Portal:Current events/2025 August 21

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
      • At least 70 Palestinians are killed by Israeli airstrikes, including eight people in a house in Sabra suburb in Gaza City. (Reuters)
      • An Israeli military database indicates that 83% of deaths in Gaza have been civilians. The Israeli military initially confirmed the database to the media but later disputed it without clarifying their retraction in response to questions from The Guardian. (The Guardian)
  • Palestinian political violence
    • A Palestinian gunman shoots an Israeli settler who was engaging in shepherding activities in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. (The Jerusalem Post)
• Colombian conflict
  • 2025 August FARC attacks
    • At least six people are killed and more than 60 others are injured in a terrorist car bombing targeting the Marco Fidel Suárez Air Base on a busy street in Cali, Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia. (BBC News) (BNO News)
    • At least 12 Colombian police officers are killed and three others are injured when FARC dissidents shoot down a helicopter during an anti-narcotics operation in Amalfi, Antioquia Department, Colombia. (Euronews) (BNO News)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The Russian Armed Forces conduct a combined attack overnight, launching at least 570 drones and 40 hypersonic, ballistic, and cruise missiles across Ukraine, with two cruise missiles striking an American electronics factory in Mukachevo, Zakarpattia Oblast, injuring over a dozen people. (NPR) (DW)
• War on drugs, United States–Venezuela relations
  • U.S. president Donald Trump deploys three guided-missile destroyers off the coast of Venezuela after the U.S. government authorized military operations against Latin American drug cartels, prompting an escalation of tensions between the United States and Venezuela. (CBS News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Pakistan floods
  • At least 21 people are killed in flooding caused by heavy monsoons in Pakistan, including eleven in Gilgit-Baltistan and ten in Karachi, as the death toll for the flooding season increases to over 400. (Al Jazeera)
• At least 47 people and 300 cattle are killed, 70 others are injured and over 56,000 are displaced during flooding in Niger. (Africanews)
• At least 15 people are killed and ten others are injured in a landslide in Manéah, Kindia Region, Guinea. (Barron's)
• Six people are killed in an accident in a confined space at a dairy farm in Weld County, Colorado, United States. (ABC News)
• At least five people are killed and 34 others are injured, including one critically, in an explosion at a fireworks storage facility in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. (Geo News) (Dawn)

Law and crime

• Shakahola Forest incident
  • Five bodies and ten body parts are recovered and 27 suspected mass graves are discovered at the site of the Good News International Ministries religious cult mass-murder suicide at the Shakahola Forest in Kenya, where over 400 bodies were recovered two years ago. (CTV News)
• Nord Stream pipelines sabotage
  • Italian police arrest a Ukrainian man suspected of coordinating the attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the months that followed the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (CNN) (DW)

Politics and elections

• Polish president Karol Nawrocki vetoes a bill to combine an extension of household energy price freezes with relaxed regulations on building onshore wind farms, arguing that linking the two measures in one law was unacceptable. (Reuters)