Portal:Current events/2025 July 19

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • Southern Syria clashes
    • Street-to-street fighting in Suwayda, Syria, is reported between local Druze forces and pro-government Bedouin tribesmen. (i24)
    • An Agence France-Presse war correspondent reports witnessing armed men looting and setting fire to Druze-owned shops in Suwayda. (BBC News)
• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
    • At least 32 Palestinians are killed trying to reach Gaza Humanitarian Foundation food distribution sites. (AP)
• M23 campaign
  • The M23 paramilitary group and the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo sign a declaration of principles stating that a full ceasefire and final peace agreement will be signed no later than August 18, and that it will be aligned with the earlier DR Congo–Rwanda agreement. (CNN)

Disasters and accidents

• Sinking of the Wonder Sea
  • At least 38 people are killed, 11 are rescued and eight others are reported missing, including children, when a storm causes the tourist boat Wonder Sea to capsize in the Hạ Long Bay in Quảng Ninh province, Vietnam. (News18)
• At least 21 people are killed and 34 others are injured after a bus overturns and crashes in Kavar, Fars province, Iran. (The New Arab)
• Eight people are killed and six others are injured when a truck collides with two passenger vans in Aurora, Isabela province, Philippines. (Xinhua) (Manila Bulletin)

Law and crime

• At least 30 people are injured, including seven critically, in a vehicle-ramming attack at a night club in Los Angeles, California, United States. (AP) (Los Angeles Fire Department)
• Turkish involvement in the Somali civil war
  • The Puntland Maritime Police Force confiscates a Turkish vessel illegally transporting high-grade weaponry, including armoured personnel carriers and crates of weapons, to Mogadishu in Bareeda, Ras Aseir region. (Idil News) (Marine Insight)
• At least 12 people are killed in a mass shooting at a pool hall in Playas, Guayas Province, Ecuador. (Diario Extra)

Sports

• In boxing, Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk defeats British challenger Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium in London, England, via a fifth-round knockout to become a two-time undisputed heavyweight champion. (BBC Sport)