Armed conflicts and attacks
Disasters and accidents
Law and crime
Continue reading...
- 2025–2026 Iranian protests
- 2026 Iran massacres, Iran–European Union relations
- In response to the violent crackdown on protests earlier this month, the European Union designates the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization. (BBC News)
- 2026 Iran massacres, Iran–European Union relations
- Diori Hamani International Airport attack
- An attack on a military base part of Diori Hamani International Airport in Niamey, Niger, leaves four soldiers and 20 gunmen dead. Nigerian authorities accused France, Benin and Ivory Coast of involvement. (Al Jazeera)
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Pakistani forces kill three militants during an operation in Bannu district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (The Peninsula)
- Russo-Ukrainian war
- Russia and Ukraine conduct a swap of bodies, with Russia receiving the remains of 38 soldiers and Ukraine receiving the remains of 1,000 soldiers, marking the first such swap since November 2025. (BBC News)
- Yemeni civil war
- The World Food Program ends its operations in northern Yemen following harassment from the Houthis amid an ongoing famine. (DW)
Disasters and accidents
- Eleven people are killed and several others are critically injured when a truck collides with a minibus taxi near Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. (AP)
- Two people are killed when a Royal Thai Air Force Beechcraft AT-6TH aircraft crashes in Chiang Mai province, Thailand. (Bangkok Post)
Law and crime
- Scam centers in Myanmar, Capital punishment in China
- Eleven members of a Burmese crime family are executed in China after being convicted of various crimes related to operating scam centers in Myanmar. (BBC News) (DW)
Continue reading...