Theme: Conflict

Ukraine’s national police released on Wednesday bodycam footage that, it says, shows the moments between two Russian bomb strikes that killed at least 40 people at an aid center and a shelter, in the Zaporizhzhia region in southern Ukraine. According to Ukraine, nine gliding bombs, some weighing 3,000 kg, hit the village as people had gathered to get humanitarian aid, and more than 30 people may still be under the rubble on the third day of searches; the Russian military has not publicly commented on the attack.

A Yemeni government military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that 13 military recruits were killed and 65 others wounded in a ballistic missile attack on a military training center in Qatabah district, northern Al-Dhalea, in southern Yemen, during morning exercises, and blamed the attack on the Houthis. A ballistic missile hit Hayfan in Taiz governorate and killed four Yemenis from the same family, including three children, on Wednesday, according to Middle East Eye. Houthi-run al-Masirah TV blamed the killing of three children and a woman, with four other children wounded in the same district, on a Saudi airstrike. On November 3, Yemeni Interior Minister Ibrahim Ali Haidan accused Hezbollah and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of sending military instructors to command Houthi combat operations, develop missile and drone programs and coordinate attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, according to TASS. Hezbollah denied the allegations and said the Yemeni authorities' statements about support for the Houthi offensive, military training and rearmament are “completely baseless”, adding that “the Yemeni people have sufficient capabilities, resources, and experience to defend their country without external support.”

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree announced three operations inside Saudi Arabia on Wednesday morning: the first with a drone against a radar facility on the Al-Qahmah Peninsula in the north of Jizan, in southern Saudi Arabia, the second with a ballistic missile against the Aqefa garrison in Najran, and the third against the border guard command and control building in Jizan, which resulted in deaths among Saudi soldiers and officers, according to the group.

Russia attacked overnight with 310 drones, including 81 jet-powered drones, according to Ukraine’s air force, which said it downed or suppressed 272 drones of various types. The attacks triggered power and water outages for hours across Kyiv and surrounding regions, and residents in the capital were urged to use public drinking water fountains before supplies were restored. Russia’s Ministry of Defense said it shot down 709 Ukrainian drones the previous night. Retailer Ozon said a drone attack caused a fire at its logistics center in Adygeysk, in Russia’s Adygea region, but that there were no casualties.

US Vice President JD Vance dared anyone to argue that losing the Senate for the next six years was worth the cost of the war with Iran after writing on X on Wednesday morning that “the reason we lost is the war.” “If you’d like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay,” he wrote. President Donald Trump said that the Iran operation had to be done and continues, that he spoke to Vance on Wednesday morning and called the vice president’s post “good.” About 6 in 10 voters said the US made the “wrong decision” in taking military action against Iran, according to The AP Voter Poll, a survey of more than 100,000 voters. Vance called an earlier recommendation to end the war “sound advice,” while US officials say restarting major combat operations against Iran remains under consideration.

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), thousands of people are displaced in the city of Debre Berhan, in the Amhara region, and in Shire, in northwestern Tigray. UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said families who had recently returned to the district of Diabo, in northwestern Tigray, were forced to flee again because of renewed military activities. OCHA and humanitarian partners are preparing to scale up assistance, but insecurity is restricting movement along the roads connecting Gonder with Debark and Metema, in Amhara. Fighting in the country's north, in Tigray, Amhara and Afar, resumed in late September, nearly four years after the November 2022 Pretoria Agreement ended the two-year war between federal forces and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported civilian deaths, including children and a newborn, in attacks in northern Ethiopia and said the region's health system is approaching collapse.

Ukrainian drone strikes have killed three people in Russia’s Belgorod region, while attacks cut power to multiple cities in Ukraine and parts of Russian-occupied Crimea, according to officials. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia’s overnight attacks damaged power generation facilities and substations in nine regions, leaving emergency outages in many cities. Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed on Telegram that it hit two power stations in Ukraine’s Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions and said it downed 709 Ukrainian drones across 14 regions, Crimea and the Black and Azov seas. In southern Russia, a Ukrainian drone attack started a fire at a distribution facility of Ozon, in the town of Adygeysk in the Republic of Adygea, regional head Murat Kumpilov said. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he hoped Trump would continue his peacemaking efforts after the Democratic victory and treated any changes in Congress as a domestic US matter: “President Trump continues to exercise his powers. We sincerely hope that he will also continue his peacemaking efforts.”

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the group’s forces carried out a ballistic missile strike on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and that the target was hit, in a statement carried by the Houthi-controlled SABA news agency. Saree urged international airlines, their employees and passengers to avoid Saudi airspace. Saudi authorities had not confirmed the attack or any damage. In the early hours of Wednesday, Saudi Civil Defense issued a warning about a potential hazard in the Riyadh region and later declared it over, and the Indian embassy announced the death of an Indian citizen wounded in the October 10 attack on the airport.

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf wrote on X that the message from American voters was “NO TO WAR,” and that Iran endorses it. Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, head of the judiciary, said Trump “has suffered defeat both on the battlefield and in the political arena, and we will inflict further defeats on him,” and said November 4 had always been a day of defeat for the United States. Hamidreza Moqadamfar, an adviser to the commander of the Revolutionary Guard, said Iran’s response to any new aggression would be disproportionate and without geographic or time limits: “Our responses will no longer be proportionate or commensurate; we will set their assets ablaze—beyond the point of attack, and regardless of time or location.” The same adviser described the US election result as a referendum against Trump’s policies, in which Iran played a key role.

US Vice President JD Vance attributed the Republican defeat in the midterm elections to the war with Iran, in a lengthy post on X: “The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.” Vance cited a survey according to which the top four answers from voters who left the Republicans were ending the war, cost of living and inflation, putting America first and changing the relationship with Israel. He wrote that anyone who considers the war a cost worth paying should defend it openly, including losing the Senate for the next six years. Trump said that “Iran was a piece of it” and defended the decision to launch the conflict: “I don’t think about it. I did the right thing. I would do it again.” AFP described the move as an attempt by Vance to distance himself from the conflict ahead of a possible 2028 White House run.

Brigadier General Esmail Ghaani, commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said Resistance Front commanders had received the message of borderless confrontation with the enemy and put it into practice. According to him, Resistance Front fighters demonstrated the unity of the various fronts by issuing a written declaration of full allegiance, referring to a recent message from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on confronting the enemy without geographical boundaries.

The death toll from the Russian strike on Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, rose to 40 from 37 on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram, adding that some bodies had not yet been identified. The previous figure came from local authorities.

The death toll from a Russian bombing of an aid distribution point in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia region on Monday has risen to 37, with dozens missing, in one of the deadliest strikes on civilians this year, officials said in a Reuters report republished by The Straits Times. Ivan Fedorov, the co-head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Defense Council, wrote on Telegram that 59 people were missing. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Russian forces first dropped aerial bombs on the school building in Komyshuvakha as people arrived to collect aid, then struck the shelter with more bombs. Two members of a rescue crew and four police officers were among the dead, emergency services said. Russia’s Defense Ministry said the attack targeted Ukrainian military units in Komyshuvakha and two other settlements, and that up to 25 Ukrainian servicemen were killed.

At least 31 people were killed after Russian bombs hit an aid distribution center in Zaporizhzhia, with at least nine 3,000 kg aerial bombs falling on the village of Komyshuvakha on Monday and the center collapsing after a direct hit, regional administration head Mykhailo Semikin said. At least 26 people were killed in two separate strikes, the second against a building, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. The target was a military unit, Russia’s Defense Ministry maintains.

The Saudi-led coalition launched four air strikes on the city of al-Bayda in central Yemen, according to Houthi-affiliated media. Shelling was also reported in the Ghamr district of the Saada governorate.

The United States-mediated peace talks are scheduled for November 10–11 in Abu Dhabi. According to Zelenskiy, Russia launched 289 drones, 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles overnight against power plants and substations from Odesa to Rivne. Friedrich Merz said in Berlin that the talks are the right step and that Europe must take part in the process, urging Russia to engage in serious ceasefire negotiations and saying he has seen no sign of that so far. Moscow said it hit Ukrainian military units around Komyshuvakha and in two other settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region, with up to 25 Ukrainian servicemen killed.

Donald Trump confirmed on Tuesday that the United States launched strikes on Iran, saying the target was a newly completed anti-aircraft facility, hit the previous night, in a minor attack. Trump said US forces stand ready to act, but that there may be no reason for further action. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said the government is still trying to resolve the crisis through dialogue and that no one will benefit if war reignites, while negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said the Islamic Republic stands ready for battle. An Israeli military spokesperson said Israel was not involved in the latest strikes. Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed Al Ansari said both sides are reviewing the proposals presented by Doha and that there is still a chance for an interim deal. A senior Iranian official said Tehran stands ready to reopen Hormuz within two days if Washington accepts its list of demands.

Armed men held about 40 people in the basement of a house in the village of Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, in the Kyiv region, and four were taken out and brought to a hospital after the crowd demanded that a doctor be let in — at the scene, the head of Ukraine’s National Guard, Oleksandr Pivnenko, said military personnel of his department, including those who had left their units without permission, were in the basement, and there was a confrontation with the police. According to Ukrainian media reports, the alleged prison was said to be a building of the Azov Battalion, a National Guard unit created in 2014. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the lack of public reaction from Western human rights organizations did not surprise Moscow and that European bodies try to shield the Ukrainian leadership — and said Ukrainians who do not want to fight for Kyiv may surrender to Russian troops.

Russia bombarded Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in waves on Tuesday, with dozens of missiles and hundreds of drones, knocking out power across swaths of the country. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at least 33 people were killed on Monday when Russia twice bombed a school used for aid distribution in Komyshuvakha, in the Zaporizhzhia region, and that about 50 people were still believed buried under the rubble. The Kyivvodokanal utility said that the capital’s water supply was suspended because the main water facilities were left without power after the attacks. Operator DTEK said the attacks knocked three of its thermal power plants completely offline. The U.S.-mediated tripartite talks in Abu Dhabi are set for November 10 and 11. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said it was important that Russia seriously and effectively engage in ceasefire negotiations.

The management of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, under Russian control, said on Tuesday that a Ukrainian drone had killed two people in a car, including a female employee at the station, according to Reuters, in a text republished by Street Insider. The statement gave no indication where the attack occurred and said the employee was the third killed in the past two weeks and the 13th since April. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said last week that an employee at the plant had been killed, but gave no details. Ukraine did not comment on the accusation. Russian forces seized the plant, Europe's largest, with six reactors, in the first weeks of the invasion that began in February 2022. The facility is offline, and IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi has repeatedly called for military restraint around it.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters that President Donald Trump has not made a decision on resuming military action against Iran, and said Trump wants to solve the Iran war “peacefully”.

Iranian media reported on Tuesday night, citing unnamed sources, that shots had been fired toward vessels allegedly violating restrictions in the Strait of Hormuz, according to Iran International. The Tasnim news agency, affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, had earlier reported sounds of gunfire in the cities of Bandar Abbas and Sirik, citing accounts from local residents.

Israel informed the United Nations (UN) and the Egyptian committee on Monday evening that it is imposing a “complete and comprehensive” closure of the Rafah crossing, blocking humanitarian aid, commercial shipments, food, fuel and cooking gas entering Gaza through the Egyptian route, according to Drop Site News. The route handles 50 to 60 trucks a day, and fuel and gas come entirely through it, according to the outlet. The October 2025 ceasefire agreement calls for 600 aid trucks a day in Gaza, but Israel had been allowing an average of around 200.

Sheikh Yahaya Masussuka, an Islamic cleric respected in Katsina, was shot dead by two armed men on a motorcycle outside his home in Dutsin-Ma, northern Nigeria, last week. The group Ansaru claimed responsibility for the killing in a four-minute video obtained by Nigerian newspaper Premium Times, in a report republished by AllAfrica.

Israeli air strikes and artillery fire hit the outskirts of the town of Aita al-Jabal, in southern Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil district, according to the Lebanese national news agency. Israeli forces also opened machine-gun fire toward the entrance of Kunin, a town in the same district.

The confirmed death toll from the Russian attack on a school used to distribute humanitarian aid in Komyshuvakha, in the Zaporizhzhia region, has risen to 33, according to the latest figures cited by Ukrainian media. Two waves of aerial bombs hit the town on Monday, during the weekly food distribution, and killed 29 people in the toll released that day. Latvia has called an extraordinary meeting of the United Nations (UN) Security Council after the Russian attacks on civilians in Ukraine, including the aid distribution center in Komyshuvakha.

The Houthis have launched multiple cross-border raids into Saudi Arabia in recent months, according to a Western official and an Arab official with direct knowledge of the raids. The raids are small in scale and have hit border posts in the kingdom’s rugged, mountainous southwest. The 2027 Asian Cup in Saudi Arabia has been postponed by almost a year, and the tournament is now scheduled from December 23, 2027, to January 21, 2028, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) announced on Tuesday. Yemen’s government army said it had carried out 1,208 military operations against Houthi positions and claimed to have “neutralized” around 370 commanders and militants.

Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Director General Shatrujeet Kapur said Indian and Chinese troops confronted each other at several locations along the de facto border in Arunachal Pradesh and that the standoff continues, in remarks to reporters last month. “In the past few days, a situation arose where a face-off happened” with Chinese troops at various locations in Arunachal, he said. Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu acknowledged the transgressions but downplayed the episode, saying such incidents were not new and the situation along the border was normal. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal attributed the incidents to Chinese actions.

President Donald Trump confirmed that US forces struck Iran on Monday night, at a target he described as a “minor attack” on an anti-aircraft facility. “They built an anti-aircraft facility… As soon as it was completed, we hit it last night very nicely,” he said in a Fox News interview. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency also reported several explosions on Qeshm Island, near the entrance to the strait. The US deliberately kept the attacks quiet to reduce the risk of escalation, according to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the strikes, and one US official described the strikes as “defensive.” According to that report, in one exchange the Revolutionary Guard fired a surface-to-air missile at a US warplane, which fired back in self-defense, and another strike came after the US intercepted a missile fired from Qeshm at a commercial vessel. Iran said it downed a US MQ-9 Reaper drone and two Lucas drones near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday.

Israel’s military chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, is resisting a new joint offensive with the United States against Iran, according to Haaretz, in a text published by Opera Mundi. Zamir had already opposed Benjamin Netanyahu’s intention to attack Iran before the October 27 legislative elections. Opposition leader and former chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot said that, until a new government is formed, he would back military operations “only in the event of a clear and imminent danger to Israel that cannot wait for the new government to take office”. Also according to Haaretz, Netanyahu openly advocates toppling the Iranian government, while Donald Trump seeks to press the country into a deal more favorable to US interests that would restrict its nuclear program and allow the Strait of Hormuz to reopen.

Fighting between the Houthis and Yemeni government forces is concentrated around Taiz, in the country’s southwest, and the Houthis have largely blocked the delivery of goods to the city, which is under the control of government forces. Yemeni authorities have warned civilians about sniper fire from the surrounding hillsides. The International Organization for Migration said fighting had displaced around 134,000 people in Taiz governorate, almost half of the more than 319,000 displaced across western Yemen, in figures dated November 1. Niku Jafarnia, Yemen researcher at Human Rights Watch, said the Houthis had blocked fuel, water and medical supplies, “basically all things required for hospitals to function properly”. The latest WHO Health Cluster situation report records at least 1,677 people killed and 7,395 injured in Yemen as of October 25.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said the attack on Komyshuvakha targeted Ukrainian military units near the village and in two other settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region, according to Reuters, in a text republished by UOL. In a statement released on Tuesday, the ministry said up to 25 Ukrainian soldiers were killed and that 15 vehicles and an electronic warfare station were destroyed. Both Russia and Ukraine deny deliberately targeting civilians in the conflict. Ukrainian authorities say the school that was hit was being used as an aid distribution point and shelter; President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces first dropped aerial bombs on the school, used for aid distribution every Monday, and that no classes were being held. The acting head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, Mykhailo Semikin, said five people were wounded and nearly 50 were still missing.

The death toll from a Russian attack on a site where people had gathered to receive humanitarian aid in Komyshuvakha, in the Zaporizhzhia region, rose to 31 on Tuesday, with dozens still missing under the rubble. The dead included four police officers and two rescue workers, according to the acting head of the regional military administration, Mykhailo Semikin, and at least five people were hurt. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia launched 289 attack drones, 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles across nine regions, triggering emergency power cuts. In Kharkiv, a combined Russian missile and drone attack wounded at least 62 people, according to local authorities. Russia’s Ministry of Defense said it shot down 856 Ukrainian drones overnight, and Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 493 drones were fired toward the capital.

Gaza’s interior ministry said police officers were killed and wounded in an Israeli air strike near the southern city of Khan Younis. The Palestinian Health Ministry counted 19 Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip since Saturday, six of them in the previous 24 hours, after 13 deaths over the weekend. Among Tuesday’s deaths were a Palestinian who succumbed to his wounds after the bombing of the displacement camp where he was staying in Khan Younis, and another killed in an air strike on a group at the University College of Applied Sciences in the same city.

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said the country remains in a “state of war”, with its forces mobilized and prepared for any scenario, in remarks to the Tasnim agency carried by Opera Mundi. According to him, Iran neither started nor sought the war, but will respond firmly to any new aggression. Tehran demands an end to the US naval blockade of its ports, the suspension of new economic sanctions and guarantees for selling its oil before fully restoring circulation in the Hormuz region, with the measures implemented within 48 hours, according to the same source. According to Russian agency Sputnik, the United States has no intention of escalating attacks on Iran after the strike on Qeshm Island, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. A US official cited by Reuters said the Qeshm operation was defensive in nature and hit anti-aircraft missile systems used against US forces. Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf warned that Iran’s military and strategic response to any miscalculation by the enemy would be unpredictable.

Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) opened criminal proceedings over the events of November 2, 2026 in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, in the Kyiv region, under Part 5 of Article 426-1 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code, which covers exceeding authority or official powers by a military official. The events unfolded near a private house used to temporarily accommodate National Guard service members who had returned after leaving their unit without authorization. According to the SBI, investigators will establish the circumstances and conditions of the service members’ stay in the house and verify reports of possible coercion against them. The conflict near the house escalated into clashes, during which shots were fired and official police vehicles were damaged. National Guard Commander Oleksandr Pivnenko confirmed that National Guard service members were in the house after leaving their unit without authorization and that four of them required medical attention and were taken to a hospital. The National Guard said it will no longer use the building and that the people who had been staying there have already left.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday that Poland prevented what appeared to be an attempted provocation on its border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad overnight. Tusk gave few details but said that “individuals with flashlights” had been observed in the border area and that Polish guards prevented any incident from happening. According to the prime minister, additional police and other troops, including counterterrorism units, were directed to Poland’s northeastern border regions after authorities received “more precise” information that acts of sabotage, including a potential incursion by “armed people”, were possible in the first half of November. Members of Poland’s GROM special operations unit were deployed to the border with Kaliningrad to take part in a police operation aimed at preventing “planned acts of sabotage”, according to Russian state agency TASS; Tusk announced the deployment ahead of a cabinet meeting. Tusk said it was not possible to confirm with full certainty that the incident was an attempted provocation, and that Russia’s escalation would continue and was unlikely to be limited to that episode.

An Iranian military spokesperson warned that any renewed attack by the United States (US) will be met with a harder and broader response than Tehran's past retaliations. According to him, a new war would not remain limited to West Asia, and US facilities, equipment, personnel and interests in any location within Iran's reach could become targets. On the diplomatic track, Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari said that efforts to bring the US and Iran closer are ongoing and that both countries are studying proposals.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Tuesday that three oil tankers exploded and caught fire after striking naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz, after switching off their navigation and identification systems and taking an unauthorized route. According to the statement, the vessels were left along the southern shores of the strait and were still ablaze, and fishermen in the east saw a night lit by the flames.

The death toll from a Russian attack on a site where people had gathered to receive humanitarian aid in Komyshuvakha, in southern Ukraine, rose to 29 on Tuesday, with 48 people still missing; in the same wave of overnight strikes, hospitals were damaged and scores of people wounded. The head of the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration, Mykhailo Semikin, said the attack left 29 dead, 5 injured and 48 people whose whereabouts are unknown. President Volodymyr Zelensky said that after the first strike on the local school “used for humanitarian needs”, there was a second attack on the place where people were sheltering.

Israeli forces have killed at least four Palestinians in attacks across Gaza, and a fifth person died of wounds sustained in an earlier assault, according to medical sources and media reports. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,593 Palestinians and wounded 5,748 since the US-brokered ceasefire began in October 2025. Overall, Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 74,609 Palestinians and wounded 175,872, according to the same ministry. Indiscriminate Israeli gunfire from military positions, tanks and quadcopter drones has killed and wounded hundreds of civilians since the ceasefire, particularly displaced families living near the so-called Yellow Line.

Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the group’s armed forces carried out three operations in 48 hours, hitting Dammam airport in two phases with two drones. According to Saree, the operation disrupted air traffic at Dammam and a drone scored a direct hit on the early warning radar in Jizan. There was no immediate confirmation from Saudi authorities regarding the attacks or the damage claimed by the Houthis.

The United States launched limited strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Island late on Monday, hours after Vice President JD Vance said he was optimistic that diplomatic efforts to end the war were moving in the right direction. The strikes targeted surface-to-air missiles being used against US assets, according to Reuters and the Associated Press (AP). Several explosions were heard on Qeshm on Monday evening, according to Iranian state media, with local outlets describing their cause as unclear. The Wall Street Journal reported that the US had been carrying out a series of smaller-scale strikes, purposefully kept secret by the Trump administration so as not to signal any intent of resuming the military campaign against Iran.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said it had downed 856 Ukrainian drones over Russia’s regions overnight, with two employees injured at the Yaroslavl refinery and emergency services fighting a fire at the site, according to Evrayev — Russia’s Battlegroup South said it had shot down 87 Ukrainian copter drones over the past day.

Sudan’s army said on Tuesday that its air defenses shot down a “hostile” drone that crossed the border from Ethiopia and was intercepted over Blue Nile State, without identifying the operator, the origin, the target or the circumstances of the interception, amid border tensions, with the army repeatedly accusing external actors of backing the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Russia's Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that its forces struck facilities of Ukraine's energy complex in the Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions that supply military enterprises. The ministry said the strikes also hit port infrastructure in the Odesa region and naval vessels used for military purposes.

One Indian was killed in an attack on a commercial vessel near Limah, Oman, India's foreign ministry said on Tuesday. Of the 14 Indian nationals aboard the MSV AL JUSUFI, 13 were rescued after the incident, which occurred on Monday.

The Israel Football Association accused Republic of Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrímsson of “hypocrisy and stupidity” over comments about the upcoming Nations League fixtures between the two countries. Israel plans to file a complaint with UEFA against Ireland over the coach’s “genocide” remarks.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it shot down two more US MQM-170 drones over Qeshm Island and destroyed an MQ-9 east of the Strait of Hormuz.

Yemen’s Houthi-run Health Ministry said at least 17 Yemeni civilians were killed and 59 wounded, most of them children, in Saudi airstrikes over the past 24 hours. The Houthis on Tuesday reported an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition on a shoe factory in Taiz province that the group said killed three people and wounded eight others.

The US military carried out what US officials called “defensive strikes” in the Strait of Hormuz. On Qeshm Island, the blasts came in rapid succession late on Monday, and witnesses told the state-owned IRNA news agency they saw two planes flying over the island. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had downed a US MQ-9 drone over the eastern Strait of Hormuz, the 55th such drone brought down.

The death toll from the Russian bombing of an aid distribution center and a neighboring shelter in Komyshuvakha, in the Zaporizhzhia region has risen to at least 26, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the emergency services said. Five people were injured and 27 reported missing after at least nine 3,000 kg aerial bombs hit the village. Zelenskyy said the first strike hit the local school used for humanitarian needs and the second hit the place where people were sheltering.

The US attacked Qeshm Island in Iran on Monday, according to US officials cited by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), in the latest of a series of limited strikes Washington has secretly carried out against the country in recent weeks.

Israeli forces launched raids on several towns in the occupied West Bank late on Monday, according to local sources. Among the targets are Qabatiya, south of Jenin, and the city of Qalqilya.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that after the humanitarian operation in Oleshky there was a moment when the next steps could have shown that progress toward peace was possible, and that the strike on Komyshuvakha, in the Zaporizhzhia region, showed Russia was “sending an entirely opposite signal” and “counting on more killings.” He called for “a strong and tough response” from the world. Zelenskyy wrote on X that after the first aerial strike there was a “double-tap strike” with nine more bombs aimed specifically at the shelter where people were taking cover. The death toll differed between sources: Ukraine's emergency services counted at least 24, and TRT World reported 26.

Israeli forces advanced into the village of al-Asbah in rural southern Quneitra with five military vehicles, according to a Syria TV report published by Middle East Eye. According to Sijil, a Syrian initiative tracking Israeli violations in the country, Israeli forces committed seven violations on Monday before the latest incursion, including other incursions, checkpoints and aircraft overflights.

Ukrainian National Guard Commander Alexander Pivnenko has acknowledged that the basement of a house in Petropavlovskaya Borshchagovka, near Kiev, was being used to hold servicemen who left their units without authorization and newly mobilized men, according to TASS. The house belongs to the Azov group, according to Strana, and Volodymyr Zelensky’s office said there are many buildings like it in Ukraine.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing for a new wave of strikes on Iran after Tuesday's midterm elections in the United States, according to two regional officials and a third person familiar with the matter. In a weekend call, he pressed President Donald Trump to strike, and Trump would not commit to taking military action, according to a person briefed on the conversation. Sources told Axios that Netanyahu is pressing Trump to strike Iran immediately after the elections; for now, Trump wants to let negotiations play out — a strategy that concerns Netanyahu.

Israeli security forces arrested 18 settlers who rioted and attacked troops during the evacuation of an illegal outpost in the West Bank, according to the Israeli military. The military announced on Monday evening that the detainees are suspected of assaulting security personnel working to halt construction at the outpost.

The Houthis launched multiple cross-border raids against Saudi military posts in recent months, expanding the conflict beyond Yemen, according to a Western and Arab official with direct knowledge of the raids, who spoke to Middle East Eye. The Ansar Allah movement claimed drone and missile attacks on Saudi Arabia, including a military base just over the border with Yemen.

Five Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes and gunfire across the Gaza Strip on Monday, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense, and the Israeli army said it had targeted “several terrorists” in the territory. The Palestinian agency Wafa counted the five deaths in different areas of the Gaza Strip since Monday morning, one of them a wounded man who succumbed to his injuries, along with several other wounded.

Twenty-four people were killed and five injured in a Russian bombing of an aid distribution center in Komyshuvakha, in the Zaporizhzhia region, according to regional head Mykhailo Semikin, who said at least nine 3,000 kg aerial bombs hit the village. Another 27 people were initially reported missing. President Volodymyr Zelensky said 10 guided bombs targeted an area that included a school building used to distribute aid and a nearby shelter, and Ukraine’s emergency services counted 24 dead.

Russian airstrikes killed at least 18 people and wounded five in Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, according to Volodymyr Zelensky. The Ukrainian president said the strikes had been hitting the settlement since the morning and that a school used as a humanitarian aid distribution center had been struck.

Israeli airstrikes killed at least four Palestinians on Monday in Khan Yunis, Al-Mussadar and the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City, according to medical teams and Palestinian health authorities. Gaza's Health Ministry, in figures released by Reuters, counts at least 1,580 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes since the ceasefire began in October 2025.

Ukraine's General Staff said on Monday that Russian forces had used last week's humanitarian ceasefire in the Russian-held southern town of Oleshky to strengthen their military positions. The six-day ceasefire, brokered through US first lady Melania Trump, was meant to allow aid deliveries and civilian evacuations from the frontline town. In total, nearly 800 people were evacuated, Melania Trump said on X.

Iran's Army Navy said a tanker caught fire after colliding with a naval mine in an area it described as restricted and insecure east of the Strait of Hormuz. The vessel had turned off its navigation systems, the statement said.

Ukraine and Russia said their emergency alert apps had been hacked overnight, sending citizens false warnings about impending air raids and chemical and nuclear attacks. In Ukraine, one of the alarms said Russia had launched a hypersonic Oreshnik missile — one capable of carrying a nuclear warhead — and that a nuclear alert had been declared.

Yemen's Houthis from the Ansar Allah movement said they had carried out drone strikes on airports in the eastern Saudi city of Dammam and the southern city of Jazan. Houthi military spokesperson Yahia Saria said the rebels struck an early warning radar in Jazan and a military transport aircraft at the city's airport.

An attack on a military base in southern Colombia killed four civilians, including a two-month-old baby, President Abelardo de la Espriella said on Monday. The preliminary toll from the attack in Planadas counted four dead, including the child.

Israeli strikes killed at least three Palestinians and wounded several others in the Gaza Strip on Monday, November 2, 2026, the territory's health officials said. Two people were killed and six wounded in two separate air strikes in Khan Younis, in the south of the enclave, and a third person was killed in an air strike in the town of Al-Mussadar. The Israeli military said it carried out two strikes in the enclave targeting Palestinian militants, without giving further information.

Lebanon’s agriculture minister, Nizar Hani, said Israeli attacks have caused over US$1 billion in agricultural losses in the country and damaged nearly a quarter of the farmland, or about 56,000 hectares. According to the minister, the cumulative damaged agricultural area reached 49,564 hectares, around 22% of the farmland, mostly in the South and Nabatieh governorates.

Yemen’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates criticized the ongoing Saudi airstrikes on civilian infrastructure and non-military facilities in the country and promised retaliation. In a statement late on Sunday, the ministry said “these constant crimes and attacks will not go unpunished, and will certainly draw painful responses that will hit the heart of Saudi Arabia, particularly the installations belonging to parties funding the aggression”. The statement added that “the incessant targeting of Yemeni civilian facilities will place all vital and critical installations inside Saudi Arabia in a databank of targets that Yemeni Armed Forces will pound in retaliation”.

