July 5, 2014 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine
- Ukrainian forces recapture the pro-Russian armed separatists' main strongholds of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk after the separatists defending it escaped an encirclement. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
- 2014 Northern Iraq offensive
- Forty-six Indian nurses held hostage by the ISIS for almost a month in Tikrit, Iraq, arrive at Cochin airport, Kochi, India. (IANS via Biharprabha)