Portal:Current events/2024 February 5

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)
  • Attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq, Jordan, and Syria
    • February 2024 United States airstrikes in Iraq and Syria
      • A drone attack against a U.S. military base in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria, kills seven Syrian Democratic Forces soldiers and injures 18 others. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq claims responsibility for the attack. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
• 2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Two Amal Movement militants killed in Israeli airstrikes in Blida, Lebanon.

(Lebanon Debate)(NaharNet)

• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Ten police officers are killed and six others are injured in an attack by Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan militants against a police station in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
• Mexican drug war
  • Four taxi and bus drivers are killed during coordinated shootings in Chilpancingo, Mexico. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Twenty people are killed by landslides and floods in Davao de Oro and Davao del Norte, Philippines. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Hungary–Sweden relations, Sweden–NATO relations
  • Hungary's ruling party Fidesz boycotts a National Assembly session called by opposition parties to speed up the approval of Sweden's NATO membership bid. (Politico)
• King Charles III, of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, is diagnosed with cancer following a medical examination. (BBC News)