- 1 April 2025 – Middle Eastern crisis
- Gaza war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- UNICEF reports that over 332 children have been killed and 609 injured by the new Israeli offensive across the Gaza Strip since the resumption of the war after the breakdown of the 2025 ceasefire. (BBC News) (UNICEF)
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israel–Lebanon ceasefire agreement
- Four people are killed, including Hassan Bdeir, a high-ranking Hezbollah official, and seven others are injured by an Israeli airstrike on a building in Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
- Red Sea crisis
- March 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
- The Houthis claim that they shot down a U.S. military MQ-9 Reaper drone in Marib Governorate, Yemen. (AP)
- 1 April 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- The Russian ministry of defence says that Russian forces have captured Rozlyv [uk] in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Arabiya)
- 1 April 2025 – 2023–2025 Sundhnúkur eruptions
- Seismic activity increases near Grindavík, Iceland, with the Icelandic Meteorological Office reporting that a volcanic eruption has occurred and a earthquake is being registered. People visiting the Blue Lagoon are being evacuated rapidly. (The Watchers)
- 1 April 2025 – 2025 Putra Heights pipeline fire
- At least 305 people are injured after a gas pipeline owned by Petronas explodes and ignites a fire in Putra Heights, Selangor, Malaysia. (Malay Mail)
- 1 April 2025 – Cross-strait relations
- The Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy and Air Force conduct large-scale military exercises around Taiwan. At least 19 Chinese warships are deployed, including the aircraft carrier Shandong, marking its closest ever approach to the island. (The Guardian) (Financial Times)
- 1 April 2025 – Cory Booker's marathon speech
- U.S. Senator Cory Booker delivers the longest filibuster in United States history, breaking the previous record set by Strom Thurmond in 1957. (AP News)
- 1 April 2025 – Private spaceflight
- Fram2
- SpaceX successfully launches first humans to orbit over Earth’s poles. (The New York Times)
- 1 April 2025 – Women's World Chess Championship 2025
- The 2025 FIDE Women's World Chess Championship match between Ju Wenjun and Tan Zhongyi is scheduled to take place from April 1 to 23, across two Chinese cities: Shanghai and Chongqing. (ChessBase)
- 31 March 2025 – Gaza war
- War crimes in the Gaza war
- The bodies of fourteen aid workers killed on March 23 are recovered from a mass grave in southern Gaza. One body had previously been recovered and one more is believed to remain buried. Of the sixteen workers, nine are members of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, six are civil defense workers, and one is a UN agency employee. (CNN)
- 31 March 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kharkiv strikes
- Six Russian drones hit Kyivskyi district of Kharkiv, Ukraine, damaging several buildings and injuring three people. (Ukrainska Pravda)
- 31 March 2025 – Middle Eastern crisis
- The Iranian IRGC Navy seizes two foreign oil tankers in the Persian Gulf and is towing the vessels to the country's Bushehr port, claiming they are part of a "fuel-smuggling network". It is currently unknown what countries the vessels belong to. (Al Arabiya)
- 31 March 2025 –
- Japanese restaurant chain Sukiya orders the temporary closure of almost all of its nearly 2,000 locations in the country after finding a rat and a cockroach in its food. (AP) (CBS News)
- The Caribbean guilder becomes legal tender in Curaçao and Sint Maarten, which will co-circulate alongside its predecessor, the Netherlands Antillean guilder, until 1 July 2025. (NOS)
- 31 March 2025 – 2025 Myanmar earthquake
- The State Administration Council declares a period of national mourning in Myanmar to last until April 6 as the death toll from the earthquake last week rises to over 3,050 people. (AFP via Barron's)
- 31 March 2025 –
- The recovery operation of the U.S. Army M88 vehicle that sank in Lithuanian swamps on Pabradė Training Area finishes after five days. Lithuanian president Gitanas Nauseda says that 3 out of 4 missing Americans are found dead, with the last person still missing. (DW) (LRT)
- Five people are killed and four are injured after an explosion at a coal mine in Degaña, Asturias, Spain. (BBC News)
- Three people are killed in a multiple-vehicle collision involving a bus and a car near Heathrow Airport in Greater London, England. (The Independent)
