Sunday

June 15, 2025

Armed conflicts and attacks

Middle Eastern crisis

2024 Iran–Israel conflict

Iran–Israel war (list of airstrikes)

An Iranian ballistic missile strike on a residential building kills nine people, including three children, and injures over 200 others in Bat Yam, Israel. (The Times of Israel)

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that a Syrian civilian woman was killed after a drone strikes her home in rural Tartus Governorate, Syria, which the group says was likely an Iranian drone. (The Times of Israel)

Gaza war

Gaza war hostage crisis

The Israel Defense Forces confirms that they recovered the body of Israeli hostage Aviv Atzili, who was abducted by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad during the October 7 attacks, in Gaza last Wednesday. (Haaretz)

Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip

Israeli gunfire and airstrikes kill at least 41 Palestinians across Gaza. (RTÉ News)

Rafah aid distribution killings

At least eight people are killed and dozens of others are injured in a shooting near an aid distribution site near Rafah, Gaza. Witnesses attribute the shooting to Israeli forces. (NPR)

Russian invasion of Ukraine

Russia returns the bodies of 1,200 Ukrainian soldiers who were killed in action as part of a prisoner exchange agreement with Ukraine. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

Seven people are killed, including an infant, when a Bell 407 aircraft crashes in a forested area in bad weather while en route to the Kedarnath Temple in Kedarnath, Uttarakhand, India. (The Free Press Journal)

At least six people are killed, 25 are swept away, and 32 others are injured, including six critically, when a bridge over a river collapses at a popular tourist destination in Kundamala, Pune, Maharashtra, India. (Al Arabiya) (CTV News)

2025 Callao earthquake

A Mw6.1 earthquake hits Lima, Peru, killing one person and injuring at least five others. (Agencia EFE)