Portal:Current events/2023 March 8

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kivu conflict
  • Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
    • Mukondi massacre
      • Allied Democratic Forces jihadist insurgents use machetes to kill about 40 people in the village of Mukondi, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
• Syrian civil war
  • Iranian involvement in the Syrian civil war
    • A drone strike on a Iranian-backed weapons factory by an unknown attacker in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria, kills seven people and injures 15 others, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which describes the dead as three Afghan fighters, three Syrian civilians and one unidentified Syrian. (Arab News)

Business and economy

• March 2023 United States bank failures
  • American commercial bank and cryptocurrency services provider Silvergate Bank winds down its operations and liquidates its assets. (CNBC)

Law and crime

• Foreign nationals detained in Iran
  • A court in Iran sentences a 64-year-old Irish-French tourist to six-and-a-half years in prison for spying for "an enemy country". (BBC News)
• Killing of Breonna Taylor
  • The United States Department of Justice finds "reasonable cause to believe" that the Louisville Metro Police Department violated citizens' civil rights. The investigation was started in response to the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. (BBC News)