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On 31 July 2022, Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the Salafi jihadist group al-Qaeda, was killed by a United States drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Al-Zawahiri was one of the planners of the September 11 attacks against the United States. He succeeded Osama bin Laden as leader of al-Qaeda after bin Laden was killed... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ayman_al-Zawahiri | armed_conflict | null |
On 17 January 2022, the Houthi movement in Yemen conducted an attack using drones and ballistic missiles on the United Arab Emirates, targeting three oil tanker trucks and under-construction airport extension infrastructure in Abu Dhabi. Although several missiles and drones were intercepted, 3 civilians were killed and... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Abu_Dhabi_attack | armed_conflict | null |
On the night of January 28-29, 2023, several unidentified drones attacked an ammunition factory in Isfahan, with other unexplained explosions across Iran, including a fire in an oil refinery in Tabriz and reports of explosions and fire in Karaj.
Israel gave no comment, but the Mossad was implicated by most Western int... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Iran_drone_attacks | armed_conflict | null |
On February 8, 2022, Félix Tshisekedi, the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, reported a coup d'état. The reports of a coup emerged when Tshisekedi was attending the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, of which he is the chairperson. The reports caused Tshisekedi to leave the summit early to deal with ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_allegations | armed_conflict | null |
On 12 September 2022, a series of clashes erupted between Armenian and Azerbaijani troops along the Armenia–Azerbaijan border, marking a major escalation in the current border crisis between Armenia–Azerbaijan and resulting in nearly 300 deaths and dozens of injuries on both sides by 14 September. The event represents ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2022_Armenia%E2%80%93Azerbaijan_clashes | armed_conflict | null |
On 8 January 2023, following the defeat of then-president Jair Bolsonaro in the 2022 Brazilian general election and the inauguration of his successor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a mob of Bolsonaro's supporters attacked Brazil's federal government buildings in the capital, Brasília. The mob invaded and caused deliberate ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_January_Bras%C3%ADlia_attacks | armed_conflict | null |
Since April 2023, there has been a civil war in Sudan between two factions of the country's military government. The conflict involves the internationally recognized government controlled by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and consisting of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Republican... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_civil_war_(2023%E2%80%93present) | armed_conflict | null |
On 23 June 2023, the Wagner Group, a Russian private military company, staged an uprising against the Russian government. It marked the climax of the Wagner Group–Ministry of Defense conflict, which had begun about six months earlier. Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, who had been leading Wagner Group activities in U... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group_rebellion | armed_conflict | null |
During and after the 2022 Brazilian general election, a network of members of former president Jair Bolsonaro's government and of the Brazilian Armed Forces planned to subvert the transition of power to newly elected president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, arrest Supreme Federal Court (STF) justice Alexandre de Moraes and... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%932023_Brazilian_coup_plot | armed_conflict | null |
On 22 September 2023, headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet at Sevastopol was attacked by Storm Shadow/SCALP cruise missiles launched by Su-24s of the Ukrainian Air Force. As a result, the headquarters building was partially destroyed. The strike was part of the war resulting from the ongoing Russian invasion of ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_strike_on_the_Black_Sea_Fleet_headquarters | armed_conflict | null |
In the morning of 6 September 2023, a missile struck an open market in downtown Kostiantynivka, Ukraine. The strike left at least 15 people dead, including a child and a couple in their 50s who were selling flowers at the market, and at least 32 wounded. An investigation by The New York Times suggested that the missile... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2023_Kostiantynivka_missile_strike | armed_conflict | null |
On 19 August 2023, Russian military forces launched an Iskander-M ballistic missile at the Taras Shevchenko Theater in downtown Chernihiv, Ukraine.
== Events ==
The theater was hosting an exhibition on the use of consumer drones in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, titled "Lyuti Ptashky" (Angry Birds), which was descr... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2023_Chernihiv_missile_strike | armed_conflict | null |
On 5 October 2023, the Russian Armed Forces launched an Iskander ballistic missile at residents gathered in a memorial service at a shop and cafe in Hroza, Kupiansk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, killing 59 and injuring at least 7 others. Among those killed in the airstrike was a six-year-old boy. The attack took pla... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hroza_missile_attack | armed_conflict | null |
On November 3, 2023, Russian forces launched a missile strike on the award ceremony of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade in the village of Zarichne, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. According to various reports, between 19 and 28 Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 53 were wounded as a result of the attack.
