- 6 March 2025 – Syrian civil war
- Western Syria clashes
- March 2025 Western Syria clashes
- At least 16 members of the security forces and 28 pro-Bashar al-Assad militants are killed in a series of ambushes and shootouts in Latakia, Syria. (Al Arabiya) (France 24)
- Four smuggling suspects are killed in clashes between Jordanian border forces and armed groups attempting to cross from Syria. (The New Arab)
- Save the Children says that landmines and unexploded ordnance in Syria have killed or injured at least 188 children since the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024. (Al Arabiya)
- 6 March 2025 – Rohingya genocide
- The United Nations World Food Programme announces that it will reduce the emergency food rations for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh from $12.50 to $6 per person. (Al Jazeera)
- 6 March 2025 – Somali civil war
- Turkish Airlines and Qatar Airways temporarily suspend flights to Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, following security warnings from the United States embassy about potential terrorist attacks targeting the airport. (AeroTime) (Hiiraan Online)
- 6 March 2025 – Second Trump tariffs
- 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
- Following phone calls between United States President Donald Trump, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Trump announces a pause on some tariffs on both Canada and Mexico until April 2. Sheinbaum states that Mexico will collaborate with the United States on migration and security issues, including controlling cross-border fentanyl smuggling. (ABC News) (DW) (CBC)
- 6 March 2025 – 2025 Pocheon bombing
- Two South Korean Air Force KF-16 jets erroneously release eight MK82 bombs over home territory in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province, striking a residential area and multiple homes, injuring at least 15 people, including 4 seriously. (Reuters)
- 6 March 2025 – Starship flight test 8
- After an explosion during the previous flight, SpaceX's Starship explodes over the Caribbean once again, due to a fuel leak on the second stage. [1]
- 6 March 2025 –
- According to a report in the academic journal Science, the population of the 554 recorded species of butterflies in the U.S. have declined by 22% since 2000. (NPR)
- 6 March 2025 – France–Ukraine relations
- French defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu says France will continue sharing military intelligence to Ukraine on its Russian invasion. (AP)
- 6 March 2025 –
- The United States withdraws from the Just Energy Transition Partnership, a program that helps emerging countries transition away from non-renewable energy sources like fossil fuels. (DW) (Reuters)
- 6 March 2025 – Sudanese civil war
- The government of Sudan files a lawsuit in the International Court of Justice against the United Arab Emirates for its alleged support of the Rapid Support Forces and its complicity in genocide against the Masalit people in Darfur, Sudan. The UAE denies its involvement in Sudan and calls the lawsuit a "publicity stunt". (Middle East Eye) (Al Jazeera)
- 6 March 2025 –
- The European Court of Justice fines Germany €34 million (US$36.7 million) for failing to implement a European Union law to protect whistleblowers by 2021. The Court also fines Czechia €2.3 million, Hungary €1.5 million, and Luxembourg and Estonia €500,000 each for the same reason. (DW)
- Six individuals, including retired general and far-right politician Radu Theodoru, are arrested on accusations of being involved in a Russian-backed coup d'état plot in Romania. (The Financial Times) (Politico)
- 6 March 2025 – 2025 in spaceflight
- Intuitive Machines' space probe IM-2 Athena lands on Mons Mouton near the lunar south pole after launching from Kennedy Space Center on February 27. (BBC)
- SpaceX launches its eighth test flight of the Starship launch vehicle from Starbase in Texas, United States. The first stage was caught by the launch tower despite Raptor engine failures during landing, but the second stage failed during its burn, mirroring the last flight test in January. (Reuters)
- 5 March 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kryvyi Rih strikes
- A Russian missile strikes a hotel in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, killing four people and injuring seven others. (Reuters)
- United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- U.S. Central Intelligence Agency director John Ratcliffe announces that the United States has suspended intelligence sharing with Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)
- 5 March 2025 – Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza war ceasefire
- The United States begins direct negotiations with Hamas over the release of the remaining Israeli hostages. President of the United States Donald Trump later threatens on Truth Social and X that the people of Gaza "are dead" unless they return the hostages "immediately". (Sky News) (Al Jazeera) (NBC News)
