February 15, 2025

Kivu conflict
- M23 campaign
  - 2025 Bukavu offensive
    - Mass looting and sporadic gunfire is reported in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, as M23 rebels advance into the city. A World Food Programme depot is among the facilities looted by mobs. (BBC News)
    - The Congolese military withdraws from Bukavu heading south towards Tanganyika Province. (AP)
- Ituri conflict
  - General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Chief of the Ugandan defence forces, claiming to act with the authority of his father, President Yoweri Museveni, threatens to invade the Democratic Republic of the Congo and take control of Bunia, capital of Ituri Province, unless local forces surrender their weapons within 24 hours. Kainerugaba alleges that the Hema people are being killed. (Reuters)
Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza war ceasefire
  - Hamas releases three Israeli hostages in exchange for the Israeli government releasing 369 Palestinian prisoners, most without criminal charges or convictions, as part of the first stage of the 2025 ceasefire. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
2025 Munich car attack
- A 37-year-old woman and her two-year-old child die as the result of injuries sustained in a vehicle-ramming attack in Munich, Germany, two days ago. (Stern.de)
2025 Villach stabbing attack
- A 14-year-old is killed and four other wounded during a mass stabbing on a street in Villach, Austria. A 23-year-old Syrian national is arrested. (AP)

A crowd crush leaves 15 people dead and ten others injured at New Delhi railway station in New Delhi, India. (BBC News)

South Africa–United States relations
- Hundreds of White South Africans hold a protest outside the U.S. embassy in Pretoria in support of U.S. President Donald Trump’s claims that the South African government is discriminating against the country’s white minority. (AP)