== Strike ==
On Novem... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_strike_on_the_award_ceremony_of_the_128th_Mountain_Assault_Brigade | armed_conflict | null |
In the early morning hours of 29 December 2023, Russia launched what was seen to be the largest wave of missiles and drones yet seen in the Russo-Ukrainian War, with hundreds of missiles and drones hitting the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other cities across the country. At least 58 people were reported to have been kill... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/29_December_2023_Russian_strikes_on_Ukraine | armed_conflict | null |
During the night of 28 April 2023, around 4 a.m., Russia launched more than 20 Kh-101/X-101 long range missile strikes against residential buildings in Uman, Ukraine, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 23 civilians were killed, including three children, while nine were injured. Uman was located 200 miles away from... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Uman_missile_strike | armed_conflict | null |
On 30 December 2023, during the Russo-Ukrainian war, explosions occurred in the city of Belgorod, Russia, killing at least 25 people and wounding over 100. Russian sources said the explosions were shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Ukraine attributed the explosions to the work of Russian air defence.
Russia also r... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_December_2023_Belgorod_shelling | armed_conflict | null |
In February 2023, Ukrainian and Moldovan officials unveiled what they claimed were Russian plans to orchestrate an overthrow of the Moldovan government. The existence of the coup plan was first alleged by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Moldovan president Maia Sandu subsequently revealed details of the plan.
... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Moldovan_coup_attempt_allegations | armed_conflict | null |
On 31 July 2023, Sierra Leonean authorities detained an undetermined number of soldiers and civilians who were allegedly planning a coup in Sierra Leone between 7 and 10 August against the government of Julius Maada Bio. While not explicitly using the term "coup," the police expressed their concern that despite ongoing... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Sierra_Leone_coup_plot | armed_conflict | null |
On 26 September 2023, dissidents of the Burkina Faso Armed Forces attempted to overthrow the ruling military junta led by Ibrahim Traoré, who came to power a year earlier.
== Coups of 2022 ==
In a previous coup in January 2022, Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba overthrew the government of Roch Marc Christian Kaboré due to ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Burkina_Faso_coup_attempt | armed_conflict | null |
On 30 November 2023, clashes broke out in Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau, between government forces and units of the National Guard who had released two ministers accused of corruption from detention. The clashes led to the arrest of National Guard commander Colonel Victor Tchongo. President Umaro Sissoco Embaló ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Guinea-Bissau_clashes | armed_conflict | null |
On 11 August 2022, 5 people were killed and more than 100 injured in widespread protests in the cities of Hargeisa, Burao, and Erigavo after negotiations between the Somaliland government and opposition parties broke down, with the latter accusing Somaliland president Muse Bihi Abdi and his officials of purposely findi... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Somaliland_protests | armed_conflict | null |
Canadian rapper Drake and American rapper Kendrick Lamar have been involved in a rap feud since 2013, when Drake responded to Lamar's verse on the Big Sean song "Control". It escalated in 2024 with Lamar's lyrics in the song "Like That".
The two began on favorable terms in 2011. In 2013, Lamar dissed Drake, among many ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake%E2%80%93Kendrick_Lamar_feud | armed_conflict | null |
The Bryant–Wagner brawl was an altercation at an National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's college basketball game between the home team Bryant Bulldogs and visiting Wagner Seahawks on March 8, 2022 during the 2022 Northeast Conference championship game. The championship game would determine the ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryant%E2%80%93Wagner_brawl | armed_conflict | null |
The 2022 Russian military exercise controversy concerns proposed military exercises in the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Ireland in international waters but within Ireland's exclusive economic zone from 3 to 8 February 2022. The exercise was to involve both the Russian Navy and Russian air force. The planned exercises we... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_military_exercise_in_the_Irish_EEZ_controversy | armed_conflict | null |
The rivalry between Yevgeny Prigozhin, the then-head of the Wagner Group, and Sergei Shoigu, a member of the leadership of the Russian Federation Ministry of Defence (MoD), began in 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine which ultimately led to the Wagner Group rebellion on the 23rd and 24th of June 2023.
