February 21, 2024 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Iraqi conflict
- Reports emerge that clashes between rival Shia militias, primarily Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq and Saraya al-Salam, have killed at least 200 fighters across Iraq in the past two months. (The Medialine)
- Syrian civil war, 2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah clashes
- A Hezbollah missile fired at Shlomi, Israel.(Times of Israel)
- Two civilians killed in Damascus of an Israeli airstrike at a Syrian security forces compound.(Reuters)
- Two civilians killed in Israeli airstrikes on Majdal Zoun with further airstrikes on Hezbollah outposts in Ramyeh, Khaim, Zibqin and with shelling of Aitaroun.(Times of Israel)(Arab News)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Lochem bridge collapse
- 2024 Sumedang tornado
- Fourteen people are killed and eleven more injured during the collapse of an illegal gold mine in Angostura, Venezuela. (AP)
- Fifteen people are killed and two survive when a truck falls off a cliff in Mabinay, Negros Oriental, Philippines. (AFP via Hindustan Times)
Law and crime
- Espionage in the United States
- United States Navy chief petty officer Bryce Pedicini, assigned to the USS Higgins, is charged with four counts of espionage. (BBC News)
- Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko calls for armed security patrols on streets and in workplaces, claiming the possibility of "extremist" crimes. (Reuters)
- The Supreme Court of the U.S. state of Alabama rules that frozen embryos in test tubes are legally considered children. (The New York Times) (BBC News)