Portal:Current events/2025 March 16

March 16, 2025 (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Red Sea crisis
- March 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
  - The Houthi health ministry announces that the death toll from yesterday's strikes by the U.S. in Yemen rose to 53, with 98 injured. (BBC)
- The Houthis claim that they targeted USS Harry S. Truman with 18 rockets and drones. No damage has been reported. (Al Jazeera Arabic)
Insurgency in Balochistan
- Eleven people are killed and 21 more are injured in a suicide bombing targeting a Frontier Corps convoy on a highway in Nushki, Balochistan, Pakistan. The Balochistan Liberation Army claims responsibility, claiming they killed 90 security personnel. (India Today) (WION)

Disasters and accidents

Kočani nightclub fire
- At least 59 people are killed and more than 152 others are injured after a fire breaks out in a nightclub during a concert in Kočani, North Macedonia. (Al Jazeera)
Tornado outbreak of March 13–16, 2025
- The death toll from the tornadoes across several states in the U.S. increases to 40. (ABC News)
At least 16 people are killed and 18 others are injured when an unexploded ordnance from the Syrian civil war explodes and causes a building to collapse in Latakia, Latakia Governorate, Syria. (AP) (DW)
The Wilhelmina Tower in Valkenburg, Netherlands, built in 1906 and designated a Rijksmonument, collapses. (NOS)

Politics and elections