Accordin... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group%E2%80%93Russian_Ministry_of_Defence_conflict | armed_conflict | null |
In July 2022, an outbreak of gang violence occurred in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, leaving 89 people dead and over 74 injured.
== Background ==
Since the late 2010's Haiti has suffered a growing epidemic of gang violence and gang-related activity, especially in the capital of Port-au-Prince. The gang viole... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Port-au-Prince_gang_battles | armed_conflict | null |
On 13 August 2023, the Ethiopian National Defense Force launched a drone strike on the town of Finote Selam, in the West Gojjam Zone of Amhara Region in Ethiopia which killed 30 people while injuring more than 55 people who underwent emergency treatment. The strike was occurred after the ENDF recaptured several towns i... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finote_Selam_drone_strike | armed_conflict | null |
On 3 December 2023, 100 individuals took part in a protest named 守護民主台灣大遊行 123別印來 (lit. 'A Great Protest of Protecting Taiwan: 123 Don't Come In') in Taiwan, which called for a halt to the importation of Indian migrant workers. The protest took place during the discussion of a memorandum of understanding between Taiwan... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Taiwanese_anti%E2%80%93Indian_migrant_worker_protest | armed_conflict | null |
The 2022 Muhammad remarks row began on 27 May 2022, when Nupur Sharma, a spokeswoman of India's ruling party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), made derogatory remarks about the Islamic prophet Muhammad in reply to derogatory remarks about the Hindu god Shiva, made by her on-panel Muslim adversary, during a Times Now debat... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Muhammad_remarks_controversy | armed_conflict | null |
The Planaltina sex case refers to the case where the (unnamed) wife of personal trainer Eduardo Alves had sex with a homeless man, subsequently leading Eduardo to beat him. The fact occurred on March 9, 2022, in Planaltina, in the Federal District of Brazil, and had national repercussions.
== Case ==
On the night of ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planaltina_sex_case | armed_conflict | null |
On June 8, 2023, clashes broke out at a UNMISS-run refugee camp in Malakal, South Sudan between two different groups of civilians. At least 13 civilians were killed and 20 more were injured in the clashes.
== Background ==
Malakal is home to a United Nations-run refugee camp that houses at least 50,000 people displac... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Malakal_refugee_camp_clashes | armed_conflict | null |
The 2023 Sinaloa unrest or The Second Black Thursday began on January 5, 2023, following the arrest of Ovidio Guzmán, son of jailed drug lord Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, sparking a wave of violence in the state of Sinaloa. In retaliation for the arrest of Ovidio Guzmán, cartel members blocked highways with burning vehic... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Sinaloa_unrest | armed_conflict | null |
On 5 October 2023, a Syrian military graduation ceremony at the Homs Military Academy was targeted by a drone strike, killing at least 112+ people and injuring 277+ others. The attack followed increased clashes in the 'De-escalation Zone' located in northwestern Syria. The perpetrator of the attack is currently unknown... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Homs_drone_strike | armed_conflict | null |
At the beginning of February 2022, a dispute pertaining to school uniforms was reported in the Indian state of Karnataka, when some Muslim students of a junior college who wanted to wear hijab to classes were denied entry on the grounds that it was a violation of the college's uniform policy which was also followed by ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Karnataka_hijab_row | armed_conflict | null |
In December 2023, students from various universities in Aceh, Indonesia, protested and rioted against Rohingya refugees. The protests took place at the Balee Meuseuraya Hall in Banda Aceh.
