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2025 PKK–Turkey peace process
The 2025 PKK–Turkey peace process, also called the terror-free Turkey initiative, ended the PKK's 40-year armed struggle: Öcalan's February 2025 call, the PKK's May 2025 dissolution, weapons burning, and fighter withdrawal to northern Iraq.
2025 Potomac River mid-air collision
2025 Potomac River mid-air collision: January 29, 2025 crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 (PSA CRJ700) and Army UH-60L PAT25 near Reagan National Airport, killing 67; NTSB blamed FAA route design and visual separation overreliance.
2025 Prairieland ICE detention center incident
The 2025 Prairieland ICE detention center incident, also called the Prairieland attack, was a July 4, 2025 shooting outside an ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas, that wounded a police officer.
2025 Russian drone incursion into Poland
The September 9–10, 2025 Russian drone incursion into Poland: 19 drones, including Gerbera decoys, entered from Belarus during a mass attack on Ukraine, prompting NATO Article 4 consultations and Operation Eastern Sentry.
2025 Southern Somalia offensive
The 2025 Southern Somalia offensive was a February 2025 campaign by al-Shabaab against Somalia's federal government in Lower Shabelle and Hirshabelle, reversing 2022 government gains before a mid-year counteroffensive.
2025 Southport shooting
The 2025 Southport shooting: Nigel Max Edge, a 40-year-old Iraq War Marine veteran of Oak Island, North Carolina, fired an AR-style rifle from a boat into the American Fish Company bar on September 27, 2025, killing three people. He faces the death penalty after being ruled incompetent to stand trial.
2025 Stockton shooting
2025 Stockton shooting: November 29, 2025 mass shooting at a child's birthday party at a Stockton, California banquet hall; masked gunmen fired at least 50 rounds from five guns, killing four (ages 8, 9, 14, 21) and wounding 17; no arrests as of mid-2026.
2025 Sumy offensive
The 2025 Sumy offensive was Russia's March 2025 push into northern Sumy Oblast, Ukraine, after retaking Kursk, aimed at a border buffer zone; it gained about 200 square kilometers, stalled short of Sumy city, and was declared halted by Ukraine in June 2025.
2025 Tennessee manufacturing plant explosion
The 2025 Tennessee manufacturing plant explosion was a detonation at the Accurate Energetic Systems explosives plant near McEwen, Tennessee, on October 10, 2025, killing all 16 employees in the building.
2025 Tesla vandalism
2025 Tesla vandalism: a wave of arson, gunfire, and graffiti against Tesla vehicles, dealerships, and charging stations across at least nine US states and abroad, linked to opposition to Elon Musk's Trump administration role, met with federal charges and domestic terrorism rhetoric.
2025 Turkish Air Force Lockheed C-130 crash
2025 Turkish Air Force Lockheed C-130 crash: C-130E Hercules 68-1609, flight TUAF543, broke apart near Sighnaghi, Georgia on 11 November 2025 flying from Ganja to Turkey, killing all 20 aboard; investigation points to a dislodged CO2 cylinder.
2025 United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites
Operation Midnight Hammer: US air- and sea-launched strikes on June 21, 2025 against Iran's Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear facilities using B-2 bombers and GBU-57 bunker busters; damage assessments disputed, from 'obliterated' to a few months' setback.
2025 United States–Houthi ceasefire
US-Houthi ceasefire of 6 May 2025, also called the Oman-brokered truce ending Operation Rough Rider: US stopped Yemen strikes, Houthis agreed not to attack US vessels in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab, while attacks on Israel continued.
2025 Vancouver car attack
2025 Vancouver car attack (Lapu-Lapu Day attack): 26 April 2025 vehicle ramming at the Lapu-Lapu Day Block Party, East 43rd Avenue, Vancouver; black Audi Q7 killed 11, injured 32; Kai-Ji Adam Lo charged with murder and attempted murder; not classified as terrorism.
2025 Washington, D.C., National Guard shooting
November 26, 2025 ambush near Farragut West Metro station, Washington, D.C., in which Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal shot West Virginia Guard members Sarah Beckstrom (killed) and Andrew Wolfe (wounded); he faces federal murder charges and possible death penalty.
