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The United States conducts military strikes on three nuclear facilities in Iran.
- On June 22, 2025, the United States Air Force and Navy attacked three nuclear facilities in Iran as part of the Iran–Israel war. The Fordow Uranium Enrichment Plant, the Natanz Nuclear Facility, and the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center were targeted with fourteen GBU-57A/B MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator) 30,000-pound (14,000 kg) "bunker buster" bombs carried by Northrop B-2 Spirit stealth bombers, and with Tomahawk missiles fired from a submarine. The attack, which was given the codename Operation Midnight Hammer, was the United States's first offensive action in the Iran–Israel war, which began on June 13 with surprise Israeli strikes.
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile releases the first light images from its new 8.4-metre (28 ft) telescope.
- The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, formerly known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), is an astronomical observatory in Chile. Its main task is an astronomical survey of the entire available southern sky every few nights, creating a time-lapse record over ten years, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (also abbreviated LSST). The observatory is located on the El Peñón peak of Cerro Pachón, a 2,682-meter-high (8,799 ft) mountain in Coquimbo Region, in northern Chile, alongside the existing Gemini South and Southern Astrophysical Research Telescopes. The Rubin Observatory base facility is located about 100 kilometres (62 miles) away from the observatory by road, in the city of La Serena. The observatory is named for Vera Rubin, an American astronomer who pioneered discoveries about galactic rotation rates.
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In basketball, the Oklahoma City Thunder defeat the Indiana Pacers to win the NBA Finals.
- The 2025 NBA Finals was the championship series of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s 2024–25 season and conclusion to the season's playoffs. The best-of-seven series ended with the Western Conference champion Oklahoma City Thunder defeating the Eastern Conference champion Indiana Pacers in seven games. The Thunder's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was voted the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP). The series began on June 5 and ended on June 22 with the first NBA Finals Game 7 since 2016.
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An attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Damascus, Syria, kills at least 25 people.
- On 22 June 2025, at least one attacker opened fire and detonated an explosive device inside the Greek Orthodox Mar Elias Church as people were praying in Damascus, Syria, killing at least 25 people and injuring 63 others. The Syrian Ministry of Interior said the Islamic State was responsible for the suicide attack, while a group calling itself Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah claimed responsibility for the attack.
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In rugby union, the Crusaders defeat the Chiefs to win the Super Rugby Pacific final.
- The 2025 Super Rugby Pacific final, stylised as the 2025 Super Rugby Pacific Grand Final was the final match of the 2025 Super Rugby Pacific season and the decider of the Finals Series, the thirtieth season of the Southern Hemisphere's premier rugby union competition organised by SANZAAR. The thirtieth Super Rugby final, and the eighth all-New Zealand final, it was played on 21 June 2025 at Apollo Projects Stadium, Christchurch.
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Gaza war (ongoing)
- The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel fought since 7 October 2023. A part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts dating back to the 20th century, it follows the wars of 2008–2009, 2012, 2014, and 2021. The war has resulted in the deaths of more than two thousand Israelis and tens of thousands of Palestinians, along with widespread destruction and a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Meanwhile, the surrounding region has seen heightened instability and fighting. The first day was the deadliest in Israel's history, and the war is the deadliest for Palestinians in the broader conflict.
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Iran–Israel war (ongoing)
- The Iran–Israel war was an armed conflict between Iran and Israel that began on 13 June 2025, when Israel launched surprise attacks on key military and nuclear facilities in Iran. In the opening hours of the war, Israeli air and ground forces assassinated some of Iran's prominent military leaders, nuclear scientists, and politicians; and damaged or destroyed Iran's air defenses and some of its nuclear and military facilities. Iran retaliated by launching missiles at cities and military sites in Israel. The Iran-allied Houthis in Yemen also fired several missiles at Israel, in an adjunct of the Red Sea crisis. The United States, which defended Israel against Iranian missiles and drones, took offensive action on the ninth day of the war by striking three Iranian nuclear sites. The Houthis took the American strikes as a "declaration of war" and unilaterally ended their ceasefire with the United States.
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Russian invasion of Ukraine (ongoing)
- On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thousands of military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties. As of 2025, Russian troops occupy about 20% of Ukraine. From a population of 41 million, about 8 million Ukrainians had been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million had fled the country by April 2023, creating Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II.
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Sudanese civil war (ongoing)
- A civil war began on 15 April 2023 between two rival factions of the military government of Sudan. The conflict involves the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), commanded by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (commonly known as Hemedti), who also leads the broader Janjaweed coalition. Several smaller armed groups have also taken part. Fighting has been concentrated in the capital, Khartoum, where the conflict began with large-scale battles, and in the Darfur region. Many civilians in Darfur have been reported dead as part of the Masalit massacres, which have been described as ethnic cleansing or genocide. Sudan has been described as facing the world's worst humanitarian crisis; nearly 25 million people are experiencing extreme hunger. On 7 January 2025, the United States said it had determined that the RSF and allied militias committed genocide.
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