== Background ==
The Rohingya are a stateless Muslim minority from Myanmar. They have been described by news outlets as one of t... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Banda_Aceh_anti-Rohingya_protest | armed_conflict | null |
The 2023–2024 Spanish protests against Catalan amnesty were a series of protests which began in October 2023, resulting from the announced negotiations of then-acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez's Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) with former president of the Government of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont's Together ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%E2%80%932024_Spanish_protests | armed_conflict | null |
The American ticket sales platform Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation Entertainment were met with widespread public criticism and political scrutiny over blunders in selling tickets to the 2023 United States leg of the Eras Tour, the sixth concert tour by Taylor Swift, in November 2022. Media outlets have ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift%E2%80%93Ticketmaster_controversy | armed_conflict | null |
The Karnataka textbook controversy arose in May–June 2022 after Government of Karnataka made changes to the books used by the government schools in Karnataka. They have been accused of reflecting the political views of BJP, the party in power in the Government of Karnataka.
== 'Burn the chaddi' campaign ==
In June 20... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnataka_textbook_controversy | armed_conflict | null |
The 2023–2024 German farmers' protests were a series of nationwide protests and road blockages in Germany organized by farmers and agricultural unions from 18 December 2023 until March 2024. The subjects of the protests were the abolition of tax breaks on farmers and other policies of the federal government under the S... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%E2%80%932024_German_farmers%27_protests | armed_conflict | null |
The Kapiraya conflict (Indonesian: Konflik Kapiraya) is an ongoing boundary dispute in Central Papua between the regencies of Deiyai, Mimika, and Dogiyai. It is centered around administrative boundaries in the Kapiraya area, split between the three regencies. The region is inhabited by the Mee and Kamoro tribes.
Altho... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapiraya_conflict | armed_conflict | null |
On 7 December 2022, 25 members of a suspected far-right terrorist group were arrested for allegedly planning a coup d'état in Germany. The group, called Patriotic Union (German: Patriotische Union), which was led by a Council (German: Rat), was a part of the German far-right extremist Reichsbürger movement. The group a... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_German_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_plot | armed_conflict | null |
The 2022 São Tomé and Príncipe coup d'état attempt was an attempted coup d'état that is reported to have taken place on the island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe overnight on 24–25 November 2022.
At a press conference held on 25 November, the nation's prime minister, Patrice Trovoada, said that the country's armed fo... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe_coup_attempt | armed_conflict | null |
A coup d'état was attempted in Guinea-Bissau on 1 February 2022. A few hours later, president Umaro Sissoco Embaló declared the coup over, he said that "many" members of the security forces had been killed in a "failed attack against democracy".
The president Umaro Sissoco Embaló told the AFP news agency in a telephone... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Guinea-Bissau_coup_attempt | armed_conflict | null |
The 2022 Gambian coup attempt was a military coup d'état attempt which took place in The Gambia on 20 December 2022. Reportedly, some soldiers attempted to overthrow the government of President Adama Barrow. Four soldiers were arrested on suspicion of involvement. The Gambian military initially denied that any such cou... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Gambian_coup_attempt | armed_conflict | null |
On 15 December 2023, three Israeli hostages were killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the Battle of Shuja'iyya in the Gaza Strip. The men had emerged from a building and were approaching a group of IDF soldiers when they were shot dead, in spite of the fact that they were shirtless and visibly unarmed while... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Alon_Shamriz,_Yotam_Haim,_and_Samer_Talalka | armed_conflict | null |
On 24 February 2022, during the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, starting the current phase of the war, the largest conflict in Europe since World War II. By April 2022, the invasion's initial goal of a rapid Russian victory via decapitation had failed, with Ukraine pushing back th... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine | armed_conflict | null |
On the evening of 20 April 2023, a Russian Su-34 strike fighter accidentally dropped a bomb on the Russian city of Belgorod near the border with Ukraine. The Russian authorities acknowledged the fact of the bombing, declaring the destruction in the city and the injury of three people.
== Background ==
Bordering Ukrai... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Belgorod_accidental_bombing | armed_conflict | null |
On 17 October 2023, an explosion took place in a courtyard of al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City during the Gaza war, resulting in a large number of displaced Palestinians seeking shelter there being killed or injured.
