Portal:Current events/2025 December 24

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • Israel–Hezbollah conflict
    • An alleged Hezbollah member is killed in an airstrike by the Israel Defense Forces on a vehicle near Jannata, Tyre District, South Governorate, Lebanon. (MSN)
  • Syrian conflict
    • Three former officials of the al-Assad regime are killed in clashes with Syrian security forces near Jableh, Latakia Governorate. (AFP via Al Arabiya)
• Religious violence in Nigeria
  • At least six people are killed, including the perpetrator, and 35 others are injured in a suicide bombing by a Boko Haram terrorist at a mosque in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. (The Punch) (Reuters)
• An explosive device kills two police officers and the suspected perpetrator in Moscow, Russia, near where Russian lieutenant general Fanil Sarvarov was killed in a separate bombing two days prior. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling
  • A boat carrying 117 migrants capsizes in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 116 people and leaving only one survivor. (Daily Express)
• Five people are killed when a rescue helicopter crashes on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. (Reuters)

International relations

• Algeria–France relations
  • The Algerian parliament unanimously passes a law classifying France's colonization of the country as a crime, criminalizing its glorification, and asserting France's legal responsibility to apologize and provide reparations. (AP)

Law and crime

• The Ghanaian information ministry arrests 48 Nigerians allegedly participating in cybercrime operations on the outskirts of Accra. (DW)

Politics and elections

• 2025 Honduran general election
  • The Honduran National Electoral Council declares National Party candidate Nasry Asfura winner of the presidential election almost one month after it was held. (BBC News)