A missile strike hit the Al-Suqya health center in the Al-Mudaribah and Al-Arah districts of Lahj province, southwestern Yemen, on Monday, according to state media. At least 20 civilians were killed or wounded in the attack that state media attribute to Houthi militia, without breaking the count down into dead and wounded.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with US President Donald Trump on Saturday about US negotiations with Iran and pressed him to strike Iran immediately after the midterm elections on Tuesday, Axios reported, citing one Israeli and one US source. Trump said he would rather give negotiations between the two countries a chance first than bomb Iran right away, according to the same sources.

The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) says that 500 soldiers were killed and 800 wounded in clashes with the Ethiopian federal government's army and allied forces in the country's northern Tigray region. The figures were reported by the TPLF-affiliated Dimtsi Weyane television station, could not be independently verified, and the Ethiopian government has not commented on the claims.

Former Israeli military chief Herzi Halevi said in New York on Sunday that the October 7, 2023 attack was a failure that could have been prevented, but that there was “absolutely no internal betrayal”, according to The Times of Israel.

Türkiye has moved Abdullah Ocalan, founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), to a newly built section of the island prison where he has been held for 27 years, pro-Kurdish legislators said.

Police said on Sunday that five people were killed in two separate incidents in India’s northeastern state of Manipur, as fresh ethnic violence erupted in the conflict-hit region. Officials said on Monday that the deaths occurred in the Kangpokpi and Noney districts.

United States (US) President Donald Trump reiterated on Sunday his threat to resume strikes against Iran, telling a campaign rally he may have to give Tehran “the hammer” at some unspecified time. On Monday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that signals that new military actions are planned against Iran cause alarm.

Authorities in Ukraine and Russia said their emergency alert mobile apps were targeted by cyberattacks late Sunday, with users in Ukraine receiving false warnings of dangerously high radiation levels in the capital, Kyiv. Hours later, Russia said its own alert system had also been hacked.

A ceasefire of several days in a Russian-occupied Ukrainian city has ended after allowing hundreds of residents to leave. Moscow and Kyiv assessed the truce in Alyoshki positively, according to the press review of the Russian agency TASS.

US President Donald Trump is weighing blaming his defense and military chiefs for the handling of the war on Iran, according to a Sunday report by The Atlantic, in a text republished by the Times of Israel, while considering resuming attacks after Tuesday’s midterm elections. In a conversation described by sources as tough and direct, Netanyahu pushed Trump to restart the campaign, while Trump wanted to allow more time for negotiations, according to Axios, in a text republished by the Times of Israel.

Israeli artillery shelling hit Sarbine, Al-Mansouri, Kafr Tibnit, Al-Qantara, Beit Yahoun, Bani Hayyan and Al-Qusair in southern Lebanon, according to field sources. Israeli forces also set off an explosion in the town of Ainatha, according to the Lebanese news agency.

Iranian Army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia said that a future war with the United States (US) could last longer than the previous conflict and that the American president would not dictate the timing or the conditions of its end. President Donald Trump said he still needs to “take care” of one or two targets in Iran, citing Pickaxe Mountain, and repeated that he could give Tehran “the hammer.” Revolutionary Guards spokesman Hossein Mohebbi said that in a conflict with the US there are no geographical limitations and that a vast theater has been defined to inflict damage on the enemy. Commentator Tucker Carlson claimed without evidence that Trump could decide within days on a nuclear strike against Iran and alleged that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pressing for it daily.

Former Mossad chief David Barnea said Israel intentionally released footage of its covert operation in Iran during the June 2025 conflict to provoke mass arrests and make it harder for Iranian forces to find real Israeli agents. Barnea said an official video was released on the morning of Operation Rising Lion, bearing the Mossad logo, to protect the agents who were in the field. According to him, Iranian authorities arrested 21,000 people during the operation.

Yemen’s army launched a new missile attack on positions of Saudi-backed forces in Lahj province, according to Yemeni media in a report carried by the Iranian agency Mehr News. The reports did not disclose the type of missiles used or possible damage and casualties.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said President Donald Trump prefers to resolve the war with Iran diplomatically, without resorting to military force, amid reports that both sides are preparing for new strikes after the midterm elections. In parallel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pressed Trump for new strikes against Iran after the elections, while Trump seeks a deal to restart negotiations with Tehran and keeps preparations underway for a possible return to major combat operations, according to the Times of India, citing Axios.

A tanker sailing through the Gulf was hit by two unidentified projectiles on its port side, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency, cited by Middle East Eye. In parallel, Houthi media, citing an anonymous military official, repeated threats against Saudi oil giant Aramco and aviation in the kingdom, according to the Straits Times.

After the truce ended, Russia and Ukraine reported cyberattacks against their warning apps — with false information about drone strikes published on the Russian side and false radiation alerts on the Ukrainian side, according to TRT World. Russia reported its case on Monday, hours after the Ukrainian report, according to The Hindu.

The Venezuelan armed forces bombed a National Liberation Army (ELN) encampment in the border state of Apure, leaving at least 19 dead, according to TRT World, citing the NGO FundaRedes and sources close to the operation. FundaRedes coordinator Juan Francisco Garcia told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that nine bodies arrived in San Fernando and another ten were transferred later.

The Central African Republic (CAR) Army and Russian military specialists thwarted a large-scale operation by a coalition of armed groups in the Nabagai-Tissi area of Vakaga on October 10, according to TASS. The opposing force numbered about 1,300 fighters and had planned an offensive against Vakaga and Bamingui-Bangoran for the second half of October; more than 60 militants were neutralized and Western-made weaponry was seized, the agency added.

In a new turn in the standoff between Washington and Tehran, the Iranian Army said that any new war with the United States could last longer than the previous conflict, according to Arab News. Army spokesperson Mohammad Akraminia said the American president would not dictate the timing or the conditions of its end, and a Revolutionary Guard spokesperson said that in a conflict with the United States there are no geographical limitations for inflicting damage upon the enemy, according to Iranian state television in a France 24 piece. In the same piece, Donald Trump said one or two sites still remained to be hit in Iran and that it would take 10 minutes, according to the same outlet.

Democratic Representative Ro Khanna said on Sunday that he would stop funding for further US military action in Iran, amid growing voter dissatisfaction with the war, and compared the move to what Congress did to end the Vietnam War. “I would stop the funding. The House and the Senate should stop the funding for any further actions in the Iran War. That’s what we did to stop the Vietnam War,” he said on Fox News Sunday, according to The Hill. A Democrat-led Congress would cut off funding for further military action even with American personnel still in the region, according to the Daily Wire.

Ukraine said it evacuated 167 more people on Sunday from threatened areas of the southern Kherson region, including 22 children and 21 people with limited mobility requiring special assistance, on the day a multi-day localized truce between Russia and Ukraine ended with no violations reported by either side and no sign of an extension, according to Al Jazeera. The pause in hostilities allowed besieged residents to be evacuated from the front-line city of Oleshky, in a rare joint operation between Kyiv and Moscow that ended on Saturday; an estimated 2,000 civilians were in the city when the temporary truce took hold, according to AP News.

US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the war with Iran would end very soon, one way or the other — through a deal or further American action, according to Israel National News. “We’ve had such a victory and we’ll put it away very soon, one way or the other. Either they’ll make a deal or we’ll just end it,” he said. At a midterm campaign rally in Mobile, Alabama, on Friday, he said he expected the conflict to end “very soon” and oil prices to fall sharply once the war is over, according to Fox News.

The multi-day ceasefire in Oleshky, Ukraine, concluded without violations, TRT World reported. TASS also reported that both sides honored their commitments during the ceasefire in Alyoshki, the spelling used by the agency.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy said two oil tankers exploded after striking mines while traveling along an unauthorized route in the Strait of Hormuz, according to Reuters. Both vessels deliberately deactivated their navigation and identification systems to pass covertly through the restricted southern route, Mehr News reported.

Residents of Kyiv received chemical and nuclear risk alerts on their phones this Sunday (the 1st). The Kyiv Military Administration said the notifications were issued after a probable hack of the system and denied any radiological threat, urging residents to stay calm.

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Saturday about when and whether to ramp up combat operations against Iran, US media reported. Netanyahu pressed the president to launch strikes on Iran immediately after the US midterm elections, while Trump was eager to let negotiations play out. An Israeli source described the call as “tough” and an American source called it “direct,” according to Axios. Al Arabiya confirmed the Axios report on the call and the split between striking and negotiating. On Saturday, October 31, 2026, Trump told reporters that negotiations with Iran to end the war were “going fine” and that there were still one or two targets to “take care” of.

At least eight Palestinians, among them a child, were killed this Sunday in two Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip that hit the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, and Al-Thawra Street in Gaza City, according to Opera Mundi. The Palestinian agency WAFA reported that five people were killed in a drone strike on Al-Mawasi and that the victims were members of the Palestinian police, citing local medical sources.

Brigadier General Hossein Mohebbi, spokesperson for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said that identifying new targets and planning operations across additional geographical areas had been placed on the Corps’ agenda, according to the Tehran Times. Iran warned that any renewed war with the United States could last longer than the previous round of fighting, after President Donald Trump said he still had to “take care” of more targets, according to Middle East Eye.

Israel’s defense establishment is implementing an unprecedented policy in the Gaza Strip that grants immunity to mayors and senior officials in Hamas’s governmental and municipal systems, according to the Jerusalem Post. Military sources told Walla that the decision not to target the heads of local Hamas authorities stems from concern that killing them could lead to the collapse of governing institutions in Gaza and to civilian chaos that Israel would ultimately have to deal with, the paper reported.

Long-range Ukrainian drones set fire to the Kstovo refinery in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region overnight, shortly after a major strike on another large refinery in Samara owned by the state-owned energy giant Rosneft, Russian state media reported, according to The Guardian. Ukrainian officials told the Kyiv Independent that they never agreed to a demand from Jared Kushner, the US president’s son-in-law, to pause refinery strikes for 30 days.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had struck energy infrastructure in four regions overnight from Saturday into Sunday, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power, according to the BBC. The humanitarian ceasefire in the Kherson region, which has allowed civilians to evacuate the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky, is due to end on Sunday night.

Israel's siege of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, reached its tenth day on Sunday, with Israeli forces threatening to expand their military offensive in the city, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA, cited by Al Jazeera. The offensive has displaced more than 3,300 Palestinians, particularly in the al-Jalda and Ain Deir Bahha areas, and resulted in the demolition of 15 homes.

The governor of Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, Gleb Nikitin, reported a “massive drone attack” during the night in which an industrial enterprise in the Kstovo district sustained significant damage, according to The Hindu. Ukrainian media treated the target as the Kstovo oil refinery, described as “one of Russia’s largest oil refineries, producing fuel and lubricants.”

More than 300,000 people have been displaced in Yemen by the intensification of fighting in the west of the country, the vast majority over the past two months, according to the United Nations, as reported by Le Monde. The UN called on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and humanitarian workers and to guarantee safe and unimpeded humanitarian access, particularly in hard-to-reach areas of Taiz.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry designated MI6, the UK’s foreign intelligence service, as a hostile group and the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force (RAF) as terrorist organizations, as a reciprocal measure against the British, according to the Tehran Times. The ministry said the decision was adopted in response to British actions over the past year, including the country’s involvement in the US-Israeli war against Iran through the provision of military bases, facilities and logistical support.

A senior adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Mohammad Mokhber, said in a post on X on Sunday that Iran is “rapidly” changing its defense doctrine and will no longer limit its retaliation to attacks on the aggressors’ regional assets, according to Mehr News. “The geography of the threat no longer determines the geography of the response,” he wrote in Farsi. Mehr News also reported that on Saturday Ayatollah Khamenei directed the country’s top military brass to prepare to deliver a swift and powerful response to any threat, “without any geographic limitations.”

Pope Leo XIV said he hopes the humanitarian mission in Alyoshki will be followed by other peace initiatives and will strengthen dialogue between the sides, according to the Russian state agency TASS. Evacuees from the city, in the Kherson Region, were accommodated at a health resort in Russia’s southern Krasnodar Region, the agency reported.

Gaza’s Interior and National Security Ministry said this Sunday that five police officers and personnel were killed in an Israeli airstrike while carrying out their regular duties in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, southern Gaza, in a report by the Saba news agency. Israeli strikes killed at least eight Palestinians, including the five police officers, in two separate attacks on Sunday, according to medics and the Hamas-run interior ministry, Reuters reported.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said, according to the TASS news agency, that Russian forces struck a dry cargo vessel carrying cargoes for the Ukrainian army 16 kilometers southeast of Odessa. The ministry said Russian forces continued drone attacks throughout the day on sea vessels used to transport military cargoes.

The longest truce of the Ukraine war, brokered by US First Lady Melania Trump and limited to the Kherson region, was set to end on Sunday evening with neither side announcing an extension, according to AFP. Neither side reported violations after the truce began, in what one Ukrainian lawmaker described as the “biggest de-escalation since 2022.” A Ukrainian officer said he feared fighting worse than before once the truce ends and said Russian forces positioned across the Dnipro River had taken advantage of the calm of the past few days to amass new troops, transport ammunition stocks and collect intelligence on Ukrainian positions using surveillance drones.

Five people were killed in two separate incidents in India’s northeastern state of Manipur, police said on Sunday, as fresh ethnic violence erupted in the conflict-hit region. Three men from the Kuki tribal group were killed in an exchange of gunfire between “unidentified armed miscreants” in Noney district on Saturday, according to a police statement.

Iran said it has submitted evidence of US and Israeli attacks on its maritime infrastructure to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), according to Middle East Eye.

A Lebanese military court charged 13 people linked to Hezbollah with trafficking explosives, amid growing pressure on the Iran-backed group to disarm, according to Al Jazeera. The seized vehicle was carrying 780 kg (1,720 pounds) of explosives, including 250 kg (550 pounds) of TNT and 250 kg (550 pounds) of C-4, according to judicial officials. Hezbollah acknowledged owning the explosives and said they were intended for use against Israel, which continues to occupy large parts of southern Lebanon.

Eight people, including a child, were killed in Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to emergency services and local hospitals cited by Arab News. Five people were killed in Khan Younis and three in Gaza City, according to a statement from the territory’s civil defense service, which operates under the authority of the Hamas movement that runs Gaza.

A woman who was in a car was injured when drone debris fell in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Governor Gleb Nikitin said on his Max channel. According to the governor, an industrial facility in the region sustained significant damage in a massive drone attack, and the target was not named. Authorities said they were taking measures to keep supplies flowing; the region is home to the NORSI oil refinery, one of Russia’s largest. There is no confirmation in the information released so far that the refinery was the facility hit, according to G1.

Russian attacks hit the energy infrastructure of four regions of Ukraine overnight and left hundreds of thousands of homes without electricity this Sunday, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, in a G1 report.

Drones belonging to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) struck the Haya electrical transformer station and a nearby oil pumping station on Saturday in eastern Sudan, setting fires and damaging the facilities. The oil facility sits on the pipeline transporting crude to the Bashayer port on the Red Sea coast. Early this Sunday, a drone strike hit the Abu Hamad power station in River Nile State in northern Sudan, setting off a fire and loud explosions, according to eyewitnesses cited by Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency.

President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Washington prepared to resume strikes on Iran, according to the Wall Street Journal. The call took place after Trump discussed options for resuming military operations with senior commanders, including US Central Command (CENTCOM) chief Admiral Brad Cooper, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine. Trump said “one or two sites” remain to be dealt with in Iran’s nuclear program, including Pickaxe Mountain, and that the US could do it “in ten minutes.” “We have a plan for it, and we can execute it very quickly,” he said. Asked about a new offensive, he neither confirmed nor ruled out the possibility, according to Brasil 247.

Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service has allegedly adopted a practice of threatening targets in Gaza by phone, offering them a choice between having their family bombed and being killed alone, according to a report by the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper carried by the Jerusalem Post. The most recent case cited is that of Muhammad Al-Bayouk, allegedly targeted by an Israeli military drone on the roof of a displaced-persons shelter in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, after receiving a phone call from a Shin Bet officer. The Jerusalem Post says the Israeli military and the Shin Bet have not been approached for comment on the matter.

Russian Ambassador to Denmark Vladimir Barbin told TASS that Denmark currently serves as a logistical base for the Ukrainian armed forces and that Copenhagen’s grant-based military aid to Kiev has already exceeded 10.5 billion euros. Barbin also said Copenhagen’s intention to order Patriot missiles from Washington for subsequent transfer to Kiev shows that Denmark is financing the continuation of hostilities rather than seeking a political and diplomatic settlement of the conflict.

Turkey moved Abdullah Ocalan to a newly built part of the Imrali island prison where he has been incarcerated since 1999, according to senior Kurdish official Mithat Sancar, in an Associated Press (AP) text republished by WRAL. Improving prison conditions for Ocalan, who heads the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has been a key Kurdish demand in the push to end the 42-year conflict between the group and Turkish authorities. Sancar, a lawmaker for the pro-Kurdish DEM Party, called for the peace process to be sped up and said it had been on “a pause” for the last two months.

Pakistan warned Afghanistan that it reserves the right to take all necessary measures to eliminate cross-border terror threats and said terrorism is a “red line”. Pakistan’s information ministry accused the Afghan Taliban of a “persistent refusal to address terrorism” and warned Kabul that it reserves the right to take “all necessary measures” to eliminate threats to its security “wherever they originate”, according to The Hindu and Independent Pakistan.

A Palestinian man died on Sunday morning from wounds sustained when Israeli occupation forces shot him in al-Musaddar village, in the central Gaza Strip, according to the Wafa news agency, cited by Middle East Eye. Also on Sunday, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters near the village of Kafr Malik, northeast of Ramallah, according to Wafa.

Iran’s foreign ministry announced on Sunday that it had designated the UK’s Royal Navy and Royal Air Force as “terrorist organizations”, according to the Hindustan Times, which cited Iran International. The ministry also classified MI6, Britain’s foreign intelligence service, as a “hostile group”. The statement characterized the move as a reciprocal step to Washington’s designation of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.

Venezuela’s army attacked a camp of the National Liberation Army (ELN) inside Venezuelan territory on Friday, the first time the country has struck ELN forces camped on its own soil, according to TRT World. A staff member of the non-governmental organization (NGO) Fundaredes counted at least nine bodies at the destroyed camp, Tarazona said, according to the report, which released video of the site. TRT World noted that Venezuela was ruled by socialists for decades until Nicolás Maduro was ousted by US forces in January.

Israeli authorities have issued 9,518 demolition or stop-work notices against Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank since the start of 2015, according to a report by the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission cited by Middle East Eye. Of the total, 9,174 notices were documented between 2015 and 2025 and another 344 in the first nine months of 2026.

Hezbollah is unlikely to join a war between the United States and Iran if the two countries resume military operations against each other, unless Iran’s leadership faces an existential threat, according to a report by the United Arab Emirates state-owned outlet The National cited by the Jerusalem Post. According to Lebanese security personnel briefed on the group’s activities, Hezbollah spent at least three months preparing for a resumption of hostilities with Israel after receiving an infusion of cash from Iran.

A military bombardment against the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla killed several people on Venezuela's border with Colombia, in Apure, the NGO Fundaredes and a human rights activist told Agence France-Presse, according to G1. Fundaredes director Javier Tarazona said a coordinator for the NGO saw the first nine dead in the operation; for him, it is “the first bombardment by Venezuela against the ELN”.

The United States Central Command (Centcom) said that as of October 31 its forces had redirected 144 commercial vessels to ensure compliance with the naval blockade against Iran. In a post on X, Centcom said the vessels were redirected “to ensure compliance” and that the George Washington aircraft carrier was supporting enforcement of the blockade, according to Middle East Eye.

The Israeli military has completed preparations for a renewed military confrontation with Iran, according to the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, in a report published by the Anadolu Agency. The chief of the United States (US) Central Command, Brad Cooper, presented President Donald Trump with options for resuming the attacks, and the decision to return to war remained with Trump as negotiations between Washington and Tehran continued. This week, ten US military transport aircraft arrived at Israeli Air Force bases as part of an airlift delivering military equipment to the region, according to Ynet.

Iran’s retaliatory missile and drone strikes damaged at least 274 structures at 24 US-linked military installations across the Middle East, according to the Tehran Times, citing a Wall Street Journal analysis based on satellite imagery and US officials. Estimated repair costs are as high as 15 billion dollars. The Pentagon has estimated the damage at a minimum of 5 billion dollars, while a separate assessment put the figure as high as 15 billion, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) estimated that rebuilding the damaged buildings alone would cost more than 4 billion dollars, the Tehran Times reported.

Russia and Ukraine agreed to organize regular humanitarian missions in Oleshky, a town in the Kherson region, following the completion of a joint humanitarian operation, according to Russian Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova, in remarks carried by Xinhua. Lantratova said joint efforts would continue with Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine’s parliamentary commissioner for human rights, to provide assistance. Reuters reported the statement that the two sides agreed to carry out regular humanitarian missions, “a very important step”.

Residents evacuated from Russian-occupied Oleshky crossed into Ukrainian-held territory on Saturday and were reunited with their families. The operation began on Friday and was carried out under the most significant truce since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine four and a half years ago, according to The Guardian. An estimated 2,000 people remained in the city when the truce took hold and could choose evacuation to Ukrainian-held or Russian-held territory, or to stay with food and medical supplies replenished.

Iran’s army said a tanker illegally operating in a restricted and dangerous area east of the Strait of Hormuz struck naval mines, was damaged, caught fire and was left unable to move, according to PressTV. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said three violating oil tankers exploded and caught fire over the past 24 hours after striking mines while attempting to pass through the unauthorized southern route of the strait, Arab News reported.

Jordanian border guards stopped 14 armed individuals trying to cross into northern Jordan from Syria, the armed forces said in a statement on Saturday. The group tried to infiltrate on Friday under heavy fire and direct engagement, causing numerous casualties among the armed group, while the remaining members fled back into Syria, according to the armed forces, in a Reuters text republished by Arab News.

Israeli attacks in Gaza on Saturday included shelling of the Nuseirat refugee camp, and al-Awda Hospital confirmed the death of Palestinian teacher Diaa Abu al-Rous, according to Al Jazeera. The enclave’s Ministry of Health recorded at least six Palestinians killed over the past 48 hours, bringing the total since the October 2025 ceasefire to 1,580.

Three suspects were arrested on Saturday following a clash between Israelis and Palestinians near the village of Duma in the occupied West Bank, amid the ongoing olive harvest, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Iran said the two Iranian fishermen it had reported missing after what it called a US attack on a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz have been found on Saturday. Earlier, Iranian state TV had cited a provincial official as saying that two fishermen had gone missing and two others were wounded in what he called an attack by the United States.

Syria’s Foreign Minister, Asaad al-Shaibani, said on Saturday that Israel had carried out more than 1,000 attacks on his country in less than two years, killing dozens of people, according to Anadolu. His remarks came during a session on regional security at the Manama Dialogue 2026, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). He called for a return to the lines in place before Dec. 8, 2024, and for the implementation of the 1974 Disengagement Agreement.

Two Iranian fishermen were injured in a drone attack attributed to the American “enemy” on two fishing boats in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday morning, China’s state-run Xinhua reported. Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB, citing a Hormozgan province official, said the US attacked two fishing boats near Qeshm Island, leaving two fishermen missing and one wounded, Reuters reported.

Two people were killed and five injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on a private house in the village of Klimovo, in Russia's Bryansk region, according to regional governor Yegor Kovalchuk, in a post cited by the Xinhua news agency. The fatal victims were a 30-year-old woman and a 41-year-old man, the governor said.

Drone attacks left about 200,000 families without electricity in Dnipro and the surrounding region and more than 80,000 families in the Kyiv region, according to Interfax-Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian Shahed drones struck a combined heat and power plant in Kyiv and four electrical substations in the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to UNN.

Residents of the Ain Deir Baha neighborhood in al-Khalil, in the occupied southern West Bank, had the area declared a closed military zone by Israeli forces during an offensive that reached its eighth day, according to Press TV. The al-Khalil municipality said, according to the outlet, that 4,969 Palestinians from 780 families had been forcibly displaced. The Palestinian Information Center counts Saturday as the ninth consecutive day of the siege, with military reinforcements and detentions of young Palestinians.

Hundreds of residents of Oleshky, a city occupied by Russia, were evacuated after a humanitarian ceasefire mediated by US First Lady Melania Trump, and planes carrying evacuees landed in Gomel, in Belarus, on Saturday morning, according to Russian and Ukrainian authorities cited by the BBC. The local ceasefire began on Tuesday and is due to last through Sunday, as the operation races to deliver food and medicine to the roughly 2,000 residents still in the city, according to AP.

An Israeli airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza killed the Palestinian Diaa Abu al-Rous, according to the Quds News Network (QNN), cited by Middle East Eye. Another Palestinian, Arafat al-Ar’eer, died of wounds sustained in an Israeli airstrike on the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, south of Gaza City, according to the same network.

The Saudi-led coalition said on Saturday it had intercepted and destroyed a hostile drone launched by the Houthi group over the “Riyadh region”, Middle East Eye reported. On Friday, the Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen said it had intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched toward the kingdom’s southern region, as well as a drone over Riyadh, according to Arab News.

Russia's Defense Ministry said it struck a dry cargo ship at sea 18 kilometers south of Odessa that was delivering military cargo for the needs of the Ukrainian army, according to the state news agency TASS.

Nigeria’s military said troops backed by air support repelled attacks by Islamist fighters on military positions in the northeastern Borno and Yobe states and killed 48 insurgents, according to Reuters. In the same military statement, one soldier was killed and two others wounded during the counteroffensive, and troops seized 52 firearms from the ISWAP fighters, according to Xinhua.

Myanmar is waging the world’s second-most intense drone war, after the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, according to El País. A London School of Economics (LSE) report reaches the same conclusion, calling Myanmar’s war the world’s second-most intense conflict for drone attacks after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The military junta, which seized power in 2021, is responsible for seven out of every 10 drone strikes in the country, in a war with an opposition divided into dozens of armed groups.

Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains 70 percent below pre-conflict levels, according to a weekly assessment by the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO). The body recorded 277 vessel transits in the seven days to October 28, 155 inbound and 122 outbound. Since the conflict began on February 28, UKMTO counts 88 incidents in the strait, with at least 35 attacks on shipping in October — the worst month for attacks since the conflict started.

The Israeli military said in a statement on Friday that it killed two Hamas commanders in an airstrike on the Nuseirat area in the central Gaza Strip the previous day. One of the commanders was identified as Ihab Jamil Abu Taqiya, a squad commander in Hamas’ military wing, who, according to the statement, was involved in holding Israeli hostages at the beginning of the war. Xinhua reported.

US President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House on Friday that Iran wants to talk and keeps talking, and that Tehran is struggling to meet its financial obligations to security personnel: “There are talks. They want to talk. They keep talking. They’re not paying their soldiers. They’re not paying their police. They’re in a lot of trouble.” Earlier Friday, Trump told Kansas City radio station KCMO that the military confrontation with Iran was approaching its conclusion, though he did not provide a timetable or explain how an agreement might be reached, Israel National News reported.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards Navy (IRGC Navy) said four oil tankers had caught fire and exploded in the Strait of Hormuz while attempting to use what it described as unauthorized routes, Reuters reported, citing Iranian state media. The Associated Press (AP) reported that Iran said four tankers struck mines and caught fire. In its latest statement, the IRGC Navy said a fourth vessel, a tanker carrying more than 2 million barrels of crude oil, had hit a mine, suffered a powerful explosion and was burning.

The administration of US President Donald Trump approved a proposed $2.1 billion sale of Patriot air defense interceptors for Ukraine on Friday, after Kyiv accused the Pentagon of delaying delivery of the munition, the Associated Press (AP) reported. The State Department approved the potential sale of 500 Patriot air defense interceptor missiles to Ukraine on Friday, CNN reported.

Almost 5,000 Palestinians have been displaced by Israel’s military siege on the southern West Bank city of Hebron, according to Al Jazeera. The number of people removed from their homes stands at 4,969, including 441 elderly people, 336 infants under two years old and 312 patients with chronic diseases. The siege began on October 23, after two Palestinians shot dead two Israeli soldiers in Hebron and wounded three others, before the army killed the two attackers.

Stephen Hubbard, 74, a retired Michigan teacher, said on Friday that he only believed he would be freed when he was given new clothes and led to the prison exit, in his first public remarks since his release. He said he had been told many times that he would be released but never trusted what he heard. Trump, who hosted him in the Oval Office, said he had asked Vladimir Putin to free Hubbard and that the United States did not have to release anyone in return. Hubbard was held for more than four years on charges that he fought as a mercenary in Ukraine; his legal team denies the accusations and says he was not involved in any military activity. Putin decided to release him as a gesture of goodwill, according to TASS.

On the eighth day of the military operation in Hebron, Israeli troops kept the al-Jalda and Deir Bahha neighbourhoods sealed off and fired tear gas and stun grenades at displaced Palestinian residents trying to return home, according to the Middle East Eye. Settlers attacked a Palestinian family harvesting olives in the village of Tel Rumeida near Hebron, injuring five. More than 115 Palestinians have been detained since the operation began, and more than 780 families have been affected, 537 of them fully displaced, according to WAFA, cited by the Middle East Eye.

Israeli troops have intensified attacks in southern Lebanon, blowing up homes and other structures while carrying out artillery shelling and machine-gun fire in several areas, according to the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA), cited by TRT World. Israeli forces carried out extensive machine-gun fire over the towns of Khiam and Qantara and set homes on fire in Qantara, according to the NNA. On Wednesday, Israeli forces bulldozed, shelled and demolished homes across southern Lebanon, with drones over Beirut and its southern suburbs, in the latest violation of a US-mediated framework agreement, according to the NNA, as reported by Anadolu Agency.

