Armed conflicts and attacks
Gaza war
Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
March 2025 Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip
Hamas announces that an Israeli airstrike killed Salah al-Bardawil, a top member of the group's political bureau. (BBC News)
Hamas says that an Israeli airstrike killed Ismail Barhoum, a member of the group's political bureau, via the operating theater at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis where Barhoum was receiving treatment after sustaining critical injuries in an air strike targeting his home in Khan Yunis last Tuesday. (France 24)
Spillover of the Somali Civil War
At least six police officers are killed and five others are injured in an Al-Shabaab attack on a police reservists camp in Fafi, Garissa, Kenya. Dozens of militants are also killed. (Garowe Online)
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Sixteen Pakistani Taliban gunmen are killed by soldiers in a shootout while attempting to enter in to Ghulam Khan. (AP)
Insurgency in Balochistan
Eight people, including at least four police officers, are killed in two separate mass shootings in Nushki and Kalat District, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Report.az)
Red Sea crisis
The Israel Defense Forces report that they intercepted a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis from Yemen, which triggered sirens across central Israel. (Times of Israel)
March 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
The U.S. military launches air raids across Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen overnight, killing at least four people and injuring 13 others in the capital city Sanaa. (Middle East Eye)
United States government Signal group chat leak
A Signal group chat containing many of President Trump's cabinet, discussing several topics including potential strikes in Yemen, is discovered after journalist Jeffrey Goldberg is accidentally added to it. (CNN)
March 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
At least seven people are injured by U.S. military airstrikes in the Yemeni capital city Sanaa. (Euronews)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Seven people are killed and dozens are injured across Ukraine by overnight Russian drone strikes, including three civilians killed in Kyiv. (CTV News)
Ukrainian troops reportedly recapture the village of Nadiia, Luhansk Oblast. (Kyiv Post)
North Korea has sent 3,000 more soldiers to bolster Russia’s war on Ukraine, South Korea’s military says. (CNN World)
Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian re-occupation of Sumy Oblast
Ninety people are injured, including 17 children, in a Russian missile attack on a hospital, a school, and a residential area in Sumy, Ukraine. (Le Monde)
A Ukrainian artillery strike kills six people, including several journalists from Russia's Izvestia newspaper and Zvezda state media network in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
The United States and Russia conclude talks focusing on a ceasefire for the Black Sea between Kyiv and Moscow. (Reuters)
The United States says that Russia and Ukraine agree to cease all military attacks in the Black Sea to ensure safe passage for commercial shipping, while Russia says that it needs guarantees and an order from the U.S. to Ukraine to respect such a deal. (BBC News) (Reuters)
Syrian civil war
2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) announces that it has documented the names of 1,628 mainly-Alawite Syrian civilians who were killed in sectarian massacres by pro-Syrian government forces, in addition to several more missing civilians and bodies. (SOHR)
Sudanese civil war
At least 54 people are killed in a Sudanese military airstrike on a market in Tora village, Darfur, Sudan. (CTV News)
Sudanese civil war
RSF occupation of the Khartoum International Airport
The Sudanese Armed Forces retakes Khartoum International Airport from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and seizes state institutions in Khartoum captured earlier in the war by the RSF. (Al Arabiya)
Sudanese military leader and Transitional Sovereignty Council Chairman Abdel Fattah al-Burhan declares the liberation of Khartoum from RSF forces after two years of fighting. (France 24)
War against the Islamic State
Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
Puntland counter-terrorism operations
The U.S. military conducts airstrikes targeting ISIS militants in the Golis Mountains as part of a coordinated operation led by AFRICOM. The strikes reportedly kill militants without causing any civilian casualties in militant hideouts located in the Golis Mountains of Puntland's Bari Region. (AFP via 24NEWSHD) (AFRICOM)
Colombian conflict
A motocycle bomb explosion near a police station in Piendamó, Cauca Department, Colombia, injures 19 civilians. (Yahoo News)
Mexican drug war
Two off duty police officers were killed and other kidnapped after were ambushed while traveling on Federal Highway 180D, Cardel-Nautla, in the municipality of Vega de Alatorre. Another member was deprived of his liberty during the ambush.(La Silla Rota)
Middle Eastern crisis
March 2025 Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip
Hamas announces that an Israeli airstrike has killed Abdel Latif al-Qanou, who served as Hamas' spokesman. (Al Arabiya)
Israel intercepts two ballistic missiles launched by the Houthis from Yemen. (Reuters)
Haitian crisis
A Kenyan police officer deployed in Haiti as part of the Multinational Security Support Mission is killed in a suspected gang ambush, according to Haitian authorities. Kenya has confirmed that the officer is missing but has not yet verified his death. (BBC News)
Israeli invasion of Lebanon
2024 Israel–Lebanon ceasefire agreement
The Israel Defense Forces strikes southern Beirut, Lebanon, for the first time since November 2024, violating the ceasefire agreement. (CNN)