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Armed conflicts and attacks
Two massacres against Alawite Syrians kill fifty-seven. The number of reported civilians killed in coastal Syria primarily by sectarian executions from Syrian government-associated forces since March 6 increases to 1,557. (SOHR)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
According to Syria's state media, clashes occur at the Lebanon–Syria border, after the Syrian interim government accused Hezbollah militants of kidnapping three soldiers into Lebanon and subsequently killing them. (AP News)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
A drone strike in Astrakhan Oblast, Russia, injures one person and causes a fire at an energy facility, according to Astrakhan Oblast governor Igor Babushkin. (Reuters)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Lithuanian prosecutors accuse Russia's military intelligence of orchestrating an arson attack on an IKEA store in Vilnius in May of last year. (Reuters)
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International relations
Rwanda expels the Belgian ambassador, after Belgium accused Rwanda of supporting M23 rebels in their campaign in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Belgium expels the Rwandan ambassador in return. The two countries sever diplomatic relations with one another, with Rwanda accusing Belgium of sustaining neocolonialism. (DW) (BBC News)
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Politics and elections
A court in Georgia sentences former president Mikheil Saakashvili to four and a half year in prison for illegally entering the country in 2021. (BBC News)
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Law and crime
Police shoot and kill a man after he threw objects at police cars and attacked officers with a knife in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. (DW)