2025–2026 Iran massacres
2025–2026 Iran massacres: mass killings of protesters by Iranian security forces during nationwide protests begun December 28, 2025, peaking January 8–9, 2026, with disputed death tolls, an 88-day internet shutdown, mass arrests, and protest-related executions.
2025–2026 southern Yemen campaign
2025–2026 southern Yemen campaign: the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council's December 2025 offensive across southern Yemen, the Saudi-backed counteroffensive of January 2026 that dissolved the STC, and the renewed Houthi-Saudi conflict from mid-2026.
2025–2026 United States airstrikes in Syria
2025–2026 United States airstrikes in Syria: U.S. air and ground operations against ISIS, including Operation Hawkeye Strike launched December 19, 2025 after a Palmyra ambush killed two U.S. soldiers and an interpreter; over 100 sites struck, with Jordan's air force, under the 2001 AUMF, before the April 2026 U.S. withdrawal.
2025–2026 United States oil blockade of Venezuela
The 2025–2026 United States oil blockade of Venezuela, announced by Trump on December 16, 2025, stopped sanctioned oil tankers; six were seized, Maduro was captured, and 30–50 million barrels were sold under a U.S. energy deal.
2026 Afghanistan–Pakistan war
The 2026 Afghanistan–Pakistan war, also called the Afghan-Pakistan open war, is a cross-border conflict that escalated on February 27, 2026, when Pakistan declared war on the Taliban government over TTP sanctuary, following strikes on Kabul and a failed October 2025 ceasefire.
2026 alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump
2026 alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump: an Israeli intelligence warning of a new Iranian plan, possibly a shoulder-launched missile attack on Air Force One, that US agencies could not verify, prompting a secret plane switch in Ankara during the Iran war.
2026 arson attack on the Berlin power grid
The 2026 arson attack on the Berlin power grid was a fire set on January 3, 2026 by the left-wing Vulkangruppe, leaving about 45,500 households without power.
2026 attack on the United States consulate in Karachi
March 1, 2026 storming of the US consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, by pro-Iran protesters after Ayatollah Khamenei's killing in US-Israeli strikes; Marines and security forces fired, killing at least 10 and wounding dozens.
2026 Austin bar shooting
2026 Austin bar shooting: mass shooting early March 1, 2026 outside Buford's Backyard Beer Garden on West Sixth Street, Austin, Texas. Gunman Ndiaga Diagne, 53, killed three and wounded others before being shot by police; FBI found a lone actor with Iran-related grievances.
2026 Bedford train collision
2026 Bedford train collision: 19 June 2026 crash at Elstow, Bedfordshire, on the Midland Main Line, in which an East Midlands Railway class 360 train from Corby passed a red signal at about 76 mph and struck a stationary class 810 Nottingham service whose automatic warning system fault had stopped it; driver Shaun Burton died and 162 were injured.
2026 Bekasi train collision
2026 Bekasi train collision: fatal 27 April 2026 rear-end crash at Bekasi Timur Station, West Java, where Argo Bromo Anggrek KA 4B struck Commuter Line KA 5568A after a Green SM electric taxi stalled at a level crossing; 16 dead, KNKT cited signal and communication failures.
2026 Blue Nile campaign
The 2026 Blue Nile campaign is the RSF-SPLM-N offensive opened in early 2026 in Sudan's Blue Nile State against the SAF, focused on Kurmuk, Geissan and Bau, displacing tens of thousands and drawing in Ethiopia.
2026 Bolivian Air Force Lockheed C-130 crash
2026 Bolivian Air Force Lockheed C-130 crash: FAB-81, a C-130H Hercules carrying unissued Central Bank of Bolivia banknotes, overran the runway landing at El Alto on 27 February 2026, killing at least 22; blamed on weather and operational failures.
2026 Butler PAC P-750 crash
2026 Butler PAC P-750 crash: June 14, 2026 accident in which a Pacific Aerospace 750XL (N221BN) skydiving plane operated by Skydive Kansas City crashed after takeoff from Butler Memorial Airport, Missouri, killing the pilot and 11 skydivers; NTSB found no engine failure.
2026 Calama school stabbing
2026 Calama school stabbing: knife attack of 27 March 2026 at the Instituto Obispo Silva Lezaeta, Calama, Chile, by 18-year-old student Hernán Meneses Leal, killing inspector María Victoria Reyes; first classified Targeted School Violence case in Chile.