- 5 March 2025 – South Sudanese Civil War
- 2025 Nasir clashes
- Security forces in South Sudan arrest Puot Kang Chol, a senior member of the parliamentary opposition, minister of petroleum and mining, and army general, as well as multiple other opposition-aligned military officers. South Sudanese soldiers also surround vice president Riek Machar's house overnight before later withdrawing. (Reuters) (BBC News)
- 5 March 2025 – Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus
- Russia's Federal Security Service says that it killed four Islamic State militants in Dagestan during a counterterrorism operation. (Reuters)
- 5 March 2025 – Second Trump tariffs
- 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
- United States president Donald Trump announces a one-month temporary reprieve from tariffs for American automakers after receiving complaints from the Big Three: Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis. (NPR)
- 5 March 2025 – 2025 United States federal mass layoffs
- The United States Department of Veteran Affairs announces it will lay off over 80,000 jobs to comply with the Department of Government Efficiency and the Trump administration's plans. (AP)
- 5 March 2025 – 2024–25 Australian region cyclone season
- Tropical Cyclone Alfred
- Queensland Premier David Crisafulli announces the suspension of public transport services and the closure of 640 schools in South East Queensland, Australia, as Cyclone Alfred is expected to make landfall early Friday morning local time. (ABC News Australia)
- 5 March 2025 – 2025 Chugach Mountains avalanche
- Three skiers are suspected to be killed after an avalanche trapped them under more than 30 feet of snow in the Chugach Mountains, Alaska, United States. (CTV News) (USA Today)
- 5 March 2025 –
- One person is killed and at least two others are injured when a bridge collapses on the E42 highway in La Louvière, Hainaut Province, Belgium. (Reuters)
- 5 March 2025 – Somalia–United States relations
- The U.S. Embassy in Mogadishu warns of imminent attack threats in Somalia, including at Aden Adde International Airport. Embassy personnel movements are suspended. (ABC News)
- Somali military officials confirm that the Trump administration has halted all funding for Somalia's Danab Brigade special forces and cut billions in USAID grants to the country. (Hiiraan Online)
- 5 March 2025 – Russia–United States relations
- The United States Department of Defense denies previous media reports that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had ordered a halt to offensive cyber operations and information operations against Russia by U.S. Cyber Command. (The Hill)
- 5 March 2025 – 2025 California wildfires
- January 2025 Southern California wildfires
- In the U.S., Los Angeles County files a lawsuit against Southern California Edison, the electric utility company servicing most of Southern California, and alleges that the company's power system started the Eaton Fire, seeking to recover costs and damages sustained from the fire that damaged over 9,400 buildings and killed 17 people. (AP)
- 5 March 2025 – Elder financial abuse
- The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District Court of Vermont indicts and charges 25 Canadians for conspiracy to defraud elderly people in the United States out of US$21 million and charges five of those 25 with conspiracy to commit money laundering. (NPR)
- 5 March 2025 – Mexican drug war
- Mexican law enforcement announces they have seized 275,000 pills of fentanyl stored in boxes of nopales in Sonora. A man is arrested in connection to the seizure. (AP)
- 4 March 2025 – Hezbollah–Israel conflict
- Israeli invasion of Lebanon
- An Israeli drone strike in Tyre, Lebanon, kills Haidar Hashem, the head of naval forces in Hezbollah's Radwan Force. (Times of Israel)
- 4 March 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- A Ukrainian drone strikes an oil pipeline in Rostov Oblast, Russia, setting the pipeline ablaze for several hours before being put out by firefighters. Russia also reports its air defence units repelled another drone attack near Novoshakhtinsk. (Reuters)
- 4 March 2025 – 2024–present Serbian anti-corruption protests
- Serbian National Assembly brawl
- At least three Serbian lawmakers are injured after flares and smoke bombs were thrown into the National Assembly. Ana Brnabić, the President of the National Assembly, described the attack as terrorism. (CTV News)
- 4 March 2025 – Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Militants belonging to a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban storm a Pakistan Army compound in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, after two suicide bombers blow themselves up at the entrance, killing 12 civilians and wounding 30 others after nearby buildings collapsed. Six gunmen are also killed in the shootout. (Al Jazeera)
