At least 15 soldiers are killed during an ambush in Tin-Akoff Department, Oudalan Province. Several of the attackers are killed in the ensuing gunfight.
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February 22, 2023 (Wednesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Ten people are killed when al-Shabaab gunmen storm a house in Mogadishu where several lawmakers are staying. All four attackers are killed by soldiers.
Eleven Palestinians are killed and 102 more injured when Israeli troops storm Nablus, in the West Bank.
Disasters and accidents
At least five people are killed and 48 others are reported missing following a collapse at a coal mine in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia, China. Search and rescue operations are underway.
Five people are killed when a Beechcraft BE20 crashes shortly after takeoff near College Station, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States.
International relations
Russian President Vladimir Putin revokes a 2012 foreign policy decree which underpinned Moldova's sovereignty in resolving the political status of the breakaway Transnistria region.
Germany expels two employees of the Iranian embassy in response to Iran sentencing pro-monarchist dual German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd to death over a 2008 bombing in Iran.
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