Portal:Current events/2024 March 1

March 1, 2024 (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Syrian civil war
- Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
  - An Israeli airstrike in Baniyas, Syria, kills three people, including an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps official. (Al Jazeera)
Mexican drug war
- Four Mexican soldiers are killed by an improvised explosive device in a trap near Aguililla, Michoacán, Mexico. The soldiers were inspecting a camp, likely used by cartel members, when they stepped on an anti-personnel mine set in the underbrush. (AP)
War in Amhara
- Intense fighting between the Fano militia and the Ethiopian government breaks out in Bahir Dar, the capital of the Amhara Region. (The East African)
At least eight people are injured when a suspected homemade bomb explodes in a cafe in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. (Reuters)

International relations

Haitian crisis
- The G9 gang launches an offensive in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, with its leader Jimmy Chérizier announcing the aim of capturing Haiti's cabinet officials and police chief. Four police officers are killed in a shooting outside a police station. (AP)
- Kenyan president William Ruto announces an agreement with Haiti to deploy 1,000 police officers as part of a mission approved by the United Nations to combat gang violence in the Caribbean nation. (Reuters)

Law and crime

A soldier kills four people in a spree shooting in Scheeßel and Bothel, Lower Saxony, Germany, before being arrested. (AP)
Nineteen people, including six children, are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack in Szczecin, Poland. (Barron's)
Iranian Grammy winner Shervin Hajipour is sentenced to up to four years in jail and is ordered to write anti-American music. (RFE/RL)

Politics and elections

Entertainment

Death of Akira Toriyama
- Japanese manga artist Akira Toriyama has passed away at age 68. He is praised as one of the most influential and famous artists in the history of manga. He is most commended for the creation of the anime series, Dragon Ball.