August 7, 2022 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Gaza–Israel conflict
- Operation Breaking Dawn
- Israel and the Islamic Jihad agree to a ceasefire agreement for the Gaza Strip. (CNN)
- Operation Breaking Dawn
- Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
- Mali War
- Forty-two soldiers and four civilians are killed during an attack near the town of Tessit by Islamic State in the Greater Sahara gunmen. Twenty-two other soldiers are wounded, and 37 of the attackers are also killed. (Al Jazeera)
- Mali War
- Ituri conflict, 2021–2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks
- Twenty people are killed when suspected Islamists attack two villages in Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Senior Pakistani Taliban militant Omar Khalid Khorasani and three other militants are killed as their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Paktika Province, Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Colombian presidential election
- Gustavo Petro is inaugurated as the first left-wing president of Colombia. (The Globe and Mail)