Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza war ceasefire
    • Israel agrees to a United States plan to extend the ceasefire through Ramadan and Passover, during which half of the 59 remaining hostages swill be released alive or dead. Meanwhile Hamas rejects the proposal to extend the first stage of the deal, insisting that the deal proceed with phase two — which includes the release of all remaining living hostages, a full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza and a permanent end to the war. (Times of Israel)

Science and Technology

• Firefly Aerospace successfully lands Blue Ghost Mission 1 on the lunar surface. (Space.com)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• War on terror
  • War against the Islamic State
    • Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
      • Puntland counter-terrorism operations
        • The Puntland Dervish Force captures an IS–Somalia base in Buqa Caleed, in the Cal Miskaad mountain range of Bari Region, Puntland, Somalia. (The Somali Digest) (Horseed Media)
  • United States Central Command says that it has carried out a precision airstrike in Syria, targeting and killing Muhammed Yusuf Ziya Talay, a senior military leader in Hurras al-Din. (Al Arabiya)
• Colombian conflict
  • 2025 Catatumbo clashes
    • Three men are found dead in a vehicle near the village of Orú in the Tibú municipality, Norte de Santander, Colombia, with one body dressed in a National Liberation Army (ELN) uniform. (El Heraldo de Colombia)
    • After placing an ELN flag at the entrance of the municipality of Saravena, Arauca, the ELN detonate an improvised explosive device, targeting Colombian soldiers attempting to remove the flag. No casualties are reported. (El Heraldo de Colombia)
• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza war ceasefire
    • The first phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is scheduled to expire today while talks on the second phase, which aims to end the war, remain inconclusive. (DW)
• Kivu conflict
  • Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
    • Civil society groups in the Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, report that 23 people were killed and another 20 were taken hostage in raids by an Islamic State-affiliated faction of the Allied Democratic Forces militia over the past week. (Arab News)
• Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
    • The Kurdistan Workers' Party announces a ceasefire with Turkey after forty years of conflict. (Al Jazeera)
• Syrian civil war
  • Druze–Syria clashes (2025–present)
    • At least one person is killed and approximately nine others are wounded in the Druze-majority city of Jaramana, following armed confrontations between local residents and security forces affiliated with the transitional government. In response, the Suwayda Military Council declares a state of alert, while Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz instruct the Israel Defense Forces to “prepare to defend” the city. (ANHA) (Times of Israel)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 37 people are killed and 30 others are injured when two passenger buses collide near Uyuni, Potosí department, Bolivia. (BBC News)

International relations

• United Kingdom–Ukraine relations
  • Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky meets with UK prime minister Keir Starmer in London, where they sign off on a British loan of GB£2.26 billion to buy military supplies for Ukraine. (BBC)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Romanian presidential election
  • 2024–2025 Romanian election annulment protests
    • Tens of thousands of demonstrators hold a rally in Bucharest in support of presidential candidate Călin Georgescu and demand that the second round of the annulled 2024 election is held instead of a new election. (AP)
• Presidency of Yamandú Orsi
  • Yamandú Orsi and Carolina Cosse are inaugurated as the president and vice president of Uruguay in Montevideo. (Reuters)

Sports

• At their annual general meeting in Northern Ireland, the International Football Association Board approves a new rule stating that beginning the following season, if a goalkeeper holds the ball for more than eight seconds, the opposing team is awarded a corner kick. (BBC)