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Wikipedia Current Events
December 25
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Boko Haram insurgency, War against the Islamic State
- 2025 United States strikes in Nigeria
- United States president Donald Trump orders strikes on the Islamic State in northwestern Nigeria. (CBS News)
- 2025 United States strikes in Nigeria
- Russo-Ukrainian war
- Violations of non-combatant airspace during the Russo-Ukrainian war
- The Polish Air Force intercepts and escorts a Russian aerial reconnaissance aircraft over international waters in the Baltic sea away from nearby Polish airspace. (DW)
- Violations of non-combatant airspace during the Russo-Ukrainian war
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict, Iran–Israel relations
- Three people are killed in two separate Israeli airstrikes targeting vehicles in southern Lebanon, including a member of the Iranian Quds Force. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
- Turkey–Islamic State conflict
- Turkish authorities seize weapons and documents and arrest 115 suspects in Istanbul, connected with Islamic State-planned attacks on non-Muslims at Christmas and New Year's festivities across the country. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- A woman is found dead and two other people are wounded in a "violent incident" in Boden, Sweden. The perpetrator is shot and killed by police. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Elections in Somalia
- Residents of Mogadishu, Somalia, vote to elect 390 district council members who will select the city's mayor, marking Somalia's first direct election since 1969, serving as a pilot for planned nationwide polls. (Reuters)
On This Day
December 26: Saint Stephen's Day (Western Christianity); Boxing Day in the Commonwealth; Wren Day in Ireland and the Isle of Man; Kwanzaa begins (African diaspora in the Americas)
- 1709 – The opera Agrippina, described as George Frideric Handel's first masterpiece, premiered in Venice.
- 1800 – Philip Gidley King, Governor of New South Wales, ordered the formation of the Governor's Body Guard of Light Horse, described as the first full-time military unit raised in Australia.
- 1825 – Imperial Russian Army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne after his elder brother Konstantin removed himself from the line of succession.
- 1919 – American baseball player Babe Ruth (pictured) was sold by the Boston Red Sox to their rivals, the New York Yankees, beginning the 84-year-long "Curse of the Bambino".
- 2015 – A violent tornado moved through several suburbs of Dallas, United States, killing ten and injuring almost 500 others.