Portal:Current events/2024 December 1

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • 2024 Syrian opposition offensives
    • Battle of Aleppo
      • 2024 Aleppo University Hospital airstrike
        • Twelve people are killed and 23 others are injured in Russian airstrikes on a hospital in Aleppo, Syria. (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)
      • Turkish-backed militants say that they captured Aleppo's Ramouseh district as well as the city of As-Safira and the town of Khanasir in Aleppo Governorate. (Al Jazeera Mubasher) (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)
    • At least nine people are killed and at least 62 others are injured in Russian airstrikes on Idlib. (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)
    • The Syrian National Army says that they captured the city of Tell Rifaat and Menagh Air Base in Aleppo Governorate. (Al Jazeera Mubasher)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Battle of Khartoum
    • The Rapid Support Forces establish a civilian administration in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, including the adjacent cities of Omdurman and Khartoum North. (The National) (Radio Dabanga)
• Colombian conflict
  • Clashes between FARC dissident groups Raúl Reyes Front and Frontera Commands leave twelve militants dead in Puerto Guzmán, Putumayo Department, Colombia. (Deutsche Welle)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sectarian violence in Pakistan
  • The number of people killed during sectarian violence in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, during the last ten days has increased to 130. (Associated Press)
• Mali war
  • A Malian army drone strike in Tinzaouaten kills eight leaders of the Strategic Framework for the Defense of the People of Azawad coalition. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
  • Nineteen people are killed by Cyclone Fengal in India and Sri Lanka. (Reuters)

International relations

• Ukraine–United States relations
  • U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says that the United States will not return the nuclear weapons that they dismantled to Ukraine. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2024 Nzérékoré stampede
  • At least 56 people are killed during a stampede at a football match in Nzérékoré, Guinea, after the police tear gassed the field as rival fans stormed it following a controversial referee decision. A police station is later set ablaze. (Al Jazeera English)
• Weiss special counsel investigation, Federal pardons in the United States
  • United States President Joe Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden of tax and firearms charges. (BBC News)
• Seventy-nine people are injured in football hooliganism clashes between fans of FC Carl Zeiss Jena and BSG Chemie Leipzig following a match in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. (Deutsche Welle)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Icelandic parliamentary election
  • In Iceland, the Social Democratic Alliance wins 15 seats in the Althing elections, with the incumbent Independence Party winning 14 seats. However, no party achieved a majority. (Deutsche Welle)
• 2024 Liechtenstein referendums
  • Citizens of Liechtenstein vote in a referendum to form a state pension fund. The vote passes with a 52.6% majority. (Liechtensteiner Vaterland)
• 2024 Romanian parliamentary election
  • Romanians vote for the 330 seats of the Chamber of Deputies and the 136 seats of the Senate. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)