February 8, 2025

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2025 Syrian-Lebanese border clashes
  • Four people are killed in border clashes between Syrian HTS and Lebanese clans. (Al-Monitor)
• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza war ceasefire, Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Three more Israeli hostages are freed by Hamas as part of the January 19 ceasefire deal. (Saudi Gazette)

International relations

• Baltic states synchronization with UCTE
  • Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania disconnect from the IPS/UPS synchronous transmission grid in order to synchronize with the Continental Europe grid. (BBC News)
• United States and the International Criminal Court, Executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump
  • International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan becomes the first person to have economic and travel sanctions placed on him by the U.S. government following an executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump intended to target the war crimes tribunal over investigations of U.S. citizens or allies. (The Times of Israel)

Politics and elections

• A new government is formed in Lebanon, with former President of the International Court of Justice Nawaf Salam as the new prime minister, following two years of the country under a caretaker government. (AP)