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Armed conflicts and attacks. Israel–Hamas war. Winter of 2024–25 in the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip evacuations. The Gaza Strip Government Media Office reports that 110,000 out of 135,000 tents used as shelter by displaced Palestinians have "completely deteriorated" and became unusable due to strong winter winds and heavy rainfall.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups launched coordinated armed incursions from the Gaza Strip into the Gaza Envelope of southern Israel, the first invasion of Israeli territory since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
Iran and Saudi Arabia have been called "bitter regional rivals" on "opposing sides of bloody conflicts in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq". This is in part for theological reasons — namely the differences between the two Islamic schools of thought that their governments adhere to. [12]
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.
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) [a] is a regional intergovernmental organization in Eurasia.It was formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, and is its legal successor.
The legal and cultural expectations for date and time representation vary between countries, and it is important to be aware of the forms of all-numeric calendar dates used in a particular country to know what date is intended.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Malay: Kementerian Luar Negeri; Jawi: كمنترين لوار نڬري ), abbreviated KLN, is a ministry of the Government of Malaysia that is responsible for foreign affairs, Malaysian diaspora, foreigners in Malaysia, diplomacy, foreign relations, counter terrorism, bilateral affairs, multilateral affairs, ASEAN, international protocol, consular services ...
On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time (), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 M w struck with an epicentre off the west coast of Aceh in northern Sumatra, Indonesia.