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Brigitte Haas

• The Patriotic Union, led by Brigitte Haas (pictured), wins the most seats in the Landtag of Liechtenstein.
• In American football, the Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Kansas City Chiefs to win the Super Bowl.
• Former president of Namibia Sam Nujoma dies at the age of 95.
• A series of boycotts against retail stores expands to several countries in Southeast Europe.
• The 49th imam of Nizari Isma'ilism, Aga Khan IV, dies at the age of 88 and is succeeded by his son Aga Khan V.

Ongoing:

• M23 campaign
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
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• Sudanese civil war
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Recent deaths:

• Edith Mathis
• Gyalo Thondup
• Louis-Gaston Mayila
• Beverly Byron
• Dick Jauron
• Hans-Peter Lehmann

February 14, 2025 (2025-02-14) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kivu conflict
  • M23 campaign, Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
    • 2025 Bukavu offensive
      • M23 rebels and Rwandan troops seize control of Kavumu Airport in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (DW)
      • M23 forces and Rwandan troops enter the city of Bukavu, according to local security and humanitarian officials. There are no reports of resistance as most Congolese troops withdraw. (Digital Journal)
      • Congolese president Félix Tshisekedi cancels his participation in an upcoming African Union summit to end the conflict due to the "situation on the ground". Tshisekedi accuses Rwanda of invading the country to seize the country's mineral-rich regions. (RFI)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant drone strike
    • A drone strikes the New Safe Confinement structure housing the site of the Chernobyl disaster. Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy states that a Russian combat drone caused significant damage to the structure, but did not produce an increase in external radiation levels. (CNN)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • At least eleven coal miners are killed and seven others are wounded after a bomb hit a truck in Harnai, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera) (The Express Tribune)

Disasters and accidents

• At least six people are killed and seven injured in a fire at a construction site in Busan, South Korea. (Al Jazeera)

Science and technology

• A neutrino detector submerged in the Mediterranean Sea detects a ghost neutrino particle that is 30 times more active than previously found. (AP)

February 13, 2025 (2025-02-13) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kivu conflict
  • M23 campaign
    • 2025 Bukavu offensive
      • M23 rebels capture Kalehe Territory and Ihusi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, leading to several civilian casualties and the mass evacuation of residents. (BBC Gahuza)
• War against the Islamic State
  • Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
    • Puntland counter-terrorism operations
      • More than thirty IS–Somalia fighters are killed in airstrikes on positions in the Sheebaab area of the Cal Miskaad mountains in northern Bari Region, Puntland, Somalia. (Hiiraan Online) (Anadolu Agency)
• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza war ceasefire, Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Hamas says it will resume the release of hostages according to the terms of the ceasefire and hostage release deal with Israel. (CBS News)
• 2025 Munich car attack
  • At least 28 people are injured by a vehicle-ramming attack during a demonstration by the ver.di trade union in Munich, Germany. Police arrest the vehicle's driver, a 24-year-old Afghan man who is a failed asylum seeker, at the scene. (Sky News) (New Arab)

Business and economy

• German economic crisis
  • German automotive manufacturer Porsche announces it will cut 2,000 jobs over the next five years, reducing its workforce by 15%, primarily affecting its assembly plants in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen and Weissach in Baden-Wurttemberg. (DW)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Taichung Shin Kong Mitsukoshi gas explosion
  • Four people are killed and thirty-two others are injured by a gas explosion at a Shin Kong Mitsukoshi department store in Taichung, Taiwan. (Central News Agency)
• At least 21 people are injured, including 10 seriously, in a fire inside of a costume factory in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha)
• Three people are dead and 114 fall ill, including two in critical conditions, after a gastroenteritis outbreak at four hospices in Florence, Italy. (Ansa)
• At least one person is killed and three others are injured by an explosion at the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing compound in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Taliban government alleges that it was a suicide attack, while no party has claimed responsibility. (DW)

International relations

• International Criminal Court arrest warrants for Israeli leaders
  • The United States Treasury Department sanctions Karim Ahmad Khan, the top prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, over his decision to investigate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant regarding their conduct during the Gaza war. (U.S. Treasury Department)