- 4 March 2025 – New People's Army rebellion
- A Philippine Air Force FA-50PH fighter jet is reported missing during an overnight combat operation against insurgents in Bukidnon, Philippines. A search and rescue operation to locate the missing pilots is launched with both later being confirmed dead. (Reuters) (The Philippine Star)
- 4 March 2025 – Red Sea crisis
- The Houthis claim to have shot down an American MQ-9 UAV, stating that it was conducting "hostile missions" over Al Hudaydah. The U.S. Air Force later confirms a loss of contact with the drone. (Al Arabiya)
- 4 March 2025 – Second Trump tariffs
- 2025 United States trade war with Canada and Mexico
- U.S. President Donald Trump's 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports to the United States take effect, while an existing 10% tariff on all Chinese imports rises to 20% amid an ongoing trade war. (AP)
- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that he will impose a reciprocal 25% tariff on American goods worth up to US$155 billion. (Canada.ca)
- China–United States trade war
- The Chinese Ministry of Finance announces 10–15% tariffs on a range of US food imports, set to start March 10. (Reuters)
- 4 March 2025 – 2025 Donald Trump speech to a joint session of Congress
- U.S. President Donald Trump announces the creation of the Office of Shipbuilding, as means to compete with China in the maritime transport industry. (The Wall Street Journal)
- 4 March 2025 – March 2025 North American blizzard
- A storm complex leaves over 400,000 people without power in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and brings severe weather to large portions of the Southern United States. (The New York Times)
- 4 March 2025 –
- A light aircraft crashes into a garden in Plettenberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, killing the pilot on board. (DW)
- 4 March 2025 – Iran–Turkey relations
- Iran says Turkey's criticism of its foreign policy could lead to worsening ties after Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Iran risks plunging the Middle East into "disorder". (Al Arabiya)
- Turkey summons Iran's chargés d'affaires in Ankara after Iran's foreign ministry summoned Turkey's ambassador. (Al Arabiya)
- 4 March 2025 – 2025 Micronesian parliamentary election
- Citizens of the Federated States of Micronesia vote to elect ten of the fourteen members of Congress. (Pacific Daily News)
- 4 March 2025 –
- The roughly 3,500 km2 iceberg A23a, the world's largest, runs aground in shallow waters off the coast of South Georgia in the Atlantic Ocean. (BBC News)
- Scientists from Colossal Biosciences create a new form of genetically modified woolly mice. (The Guardian)
- 3 March 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- U.S. President Donald Trump pauses all U.S. military aid to Ukraine with immediate effect. (Bloomberg) (CNN)
- 3 March 2025 – Insurgency in Balochistan
- A suicide bomber kills one person and wounds three others in Kalat, Balochistan, Pakistan. (AP News)
- 3 March 2025 – Western DR Congo clashes
- The Congolese military announces that eight members of the Mobondo militia, including one of their leaders, were killed the previous day when an army patrol seized the group's headquarters in the Kwamouth Territory, Mai-Ndombe Province. (Radio Okapi)
- 3 March 2025 – 2024–25 Australian region cyclone season
- Cyclone warnings are issued to residents of Brisbane, South East Queensland and the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales as Tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to make landfall on Thursday or early Friday local time. (The Guardian Australia)
- 3 March 2025 –
- A bus rolls down a ravine after colliding with a truck in southern Bolivia, killing at least 31 people and injuring 22 others. (Reuters)
- At least 80 people are trapped inside a supermarket in Güímar, Tenerife, and dozens of cars are swept away to sea and stuck in mud in Gran Canaria after torrential rain caused floods across the Canary Islands in Spain. (Canaria Weekly) (The Sun)
- 3 March 2025 – 2025 Mannheim car incident
- A car drives into a crowd of people near a Carnival market in Mannheim, Germany, killing two people and injuring 25 others, including fifteen seriously. A man has been arrested. (Euronews) (DW)
- 3 March 2025 –
- A 70-year-old Arab Israeli man is killed and three others are injured in a mass stabbing at a bus station in Haifa, Israel. The perpetrator, an Israeli-Druze from Shfar'am, is killed by civilians present at the attack. (Al Jazeera) (DW) (The Times of Israel)
- The Holy See reports that Pope Francis has been diagnosed with "acute respiratory distress" as a result of bronchospasms and a build-up of bronchial mucus, after recovering from pneumonia and bronchitis several days ago. (VOA) (NPR)
