Tuesday

March 8, 2016

Armed conflicts and attacks

Spillover of the Syrian Civil War

Mortar shells fired from Syria kill at least one person and injure another in the Turkish border town of Kilis. (Reuters)

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Three terror attacks are reported that result in the deaths of four Palestinians and an American tourist with 12 Israelis wounded, including two Israeli policemen, as United States Vice President Joe Biden arrives in Israel for a two-day visit that includes meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.One of the attacks occurred less than a kilometer from where Joe Biden was at the time. (AP via WWTV) (AP via ABC News) (CNN)

The deceased American is Taylor Force, a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army officer from Lubbock, Texas, who was in the first year of an MBA program at Vanderbilt University. Force was part of a 33-person Vanderbilt group that was in Israel to study global entrepreneurship. (CNN) (Houston Chronicle)

Spillover of the Libyan Civil War

Tunisia's army and security forces kill another five suspected terrorists in an operation near the Libyan border. (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Military intervention against ISIL

The United States military says ISIL's so-called minister-of-war, Abu Omar al-Shishani, né Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili, appears to have been killed in a U.S. air strike near the town of Al-Shaddadi in Syria. (Reuters via msn.com)

Arts and culture

International Women's Day is celebrated. The International Women’s Day theme for 2016 is "Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality". (The Washington Post)