Law and crime

• Investigations into the Eric Adams administration
  • Acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon and five other U.S. Justice Department officials resign after being ordered by the second Trump administration to drop a federal corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. (CNN)
• The Royal Thai Army announces that 260 foreigners have been rescued from online scam centers in Myanmar near the two countries' border, where they were trafficked to and forced to work in. (AP News)

Politics and elections

• Second cabinet of Donald Trump
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services by a Senate vote of 52–48. (NPR)

February 12, 2025 (2025-02-12) (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Kyiv strikes
      • Russian forces launch an overnight ballistic missile attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, killing one person and injuring four others. (Reuters)
    • United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
      • After holding a telephone call with Russian president Vladimir Putin, U.S. president Donald Trump says negotiations to end the war will start immediately. (CNN) (Euronews)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Darfur campaign
    • The Rapid Support Forces storm the Zamzam Refugee Camp in North Darfur, Sudan, the country's largest displacement camp. The situation inside the camp, which holds around 500,000 people, is described as "catastrophic", with an unknown number of casualties. (BBC News)
• Students–People's uprising
  • United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk reports that over 1,400 people were killed last year during violent crackdowns on protests against the government of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by the military and police, with over 78% of the casualties having been shot. (DW)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Hamburg train accident
  • The casualty total from yesterday's collision between an Intercity Express train and a semi-trailer truck in Hamburg, Germany, increases to one person killed and 25 injured. (EuroWeekly)
• A fishing trawler capsizes off South Korea's Jeju Island, with five crew members reported missing. Five others are rescued by the Korea Coast Guard. (AP)

International relations

• Russia–Sudan relations
  • Sudanese foreign minister Ali Yousif Sharif reports that an agreement has been reached for the creation of a Russian naval base in Sudan. (Al Arabiya)

Law and crime

• Foreign relations of the United States
  • Belarus–United States relations
    • U.S. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announces that Belarus has released three detainees, including an American citizen. (Al Arabiya)
  • Russia–United States relations
    • The Trump administration agree to send convicted money launderer Alexander Vinnik back to Russia in exchange for the release of American teacher Marc Fogel, who was serving a 14-year sentence for entering the country with 17 grams of medical cannabis. (Reuters) (NBC News)
• 2025 Grenoble attack
  • A man throws a grenade into a bar in Grenoble, France, injuring 15 people, some of whom in critical conditon.(Times Now)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Greek presidential election
  • Konstantinos Tasoulas is elected President of Greece by the Hellenic Parliament in the fourth and final round of the presidential election. (Ekathimerini)
• Senate's President Ilie Bolojan becomes acting President of Romania following Klaus Iohannis' resignation on 10 February. (Reuters)

February 11, 2025 (2025-02-11) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kivu conflict
  • M23 campaign
    • 2025 Bukavu offensive
      • Rwandan-backed M23 rebel forces initiate advances towards Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), following a two-day unilateral ceasefire. (Al Jazeera)
  • Ituri conflict
    • CODECO insurgents kill at least 52 people and injure eight others in attacks across Ituri Province, DRC. At least 30 civilian homes were burned down during the attacks, according to Radio Okapi. (Anadolu Ajansi)
• War against the Islamic State
  • Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
    • Puntland counter-terrorism operations
      • At least 27 Puntland soldiers and more than 70 ISIL militants are killed or wounded in fighting around the Togga Jacel area of the Cal Miskaad mountains in Puntland’s Bari Region. This is the deadliest attack since Puntland launched an offensive in December 2024 against Islamic State in Somalia hiding in the Golis Mountains. (VOA) (Reuters) (Garowe Online)
• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza war ceasefire, Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that if Hamas does not release Israeli hostages by noon on Saturday, the ceasefire will end and the IDF will resume offensive operations in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
• Islamic State–Taliban conflict
  • Five Taliban members are killed and seven others are injured during a suicide bombing outside New Kabul Bank in Kunduz, Afghanistan. (Arab News)

Arts and culture

• The accession ceremony is held for Prince Rahim al-Hussaini as the 50th Imam of Nizari Isma'ilism, succeeding his late father Aga Khan IV. (Islamabad Post)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Hamburg train accident
  • Twelve people are injured, including two critically, when an Intercity Express train collides with a semi-trailer truck in Hamburg, Germany. (AP)

