July 23, 2015 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Spillover of the Syrian Civil War
- Turkey scrambles fighter jets and Turkish tanks open fire on ISIS positions along the Syrian border following an exchange of fire which left one Turkish soldier dead and two injured. The clashes are the first direct combat between the Turkish military and ISIS forces. There are multiple reports of Turkish ground forces crossing the official border into Syria. (Telegraph)
- Turkey agrees to allow the United States access to İncirlik Air Base, near the city of Adana (in close proximity to the Syrian border) for the US-led coalition forces' air strikes against ISIS. (Today's Zaman)
- China's People's Liberation Army conducts a series of military exercises simulating an attack on Taiwan's Presidential Office Building. (Focus Taiwan) (Quartz) (Wall Street Journal)
Business and economy
- Greek government-debt crisis timeline
- A majority in the Greek parliament votes to approve a second bailout reform package. (Euronews)
- Pearson PLC agrees to sell Financial Times Group to Nikkei Inc. for £844 million. (BBC)
Disasters and accidents
Law and crime
- Broken Arrow killings
- Five people are killed and a girl is wounded in a stabbing at a home in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, U.S. that occurred the previous day. Two teenage suspects are arrested. (CNN)
- 2015 Lafayette shooting
- Seven people are wounded, and three are dead (including the shooter) after a 58-year-old gunman opens fire at the Grand 16 Movie Theater in Lafayette, Louisiana during a showing of Trainwreck. (NBC), (CNN)
Science and technology
- Discoveries of exoplanets
- NASA scientists announce the discovery of Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth sized exoplanet discovered orbiting the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. (NASA), (BBC)