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Israeli–Palestinian conflict. A rock throwing 19-year old Palestinian is killed by IDF troops amid clashes in the West Bank village of Beit Rima. (Daily Sabah) (Haaretz) 2016 Al-Karak attack. Unknown militants stage a number of attacks across the city of Al-Karak in Jordan, killing five people and injuring at least 10 others.
Russian Engineer Troops in a demining operation in Aleppo, 18 December 2016. By 13 December 2016, only 5% of the original territory of the city remained in rebel hands. [227] A ceasefire was announced and the fighting stopped in order to allow the evacuation of civilians and rebels. The buses were prepared for the evacuation.
Somali Civil War (2009–present) December 2016 Mogadishu suicide bombing. A suicide bomber kills at least 29 people and injures 50 others in an attack on a police station near Mogadishu 's port. (AP) December 2016 Istanbul bombings. The death toll from yesterday's bombings rises to 38 with 155 injured.
December 18 is the 352nd day of the year ... 1957 – Jonathan Cainer, English astrologer and author (d. 2016) 1958 – Geordie Walker, English guitarist (d. 2023)
December 21/22 - 3 Taliban gunmen attacked the home of the MP for Helmand Province, Mir Wali. Eight people were killed and six others were wounded, Security forces killed the gunmen and freed 18 hostages after a 10-hour siege. [ 118 ] December 31 - United States troops withdraw from Afghanistan after 15 years.
The first impeachment of President Donald Trump occurred on December 18, 2019. On that date, the House of Representatives adopted two articles of impeachment against Trump: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. On February 5, 2020, the Senate voted to acquit Trump on both articles of impeachment. [2]
In the 2016 election cycle, the threshold of 270 electoral votes to win the presidency and vice presidency outright could have been thwarted by garnering a minimum of at least 12 percent of all Republican electors to become faithless, that is, 37 of 306 Republican electors. However, critics noted at the time that garnering this many electors ...
On June 12, 2016, 29-year-old Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people and wounded 53 more in a mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States before Orlando Police officers fatally shot him after a three-hour standoff. In a 9-1-1 call made shortly after the shooting began, Mateen swore allegiance to the leader of the ...