- 31 March 2025 – Australia–North Korea relations
- The Royal Australian Air Force deploys a long-range maritime patrol aircraft P-8 Poseidon to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, to monitor North Korean maritime activities in the Yellow Sea, including weapons shipments prohibited under international sanctions. (NK News)
- 31 March 2025 – Brazil–Syria relations
- Brazilian police arrest a Syrian consulate employee in Brazil after discovering over 600 smuggled electronic devices and other luxury goods valued at over US$700,000 in his diplomatic vehicle during a highway inspection in Ponta Porã. (G1)
- 31 March 2025 – China–United States relations, Hong Kong–United States relations
- The United States announces sanctions on six Chinese and Hong Kong officials, including head of the national security office Dong Jingwei, accusing them of "transnational oppression and undermining Hong Kong autonomy". (DW)
- 31 March 2025 – Moldova–Russia relations
- The Moldovan foreign affairs ministry expels three Russian diplomats and declares them personae non gratae after accusing the Russian embassy in Chișinău of helping Alexandr Nesterovschi, a pro-Russia politician convicted of corruption, escape to Transnistria. (DW) (The Kyiv Independent)
- 31 March 2025 – Proposed United States acquisition of Greenland, Denmark–United States relations
- Newly elected Prime Minister of Greenland Jens-Frederik Nielsen rules out Greenland joining the United States while he is in office. (AP)
- 31 March 2025 – 2025 Nepalese pro-monarchy protests
- Supporters of former King of Nepal Gyanendra clash with riot police in Kathmandu, Nepal, leaving two people dead and several others injured. (AP)
- 31 March 2025 – Killing of Zvi Kogan
- A court in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, sentences three people to death for killing Israeli-Moldovan rabbi Zvi Kogan in 2024. A fourth accomplice who aided in the murder receives a life sentence. (AP)
- 31 March 2025 – National Rally assistants affair
- National Rally politician Marine Le Pen is convicted of embezzlement and banned from running for political office for five years, meaning she cannot stand in the next French presidential election. (France24)
- 30 March 2025 – Red Sea crisis
- Israel intercepts a ballistic missile fired from Yemen in the eighth Houthi attack since the Israeli Defense Force resumed the Gaza war. The Houthis claim to have launched three attacks with drones, missiles, and naval forces against the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the past 24 hours. (The Times of Israel)
- 30 March 2025 – 2025 Myanmar earthquake
- Structures and infrastructure affected by the 2025 Myanmar earthquake
- The count of the total amount of destroyed ancient pagodas and religious buildings in Myanmar rises to 61, including the previously unreported Four-Storied Monastery in Inwa, Mandalay Region. (NP)
- 30 March 2025 – Severe weather and tornadoes break out in the areas between south Indiana and north east Texas, United States. (The New York Times)
- Three children are killed and three other people are injured after a tree hits their vehicle near Kalamazoo, Michigan. (AP)
- 30 March 2025 –
- A 7.0 Mw earthquake strikes near the island country of Tonga with a 6.1 Mw aftershock. A tsunami warning is issued and later lifted. (AP)
- 30 March 2025 – Middle Eastern crisis
- Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian says that Iran will not have direct negotiations with the U.S. on its nuclear program, but is open for indirect talks to rebuild trust, after U.S. president Donald Trump threatened "bombing" if Iran does not agree to a new nuclear deal. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
- 30 March 2025 –
- A bus driver shoots and kills two passengers on a Miami-Dade Transit bus in Miami Gardens, Florida, United States. (AP)
- 30 March 2025 – German space programme
- The uncrewed German-built Spectrum orbital rocket is launched in Andøya, Norway, becoming the first orbital rocket to launch from mainland Europe. The rocket stays in the air for just over half a minute before striking the ground and exploding. (The Guardian) (VG)
- 29 March 2025 – Middle Eastern crisis
- Gaza war
- March 2025 Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip
- The Israeli Defense Forces launch a new ground offensive on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
- Red Sea crisis
