Portal:Current events/2025 October 15

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
    • Pakistan claims that it killed at least 15 Taliban members in an airstrike in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan. The Taliban claims that twelve civilians are killed and over 100 are injured. Both countries also claim that they killed several soldiers during a shootout. (BBC News)
    • Pakistan carries out two airstrikes against Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. The target and the result are unknown. After the attack, both countries agree to a 48-hour ceasefire. (BBC News)
• Gaza war
  • Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Hamas returns two more hostages' bodies to the Red Cross, with 19 still in Gaza despite the Gaza peace plan's deadline last Monday. Donald Trump also states Israel may resume fighting if he believes Hamas does not uphold their part of the agreement. (AP)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Kupiansk offensive, Humanitarian impacts of the Russo-Ukrainian war
    • Ukrainian authorities order mass evacuations across 40 settlements and towns in northeastern Kharkiv Oblast, citing the worsening situation around the city of Kupiansk. (Reuters)
• Papua conflict
  • Fourteen people are killed by Indonesian soldiers during a six-hours battle with Free Papua Movement separatists in Intan Jaya Regency, Central Papua. The army claims that all of those killed were militants, while the group claims that nine civilians and three militants are among the dead. (AP)
• Ecuadorian conflict
  • Explosive devices detonate on two bridges in Ecuador. No casualties are reported. (Reuters)
• Haitian conflict
  • Doctors Without Borders announce that they are permanently closing their offices in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, due to safety concerns. (AP)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Six Pakistani soldiers and nine Pakistani Taliban gunmen are killed in a shootout in Orakzai District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Reuters)
• United States–Venezuela relations, 2025 US Caribbean naval deployment, United States involvement in regime change in Latin America
  • The United States reportedly greenlights covert operations in Venezuela targeting president Nicolás Maduro. (The New York Times)

Disasters and accidents

• Ten people are killed and 21 others are injured, including four critically, in an explosion on a crude palm oil tanker docked at a shipyard on Batam Island, Indonesia. (AP) (Marine Insight)

International relations

• Cambodia–South Korea relations, Scam centers in Cambodia
  • South Korea issues a blanket travel ban on its citizens to parts of Cambodia known for its scam centers, alleging that over 200,000 foreign nationals are working in these centers, including 1,200 South Koreans. (DW) (South China Morning Post)
• Russo-Ukrainian war, Russia–United Kingdom relations, International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian war
  • The United Kingdom imposes new sanctions on Russian major energy companies Lukoil and Rosneft. (RBC-Ukraine)

Law and crime

• International Criminal Court investigation in the Philippines
  • Judges at the International Criminal Court dismiss Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor in the case against former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, due to links between Khan and some victims of Duterte's alleged crimes, whom Khan represented prior to Duterte's arrest. (AP)
• Nord Stream pipelines sabotage, Italy–Ukraine relations, Germany–Italy relations
  • Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation blocks the extradition of a Ukrainian national suspected of causing explosions which damaged the Nord Stream pipelines in 2022 to Germany, where he is wanted. (DW)
• Iraqi politician Safaa Al Mashhadani, a candidate for the upcoming parliamentary elections, is assassinated by a bomb attached to his vehicle in Al-Tarmia District. The perpetrators are unknown. (Gulf News)

Politics and elections

• Abortion in Costa Rica, Women's rights in Costa Rica
  • President Rodrigo Chaves Robles restricts abortion in Costa Rica only to cases where the life of the mother is at risk. (AP)
• Euthanasia in Uruguay
  • Uruguay becomes the first country in Latin America to decriminalise euthanasia via legislation after the law is passed by the Senate. (AP)
• Guatemalan president Bernardo Arévalo accepts the resignation of three top security officials following a jailbreak where 20 members of the Barrio 18 gang escaped from prison. (AP)