, in southern Lebanon over the weekend, killing one person and injuring several others. (Al Jazeera)

Red Sea crisis

Liberian-flagged bulk carrier Magic Seas is attacked by the Houthis with small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades in the Red Sea forcing the crew to abandon ship, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operation. (NOS) (ABC News Australia)

Boko Haram insurgency

Boko Haram insurgents kill nine people and injure four others in an attack on Mallam Fatori in Borno State, Nigeria. (AP)

Gang war in Haiti

The historic Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is destroyed following an arson attack by armed gangs. (Le Quotidien 509)

Disasters and accidents

A truck and a commercial vehicle carrying passengers collide along the Zaria-Kano expressway in Kano State, Nigeria, killing 21 and injuring three. (AP)

Five Turkish soldiers are killed by methane gas exposure in a cave in northern Iraq during an operation to search for a fellow soldier's remains. (AP)

2025 Karachi building collapse

The death toll from the collapse of a multistory building on Friday in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, rises to 27 as rescuers pull 11 more bodies from the rubble as the three-day rescue operation ends. 10 others were injured in the collapse, of which one died in hospital from their injuries. (CTV News)