- March 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
- One person is killed and four more are injured by U.S. military airstrikes in the Saada Governorate, Yemen. (Yahoo News)
- 29 March 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kharkiv strikes
- A Russian drone attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine, kills two people and injures 30 others, including five children. A shopping centre, multi-story residential buildings, a medical facility, and an office building were among those targeted. (Ukrainska Pravda)
- 29 March 2025 – Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Ten civilians are killed in an alleged anti-insurgents security operation in Katlang, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The Pakistani government reports that circumstances will be investigated. (AP)
- 29 March 2025 – 2025 Brooklyn Park TBM-700 crash
- A SOCATA TBM-700 crashes into an unoccupied house in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United States, killing everyone on board. (FOX9 News)
- 29 March 2025 –
- One person is killed and four others are injured in an explosion at a factory in İzmir, Turkey. (Caliber)
- 29 March 2025 – Protests against Donald Trump
- Protests against Elon Musk, Protests against the second presidency of Donald Trump
- Protests are held at Tesla dealerships across the United States, Canada, and Europe to protest against DOGE chief and Tesla CEO Elon Musk's role in the second Trump administration. (Taipei Times) (AP)
- 29 March 2025 – Gaza war protests
- Security forces open fire at a pro-Palestine march organized by the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, in Abuja, Nigeria, killing five people and arresting 19 more. A policeman is killed in the subsequent clashes. (AP)
- 29 March 2025 –
- Four people are injured in a stabbing attack in Trondheim, Norway, with the perpetrator being arrested. (Euro Weekly News)
- 29 March 2025 – Second Syrian transitional government
- Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa announces the creation of a new transitional government, following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime. (Reuters)
- 28 March 2025 – 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)
- 28 March 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Dnipro strikes
- A Russian drone attack on Dnipro, Ukraine, kills four people and wounds 19 others. Multiple buildings in the city are reported to be ablaze, including a hotel, resort, a restaurant complex and numerous apartments. (Reuters)
- 28 March 2025 – Red Sea crisis
- 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)
- 28 March 2025 – 2025 Myanmar earthquake
- 2025 Bangkok skyscraper collapse
- An under-construction government office skyscraper collapses in Bangkok, Thailand, killing at least six people and leaving more than 101 others missing and trapped under the rubble. (CTV News)
- A 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Sagaing, Myanmar, with significant damages reported as far away as Bangkok, Thailand. Over 1,000 people are killed in Myanmar and ten more in Thailand. A state of emergency is declared by the Myanmar government. (CNN Live) (NBC News)
- The Ava Bridge in Mandalay Region, Myanmar, partially collapses as a result of the earthquake. (News18)
- 28 March 2025 –
- Russian authorities say that yesterday's sinking of the Sindbad submarine in Hurghada, Egypt, killing six Russians, happened during boarding and not due to a collision as reported. (The National)
- 28 March 2025 – Proposed United States acquisition of Greenland
- U.S. Vice President JD Vance and several other senior Trump administration officials visit the Pituffik Space Base, a United States Space Force facility in Greenland. (NPR)
- 28 March 2025 – Arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu
- Turkish authorities detain Mehmet Pehlivan, a lawyer representing opposition leader Ekrem İmamoğlu in the ongoing investigation, and later release him. (Reuters)
- 27 March 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- North Korea has sent 3,000 more soldiers to bolster Russia’s war on Ukraine, South Korea’s military says. (CNN World)
- 27 March 2025 – Middle Eastern crisis
- Gaza war
- 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)
- Red Sea crisis
- Israel intercepts two ballistic missiles launched by the Houthis from Yemen. (Reuters)
- 27 March 2025 – Haitian crisis
- Gang war in Haiti
- 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)