International relations

• Foreign relations of South Korea, Foreign relations of Syria
  • The South Korean Foreign Ministry announces that the country will move to establish diplomatic relations with Syria. (Korea Herald)
• Jordan–United States relations
  • King Abdullah II of Jordan meets U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington D.C. for talks focusing on the president's proposal for the removal of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and a subsequent United States takeover of the region, with President Trump threatening to withhold aid from Jordan and Egypt if they do not agree to the proposal. (ABC News)
• Russia–United States relations
  • Russia releases U.S. citizen Marc Fogel, after talks with Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff. (The New York Times)

Law and crime

• Antisemitism in Australia, Clinical incidents in Australia
  • Two nurses in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia are stood down after claiming on video that they allegedly both refused to treat and intentionally mistreated Israeli patients. (The Guardian)
• Belarus–European Union border crisis
  • The European Court of Human Rights says it will consider three cases involving irregular migrants allegedly having been pushed back across the border into Belarus from EU countries. (Forbes)
• Italian police arrest around 150 people across Sicily in the biggest anti-Mafia raid since 1984. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• Politics of Vanuatu, 2025 Vanuatuan general election
  • Jotham Napat is elected Prime Minister of Vanuatu by parliament. Napat, who received 50 votes, was elected unopposed. (RNZ Pacific)
• Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States announce sanctions on a Russian bulletproof hosting services provider that is allegedly ignoring law enforcement requests, along with two Russians who are operating the network. (AP)
• The Government of Spain announces it will grant residency and work permits to up to 25,000 immigrants affected by the floods in the Valencian Community in 2024. (AP)

Science and technology

• Google Calendar confirms it has removed Black History Month, Pride Month and other cultural events from its service, saying the holidays were "not sustainable" for Google's new business model which is rolling back an emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). (The Guardian)

Sports

• 2025 Asian Winter Games
  • South Korea at the 2025 Asian Winter Games
    • Biathlete Ekaterina Avvakumova wins the first gold medal for South Korea in biathlon at the Asian Winter Games. (Korea JoongAng Daily)

February 10, 2025 (2025-02-10) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza War
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • 2025 Gaza war ceasefire
      • Hamas delays the release of further hostages under the ceasefire agreement, accusing Israel of violating the ceasefire. (BBC News)
    • United States support for Israel in the Gaza war
      • In response to Hamas' announcement, U.S. President Donald Trump issues an ultimatum, saying that if all remaining hostages are not released by Saturday then "all hell will break loose" in the Middle East. (Sky News)
• War against the Islamic State
  • Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
    • Puntland counter-terrorism operations
      • Puntland forces announce that, over the past 24 hours, airstrikes targeting Islamic State hideouts have killed more than 13 foreign militants in the Dhasaq area of Bari Region, Puntland. (Anadolu Agency)

Business and economy

• Second Trump tariffs
  • United States President Donald Trump signs an executive order imposing a 25% tariff on all aluminium and steel imports. (NBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Guatemala City bus crash
  • A bus veers off a bridge and falls into a ravine in Guatemala City, Guatemala, killing 56 people and seriously wounding others. The government declares three days of national mourning. (CBS News) (Prensa Libre)
• One person is killed and four others are injured when a Learjet 35A aircraft veers off the runway and crashes into a Gulfstream G200 aircraft at Scottsdale Airport in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States. (The Arizona Republic) (KNXV-TV)

International relations

• North Korea–South Korea relations, Korean conflict
  • South Korea opposition leader Lee Jae-myung calls for renewed dialogue talks with North Korea and emphasizes the need to maintain strong military readiness amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula. (NK News)

Law and crime

• 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
  • Police in Bangladesh arrest over 1,300 people amid riots and pro-Sheikh Hasina protests. (DW)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Romanian presidential election
  • Romanian President Klaus Iohannis announces his resignation. (DW)
• Artificial Intelligence Cold War, 2025 in artificial intelligence
  • French President Emmanuel Macron tells major world leaders gathered at an AI summit in Paris that France is "back in the AI race". His remarks came following the announcement that the country would be receiving AI private investments worth a total of €109 billion (US$112 billion) over the coming years. (France 24) (The New York Times) (AP)