- 2 March 2025 – Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza war ceasefire
- Israel agrees to a United States-led plan to extend the first phase of the ceasefire through Ramadan and Passover, during which half of the 59 remaining hostages will be released. Hamas rejects the proposal, 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. (The Times of Israel)
- 2 March 2025 – 97th Academy Awards
- The 97th Academy Awards take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, United States. Anora wins the most awards, taking five, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Mikey Madison. Adrien Brody wins Best Actor for The Brutalist. (Reuters)
- Anora director Sean Baker becomes the first person to win four Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing) for a single film, also tying Walt Disney's record for most Academy Awards won in a single ceremony. (The Independent)
- 2 March 2025 – 2025 Southeastern United States wildfires
- Several wildfires erupt across South Carolina and North Carolina, United States, resulting in the evacuation of endangered towns, including several in the Myrtle Beach area. South Carolina governor Henry McMaster declares a state of emergency in response. (The New York Times) (NBC)
- 2 March 2025 – Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Coalition of the willing (Russo-Ukrainian War)
- United Kingdom prime minister Keir Starmer announces after a meeting of European Union leaders in London that a "coalition of the willing" is working on a Ukraine peace plan that they will present to U.S. president Donald Trump. (Sky News)
- Russia–United States relations
- United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth orders a halt to offensive cyber operations and information operations against Russia by U.S. Cyber Command. (NBC News)
- 2 March 2025 – 2025 Abkhazian presidential election
- Acting leader of Abkhazia Badra Gunba is elected President with 55% of the votes. Georgia rejects the election, as it claims Abkhazia as part of its territory. (Reuters)
- 2 March 2025 –
- Firefly Aerospace successfully lands the Blue Ghost Mission 1 on the Moon as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, delivering payloads to Mare Crisium with instruments to study lunar regoliths and the interactions between solar wind and Earth's magnetic field. (Space.com) (NASA)
- 1 March 2025 – 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)
- 1 March 2025 – 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)
- 1 March 2025 – 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)
- Gaza Strip famine
- Israel blocks the entry of all humanitarian aid from entering Gaza as the first phase of the ceasefire ends. (AP)
- 1 March 2025 – 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)
- 1 March 2025 – Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
- The Kurdistan Workers' Party announces a ceasefire with Turkey after forty years of conflict. (Al Jazeera)
- 1 March 2025 – Syrian civil war
- Druze–Syria clashes
- 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)
- 1 March 2025 – Brit Awards 2025
- At the 2025 Brit Awards, Charli XCX wins British Artist of the Year, while her album Brat wins British Album of the Year and her song "Guess" wins Song of the Year in collaboration with Billie Eilish. Ezra Collective wins Best British Group. (BBC News)
- 1 March 2025 –
- A group of winter swimmers in Most, Czechia, set a new world record for the largest polar bear plunge with 2,461 participants. The previous record was 1,799 participants set in Mielno, Poland, in 2015. (AP)
- At least 37 people are killed and 30 others are injured when two passenger buses collide near Uyuni, Potosí department, Bolivia. (BBC News)
- 1 March 2025 – United Kingdom–Ukraine relations
- Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy 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)
- 1 March 2025 – 2025 Romanian presidential election
- 2024–2025 Romanian election annulment protests
- Tens of thousands of demonstrators hold a rally in Bucharest, Romania, 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)
- 1 March 2025 – Executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump
- United States President Donald Trump signs an executive order designating English as the country's official language. (The Guardian)
- 1 March 2025 – Presidency of Yamandú Orsi
- Yamandú Orsi and Carolina Cosse are inaugurated as the president and vice president of Uruguay in Montevideo. (Reuters)
- 1 March 2025 –
- 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)
- 28 February 2025 – 2025 Darul Uloom Haqqania bombing
- Five people, including Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani, the head of a faction of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S) party and son of Sami-ul-Haq, are killed and twenty others are injured in a suicide bombing inside of a mosque in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (The Indian Express)
