Portal:Current events/2023 February 22
February 22, 2023 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- 2023 Nablus clashes
- Eleven Palestinians are killed and 102 more injured when Israeli troops storm Nablus, in the West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
- 2023 Nablus clashes
- Somali Civil War
- Ten people are killed when al-Shabaab gunmen storm a house in Mogadishu where several lawmakers are staying. All four attackers are killed by soldiers. (Reuters)
- Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
- At least 15 soldiers are killed during an ambush in Tin-Akoff Department, Oudalan Province. Several of the attackers are killed in the ensuing gunfight. (Daily Sabah)
Disasters and accidents
- At least five people are killed and 48 others are reported missing following a collapse at a coal mine in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia, China. Search and rescue operations are underway. (Reuters)
- Five people are killed when a Beechcraft BE20 crashes shortly after takeoff near College Station, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. (AP)
- Four people are killed in a plane crash near Trenčianske Stankovce, Trenčín Region, Slovakia. (AP)
International relations
- Moldova–Russia relations, Russia–Transnistria relations
- Russian President Vladimir Putin revokes a 2012 foreign policy decree which underpinned Moldova's sovereignty in resolving the political status of the breakaway Transnistria region. (Reuters)
- Germany–Iran relations
- Germany expels two employees of the Iranian embassy in response to Iran sentencing pro-monarchist dual German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd to death over a 2008 bombing in Iran. (Reuters)