International media initially reported that over 500 Palestinians were killed according to the Gaza H... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ahli_Arab_Hospital_explosion | armed_conflict | null |
The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian militant group Hamas led a surprise attack on Israel, in which 1,195 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed and 251 we... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war | armed_conflict | null |
With the beginning of mobilization in Russia, anti-war and anti-mobilization protests broke out in Chechnya, Dagestan and other regions of the Russian Caucasus.
On 25 September 2022, mass protests took place in the capital of Dagestan, Makhachkala, which ended in fights with the police and dispersal.
== History ==
... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_North_Caucasian_protests | armed_conflict | null |
In early June 2023, during the Russo-Ukrainian war, Ukraine launched an offensive (commonly, although technically incorrectly, referred to as a "counteroffensive") against Russian forces occupying its territory with a goal of breaching the front lines. Efforts were made in many directions, primarily in Donetsk and Zapo... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Ukrainian_counteroffensive | armed_conflict | null |
A military counteroffensive was launched by Ukraine on 29 August 2022 to expel Russian forces occupying the southern regions of Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts.
Military analysts consider the counteroffensive to be the third strategic phase of the war in Ukraine, along with the concurrent eastern counteroffensive, after t... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Kherson_counteroffensive | armed_conflict | null |
On 6 September 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a major counteroffensive against the Russian military during the Russo-Ukrainian war. As Ukraine announced the start of the Kherson counteroffensive in southern Ukraine in late August, Ukrainian forces also began a second counteroffensive in early September in K... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Kharkiv_counteroffensive | armed_conflict | null |
In September 2022, a military engagement took place near Lyman, Ukraine, during a major Ukrainian counteroffensive in Kharkiv Oblast. By 30 September, Ukrainian forces had closed in on the city after crossing the Siverskyi Donets River, advancing along Lyman's southern and eastern flanks while capturing land northwest ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman_front_of_the_2022_Kharkiv_counteroffensive | armed_conflict | null |
On 16 March 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces bombed the Mariupol theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine. It was used as an air raid shelter during the siege of Mariupol, sheltering a large number of civilians. The estimations of the number of deaths that occurred due to the bombing have vari... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariupol_theatre_airstrike | armed_conflict | null |
On 3 March 2022, 47 people were killed in a series of airstrikes in Chernihiv by Russian forces during the siege of the city, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch described the strikes as a war crime.
== Attack ==
On 3 March 2022, just after 12:00 (UTC+2), six unguided ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_March_2022_Chernihiv_bombing | armed_conflict | null |
On February 28, 2022, a series of rocket strikes by the Russian Armed Forces killed 9 civilians and wounded 37 more during the battle of Kharkiv, part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Russian Army used cluster munition in the attack. Due to the indiscriminate nature of these weapons used in densely populated are... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2022_Kharkiv_cluster_bombing | armed_conflict | null |
On 9 March 2022, the Russian Air Force bombed Maternity Hospital No. 3, a hospital complex functioning both as a children's hospital and maternity ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, killing at least four people and injuring at least sixteen, and leading to at least one stillbirth.
Ukrain... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariupol_hospital_airstrike | armed_conflict | null |
On 21 March 2022 during the battle of Sumy, a Russian airstrike damaged one of the ammonia tanks at the Sumykhimprom plant, contaminating land within a 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) radius including the villages of Novoselytsia and Verkhnia Syrovatka. Due to the direction of the wind, the city of Sumy was largely unaffected ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumykhimprom_ammonia_leak | armed_conflict | null |
The Stanytsia Luhanska kindergarten bombing was an event directly preceding the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine. It was shelling of a kindergarten in Stanytsia Luhanska on 17 February 2022 which injured three people, and left half the town without electricity. It was performed by separatists shortly before the invasio... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanytsia_Luhanska_kindergarten_bombing | armed_conflict | null |
The September 2022 Donetsk attack was the shelling of civilian infrastructure facilities on the Baku Commissars Square in Donetsk, as a result of which, according to Russian-backed mayor Alexey Kulemzin, 13 people were killed.
