Portal:Current events/2023 March 24
March 24, 2023 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian civil war
- 2023 Syria clashes
- A rocket attack targets a U.S. military base in Syria in retaliation for retaliatory airstrikes from the United States hours earlier. No damages or casualties are reported. (Al Arabiya)
- Fifteen people are killed and 40 others are kidnapped in Hama Governorate during an ambush on truffle hunters by Islamic State members. (UCA News)
- 2023 Syria clashes
Disasters and accidents
- Tornado outbreak of March 24, 2023
- At least 23 people are killed after a series of violent tornadoes impact the U.S. state of Mississippi. (BBC News)
- 2023 Pennsylvania chocolate factory explosion
- Seven people are killed and many others are injured after an explosion at a chocolate factory in West Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. (The Guardian)
- Illegal immigration to the United States
- Twelve people are injured and 30 houses were damaged by a tornado in Fazilka district, Punjab, India. (Devdiscourse)
Law and crime
- Assassination of Jovenel Moïse
- A dual Haitian-Chilean citizen pleads guilty to three murder-related charges in a court in the United States over his role in the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse. (Reuters)
- 2019 Samoa assassination plot
- Two men are found guilty of conspiring to kill the former Prime Minister Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi after a trial before the country's Supreme Court. (RNZ)