- 28 February 2025 – Mexican drug war
- At least four people are shot dead in a mechanical workshop in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico. This is the second massacre this week in the state, the other in Perote, which left three workers dead and one wounded. (La Jornada)
- Three policemen and a civilian are killed in two attacks in Guanajuato, Mexico, the first in Celaya and the second in Apaseo el Alto. (Revista Proceso)
- 28 February 2025 – Protests against the second presidency of Donald Trump
- Economic Blackout
- A 24-hour consumer spending boycott takes place across the United States, in protest of wealth and income inequality, high prices of essential goods, and the rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives by the Trump administration. (AP)
- 28 February 2025 – 2025 United States federal mass layoffs
- The United States Social Security Administration announces it will lay off over 7,000 jobs to align with President Donald Trump's executive order, despite its workforce already being at a 50-year low. (NPR)
- 28 February 2025 – 2024–25 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
- Three people are killed as tropical cyclone Garance makes landfall in Réunion in the Indian Ocean. (AP)
- 28 February 2025 – 2025 disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- At least 60 fatalities and nearly 1,100 symptomatic cases are reported to be a result of a disease outbreak of unknown etiology in the Province of Équateur, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (CBS News)
- 28 February 2025 – 2025 Southwest United States measles outbreak
- The number of measles cases in Texas, United States, increases to 146 with 20 people hospitalized, spanning nine counties in the state. (AP)
- 28 February 2025 – Ukraine–United States relations
- Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2025 Trump–Zelenskyy meeting
- U.S. president Donald Trump, U.S. vice president JD Vance and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy end their talks early after their meeting in the White House turns into a "heated" exchange. Trump rejects any discussion of specific security guarantees for Ukraine, being interested solely in discussing the Ukraine–United States Mineral Resources Agreement. (Time) (AP)
- The U.S. State Department terminates U.S. support of Ukraine's energy grid restoration amid an ongoing energy crisis. (NBC)
- 28 February 2025 – Colombia–Israel relations, Israel–Malaysia relations, South Africa–Israel relations, Boycotts of Israel
- Colombian president Gustavo Petro, Malaysian prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, and South African president Cyril Ramaphosa release a joint statement announcing they will close their ports to any ship carrying weapons supplied to Israel. (Middle East Monitor)
- 28 February 2025 – Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
- The East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) postpone the joint summit of their foreign ministers that would have agreed on a ceasefire plan for the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Congolese and Rwanda governments never received invitations to the meeting. (Critical Threats Project)
- 28 February 2025 – Russia–United States relations
- Russia appoints Alexander Darchiev as its new ambassador to the U.S. following talks between the two countries in Istanbul on restoring regular diplomatic contacts and embassy staffs. The post has been vacant for several months. (Barron's) (Interfax)
- 28 February 2025 –
- Mexico extradites 29 alleged cartel members to the United States, including Rafael Caro Quintero, Miguel Treviño Morales, Omar Treviño Morales, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes and Jose Rodolfo Villarreal-Hernandez. (BBC News) (CBS News)
- Greeks organize a 24-hour nationwide general strike on the second anniversary of the Tempi train crash, Greece's deadliest railway disaster. (Reuters)
- Following the 2024 quota reform movement in Bangladesh, students who led the protests announce the formation of a new political party, the National Citizen Party, led by Nahid Islam, a student activist and the chief coordinator of the Students Against Discrimination movement. (DW)
- Microsoft announces it will shut down Skype in May 2025 to focus its support and development on Teams. (DW) (Bloomberg News)
- 27 February 2025 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza war ceasefire
- As part of the first stage of the ceasefire deal, Hamas releases the bodies of four Israeli hostages in return for the Israeli government releasing 617 Palestinian prisoners. The second phase of the ceasefire has not been negotiated. (DW)
