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List of ongoing armed conflicts. Map of ongoing armed conflicts (number of combat-related deaths in current or previous year): Major wars (10,000 or more) Wars (1,000–9,999) Minor conflicts (100–999) Skirmishes and clashes (1–99) The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world.
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The war began when Hamas-led militant groups launched a surprise attack on Israel on 7 October, which involved a rocket barrage and a few thousand militants breaching the Gaza–Israel barrier and attacking Israeli civilian communities and military bases. During this attack, 1,139 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed, including 815 civilians.
Kamala Harris, the 49th and incumbent vice president of the United States, announced her 2024 campaign for president on July 21, 2024, after President Joe Biden withdrew his bid for reelection and endorsed her earlier the same day. Harris became the official nominee on August 5 [ 12] and selected Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate ...
See also: Red Sea crisis. These are monthly timelines of the Red Sea crisis, which began on 19 October 2023. Houthi (green) attacks on commercial shipping in the Bab-el-Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden as of 4 December 2024. The Red Sea is northwest and the Gulf of Aden eastward; Djibouti is southwest.
I. Insurgency in Chad (2016–present) 2024 Iran–Israel conflict. Israel–Hamas war. Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)
June. 5 June – 2024 Beirut US embassy shooting: Three alleged members of ISIS attack the U.S embassy in the Awkar suburb of Beirut. The Lebanese Army captures one suspect, who is of Syrian nationality, and kills another. [ 28] 6 June – Hezbollah strikes an Iron Dome battery in Ramot Naftali, Israel.
The 2024 Washington summit was the 33rd summit of the heads of state and government of the thirty-two members of the NATO, their partner countries and the EU, which took place in Washington, D.C., United States, on 9–11 July 2024. [ 2] The summit commemorates the landmark 75th anniversary of NATO, which was founded on 4 April 1949 with the ...