Portal:Current events/2022 August 7

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza–Israel conflict
  • Operation Breaking Dawn
    • Israel and the Islamic Jihad agree to a ceasefire agreement for the Gaza Strip. (CNN)
• Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
  • Mali War
    • Forty-two soldiers and four civilians are killed during an attack near the town of Tessit by Islamic State in the Greater Sahara gunmen. Twenty-two other soldiers are wounded, and 37 of the attackers are also killed. (Al Jazeera)
• Ituri conflict, 2021–2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks
  • Twenty people are killed when suspected Islamists attack two villages in Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Senior Pakistani Taliban militant Omar Khalid Khorasani and three other militants are killed as their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Paktika Province, Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Colombian presidential election
  • Gustavo Petro is inaugurated as the first left-wing president of Colombia. (The Globe and Mail)