- Thirteen people are injured in a car-ramming attack in Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Israel. The suspect, a Palestinian residing in Ma'ale Iron, is later shot and killed by police after an attempted stabbing attack. (Times of Israel)
- 27 February 2025 – Kivu conflict
- 2025 Bukavu offensive
- 2025 Bukavu M23 rally bombings
- A grenade attack at an M23 rally in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, celebrating their recent victory over government forces in the city, kills at least eleven people and wounds 65 others. (Reuters)
- 27 February 2025 – Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
- Jailed Kurdish leader and Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) founder Abdullah Öcalan calls for an end to the conflict with Turkey and asks the group to disarm and disband, amid peace efforts between the Turkish government and the PKK led by the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party. (Rudaw) (Reuters) (DW)
- 27 February 2025 – Somali Civil War
- Somali capital city Mogadishu enters a security lockdown after several mortars were fired toward Aden Adde International Airport during a visit from Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. (Anadolu Agency)
- Somali forces regain control of Balad after Al-Shabaab launches a coordinated attack, detonating roadside bombs and briefly seizing the town. (Hiiraan Online)
- 27 February 2025 –
- Villa Somalia security guards open fire on civilians at Lido Beach in Mogadishu while attempting to clear the beach ahead of a visit from Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, killing a teenage boy and wounding several others. (Idil News) (HBN)
- 27 February 2025 – Denmark–United States relations
- Danish retailer group Salling Group, which operates around 34% of the retail market share in the country, announces it will start differentiating brands owned by European companies from American ones, in retaliation to U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed acquisition of Greenland, an autonomous territory of the Danish Realm. (DW)
- 27 February 2025 –
- A fire at a three-story residential building in Quezon City, Philippines, kills eight people and injures one other. (AP)
- Two people are killed when a Robinson R44 helicopter crashes on a private property in Uvalde, Texas, United States. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are currently investigating the accident. (KENS-TV)
- Two Russian tourists are killed in a shark attack while scuba diving in the Verde Island Passage off Batangas, Philippines. (Fox News)
- 27 February 2025 – United Kingdom–United States relations
- U.S. President Donald Trump meets with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Washington, D.C., for talks that include the Russo-Ukrainian War peace negotiations. Starmer also presents a letter from King Charles III inviting Trump to visit London later this year. (NPR)
- 27 February 2025 – Persecution of Uyghurs in China
- Forty Uyghur men detained in Thailand for over a decade are deported to China, despite concerns regarding their likely imprisonment. (Al Arabiya)
- 27 February 2025 –
- The prosecutor's office in Paris, France, closes a criminal complaint case by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) against technology company Apple for alleged money laundering and deceptive business practices related to the purchase of minerals in the DRC from armed militias. It is one of the DRC's two lawsuits, with another in Belgium. (Reuters)
- 27 February 2025 – 2024 Austrian legislative election
- The Social Democratic Party, the Austrian People's Party, and the NEOS party in Austria agree to form a coalition government, leaving out the far-right Freedom Party, who won the most seats in the National Council in the 2024 legislative election. The coalition agreement ends Austria's longest period without a government since World War II. (DW) (Euractiv)
- 27 February 2025 –
- The Trump administration bans NASA scientists and US government officials from attending the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conference that started this week in Hangzhou, China, which are focused on the seventh IPCC Assessment Report on climate change. (Nature)
- Meta Platforms says it has fixed an error that resulted in Instagram users' Reels feeds displaying violent and graphic videos despite these users having content filters enabled. (Al Arabiya)
- OpenAI releases their latest large language model, GPT-4.5. (The Verge)
- 26 February 2025 – Somali Civil War
- African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia
- The Somalian government and the African Union finalize the troop distribution for the new peacekeeping mission AUSSOM, resolving prior disputes with Ethiopia and later Burundi. The mission will deploy 11,900 personnel, including soldiers, police, and civilian staff. Under the agreement, Uganda will contribute 4,500 troops, followed by Ethiopia with 2,500, Djibouti with 1,520, Kenya with 1,410, and Egypt with 1,091. (VOA)