- 27 March 2025 – Tariffs in the second Trump administration
- 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says a 25% tariff on automotive imports to the United States is a "direct attack" on his country by the Trump administration and vows to respond. (AP)
- Japan confirms it has asked the U.S. for an exemption from the new automotive tariffs, saying the 25% tariff on vehicle imports would have a massive negative impact on its automotive industry. Japan is one of the largest exporters of cars to the United States. (Kyodo News)
- 27 March 2025 –
- The United States suspends financial contributions to the World Trade Organization. (Reuters)
- 27 March 2025 – March 2025 South Korea wildfires, Landmarks destroyed by climate change
- Ongoing climate-exacerbated wildfires in South Korea develop into the worst natural fire disaster in the nation's history after doubling in size over the course of 24 hours, killing at least 26 people and destroying much of the ancient Gounsa temple site. (The Guardian) (Yonhap News)
- 27 March 2025 –
- At least six people are killed and 39 others are rescued after a Sindbad submarine carrying Russian tourists sinks off the Red Sea coast of Hurghada, Egypt. (BBC News)
- Two people are killed, including alpine skier Berkin Usta, and four others are injured in a fire at a ski resort in Uludağ, Turkey. (Metro)
- British environmental activist group Just Stop Oil announces they will end all civil resistance, direct action, and vandalism-related protests immediately and disband by April 26 after the British government announced it will halt the granting of new oil and gas permits. (DW) (Government of the United Kingdom)
- 27 March 2025 – Belarus–European Union relations
- The European Union announces that they have expanded sanctions against Belarus to include the Central Election Commission of Belarus for political repression in the country. (Reuters)
- 27 March 2025 – 2025 Amsterdam stabbing attack
- Five people are wounded in a mass stabbing at Dam Square in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The suspect, 30-year-old Ukrainian citizen from Donetsk is arrested by police, and is being investigated with having a terrorist motive. (Reuters)
- 27 March 2025 – Proposed secession of Republika Srpska
- The government of Bosnia and Herzegovina issues an international arrest warrant for Milorad Dodik, the president of Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, accusing him of repeatedly taking actions that could violate the Dayton Accords. (DW) (AP)
- 27 March 2025 –
- South Sudanese vice president Riek Machar is detained by security forces following an arrest warrant on "unclear charges", according to his spokesperson. The Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition says Machar's arrest has effectively ended the 2018 peace agreement which ended the civil war. (Sky News)
- 27 March 2025 – Crime in Peru
- The home of Luis Villanueva, leader of the Workers' General Confederation of Peru (CGTP), is damaged by an explosive device. Business associations condemned the attack and increased demands on the government to strengthen the fight against organized crime. (La Vanguardia)
- 26 March 2025 – Sudanese civil war
- Battle of Khartoum
- 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)
- 26 March 2025 – 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)
- 26 March 2025 – Colombian conflict
- A motocycle bomb explosion near a police station in Piendamó, Cauca Department, Colombia, injures 19 civilians. (Yahoo News)
- 26 March 2025 – 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)
- 26 March 2025 – Tariffs in the second Trump administration
- U.S. President Donald Trump announces a 25% tariff on all car imports to the U.S. will take effect from April 2. (BBC News)
- 26 March 2025 –
- Tanzania hits Kenya with eggs, sausage, milk taxes. (Business daily Africa)
- 26 March 2025 – 2025 Bolivia floods
- Bolivia declares a national emergency after severe floods kill over fifty people and leave more than 100,000 people displaced from their homes. (Reuters)
- 26 March 2025 – March 2025 South Korea wildfires
- The death toll from the wildfires in Uiseong and Sancheong counties, South Korea, increases to 24, with 19 others injured. (DW)
- 26 March 2025 –
- Four American soldiers go missing during training in the Pabradė Training Area in Lithuania. A search for the soldiers is underway and an investigation has been launched. (Reuters) (USA Today)
