Portal:Current events/2024 September 20: Difference between revisions

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Assassination of Ibrahim Aqil
    • Israel launches airstrikes on Beirut, Lebanon, allegedly targeting Hezbollah operatives. The airstrikes hit at least one building, killing at least 14 people and wounding 66. (Al Jazeera)
• Mali War
  • 2024 Bamako attacks
    • The death toll from the JNIM's attacks three days ago against a military camp in Bamako, Mali, and Modibo Keita International Airport is estimated to be between 70 and 100 people. (Al Jazeera)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Militants kill nine Pakistani soldiers in separate attacks in North and South Waziristan, Pakistan. (ABC News)
• Syrian civil war
  • Three children are killed and another is injured, all from the same family, when a landmine placed by unknown individuals in a plastic bag explodes near a park in Manbij, Aleppo governorate. (SOHR)
• Kata'ib Hezbollah announce that Abu Haidar al-Khafaji, a senior commander in the group, was killed in Damascus, Syria, and blame Israel for the attack. (Barrons)

International relations

• Afghanistan–Iran relations
  • Iran summons the acting head of Afghanistan's embassy after claiming a visiting Afghan official disrespected the country's national anthem by not standing, days after a similar incident in Pakistan. The Afghan delegate apologizes, but claims this was because music in public is banned by the Taliban and that they had banned the Afghan national anthem itself. (Al Arabiya)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Taiwan
  • The Constitutional Court in Taiwan upholds the legality of the death penalty in the country, but limits its use to the "most serious crimes". (Time)