- 26 February 2025 – Sudanese civil war, 2024 famine in Sudan
- The United Nations-operated World Food Programme announces it has been forced to temporarily cease the distribution of humanitarian aid in the Zamzam refugee camp in North Darfur, Sudan, due to an escalation in fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in the region. Doctors Without Borders also temporarily ceased operations in the camp last week. (DW)
- 26 February 2025 – Mexican drug war
- A roadside bombing kills a Texan rancher in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Authorities say the victim was driving on his ranch when the explosive device detonated. (El Financiero)
- 26 February 2025 – Conservation and restoration of Pompeian frescoes
- Archeologists find monumental frescoes at the House of Thiasus in Pompeii, Campania, Italy, providing insight into the Dionysian Mysteries. (Reuters)
- 26 February 2025 – 2025 United States tariffs against the European Union
- United States President Donald Trump announces impending 25% tariffs on the European Union, which he states will be generally applied to sectors such as the automotive industry. (The Guardian)
- 26 February 2025 –
- British oil and gas company BP announces an agreement with the Iraqi government to develop four oil fields around Kirkuk and increase production, with the value of BP's investment estimated at US$25 billion. (Society of Petroleum Engineers) (Reuters)
- Eighteen people are killed and thirty-one others are injured when a bus overturns in Prachinburi province, Thailand. (CTV News)
- An unvaccinated child dies of measles at a hospital in Lubbock, Texas, United States, as the first death since the disease was considered eradicated in the country in 2000. (ABC News) (AP)
- 26 February 2025 – United States–Venezuela relations
- U.S. President Donald Trump cancels energy corporation Chevron's license to operate in Venezuela. (Reuters)
- 26 February 2025 –
- United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk condemns Israel's human rights violations in Gaza and denounces Israeli settlements. (Reuters)
- 26 February 2025 – 2020 Nice stabbing
- Brahim Aouissaoui, the perpetrator of the 2020 stabbing in Nice, France, is sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. (CTV News)
- 26 February 2025 – 2025 Romanian presidential election
- Călin Georgescu, the candidate received the most votes in the annulled 2024 presidential election, is detained by police and taken for questioning by the general prosecutor's office over allegations of false statements about financing sources, illegal possession of weapons, and forming an organization that is "fascist, racist, or xenophobic". (AP)
- 26 February 2025 –
- Milorad Dodik, President of Republika Srpska, an entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina, is sentenced to one year in prison and banned from participating in politics for six years for "separatist actions", such as advocating for secession. (The Guardian)
- 26 February 2025 – 2025 Anguillian general election
- The opposition Anguilla United Front (AUF) wins a majority in the House of Assembly. AUF leader Cora Richardson-Hodge becomes the first female Premier of Anguilla. (Jamaica Observer)
- 26 February 2025 – Freedom of the press in the United States, Gulf of Mexico–America naming dispute
- The Trump administration bans reporters from the Associated Press, Reuters, Der Tagesspiegel, and HuffPost from the White House over their refusal to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America". (Reuters)
- 26 February 2025 – Constitutional crisis in Somalia
- Somalia's Federal Parliament fails to meet due to a lack of quorum, with only 137 MPs present, two short of the required amount. The delay raises concerns about a potential no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre's council of ministers. (Hiiraan Online)
- 25 February 2025 – Kivu conflict
- M23 campaign
- 2025 Uvira offensive
- The Congolese military launches an attack against M23-aligned rebels around the town of Minembwe in South Kivu in an effort to recapture it, and claims to have killed four rebel commanders in a drone strike. (Critical Threats Project)
- 25 February 2025 – Syrian civil war
- Israeli invasion of Syria
- The Israeli Air Force strikes targets throughout Southern Syria as Israel begins a military operation to "demilitarize" the southern Syrian governorates of Daraa, Suwayda and Quneitra. Syrian state media reports airstrikes near Damascus. At least two people are reportedly killed. (ABC News) (The Times of India)
- 25 February 2025 – 2020s European re-armament
- The United Kingdom announces an increase in military spending to 2.5% of its GDP by 2027, and 3% by 2034 at the latest. The move comes just before UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday in Washington, D.C. (The New York Times)