Local authorities stated that nine 150 mm shells were used, targeting Kuibishevsky District o... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2022_Donetsk_attack | armed_conflict | null |
On 29 July 2022, Russian Armed Forces shelled a building housing Ukrainian prisoners of war in a Russian-operated prison in Molodizhne near Olenivka, Donetsk Oblast as a false flag operation during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, killing 53 to 62 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) and leaving 75 to 130 wounded. The pri... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olenivka_prison_massacre | armed_conflict | null |
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Lviv and Lviv Oblast have been targeted by Russian attacks. The targets are civilian and military, including electricity, railway infrastructure, and an army base. At least 68 civilians have been killed.
== Timeline ==
=== 2022 ===
==== February ====
In Lviv... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv_strikes_(2022%E2%80%93present) | armed_conflict | null |
The Red Sea crisis is an ongoing armed conflict and maritime crisis instigated by the Houthis, an armed group in Yemen. The Houthis began launching missiles and armed drones at Israel in response to the Gaza war, and have seized or attacked dozens of merchant and naval vessels travelling through the Red Sea which they ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea_crisis | armed_conflict | null |
On 13 May 2023, while performing in Beijing, Chinese stand-up comedian Li Haoshi (Chinese: 李昊石; pinyin: Lǐ Hàoshí) used a Chinese military slogan ("capable of winning battles, and have good style") to praise his pet dogs. For these remarks, he was accused of insulting the People's Liberation Army (PLA). Li and the come... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Haoshi_controversy | armed_conflict | null |
During the Sinquefield Cup in September 2022, a controversy arose involving the chess grandmasters Magnus Carlsen, then world champion, and Hans Niemann. Carlsen, after surprisingly losing in their third-round matchup, dropped out of the tournament. Many interpreted his withdrawal as Carlsen tacitly accusing Niemann of... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsen%E2%80%93Niemann_controversy | armed_conflict | null |
A crackdown on gangs began in El Salvador on 27 March 2022 in response to a series of homicides committed by criminal gangs between 25 and 27 March 2022 which killed 87 people. After the killings, the Salvadoran government declared a state of emergency that suspended several constitutional rights and enabled the govern... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvadoran_gang_crackdown | armed_conflict | null |
On 24 February 2022, as part of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military crossed the Russia–Ukraine and Belarus–Ukraine borders into northern Ukraine, entering the oblasts (regions) of Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, and Zhytomyr. The Russian operations in northern Ukraine were initially launched as an attempt... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_front_of_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine | armed_conflict | null |
In 2023, a controversy arose in Indonesia over the import of used Japanese electric multiple units for use in the Commuterline network.
KAI Commuter, intending to import additional used Japanese trains to replace old rolling stock and expand the capacity of the network, failed to secure approval from a number of gover... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Indonesian_used_train_import_controversy | armed_conflict | null |
As part of the Red Sea crisis, Houthi attacks on commercial vessels have occurred in the Red Sea.
Houthi forces began attacking shipping vessels affiliated with Israel passing through the Red Sea on 19 November 2023. By February, 40 vessels had been attacked. Global shipping companies, which had typically sailed throug... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthi_attacks_on_commercial_vessels | armed_conflict | null |
A viewbot is an automated software script used to artificially inflate the view count of live streams or videos, often with the intent to mislead audiences and advertisers about a content creator’s popularity. Tools such as a Kick View Bot are specifically designed for platforms like Kick, enabling users to generate fa... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viewbot | armed_conflict | null |
In August and September 2022, Leicester, England, saw a period of religious and ethnic tension between predominately British Hindus and British Muslims of South Asian origin. The unrest saw rioting, protest marches, sloganeering and ethnic violence between the two populations. It was also preceded by social media campa... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Leicester_unrest | armed_conflict | null |
The 2022 Wellington protest was an anti-mandate and anti-lockdown occupation of the grounds of Parliament House and Molesworth Street in Central Wellington during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The occupation springboarded off the New Zealand Convoy 2022, a mass convoy of vehicles that made its way from the top of ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Wellington_protest | armed_conflict | null |
On May 31, 2023, shelling from the El Shajara neighborhood of Khartoum hit the neighborhood of Mayo, south of Khartoum, Sudan, during the Battle of Khartoum. Eighteen to 27 people were killed, and over 100 were injured. The shelling resulted in the largest single-event death toll since the war began on April 15.
