Portal:Current events/2024 December 19
Appearance
December 19, 2024
(Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Red Sea crisis
- December 2024 Israeli airstrikes in Yemen
- Israel carries out a series of airstrikes against the Houthis in western Yemen, hitting the Ras Isa oil facility, the port of as-Salif and some power stations. At least nine people are killed. (Al Jazeera)
- December 2024 Israeli airstrikes in Yemen
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2024 Parliament of Abkhazia shooting
- A lawmaker is killed and another is injured during a shooting inside the Parliament of Abkhazia. The perpetrator, identified as a fellow lawmaker, has escaped from the scene. (Al Jazeera)
International relations
- Syrian civil war
- 2024 Syrian opposition offensives
- Ahmed al-Sharaa, the emir of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), makes an announcement claiming that the country is exhausted by perpetual warfare and is not a threat to its neighbors or to the Western world. (BBC)
- Iraq announces the repatriation of members of the Syrian Army who fled after the fall of the Assad regime, stationed in Anbar, back to Syria. (Al Arabiya News)
- Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war
- Spy satellites reveal Russian forces mobilizing heavy planes at Khmeimim Air Base and ships at the port of Tartus. (BBC)
- 2024 Syrian opposition offensives
- France's Directorate-General for External Security reports that four French nationals detained in Burkina Faso on allegations of being foreign intelligence agents have been released following mediation by Morocco. (Barron's)
Law and crime
- A Malaysian high court acquits Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Prime Minister Najib Razak, of 12 money laundering and five tax evasion charges due to insufficient evidence. (Reuters)