January 20, 2024 (Saturday)

The United States Central Command says that a ballistic missile attack by Iranian-backed militias on Al-Asad Airbase in Al Anbar Governorate, Iraq, has injured several U.S. troops and at least one Iraqi soldier.

United States Navy F/A-18s operating from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier carry out another wave of airstrikes on Houthi missile launchers in Yemen, with explosions reported in Al Hudaydah.

Israel launches an airstrike against a vehicle in Tyre, Lebanon, killing two Hezbollah members, including commander Ali Hudruj, and two other people in a nearby orchard.

An Israeli airstrike on a building in Damascus, Syria, kills five members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including general Sadegh Omidzadeh.

Thirteen third grade children are killed and another child is injured in a fire at a boarding school dormitory in Dushu [zh], Henan Province, China. The school's director has been arrested.

At least 60 people have been killed across the United States after two weeks of storms caused dangerous road conditions and significant power outages.

A Dassault Falcon 10 jet carrying six people and flying between Thailand and Russia crashes in the Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan. Two people are killed and four more are rescued.