Portal:Current events/2025 July 21

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Colombian conflict
  • Catatumbo campaign
    • The National Liberation Army deploys a drone to attack a military convoy in Catatumbo, Colombia, killing three soldiers and injuring eight others. (AP)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Israeli troops and tanks enter Deir al-Balah in central Gaza for the first time since the start of the war. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • The United States and Germany agree to send five Patriot missile defense systems to Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent)
• Syrian civil war
  • Southern Syria clashes
    • Hundreds of Bedouin civilians are evacuated from Suwayda, Syria, as part of a ceasefire following clashes that left hundreds dead. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Dhaka fighter jet crash
  • At least 31 people are killed and more than 50 others are injured after a Bangladesh Air Force FT-7BGI training aircraft crashes into a college and school campus in Uttara, Dhaka, Bangladesh. (AlJazeera)
• 2025 Pacific typhoon season
  • At least 22 people are killed and more than 90,000 people are displaced as Tropical Storm Wipha hits the Philippines and South Korea. (Gulf News)

International relations

• El Salvador–Venezuela relations
  • The Venezuelan attorney general's office opens a formal investigation into Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele and his government's alleged mistreatment of Venezuelan migrants detained in the United States and sent to the CECOT megaprison, built to hold alleged gang members. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Christophe Mirmand is sworn in as the new minister of state of Monaco, succeeding acting minister of state Isabelle Berro-Amadeï. (L'Observateur de Monaco)

Sports

• The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee announces a ban on transgender women competing in women's sports in compliance with an executive order issued earlier this year. (NPR)