February 9, 2025 (2025-02-09) (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • 2024–25 Tyre airstrikes
      • Six people are killed and two others are wounded in Israeli airstrikes near Jannata, South Governorate, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza war ceasefire
    • According to ceasefire terms, the Israel Defense Forces fully withdraw from the Netzarim Corridor as Palestinians return to northern Gaza. (DW)
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war
    • Two women are killed by Israeli forces in the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm Governorate, West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
• Libyan crisis
  • Authorities uncover two mass graves containing nearly 50 bodies of refugees in Kufra, Libya. (Al Jazeera)
• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • Thirty-one Maoist militants and two security forces are killed during a shootout around Indravati River in Chhattisgarh, India. (Al Jazeera)
• Mexican drug war
  • At least five bodies are abandoned under a bridge near Cárdenas, Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico. A banner allegedly signed by the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel was found at the crime scene. (Milenio Noticias)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Sri Lanka blackouts
  • A nationwide blackout occurs in Sri Lanka. Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody says a monkey triggered the mass power outage after "coming into contact" with a grid transformer at a substation near Colombo. (BBC News)
• One person is killed and at least 28 others are missing in a landslide in a village near Yibin, Sichuan, China. (Al Jazeera) (Miami Herald)
• Five people are injured when a Green Line train collided with an out-of-service train in Somerville, Massachusetts, causing both trains to derail. (WWLP)

International relations

• Baltic states synchronization with CESA
  • Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania join the Continental Europe Synchronous Area, one day after disconnecting from the IPS/UPS. (BBC News)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Egypt announces it will host an emergency summit of the Arab League on 27 February to address U.S. President Donald Trump's proposal to resettle all Palestinians from Gaza. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Ecuadorian general election
  • Citizens of Ecuador vote to elect a president and the members of the National Assembly amidst the country's security crisis. With around 44% of the popular vote each in the presidential race, incumbent Daniel Noboa and challenger Luisa González will compete in a run-off vote on 13 April. (Al Jazeera) (BBC News)
• 2025 Kosovan parliamentary election
  • Citizens of Kosovo vote to elect the members of the Kuvendi. (BBC News)
• 2025 Liechtenstein general election
  • Citizens of Liechtenstein vote to elect the members of the Landtag, with the Patriotic Union winning the most votes and its leader Brigitte Haas expected to become the country's first female head of government. (SRF)

Sports

• Super Bowl LIX
  • In American football, the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Kansas City Chiefs, 40–22, to win their second Super Bowl, thereby denying the Chiefs of a three-peat. (WCAU-TV)

February 8, 2025 (2025-02-08) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza war ceasefire, Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Three more Israeli hostages are freed by Hamas as part of the January 19 ceasefire deal. (Saudi Gazette)
• Syrian civil war
  • Hezbollah–Syria clashes
    • Four people are killed in border clashes between Syrian Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham and Lebanese clans. (Al-Monitor)
• Afghan conflict
  • Republican insurgency in Afghanistan
    • The Afghanistan Freedom Front claims responsibility for a attack on a Taliban convoy in the Afghanistan province of Takhar, killing three people and injuring two. (Afghanistan International)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Escárcega bus crash
  • At least 41 people are killed when a bus collides with a semi-trailer truck in Escárcega, Campeche, Mexico. (Noticieros Televisa) (Reuters)
• A 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes the Caribbean Sea southwest of the Cayman Islands. (CNN)

International relations

• Baltic states synchronization with CESA
  • Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania disconnect from the IPS/UPS synchronous transmission grid in order to synchronize with the Continental Europe grid. (BBC News)
• Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
  • A crisis summit is held involving the regional blocs SADC and the EAC, along with Rwandan President Paul Kagame. The DR Congo is represented by Prime Minister Judith Suminwa, while President Félix Tshisekedi attends virtually. The blocs call for a ceasefire and negotiations involving the M23 movement, while the Congolese do not comment. (BBC News) (CNN)
• United States and the International Criminal Court, Executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump
  • International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan becomes the first person to have economic and travel sanctions placed on him by the U.S. government following an executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump intended to target the war crimes tribunal over investigations of U.S. citizens or allies. (The Times of Israel)

