Armed conflicts and attacks

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that groups attributed to the Syrian Ministry of Defense have killed over 750 Alawite civilians across several massacres in western Syria. (SOHR) (CTV News)

• https://www.syriahr.com/29-%d9%85%d8%ac%d9%80-%d9%80%d8%b2-%d8%b1-%d8%a9-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%86%d8%aa%d9%82%d8%a7%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ac%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b9%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%83%d8%a8%d8%b1-%d8%aa/752358/
• https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/2-days-of-clashes-and-revenge-killings-in-syria-leave-more-than-600-people-dead/

Armed conflicts and attacks

Three Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, two by a drone strike in Rafah and one by gunfire in al-Tannour, Rafah Governorate, which violates the 2025 ceasefire. (Al Jazeera)

• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/8/at-least-three-people-killed-in-israeli-attack-on-rafah

Armed conflicts and attacks

A Russian ballistic missile strike on Dobropillia, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, kills at least eleven people and injures 37 others. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/least-11-killed-30-wounded-russian-missile-strike-ukraine-kyiv-says-2025-03-08/

Armed conflicts and attacks

Al Shabaab seizes the town of Cadale and some villages including Bushra Sheekh, Ceel Xarar and Xaruur, around 70 km (43 mi) of Mogadishu. Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud asks Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for help. Ethiopia sends ten thousand ENDF troops near the Ethiopia–Somalia border. (Idil News)

• https://www.idilnews.com/al-shabaab-captures-villages-near-mogadishu-prompting-somalias-plea-for-ethiopian-intervention/

Armed conflicts and attacks

Dozens of people are killed, including a senior police commander, as heavy fighting breaks out after Al-Shabaab fighters attack the Police Force. Al-Shabaab claims to have taken over new areas of Al-Kawthar and Boos-Hareeri in Middle Shabelle region, Hirshabelle State, Somalia. (Idil News)

• https://www.idilnews.com/al-shabaab-releases-footage-of-boos-hareeri-attack-and-claims-recapture-of-al-kowthar/

Law and crime

Eight people are injured, including two critically, in a vehicle-ramming attack at a CarMax car dealership in Inglewood, California, United States. (NBC News)

• https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/multiple-people-injured-after-driver-rams-into-carmax-in-inglewood/3649432/

Sports

Two ski jumpers from the Norwegian ski jumping team, Marius Lindvik and Johann André Forfang, are disqualified for cheating and Lindvik loses the silver in the men's individual normal hill in Granåsen, Trondheim. (Kronen Zeitung)

• https://www.krone.at/3718732