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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • 2024 Syrian opposition offensives
    • Fall of Damascus
      • Fall of the Assad regime
        • Lieutenant General Ali Mahmoud, Maher al-Assad's office manager and leader of several Syrian civil war campaigns, is found murdered in his office in the Damascus countryside. (SOHR)
    • Operation Dawn of Freedom
      • 2024 Al-Mustariha massacre
        • The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that a Turkish drone strike on a civilian family in Al-Mustariha village in Raqqa Governorate kills twelve family members, most of whom are women and children. (SOHR)
      • 2024 Manbij offensive
        • Fighting between the Turkey-backed Syrian National Army and Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces in Manbij leads to 50 deaths. (SOHR)
        • Manbij is taken by the Syrian opposition, Syrian National Army. (LiveUA) (The Jerusalem Post)
  • Israel and the Syrian civil war
    • 2024 Israeli invasion of Syria
      • Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz orders the Israeli Defense Forces to quickly occupy the entire Syrian buffer zone, and to establish a new security zone further into southern Syria free of all insurgent infrastructure and heavy weapons. (Israel Hayom)
      • The Israeli Air Force launches several airstrikes on the city of Daraa in southwestern Syria. (Erem News)
      • Israel carries out a wave of airstrikes on Syrian Air Force bases, destroying remnants of the Assad regime's air force, including its entire fleet of MiG-29 fighter jets. (VIN News)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, Blockade of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 50 Palestinians are killed and 84 others are injured in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, including ten killed in at a flour distribution zone in Rafah. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israeli–Palestinian peace process
    • Hamas' delegation holds another round of ceasefire talks in Cairo, Egypt, with General Intelligence Service chief Hassan Mahmoud Rashad. (APA)
• Haitian Crisis
  • In Haiti's Cité Soleil slum, at least 110 elderly people are killed following accusations by a gang leader that they practiced witchcraft against the leader's child. (France24)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Kanlaon eruption
  • PHIVOLCS raises the alert level of Kanlaon Volcano in Philippines to Level 3 after an explosive eruption occurred at the summit vent. (Rappler)
• Two people are killed, 26 others are injured and three are missing after an explosion at an Eni factory in Calenzano, Metropolitan City of Florence, Italy. (Rai News)
• A fishing boat collides with a sand barge near Gyeongju, South Korea, killing seven people and leaving another missing. (AP)
• Ten people are killed and two more are missing after floods and landslides in Sukabumi, West Java, Indonesia. (AP)
• Two military helicopters collide during a training flight in Isparta, Turkey, killing six soldiers. (Daily Sabah)

International relations

• Austria–Syria relations, Germany–Syria relations
  • Refugees of the Syrian civil war
    • Austria and Germany freeze all new and ongoing asylum applications from Syrians and will review previous asylum claims following the fall of the Assad regime. (Euronews)
• Australia–Nauru relations
  • Australia and Nauru announce a joint security treaty that sees Australia sending Nauru AU$100 million (US$64 million) in direct support over five years in exchange for Nauru consulting Australia before signing any bilateral agreements with other countries. (DW) (Nikkei Asia)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Azad Kashmir protests
  • The local government of Azad Kashmir, Pakistan, repeals an executive order that banned protests following four days of shutter-down demonstrations in May. (Al Jazeera) (Daily Express)
• 2024 South Korean martial law
  • The South Korean Corruption Investigation Office imposes a blanket travel ban on President Yoon Suk Yeol for his failed attempt at imposing martial law last week. (Al Jazeera) (Kyodo News)
• Syrian peace process
  • Syrian opposition leader Mohammed al-Bashir is appointed Prime Minister of the Syrian transitional government. (Al Jazeera)
• Prime Minister of Tonga Siaosi Sovaleni resigns ahead of a vote of no confidence. (Reuters)

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