The government of Nayib Bukele announced it is sending more than 2,000 soldiers to Haiti, in a statement issued after a phone call with Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, CNN en Español reported. The reinforcement follows the disappearance of four Salvadoran soldiers serving in the UN gang-repression force, according to DW. Bukele said the four may be held hostage by criminal groups and announced a military operation to locate them, according to RT Brasil.

The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said it intercepted a drone launched by the Houthis toward Saudi Arabia’s Mecca region, according to Al Jazeera. A Houthi spokesperson denied targeting the Muslim holy city or the surrounding region, reiterating that the group’s cross-border attacks remain focused on Saudi energy and military infrastructure. Middle East Eye reported the coalition’s accounts of drones over Mecca and Medina, which the Houthis denied.

A spokesperson for the Yemeni government’s armed forces said on Friday that the Houthis had attacked Aden airport and the Maashiq presidential palace complex, according to Middle East Eye. A police official told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that the Houthis had targeted the presidential palace with two missiles, Middle East Eye reported.

People living in the besieged Russian-held city of Oleshky in southern Ukraine began to be evacuated on Friday as part of a joint relief operation, the first of its kind in four years and eight months of war, the Guardian reported. The humanitarian convoy, including 25 buses and ambulances, arrived in the city to deliver food and medicine and evacuate those wishing to leave for Russia or Ukraine. The localized ceasefire in the Kherson region allowed the roads out of Oleshky to be demined, making the evacuation possible.

Ukraine requested an emergency meeting of the United Nations (UN) Security Council on Friday, October 30, over Russia's latest wave of missile and drone attacks that left at least 25 people dead and 110 wounded nationwide, the Kyiv Post reported. According to LIGA.net, the request was submitted in response to the Russian attacks on Dnipro, Kremenchuk and Chernihiv on October 29.

Oman rescued 25 crew members from the RITI, a merchant ship flying the Panamanian flag that the tracking website MarineTraffic identified as a crude oil tanker, after the vessel was targeted and set ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz. The Omani Maritime Security Centre said in a statement on Friday that it had evacuated the people aboard the ship, according to Al Jazeera. Oman said it had rescued 25 sailors from a merchant ship that was targeted and set ablaze in the blockaded strait, the Times of Israel reported.

A supertanker carrying more than 2 million barrels of oil was among three tankers that exploded and caught fire while traveling through an unauthorized route in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said on Friday, according to the Associated Press (AP). The force said the vessel had struck a naval mine. Oman’s navy evacuated 25 crew members of the merchant ship Riti, sailing under the Panamanian flag, after it was targeted and a fire broke out on board, Oman’s Maritime Security Center said in a statement. The United Arab Emirates said on Friday that the oil leak from the Gem No. 2 tanker had been stopped, with no new leakage detected, as cleanup operations continued along affected coastlines, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Ukraine has temporarily paused strikes on Russian oil refineries after weeks of pressure from US President Donald Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported, in an article published by Türkiye Today, citing people familiar with the operations. The unofficial pause reportedly began early last week and is expected to last until after the US midterm elections, potentially extending further into November, according to the report. “Our guys tried to be a little more careful during these days. But they do not have an order” not to hit refineries, Zelenskyy told reporters in Kyiv.

The Saudi-led coalition said on Friday it had intercepted and destroyed a drone near Riyadh as well as a missile fired by Yemen's Houthis toward Saudi Arabia's southern region, according to Middle East Eye. Earlier on Friday, the coalition said it had intercepted a Houthi drone in the Mecca region, with the group denying it targeted Islam's holiest city.

Al-Ain media in the United Arab Emirates reported that dozens of government troops and Houthis were killed and wounded on Friday in fierce battles in Al-Maqatra district of Lahj, following a large-scale attack by the Houthis, according to the Jerusalem Post, which cited the outlet.

Israel demolished on Friday the homes of the assailants who killed two Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron last week, Reuters reported in a text published by Al-Monitor. In a statement announcing the demolitions, Israel’s military said it would “continue to operate proactively and offensively” to thwart attacks in the West Bank. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military would “destroy” the neighborhood where the two attackers came from and that Israel was ready for “extensive action” in the occupied West Bank, the BBC reported.

The chief executive of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom, Alexey Likhachev, said that employees of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant are being deliberately targeted by Ukrainian troops, according to TASS.

Hussein al-Ezzi, a member of the political bureau of the Ansarullah movement, said resolving the conflict with Saudi Arabia requires stopping the aggression, lifting the siege and paying compensation, according to Mehr News. He said the confrontation would continue without the three conditions being met.

Senator Chris Murphy said he was briefed on the United States (US) plan to restart the war on Iran and called the proposal “insane,” saying it would lead to a “devastating escalation,” according to Middle East Eye. Murphy said the plan developed will lead, in his view, to a prolongation and an escalation of the war that will be devastating for the country’s security interests.

Iran’s Army Navy said it destroyed an enemy unmanned surface vessel (USV) in the eastern Strait of Hormuz on Friday, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). The agency said two oil tankers that were transiting prohibited areas with their tracking systems turned off suffered damage and caught fire after hitting sea mines, disregarding warnings and regulations.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that preparations for trilateral talks on Ukraine do not imply any commitment to limiting hostilities, according to Sputnik. Peskov told reporters that Russia is against a ceasefire that would give the Ukrainians a respite.

United States (US) President Donald Trump said in an interview with KCMO radio that the conflict between the US and Iran will end very soon, according to Chinese state agency Xinhua. Trump said in the same interview that there must be a guarantee that there will never be a nuclear weapon, according to Al Arabiya.

A tanker transiting the Strait of Hormuz was hit by two limpet mines fixed by a small boat and suffered a fire in its engine room, the first successful use of such explosives in the waterway since the start of the United States (US) war with Iran in February, according to Reuters, in a text republished by gCaptain. The British naval agency United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said the crew is safe, with no environmental impact, the fire extinguished and the vessel heading to its next port, according to OilPrice. The navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said two tankers attempting unauthorized routes in the strait encountered incidents and were stopped in the waterway's southern waters, according to Mehr News. Brent crude reached US$117 a barrel in Asian trade amid fears of escalation after the US midterm elections on November 3, according to OilPrice.

More than 1,400 Africans have been enlisted since 2023 to fight for Russia in Ukraine, an issue notably absent from the official agenda of the Russia-Africa summit, according to France 24. In Tunisia, the families of several men who traveled to Russia for work or study are still searching for answers about the fate of their loved ones.

More than 25 dockworkers’ unions across at least 110 ports in 22 countries went on strike on Friday (October 30), according to Al Jazeera. The stoppage is part of an international campaign against arms shipments and for better working conditions, the unions said. Unions in France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Turkey and Morocco issued a joint call for an end to the wars in the Middle East, including the war in Gaza.

The head of United States Central Command (CENTCOM), Admiral Brad Cooper, briefed President Donald Trump on Thursday on options for renewed attacks on Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported, according to Al Jazeera. The US and Israel have drawn up joint plans to attack Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, The New York Times reported, according to the same Al Jazeera report.

The evacuation of Oleshky, a Ukrainian city under Russian occupation, is under way, confirmed by Russian and Ukrainian authorities, with a convoy of 25 buses allowing up to 750 people to leave until 14:00 local time (12:00 GMT), along with ambulances for people with limited mobility. Ukrainian ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets and his Russian counterpart, Yana Lantratova, traveled to the city together on Friday to follow the operation, the BBC reported. An aid convoy entered the Russian-held town, in Ukraine's southern Kherson region, after weeks of efforts to organize a relief operation for residents, Al Jazeera reported.

At least 14 people, including children, were killed in several drone strikes on Thursday (October 29) on a camp for displaced people in Ethiopia's Amhara region, three witnesses told AFP in a report published by The Hindu. Local media and conflict monitors reported at least 16 civilians killed and 22 injured in Thursday's strike on a camp for people displaced by conflict in Ethiopia's northern Amhara region. The camp houses more than 1,800 internally displaced people, many of whom fled violence in the Oromia region, including the Wollega area, according to Anadolu.

Ukraine resumed drone attacks on Russian oil refineries, and a refinery in Russia's Samara region was struck in the new wave, according to Al Jazeera. Russian authorities say they intercepted more than 1,000 Ukrainian drones over multiple regions overnight, the broadcaster reported.

Israel's Border Police and military seized a weapons cache in the West Bank village of Hable, near Kalkilya, on Thursday night: three handguns, one of them an airsoft pistol, an M-4 assault rifle, components for several M-16 rifles, more than 2,300 rounds of assorted ammunition and 67 magazines, according to police, who announced the raid on Friday morning and arrested two suspects. Also on Thursday night, Israeli soldiers arrested four people in the area around Jenin. In Nablus, Israeli forces stormed Joseph's Tomb in the eastern part of the city at dawn and raided homes in nearby villages, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, cited by Middle East Eye.

Saudi Arabia said on Friday it had intercepted and destroyed a drone launched by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels near Mecca, Islam's holiest city, a claim the Houthis deny. Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree dismissed the coalition's account as false in a post on X, saying the group had not carried out any operation against Saudi territory and that its operations target Saudi oil facilities and military bases, according to Reuters.

Bukele called US President Trump on Tuesday to make sure Trump had no problem with a major military escalation in Haiti, to which the Haitian government has agreed, and was told, “Do what you have to do,” according to sources briefed on the call. El Salvador announced Wednesday it was deploying as many as 2,000 troops to Haiti, a number that could double or triple, according to the same sources.

Russian forces carried out a massive overnight strike on Ukrainian military-industrial enterprises and the power facilities sustaining them, also hitting port infrastructure in the Odessa region, as well as drone and missile plants in Kyiv, substations in Kyiv and Dnepropetrovsk and port targets in Odessa, Russia's Defense Ministry said, as cited by TASS. Ukraine's air defense forces say they neutralized three Russian missiles and 96 drones in the overnight attack, with impacts recorded at 17 locations, Ukrinform reported.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force says it intercepted a fighter jet described as hostile near Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday night, according to Mehr; Qeshm residents heard explosions and saw unidentified lights and heard unidentified sounds in the sky and over the water, according to the Jerusalem Post.

An aid convoy started moving overnight toward Oleshky, a Russian-held town in southern Ukraine, carrying food and medical supplies, according to the Russian newspaper Izvestia — Ukrainian ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets, who heads Ukraine’s negotiating team, said Thursday that demining of the routes was completed and the humanitarian convoy was assembled and ready, according to the Associated Press (AP). The Kremlin said it hopes the aid reaches Oleshky on Thursday or Friday and that those who wish to leave will be able to do so, Interfax reported on Thursday.

Ukraine’s military has paused its strikes on Russian oil refineries after pressure from US President Donald Trump, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited people with knowledge of the operations. The unofficial pause is expected to last until after the US midterm elections and potentially deeper into November, according to the Jerusalem Post, which also reported that long-range strike units were told in mid-October that the campaign against refineries was on hold once missions already in motion were completed.

Houthi spokesperson Yahya Saree said six attacks hit vital commercial and military infrastructure from Saudi Arabia's east coast to its west coast, reaching Riyadh and the southern region of Najran, in a statement posted on X, according to Al Jazeera. The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted and destroyed a drone launched by the Houthis in the Mecca region, according to the Times of Israel. The Houthis deny targeting Mecca and Medina and have rejected previous coalition accusations that they launched drones towards the two holy cities of Islam, according to the Jerusalem Post.

President Vladimir Putin said Russia is ready for a war with Europe but “does not want” a conflict, and that Moscow “supports any steps” toward restoring relations with European countries, according to TASS, in a text republished by RBC Ukraine.

A Russian drone slammed into a busy platform at the railway station in Dnipro, Ukraine, killing at least 14 people, according to ABC News. Ukraine’s Air Force said it had intercepted three jet-powered drones in the daytime attack, but a fourth evaded its defenses and hit the station, also according to ABC News.

The Houthis said Thursday they had attacked Saudi Arabia's Ras Tanura refinery, the largest in the kingdom; the Rabigh refinery; an Aramco facility in Abqaiq; and King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, according to the Jerusalem Post. There was no immediate confirmation from Saudi authorities. The Saudi-led coalition said it had intercepted two ballistic missiles launched toward the capital, after AFP correspondents heard at least eight explosions in Riyadh, and the Houthi-run health ministry reported 12 killed and three critically injured in attacks it attributes to Saudi Arabia on residential areas in western Yemen.

Syria said on Wednesday that a French jihadist was killed in a shootout with security forces in the country's northwest, the latest violence involving foreign fighters since Syria's new authorities took power, according to The Hindu.

Shrapnel falling after the interception of two missiles wounded one Saudi citizen, Saudi Arabia's Civil Defense Authority said, according to Middle East Eye.

Colombia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that 256 Colombians have died and 973 are missing in Russia's war against Ukraine, according to G1. The deaths were recorded through two channels — 162 through information from Ukraine and 94 through information from Russia — and among the missing, 676 cases were registered through Ukraine and 297 through Russia, according to UPI.

The Saudi-led coalition says its air defenses intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles fired by the Houthis towards Riyadh, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), in a report by the Middle East Eye.

Trump met at the White House on Thursday with the top US military commander to review options for attacking Iran, according to the Wall Street Journal, in reporting by G1. Senator Chris Murphy said he had been briefed on the US plan to restart the war on Iran and called the proposal insane, saying it would lead to a devastating escalation, according to the Middle East Eye. He spoke after US media reported on Wednesday that the United States had warned several Gulf Arab countries to be prepared for a short, intense military offensive against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections.

Taiz Governor Nabil Shamsan said at a briefing that the city “is in famine, not on the brink of it”, while local officials say a siege by Houthi rebels has pushed residents into famine. A Saudi airstrike in western Taiz killed at least 13 people on Thursday, according to the Houthi-run health ministry. The World Food Program said it cannot reach over 600,000 people in the city who depend on humanitarian aid, and that wheat flour stocks are nearly exhausted.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) may exit or reduce their presence over the coming weekend in the Hebron neighborhood they have occupied since last weekend, according to the Jerusalem Post, which says the situation is uncertain and highly dynamic. Before the election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the recommendation from IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir to leave the area and allow the at least 2,000 evacuated Palestinians to return home. Adalah petitioned the High Court of Justice on Thursday on behalf of Hebron’s municipality and seven residents to halt forced evacuations and demolitions and secure the return of residents ordered out of their homes.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Thursday it had received a report that a tanker was struck by an unknown projectile while transiting outbound through the Strait of Hormuz, according to Middle East Eye. No injuries to the crew or environmental impact was reported, UKMTO said.

Iran said three oil tankers exploded and caught fire after striking naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz over the past 24 hours while attempting to transit an unauthorized route, according to the state broadcaster, which cited the Revolutionary Guard Corps. The Associated Press could not immediately confirm the report. A British military monitor said a vessel spotted another vessel on fire while transiting the strait.

A court in the United Arab Emirates has sentenced eight people to life imprisonment over arms trafficking and money laundering linked to Sudan’s army, state media reported. The network intertwined arms deals, commercial companies, bank transfers and cash payments in the supply of weapons, ammunition and military equipment to the Sudanese Army. The court ordered the confiscation of ammunition and communications devices used in the crimes and the deportation of those convicted from the UAE after serving their sentences.

A Russian drone strike killed at least 14 people on a crowded platform at the Dnipro station in Ukraine on Thursday, where passengers waited to board a regional train to Zaporizhzhia, Reuters reported in a text republished by SRN News. Ukrainian state railway operator Ukrzaliznytsia said a jet-powered drone struck the platform and that the air force intercepted three drones, but a fourth broke through the defenses. President Volodymyr Zelensky called the attack “horrific” and said it demands a response from Kyiv’s allies.

The container ship Contship Jet, Greek-owned and operated by Israel's ZIM Integrated Shipping Services, was hit by at least three unmanned drone vessels and sank in the Black Sea, according to Globes. The ship had sailed from Haifa, and the 421 containers it carried went down with it. The crew was rescued unharmed. All 18 crew members, 14 Filipinos and four Ukrainians, were taken to the Bulgarian port of Varna, according to Israel Hayom. ZIM said the ship was small, chartered and not owned by the company, that the crew was safely evacuated and that the initial estimate of financial damage is minimal, the company told Globes.

Russia's Defense Ministry said it hit a dry cargo ship at sea carrying military and dual-use cargo to the port of Odessa for the Ukrainian armed forces. “As a result of strikes at sea, a dry cargo ship delivering military and dual-use cargo to the port of Odessa for the Ukrainian armed forces was hit,” the ministry said in a statement, according to Sputnik.

Russia and Ukraine began a localized ceasefire on Tuesday to allow humanitarian aid into Oleshky, a Russian-occupied town on the left bank of the Dnipro in southern Ukraine, according to DW. Both sides confirmed the truce took effect at 3 a.m. local time (0100 GMT), after an agreement brokered by US first lady Melania Trump. Around 2,000 people, including up to 50 children, remain trapped in the town, according to Ukrainian and US estimates.

The US Treasury sanctioned Rwanda's Ministry of Defense and the Zigama Credit and Savings Society, a Rwandan financial institution that, according to the department, played a key role in facilitating Rwanda's support for the March 23 Movement (M23) and its political wing, the Congo River Alliance. According to the BBC, the Treasury says the Rwandan ministry directed thousands of troops to fight alongside M23 in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), providing weapons, equipment, logistics and training.

Fighting has escalated on several fronts south of Taiz, in southwestern Yemen, with media affiliated with government forces reporting a surge in hostilities with the Houthis, according to Al Jazeera. More than 281,000 people have fled their homes in Yemen since the beginning of August, according to the UN humanitarian agency cited by the broadcaster.

Israel has asked the United States for permission to strike previously untargeted energy facilities in Iran if the military campaign against Tehran resumes, according to state broadcaster Kan, cited by TASS. On Wednesday, Donald Trump told Republican supporters in Ohio, ahead of the US midterm congressional elections, that he intended to end the war against Iran very quickly.

The European Union (EU) spent an average of $30.7 billion a month on petroleum oil imports between April and July, up from $19.7 billion in the same period of 2025, according to OilPrice. Since volumes rose by just 1.2%, Euronews Business estimates the bloc paid $11 billion more on oil imports in April–July than a year earlier.

Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike in central Gaza, according to Al Jazeera, which cited medical sources, and ambulance and emergency services reported that a drone strike hit a vehicle in the Maghazi camp, according to Middle East Eye.

Israeli forces arrested at least 13 Palestinians on Thursday in raids across the occupied West Bank and continued raids and closures in Hebron for a seventh consecutive day, shutting iron gates around the Old City and seizing Palestinian homes, according to Palestinian sources cited by TRT World.

Sudan accused Ethiopia of providing platforms on its territory for launching drones that recently targeted the country on Wednesday and warned of risks to regional security and stability, according to the Chinese agency Xinhua. Sudanese Foreign Minister Khalid said Sudan reserved the right to defend its security by all legitimate means. Over the past three days, drones the agency links to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have targeted electricity stations in multiple Sudanese states.

Russia’s Ministry of Defense said on Thursday its air defenses intercepted and destroyed 1,214 Ukrainian drones between 8 p.m. on October 28 and 8 a.m. on October 29, Moscow time, according to the Russian agency Sputnik. The count covers the whole night, and Moscow says the drones targeted Russia in that period, according to TRT World.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Thursday that three oil tankers exploded and caught fire after hitting sea mines over the past 24 hours while attempting to cross an unauthorized route south of the Strait of Hormuz, in a statement carried by state media. The claim has no independent confirmation. The independent maritime report came earlier, from the British agency United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), which reported a ship on fire in the strait without details on the cause or casualties.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 613 drones were launched toward the city and its surroundings between 20:30 and 7:00, and that most were neutralized by air defense. On the other side, a train was hit in Dnipro and at least 13 people were killed, according to Ukrainian authorities. The head of the Dnipro region, Serhiy Ganzha, reported 13 dead and said at least five injured were receiving medical care.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) received a report of a vessel ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz, 9 nautical miles north of Khasab, Oman, according to Middle East Eye, and the master of a third vessel reported sighting another vessel on fire 17 km north of Khasab, with the status of the crew unknown, according to Mehr News.

Israeli attacks in Gaza killed at least four Palestinians and wounded more than 30, including one Palestinian who died from wounds sustained in an Israeli attack on a checkpoint in al-Mawasi, southern Gaza, according to Mehr News.

US forces in the Middle East are prepared to launch major military operations against Iran within 96 hours of receiving an order from President Donald Trump, according to two officials cited by CNN, and one official said it “will be a big effort”.

A bombing by the Colombian Armed Forces against a Clan del Golfo structure in the department of Chocó left at least six dead and one captured, according to a preliminary toll confirmed by President Abelardo de la Espriella, who said the toll so far is six killed and one captured, “but there are more”.

Barack Obama criticized Donald Trump’s handling of the war with Iran, saying allies and bases have been attacked, Americans have been killed and hundreds have been wounded. According to the former president, the US has run down its missile stock, making the country more vulnerable, and Iran now has veto power over the Strait of Hormuz. Obama also linked the rise in oil and diesel prices to the conflict.

Nyala Teaching Hospital, supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), received 36 bodies after the Sudanese Armed Forces drone strike on Dumaya market, at about 8 p.m. on Monday, 21 of them wearing civilian clothing, according to MSF. The health ministry of the Tasees government, for its part, put the toll at 188 killed and 356 injured in the attack on the market in Nyala, according to Dabanga Sudan.

Israeli attacks killed five Palestinians and wounded 32 in the Gaza Strip, in Palestine, on Tuesday, according to medical sources cited by Anadolu, while a six-year-old girl and a man succumbed to wounds sustained in earlier attacks. The girl died on Tuesday morning after being shot by Israeli forces in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the WAFA news agency.

Activist Adele Shoko said Israeli settlers attacked her and two colleagues in the Palestinian village of Umm al-Khair, in the Masafer Yatta area of the occupied West Bank, in Palestine,, according to social media posts. According to Shoko, US journalist Jasper Nathaniel was also beaten, pepper-sprayed and arrested, then taken away by Israeli forces.

US officials told Middle East countries and regional allies to be prepared for potential renewed military action against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections — as well as for the possibility that Iran will attempt to retaliate against them, according to two diplomats briefed on the matter who spoke to the AP. Donald Trump has not made a final decision on whether to carry out new strikes, but has repeatedly said he is weighing ordering new military action once the elections are over. The allies were also urged to take precautionary measures in anticipation that Iran's response will include retaliatory strikes on energy facilities and other crucial infrastructure.

Australian SAS officers knew that soldiers under their command were using “throwdowns” — planting weapons on dead Afghan civilians to portray them as combatants — and did nothing to stop the unlawful practice, according to a previously unpublished military report cited by The Guardian. The executive summary of a 2021 investigation into the “cultural context” of the special operations command by the inspector general of the Australian Defence Force, posted online this week, is scathing about the “breakdown of command” and the erosion of military discipline. An earlier Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force (IGADF) report, the Brereton Inquiry, made public in 2020, found credible information that Australian special forces personnel murdered 39 Afghan civilians and prisoners.

The Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed a ballistic missile fired by the Houthis from Yemen towards the kingdom's eastern region early on Thursday, according to the Jerusalem Post. Saudi Arabia's Civil Defense issued two alerts warning of potential danger in Najran and in the Eastern Province, before saying minutes later that the danger had passed in both areas. On the previous Saturday, the Civil Defense said it had intercepted two Houthi missiles launched toward the Mecca and Medina regions, with debris falling in Jeddah, Taif and Rabigh.

Another 15 drones flying toward Moscow, in Russia, have been destroyed, according to the mayor of the Russian capital, Sergey Sobyanin, TASS reported.

More than 100 people were killed in a Sudanese military drone strike on a busy market in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur province, on Monday, with 113 wounded, according to the Associated Press (AP), which cites the Emergency Lawyers group. The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Nyala received 36 bodies and treated 150 wounded in its emergency room after the strike, according to NBC News.

Yemen’s Health Ministry warned on Wednesday of a growing health and humanitarian crisis in Taiz and called for lifting the Houthi siege, saying 246,711 people have lost access to essential health services, including more than 186,000 children under five and about 23,000 pregnant women, according to Yemen's Health Ministry.

Israeli aircraft flew at low altitude and dropped thermal balloons over southern Lebanon on Wednesday, Lebanon's National News Agency reported. The Lebanese army had previously warned that the balloons pose a threat to citizens because of their explosive and incendiary contents, urging residents not to approach or touch them since they are prone to exploding.

Three Palestinians were killed and 10 others injured on Wednesday when Israeli warplanes struck a government facility in al-Mawasi in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to Middle East Eye. In central Gaza, three people were wounded in an Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp, some of them seriously.

The United States warned several Gulf Arab countries to be prepared for a short, intense military offensive against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, according to The Wall Street Journal, cited by Middle East Eye. US forces have been restocking their munitions in the region, and bomber aircraft and jet fighters are preparing for attacks, officials told the newspaper.

Fighting in southern Ethiopia has pushed some 50,000 people across the border into Kenya since clashes erupted last week, the United Nations said, citing local authorities. Fatima Mohammed-Cole, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) representative for Kenya, said up to 50,000 people have crossed into Kenya, according to local authorities. The clashes pit the armies of the Somali and Oromia regions against each other.

Yemen's Houthi armed forces called for the immediate evacuation of Aden airport, citing the presence of a Saudi military cargo plane they said was carrying weapons, in a statement carried by Mehr News. A Houthi missile later hit “the area under the control of Saudi forces inside the perimeter of Aden airport”, according to a police officer cited by AFP in a G1 report. Al-Masirah, a TV channel linked to the Houthis, said a Saudi strike on Hazm, the capital of Al-Jawf province, killed 16 people and wounded 10, including women and children.

At least 10 people are feared dead and many injured after two high-speed trains collided in Toledo province in central Spain, according to The Guardian. Services between Madrid and the southern region of Andalusia were suspended following a rear-end collision between two trains on Wednesday morning. A local government spokesperson told TVE that the death toll “will almost certainly rise.”

A localized truce in the devastated city of Oleshky, in southern Ukraine, held for its first 30 hours without violations, Russia’s ombudsperson Yana Lantratova and Ukraine’s human rights ombudsperson Dmytro Lubinets said on Wednesday, according to the Associated Press (AP), in a text republished by The Hill. The truce began on Tuesday and is due to last through Sunday, in a humanitarian operation racing to get about 2,000 remaining residents food and medicine and to evacuate those who want to leave.

Jordan and Syria agreed on Tuesday to set up a joint security committee to investigate Jordanian airstrikes in southern Syria and step up coordination, according to TRT World. Seven people were killed and three injured in Monday’s strikes, according to Al Ekhbariya TV citing Daraa’s health directorate, and Jordan’s army said the targets belonged to groups tied to Friday’s attack on worshippers at a church in Hamoud, in Karak province.

About eight million children are outside the education system in Sudan, and public schooling is at risk of collapse, the Sudanese Teachers’ Committee said, according to AllAfrica. The teachers’ strike in Khartoum state entered its second consecutive day, with strong turnout in Karari, Bahri and East Nile, according to a committee statement issued on Tuesday.

Israeli attacks killed two Palestinians and wounded five others across Gaza on Tuesday, according to TRT World, citing medical sources. In northern Gaza, Israeli troops shot dead Mahmoud Samih al-Harsh, 28, on al-Hawja Street in the Jabalia refugee camp, medical sources told Anadolu. In Khan Younis, six-year-old Tahani Mohammed Saeed Shalalfeh died from wounds sustained in an Israeli attack in al-Mawasi the previous day.

Somalia’s government and Al-Shabaab issued sharply conflicting accounts of fighting near the southern city of Leego, with both sides claiming to have inflicted heavy losses, according to AllAfrica. The Somali defense ministry said federal troops killed 75 militants and wounded 56 others. The Al-Qaeda-linked insurgent group claimed it killed 321 government soldiers in an attack on Turkish-trained troops and an allied militia.

The United States has told several Gulf Arab countries to be prepared for a short, intense military campaign after the midterm elections, according to people briefed on the conversations, the Hindustan Times reported. The newspaper also cited new signs that the American and Israeli militaries are preparing a potential wave of strikes to muscle Tehran to the negotiating table.

A drone strike on a crowded market in Nyala, South Darfur, killed more than 100 people and injured 113 on Monday evening, according to rights groups and local officials cited by The Associated Press and Radio Tamazuj, in a report published by the Times of India. Emergency Lawyers, a rights group tracking violence in Sudan, said in a statement on Tuesday that the strike hit Tanqong Market in the Dumaya neighborhood of Nyala, a city controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said 36 bodies had arrived at its hospital in Nyala and that its emergency room had treated 150 injured people.

Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov told Channel One that Vladimir Putin has emphasized countless times that Volodymyr Zelensky can come to Moscow if he wants a one-on-one, where he will be provided with “all necessary precautions”, according to TASS. According to Ushakov, Zelensky’s surname was mentioned in light of the Ukrainian president’s insistent desire to talk directly with Putin.

A ceasefire that began with the aim of getting food and medicine to the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky has been extended across the wider southern region of Kherson, according to sources cited by the BBC. Under the deal, the ceasefire will be followed by deliveries of humanitarian aid to Oleshky and then evacuations, planned for Friday, for anyone wishing to leave. David Arakhamia, a key official in President Volodymyr Zelensky’s parliamentary party, said it would continue until 22:59 Ukrainian time on Sunday, November 1, and described the truce as the “largest de-escalation since 2022”.

