Editing 2015 (section)

== Events ==
*January 3 to 7 - [[Boko Haram]] commits a series of mass killings in the northeastern Nigerian town of Baga and its environs, in the state of Borno. Between 150 and 2,000 people are killed in total.
*January 23 - [[Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud]] ascends to the throne of Saudi Arabia.
*February 6 - The [[Houthis]] take control of Sana'a, the capital of Yemen.
*February 10 - [[Craig Stephen Hicks|2015 Chapel Hill shooting]]
*February 11 - Former Captain [[Francesco Schettino]] is sentenced to 16 years in prison for manslaughter for his role in the [[sinking of the Costa Concordia]].
*March 6 - [[Cheng Chieh]] is sentenced to death for 4 charges of murder.
*March 24 - [[Andreas Lubitz|Germanwings Flight 9525 crash]]
*April 2 - Gunmen from [[Al-Shabaab]] storm the Garissa University College in Garissa, Kenya, killing 148 people and injuring 79 or more.
*April 15 - [[Aaron Hernandez]] is found guilty of the 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd and is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
*May 28 - [[Dennis Hastert]] is indicted on federal charges of structuring bank withdrawals to evade bank reporting requirements and making false statements to federal investigators. 
*May 29 - [[Muhammad Buhari]] is elected President of Nigeria for the second time.
*June 14 - [[Dee Dee Blanchard]] is killed at her home in Greene County, Missouri by her daughter [[Gypsy Rose Blanchard]] and [[Nicholas Godejohn]].
*June 15 - The [[Palestinian Unity Government]] collapses.
*June 15 to July 11 - Boko Haram commits a series of [[Suicide Bombing|suicide bombings]] in N'Djamena, Chad, killing 59 people total.
*June 16 - [[Donald Trump]] announces that he is running for President of the United States in the 2016 Presidential Election.
*June 17 - [[White Power Movement|White supremacist]] [[Dylann Roof]] kills nine people in a racially-motivated [[Mass Shooting|mass shooting]] at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
*July 23 - [[John Russell Houser|Grand 16 movie theater shooting]]
*July 24 - Peace negotiations between Turkey and the [[Kurdistan Workers' Party]] break down. President [[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]] launches Operation Martyr Yalçın against both the PKK as well as against [[the Islamic State]].
*August 26 - News reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward are fatally shot by former reporter [[Vester Lee Flanagan]] while conducting a live television interview near Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta, Virginia.
*October - American rapper [[Tekashi 6ix9ine]] pleads guilty to three counts of use of a child in a sexual performance and is sentenced to four years probation and 1000 hours of community service.
*October 1 - [[Christopher Harper-Mercer|Umpqua Community College shooting]]
*October 12 - [[Atomwaffen Division]] is founded.
*October 22 - [[Anton Lundin Pettersson|Trollhättan school attack]]
* October 25 - The [[Law and Justice]] party wins the majority in the Polish parliament.
* October 31 - [[Metrojet Flight 9268]] is destroyed by a bomb over the northern Sinai en route to St. Petersburg, Russia. All 224 passengers and crew who were on board were killed. [[The Islamic State]]'s Sinai Branch, previously known as Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, claim responsibility for the incident.
*November 5 - [[John Magufuli]] is sworn in as President of Tanzania.
*November 13 - [[November 2015 Paris attacks]]
*November 27 - [[Robert Lewis Dear|Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting]]
*December 2 - [[Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik|2015 San Bernardino attack]]
*December 31, 2015 - January 1, 2016 - [[2015–16 New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany]]