Portal:Current events/2022 August 16
August 16, 2022 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- An explosion occurs at an ammunition depot in northern Crimea, forcing the evacuation of civilians. Observers suggest that the depot may have been hit by Ukrainian forces. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Syrian civil war
- Turkish involvement in the Syrian civil war
- 2022 Jarqli airstrikes
- Turkish airstrikes on a military base in Aleppo Governorate kill at least 16 Syrian soldiers. (Al Mayadeen)
- 2022 Jarqli airstrikes
- Turkish involvement in the Syrian civil war
- Sinai insurgency
- Hamza Adel Al-Zamili, a leader of the Islamic State – Sinai Province and mastermind of the 2017 Sinai mosque attack, is killed by Egyptian soldiers during an operation. Nine other militants are also killed and three arrested. (Arab News) (The Jerusalem Post)
- South Thailand insurgency
- A ranger is killed while seven policemen and two civilians are injured as two bombs explode at a rubber plantation in Narathiwat, Thailand. (The Sun)
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Two policemen are killed when gunmen open fire on them as they are escorting polio workers in Gomal, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- Twenty people are killed and six others are injured when a passenger bus collides with a tanker truck in Jalalpur Pirwala, Punjab, Pakistan. (Xinhua News Agency)
- Six people are killed and several others are injured when a bus falls into a gorge in Jammu and Kashmir, India. (Reuters)
- One person is killed and nine others are injured when a test car crashes into traffic in Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. (AP)
- A Sudanese official reports that 66 people have been killed and 24,000 homes and buildings have been damaged since flooding began in June. (ABC News)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- U.S. First Lady Jill Biden tests positive for COVID-19. (NPR)
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Law and crime
- Human rights in Saudi Arabia
- A Saudi Arabian woman is sentenced to 34 years in prison for following and retweeting dissidents on Twitter. (The Guardian)
Politics and elections
- The prime minister of Vanuatu Bob Loughman asks for the dissolution of parliament as he faces a vote of no-confidence. (RNZ Pacific)