Portal:Current events/2016 September 22
September 22, 2016 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
- Iraqi Civil War
- Iraqi Armed Forces recapture al-Shirqat, southwest of al Hujayl, from ISIL. (Reuters)(The National)
- Syrian Civil War
- A suicide bombing at the opening of a local police station in the rebel-held town of Inkhil, Daraa Governorate, in southern Syria, kills at least 12 people, including an opposition minister. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- The Obama administration through federal prosecutors announces corruption charges against nine defendants, including a former close aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, over their roles in alleged bribery and fraud schemes tied to the awarding of large state contracts and other activities. (Reuters)
- 2014 Yahoo! data breach
- Yahoo! discloses a data breach that compromised the details of 500 million users. (Reuters)
- Operation Car Wash
- Brazilian police arrest former Finance Minister Guido Mantega as part of an ongoing probe into corruption. (Reuters)
- In a standoff which has continued for two days, an exchange of gunfire with a barricaded suspect in Anchorage, Alaska, injures two police officers. The standoff is one of two occurring in the Alaskan city. (Alaska Public Radio Network)
- A gunman shoots dead two people and then himself at the Tennessee factory Thomas & Betts Corp. (ABC News)
- A man in Philadelphia firebombs a man's car, referring to the injured burned man as being Muslim. (The Independent)