Portal:Current events/2024 December 10

December 10, 2024 (2024-12-10) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • 2024 Syrian opposition offensives
    • Operation Dawn of Freedom
      • 2024 Manbij offensive
        • The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reports that pro-Turkish factions have begun revenge operations involving the identity-based killings of at least three Kurdish civilians in Manbij, as well as burning and looting civilian homes. (SOHR)
        • Pro-Turkish factions impose a siege on several neighborhoods in Manbij, preventing civilians from easily leaving and prompting humanitarian concerns of potential massacres and kidnappings. (SOHR)
        • The SOHR reports that the Free Syrian Army-affiliated Dawn of Freedom Brigades performed a field execution of dozens of injured pro-Kurdish Manbij Military Council soldiers who had been receiving hospital treatment. (SOHR)
    • Israel and the Syrian civil war
      • 2024 Israeli invasion of Syria
        • Regional security sources report that Israeli troops reached Qatana in Rif Dimashq Governorate, 10 km into Syrian territory and 25 km (16 mi) southwest of the capital of Damascus. (Reuters)
        • The Israeli Navy attacks and destroys most of the Syrian Navy's fleet at anchor in the Port of Latakia, including its Osa-class missile boats and minesweepers. (MSN)
        • Qatar, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Saudi Arabia condemn Israel’s activity across the Syrian border. The United Nations special envoy for Syria also calls on Israel to halt its military movements and bombardments inside Syria. (The Times of Israel)
  • The Islamic State execute 54 regime forces soldiers near Al-Sukhnah in Homs Governorate. (SOHR)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Southern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • A Russian missile strike on a private clinic in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, kills three civilians and injures 11 others. (Al Arabiya)
• Sudanese civil war
  • At least 65 people are killed and hundreds others are injured in Rapid Support Forces artillery shelling on a market in Karary District near Omdurman, Khartoum State, Sudan. (Anadolu Agency) (Sudan Tribune)
  • At least 100 people are killed and 37 others are injured in a Sudanese Air Force airstrike on Kabkabiya District, North Darfur, Sudan. Other SAF airstrikes also hit the towns of Mellit and Al-Kuma and the cities of Nyala and El Fasher. (Business Recorder) (Sudan War Monitor) (BBC News)
• It has been twenty weeks (140 days) since the last time Junli Zhu has been available for a Wechat call.

International relations

• Switzerland–Syria relations
  • Refugees of the Syrian civil war
    • Switzerland suspends all new and pending asylum requests procedures and will review their policy in the future following the fall of the Assad regime. (The Economic Times)
• Belarus–Russia relations
  • Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko confirms the presence of nuclear weapons in his country, including Russia's Oreshnik missile system. (AP)

Law and crime

• Russia–Ukraine relations
  • The Russian Federal Security Service arrests a German-Russian man in Russia for allegedly planning to sabotage a rail line in Nizhny Novgorod, on behalf of the Security Service of Ukraine. (DW)

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