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Towards the end of October 2023, several violent antisemitic riots occurred in the North Caucasus region of Russia. The riots occurred during the Gaza war, a conflict which caused an increase in antisemitic incidents in various parts of the world.
== Background ==
A few days before the events at Makhachkala Airport, ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_antisemitic_riots_in_the_North_Caucasus | armed_conflict | null |
Cyberwarfare is a component of the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine since the Revolution of Dignity in 2013–2014. While the first attacks on information systems of private enterprises and state institutions of Ukraine were recorded during mass protests in 2013, Russian cyberweapon Uroburos had been around sinc... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_cyberwarfare | armed_conflict | null |
On 1 October 2022, a fatal crowd crush occurred following an association football match at Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang Regency, East Java, Indonesia. Following a loss by home side Arema to their rivals Persebaya Surabaya, around 3,000 Arema supporters invaded the pitch. Police said that the rioting supporters attacked... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanjuruhan_Stadium_disaster | armed_conflict | null |
On 20 June 2023, a prison riot broke out in the Women's Center for Social Adaptation, a women's prison located in Támara, Honduras, about 29 km (18 mi) northwest from Tegucigalpa, the nation's capital. The riot is suspected to be the result of a conflict between female members of the MS-13 and 18th Street gangs. Forty... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A1mara_prison_riot | armed_conflict | null |
On 30 December 2023, Houthi forces in the Gulf of Aden attacked the Maersk commercial vessel Maersk Hangzhou. Early the next day, Houthis again attacked the Maersk Hangzhou, attempting to board the freighter. The Maersk Hangzhou made a distress signal, to which U.S. Navy forces of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eis... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_the_MV_Maersk_Hangzhou | armed_conflict | null |
The Bucha massacre (Ukrainian: Бучанська різанина, romanised: Buchanska rizanyna; Russian: Резня в Буче, romanised: Reznya v Buche) was the mass murder of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war by the Russian Armed Forces during the fight for and occupation of the city of Bucha as part of the Russian invasion of Ukra... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre | armed_conflict | null |
According to multiple national governments, international organisations, independent experts and media outlets, Russia and its ally Belarus are committing genocide against the Ukrainian people as part of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War, including the Russian annexation of Crimea, the War in Donbas, and especially in th... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_genocide_of_Ukrainians_in_the_Russo-Ukrainian_war | armed_conflict | null |
On 9 October 2023, Israel intensified its blockade of the Gaza Strip when it announced a "total blockade", blocking the entry of food, water, medicine, fuel and electricity after the October 7 attacks and the ensuing Gaza war. The blockade has been credited with contributing significantly to the Gaza genocide. Israel h... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip_(2023%E2%80%93present) | armed_conflict | null |
The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war. It encompasses mass killings, deliberate starvation, infliction of serious bodily and mental harm, and prevention of births. Other acts include blockading, des... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide | armed_conflict | null |
The Darfur genocide, also known as the second Darfur genocide, is an ongoing series of persecutions and mass killings of non-Arabs in Darfur carried out by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allies during the Sudanese civil war. The genocidal campaign started on 15 April 2023 in conjunction with civil war between t... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_genocide_(2023%E2%80%93present) | armed_conflict | null |
The Uber Files are a leaked database of Uber's activities in about 40 countries from 2013 to 2017 leaked by former senior executive Mark MacGann, who admits being "partly responsible", and published by The Guardian on 10 July 2022, which shared the database of more than 124,000 files with the International Consortium o... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber_Files | armed_conflict | null |
In May 2023, at the direction of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) of Singapore began an investigation of ministers K. Shanmugam and Vivian Balakrishnan of the People's Action Party (PAP) and their rentals of state-owned bungalows at 26 and 31 Ridout Road respectively. An... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridout_Road_rentals | armed_conflict | null |
Beginning in November 2023, a scandal involving the misuse of campaign funds by members of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan's conservative Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai and Shisuikai factions became public after it was revealed the faction had failed to report over ¥600 million in campaign funds and stored them in illeg... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%E2%80%932024_Japanese_slush_fund_scandal | armed_conflict | null |