A private geospatial intelligence firm said it examined 40 missile and drone attacks against Saudi Arabia, attributed to Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen and militias in Iraq, between July 1 and October 19, according to the Associated Press (AP). Nawaf Obaid, founder of AURORAH Geosignal Intelligence, said there is a “100% match” between the satellites’ activity and the strikes. Three officials, including one from Saudi Arabia and another in the top ranks of the Houthis, as well as a private intelligence analyst, told AP that the Houthis and other Iranian allies have benefited from Russian intelligence.

A local ceasefire in Oleshky, a southern Ukrainian city under Russian occupation, appeared to be holding on Tuesday, with both sides ceasing drone attacks ahead of an apparent evacuation of about 2,000 trapped civilians, the Guardian reported. Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said Russian President Vladimir Putin told Finland's president, Alexander Stubb, and Norway's prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, that Zelensky could come to Moscow for direct talks.

Qatar and Iran discussed the Middle East war and the blockaded Strait of Hormuz at a meeting in Moscow, the emir's office said. Iran's navy said an oil tanker caught fire after striking naval mines east of the Strait of Hormuz, after the vessel entered a prohibited area with its tracking systems switched off.

Houthi official Mohammed Ali al-Houthi said Tuesday that the Egyptian parliament's decision to authorize military support for Saudi Arabia to defend against the group's attacks amounted to a declaration of war, according to Channel News Asia. The comment was part of a statement reacting to a Monday visit to Tehran by the Saudi defense minister, alongside Pakistan's army chief and Türkiye's intelligence chief, in a bid to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East war.

A UN independent commission of inquiry concluded that Israel committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including extermination, persecution, torture and rape, and that it continues to commit genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting Palestinian civilians. In a report released Monday, the group of experts commissioned by the UN said the ceasefire agreement in Gaza has not stopped what it describes as genocide and accused Israeli forces of torture and rape in the West Bank. The document submitted to the General Assembly compares airstrikes in the West Bank: six Palestinians killed between 2008 and October 6, 2023, against 254 between October 7, 2023 and September 30, 2026.

The Houthis said on Tuesday they had struck Saudi Arabia’s Ras Tanura refinery, the kingdom’s largest, with a ballistic missile, while Bloomberg reported, citing a source familiar with the matter, that the kingdom contained a fire near the Ras Tanura terminal earlier that day, according to the Middle East Eye. The group’s military spokesman, Yahya Saree, said the attack caused “massive fires”, and a Houthi official said the Egyptian parliament’s authorization of defensive military support for Saudi Arabia amounted to a declaration of war. The Houthis also said they had attacked Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry in Riyadh, with no confirmation from Saudi Arabia, according to the Hindustan Times, which cited Reuters.

An Iraqi court on Tuesday sentenced six French nationals to life in prison and a seventh to 15 years after convicting them of membership in the Islamic State (IS) group, a Reuters witness inside the courtroom said, France 24 reported. The men were among 47 French IS suspects transferred from detention facilities in northeast Syria to Iraq last year under a broader relocation arrangement coordinated by US forces and Iraqi authorities.

Finland's president and Norway's prime minister on Tuesday held a “frank and substantive” call with Russian President Vladimir Putin about efforts to end the war in Ukraine, according to Le Monde. A statement from the two Nordic leaders said the call was held in consultation with Ukraine and followed an October 20 meeting in Oslo between Støre, Stubb, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and US envoy Steve Witkoff.

Jordan’s air force struck targets in southern Syria it describes as terrorist hideouts, tied to the attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Karak, according to Arab News. Damascus says civilians were killed. In Jordan, seven people were killed in an attack on a funeral, according to the BBC.

A drone strike on a market in Nyala, the de facto capital of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Darfur, killed 21 people and wounded at least 40, a medical source and witnesses told AFP, in a report published by Asharq Al-Awsat. In the country’s east, the RSF launched a coordinated drone attack against five power stations, causing mass power outages, a government official told the Guardian.

Israeli forces closed all entrances to Ramallah on Tuesday morning and set up checkpoints along alternative routes used by Palestinians, including the Ein Sinya and Atara checkpoints and the Rawabi gate to the north, as well as the Nabi Saleh and Aboud gates to the northwest, according to WAFA. Israeli troops also set up a checkpoint near the Ministry of Education district on the al-Bireh-Jalazone road and another on the road connecting Yabroud with Silwad, northeast of Ramallah, according to Mehr News.

Civilians in El Fasher, North Darfur, are still suffering detention, torture and limited access to humanitarian aid one year after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured the city, according to Amnesty International — the city now has fewer than 70,000 people, compared with almost one million before the war, according to estimates from humanitarian organisations.

Donald Trump described the summer ceasefire with Iran as a waste of time, according to TASS. On Monday he declared that past ceasefires with Iran were ineffective, brushing aside previous efforts to de-escalate tensions. The US-Iran ceasefire took effect in April and was later formalized and extended under the 60-day Islamabad Memorandum signed in June, before collapsing in July.

The Saudi-led coalition said its air defences destroyed four Houthi drones targeting the kingdom’s southern region, according to Middle East Eye. The coalition also said it intercepted and destroyed 10 ballistic missiles launched towards the same region, according to The National.

A localized ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine took effect early Tuesday ahead of a humanitarian mission in Oleshky brokered by US first lady Melania Trump, according to AP. The local pause in fighting started at 3 a.m. to allow an aid mission into the Russian-occupied town in southern Ukraine later this week. According to the UN, up to 2,000 people are stranded in Oleshky with dwindling food and medicine and are unable to leave because of explosive mines and drone attacks in the area. In a Telegram statement, Russia’s defence ministry said it had stopped firing toward the Ukrainian city of Kherson at 04:00 Moscow time (01:00 GMT) in preparation for the humanitarian operation, the BBC reported.

Syria closed its Nasib border crossing with Jordan on Tuesday, suspending passenger and commercial traffic in both directions, according to Anadolu. Syria's Civil Defence said its crews had recovered the bodies of seven people — three men, a woman and three children, according to Al Jazeera. The Jordanian military said the strikes on Syria were launched “in coordination with the Syrian government”, which Syria denied.

One person was killed and ten others were wounded — nine hospitalized — in Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital, according to an evening Telegram toll from Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko, according to Le Monde. Most of the wounded are students living in a university dormitory hit in the Desniansky district.

The Israeli military has carried out a new series of strikes on the Gaza Strip and says they killed four members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, according to the army press service, as cited by TASS.

A ceasefire tied to a humanitarian operation in Alyoshki is set to take effect in the Kherson direction from 4:00 a.m. Moscow time (1:00 a.m. GMT) on October 27, according to the TASS news agency. Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov announced on October 23 that Russian forces would cease fire in the Kherson direction from 4:00 a.m. on October 27 to allow for the operation in Alyoshki, in the Kherson Region.

Jordan said on Monday that its air force struck what it described as militant hideouts in southern Syria, after determining that the attackers behind last week's deadly church attack were linked to terrorist groups operating there, according to the Jerusalem Post. There was no immediate comment from Syrian authorities, and it was not clear whether the strikes were carried out in coordination with Damascus. The Xinhua news agency also reported Jordan's airstrikes on those behind the church attack.

The United Kingdom sanctioned 15 Sudanese commanders for sexual violence, torture and attacks on civilians during the fall of El Fasher and allocated 5 million pounds to survivors of sexual violence plus another 10 million pounds in humanitarian aid to Sudan. The list includes commanders from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces, all subject to a travel ban and an asset freeze, according to the Guardian.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Monday that authorities in Kiev have intensified targeted strikes on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and its satellite town of Energodar, according to the Sputnik news agency. Asked about the situation around the plant, Zakharova described Energodar as home to the plant's employees, who “continue to perform their duties in the most difficult conditions”, and her statement did not detail dates, locations or targets of the strikes.

Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched a coordinated drone attack on Monday against five power stations, causing mass power outages across the east of the country, a government official told AFP. The drones hit two power stations each in Al-Jazira and Gedaref states and one in White Nile state, leaving large parts of the three states without power, the official said on condition of anonymity.

The Saudi-led coalition said on Monday that three drones were intercepted and destroyed over the Riyadh region and southern regions, according to Middle East Eye. The coalition also said it intercepted a ballistic missile fired by Yemen's Houthis, after the group claimed a new attack on Riyadh airport, The Hindu reported.

Residents and the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) conflict monitor told AFP that at least 43 people were killed and 18 wounded when an unidentified armed group attacked villages in the Shirka district of Oromia, around 270 kilometres south of Addis Ababa, in a text republished by Punch. The attack on Orthodox Christian churches and homes in Ethiopia’s central state of Oromia happened on Saturday and killed more than 40 people, residents and the ACLED conflict monitor told AFP, in a text republished by CP24.

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israel committed war crimes and the crimes against humanity of extermination, persecution, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. According to the commission, Israel deliberately targets Palestinian civilians and continues to commit genocide in Gaza. The report records that six Palestinians were killed by airstrikes in the West Bank between 2008 and October 6, 2023, against 254 between October 7, 2023 and September 30, 2026, and concludes that Palestinians in the West Bank are targeted on the basis of their nationality, race and ethnicity, gender and age.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv has been waiting nearly a month for US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to sign off on missiles for Patriot and NASAMS air defence systems. He said he ordered his team to raise the matter with Washington again.

The number of people injured in the missile attack on Yelets has risen to seven, according to TASS.

The Israeli army killed five people, including a girl, in bombardments in the Gaza Strip, according to Le Monde.

High-level delegations from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey were in Tehran on Monday for meetings with Iranian authorities, in an attempt to avert renewed fighting between Iran, Israel and the United States, according to the Associated Press (AP), in a text republished by the Times Herald. Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman, Pakistani army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir and the head of Turkey’s intelligence service, Ibrahim Kalin, were to meet Iran’s top security officials and negotiators to push for a deal between Tehran and Washington. The war in Yemen and strikes by Iran-backed Houthi rebels against Saudi Arabia were also topics of the talks, according to AP, in a text republished by Bay News 9.

Three weeks ago, Hala, a Sudanese woman who used a different name for security reasons, left the Tawila refugee camp and returned to el-Fasher in a small vehicle operated by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary group that seized the North Darfur capital a year ago, in an account given to the campaign group Avaaz and shared with Middle East Eye. At the entrance to the city, about 60km east of Tawila, RSF fighters approached her and asked where she was going, how many days she planned to stay and where the family home was located. “They agreed and issued me an entry permit for el-Fasher. It was a piece of paper with my name, their signature, and the date,” she said. According to Hala, dealing with the fighters is very difficult: they can enter your house, threaten to rape you if you refuse to go with them, beat you and, if you argue, put you in prison. For women, traveling to el-Fasher is extremely dangerous. The day after she returned, she was threatened with abusive language in the street, with no physical assault because other civilians were nearby.

Two people were killed and 17 others, including a child, were injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Voronezh region, the regional governor said Monday, according to TRT World.

Israeli quadcopter drones set off a fire that destroyed tents in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood, displacing about 800 Palestinians, according to the Palestinian Public Works Ministry, cited by Middle East Eye. The same ministry said more than 200 families were forced to leave the camp at the Shujaiya intersection in eastern Gaza City, Palestine Chronicle reported.

A Russian strike on the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia injured four people overnight, the regional governor said on Telegram, according to The Hindu; two more were injured in strikes on the Chernihiv region, Ukraine’s emergency service said; President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv would halt strikes on Russian refineries only if Moscow stops hitting power infrastructure, or if the US allows the use of Starshield or supplies Patriots.

Drone strikes killed at least 306 people in the first three weeks of October in Sudan, hitting homes, markets, hospitals, displacement sites, power stations and water sources in Kordofan, Darfur, Blue Nile, Khartoum and other states in strikes attributed to both the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, according to the UN human rights office; UN human rights chief Volker Türk said drones already account for the majority of conflict-related civilian deaths in Sudan this year.

Nearly 2,000 Palestinians in Hebron were displaced as Israeli forces took over homes, according to The Guardian; Hebron Mayor Yousef al-Ja’bari told Al Jazeera that 2,200 people had been forced from their homes by Israeli troops and raids, and Israel’s defence minister confirmed “about 2,000” people displaced.

Pyongyang has sent a letter to the UN Security Council accusing Seoul of fabricating a landmine explosion that injured three South Korean soldiers, according to North Korea’s state Korean Central News Agency, as cited by Al Jazeera. The letter was delivered on Sunday by the country’s permanent representative to the UN and describes the incident as “a sinister obstructive move to brand as a ‘military invasion’”, saying that South Korea’s claims are a “farce to evade the responsibility for the ever-escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula”. Last week, South Korea’s foreign ministry had sent a letter to the Security Council president calling on the North to take responsibility for the landmine blast in the Demilitarized Zone, the Korea Herald reported. Seoul blames a September 21 explosion in the Demilitarized Zone on North Korean mines.

The death toll from the Israeli air strikes on Gaza on Sunday rose to eight, and the Islamic University of Gaza suspended in-person classes for the rest of the week, according to the Middle East Eye, citing Al Jazeera.

The Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis toward Riyadh, according to the Middle East Eye, after the Houthis said on Sunday they had launched a fresh strike on the Saudi capitalʼs international airport, hours after flights were announced to have resumed, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).

King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh partially reopened on Sunday after two weeks of closure, as the Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition continued to exchange attacks, according to the Xinhua news agency. The Houthis said they had launched dozens of ballistic missiles in three attacks against the kingdom, the first of them targeting King Khalid airport.

Serhii Beskrestnov, a defence technology adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said on Sunday that existing restrictions on Starlink's use in Ukraine prevented such operations, referring to drone strikes, the Hindustan Times reported. On Saturday, Elon Musk had written on X that “using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be”.

Police in Taraba state said unknown gunmen raided the village of Binnari in northeast Nigeria on Friday, killing at least 10 people, looting shops and setting houses ablaze, the BBC reported. Police said they recovered 10 bodies with gunshot wounds and warned the death toll could still rise as officers kept searching the nearby bush. Survivors who spoke to Agence France-Presse (AFP) said they had counted at least 20 dead. Amnesty International's Nigeria director, Isa Sanusi, told the BBC that bereaved families the organisation spoke to said up to 50 people had died, and that the initial funeral had 37 people.

Iran's Mehr news agency reported that the Revolutionary Guards' ground forces hit the headquarters of the Komala group in the Balisan region with drones the previous night, according to Middle East Eye, which cited the agency. Mehr described Komala as a “terrorist and separatist group”, and the target is in the Iraqi Kurdistan region.

Yemen's Houthis said on Sunday they had launched a fresh strike on Saudi Arabia's international airport in the capital Riyadh, hours after the kingdom announced that flights had resumed, Middle East Eye reported. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said on X that the group had “conducted three military operations with dozens of ballistic missiles” and that the strike on the airport “achieved its target”. The claim comes from the group itself.

Israeli forces sealed every major entry point into al-Khalil (Hebron), drove more than 2,200 Palestinians out of their homes and turned entire residential quarters into military barracks, according to the Tehran Times.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi declared that “nothing will be the same” as before the US-Israeli war against Iran, including the administration of the Strait of Hormuz, according to Mehr News.

UK Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said Britain must be ready for war in 1,000 days, as the government tells Britons to stock up with tinned food and bottles of water, according to The Independent. “That gives us a little over 1,000 days to complete our mission: to be ready with our allies to fight and win,” he said.

Russia's Defence Ministry said on Sunday that its drones struck a cargo vessel bound for the Black Sea port of Chornomorsk in an overnight attack and another cargo vessel en route to the port of Odesa during the day, according to Reuters, in a text republished by MarketScreener. Russian forces also hit a logistics centre, a distribution centre and a logistics terminal in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv overnight, according to the ministry. Reuters could not independently verify the ministry's information.

An Israeli strike on the Islamic University in Gaza City killed three people and wounded eight on Sunday, according to hospital staff, despite a truce agreement that has failed to end the violence fully. Two sources at the university identified the dead as administrative staff and said students are among the wounded. In Khan Younis, at least two Palestinians were killed and four injured in Israeli air strikes, according to the Middle East Eye.

Saudi Civil Defence said that shrapnel from two intercepted ballistic missiles, suspected to have been fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, fell in Jeddah, Taif, Rabigh and Wadi Al-Mughammas in Mecca province, according to Al Jazeera.

The United States Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees US forces in the Middle East, has plans ready for follow-up strikes on Iran if authorized by the White House, according to The Hill, in a report cited by Al Jazeera. On Saturday, President Donald Trump suggested the United States could strike as soon as “tomorrow”, while also raising the possibility of a “big, beautiful” agreement with Tehran, according to Al Jazeera.

Iran's supreme leader directed the judiciary to pursue compensation for damages caused by the US-Israeli war, according to the state news agency IRNA, in a report by Middle East Eye.

Two Iranian officials, one of them a Revolutionary Guards member, confirmed to The New York Times on Saturday that the Islamic Republic is preparing to target US diplomats and personnel, according to The Times of Israel. Neither official was identified by the newspaper.

At least three people were killed and 16 injured in Ukrainian attacks on Russia, while 10 people were injured in Russian strikes on Ukraine, officials from both countries said on Sunday. In Belgorod, one person was killed and 14 injured in a large-scale overnight drone attack, regional Governor Alexander Shuvaev said on the Russian social media platform Max. In Ukraine, 10 people, including three emergency responders, were injured in Russian strikes in Kharkiv and Vinnytsia, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said.

Iran's army air defense hit and destroyed a US Lucas drone over Bandar Abbas on Sunday morning, the army's public relations office said, according to Mehr News.

Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said on Sunday that a potential resumption of war with Israel and the United States would not change his country's positions.

The Saudi-led coalition said on Sunday it had intercepted 10 ballistic missiles fired by the Houthis towards the country's southern region. The coalition said two drones and a ballistic missile were launched towards Riyadh, and a cruise missile towards the southern city of Khamis Mushait. Late on Saturday, Riyadh's airport said Terminal 1 would be designated for domestic flights and Terminal 2 for international flights operated by national carriers starting Sunday.

A drone struck the headquarters of anti-Iran groups northeast of Erbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region, according to Reuters, which cited security sources in the region, in a report by Mehr News. No further details were announced on possible casualties or damage.

The death toll in the attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Karak, southern Jordan, rose to nine on Saturday, a day after the shooting, with nearly 40 others wounded, according to the Associated Press, in a text published by The Times of Israel. The church is in Hamoud village, in Karak governorate, about 90 kilometers (55 miles) south of Amman, and the attack happened as people had gathered for a funeral. Witness Saed al-Halaseh said three masked men armed with automatic weapons appeared all of a sudden and began firing indiscriminately at those standing outside. No group has claimed responsibility and no armed group has been accused of the attack, which Jordan's government described as a terrorist act. King Abdullah II directed authorities to respond with “an iron fist” against what he called the outlaws of Islam and anyone attempting to undermine the unity of the Jordanian people.

The Saudi-led coalition intercepted and destroyed a second drone in the Riyadh region, spokesman Major-General Turki al-Maliki said in a post on X. The coalition also said it intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis towards Riyadh.

Hamas leaders in Gaza conveyed to the UN humanitarian coordinator in the Strip, Ramiz Alakbarov, a message that the group is prepared to carry out another attack like the one of October 7, 2023, and asked for it to be delivered to Israel, according to the Times of Israel, which cites Ynet. The message was passed on to the Israeli army’s chief liaison to the Palestinians, Major General Yoram Halevy, who wrote an urgent letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz stating that it is an unusual threat, which had never been conveyed with that level of bluntness and directness. The excerpt of the letter was published on Saturday evening by Channel 13, according to the same outlet.

The Israeli army said Palestinians with work permits will be barred from settlements in the occupied West Bank on Sunday and Monday, except industrial zones and other approved areas, according to the Middle East Eye.

The center of Belgorod in western Russia came under a massive Ukrainian drone strike with significant damage and casualties, according to the city's mayor, Valentin Demidov. In a post on his Max channel, he said the strike hit residential neighborhoods in the city center, damaging residential buildings, cars and social and commercial facilities, and that preliminary reports indicated there were casualties.

The Houthis said they targeted three Saudi airports, including the international airport in Riyadh, as well as energy installations, a pipeline and an air base over the past 24 hours, in a new round of attacks on Saudi Arabia on Saturday, according to Le Monde. The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted two missiles targeting Taif and Yanbu on Saturday morning, while Saudi civil defence responded to debris in the Mecca and Medina regions. The Houthi broadcaster Al-Masirah said strikes by the kingdom in Yemen killed four people at a house in Sanaa, eight at a residential building for cement factory workers and five from the same family outside Hodeida.

Nigerian police said on Saturday that 10 bodies had been recovered as of Friday evening after a large group of gunmen on motorcycles attacked Binnari village in Taraba State in eastern Nigeria. Survivors told the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency that at least 20 people were killed, and Amnesty International said in a statement on Saturday that the death toll was 40.

The Israeli military forced around 1,200 Palestinians to leave their homes in Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, a Palestinian official said, a day after a Palestinian attack killed two Israeli soldiers. The operation in the al-Jaladah and Ein Deir Baha neighbourhoods, near the military checkpoint at the entrance to the city, is meant to search for militants and weapons, and the military said it would carry out demolitions. Yousef Zouhair al-Jabari, the head of Hebron's municipality, said around 1,300 more residents faced losing their homes in addition to the 1,200 already displaced.

Iraq believes Israel was behind recent strikes on two sites where Iran-backed militias had stockpiled “Chinese-made shoulder-fired air defense systems” sourced from Tehran, sources told London-based Asharq Al-Awsat, as reported by the Jerusalem Post. The report did not provide evidence for the claims and noted that parts of them could not be confirmed.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq said it will stand with Iran against what it described as Zionist-American aggression against the Islamic Republic, according to Mehr News. The statement said 171 violations of Iraqi airspace by American combat and surveillance aircraft were documented between September 30 and October 23.

Israeli artillery was shelling the town of al-Mansouri in southern Lebanon's Tyre district, according to Lebanon's National News Agency, as reported by the Middle East Eye.

Elon Musk accused Ukraine's military of violating Starlink's terms of service by using the system for offensive drone attacks, and said the gap was closed last week, in a post on social media platform X. Also on Saturday, Ukraine's government announced that Starlink and its military version, Starshield, were fully operational again after more than a week of restrictions, according to G1.

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis denied on Saturday Saudi Arabia's report that they attacked the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, after Riyadh said it had intercepted Houthi missiles headed towards the two cities, according to the Middle East Eye.

Israeli troops and the Civil Administration continued on Saturday to demolish buildings and infrastructure deemed illegal near the northern entrance to Hebron, as part of a large-scale military operation, according to the Jerusalem Post. During the operation, troops searched about 200 locations and arrested 10 suspects. Civilians who requested to evacuate were allowed to temporarily leave the area through designated checkpoints operated by the Shin Bet and the military.

The Houthis said on Saturday they attacked Aden, the interim seat of the Saudi-backed government, with military spokesman Yahya Saree saying the targets were what he called “Saudi enemy” concentrations at the Al-Nasr camp and the city’s naval base. Earlier, the Saudi-led coalition said it had intercepted two missiles targeting Taif and Yanbu in the kingdom’s west. According to the Houthis, a separate strike on a residential building for cement factory workers in the Sanaa governorate killed six women and one child and wounded three other people. The US updated travel advisories for the Gulf and the wider Middle East, citing what it described as the threat of “regional aggression” by Iran-aligned Houthis.

Ozon said its logistics center in Omsk came under a drone attack, with all staff evacuated and a fire at the site, and no one injured according to preliminary information. According to TASS, Russian air defenses were repelling the attack as the drones reached the Northern Industrial Cluster, and emergency services were working at the scene. Temporary restrictions on flight arrivals and departures had been imposed at Omsk Airport earlier on Saturday.

Yemen's Houthis reported that Saudi air strikes on Sanaa and the capital region they control killed at least four people and wounded several others on Saturday, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). Al-Masirah, a broadcaster affiliated with the group, also reported deaths and injuries in the Yemeni capital, according to G1. Saudi Arabia's Civil Defense issued alerts about possible risks to residents of Taif and Yanbu, as well as Mecca and Jeddah, the country's second-largest city, and about 10 minutes later said the threat had passed.

The Hebron municipality estimated that 35 hectares had been destroyed or marked for destruction, with about 1,500 people evicted from their homes in the Ein Deir Baha district by Saturday afternoon, according to The Guardian. Hebron Mayor Yousef al-Ja'bari told Al Jazeera that around 2,200 Palestinians had been forcibly displaced from their homes in the al-Jalda and Ein Deir Bahha neighbourhoods, as Israeli forces continue a military operation in the occupied West Bank. Days ahead of elections, Netanyahu said there is a “very big surprise” for the Palestinian Authority and, asked whether he would dismantle it, declined to answer directly, saying he favoured “ruse and surprise”, according to Malay Mail.

A Saudi airstrike on a house in the Asr neighbourhood of western Sanaa killed three people and wounded others on Saturday, according to the Houthi-linked Al-Masirah broadcaster. The station said that “the Saudi enemy” targeted the house and that the toll is preliminary.

Around 1,500 Palestinians have been forced from their homes in the occupied West Bank since Friday, and more than 200 families have been left homeless, according to Middle East Eye. Hebron Governor Khaled Dudin called for international intervention and told the Wafa news agency, cited by Middle East Eye, that the Israelis plan to force out 2,500 further people in the coming hours.

Two Palestinians, including a girl, were killed and three others injured on Saturday morning in Israeli drone and artillery attacks on Gaza City and Beit Lahia, according to PressTV. An Israeli drone fired a missile at a gathering of civilians near Palestine Stadium in the al-Rimal neighbourhood, killing a young man identified as Mohammed Annan al-Rawagh, medical sources told the Wafa news agency.

The death toll from the attack on an Orthodox church in Al-Karak, Jordan, has risen to eight after a Jordanian woman injured in the attack died in a local hospital, according to the kingdom’s Health Ministry, cited by TASS. The US embassy in Amman said security had been stepped up at malls, foreign embassies and other locations across Jordan after Friday’s attack, according to the Jerusalem Post.

The Israeli army kept up its siege of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, for a second consecutive day on Saturday, forcing dozens of Palestinians from their homes, according to Palestinian media. Separately, Israeli forces detained 19 Palestinians in raids across the occupied West Bank, according to TRT World.

The Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed two ballistic missiles fired by the Houthis towards Taif and Yanbu on Saturday, according to Middle East Eye. Saudi Arabia’s Civil Defense briefly issued alerts warning of potential danger in Taif, Yanbu, the holy city of Mecca and Jeddah, according to the same report.

Russia's Defense Ministry said Russian forces damaged at sea a cargo vessel carrying supplies for Ukraine's armed forces to the port of Odessa, according to a statement cited by Sputnik. Overnight, the ministry added, Russian forces also struck a workshop producing uncrewed boats at the port of Chernomorsk.

The World Food Programme (WFP) announced in September a 50 percent cut in the number of food aid recipients in the occupied West Bank, citing “critical funding constraints” resulting from reduced funding from international donors, according to Al Jazeera. The UN agency said about 900,000 people in the West Bank are currently suffering from food insecurity, according to the report.

Iran's armed forces chief of staff and commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, General Abdollahi, said the country will not allow “under any circumstances” rusting US warships to re-enter the Persian Gulf, according to the Middle East Eye. In remarks carried by Press TV, Abdollahi said Iran's armed forces had rendered the US Navy ineffective, to the point that it is no longer capable of approaching the waters around the Persian Gulf or Iran's territorial waters.

Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 616 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones overnight over Russian regions and the waters of the Azov and Black seas, the Russian Defense Ministry said, according to TASS.

At a campaign rally in Florida, US President Donald Trump said the country “may do another little Epic Fury, or they’ll agree”, the Times of India reported on Friday. Trump warned Iran of another potential military strike if Tehran fails to reach a diplomatic agreement with Washington.

A dialysis center in Taiz has cut sessions from four hours to two and a half because of the siege and the shortage of diesel and medical solutions, Dahan told Al Jazeera. In an October 12 statement, the governorate’s health office warned that the continued siege and the obstruction of essential supplies could endanger the lives of 1,110 patients with kidney failure.

UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said Britain is “redoubling” efforts to find diplomatic solutions to the Iran war because the conflict is “driving up bills for families in Britain”, Middle East Eye reported.

Israeli bulldozers demolished a three-storey building in Hebron, with families given five minutes to collect their belongings, as part of an operation the army said would last “for several days”, according to Al Jazeera. The announcement was made late on Friday and adds to operations by other forces in “dozens” of areas across the occupied West Bank. In the northern West Bank, Israeli forces raided at least 15 towns and detained dozens of Palestinians, according to Al Jazeera correspondents.

A tanker was hit by an unknown projectile seven nautical miles off the Omani coast, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said, according to the Middle East Eye. The vessel, which was transiting outbound in the Strait of Hormuz, was able to continue its journey to the next port of call.

Saudi Arabia's air defenses intercepted and destroyed a drone in the country's eastern region, a spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition said in a post on X, according to the Middle East Eye.

Jordan declared three days of national mourning for the victims of the shooting at a funeral at a Greek Orthodox church in Karak, about 180km (110 miles) south of Amman, according to the kingdom's Petra news agency. Gunmen opened fire during the funeral on Friday, killing seven people and wounding 40 others, according to authorities cited by the Guardian.

Two former Ukrainian prisoners held alongside freed US prisoner Stephen Hubbard said they witnessed him being beaten and humiliated by Russian guards during his four-year detention, according to the BBC. The accounts from the two corroborate statements by Hubbard’s family that he was tortured in prison.

Israel’s military launched an operation in the Hebron area expected to last several days, with systematic searches for infrastructure and weapons and the questioning of dozens of suspects, following Friday morning’s deadly Hamas attack, according to a joint statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency). According to the Jerusalem Post, the searches focus on the area out of which the attackers operated. Troops from the IDF, the Shin Bet, the Border Police and the Civil Administration are carrying out “targeted and thorough searches… in the area to locate and dismantle terror infrastructure and weapons, and to interrogate many dozens of suspects,” according to the Times of Israel.

