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Below, we look at the current flashpoints of the roughly 640-mile front line. Kursk Ukraine captured a chunk of the Russian border region of Kursk after a daring cross-border attack in August.
The 14 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1,000 and fewer than 10,000 direct, violent deaths in the current or previous calendar year. [2] Conflicts causing at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year are considered wars by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program. [30]
On 9 August 2024, HIMARS destroyed a convoy of Russian troops in Kursk Oblast in what Russian milbloggers described as one of the bloodiest attacks of the entire war. [ 89 ] [ 319 ] On 12 August, Ukrainian military expert Mykhailo Zhirokhov claimed that the ratio of Ukrainian to Russian manpower losses as "closer to 1 to 10", and the number of ...
A third year of war in Ukraine drags on as the new year and the conflict's February anniversary approach. The war in 2024 saw major shifts on the battlefield and in Western politics.
The Syrian civil war, which had erupted in 2011 but subsided since a 2020 ceasefire, saw a series of opposition offensives in 2024 that overthrew the Assad regime, leading to the consequent flight of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on 8 December 2024. During the events of that day, the Syrian Army abandoned its positions along the United ...
Israel’s latest series of clashes with Hezbollah began on Oct. 8, 2023 — one day after the Hamas attack that killed about 1,200 people in Israel and sparked the ongoing war in Gaza, which has ...
Since mid-September 2024, Israeli strikes on Lebanon have killed at least 2,267 people and injured 11,022 more, according to a CNN tally. [393] While in Mid-November 2024 Lebanon Ministry of Public Health reported 3,583 killed, including 231 children. [397] UNICEF confirmed that more than 200 children has been killed. [368]
Since 12 January 2024, the United States of America and the United Kingdom, with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, [13] have launched a series of cruise missile and airstrikes, codenamed Operation Poseidon Archer, against the Houthi movement (Ansar Allah) in Yemen in response to Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea. [14]