August 19, 2016 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian civil war
- Russian warships in the Mediterranean Sea fire cruise missiles at sites near Aleppo. The Russian Defense Ministry claims the strikes targeted the Islamist militant group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham. (Pravda) (Reuters)
Arts and culture
- The American town of Shishmaref, Alaska, votes to relocate the village from its current location on a barrier island, that has been disappearing through erosion and rising sea levels, to a site on the mainland. (The New York Times) (ABC News)
Law and crime
- A Defense Department audit reveals that the United States Army had manipulated its finances, making $6.5 trillion of improper accounting adjustments in order to balance the books in 2015. (Reuters)(The Hill)(CNN)
Politics and elections
- 2016 United States presidential election
- Paul Manafort resigns as chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. (The Guardian)