Politics and elections

• A new government is formed in Lebanon, with former International Court of Justice president Nawaf Salam as the new prime minister, following two years of the country under a caretaker government. (AP)

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Disasters

• Avian flu outbreak
• Haitian crisis
• United States opioid epidemic

Economics

• Balkan retail boycotts
• Canadian economic crisis
• Chinese property sector crisis
• German economic crisis
• Iranian energy crisis
• Moldovan energy crisis
• United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis

Politics

• Georgian constitutional crisis
• Somali constitutional crisis
• Venezuelan political crisis

Protests and strikes

• Georgian post-election protests
• Gaza war protests
• Mozambican post-election protests
• Serbian anti-corruption protests

Weather

• Australian region cyclone season

• Cyclone Zelia

Elections and referendums

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• January

• 29–30: Ireland, Seanad (indirect)

• February

• 06: Greece, President (3rd; indirect)
• 07: Turks and Caicos Islands, Parliament
• 09: Kosovo, Assembly
• 09: Liechtenstein, Landtag
• 09: Switzerland, Referendum
• 09: Ecuador, President (1st), National Assembly
• 12: Greece, President (4th; indirect)

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• 15: Abkhazia, President
• 18: Bermuda, House of Assembly
• 23: Germany, Bundestag
• 26: Anguilla, House of Assembly

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• Kosovo:0Specialist Chambers
• South Korea:0Yoon Suk Yeol
• ICC:0Ali Kushayb  •  Mahamat Said Abdel Kani

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• 2023–25 ICC World Test Championship

• Golf

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• Ice hockey

• 2024–25 NHL season
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• Rugby union

• 2025 Six Nations Championship

• Tennis

• 2025 ATP Tour
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Recent deaths

February

• 13: Jim Guy Tucker
• 11: Margarita Forés
• 11: Moses Lim
• 10: Peter Tuiasosopo
• 09: Tom Robbins
• 08: Dick Jauron
• 08: Sam Nujoma
• 07: Dafydd Elis-Thomas
• 07: Tony Roberts
• 06: Virginia Halas McCaskey
• 05: Irv Gotti
• 04: Aga Khan IV
• 02: Brian Murphy
• 02: Barbie Hsu
• 01: Horst Köhler
• 01: Fay Vincent

January

• 30: Dick Button
• 30: Marianne Faithfull
• 30: Julius Chan
• 30: Edcel Lagman
• 29: Salwan Momika
• 29: Vadim Naumov
• 29: Evgenia Shishkova
• 29: Richard Williamson
• 25: Gloria Romero
• 24: Iris Cummings
• 22: Barry Michael Cooper
• 21: Mauricio Funes
• 21: Garth Hudson
• 20: Cecile Richards
• 20: John Sykes
• 19: Jeff Torborg
• 18: Claire van Kampen
• 17: Jules Feiffer
• 17: Didier Guillaume
• 17: Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat
• 17: Denis Law
• 16: Joan Plowright
• 16: Bob Uecker
• 15: Paul Danan
• 15: David Lynch
• 15: Melba Montgomery
• 15: Linda Nolan
• 14: Arthur Blessitt
• 14: Tony Slattery
• 13: Oliviero Toscani

Ongoing conflicts

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• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Cameroon

• Anglophone Crisis

• Central African Republic

• Civil war

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Kivu conflict

• Ethiopia

• Amhara conflict

• Mozambique

• Insurgency in Cabo Delgado

• Nigeria

• Boko Haram insurgency

• Sahel insurgency

• Mali War

• Burkina Faso
• Niger

• Somalia

• Civil war

• Sudan

• Civil war

Americas

• Mexico

• Mexican drug war

Asia−Pacific

• Afghanistan

• Islamic State–Taliban conflict
• Republican insurgency

• India

• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

• Myanmar

• Civil war

• Pakistan

• Insurgency in Balochistan
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

• Philippines

• NPA rebellion

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine

• Russian invasion of Ukraine

Middle East

• Israel

• Gaza war

• Israeli invasion of Lebanon

• Syria

• Israeli invasion of Syria

• Turkey

• PKK insurgency

• Yemen

• Red Sea crisis

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

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