Portal:Current events/2024 January 20

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Iraqi conflict
  • Attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria
    • The United States Central Command says that a ballistic missile attack by Iranian-backed militias on Al-Asad Airbase in Al Anbar Governorate, Iraq, has injured several U.S. troops and at least one Iraqi soldier. (BBC News)
• United States–Houthi conflict
  • 2024 missile strikes in Yemen
    • United States Navy F/A-18s operating from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier carry out another wave of airstrikes on Houthi missile launchers in Yemen, with explosions reported in Al Hudaydah. (The Times of Israel)
• 2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah conflict, Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war
  • An Israeli airstrike targeting a building in Damascus, Syria, kills five members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force notably intelligence officer Brigadier General Sadegh Omidzadeh. (Al Jazeera) (SOHR)(YNetNews)
• Syrian civil war, 2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Israel launches an airstrike against a vehicle in Tyre, Lebanon, killing two Hezbollah members, including commander Ali Hudruj, and two other people in a nearby orchard. (Al Arabiya)

Disasters and Accidents

• Yingcai Boarding School fire
  • Thirteen third grade children are killed and another child is injured in a fire at a boarding school dormitory in Dushu, Henan Province, China. The school's director has been arrested. (CNA)
• A Dassault Falcon 10 jet carrying six people and flying between Thailand and Russia crashes in the Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan. Two people are killed and four more are rescued. (AP)
• At least 60 people have been killed across the United States after two weeks of storms caused dangerous road conditions and significant power outages. (NBC News)