UN human rights chief Volker Türk condemned on Friday an escalation in drone strikes across Sudan this month that killed at least 306 people and injured hundreds more in the first three weeks of October alone, according to AllAfrica. The strikes, attributed to both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), hit homes, markets, hospitals, displacement sites, power stations and water sources in Kordofan, Darfur, Blue Nile, Khartoum and other states, according to the UN human rights office (OHCHR).

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine is ready to hold a trilateral meeting with the United States and Russia next month in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, according to Xinhua, citing the Interfax-Ukraine news agency. The meeting at the negotiating-team level is planned for the first half of November and depends on the Russian side, he said in an online address to the Hudson Institute. The Kyiv Independent reported that negotiation teams from the three countries will meet in Abu Dhabi in November to begin peace talks.

Tehran has drawn up detailed plans to target undersea communications cables in the Gulf if the United States and Israel attack Iran again, two senior Iranian security officials told Reuters, according to The Hindu. One of them said Iran would aim to prevent repairs after any attacks, to prolong disruptions to communications, including internet connections.

US President Donald Trump said the country may launch “another little Epic Fury” on Iran, a reference to the joint Israeli-American military operation that sparked the war with Iran at the end of February, according to France 24. “We may do another little Epic Fury,” Trump said at a rally in Florida as he spoke about the war.

The Navy of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said two more supertankers attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz via an unauthorized southern route struck naval mines, with the explosions and fires incapacitating their engine rooms, and were abandoned by their crews. Together the vessels were carrying more than 4.5 million barrels of crude oil, according to the IRGC Navy, in a Mehr News report. The commander of the IRGC Navy said US forces had moved 600 to 700 kilometers away from the Strait of Hormuz, according to the Tehran Times.

The population of El-Fasher, in Sudan, has dropped to about 7 per cent of last year’s high, according to Amnesty International, as reported by Middle East Eye.

The UN warned on Friday that time is running out to get aid into Taiz, besieged by Houthi fighters who are preventing supplies from reaching Yemen’s third-largest city, it said, according to the Middle East Eye. Houthi fighters have encircled Taiz since early October and blocked the road that links it to Aden, the interim capital of Yemen’s internationally recognised government. Road closures and diesel shortages have halved the city’s water production and roughly tripled the price of trucked water, which most residents depend on, Laerke said.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed “deep concern” over escalating violence and widespread Israeli-imposed closures affecting Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, he said, according to TRT World. On Friday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered an “immediate closure” of Hebron and instructed security forces to prepare for a “full lockdown” across the West Bank following a gun battle in the city. Israel locked down the occupied West Bank after the Hebron shooting, Al Jazeera reported. Guterres condemned the record number of attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in 2026, according to spokesman Dujarric.

US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack said a strike on Iran this weekend is possible. “Could there be a strike this weekend? Absolutely,” he said in an interview with Mario Nawfal’s podcast, according to the Times of Israel. The envoy, who does not have a direct role on Iran, said the consequence would not be regime change: “If you keep threatening the world, our allies, the Gulf, there will be a consequence. The consequence won’t be regime change.” President Donald Trump said that if that is the case he knows nothing about it: “Well, if that’s the case, I don’t know anything about it,” he said, according to TASS. In Istanbul, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said everyone agrees a new attack on Iran would expand the war in the region: “A military intervention on Iran is not in any way a solution. Nobody approves this at the moment,” he told a press conference, according to the Jerusalem Post. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said after Friday’s meetings that renewed escalation between Iran and the United States would only have losers and raise oil prices.

Russia's Chief of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, announced that the Russian army is ceasing fire in the Kherson direction and introducing a “regime of silence” starting at 4am Moscow time (1am GMT) on October 27, for a humanitarian operation in the Aliochki area, according to Sputnik. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that trilateral talks involving Russia, the US and Ukraine are scheduled for November in Abu Dhabi, to discuss a solution to the war, according to The Cradle. The Russian announcement comes after the White House said first lady Melania Trump had brokered a ceasefire in the city of Oleshky to allow for humanitarian aid and the evacuation of civilians.

Jordan's director of public security, Major General Abdullah Al-Maaytah, said the toll from the shooting at a church in the south of the country had risen to seven dead and 34 wounded, 27 of whom were still receiving treatment, according to The Times of Israel. King Abdullah II said the “terrorist attack against Karak” would be met with “the harshest retaliation”, in an English-language post on X. The gunmen killed at least seven people and wounded dozens in the attack on Friday.

Ministers from the United Kingdom, France and Germany, the E3 group, met in Istanbul on Friday, October 23, with counterparts from the R4 – Turkiye, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt – along with Italy, and urged diplomacy between the US and Iran instead of new attacks, according to Al Jazeera. One of the ministers present said that “a military intervention on Iran is not in any way a solution” and that “nobody approves this at the moment”, according to Middle East Eye. A European minister warned that a further escalation between Iran and the US “would create nothing but losers” and would have very serious consequences for hydrocarbon prices.

Israeli military forces began on Friday, October 23, an operation to evacuate and demolish homes in the cities of Hebron and Halhul in the West Bank, according to Opera Mundi. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military would go house to house and demolish homes in an operation on a scale unseen in the occupied West Bank for decades, according to The Guardian. According to RT, he said he had instructed the security forces to immediately blockade the city of Hebron and prepare to completely blockade the entire area of Judea and Samaria, the Israeli government's designation, from today. The shooting that prompted the response left five Israelis wounded and two suspected Palestinian attackers killed by Israeli security forces, according to Israeli officials cited by the BBC.

A BBC investigation found evidence that Sudanese paramilitary fighters systematically destroyed el-Fasher's healthcare system during the long siege and the subsequent takeover of the city in Darfur a year ago. The broadcaster documented at least 43 attacks on hospitals and healthcare sites between May 2024 and October 2025, some of them hitting the same target more than once.

Israel's military identified the two soldiers killed in Friday's shooting attack in the occupied West Bank: Staff Sergeant Ron Yonatan Roytman, 23, from Ashkelon, and Sergeant Yuval Shai Svilem, 20, from Hod Hasharon. Both fell in combat at the Judea Junction when two attackers travelling in a car opened fire on soldiers with an M4 machine gun and a pistol. Three other soldiers from the same battalion were lightly injured.

The White House said First Lady Melania Trump “secured a ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine in the southern Ukrainian city of Oleshky. Neither Russia nor Ukraine immediately confirmed Friday's statement. According to the White House statement, her representatives worked directly with “Russian and Ukrainian leadership to define the terms of the localized ceasefire”, and civilian leaders from both countries will work together to grant humanitarian access to civilians in the city.

Romania's naval authority said the Comoros-flagged Khoryv, with a crew of 13 Ukrainian and Azerbaijani sailors, sent a distress signal 13 nautical miles off Romania's port of Constanta, just beyond Romanian territorial waters. Nine sailors were rescued, three were missing and one body was recovered. President Nicusor Dan told reporters the ship had been hit by a drone and described the episode as part of “Russia's escalation process” in its war in Ukraine. Ursula von der Leyen said in an online post she was “deeply alarmed by yet another Russian escalation in the Black Sea”. A civilian vessel carrying Ukrainian and Azerbaijani crew was struck off the coast of Romania, she said, and “these reckless attacks target innocent lives and openly defy international law”.

At least seven people were killed on Friday when two gunmen opened fire on a funeral in central Jordan, according to the country's state media, as cited by the BBC. Another 10 people were injured at the church in Karak governorate. State-owned television Al-Mamlaka reported that security forces were deployed to the Hamoud church and were pursuing two suspects who, according to reports, got out of a vehicle before opening fire. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, and Jordanian authorities have not said who was responsible.

Russia reaffirmed its readiness to resume trilateral peace talks on the war in Ukraine, with the negotiations set to focus on ways to ensure postwar security for both sides, according to TRT World. Ushakov said Putin told Steve Witkoff that Moscow was, in principle, prepared to resume the talks around November 10.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said it instructed security forces to immediately cordon off Hebron and prepare a full closure of the West Bank starting Friday, according to the Associated Press (AP). The order came a few hours after an attack near Hebron that injured at least five people, some critically, the agency reported. Netanyahu blamed Hamas, saying the group was “planning a major attack aimed at murdering innocent civilians.”

A shooting attack was reported on Friday morning near the Judea Junction, by Hebron, with several people reportedly wounded, according to The Jerusalem Post. The Israeli military said it killed the two perpetrators and launched a manhunt for possible additional attackers. The two carried a handgun and an M16 rifle and were killed after a brief pursuit as they tried to flee, with roadblocks set up in the area, according to Ynet.

An Israeli air strike on a vehicle in Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood killed at least one Palestinian and wounded others, according to the Middle East Eye. Another Israeli strike killed one Palestinian in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to an Al-Awda Hospital source cited by Al Jazeera, also according to the Middle East Eye.

The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted and destroyed ballistic missiles launched by Yemen’s Houthis towards Riyadh, according to the Middle East Eye. Saudi civil defence issued alerts in Riyadh and later Najran before announcing that the danger had passed, also according to the Middle East Eye. The coalition also said its forces shot down a Houthi ballistic missile fired toward the southern Saudi city of Najran, according to the Times of Israel.

Donald Trump suggested the United States (US) may launch further attacks against Iran, saying “we’ve knocked the hell out of them, and we may do it a little bit further”, according to the Middle East Eye.

The BBC found details of at least 43 separate attacks on hospitals and healthcare sites in el-Fasher from May 2024 to October 2025, according to the BBC itself, citing sources on the ground. UN human rights chief Volker Türk called the findings “deeply disturbing” and said attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) may amount to war crimes, also according to the BBC. The RSF rejected the BBC’s findings.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said hospitals in Yemen's Taiz governorate face critical shortages of fuel, oxygen, medicines and medical supplies, with 42 health facilities in Taiz city alone facing acute shortages. Fuel shortages are also disrupting water pumping and sanitation, raising the risk of cholera and other diseases among hundreds of thousands of displaced people, according to the agency.

The UN has told Palestinian officials it will stop receiving Palestinians returning from Egypt and coordinating their entry into Gaza from mid-November, citing security risks and repeated Israeli arrests, according to Drop Site News, which quotes a senior source, in a report carried by Middle East Eye. The decision followed Israel's arrest of a Palestinian cancer patient and her daughter on Tuesday, when the Rafah crossing reopened after a suspension of about 10 days prompted by the detention of another returnee.

Four Salvadoran soldiers with the Gang Repression Force (FRG), the UN mission that has operated in Haiti since April, have been missing since Sunday night (18), after the vehicle they were in was ambushed in the Santo neighbourhood of Croix-des-Bouquets, in greater Port-au-Prince. Four days into the operation, the soldiers have not been found. The FRG said that “several gang members were killed and others wounded during the clashes” and that four of its personnel were wounded. El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, said on Wednesday (21) that the four are aviation technicians and that the Salvadoran mission in Haiti has “only pilots and technicians”, working on medical evacuation.

Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, October 22, that Russia is ready to resume three-way talks with Ukraine and the United States, but on the security parameters of a final peace deal, rather than a “short” ceasefire. Putin said the goal of the discussions is to address security for both Ukraine and Russia within the framework of a final agreement, rather than after a short pause in fighting.

Donald Trump said Elon Musk has restored Ukraine’s internet access. The US president also said Ukraine’s access to Starshield, a military-grade satellite service, has been restored, according to TASS. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said connectivity, which is provided by Musk’s Starlink satellite system, had yet to be fully restored.

Senior Israeli military officials presented intelligence to their US counterparts indicating that Hamas has no intention of disarming and is instead rebuilding its forces in the Gaza Strip in preparation for possible renewed fighting, the Haaretz daily reported on Thursday, according to The Times of Israel. According to the report, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) believe Hamas will not hand over its weapons to an international body and could be disarmed only through military operations, including entering areas of Gaza not currently under Israel’s control.

Russia said on Thursday its air defences intercepted 808 drones fired by Ukraine at Moscow and other cities, as it bombarded Kyiv with ballistic missiles in an hourslong nighttime barrage, according to The Hindu. The attacks hit 12 regions of Ukraine overnight, killing at least two people and wounding 34 others, including five children, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on social media.

Russian troops took the community of Mirovka in the Zaporozhye region over the past day, the Russian top brass said, according to TASS.

Drone strikes killed at least six schoolchildren and wounded more than 20 at a primary school in Ethiopia, according to preliminary reports. The strike hit Sana Elementary School in Dera Woreda, in South Gondar Zone of Amhara, on Tuesday, October 20, between 10:00 and 11:00 a.m., according to Addis Standard, in a text republished by AllAfrica. In a separate strike in Finaruo village, Saharti Samre Woreda, in Tigray's Southeastern Zone, four people were killed and six wounded as they loaded livestock onto a truck, local residents said. Addis Standard said it could not independently establish the circumstances of either strike or obtain a response from the Ethiopian military.

Israel's military and the US armed forces have drawn up plans to renew joint strikes on Iran in the coming weeks, according to two Israeli sources familiar with the plans, ABC News reported. The White House said on Thursday that the US will not resume attacks on Iran before the November 3 midterm elections.

An Israeli defense official confirmed on Thursday that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) intelligence continues to provide Saudi Arabia with exceptional capabilities to assist its military operations against the Houthis, through US mediation, the Jerusalem Post reported. According to the official, the assistance is provided in line with Israel’s national interests and directives from the political leadership, and serves to wear down an enemy that plans to attack Israel in the future.

A Saudi citizen and an Indian resident are among the two people killed in the attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam on Wednesday evening, according to the kingdom’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA). Eight others were injured: Saudi, Indian, Yemeni, Bangladeshi and Nepalese nationals. The Indian Embassy said one Indian national is among the dead and two Indians were injured, and India’s Ministry of External Affairs called the attacks “completely unacceptable”.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says the Israeli war on the enclave has killed at least 74,498 people and wounded 175,616 since October 2023, according to Mehr News. The same toll records 1,538 Palestinians killed and 5,498 wounded since the October ceasefire.

Residents of Taiz in Yemen are facing severe food and water shortages after a Houthi blockade cut off a key supply route, according to Al Jazeera. The UN warns that aid can no longer reach the city, leaving an estimated 800,000 people without life-saving assistance.

The Iran-aligned Houthis said on Thursday they had attacked Saudi Arabia’s Defence Ministry in Riyadh, Saudi Aramco facilities in Yanbu and King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, according to The Hindu. Saudi state oil company Aramco told staff to evacuate its headquarters in Dhahran, on the Gulf, and to work remotely, Reuters reported, citing six people with knowledge of the matter, in a text republished by the Jerusalem Post. The instruction follows a wave of Houthi attacks on the kingdom, targeting the company and Saudi airports.

Three ballistic missiles with cluster warheads were fired at Kyiv on the night of October 21-22, and one of them struck the historic centre of the capital, according to Ukrainska Pravda. One of the missiles struck Pechersk, the area between the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and the Holy Presentation Monastery, and damaged monastery buildings, residential buildings, shops, cafés and other civilian infrastructure. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also said Russia had kept targeting the country’s energy infrastructure, with more than 170 strikes on critical facilities since October 11, according to Reuters, in a text republished by the Jerusalem Post.

A wave of drone attacks across Sudan has killed more than 160 people in recent days, according to Al Jazeera. The deadliest attack occurred near a market in the town of al-Dabba in West Kordofan, where a drone struck a transport hub and killed 80 people. The country has been at war between competing military forces since April 2023.

Russia handed over the bodies of 252 Ukrainian servicemen to Ukraine, and the Ukrainian side transferred 25 bodies to Russia, according to Anadolu, which cited a statement. The exchange took place at the Novaya Huta checkpoint on the Belarusian border, the agency reported.

Four Palestinians were killed in Gaza in the last 24 hours, including a 17-year-old girl shot in the head in the al-Faluja area of northern Gaza, according to Middle East Eye. Two more Palestinians, including a teenage girl, were killed by Israeli fire in areas of northern and southern Gaza, Al Jazeera and the Wafa news agency reported, citing medical sources.

Saudi Arabia struck an Indian boat carrying 14 Indian nationals near Zuqar Island off western Yemen, and Yemeni forces rescued those aboard, according to Yemeni armed forces spokesman Yahya Saree, in a statement cited by Mehr News. Saree posted the information on social media.

Israeli forces shot dead a man with a disability in the village of Jamla, in Daraa’s western countryside, where they had deployed snipers on rooftops, early on Thursday, according to Syria’s state news agency Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), cited by Al Jazeera. The victim’s body was taken to Daraa National Hospital, the agency added. The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the report. In a raid on Thursday in the village of Turnejeh, in the Quneitra countryside, Israeli forces searched homes and detained one person, according to SANA.

Russia agreed on Wednesday to resume three-way negotiations next month with Washington and Kyiv, aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, according to a Kremlin official cited by The Associated Press (AP). It could be the first such talks since February. The same day, US envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg to discuss the conflict in Ukraine, as US President Donald Trump pushes Kyiv and Moscow to reach a deal that stops the fighting.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast on Thursday a 1.3% contraction in output for the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan in 2026, as a result of the war against Iran's impact on energy production, shipping, tourism, trade and confidence, according to Reuters, in a text republished by Yahoo Finance. For 2027, the IMF projected 6.6% growth, but output in those economies would generally stay below pre-war projections. The fund said the outlook remains clouded by “exceptionally high uncertainty”.

Moscow’s mayor said that 630 drones flew toward the Russian capital between 8:30 p.m. on October 21 and 4:00 a.m. on Thursday, according to TASS. Russia and Ukraine traded major attacks overnight, shortly after a US envoy held talks with the Russian president in St. Petersburg, according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP).

The death toll from the drone strike on Amiet market in Abyei rose from 73 to 153 dead, according to local officials cited by AllAfrica. The Monday attack also forced about 8,000 people to flee and drew condemnation from the UN and the UK.

Houthi rebels struck a residential area in Taiz, Yemen’s third-largest city, which is under attack and siege, on Tuesday, killing two teenage girls, the Associated Press (AP) reported in a text republished by PBS News. The UN human rights chief said civilians in Taiz are at grave risk and that humanitarian aid “must be immediately allowed to enter the city” with its passage facilitated, and that civilians wishing to leave must be allowed to do so “freely and safely”. The strike on Taiz came a day after a Houthi attack on a government military camp killed 73 recruits, the deadliest since the conflict’s resurgence over the summer, according to a senior Yemeni government official.

South Korea’s defence ministry urged North Korea to hold urgent military talks to ease frontier tension and prevent accidental military clashes, shortly after Pyongyang severed the cross-border military hotline and declared it will no longer seek dialogue or unification with its foe, TRT World reported. Kim Yo-jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, said propaganda loudspeakers aimed at the South will be ready to restart within days along the entire border, according to the Guardian. TRT World reported that she also said “our new counter means will get into the alert for duty at all the southern border line” and that the loudspeakers “will be on standby in a matter of days”.

Twelve people were killed in an attack on buses in northern Niger, according to Xinhua. The attack on two buses between Arlit and Agadez left at least eleven dead on October 20, including one soldier among the victims, according to the Panafrican Press — the two sources’ figures differ and stand as attributed.

Israeli troops entered the village of Jamlah, in the western countryside of Daraa, with snipers on rooftops and house searches, according to Anadolu, a day after Israeli tanks shelled the outskirts of Abidin village in western Daraa, also according to Anadolu. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights recorded an Israeli patrol of two vehicles in the Wadi al-Raqad area of western Daraa, according to the Middle East Eye.

Missiles struck Kyiv in the early hours of Thursday, after an evening attack that injured six people and damaged homes, a petrol station and transport equipment, according to Reuters in a text republished by France 24. US envoy Steve Witkoff held talks this week with Zelensky and Putin to mediate an end to the war, also according to Reuters in a text republished by France 24. The Kremlin said new peace proposals lack substance after the Witkoff-Putin meeting in Russia, according to The Guardian.

The US State Department ordered the departure of “non-emergency US government employees and their family members in Saudi Arabia only” amid attacks by the Iran-aligned Houthis on civilian targets in the country, according to spokesman Tommy Pigott. US officials told Reuters, in reporting cited by the South China Morning Post (SCMP), that the department also plans to withdraw family members from a number of other US missions in the region.

Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said on Thursday that North Korea will place anti-South Korea loudspeakers on standby along the entire border “within days” and warned Seoul of “the most horrible and distressing situation” if it continues what Pyongyang calls interference, according to Reuters, in a report published by The Hindu. “Our new counter means will get into the alert for duty at all the southern border line and the loudspeakers against the ROK will be on standby in a matter of days,” she said in a statement carried by state media KCNA. On Wednesday evening, October 21, she had already said the country would activate the loudspeakers across the border by the end of October. South Korea says North Korean mines caused a border blast last month that seriously wounded two soldiers; North Korea denies responsibility, calling the incident a South Korean fabrication.

An Israeli settler was filmed shouting at and assaulting a Palestinian child during an attack on a family east of Yatta, in the occupied West Bank, where settler violence has surged in recent years, according to Al Jazeera. On Wednesday, the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court extended the remand of a suspect arrested on suspicion of involvement in settler attacks in the West Bank over the weekend, including attacks against a Washington Post photojournalist and European diplomats, according to the Times of Israel. The suspect, Nadav Cohen Tzemach, has a documented history of violence against Palestinians in the West Bank but has never been charged with any crimes, according to the same outlet.

Israel carried out a series of air strikes and explosions in several areas of southern Lebanon on Wednesday, according to Lebanon’s state National News Agency (NNA), cited by Middle East Eye.

One person was killed and eight wounded in an attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, according to the Saudi civil aviation authority. The authority confirmed the toll on Wednesday evening, according to the Jerusalem Post. The General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said the injured were immediately taken to hospital, with conditions ranging from minor to severe, according to TRT World. The spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, Turki Al-Maliki, said air defences intercepted and destroyed four drones in the country's Eastern Province, in a post on X, according to Middle East Eye.

Saudi Arabia's Energy Ministry said on Wednesday that debris from an intercepted drone killed two people and injured two others at an Aramco-operated oil field in the country's southeast. According to the ministry, the two people killed were Nepali and Filipino nationals, and the injured were Pakistani and Indian nationals. The debris also sparked a fire in a contractor's vehicle at the Shaybah oil field.

Explosions were heard in Sirik, in southern Iran, on Wednesday, according to Iran's Fars news agency, in an account published by the Middle East Eye. The nature and origin of the explosions were unknown at the time of publication.

President Donald Trump blocked an Israeli plan to attack Iran this month, according to the Financial Times, in a report published by G1. Sources told the newspaper the plan foresaw multi-day strikes starting October 10 against Iran's energy infrastructure, nuclear facilities and targets linked to the local government. The Jerusalem Post reports conflicting accounts, according to which the Israel Defense Forces were planning to strike Iran on October 10 before being reined in by Trump.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that his directive to the Israel Defense Forces, the Mossad and the defense establishment is to overthrow the regime in Iran. At an officer cadet graduation ceremony, he said the Iranian regime “has still not learned its lesson” and accused new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei of following “in his father's footsteps” in developing “the bombs of death”, according to the Middle East Eye. Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened: “If Iran attacks Israel, Iran will burn!”

Three strikes hit the runway and the electricity administration facilities at Al-Rayyan International Airport in Mukalla, in Yemen’s eastern Hadramout province, on Wednesday, with no injuries reported, according to state-run Hadramout TV, cited by TRT World. The channel broadcast footage it said showed the attack but did not specify the weapons used, and the Houthi militia had not claimed the episode as of publication, according to TRT World. Separately, state-run Saba reported that the Houthi militia had targeted Aden International Airport with a ballistic missile, without providing further details.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff that Moscow is willing to help resolve the conflict between Iran and the United States, according to Mehr News, an Iranian state outlet. Putin pointed to Russia’s special, trust-based relationship with Iran and said Moscow would be pleased to take any steps to help resolve the crisis. Mehr describes the moment as the escalation in West Asia after the “war of aggression” by the United States and Israel on Iran.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Wednesday for freezing the front line in the war against Russia as a first step toward ceasefire talks, according to France 24. “Right now we have to freeze, and I think this is the real way to end this war,” he said. Zelensky said any peace talks must include Ukraine. “I always said that we are open to negotiate in any format, any topics. But don’t speak about us without us, please.”

A new round of trilateral talks on Ukraine may take place in Abu Dhabi around mid-November, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov told Russian media, according to Sputnik. “We’re aiming for Abu Dhabi… It was agreed that this would happen somewhere around the middle of November, in the first ten days or so of the month,” he said. According to Ushakov, Vladimir Putin will decide who will be part of Russia’s delegation to the talks.

Putin agreed in principle to resume trilateral talks with Washington and Kyiv after November 10, Kremlin foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov told reporters after the meeting with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff. According to Ushakov, cited by PBS News, the Russian president agreed to resume the negotiations on ending the war in Ukraine. Sputnik, for its part, attributed to Putin himself the readiness to resume the talks in November, also based on Ushakov’s account.

Israel’s military detained about 90 volunteers with Rabbis for Human Rights in the West Bank on Wednesday, including Democratic congressional nominee Brad Lander and former deputy attorney-general Yehoshua Schoffman, according to sources cited by the Jerusalem Post. The volunteers were accompanying Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest in the village of Nehalim near Bethlehem, an area farmers had been unable to access for three years, according to the group. NPR put the number at about 80 American and Israeli rabbis and activists detained as they helped Palestinians harvest olives near a settlement in the occupied West Bank.

Russia will respond firmly to a Japanese company's supply of combat drones to Ukraine, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a news briefing, according to the TASS agency. The agency did not name the company or specify which response is under consideration.

The European Union (EU) called on SpaceX to urgently restore Kyiv's full access to Starlink, Le Monde reported. Ukraine said SpaceX imposed speed limits of 100mph (160km/h) on Tuesday night, and any weapons travelling faster than that lost connectivity, according to the BBC. US senators called for an investigation into restrictions that reportedly degraded Ukraine's ability to conduct defensive operations against Russian drone and missile attacks on civilian infrastructure.

The Houthis said eight fishermen were killed in a series of strikes overnight, and the Sanaa-based health ministry said Saudi Arabia targeted boats off the coast of Taiz governorate. On Wednesday, Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said the group fired a ballistic missile at the coalition's military operation room at the Badr Camp in Aden. According to Xinhua, Saudi forces carried out 93 air and missile strikes across eight Yemeni provinces over the past 24 hours.

Steve Witkoff, the US envoy, met with President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg on Wednesday to discuss Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and thanked Putin for lifting Russia's ban on diesel exports, AP News reported in a text republished by France24. According to the agency, Witkoff said the move would help lower prices for US farmers and truckers and that he hoped to discuss the resumption of trilateral talks involving the US, Russia and Ukraine.

Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said the group struck the Saudi-led coalition’s military operation room at the Badr Camp in Aden with a ballistic missile, Al Jazeera reported. A police official said on Wednesday that smoke was rising near the airport in the city, which is controlled by the internationally recognized Yemeni government. The Saudi-led coalition says its forces are battling the Houthis in Kahboub, in southwestern Yemen, the Middle East Eye reported.

The Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted and destroyed drones targeting the kingdom, in Medina and the Eastern Province, according to TRT World.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the military to prepare a multi-day operation against Iran for the weekend of October 10, targeting nuclear facilities, power plants and civilian infrastructure, as well as regime sites, according to Ynet. US President Donald Trump blocked the operation over not wanting to restart the war ahead of the November 3, 2026 midterm elections, and a source told the Financial Times (FT), according to The Jerusalem Post, that there will either be a deal or an attack, with a fresh round of strikes in the coming weeks as a realistic possibility.

A drone strike near the Amiet market, in Abyei, killed at least 150 people, according to Al Jazeera. The local administration reports 153 dead and blames the Sudanese Army, without providing evidence, according to The Guardian, in a text published at the address recording the toll and the accusation, while Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says it received more than 20 wounded, several in critical condition, including burns.

The Ukrainian delegation led by Volodymyr Zelensky met US President’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff in Oslo on October 20, according to TASS. After the meeting, Finnish President Alexander Stubb did not give Zelensky an opportunity to answer reporters’ questions during a press conference.

The United Nations strongly condemned drone strikes on civilians and critical infrastructure across Sudan on Tuesday, according to CGTN. Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said the UN strongly condemns the reported killing of dozens of civilians in a drone strike on a market in the locality of Al Dibab, West Kordofan State, on Sunday. On Tuesday, drones damaged the main power station in the town of Tendalti, in White Nile state, according to Dujarric.

Britain will deploy Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets to Saudi Arabia to help defend the kingdom against attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, the UK government announced on Tuesday, according to DW. The British Ministry of Defence said the aircraft will protect Saudi cities and critical infrastructure from drones and missiles and will not carry out offensive strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. In Taiz, Yemen’s third-largest city, Houthi rebels struck a residential area on Tuesday, killing two teenage girls, according to the Times of Israel, which highlighted the UN warning that the siege leaves civilians at grave risk.

Israeli attacks killed at least seven Palestinians in Gaza, including two children and a married couple, and wounded 10 others, according to TRT World, which describes the attacks as the latest breaches of an agreed ceasefire. In western Gaza City, an Israeli attack helicopter launched a missile at a residential home near Al-Shifa Hospital, killing a married couple and wounding four others, including three women.

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on a podcast that Israel should annex the territory it occupies in Gaza and Lebanon so that they “truly feel the cost of their mistake”, according to the Middle East Eye. According to the outlet, he said the annexation should go “at least up to the lines we’re currently holding” and that, if Hezbollah attacks again, it would go “all the way to Beirut” and, if they attack again, “even beyond that”.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is most likely to begin withdrawing from the UN-patrolled so-called Blue Line zone on December 31, 2026. The mission has 7,565 peacekeepers from 46 countries, according to DW. Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam warned of the need to “avert the vacuum that UNIFIL's withdrawal could create, were it to take place without agreement on a new international force to replace it”.