- The European Commission issues a new preparedness strategy for citizens of European Union member states to stockpile 72 hours of food, water and essentials for use in the event of an attack or natural disaster. (The Guardian)
- A state of emergency is declared in Slovakia due to foot-and-mouth disease. (Hungary Today)
- 26 March 2025 – International recognition of Kosovo
- Kenya–Kosovo relations
- Kenya formally recognizes Kosovo as an independent sovereign state. (Reuters)
- 26 March 2025 – 2022 Brazilian coup plot
- The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil unanimously votes to bring former president Jair Bolsonaro and seven others as defendants to trial on charges of attempting a coup. (Folha de S.Paulo) (CNN)
- 26 March 2025 –
- German Federal Police carry out raids in six states targeting 17 people suspected to be members of Brigade N'Hamedu, a group advocating against the government of Eritrea by causing violence and disruptions at Eritrean cultural events in Germany. (DW) (Euronews)
- 26 March 2025 – United States government group chat leak
- The Atlantic magazine releases the full text of a Signal group chat involving senior U.S. national security officials about recent strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. In the conversation, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provides exact times of warplane launches, strike packages, and targets. (CBC)
- 26 March 2025 –
- The High Court in Seoul, South Korea, clears Democratic Party of Korea leader Lee Jae-myung of charges of violating election laws, allowing him to run in the next South Korean presidential election, where he is heavily favored to win. (DW) (Maeil Business Newspaper)
- Scientists discover Mongolian dinosaur Duonychus tsogtbaatari. (NBC News)
- 25 March 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 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)
- 25 March 2025 – 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)
- 25 March 2025 – Sudanese civil war
- Darfur campaign
- At least 54 people are killed in a Sudanese military airstrike on a market in Tora village, Darfur, Sudan. (CTV News)
- 25 March 2025 – March 2025 South Korea wildfires
- A wildfire in Uiseong County, South Korea, spreads uncontrollably to the north and east, resulting in at least 16 deaths and forcing tens of thousands of civilians to evacuate. (Yonhap) (AP)
- 25 March 2025 – Aviation accidents and incidents
- Three people are injured when two Alpha Jet planes from the French Air and Space Force aerobatics team Patrouille de France crash after a mid-air collision during rehearsals. (France 24)
- 25 March 2025 –
- A 6.7 magnitude earthquake hits New Zealand causing a tsunami warning to be issued. A tsunami was then spotted in Fiordland. [1]
- 25 March 2025 – 2025 Turkish protests
- Over 1,400 Turkish civilians, including several journalists, are detained for participating in anti-government protests. (CNN)
- 25 March 2025 – Criticism of Unification Church in Japan
- The Tokyo District Court orders the Unification Church to dissolve as a religious organization in Japan. It is the first religious group to be given a revocation order in modern Japanese history. (DW) (AP)
- 25 March 2025 – 2025 Belarusian presidential election
- Incumbent Alexander Lukashenko is sworn in for his 7th term as the President of Belarus after winning 85.7% of the votes in the presidential election in January. (AP) (The New York Times)
- 25 March 2025 – 2025 Gazan anti-Hamas protests
- Thousands of Palestinian men in northern Gaza Strip take part in the largest anti-Hamas protests since the start of the Gaza war, chanting slogans criticizing Hamas and calling for the war's end. (CNN)
- 24 March 2025 – Red Sea crisis
- Airstrike campaign in Yemen
- March 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
- 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)
- 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)
- 24 March 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 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)
- Luhansk Oblast campaign
- 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)
- 24 March 2025 – United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis
- British supermarket chain Morrisons announces that it will permanently close 52 cafés and 17 stores as part of cost-cutting measures, with the loss of at least 365 jobs expected. (BBC News)
- 24 March 2025 –
- American genetic testing company 23andMe files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announces plans to sell its assets. (AP)
