Portal:Current events/2024 February 26
February 26, 2024 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah clashes
- After Hezbollah shoots down a Hermes 450 drone, Israel conducts airstrikes on Hezbollah positions in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, marking Israel's deepest incursion into Lebanon since the outbreak of hostilities. (Reuters)
- RED-Tabara militants launch an attack in Buringa, Bubanza Province, Burundi, killing nine people and injuring five others. The local headquarters of the ruling CNDD–FDD party is also set on fire. (Actualite)
International relations
- Iran–Israel relations
- The Israeli Air Force announces the establishment of a new department dedicated to monitoring the Iranian Armed Forces. (Jerusalem Post)
- Libya–Sudan relations
- Sudanese military ruler Abdel Fattah al-Burhan meets with Libyan Government of National Unity prime minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh in Tripoli, Libya, to request help in the war in Sudan due to the involvement of Libyan mercenaries. (Sudan War Monitor)
Law and crime
- Presumed illegal loggers kill three forest rangers in the foothills of the Iztaccihuatl volcano in the Mexican state of Puebla. (AP) (El Sol de Puebla)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Tuvaluan general election
- Feleti Teo is elected unopposed as the new Prime Minister of Tuvalu. Incumbent prime minister Kausea Natano lost his bid for re-election during January's general election. (RNZ) (Reuters)
- Enlargement of NATO, Sweden–NATO relations
- The Hungarian parliament approves Sweden's accession into NATO. (BBC News)
- 2024 Hungarian presidential election
- The National Assembly selects Tamás Sulyok as the next President of Hungary. (Reuters)
- Prime Minister of Palestine Mohammad Shtayyeh and the entirety of his government resign from office, amid public unpopularity and pressure from the United States government to reform during the Israel–Hamas war. (CNN)