US special envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Russia on Wednesday after meeting in Oslo with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the leaders of Norway and Finland, Reuters reported in a text republished by Investing.com. According to the agency, Witkoff will fly to Saint Petersburg, where he will meet with the Russian leadership and exchange ideas from that meeting and from proposals worked on by European and American colleagues. In the same report, US President Donald Trump called on Ukraine to make a deal to settle the war with Russia and said Moscow wanted to get it done. “Ukraine has to want to settle this war,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

The Navy of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that a supertanker carrying more than two million barrels of crude oil exploded and caught fire after striking a naval mine south of the Strait of Hormuz. According to the statement, the vessel had switched off all its radar and navigation systems and was attempting to exit through the unauthorized southern route of the strait despite warnings from Iranian naval forces. Dawn reported that two tankers were set ablaze and brought to a halt south of the Strait of Hormuz after hitting Iranian mines, according to an IRGC Navy statement shared by state media on Tuesday.

A Houthi missile strike on a government military camp in southern Yemen raised the death toll to 73, all of them new recruits, The Associated Press (AP) reported. Local authorities had earlier said more than 70 security personnel were killed in Monday’s strike on a camp in Yemen’s central province of Shabwa, the BBC reported.

An attack by militants affiliated with the Islamic State group killed 48 people in the Ménaka region of eastern Mali over the weekend, a lawmaker told The Associated Press (AP). Moussa Ag Acharatoumane, a Tuareg leader and member of the National Transitional Council, said fighters from the Islamic State in Sahel Province (ISSP) attacked from Sunday night into Monday morning, and the casualties included children and elderly people.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed on Tuesday that there are “serious tensions” in relations with Ukraine, at a press conference during his visit to India and after a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. According to him, President Donald Trump is “angry and frustrated” with the lack of progress in peace negotiations, as well as with accusations that Washington refuses to provide intelligence to Kyiv.

The Pentagon is sending the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group and the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit to the Middle East, according to two US officials cited by Fox News, in a report carried by The Jerusalem Post. According to the report, the carrier group is due to arrive in the region by the end of November.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will send additional assets to the Black Sea, including support for surveillance, reconnaissance and forensics, according to The Guardian. According to TRT World, the deployment includes more maritime patrol aircraft, radar systems and drones, following a series of deadly attacks on shipping. Russia's military said it struck three cargo vessels at Ukraine's port of Reni and two others en route to Odesa on Tuesday.

Drone strikes killed 150 people in two areas of West Kordofan state on Sunday evening, according to sources cited by the Sudan War Observatory. In Abyei, a disputed border area between Sudan and South Sudan, 73 people were killed when drones hit a market on Monday, the region’s information minister said, according to the BBC.

Russia launched another missile and drone blitz of civilian areas in Ukraine, killing at least seven people, officials said Tuesday, as President Volodymyr Zelensky scrambled to ensure more American and European help during his visit to Norway. In the Kyiv region, four people were killed and 27 others wounded, including children, in Russian missile and drone attacks over the past day, regional police said. In Oslo, US envoy Steve Witkoff, who along with Jared Kushner has tried without success to steer Russia and Ukraine toward a settlement, was also in the city, and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and Finnish President Alexander Stubb were also due to meet with Zelensky.

At least four Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, health officials said. Medics said an Israeli air strike killed Akram Yassin and his wife Dina Abu Baker in an apartment in Gaza City, while in Khan Yunis a 17-year-old boy was killed by Israeli gunfire near the Qizan Al-Najar neighbourhood, according to the Middle East Eye.

Ukraine did not receive a warning from the US about an impending Russian missile attack on Sunday evening, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, reviving concerns that Washington is withholding intelligence to bully Kyiv into capitulating to Moscow, The Guardian reported. Yuri Ihnat, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian air force, said on television that Ukraine had not received a warning before a Russian missile barrage hit power plants in Kyiv. Speaking in the early hours of Monday on a trip to Samarkand, Uzbekistan, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said: “If it happened last night, I don't know exactly. I know a few nights ago there was a software problem involving their early warning system.”

The UK will provide additional defensive military support to Saudi Arabia given escalating Houthi attacks in the region, according to the UK Ministry of Defence. Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoon fighter jets will fly defensive counter air missions to support the protection of Saudi cities and critical national infrastructure against aerial attack, and the ministry says the warplanes will operate in a defensive role and will not be used to attack the Yemeni group, according to Al Jazeera.

Two tankers were set ablaze and brought to a halt south of the Strait of Hormuz after hitting Iranian mines, the Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement shared by state media and cited by Middle East Eye.

An Israeli attack on an apartment in Gaza killed two people and injured others, according to The Associated Press. The Israeli military says it targeted a Hamas militant.

The death toll from the Houthi missile strike on a government military camp in southern Yemen rose to 60 people, primarily new recruits, the deadliest strike since fighting in the country began escalating three months ago, according to The Associated Press. The BBC, citing local authorities, reported more than 50 security personnel killed and 200 injured in the strike on the camp in the central province of Shabwa. A spokesman for the Saudi-backed Yemeni armed forces said the Iran-backed group launched three ballistic missiles at al-Alam camp, near the city of Ataq.

UN (United Nations) spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said he is alarmed by the deadly drone strikes killing civilians, including children, and disrupting essential services in Sudan — with at least 19 injured on Monday in a market in Abyei and targets in Khartoum, including an area near the airport. The UN condemned all of these attacks unequivocally, according to Dujarric.

Egyptian construction firms surveyed sites in the ruins of the southern Gaza Strip for a housing project dubbed “Green Rafah”, Egyptian sources told Middle East Eye. The proposed neighbourhood would initially house around 20,000 Palestinians and be supervised by a multinational force expected to be deployed in several parts of the Gaza Strip under the Sharm el-Sheikh peace agreement.

A senior Palestinian official told AFP that Israeli settler attacks risk setting off an “explosion” in the West Bank while urging that the response remain peaceful, according to The Times of Israel. “The terrorism carried out by the army and settlers, under the supervision of the Israeli government… is a prelude to a coming reaction and explosion,” Rajoub told AFP in Cairo.

Cuban law enforcement officials accused the US of allowing terrorists to operate with impunity on American soil, citing details of the investigation into the February incursion, according to The Jerusalem Post. On February 25, 10 Cuban exiles attempted to infiltrate the island by boat from the Florida Keys, armed with nearly 13,000 rounds of ammunition, 11 rifles, 15 handguns, Molotov cocktails, a VHF radio and Starlink satellite communication equipment.

Up to 500 Moroccan personnel have undergone training in Morocco to join the International Stabilization Force in Gaza, a Board of Peace official told The Times of Israel on Monday. According to the official, the training began in late August and was conducted by the US-led force, which he could not confirm had been fully completed. Morocco committed in February to sending police officers and military personnel to postwar Gaza, becoming the first Arab country to do so publicly, and is slated to be the first to deploy personnel, ahead of Albania, Kazakhstan and Kosovo, according to the newspaper.

A Houthi spokesperson said the group’s forces carried out six military operations over the past 48 hours targeting various sites in Saudi Arabia, with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones, according to Middle East Eye.

Gunmen on motorcycles killed at least 40 civilians in Mali, attacking camps housing mainly members of the Daoussahak community, according to security and community sources cited by The Hindu. Hindustan Times reported more than 40 civilians killed in the same episode, also attributing the toll to security and community sources.

Three children were killed in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, on October 19, according to Emergency Lawyers, a group that tracks violence against civilians. Over the weekend, according to the group, the Sudanese military struck West Kordofan province with drones, bombing a market in al-Muglad on Saturday (October 17) and striking the Al-Dabab area on Sunday, killing dozens of civilians, including women and children.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz declared over the weekend that troops would not withdraw from the areas they currently control in southern Lebanon and warned the military could advance toward Nabatieh and the Litani River if Hezbollah launches further attacks. Katz claimed that more than 60 villages and 23,000 homes had been destroyed in an area of roughly 700 square km under Israeli control and that around 200,000 residents had been displaced, according to RT.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled an expanded map of the Middle East showing Israel and the United Arab Emirates aligned with the RSF, a Sudanese paramilitary accused of committing genocide in Darfur, and with separatists in Libya, Yemen and Somaliland, according to Middle East Eye. The map was part of Netanyahu’s unveiling on Sunday of a new security doctrine that emphasizes preemptive strikes and the creation of “buffer zones” on Israel’s borders.

A high-ranking Syrian government official told the Jerusalem Post that Damascus fears Druze armed groups will launch an offensive against government forces in the southern province of Sweida in the coming days, with Israel encouraging and supporting the operation. The official said Israeli aerial reconnaissance over Sweida and surrounding areas had intensified, along with more reconnaissance flights over Damascus and southern Syria.

Saudi Arabia has decided to postpone its flagship investment conference until next year, organizers confirmed in a statement on Monday, following deadly attacks that rocked the kingdom in recent weeks, according to Reuters, in a text republished by the Jerusalem Post. The attacks struck military, energy and civilian infrastructure across the country, including state oil company Aramco’s headquarters and Riyadh’s international airport, where strikes killed at least 18 people.

Ethiopia has installed a new administration in conflict-hit Tigray after federal forces pushed back Tigrayan fighters, but tensions with Eritrea continue to raise fears of a wider regional war, according to DW.

The Houthis said on Monday they had carried out multiple attacks on Saudi Arabia’s energy, airport and military infrastructure, including an Aramco facility in Yanbu, the Shaybah oilfield, King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and Abha airport, according to Reuters, in a report cited by the Hindustan Times.

A drone strike near a market in al-Dibab, in West Kordofan, killed 80 people on Sunday evening, most of them commuters catching rides home, according to The Guardian. A witness told the newspaper the drone struck twice at the transport hub in al-Dibab, one of the deadliest single attacks of the war.

More than 53 people were killed and more than 200 injured in a Houthi attack on a training center for Yemen’s security forces in the country’s southern province of Shabwa, according to TRT World. The strike hit the facility while new internal security recruits were undergoing training, the broadcaster said. A Yemeni government training camp was the target of the attack, according to the South China Morning Post.

Ukrainian air defences did not intercept a single Russian ballistic missile overnight, according to data published by the Ukrainian Air Force on its Telegram channel, cited by TASS. Russia’s Defense Ministry said the strikes hit military-industrial facilities, storage sites for cruise missiles and drones, and a data center in Kyiv and the Kyiv region.

Human Rights Watch said in a report published on Monday that the Malian military, armed groups and insurgent forces are committing grave laws-of-war violations while international organizations and governments “largely stand by”, AllAfrica reported. The organization urged the African Union’s Peace and Security Council to “urgently take action to prevent further atrocities” in the west African country.

A Houthi attack on a Yemeni government military camp in Shabwa killed at least 18 people, according to sources cited by the Jerusalem Post in the outlet’s live coverage of the country.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has decided to deploy an additional Border Police company to the Judea and Samaria Division to combat rising nationalist violence in the West Bank, the Jerusalem Post reported. The company began training in August and is expected to take on dedicated operational missions in violence hotspots beginning in late November. Police arrested 10 suspects on suspicion of involvement in the violent incidents, violating a closed military zone order and illegal construction, the Times of Israel reported — two more than the eight announced earlier.

The World Food Programme (WFP) has cut food assistance in Gaza by around one-third because of funding shortages, and half a million people will lose access to critical assistance, the agency said. From this month, WFP is supporting 1.1 million of the most vulnerable people in Gaza with food and cash assistance, down from 1.6 million last month. An estimated 1.4 million people, or 67 percent of Gaza’s population, are experiencing acute food insecurity at crisis levels or worse. The agency says it needs more than £300 million over the next six months to restore and maintain critical programs in Palestine, the Guardian reported.

A Russian air strike killed a woman in Kiev overnight and hit a subway station on the left bank of the capital, besides damaging a 25-storey residential building, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko, in a Telegram message on Monday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a summit next month with US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to negotiate an end to the four-year-old war in Ukraine on terms favorable to Moscow, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the discussions. The Kremlin suggested holding the trilateral dialogue on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, set for November 18 and 19 in Shenzhen, Reuters reported, in text republished by WHBL. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed to the Journal that there were discussions about a possible meeting, but said there is still no clear understanding about the meeting itself or its agenda. A senior US official said Trump had not agreed to such a summit.

Egypt’s presidency said the country is ready to give Saudi Arabia all the support it needs to defend its security and stability, the Korea Herald reported. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi requested an urgent parliament session to authorize the military, one of the Arab world’s largest, to help defend its Gulf ally if the kingdom requests support. The move comes as Yemen’s Houthis step up their attacks on the kingdom.

The Ukrainian army carried out eight attacks on residential areas in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) over the past day, according to TASS, citing the regional government department that documents Ukrainian war crimes.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says settlers raided a Palestinian village, vandalized a building and set fire to a shed, according to The Times of Israel.

Two Saudi Air Force officers died when an AH-6i reconnaissance helicopter crashed in southwestern Najran province, according to the Saudi-led coalition’s spokesman, Major General Turki al-Maliki, cited by RT. Yemen’s Houthis claim they shot the aircraft down. According to the Saudi authorities, the helicopter crashed because of a technical malfunction, and Riyadh did not comment on the group’s claims.

Pakistani security forces on Saturday (October 17, 2026) killed several Afghan Taliban personnel in retaliatory action after alleged unprovoked firing along the border in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, according to Pakistani security officials cited by The Hindu. The same outlet reported that in the Upper Kurram sector Pakistani forces targeted the Afghan Taliban’s Topsar post and Shipola base camp, and that the Shipola base camp was completely destroyed in the retaliatory action.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said two oil tankers, each carrying about two million barrels of crude oil, caught fire after hitting naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz, according to Al Jazeera. TASS, citing an IRGC statement, reports one tanker that struck a mine in the southern part of the strait and suffered an explosion and a fire in the engine room, and Middle East Eye, citing Iranian media, also describes one tanker on fire in the same stretch, according to the IRGC navy.

The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) says 1.4 million people in Gaza are suffering acute food shortages and that funding gaps are forcing cutbacks in critical aid, despite the U.S. brokered Hamas-Israel ceasefire, according to NPR.

US President Donald Trump defended his decision to waive some sanctions on Russia and once again accused Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky of not wanting to end the war, according to France 24. The outlet reported that Trump has also temporarily waived sanctions on Russian diesel, allowing large quantities to flow into global markets to try lowering fuel prices ahead of US elections early next month. TASS, citing Trump, said Zelensky does not want to end the conflict with Russia and probably never did.

Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said Saudi forces launched 110 air strikes and missile attacks across Yemen in 24 hours, hitting Sanaa and the governorates of Hodeidah, Taiz, Amran, Hajjah, Saada, al-Jawf, al-Dhale and Marib. According to Saree, the bombardment killed or injured more than 30 people, including women and children.

An alleged Saudi airstrike in Yemen killed at least nine people and wounded 16 on Sunday, October 18, according to Houthi media, as fighting between the two sides in the country’s revived civil war escalates further. The Saba news agency, of the Iran-backed group, said a strike on a home in Saada governorate, in the country’s north, led to the martyrdom of nine people and wounded 16 others, most of them women and children.

The Kingdom Centre tower in Riyadh ordered mandatory remote work for all office employees, “effective immediately and until further notice”, the building’s management said. The Saudi-led coalition said two pilots died when an AH-6i reconnaissance helicopter crashed in Najran Region due to a technical malfunction, coalition spokesman Turki al-Malki said — a version the Houthis dispute: spokesman Yahya Saree said late on Saturday that the group had downed an Apache helicopter in the same area.

Sudan’s army said it struck Rapid Support Forces (RSF) command centers in South Darfur, but the RSF and its allies say a crowded livestock market was hit. A drone strike on a cattle market in Nyala killed 30 people on Friday, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported. In a statement, the paramilitary group said the strike targeted a densely populated civilian area and that preliminary reports indicated 17 women and five children were among the dead.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the United States has resumed sharing intelligence with Ukraine after suspending it for “some period of time”, in an interview on Meet the Press reported by Bloomberg. The temporary suspension of intelligence flows occurred amid sharp disagreements between Washington and Kyiv over battlefield targeting rules, according to the Kyiv Post.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a ministerial meeting that Russia supports the peace efforts of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), aimed at preventing a full-scale war in the Middle East, according to TASS.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the Strait of Hormuz will be reopened if the United States accepts Iran’s conditions, according to Mehr News. Cited by the Hindustan Times, the foreign minister said the strait could reopen within six days if Washington accepts the conditions, with negotiations resuming on the seventh day. Iran’s demands include lifting the US blockade on its ports, removing sanctions on Iranian oil exports and ending hostilities across all regional fronts, according to the Times of India. Iran’s new defense minister, Mehrdad Akhlaghi, warned that the United States and its allies will suffer enormous damage if Washington resumes military action against Tehran, according to Sputnik.

At least one person has been killed and at least five have been injured in an overnight attack on St Petersburg that targeted two of the city’s oil facilities, according to the BBC. The region’s governor, Alexander Beglov, said fires were being extinguished at the St Petersburg Oil Terminal and the Ruchyi oil depot, and that 12 apartment buildings and two homes were damaged, with Pulkovo Airport temporarily closed. A logistics center belonging to Ozon and a data center belonging to VKontakte were also hit. Ukraine has not yet commented on the strikes, and Russia’s defense ministry said it had shot down more than 1,000 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory overnight, according to the BBC.

The European Union “strongly condemned” violent settler attacks in the West Bank, including attacks against European diplomats, the bloc’s foreign policy spokesperson said on Sunday, according to the Jerusalem Post. The statement came a day after Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said Israeli settlers had attacked Palestinian civilians, European diplomats and a French mayor in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli prime minister’s office urged caution before drawing conclusions from reports of attacks on European diplomats by masked Israelis in “Judea and Samaria” — the name the Israeli government uses for the occupied West Bank — and said any violence against diplomats is unacceptable, according to the Jerusalem Post.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Ukraine does not have access to Starshield and that Kyiv’s request to conduct deep strikes inside Russia is under discussion, according to Al Jazeera. Rubio distinguished commercial Starlink from military Starshield, in comments released by the Department of State.

Iran’s parliament approved Mehrdad Akhlachi Ketabchi as defense minister on Sunday, ending months of interim leadership at the ministry. Akhlachi replaces Majid Ebn al-Reza, who took over in an interim capacity after then Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh was killed by US-Israeli strikes in February. The name appears as Mehrdad Akhlaghi in a Times of Israel text, which says the predecessor was killed on the first day of the war.

Houthi armed forces spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Saree said Saudi warplanes carried out 53 air raids across Yemen in 24 hours, targeting civilian sites in the capital, Sanaa, and the governorates of Taiz, Ibb, Lahj, Saada and Amran, according to Xinhua. Saree said the cumulative number of Saudi airstrikes and missile attacks since the escalation began had reached 2,542, according to the Palestine Chronicle.

Hundreds of Palestinians on Sunday attended the funeral of 75 people, including women and children, whose remains were recently recovered from beneath the rubble of homes destroyed by Israeli forces in Gaza, according to TRT World. The victims belonged to around 20 families and the buildings were bombed while residents were inside during the early months of the war. In Gaza City, large crowds attended on Sunday morning the funerals of those 75 Palestinians recovered beneath the rubble in the al-Daraj neighborhood, according to the Palestinian agency WAFA.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a post on X on Sunday that Russia had attacked Ukraine’s energy, oil and gas sectors 76 times in the week since Donald Trump’s announcement of an energy ceasefire, according to the Associated Press (AP), in a text republished by WTOP. Trump announced on Oct. 11 that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an “energy ceasefire” in the 4 1/2-year-old war, but offered no details and Kyiv reported attacks by Moscow on energy sites after his statement.

Ukrainian attacks set an oil export terminal ablaze in St. Petersburg on Sunday and left one person dead and five wounded, according to local Governor Alexander Beglov, in an Associated Press (AP) text republished by WTOP. The fires hit the Petersburg Oil Terminal and the Ruchi depot, and Russia’s Defense Ministry said it destroyed 1,015 Ukrainian drones over 15 Russian regions, the annexed Crimea and the Black Sea, part of more than 1,000 drones Kyiv launched in one of the largest aerial bombardments Ukraine has carried out in the war.

The Saudi-led coalition said an AH-6i reconnaissance helicopter crashed in Najran, in Saudi Arabia, due to a technical malfunction, killing two officers. The coalition also said it intercepted two ballistic missiles launched by the Houthis toward Khamis Mushait and four drones over several hours in the Riyadh region, the Eastern Province and southern Saudi Arabia.

Pakistan’s federal government imposed temporary federal rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, after an emergency cabinet meeting, citing the “provincial government’s deliberate disengagement from the fight against terrorism”, according to the South China Morning Post. The provincial administration, led by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, had refused to support intensified military operations against Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants.

The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said a liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker was attacked by several people on a skiff off the Yemeni city of Al Mukalla, and that the tanker’s armed security team fired two warning shots, forcing the skiff to alter course, according to Middle East Eye. A southbound tugboat was struck by two unidentified projectiles northeast of Khor Fakkan, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), leaving one person with minor injuries, according to Mehr News; UKMTO said the tug had sustained damage but was continuing on its route, and advised vessels to transit with caution.

The Saudi-led coalition said it had intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles launched by the Houthis towards Khamis Mushait in southwestern Saudi Arabia, according to coalition spokesperson Turki al Maliki, cited by TRT World; on Saturday, he said coalition forces had also intercepted and destroyed four drones over several hours in the Riyadh region, the Eastern Province and southern Saudi Arabia. Saudi Civil Defense issued “potential danger” alerts in Riyadh, Abha and Khamis Mushait and later said the danger had passed. Saudi-led forces said they had struck multiple positions around the Yemeni city of Taiz to break the Houthi siege, according to Al Jazeera. The Houthis claimed to have shot down a Saudi Apache helicopter near the border region of Najran, according to TASS, while Saudi warplanes carried out 53 airstrikes in Yemen over the past 24 hours, according to Xinhua.

Pakistani forces and Afghan Taliban personnel exchanged fire at several locations along Pakistan’s northwestern border on Saturday, with Pakistani security officials and state-run media saying troops backed by artillery destroyed Taliban posts, according to the Associated Press (AP). TASS said Pakistan’s armed forces gave an efficient response with heavy weaponry to an unprovoked fire opened by Afghan Taliban members in the Kurram sector, and that Afghan broadcaster TOLO News had earlier reported clashes on the border with at least seven Pakistani servicemen killed and six wounded, citing a security source.

Israeli drone attacks killed at least six Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, according to Palestinian medical and emergency workers, and Gaza’s Health Ministry said 1,511 Palestinians had been killed and 5,375 injured since the US-brokered ceasefire was announced on October 10, 2025. Medical sources in Gaza said Israeli attacks had killed six Palestinians since dawn on Saturday, according to Middle East Eye.

Sounds of explosions were heard near the city of Sirik in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan, according to the Fars news agency, in a report cited by TASS. Locals reported explosions in the Kuhestak coastal area and in several districts of Sirik, according to the same agency.

The United Arab Emirates agreed to resume funding some Yemeni forces fighting Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in exchange for Saudi air support, according to the Guardian. The southern Yemeni forces that will receive payments again are considered among the most effective in the fragmented anti-Houthi camp, according to the Guardian, in a text republished by Opera Mundi.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported an incident 140 nautical miles southwest of Al Mukalla, Yemen, according to TASS. A master of an LNG tanker reported being approached by a small skiff with seven people on board; the skiff fired two shots at the tanker, whose armed security team fired two warning shots, forcing it to alter course.

The European Council has warned that companies that become involved in the construction of the E1 settlement in the occupied West Bank could face legal, economic and reputational consequences, according to Middle East Eye. The warning came days before the October 19 deadline for bids in one of the construction tenders. The plan connects West Bank settlements with occupied East Jerusalem and would effectively cut the West Bank in half, making a Palestinian state unviable, according to the outlet. The alert came after Britain’s sanctions on Israeli settlements — including sanctions on bodies that finance settlement construction — came into effect earlier this week.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that Donald Trump’s decision to roll back sanctions on Russia will intensify the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine, according to the Guardian. “Unfortunately, the lifting of sanctions will continue, and I believe that the ‘diesel deal’ is the first step,” he said on Saturday. According to Opera Mundi, Zelenskyy also wrote that easing US sanctions reduces the pressure on the aggressor and that financial rewards for Putin only encourage him to keep attacking.

Israeli settlers attacked a diplomatic delegation that included the French consul in the occupied West Bank village of Taybeh, according to Middle East Eye. The village’s mayor, Suleiman Khourieh, told Al Jazeera that the settlers launched the attack on Saturday afternoon, the outlet reported.

At least one Palestinian has been killed and another wounded after Israeli drones struck a vehicle in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the Middle East Eye, citing Al Jazeera and ambulance and emergency service sources. Four other Palestinians have been killed by Israeli drones in Gaza since Saturday morning.

The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces had taken control of eight more Ukrainian settlements, including the town of Dobropillia in the eastern Donetsk region, according to the Interfax news agency. Ukraine’s General Staff said Ukrainian forces remained in control of Dobropillia and described Russia’s claim to have captured it as untrue. Ukraine also rejected Russia’s claim that its forces had captured more than 1,800 square km (695 square miles) and 92 settlements since September 1.

Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched 332 drones and missiles overnight, of which 293 were intercepted or neutralized. At least eight people were killed and nearly 60 injured in the latest wave of Russian strikes across Ukraine, according to Al Jazeera. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia attacked more than 15 Ukrainian energy facilities in western and central regions overnight.

The naval force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) declared once again that “the Strait of Hormuz is closed, and the passage of ships of various nationalities through the strait is prohibited”, according to the official state IRNA news agency. An oil tanker caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz after hitting a mine, according to the Revolutionary Guards. At least two other tankers were reported hit off Saudi Arabia’s coast since yesterday, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO).

Russian forces said they had taken Palamarevka and Kovalevka, in the Kharkov region, and Malokaterinovka, in Zaporozhye, according to the Russian agency Sputnik.

A drone attack by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Sudan’s paramilitary forces, killed 41 people at a camp for displaced people in the Abu Shandi area of Blue Nile state, on the border with Ethiopia, according to the Emergency Lawyers rights group, cited by the BBC. The strike took place on Friday.

The Houthis fired missiles at the presidential palace in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Thursday, killing five people and wounding 16, according to Al Jazeera. Al-Maashiq Palace was hit by five missiles, according to Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani. On Friday, two missiles landed on the grounds of Aden International Airport as a passenger plane prepared to take off for Cairo.

US President Donald Trump blocked, in an executive order signed on Friday night, sanctions on Russia approved by Congress to punish the country for its war in Ukraine, according to the BBC. In the order, Trump said it is in the US “national interests” to withhold some of those sanctions. Kirill Dmitriev, envoy for Russian President Vladimir Putin, called the suspension of the Graham Act “an important and truly historic moment”, according to The Hindu.

Al Jazeera has ascertained that at least 51 Syrians are still detained inside Israel, many of them first at the Sde Teiman military prison and later transferred to facilities run by the Israel Prison Service. In September, the Syrian Sijil Center, which monitors Israeli activity, documented 280 Israeli violations of the 1974 agreement between the two countries, including incursions, raids and arrests, as well as artillery and machine-gun fire, according to Al Jazeera.

The Nachala settlement movement said more than 700 of its activists established “a new community” in southern Israel overlooking Gaza City on Friday, and demanded the government move it into the north of the Strip, according to the Times of Israel. Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi of the Likud party said in a video at the site that, “with God’s help”, the next right-wing government “will keep planting and putting down roots in every part of our fatherland”.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operation (UKMTO) said an oil tanker was struck by an unidentified projectile 68 nautical miles northeast of Jubail, in Saudi Arabia, according to Mehr News. All crew members were reported safe and evacuated, with no environmental impact observed following the incident, UKMTO said on X.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said a supertanker carrying more than 2 million barrels of crude oil struck a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz, triggering an explosion and a massive fire, in a statement released on Saturday. The IRGC also said, in a report published by Mehr News, that the vessel was attempting to transit the strait through an unauthorized route when it hit the mine.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said air defense forces repelled an attack by 75 Ukrainian drones heading for the capital, according to the Russian agency TASS. There were no preliminary reports of casualties or damage, and the drone raids disrupted air traffic at airports across western Russia, including Moscow’s Domodedovo and Zhukovsky.

Russian attacks in Ukraine killed at least eight people and injured 60 on Friday, struck nine regions and two shopping centers and cut power to more than a million people, Ukrainian officials said. In Kharkiv, a 71-year-old woman and a 58-year-old man died and 12 were wounded in strikes on three districts, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said, in a Reuters text republished by Internazionale. The Hindu reported three people killed in strikes across several regions, and Al Jazeera said about 370,000 households lost power in Volyn.

Yemeni forces and the Saudi-led coalition say they have killed 378 Houthis and destroyed two missile launchers, according to Middle East Eye. The coalition said the destruction took place in Saada Province, Yemen, in a statement early on Saturday, according to CGTN.

A peace deal signed in November 2022 ended two years of brutal fighting in the Ethiopian state of Tigray, but disputes over political power, territory and the disarmament of armed groups remain unresolved, according to The Hindu. With Addis Ababa and Asmara now on opposing sides again, conflicts raging elsewhere in the region and tensions high across the Red Sea, there are fears of broader contagion, according to Reuters.