- 25 February 2025 – Casamance conflict
- The Senegalese government and the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance reach an agreement to end their 40-year conflict at talks mediated by Bissau-Guinean President Umaro Sissoco Embalo. (The Defense Post)
- 25 February 2025 – Central African Republic Civil War
- Nine people are killed and hundreds of homes are burned down in 3R rebel attacks in Bamingui-Bangoran, Central African Republic. (AP)
- 25 February 2025 –
- American fabrics and handicraft supplies retail chain Jo-Ann Stores files its second bankruptcy claim and announces it will close all 800 stores in the 49 states, with liquidation sales beginning immediately. (NPR)
- Iraq agrees to reopen the oil pipeline between Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey after a conversation between U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani, having been closed for two years due to a dispute between Iraq and Turkey. (Andalou Agency) (The Arab Weekly)
- 25 February 2025 – 2025 Chile blackout
- A nationwide power outage occurs in Chile, impacting most of the country's population and causing the temporary stoppage of several significant industries. (Reuters)
- 25 February 2025 – 2025 Queensland floods
- At least twelve people are killed by a melioidosis outbreak caused by standing waters from persistent flooding in Queensland, Australia. (7News)
- 25 February 2025 – 2025 Sudanese Air Force Antonov An-26 crash
- A Sudanese military plane crashes shortly after takeoff from Wadi Seidna Air Base on the outskirts of the capital Khartoum, killing at least 46 people and injuring several others. (BBC News)
- 25 February 2025 –
- Four workers are killed and six others are injured when an elevated highway under construction collapses in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, South Korea. (AP)
- A magnitude 5.9 earthquake hits near the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, with no damage reported. (ABC News)
- 25 February 2025 – Rwanda–United Kingdom relations, Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict
- The UK government suspends financial aid and imposes economic sanctions on several high-ranking Rwandan officials over the country's military support for M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
- 25 February 2025 – Ukraine–United States relations
- Ukrainian Justice Minister Olha Stefanishyna announces that Ukraine has reached a deal with the United States on mineral resources. (Kyiv Independent)
- 25 February 2025 – 2025 Thiruvananthapuram mass murder
- A man brutally beat ( five people, including his brother, girlfriend, to death with a hammer in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, South India. gulfnews Economic Times
- 25 February 2025 – Environmental issues in Brazil
- The Brazilian Public Prosecutor's Office files a lawsuit against mining corporation Vale S.A. and the state of Pará for mass metal poisoning that has affected the Xikrin indigenous people, whose Indigenous Territory is located in the state. (News-Press NOW)
- 25 February 2025 –
- The Indonesian Attorney General’s Office arrests three executives of state-owned oil and gas company Pertamina on charges of corruption and fraud regarding gasoline quality that cost the government more than $11 billion USD. (The Straits Times) (The Jakarta Globe)
- 25 February 2025 – Second presidency of Donald Trump
- Executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump
- U.S. District Judge for the Western Washington District Court Jamal Whitehead temporarily blocks President Donald Trump's executive order to suspend the Refugee Admissions Program, ruling that President Trump cannot nullify the law passed by Congress, following a lawsuit against the Trump administration by the International Refugee Assistance Project. (AP)
- 24 February 2025 – War against the Islamic State
- Islamic State insurgency in Puntland
- Puntland counter-terrorism operations
- Puntland forces capture key locations, including Dararmadobe, Uraar and the Four Corners of Mountains in Gaatir Oodan, which have served as command and defense bases for the Islamic State militias. Troops uncover mass graves, including the bodies of senior Middle East ISIL members killed in UAE and US airstrikes. Vehicles and motorbikes rigged with explosives were found in the Cal Miskaad mountains of Puntland’s Bari Region. (Garowe Online) (Hiiraan Online)
- 24 February 2025 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- The Ryazan Refinery in Ryazan, Russia, suspends operations after an overnight drone attack by Ukraine destroys the main crude distillation unit at the facility. Locals report hearing at least five explosions during the attack. (Reuters)
- 24 February 2025 – Syrian civil war
- Sectarianism and minorities in the Syrian civil war
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