- 24 March 2025 – Proposed United States acquisition of Greenland
- Greenlandic prime minister Múte Bourup Egede says a planned visit to the island by senior American officials, including National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and Second Lady Usha Vance, is "highly aggressive" and was designed to "demonstrate power over us". (CNN)
- 24 March 2025 – 2025 Turkish protests
- Over 1,100 Turkish anti-government protesters have been detained since the arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu, with Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan accusing the demonstrations of being a "movement of violence". (Reuters) (The Guardian)
- 24 March 2025 – Impeachment of Han Duck-soo
- The Constitutional Court of South Korea dismisses the impeachment motion of prime minister Han Duck-soo by the National Assembly of South Korea in a 7–1 vote. (Yonhap) (Reuters)
- 24 March 2025 – 2025 Yokneam attack
- One man is killed and another person wounded in a combined ramming, stabbing, and shooting attack by an Israeli Arab assailant at a bus stop in Yokneam Illit, Israel. (Reuters)
- 23 March 2025 – 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)
- 23 March 2025 – Spillover of the Somali Civil War
- 2025 Garissa attack
- 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)
- 23 March 2025 – Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Sixteen Pakistani Taliban gunmen are killed by soldiers in a shootout while attempting to enter in to Ghulam Khan. (AP)
- 23 March 2025 – 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)
- 23 March 2025 – 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)
- 23 March 2025 – 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)
- 23 March 2025 –
- A van crashes into a ravine and catches fire in Nuevo León, Mexico, killing twelve people and injuring four others. The vehicle fire also sparked a small wildfire in the surrounding forest. (Reuters)
- 23 March 2025 – Middle Eastern crisis
- U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz says that the U.S. wants the "full dismantlement" of Iran's nuclear program and that "all options are on the table". (Al Arabiya) (Reuters)
- 23 March 2025 – 2025 Turkish protests, Censorship in Turkey
- A statement by social media company X expresses that it objects to "multiple court orders" from the government of Turkey to block more than 700 accounts belonging to opposition political figures, journalists, news outlets, and student protesters. (BBC News)
- 23 March 2025 – 2025 Turkish protests
- Several hundred thousands of anti-Erdoğan government protesters demonstrate outside of Istanbul City Hall, with the nationwide protests becoming the largest Turkish political demonstration movement in over a decade. (AP)
- 23 March 2025 – 2025 WTA Tour
- 2025 Miami Open
- In tennis, Alexandra Eala becomes the first Filipino player to defeat a top-10 opponent since the WTA rankings began in 1975, after winning in the third round of the Women's singles tournament at the Miami Open against world No. 5 Madison Keys. (The Athletic)
- 23 March 2025 – 2025 CONCACAF Nations League Finals
- In association football, Mexico wins its first Nations League title after defeating Panama 2–1 in the final held at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, United States. (RFI)
- 22 March 2025 – Syrian civil war
- Western Syria clashes
- 2025 massacres of Syrian Alawites
- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reports that thousands of Syrian civilians are still missing following sectarian reprisal massacres committed by Syrian government-affiliated forces that killed at least 1,614 coastal civilians, including many Alawites and Christians. (SOHR)
- The SOHR also reports several efforts by pro-government forces to hide the scale of the atrocities by gathering unaccounted bodies into mass graves, through cremation, or retaining hundreds of unidentified corpses from families. (SOHR)
- 22 March 2025 – Israeli–Lebanese conflict
- Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- Six people, including a child, are killed by Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon in the heaviest exchange of fire since the ceasefire with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah almost four months ago. The strikes were carried out in retaliation for rockets from Lebanon being fired into Israel. (CTV News)
