August 7, 2022 (Sunday)

Twenty people are killed when suspected Islamists attack two villages in Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Senior Pakistani Taliban militant Omar Khalid Khorasani and three other militants are killed as their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Paktika Province, Afghanistan.

Israel and the Islamic Jihad agree to a ceasefire agreement for the Gaza Strip.

Forty-two soldiers and four civilians are killed during an attack near the town of Tessit by Islamic State in the Greater Sahara gunmen. Twenty-two other soldiers are wounded, and 37 of the attackers are also killed.

Gustavo Petro is inaugurated as the first left-wing president of Colombia.