Armed conflicts and attacks

• Middle Eastern crisis
  • 2026 Iran war
    • 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis
      • A tanker is attacked by Iran in the coast of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz in the wake of the U.S. military conducting strikes for a 10th consecutive night yesterday, forcing crew to abandon ship. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations also confirms the attack. (Military.com)
    • July 2026 United States strikes against Iran
      • Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich says that Israel will not join the United States in striking Iran. (Middle East Eye)
    • Analysis of the 2026 Iran war
      • U.S Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says that the Iran war has cost the United States $37.5 billion. (The Wall Street Journal) (BBC News)
  • Gaza war
    • Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet states that senior Hamas Gaza City Brigade commander Adham Ibrahim Shaaban Nasman, who was involved in directing the October 7 attacks and taking hostages, has been killed in a Israeli airstrike in Gaza City last weekend, despite the ongoing ceasefire. (The Times of Israel)
    • Local medics report that 12 Palestinians, including four children, have been killed in airstrikes across the Gaza Strip in Gaza City, in violation of the ongoing ceasefire. (BBC News)
  • Red Sea crisis
    • Two oil tankers departing Saudi Arabia, Xin Long Yang and Rodos, turn around in the Red Sea and head for the Suez Canal instead of the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, after a warning by Houthi-controlled Yemen. (Reuters)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Darfur campaign
    • Around 21 people are reported to be killed in a drone strike by Rapid Support Forces in the Tina region of Sudan's North Darfur state near the border with Chad. (Sudan Tribune)

Disasters and accidents

• A fire on a bus travelling from Lâm Đồng province to Ho Chi Minh City kills seven passengers and injures five others in southern Vietnam. (Reuters)
• The death toll from the sinking of passenger ferry MV Barima off the coast of Guyana two days ago rises to 41. 77 others were rescued, while 61 remain missing. (Guyana Chronicle)

Health and environment

• 2026 United States cyclosporiasis outbreak
  • The U.S. state of Michigan reports 6,571 cases of cyclosporiasis, which is caused by Cyclospora cayetanensis. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Protests against the 2026 Iran war
  • Anti-war protesters interrupt a hearing in the United States Senate by U.S Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the wars in Iran and Palestine, with the protesters removed by police. (Sky News) (NewsNation) (MilitaryNews)
• Two American tourists are injured, including one seriously, in a stabbing attack near the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. A 60-year-old Greek man is taken into custody. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Republican People's Party absolute nullity crisis
  • Özgür Özel, the leader of the Turkish opposition Republican People's Party, who was ousted in May by a judicial ruling, announces that he will establish a new political party. (AP)

Science and technology

• The wreckage of Pan Am Flight 526A, a Douglas DC-4 that crashed into the sea off Puerto Rico in 1952, killing 52 people, is located by a veteran aviation search team. (The Dallas Express via Yahoo News)

July 21: Belgian National Day (1831)

• 625 – Paulinus was consecrated as the first bishop of York by Justus, the archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1925 – American high-school biology teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating Tennessee's Butler Act which forbade teaching evolution in class.
• 1946 – After weeks of unrest, rioters lynched Bolivian president Gualberto Villarroel, desecrating and hanging his corpse in the streets of La Paz.
• 1972 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated twenty-two bombs throughout Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• 2019 – People returning from anti–extradition bill protests in Hong Kong were attacked (pictured) by suspected triad members in Yuen Long, leaving 45 people injured.