- 22 March 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Zaporizhzhia strikes, Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- An overnight Russian drone attack on Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, kills three people and wounds twelve others. Several apartments in residential areas are targeted during the attack. (AP)
- Pokrovsk offensive
- Russian artillery targets Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast, killing three people and injuring one other person. (Reuters)
- 22 March 2025 – Somali Civil War
- 2025 Shabelle offensive
- At least 100 al-Shabaab militant fighters are killed in a Somali Air Force airstrike in the Lower Shabelle region of the South West State, Somalia. (TRAC)
- 22 March 2025 – Sudanese civil war
- Battle of Khartoum
- The Sudanese Armed Forces say that they seized control of the main headquarters of the central bank from the Rapid Support Forces as it continues to make advances in Khartoum. (Al Jazeera)
- 22 March 2025 – Ethiopian civil war
- Ethiopian National Defense Forces claimed to have killed more than 300 fighters from the Fano armed group in two days of clashes in the northern Amhara region of Ethiopia. (Reuters)
- 22 March 2025 – Fambita mosque attack
- Niger declares three days of national mourning after yesterday's attack in which 44 people were killed in a mosque in Fambita. (Al Jazeera)
- 22 March 2025 – Red Sea crisis
- A ballistic missile disintegrates over Saudi Arabia after being fired by the Houthis from Yemen against Israel. (The Jerusalem Post)
- A de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo cargo plane en route from Dhobley Airport in Lower Juba, Jubaland, to Aden Adde International Airport in Somalia’s capital city, Mogadishu, crashes in the Ceel Xabaaloow settlement in Lower Shabelle, South West State, killing all five Kenyan crew members on board. (Somalia Civil Aviation Authority) (Idil News)
- 22 March 2025 – March 2025 South Korea wildfires
- Three firefighters and a civilian are killed after multiple wildfires sweep across a large forested area in South Korea. (DW)
- 22 March 2025 –
- Foreign ministers from Japan, China, and South Korea meet in Tokyo to discuss cooperation on shared challenges like aging populations and climate change, seeking to improve relations and prepare for a leaders' summit. Japan raises security concerns about North Korea while China criticizes protectionism and the politicization of science. (AP)
- The United States lifts a $10 million dollar reward for information leading to the arrest of Afghan warlord Sirajuddin Haqqani after the Taliban released an American citizen who had been kept in captivity for two years. (Al Jazeera)
- 22 March 2025 – Gaza war
- Gaza war protests in Israel
- More than 100,000 Israelis gather in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and other cities in Israel to demonstrate and demand a deal for the Israeli government and Hamas to release all hostages. The protesters also accuse the Israeli government of working against its people, calling for a right of rebellion and new elections. (NPR)
- 22 March 2025 – 2025 Turkish protests
- Anti-Erdoğan government protests spread to fifty-five of Turkey's eighty-one provinces, with Republican People's Party leader Özgür Özel estimating that over half a million protesters are demonstrating in Istanbul alone. At least 343 protesters are arrested by Turkish police. (France 24)
- 21 March 2025 – Middle Eastern crisis
- Gaza war
- Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
- March 2025 Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip
- Israeli Defense Minster Israel Katz orders the Israel Defense Forces to occupy new areas of the Gaza Strip, and threatens to annex sections of Gaza if Hamas refuses to release all its remaining Israeli hostages. (The Guardian)
- Red Sea crisis
- Israel intercepts a ballistic missile that the Houthis in Yemen claim to have fired at the Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv. (Reuters)
- 21 March 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kursk offensive
- A gas pumping and measuring station in Kursk Oblast, Russia, is set on fire after a major explosion occurs. Russia and Ukraine blame each other for the attack. (Reuters) (Reuters)
- An explosion occurs at an oil depot in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, caused by a fire that has been burning since Tuesday. The fire spreads to another tank and increases to 10,000 m2 (110,000 sq ft), injuring two firefighters. (Reuters)
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