The Weekly Edition

December 14, 2025 to December 20, 2025

Armed conflicts and attacks

2025 Bondi Beach shooting

Two gunmen open fire during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, killing 15 people and leaving 42 others injured. One perpetrator is killed, while the other is arrested. Two bombs are found at the scene and detonated by police. (News.au) (Al Jazeera)

2025 Cambodia–Thailand conflict

Thailand confirms that a rocket launched from Cambodia killed a Thai villager, the first civilian death in Thailand as a result of the ongoing conflict. (AP)

Cambodia accuses Thailand of bombing Poipet on the border and denies the truce previously announced by United States president Donald Trump. (Al Jazeera)

Gaza war

Hamas Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Zamzam is shot and killed by a gunman inside the Maghazi refugee camp in the Deir al-Balah Governorate, Gaza Strip. The perpetrator is arrested. (Palestine Chronicle) (Reuters)

At least six Palestinians are killed when an Israeli tank fires at a wedding hosted in a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)

Israel–Hezbollah conflict

Three people are killed in three separated Israeli airstrikes against vehicles in southern Lebanon. (L'Orient Today)

Syrian conflict

Four security force members are killed and another is injured in a mass shooting when gunmen open fire on a patrol in Idlib, Syria. (TRT World)

War on drugs, Operation Southern Spear

2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers

The United States Southern Command says the U.S. Navy has carried out airstrikes on three alleged drug smuggling vessels in international waters of the Eastern Pacific, killing at least eight people. (Reuters)

The United States Southern Command says the U.S. Navy attacked an alleged drug smuggling boat in the Eastern Pacific, killing at least four people. (AP)

M23 campaign, Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict

2025 Uvira offensive

The March 23 Movement announces that they will withdraw from Uvira, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, following a request from the United States. (Reuters)

Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria, Fulani extremism in Nigeria

At least 12 people are killed and three others are abducted after Fulani gunmen attack a mining site in Plateau State, Nigeria. (Reuters)

Terrorism in Australia

2025 Bondi Beach shooting

The surviving gunman of the attack on Bondi Beach, Australia, is charged with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder and one count of committing a terrorist act. (BBC News)

Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Eight people are killed, including four attackers, and 15 others are injured in a suicide attack by unidentified militants on a military post in North Waziristan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP) (Amu Television)