The Qatar corruption scandal at the European Parliament, also known as Qatargate, is a cash-for-influence investigation into several Members of the European Parliament and their associates, who are accused of accepting cash and gifts from Qatar and Morocco in return for promoting the interests of those countries in the... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_corruption_scandal_at_the_European_Parliament | armed_conflict | null |
The bankruptcy of FTX, a Bahamas-based cryptocurrency exchange, began in November 2022. The collapse of FTX, caused by a spike in customer withdrawals that exposed an $8 billion hole in FTX's accounts, served as the impetus for its bankruptcy. Prior to its collapse, FTX was the third-largest cryptocurrency exchange by ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_of_FTX | armed_conflict | null |
The Battle of Bucha was part of the Kyiv offensive in the Russian invasion of Ukraine for control of the city of Bucha. The combatants were elements of the Russian Armed Forces and Ukrainian Ground Forces. The battle lasted from 27 February to 31 March 2022 and ended with the withdrawal of Russian forces. The battle wa... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bucha | armed_conflict | null |
The Battle of Sievierodonetsk was a military engagement in the wider battle of Donbas of the eastern Ukraine campaign during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The city of Sievierodonetsk acted as the administrative center of unoccupied Luhansk Oblast prior to the invasion. By May 2022, Sievierodonetsk and the neighbouri... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sievierodonetsk_(2022) | armed_conflict | null |
During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone was captured on 24 February, the first day of the invasion, by the Russian Armed Forces, who entered Ukrainian territory from neighbouring Belarus and seized the entire area of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant by the end of that day. On 7 March,... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Chernobyl | armed_conflict | null |
The Snake Island campaign was a period of Russian occupation and military conflict for Snake Island, a small, strategically located Ukrainian island in the Black Sea. On 24 February 2022, the first day of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Navy attacked Snake Island and captured it along with its entire ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_Island_campaign | armed_conflict | null |
The Battle of Antonov Airport, also known as the Battle of Hostomel Airport, was a military engagement which occurred at Antonov Airport in Hostomel, Kyiv Oblast, during the Kyiv offensive of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
On 24 February 2022, a few hours after the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin announced the be... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antonov_Airport | armed_conflict | null |
The Siege of Chernihiv was a military engagement in the city of Chernihiv, in Chernihiv Oblast in the north of Ukraine. It began on 24 February 2022, as part of the northern Ukraine offensive, during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 4 April 2022, Ukrainian authorities stated that the Russian military had left C... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Chernihiv | armed_conflict | null |
The Battle of Kharkiv was a military engagement that took place from February to May 2022 in and around the city of Kharkiv in Ukraine, as part of the eastern Ukraine offensive during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Kharkiv, located just 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of the Russia–Ukraine border and a predominately Russ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kharkiv_(2022) | armed_conflict | null |
The Battle of Kherson took place on 1 March 2022 on the southern front of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Russian forces captured the city on 1 March 2022 after brief combat with local territorial defense fighters, and then began a military occupation of the city.
The fall of Kherson was a major defeat for Ukraine; Kherson wa... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kherson | armed_conflict | null |
The siege of Mariupol began on 24 February 2022, as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and lasted until 20 May. It saw fighting between the Russian Armed Forces (alongside the Donetsk People's Republic People's Militia) and the Ukrainian Armed Forces for control over the city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine. ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Mariupol | armed_conflict | null |
The Battle of Pisky was a series of military engagements for control of the ghost town of Pisky, located just outside of the city of Donetsk, between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the allied separatist Donetsk People's Republic during the battle for Donbas of the eastern... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pisky | armed_conflict | null |
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