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmail Baghai, denied on Friday, in a statement, any Iranian involvement in the drone and missile attacks, according to Le Monde. The spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, Turki Al-Malki, said coalition forces intercepted and destroyed three drones in the south of the country and in Riyadh, as well as two cruise missiles over the Red Sea. Saudi Arabia's Civil Defence lifted the early warning alerts it had issued for Abha city and the Khamis Mushait governorate, according to Middle East Eye.

Yemen’s internationally recognised government said the Houthis launched missiles at Aden airport on Friday, a day after a deadly attack on the presidential palace in the port city. Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani said the two missiles landed near the runway, 500 metres from an aircraft preparing to take off, with no injuries among passengers and crew. The Houthis, in a statement attributed to a military source and cited by AFP, said they attacked “the Saudi forces’ command headquarters in the Badr camp in Aden province” and a weapons depot. The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthis said it downed missiles and drones over Riyadh and other parts of Saudi Arabia.

Two missiles struck close to the airport in Aden, the southern Yemeni city that serves as the temporary base of the internationally recognised government, according to police sources cited by Middle East Eye. Government forces said they had neutralised more than 430 Houthi fighters over the past 24 hours.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the country is establishing a security zone inside Ukraine along their border, which will be non-negotiable in any future talks with Kyiv, according to Reuters. According to TASS, Putin said only 10% of the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic and around 16.5% of the Zaporozhye Region remain under Kyiv’s control and stressed the importance of better protecting civilians and military facilities.

Pope Leo XIV called Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday to discuss the war in Ukraine, the Vatican said. According to the Vatican, the pontiff asked Putin to pause attacks to allow food and supplies to enter and residents to leave voluntarily from areas under crossfire, and expressed grave concern about the humanitarian situation in Oleshky, a Russian-occupied city in southern Ukraine.

According to Ukrainian commanders, robots and drones led the offensive in eastern Ukraine and 250 Russians surrendered in a year-long campaign that has freed 16 settlements from Russian occupation. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Starlink access for Ukraine's military has still not been fully restored.

A Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted and destroyed three drones in the south and in Riyadh, as well as two cruise missiles over the Red Sea, according to coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki. Riyadh's main international airport remains closed after a deadly strike there last week, and since July the Houthis have repeatedly struck Saudi targets including Red Sea tankers, oil facilities and the capital's airport, where 13 people were killed.

Over 1.4 million Palestinians face crisis-level food insecurity or worse through the end of 2026, as the UN warns that recent gains remain fragile, according to TRT World. At least 466 Palestinians, including 157 children, have died from malnutrition and starvation since 2024, according to Gaza’s health ministry.

Ukrainian forces struck an oil refinery in Russia’s Ryazan region, Russian officials said, hours after Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine would resume attacks on Russian energy facilities, according to OilPrice. Ryazan Governor Pavel Malkov said in a post on Telegram that “our region came under a massive drone attack” and that “a fire broke out at the oil refinery.” In Brussels, reacting to criticism from Donald Trump, Zelensky said he is “just defending Ukraine’s interests”, according to Opera Mundi.

Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine is one of two people injured and taken to hospitals in the Ramallah area during the attack by Israeli settlers on the annual olive harvest in the village of Abu Falah, in the West Bank, on Friday, according to Palestinian medics cited by Reuters, in a text republished by Al-Monitor. Dozens of masked settlers dressed in black burned olive trees and threw rocks at Palestinians in a coordinated attack on the village’s harvest. Le Monde reports that the Washington Post journalist was beaten by settlers.

Israeli settlers attacked olive harvesters in Abu Falah in the West Bank on Friday, injuring Palestinians and American photojournalist Heidi Levine of The Washington Post, according to The Times of Israel. From her hospital bed, Levine said she was pushed to the ground and kicked repeatedly, and that her flak jacket and helmet likely saved her.

The World Food Programme (WFP) warned that the “truly desperate” humanitarian crisis in Yemen will only get worse with the renewed conflict, according to the Middle East Eye. The programme’s deputy country director said it has lost access to more than 800,000 people who were reliant on its assistance until last month.

US President Donald Trump called Ukraine’s fresh wave of strikes on Russian oil refineries a “disgrace” and said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is “more difficult to deal with than [Vladimir] Putin”, in an interview with Newsmax on Thursday, according to the BBC. Zelensky had paused the attacks for three days at Trump’s request for a ceasefire on energy targets, and said on Thursday the strikes would resume because Moscow had never stopped. The criticism follows the US announcement of a deal to import 300,000 tonnes of Russian diesel to bring fuel prices down, which Zelensky called a gift to Putin.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in Brussels that the EU will not lift any sanctions unless Russia stops the war and backed more sanctions, after saying Moscow did not respect the energy ceasefire “for a single minute”, according to the BBC. EU leaders discussed Ukraine at the Brussels summit, according to The Guardian.

More than 700 people took part in establishing the “Pioneers of Gaza” outpost, according to the Nachala movement, which says it formed a “new community” next to the Gaza Strip fence, overlooking the ruins of Gaza City — the Israeli army blocked routes near kibbutzim Netzarim and Kfar Aza on Friday, citing concerns that civilians might enter Gaza to establish unauthorized settlements.

The Israeli army said it killed a Hamas commander who took part in the October 7 massacre and a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) member in Khan Yunis in two separate Thursday strikes — those killed were identified as Mohammed Mohammed Abd al-Khalek Hala, a commander in Hamas’ military wing, and Ahmad Jabrin Tawfiq Dalhan, of Islamic Jihad’s military wing, who, according to the military spokesperson, had recently attempted to attack Israeli troops or civilians in violation of the ceasefire and were eliminated to remove the threat.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called on Israel to halt and reverse settlements in the West Bank during a meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Baku, on the sidelines of the seventh summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA). Wang said the Palestinian question is the greatest historical injustice of the 21st century and that the two-state solution is the right path to resolving it, and called for the full opening of access routes into Gaza to prevent a worsening humanitarian disaster. China’s foreign ministry said Wang called on Israel to stop and reverse its “forced establishment” of West Bank settlements.

Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister Waleed Elkhereiji said Houthi attacks on civilian, economic and airport facilities in the kingdom constitute full-fledged war crimes, according to Middle East Eye. According to the Saudi official agency SPA, cited by the outlet, Elkhereiji said the attacks crossed all ethical and religious boundaries by deliberately targeting Makkah, Madinah, Umrah performers and visitors.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, announced they had killed Basel Nabil Abd Al-Rahman Kashta and Ahmad Raja Al-Shaer in Khan Yunis for alleged involvement in smuggling weapons and other military assets into Gaza, according to a joint statement. According to the statement, the two were killed to eliminate “an immediate threat to Israeli civilians and IDF troops operating in the Yellow Line area”. The IDF and Shin Bet added that precise munitions and aerial surveillance were used to mitigate unnecessary harm to civilians.

Nickolay Mladenov, director-general of the Peace Council, said on Thursday that he had received a letter from the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) informing him of the suspension of coordination for private-sector goods entering Gaza. Mladenov called the suspension unacceptable and said that “civilian supplies, humanitarian assistance and commercial activity must be protected from coercion, exploitation and interference”. Gazan merchants told COGAT that they had made the decision in response to a 10,000 shekel ($3,220) fee imposed by Hamas on each truck entering Gaza and a demand that 30% of all their sales in Gaza be carried out in cash, according to The Jerusalem Post.

The order to limit Starlink, the satellite system Ukraine uses for battlefield communications and drone operations, came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and one Western official cited by Reuters, in a text republished by G1. A person at Ukraine’s defense ministry said on Thursday that the receivers resumed working while moving, but only at speeds of up to 160 km/h. The Guardian reported that the change to Starlink happened without warning at about 1 a.m., when Ukrainian soldiers reported that terminals on drones stopped working at speeds above 100 mph, rendering communications inoperable. The British defense minister acknowledged “the challenges of recent days,” a reference to the US government’s sudden decision on Monday to limit Ukraine’s military use of Starlink.

Yemen’s health minister said the attack on the presidential palace in Aden left five dead and 16 wounded, and at least six explosions struck on Thursday the area of the complex used by the country’s internationally recognised government, according to France24, in a text with the Associated Press (AP). The government said, through the SABA news agency, that the Houthis attacked with missiles and drones; the movement claimed the action.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s foreign policy adviser, Ophir Falk, told The Jerusalem Post that Israel is “very close” to creating the conditions for regime change in Iran, and that the decision is up to the Iranian people.

Ukrainian drones struck the Ryazan refinery on Thursday, ending Kyiv’s brief pause in attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, according to OilPrice. Ryazan Governor Pavel Malkov confirmed a fire at the facility following what he described as a major Ukrainian drone attack. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Financial Times on Thursday that the restriction on refinery attacks was finished.

The Houthis claimed responsibility for Thursday’s attack in the vicinity of the palace used by Yemen’s internationally recognised government, in Aden, where at least six explosions struck the area and at least two people were killed, according to witnesses and an official cited by The Hindu. No minister present in the palace was harmed, and Youth Minister Nayef Saleh al-Bakri asked cabinet members not to leave the city, according to the Times of India.

Yemen’s armed forces said they carried out more than 1,250 precise targeting operations in the past 24 hours against sites and military capabilities belonging to the Houthis, according to the Times of India. A military spokesperson said in a post on X that initial field estimates indicate the neutralisation of about 700 militia elements and the destruction or disabling of more than 150 vehicles.

Drones struck two tankers near Romania’s Black Sea coast, setting them ablaze, leaving seven sailors missing, according to The Guardian. The missing crew were from the Wine Trader, a San Marino-flagged tanker travelling from Tunisia to Romania. The Wine Trader reported explosions and a fire about 13 nautical miles (24km) east of the mouth of the River Danube at Sulina on Thursday morning, according to the BBC. A NATO military source told Reuters the drones that hit the Wine Trader and the Yara J came from Russia, according to The Guardian. Romania’s president, Nicușor Dan, described the situation in the Black Sea as serious: “Commercial ships are being attacked and sunk,” he wrote on X.

The Houthis fired several missiles at the presidential palace complex in Aden, southern Yemen, on Thursday, according to government officials cited by The Jerusalem Post. BBC News reported that two security personnel were killed in the missile attack on the presidential palace in the port city.

The Yemeni Armed Forces said on 15 October they intercepted a Saudi Typhoon fighter jet over the governorate of Saada, in the country’s northwest. According to the statement, the jet took off from Taif Air Base and was targeted.

US President Donald Trump said the war against Iran will end very soon, as soon as he wants it to, that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon and that oil prices will drop like a rock. The war has already caused an economic impact of roughly $265 billion in the United States, by the estimate of Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi, according to Opera Mundi.

Former US vice president Kamala Harris criticized the administration of former US president Joe Biden over its response to Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza during the 2026 Asan Memorial Lecture in Seoul on Wednesday. Harris said the United States needed to uphold its obligation to international law and that the Biden administration’s response was a failure in that regard. She also criticized the current US government, under US President Donald Trump, saying it “offers Netanyahu a blank check.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he feels betrayed by Donald Trump over a throttling of Starlink access and accused the US president of picking the other side, risking a breakdown in US-Ukraine relations. Ukraine’s military reported that the system, produced by Elon Musk’s SpaceX but managed by the US government, was no longer working on terminals moving at speeds greater than 100 mph, which crippled most Ukrainian strike drones behind the lines and affected the defense against Russian drones over Kyiv, according to The Guardian. Zelensky also told the BBC that Ukraine will resume attacks on Russian refineries and that the pause came from political will and not from a technical problem.

Iraqi Kurds have proposed a peace process between Iran and the Iranian Kurdish opposition, a proposal discussed extensively with Iranian officials in Tehran that Talabani said will be a lengthy process, in a report by Middle East Eye. Iranian Kurdish parties contacted by Middle East Eye said they were not aware of new talks with Iran, or refused to comment. Since the withdrawal, Iran has targeted the Iranian Kurdish parties with drones three times, including during the Meri forum in Koya.

The European Union (EU) and Gulf states agreed to postpone their summit that was due to be held in Saudi Arabia on October 24, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a text published by The Jerusalem Post. Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said on arrival at a summit of EU leaders in Brussels that the meeting in Riyadh would be postponed, maybe for security reasons. On Tuesday, the Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted three missiles and two drones fired by Houthis toward Riyadh and Aramco’s headquarters in Dhahran.

Iran instructed Hezbollah to raise its level of military readiness for a possible confrontation, according to Lebanese security and military sources cited by the Emirati site Erem News, in a report by The Jerusalem Post. All full-time Hezbollah members who receive monthly salaries were summoned, with the caveat that the directions were only preparations for a near-term scenario, with no final decision to go to war. Over the past two weeks, Hezbollah launched at least three drones and intelligence-gathering devices toward the security zone in southern Lebanon, according to Israeli Army Radio. Israel tried to intercept all three items and managed to bring down only one, according to the report in Hebrew media reproduced by The Cradle.

A commander of the Basij’s Afzal Sisters female unit was killed in an attack on Wednesday in Mehrestan, a border county in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iranian state media reported, according to The Jerusalem Post. The victim, identified as Afsaneh Aqila, was reportedly assassinated outside her home in front of her children. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-affiliated Tasnim News Agency alleged the gunmen had links to Israel and the United States, without identifying the group responsible or providing evidence.

An Israeli drone strike targeting a group of Palestinians in Gaza City killed one man and wounded dozens, Wafa reported, according to the Middle East Eye. The strike hit the group of civilians near the Ibad al-Rahman School on al-Jalaa Street, in the city’s northwest.

Yemen’s armed forces spokesman Yahya Saree rejected on Thursday that any attack was launched toward Medina, calling the Saudi claim a big and blatant lie, according to the Mehr News Agency. In a statement carried by Al-Masirah, Saree said the Yemeni armed forces did not carry out any targeting operations toward Saudi territory on Thursday.

Since October 6, Houthi strikes against Saudi Arabia have killed at least 20 people and injured almost 400, according to Middle East Eye. The Houthis vowed more attacks after hitting Aramco’s headquarters, facilities in Dhahran, a refinery in Riyadh and Riyadh’s airport over the past week.

The contract for the first Board of Peace base in Gaza was issued in August to Louisiana-based Arkel International, which would build a base for 150 international troops serving as the vanguard of an international stabilisation force, according to Middle East Eye, citing the Guardian. Contractors and trucks are not being allowed to cross into Gaza to begin the work, and “Israel won’t open the border,” a source told the Guardian, according to the same report.

A commercial ship anchored in Romanian territorial waters caught fire late on Wednesday, October 14 and had its crew evacuated, according to Romanian authorities cited by The Hindu; the authorities confirmed the fire and the evacuation, according to Al Jazeera.

The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen intercepted and destroyed an incoming drone over Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province, according to spokesperson Major General Turki al-Maliki, in an X post cited by Middle East Eye; the report came on the same day the Houthis claimed they targeted a Saudi Eurofighter Typhoon over Saada, according to Middle East Eye.

A Russian overnight attack damaged 26 facilities of Ukraine’s power system and four in the oil and gas sector and left at least 600,000 people without power in the Kyiv and Kharkiv regions, according to Volodymyr Zelensky. The New York Times reports that Kyiv has found itself increasingly vulnerable, with a Pentagon-funded satellite program apparently curbed without warning.

The Houthis claimed to have struck a Saudi Eurofighter Typhoon in the airspace over the Saada governorate, in Yemen. The group’s spokesman, Yahya Saree, said on Telegram that the aircraft had taken off from the Taif base, was hit by a surface-to-air missile and “may crash”, according to TASS. Middle East Eye reports the same claim, with an air-to-air missile.

The United States military destroyed an Iranian-affiliated dhow in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced. According to CENTCOM, the vessel was targeted after being observed conducting surveillance and targeting US Navy ships. The crew was safely removed before the dhow was destroyed, and repatriation efforts are ongoing, CENTCOM said.

The Yemeni army said more than 200 Houthi fighters were killed or wounded in fighting in Taiz province in the country’s southwest, according to Middle East Eye. In a Facebook statement, the Taiz Military Axis said fighting continued throughout Wednesday on the Dhubab front west of Taiz city and on the al-Aqrud and al-Shaqab fronts to the south. The Houthis say they took prisoner more than 700 soldiers of the government army during the clashes in Taiz province, according to TASS.

A second vessel sank near the Strait of Hormuz within less than 24 hours. The bulk carrier Cape Dao, flagged by Antigua and Barbuda, was struck by a projectile on 23 September and sank, according to data from the International Maritime Organization (IMO) released on Wednesday. The loss was reported less than 24 hours after the sinking of the Singapore-flagged GFS Pride, which was struck by a projectile in a separate incident, maritime security sources said.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened to seize more territory in southern Lebanon, in the areas of Nabatieh and the Litani River, if Hezbollah joins an Iranian attack, during a visit to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)’s buffer zone. “If Hezbollah joins Iran in an attack on Israel, it will be dealt a heavy blow and lose additional territory in southern Lebanon, in the areas of Nabatieh and the Litani [River], which will become part of a permanent Israeli security zone — the IDF is prepared to launch a [new expanded] invasion,” he said. Katz also said that “more than 1 million Shiites will become displaced in Lebanon.”

Israel’s military told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that soldiers were dispatched to Mikhmas, in the occupied West Bank, following a report of graffiti and arson at the mosque and damage to a vehicle, and that no suspects were identified. An AFP journalist reported that slogans were spraypainted in Hebrew on the exterior walls, including “just because we are quiet doesn’t mean we are asleep”. Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque, an olive tree and a vehicle in the occupied West Bank, according to Al Jazeera, amid Israeli forces’ raids on villages across the territory.

Ukraine accused Elon Musk's SpaceX of limiting Starlink services and crippling its drones, as Russian missiles knocked out power stations in attacks President Volodymyr Zelensky called “ostentatious disrespect” to Donald Trump. Zelensky's external adviser and expert in communications and unmanned systems, Serhiy Beskrestnov, said SpaceX limited the speed of Starlink satellite internet terminals used by the Ukrainian army overnight. In an interview with NPR, Zelensky said the US warned Ukraine that it could suspend intelligence sharing and that his generals reported being notified of that possibility at the military level.

A Ukrainian man accused of helping to mastermind the attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines went on trial for war crimes in Germany on Wednesday, with his defence calling for the case to be dismissed, according to the South China Morning Post. The first hearing took place at the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg, according to TASS. The German Federal Prosecutor's Office says the suspect and his accomplices, also service members, acted on orders from Ukrainian government agencies.

Yemen's Houthis said on Wednesday they had targeted facilities belonging to Aramco, after Saudi officials reported a strike on a building in an area housing the energy giant's operations centre. The Houthis also said they had bombed Aramco in Dhahran, in eastern Saudi Arabia, as well as the airport and a refinery in the capital, Riyadh, without specifying the date of the attacks. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Georgy Borisenko said Russia condemns attacks on any civilian facility, citing the attacks on Riyadh International Airport.

The container ship GFS Pride sank near the Strait of Hormuz after being hit by a projectile, according to maritime security sources cited by the Jerusalem Post. A navigational warning from the Hydrographer of Pakistan, dated October 14, reported the sinking of the GFS Pride with floating containers and cautioned mariners. A second vessel, the bulk carrier Cape Dao, flagged in Antigua and Barbuda and hit on September 23, is reported to be sinking after an unsuccessful rescue attempt, according to Vanguard.

A container ship was struck by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, according to a report received by the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), cited by Middle East Eye.

The Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted and destroyed a Houthi ballistic missile launched towards Riyadh, and the Saudi Ministry of Energy confirmed that the administrative building belonging to Aramco in Dhahran was hit, according to Al Jazeera. Houthi attacks on Riyadh’s King Khalid international airport over the weekend killed 14 people and wounded more than 300 others. The coalition also carried out a strike on a fuel depot near Sanaa, the Houthi-controlled capital, according to its spokesperson, cited by the BBC.

Jewish settler extremists attacked the West Bank village of Mukhmas on Tuesday night, setting fire to a mosque, a vehicle and an olive tree, according to the Jerusalem Post, citing Israeli and Palestinian media. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) arrived at the area, but no suspects were found and no arrests were made.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said a container ship sank in the Strait of Hormuz after striking a mine, according to TASS. The ship was carrying about 2,500 containers, and the report did not identify the owner or provide information about the fate of the crew. LBC, citing Reuters and Iranian state media, reported that the ship was trying to transit a route the Guard described as unauthorised and dangerous.

At least 600,000 people were left without power in the Kyiv and Kharkiv regions after overnight Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Zelensky said there was significant damage to 26 facilities of the power system and four in the oil and gas sector, and highlighted a targeted ballistic missile strike against infrastructure that he said should have been covered by the energy ceasefire announced on Sunday by US President Donald Trump.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said hospitals across Yemen are struggling to treat a sharp rise in people wounded along several front lines. Front-line hospitals in Marib, Taiz and on Yemen's Red Sea coast saw unprecedented numbers of weapon-wounded patients, with some admitting more than 700 casualties in a single week, according to the ICRC, in an Al-Monitor report based on Reuters. The fighting pits the Iran-backed Houthis against Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces. More than 200,000 people have been displaced since the fighting resumed in recent weeks, according to the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Iran’s Judiciary announced the execution of Ali Sina Mostafavi in Kerman on Wednesday morning, following confirmation of the sentence by the Supreme Court, according to Press TV. According to the Judiciary, the convict shot and wounded civilians, including a minor girl, in armed attacks during the 40-day war, and security forces seized from his hideout a Brno sniper rifle with a scope, a shotgun, firearms and 246 cartridges and 30 Molotov cocktails, the outlet said.

Israeli artillery struck Mansouri and Majdal Zoun in the western sector of southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese state news agency NNA in a text republished by Anadolu Ajansı. Shelling also hit the outskirts of Haddatha, Baraachit, Shaqra and Wadi al-Salouqi, as well as the Al-Araish area between Haris and Haddatha, with no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

Former president Joseph Kabila announced on October 12, in Goma, a new political-military alliance with the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group, according to France 24. The deal was presented at a joint press conference at his residence in Goma, a city under the group’s control since January 2025, and Kabila leads the Front for the Refoundation of the Nation (FRN), according to Deutsche Welle.

Between 8:30 p.m. on October 13 and 7 a.m. on October 14, 493 drones flew toward the Moscow region, most of them neutralized at long-range approaches, according to RBC-Ukraine. Moscow’s Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Vnukovo and Zhukovsky airports suspended operations, with Vnukovo closed for more than eight hours, the outlet said. TASS assessed the attack as one of the largest against Moscow and the region in two years.

Sixteen Ecuadorian fishermen were bombed on March 17, about 170 nautical miles from the Galápagos Islands, in an operation for which the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been pointed to, according to BBC News Mundo. Their boat, the Negra Francisca Duarte II, was heading back to the port of Manta when two drones approached, and the explosions wounded crew members and set the vessel on fire; Le Monde describes the fishermen as collateral victims of American bombs, and one of them mourns the loss of his family’s boat: “This boat was my father’s inheritance, our livelihood. What am I going to do now?”

A Palestinian woman was killed in an Israeli strike targeting an apartment near the al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza, according to Al Jazeera reporters cited by Middle East Eye.

Ethiopia accused Eritrea of an “all-out invasion” of its northern Tigray region and warned it will defend itself, according to the BBC. In a letter to the UN Security Council, Ethiopian Foreign Minister Gedion Timothewos called the troop entry a “blatant act of aggression” and said Eritrean forces had advanced up to 60km into Tigray; Eritrea responded that it faces an “unprovoked war of aggression” from its neighbour. For The New York Times, the two countries, once allies, are edging toward war.

US President Donald Trump said the country will hit Iran “hard”: “Wait and see what we do to Iran. We’re going to hit them hard,” he said, according to The Jerusalem Post. Trump also said that Iran’s nuclear facilities remain buried beneath “thousands of tons of rock”.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the return of Palestinians displaced from refugee camps in the northern occupied West Bank and vowed that Israeli forces would remain in control of the area, according to Anadolu Agency. Netanyahu said that the displaced are not residents but terrorists, in response to remarks in the High Court of Justice about the return, while tens of thousands remain unable to return to the Jenin, Nur Shams and Tulkarm camps since January 2025, according to Al Arabiya (AFP).

Debris from two intercepted Houthi missiles injured four people in Riyadh, Saudi civil defence said on Wednesday. The injured are two women, a man and a child, and 15 homes were damaged, civil defence said, adding that the missiles had been launched by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis. The Saudi-led military coalition said it intercepted and destroyed a cruise missile in Al-Kharj Governorate, according to Middle East Eye, citing Reuters.

Iranian missile and drone attacks on ships in and around the Strait of Hormuz were at their most intense in the two weeks to October 11, the highest level since the US-Israeli strikes began seven months ago, according to the Financial Times, in a report by Middle East Eye. Six vessels were attacked on Sunday alone — the deadliest day of attacks on shipping near the strait since the start of the conflict, the newspaper calculated. Oil shipments through Hormuz fell to 2.9 million barrels on October 11, the lowest daily volume this month, according to Kpler.

A tanker was struck by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz, UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said, a division of the Royal Navy, according to a source verified by the agency. UKMTO also recorded four more previously-unreported attacks on ships in the same strait on Sunday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow launched a targeted strike on a power plant in Kharkiv, causing further damage to the country's energy system, and that Russia violated the “energy ceasefire” announced by US President Donald Trump, according to the Jerusalem Post, citing CNN. In a post on X, Zelensky said Ukraine has not carried out strikes on Russian oil refineries or the energy sector in general in the two days since the announcement.

Israeli forces demolished between 50 and 80 homes and a mosque belonging to a Bedouin Palestinian clan on Monday, leaving about 250 people homeless, according to Middle East Eye. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that the demolitions began late on Sunday near the city of Rahat after an Israeli court rejected a request to postpone the orders.

Lebanese forces seized 500 kilograms of explosives with metal balls and nails from a vehicle at a checkpoint in Dahr al-Baidar in the Bekaa Valley and arrested two individuals connected to Hezbollah, according to the Jerusalem Post. Lebanon's justice minister questioned whether the explosives were for internal use or to create new pretexts to plunge Lebanon into new wars, according to MTV Lebanon, cited by the Jerusalem Post. Hezbollah announced on Tuesday $14,000 in compensation for displaced people, and Lebanese lawmakers began questioning where the funds are coming from.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev summoned the Russian ambassador after two merchant ships were struck by drones off Bulgaria's Black Sea coast and one of them sank, according to the BBC. Eleven sailors from the sunken ship were missing at sea on Tuesday, according to Reuters. The other ship, the Ukrainian-owned Chelsea 3, sailing under the Maltese flag, was hit 18 nautical miles from the town of Byala, and all 15 crew were rescued, according to the BBC.

King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh remains closed, and a notice to airmen (Notam) indicates the closure will last until at least October 17. Weekend strikes on the airport killed at least 14 people and injured about 320, according to Middle East Eye. Saudi Arabia's cabinet, chaired by Mohammed bin Salman, said Yemen's Houthis would face “consequences” for the attacks, according to Saudi state media. The coalition told civilians to evacuate the Yemeni Oil Company's al-Sabaha central station in Sanaa before a military operation.

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarie said Aramco facilities are legitimate targets and called on employees and civilians to evacuate the sites, according to The Jerusalem Post. The French embassy in Riyadh told French nationals to avoid the airports in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam and to avoid travelling to those cities unless necessary, according to France 24. The Saudi-led coalition urged civilians to evacuate the Yemen Oil Company’s Sabah central station in Sanaa ahead of a planned military operation, according to France 24.

Sources told the Lebanese outlet Al-Modon that Hezbollah took advantage of the extended ceasefire to rebuild its military capabilities in southern Lebanon, both south and north of the Litani River, according to The Jerusalem Post. The same sources linked the rebuild to the seizure of a truck carrying hundreds of kilograms of explosives, including TNT and C4, and said the group uses the material for first-person view (FPV) drones, whose payload has grown from 2.5 kg to between 4 and 6 kg.

For the first time since US President Donald Trump’s weekend announcement of an “energy ceasefire”, Russia hit no Ukrainian energy targets on Tuesday and pounded cities’ transport and logistics overnight, according to France 24. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine had not hit Russian refineries for two days, since Trump’s announcement, but that Russia kept up attacks on energy and critical infrastructure during that period. Four people were killed in Russian strikes in Kharkiv and at least a dozen were injured across the country, according to Ukrainian officials.

Former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila has been named the leader of a new rebel coalition seeking to oust the government, according to the BBC. The Front for the Refoundation of the Nation (FRN) said it aims to coordinate “resistance forces” to end “tyranny” in the country and will pursue the goal “by all means, including force”. The coalition was announced at a press conference at Kabila’s residence in Goma, the largest city in eastern DR Congo, which has been under the control of the M23 since last year.

Ukraine halted strikes on Russian oil refineries and on its other energy infrastructure for two days, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday (13). The pause followed US President Donald Trump's announcement of an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, according to Reuters, in a text published by Al Arabiya. Zelensky said that during this time Russia attacked both Ukraine's energy facilities and its critical infrastructure, sending absolutely clear signals that it has no intention of refraining from strikes on Ukraine.

The Ukrainian-owned ship “Chelsea 3,” sailing under the Maltese flag, was hit by three drones and sank about 18 nautical miles off the Bulgarian coast around 1:30 a.m., with its crew of seven Ukrainians and eight Azerbaijanis rescued, in the second such incident in a week, according to The Hindu, citing Reuters; five crew members received medical care, with no one seriously injured, and Prime Minister Rumen Radev said he will speak with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Mark Rutte.

US President Donald Trump said the US “might have gone too far” in targeting Iran's leadership, according to The Jerusalem Post, adding that Washington struggles to know whom to negotiate with, and repeated in Ohio that Washington is “having a hard time figuring out who to deal with”, according to the Middle East Eye.

The Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms said that actions by Houthi forces killed at least five civilians and wounded more than a dozen others over the past 24 hours in Taiz, where an attack on Tuesday morning hit a hospital and left at least one person wounded, according to the Middle East Eye, which cites the state-run Saba agency for the hospital attack. The Yemeni government warned of an “imminent health and humanitarian catastrophe” in besieged Taiz, after the Houthis captured Mocha and, by October 4, At Turbah, cutting the last main road to government-held areas, according to Al Jazeera, which cites Yemen's Health Ministry for the warning.

Air defenses intercepted 13 drones heading toward Moscow, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said, according to TASS, which reports 23 drones destroyed since the start of the day.

Four airstrikes on sites in Hodeidah and Amran, in Yemen, were reported by the Houthi-run Al Masirah TV, with no immediate report of casualties, according to Middle East Eye. The Saudi-led coalition intercepted and destroyed two Houthi ballistic missiles aimed at Khamis Mushait, while Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said he had struck Riyadh international airport with a ballistic missile, according to TASS.

Etihad cancelled flights between Abu Dhabi and Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam, citing “regional disruption”, according to Middle East Eye, and Qatar Airways temporarily suspended flights to and from Riyadh and Dammam, according to the same outlet. Saudi Arabia extended until Saturday the suspension of operations at King Khalid airport in Riyadh, after attacks that killed at least 18 people, according to Al Jazeera.

Saudi warplanes carried out airstrikes on multiple locations in Yemen early Tuesday local time, Houthi media reports, from Harf Sufyan district in Amran governorate, north of Sanaa, to Kamaran island and al-Qanawis district in al-Hodeidah governorate in western Yemen. The Houthis said they targeted the airport in Riyadh late on Monday, after the group’s attacks on King Khalid International airport killed 14 people and injured hundreds in the previous two days. Houthi official Mohammed Al Bukhaiti threatened a quick and painful response against the United States and all its interests in the region if the US gets involved in the aggression against Yemen, in an interview with Agence France-Presse (AFP). Asked what he planned to do about the Houthis, Trump said they are “misbehaving very badly”.

Israeli forces have raided multiple locations across the occupied West Bank since late Monday, storming homes and detaining at least three Palestinian men, according to local sources cited by Middle East Eye. The raids targeted the city of Qalqilyah; the town of Idhna, west of Hebron; the al-Jalajel area in Hebron; the village of Tal, southwest of Nablus; the town of Madama, south of Nablus; and the town of al-Yamun, west of Jenin, among others, according to the outlet.

A Russian drone attack on a residential building in Kyiv killed two people on Monday evening, according to the Ukrainian capital’s prosecutor’s office: a 59-year-old woman and a person who was in a car near the building. According to Reuters, the strike on a high-rise residential building in a Kyiv suburb killed two people and injured at least nine, while attacks in other Ukrainian regions killed at least six, Ukrainian officials said.

Conflict and drought are increasing the risk of famine across Sudan’s Darfur and Kordofan regions, warned the global food crisis monitor (IPC), which says food insecurity, acute malnutrition and excess mortality will likely intensify. In May, nearly 19.5 million people, more than 40% of the population, were facing high levels of acute food insecurity, according to the Associated Press, which also reports a severe El Niño-linked drought affecting more than half of Sudan, causing localized crop failures.

The spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition, Brigadier General Turki al-Maliki, said the coalition intercepted two ballistic missiles fired by the Houthis toward the Khamis Mushait governorate on Monday.

Former Democratic Republic of the Congo president Joseph Kabila will lead a new political-military movement with the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group, according to France 24. The alliance was presented at a joint press conference at Kabila’s residence in Goma. The Associated Press reported that Kabila launched on Monday a new political and military coalition of groups opposed to the current government.

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said on Monday that the country faces a “shadow war” more far-reaching than the Cold War, according to Reuters, in a text republished by The Straits Times. The shadow war’s objective extends far beyond anything seen during the Cold War, he said. The president of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (BfV), Sinan Selen, said Russia employs virtually every tool in its hybrid operations, from disinformation campaigns and information manipulation to sabotage and assassination plots prepared in Germany.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited on Monday victims of the explosion of a Hezbollah cluster munition in northern Israel, among them 14-year-old student Eitan Masouri, who told the prime minister he realised he was injured, saw a friend wounded and tried to help him, according to The Jerusalem Post. Upper Galilee Regional Council head Asaf Langleben demanded that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) search areas open to hikers after an unexploded Hezbollah munition killed one person and injured 24, according to The Jerusalem Post, and said hiking in the region would continue.

The Houthis said they hit King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh with a ballistic missile in a precise strike and an airbase in Khamis Mushait with a drone, and warned international air carriers and passengers against flying to Saudi airports, according to TASS. Saudi Arabia said it destroyed a ballistic missile fired towards Riyadh, according to G1.

An air strike killed at least 72 civilians who had been prospecting for gold in a border region of Sudan, the BBC reported. The attack occurred hundreds of miles from the front lines of Sudan’s devastating civil war, according to The New York Times. The Khartoum-based rights group Emergency Lawyers accused the Egyptian military of targeting civilian miners in the North Wadi area of Jabal al-Uqaydat, according to Al Jazeera.

Residents of the city of Izyum were hit by blackouts after a Russian strike destroyed power grids, according to Ukrinform, cited by the BBC. Energy and railway infrastructure in the region of Zhytomyr, in western Ukraine, were also targeted overnight, according to the head of the region’s military administration, Vitaliy Bunechko. The state-owned grid operator Ukrenergo reported new power cuts in Kharkiv, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia due to damage to energy equipment. President Volodymyr Zelensky said there were glide bomb strikes and strikes on energy infrastructure, and that a power plant in Kharkiv was attacked.

Intercommunal clashes killed about 71 people in South Sudan’s town of Rumbek, in Lakes State, according to the caretaker government. A statement from South Sudan’s interim Ministry of Information said about 71 people were reportedly killed, including four soldiers, and that the exact number of fatalities has yet to be verified. Witnesses told AFP that a group of people from outside Rumbek tried to take control of the town and briefly succeeded; the attackers withdrew when police and military reinforcements arrived.

The administration of US President Donald Trump warned Ukraine and allies in Europe that the United States could suspend intelligence sharing and European purchases of US weapons for Kyiv if Ukraine does not halt its deep strikes on Russian energy facilities, according to CNN. Reuters, citing the Financial Times, reports the same threat to stop the procurement mechanism that supplies weapons to Ukraine, as a way to press Kyiv to halt strikes on Russian energy infrastructure.

Saudi Arabia rejected an Israeli offer to join the Saudi forces in Yemen, according to Middle East Eye, which cites a diplomatic source heard by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The same account says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is attempting, through US mediation, to persuade Riyadh to allow Israel to intervene in Yemen, but Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman remains uninterested.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said a third oil tanker caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz after striking a naval mine, according to Mehr News. The IRGC said the vessel had attempted to cross through an unauthorized route despite warnings, and that it was the third super tanker in two days to try to breach the blockade and hit a mine.

Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said Saudi attacks in Yemen on Sunday killed and wounded civilians, including women and children, according to Middle East Eye. According to the statement, the Saudi Air Force carried out 119 airstrikes in 24 hours against civilian targets in the capital, Sanaa, and in the provinces of Taiz, Saada, Marib, Lahj, Al-Bayda and Ibb. Still according to the statement, the total number of Saudi attacks since the escalation has reached 2,177.

The Houthi official Mohammed Al Bukhaiti warned of a swift and painful response against the United States (US) and all its interests in the region if Washington enters the Yemen war, according to AFP. Bukhaiti also told employees and workers at Saudi oil facilities and airports to stay away from these sites, because they have become legitimate targets. Following a Saturday attack on an airport that killed 13 people, US President Donald Trump said he is considering joining Saudi strikes against the group, after having reportedly rebuffed previous requests. Saudi Arabia’s energy minister said the events of recent weeks are serious and that the response must be equally serious.

Russia hit at least six energy targets during a night and morning of deadly airstrikes across Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday, according to Reuters, adding this showed Moscow had no interest in an energy ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump. Trump declared over the weekend, blindsiding Kyiv and its European allies, that Ukraine and Russia had agreed not to hit each other’s energy systems. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said talks were ongoing about a possible energy ceasefire and that further information would be revealed in due course, but he rejected Zelenskyy’s proposal for a full 60-day truce.

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Monday the UK is ready to consider further requests of support for Saudi Arabia, according to Middle East Eye. The offer comes after Houthi attacks on the kingdom escalated in recent days, the deadliest of which killed at least 12 and injured more than 300. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey stands beside Saudi Arabia against “unlawful and inhumane attacks”.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy said it had struck a supertanker trying to cross the Strait of Hormuz on Monday and that the vessel caught fire. The statement was published on the force’s news platform, Sepah News. According to the Guards, the ship tried to cross the area by disabling its transponders and ignoring warnings from the Guards’ navy. Al Jazeera, citing reports, said an oil tanker was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz region. Brent futures for December rose above $107 a barrel on the ICE, the first time since September 29, according to trade data cited by TASS.

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham told Parliament it is highly likely the threats against RAF Fairford were coordinated in Iran and almost certainly directed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Burnham said the UK would bring further sanctions against Tehran and the IRGC as a result, with more information to follow in an update from Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood. Five men from London drove to Whelford, a village next to a base used by the US air force, in three white vans shortly after midnight on 27 September. They were released on police bail a day later after no bombs or explosives were found. A week later, the US withdrew 12 B-1 bombers from the base, amid reports of concern about a possible drone attack on a base used to attack Iran during the Middle East war in the spring and summer.

Saudi Arabia’s energy minister vowed a “serious” response to Houthi attacks on the kingdom’s airports and oil and gas facilities, according to BBC News. On Sunday, a Pakistani man was killed in an attack on a terminal at the capital’s King Khalid International Airport, a day after a Houthi missile hit another terminal, killing 12 people and forcing its closure, Saudi authorities said; the toll rose to 13 after an injured Indian national died, according to the Indian embassy. With attacks on Saudi Arabia and on oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz back at the center of supply concerns, oil climbed to its highest levels in nearly two weeks on Monday morning, according to OilPrice.com.

A blast caused by unexploded ordnance in northern Israel, near the Lebanese border, injured approximately 20 people, according to Al Jazeera. Israel’s Magen David Adom said paramedics were treating eight casualties in serious and moderate condition, as well as several additional casualties in mild condition, after the explosion, which police said occurred near the community of Neot Mordechai. The Jerusalem Post reported 12 people wounded, including two in serious condition, according to initial reports.

EU foreign ministers adopted on Monday a decision establishing a new support mission in Lebanon aimed at advising the country’s military and internal security forces, according to Reuters, in a text republished by The Jerusalem Post. According to the Council of the EU, the mission will have an initial mandate of three years. The mission will advise and assist the Lebanese armed forces and internal security forces to strengthen territorial control, border security and also internal security, Kaja Kallas said, in remarks cited by Anadolu and carried by the Middle East Monitor. Kallas said the mission would not serve as a replacement for the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and that there cannot be a security vacuum when UNIFIL leaves Lebanon.

Iraqi F-16 fighter jets carried out two airstrikes targeting a hideout belonging to remnants of Daesh elements in the Nareen area, in eastern Diyala province, resulting in its complete destruction, according to the Security Media Cell. The strikes came less than two weeks after the US-led coalition’s mission against ISIS in Iraq officially ended on Sept. 30, according to operativmm.az, citing the Security Media Cell.

A drone struck an Iranian Kurdish opposition camp in Koya, east of Erbil in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, on Monday, according to Reuters, in a text republished by Iran International. There were no immediate reports of casualties, per two security sources cited by the agency. The Kurdistan-based website Rudaw released a video showing a drone over Koya.

US President Donald Trump announced on Sunday an “energy ceasefire” between Ukraine and Russia; Kyiv expressed astonishment and Moscow went silent, according to France24. According to Bloomberg, in a text republished by TASS, Zelensky is reportedly “on a collision course” with Trump for continuing to ignore Washington’s calls to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif pledged to support Saudi Arabia “in every possible way” after Houthi attacks on the airports in Riyadh and Abha; the Riyadh attack killed at least 12 people and injured 309, according to Media Line, in a text republished by the Jerusalem Post. Sharif invoked the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, signed by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, under which an attack against one country is considered an attack against all, and said Pakistan “will not tolerate any kind of aggression.”

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said security will not return to the Strait of Hormuz as long as the United States (US) persists in its blockade and military aggression, according to Mehr News.

Saudi Arabia is reportedly running low on interceptor missiles amid intensifying Houthi strikes, and the death toll from the 10/10 attack on King Khalid International Airport rose to 13 after an injured Indian national died, as confirmed by the Indian Embassy in Riyadh, according to the Hindustan Times. Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree reiterated on Sunday the warning to airlines, businesses and travellers against operating flights to Saudi airports, as unsafe, according to the same paper.

The Sunday announcement by US President Donald Trump of an “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine referred to a potential deal in which each side stops attacks on oil refineries — and he expects Volodymyr Zelensky to abide by it, a White House official said, according to Axios. Trump said he asked Zelensky to stop attacking Russian oil refineries and claimed Zelensky’s actions harmed American farmers; Zelensky said the announced ceasefire “was news for me.”

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan and Türkiye, as the R4 Group, condemned on Sunday the ongoing Houthi attacks on the Kingdom, including those launched against King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, which killed and injured civilians and damaged civilian infrastructure, calling them a “blatant violation of international law” and a “flagrant violation” of Saudi sovereignty and territorial integrity, according to Arab News. The group reaffirmed solidarity with Saudi Arabia, with full support for all “legitimate measures and steps” the country takes to respond to the attacks, according to Reuters, in a text republished by the Lufkin Daily News.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy released on Sunday a video showing a supertanker on fire after hitting a naval mine south of the Strait of Hormuz. According to the Navy itself, it was the third “violating” oil tanker since Saturday to hit naval mines on the strait's “unauthorized” route and catch fire. Mehr News also reported the third oil tanker catching fire in Hormuz after hitting a mine.

A retired Lebanese soldier was killed on Sunday by Israeli artillery fire while tending his land during the annual olive harvest in southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese army. The Lebanese army identified him as Ali Abdul Hassan Sweidan and said he was directly targeted while inspecting his property in Yater, in Bint Jbeil district.

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister spoke with his Iranian counterpart about the recent escalation of the regional conflict and efforts to lower tensions, the officials’ first publicly reported contact since Iran-aligned Houthis intensified strikes on the kingdom, according to the Saudi state news agency, in a Reuters report republished by the Jerusalem Post.

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday, the same day US President Donald Trump suggested the Ukrainian leader should be replaced for refusing to reach a settlement with Moscow, according to RT. Earlier on Saturday, Trump accused Zelenskyy of seeking to “make problems for the world” through continued attacks on the Russian energy infrastructure, including refineries. “I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal,” he said.

Sunday’s strike on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh left one person dead and 11 wounded, according to Saudi Arabia’s Civil Aviation Authority. The person killed was a Pakistani national living in the country, according to TASS. Saudi Arabia said Sunday that it would “respond decisively” against the Iranian-backed Houthis, a day after a strike on Riyadh’s international airport, according to The Washington Post.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council secretary, Mohsen Rezaei, said that Tehran continues to demand changes to Washington’s response before agreeing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and resume talks, according to the Middle East Eye. Rezaei wrote on X that the United States (US) has agreed to some of Iran’s seven conditions, but that Tehran considers its response inadequate.

At least four Palestinians were killed and several others wounded in an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip, according to regional media. The strike targeted a fuel depot this evening in the Al-Buraq Al-Janoubi area, west of Khan Younis, according to the Palestinian Wafa news agency, cited by Al Jazeera.

One civilian died and three people were wounded, including two teenagers, in Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia’s Belgorod region, according to the regional emergency response center. A man died after a drone hit his car on the Posokhovo-Kazinka road, and a 15-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl were hurt in the village of Novostroyevka-Pervaya.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry said, according to TASS, that the death toll since the start of the armed escalation on March 2 has risen to 4,387, with 12,424 wounded. In the south of the country, two men were killed in the Bint Jbeil district during the annual olive harvest, and the Lebanese army blamed Israeli tank fire and called the attacks a flagrant breach of existing agreements, according to Lebanese state media and local authorities.

The tanker MT Petro Dolphin, carrying 11 Indian seafarers, was hit by a drone attack at Sohar Anchorage, in Oman, on October 11, according to the Hindustan Times. Nine Indian crew members were rescued and two remain missing, with a search by the local coast guard. India’s embassy in Muscat said the vessel is a Nicaragua-flagged tanker.

A new attack struck a passenger terminal at Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport on Sunday, starting a fire and injuring people, according to Middle East Eye. Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation authority said the attack “resulted in injuries” but gave no figure, and confirmed there are casualties, according to Sputnik Globe. Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree renewed his warning against using Saudi airports and airspace, according to Middle East Eye.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy said a second supertanker carrying crude oil exploded and caught fire in its engine room after striking a sea mine in the southern part of the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday. The ship had all navigation systems switched off and was on an unauthorized route, according to the IRGC. The IRGC also said that three tankers that violated transit rules in the strait have struck mines and caught fire since yesterday and that vessels with navigation and identification systems turned off will be classified as hostile, with severe punishment, according to TASS.

The Houthis said they carried out four operations in 24 hours with ballistic and cruise missiles and drones, according to spokesman Yahya Saria. According to him, the targets included an Aramco gas facility in Shedgum and an oil facility in Tanajib in eastern Saudi Arabia, followed by fires, as well as King Khalid airport in Riyadh and King Fahd airport in Dammam, where he said navigation was suspended.

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said that Tehran will take the legal case over the US strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab to foreign courts. According to him, the school was hit three times by missiles in the early hours of February 28, 2026, in what Tehran describes as the start of the joint US-Israeli aggression against Iran, and 168 people died, mostly schoolchildren, along with a number of parents and teachers.

Israeli opposition leaders demanded a criminal investigation into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after his former military secretary, Avi Gil, said in an interview that the Prime Minister’s Office tampered with records from the day of the attack. According to Gil, Netanyahu’s chief of staff sought to have a 6:40 a.m. call recorded as having been made at 6:29 a.m., the minute the attack began. The former adviser also accused Netanyahu of prioritising his political survival over a deal that would free the captives.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the CHPP-5 plant in Kharkiv was struck shortly after the announcement of an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine by US President Donald Trump. According to Ukraine’s Presidential Office, the attack occurred after Trump announced the ceasefire in a Truth Social post, in which he wrote that the energy ceasefire was effective “immediately”. Zelenskyy said the strike happened “just now”.

A crude oil supertanker exploded and caught fire after hitting a mine while trying to leave the Strait of Hormuz on a route described as unauthorised and dangerous, according to Iranian media Press TV. The Revolutionary Guard said the vessel had switched off its navigation and GPS systems before hitting the mine and warned that “a massive fire awaits” any tanker that disregards the strait’s rules.

The Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed 136 military targets in areas controlled by the Houthis in a large-scale operation on Saturday. Almasirah TV, run by the Houthis, reported that Saudi missiles targeted areas in the northwestern Yemeni governorate of Saada.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on ABC's This Week that he would organize elections if Putin agreed to 60 days of a total ceasefire, according to Reuters, in a text republished by the Jerusalem Post. The statement answered Saturday's demand by US President Donald Trump that Zelenskyy stop attacking Russian refineries and that Ukrainians replace him in new elections.

US Security Coordinator Lt. Gen. Sean M. Salene criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government for stalling measures in Donald Trump's plan that strengthen the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, especially the training of a new Palestinian police force. Top US officials have accused Netanyahu of delaying aspects of the October 2025 ceasefire plan designed to replace Hamas with new Palestinian political and security mechanisms in Gaza.

The Emergency Lawyers group accused the Egyptian air force of a strike on Saturday that killed 72 civilian miners at a gold mine on the Sudan-Egypt border, according to the group's preliminary information, which said documentation and verification efforts were ongoing. Sudan Tribune reported that at least five strikes hit the Al-Uqaydat mine, near the Al-Ansari trading market in River Nile state, according to Mirghani Malik, an artisanal miner in the area. The outlet said it could not independently verify the casualty toll or identify the aircraft.

An unidentified projectile struck one of the passenger terminals at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Sunday, causing a fire, according to the Saudi-led coalition. Coalition spokesman Maj. Gen. Turki al-Malki said the projectile struck Terminal 4 and that emergency teams were working to contain the fire. On Saturday, a separate attack on the same airport killed 12 people and injured more than 300.

US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Ukraine and Russia had agreed to what he described as an energy ceasefire, effective immediately. In an interview with Axios, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Trump's post was the first he had heard of the deal, but a senior Ukrainian official told Reuters that Ukraine was ready to accept the ceasefire if Russia was. Earlier on Sunday, Zelenskyy had repeated Ukraine's long-standing position that it was willing to halt attacks on Russian refineries, but only if Moscow ceased its own strikes on Ukrainian power infrastructure.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it struck three Hamas weapons storage facilities, a command center and a missile launch site in the Gaza Strip, according to TASS. The IDF said advance warnings were issued to the population and precision munitions and aerial surveillance were used, according to the same source.

An Iranian rear admiral said Iran has already dealt blows to enemy vessels and will strike them again if necessary, according to Mehr News. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy said on October 9 that a giant vessel carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) was hit and caught fire, according to the same source.

Saturday's attack on Riyadh airport killed twelve people and wounded 309, the deadliest Saudi Arabia has seen in ten years, according to Le Monde. A French citizen is among the wounded, according to the newspaper. Russia condemned the attack and called on the parties to the conflicts in the Arabian Peninsula to refrain from strikes on civilian infrastructure, according to TASS, citing the Russian foreign ministry.

The UKMTO (United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations) said on Sunday it had received a report of a tanker hit by a projectile in Hormuz, according to Middle East Eye. The ship was struck by an unknown projectile on the port side, causing a fire on board, and the crew was reported safe, according to the UKMTO.

Lebanese forces seized hundreds of kilograms of explosives from a vehicle at a checkpoint in Dahr al-Baidar in the Bekaa Valley late last week, according to The Jerusalem Post. A judicial source told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that 250 kilograms of TNT-type explosives and 250 kilograms of C4 were seized and that one of the suspects was the son of a Hezbollah official. Lebanon's justice minister said the disarmament of illegal weapons is an irreversible path and will accelerate, according to the newspaper.

Houthi-affiliated media reported on Sunday an attack on Yemen's Sanaa International Airport that it said was carried out by Saudi Arabia, according to Middle East Eye. The same media reported that the Harf Sufyan district in the governorate of Amran, north of Sanaa, was targeted with seven air strikes, according to the same source.

Russia's Defense Ministry said its Center battlegroup liberated Novotroitskoye and Petrovskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic over the past 24 hours, according to TASS. The ministry said troops continued to mop up the western neighborhoods of Dobropolye and the Donbropolskaya mine area.

The head of Iran's Department of Environment, Shina Ansari, said US strikes on the petrochemical hub in the Iranian city of Asaluyeh generated emissions equivalent to 1.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, according to Sputnik. Ansari said the amount equals what 66 million mature trees absorb annually, according to Iranian state television.

Yemen's Ministry of Public Health and Population said on Saturday that medicines, intravenous fluids, medical supplies and fuel at Taiz health facilities were “nearing depletion”. The ministry said emergency care, surgery, intensive care, dialysis and neonatal services could be forced to stop if the situation continued. Middle East Eye reported the alert over the “near depletion” of medical and fuel supplies in the city.

A seven-year-old Palestinian child died on Sunday after being shot by Israeli forces in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, according to the WAFA news agency. Middle East Eye reported on Sunday the killing of a Palestinian child by Israeli gunfire in northern Gaza. The victim was identified as Jihad al-Ghandour, shot on Saturday near al-Houja Street in Jabalia camp, according to medical sources cited by WAFA.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday its troops had captured the villages of Kupyne and Riznykove in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, as well as Novotroitske and Davydovske in the Donetsk region, according to Asharq Al-Awsat, citing Interfax.

Israeli settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque under police protection, according to Middle East Eye.

Ethiopia accused neighbouring Eritrea of an “all-out invasion” of Tigray and warned that it will defend itself, according to a letter to the Security Council cited by UN News. Eritrea rejected the claim, with its information minister saying the country faces an “unprovoked war of aggression”. UN Secretary-General António Guterres said he is deeply worried by reports that Eritrean forces are present in northern Ethiopia.

US President Donald Trump called on Saturday for Ukraine to replace President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, after the Ukrainian criticized Washington’s easing of Russian diesel, according to France24. Trump also railed against Ukraine’s attacks on Russian oil infrastructure, according to Reuters.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on October 11 that Ukraine is ready to halt its attacks on Russian oil refineries if Russia ceases strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, and conditioned any de-escalation on reciprocity and real guarantees. A US official told Axios that President Trump decided to make a diesel deal with Russia after Zelenskyy ignored half a dozen US requests to stop attacking Russian refineries.

Russia's Ministry of Defense said it struck data centers, Ukrainian port infrastructure and vessels serving the Ukrainian military overnight, including the TeNet data center in Odessa, used to process, transmit and store information, according to the ministry, cited by Sputnik.

Israeli warplanes carried out two airstrikes on the town of Mansouri in southern Lebanon, according to the Mehr News Agency, which describes the action as a ceasefire violation.

Power supply in Vladimir, locally disrupted by a drone attack, was restored to 80%, with heat and water fully restored, according to regional governor Alexander Avdeyev. Yandex said the attack damaged its facilities and caused the complete shutdown of its data center in the Vladimir region — the third major company data center to go offline in recent days.

Bryansk regional governor Yegor Kovalchuk said a man was killed and two women were injured in Ukrainian strikes on the region. According to him, a kamikaze drone struck the village of Sluchok and seriously injured a resident, who died in the hospital.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Central Command completed preparations on October 8 for the coordinated Palestinian olive harvest in the West Bank, according to The Jerusalem Post. About 200 Palestinians and activists gathered opposite an illegal outpost and a confrontation with 20 settlers developed, including stone-throwing, until the IDF arrived to separate the sides.

The Houthis renewed their warning on Sunday to airlines, workers and travelers not to use airports in Saudi Arabia and said the warning should be taken seriously, after the attack on Riyadh’s international airport. According to Saudi authorities, cited by The Jerusalem Post, Saturday’s attack left 12 dead and more than 300 wounded. Saudi civil aviation extended the closure of King Khalid airport until 5 p.m. (UTC-4) on Sunday, under a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM). India condemned the attack, cited the 12 dead and more than 300 wounded and called attacks on civilians completely unacceptable.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday (October 10, 2026) that Russian President Vladimir Putin would like to reach a deal on the war in Ukraine, accusing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of resisting a compromise, according to AFP, in a text republished by The Hindu. Trump said Putin told him he wanted a settlement, “strongly,” in their phone call on Friday (October 9, 2026). In another statement, Trump said Zelenskyy, for various reasons, does not want to pursue a peaceful settlement, according to Mehr News.

At least six people were injured by Israeli gunfire in Khan Younis, according to the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza, cited by Al Jazeera, in a text by Middle East Eye. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces closed all entrances to the village of Madama, south of Nablus, on Sunday morning, preventing residents from entering or leaving, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Drone debris fell on the grounds of Sochi airport, in residential areas and hotels, in Russia's Krasnodar region, according to the regional emergencies headquarters, TASS reported. The debris hit an administrative building at the airport, where the fire was quickly extinguished, and damaged the roof of a house, starting another fire. No one was injured.

Yemen's Saba news agency said Saudi Arabia targeted the Majz district in Saada province six times, in northern Yemen, according to Mehr News. Schools in Riyadh will move to remote learning for a week, by order of the education ministry, according to an email sent to parents on Sunday, following the deadly attacks on the capital's airport. All flights were diverted from Riyadh on Saturday and operations at the airport, which serves a city of roughly 8 million people, were temporarily suspended, the Saudi civil aviation authority said.

Three Indian nationals rescued from the merchant vessel MV Royad Mammadov, attacked in the Black Sea on Monday, have left Romania for India, according to the Embassy of India in Bucharest, in information published by The Tribune with data from the ANI news agency. Two foreign seafarers were killed in the attack and the three Indians were injured and rescued by Romanian authorities, according to the same account.

The UN secretary-general, António Guterres, condemned the Houthi attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, which reportedly killed 12 people and injured hundreds of civilians, according to TASS. The secretary-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Jasem al-Budaiwi, called the attacks “treacherous terrorist attacks”. Asked on Saturday whether he had changed his mind about joining Saudi strikes on the group, Donald Trump said the United States “may”. Four Saudis, two Bangladeshis, one US citizen, one Egyptian, one Jordanian, one Syrian, one Palestinian and one Sudanese are among the 12 dead, according to Le Monde.

The infrastructure of Yandex's data center in Vladimir was damaged in a drone attack, and the center's operation was completely suspended, according to TASS. There were no casualties, the agency said.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned the Houthi attacks against Saudi Arabia, including Saturday’s attack on King Khalid airport in Riyadh, according to Al Jazeera. In a statement, Rubio said Washington strongly condemns the attacks by what he called terrorist Houthis and confirmed that the airport strike killed numerous innocent lives, including an American citizen, according to TASS.

The Pentagon updated its official count of US service members killed in the war against Iran, Operation Epic Fury, according to the Jerusalem Post. The report cites the Washington Post, which reported in September that the previous count of 18 may have been inaccurate and that at least four service members were potentially excluded from the official tally.

Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority said an attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh killed at least 12 people and wounded 309, according to Middle East Eye. The dead included four Saudi citizens, two Bangladeshi nationals, one US citizen, one Egyptian, one Jordanian, one Syrian, one Palestinian and one Sudanese, according to NPR. US President Donald Trump said he is evaluating whether the country should join Saudi strikes against the Houthis after the Saturday attack, according to NPR.

The UN secretary-general urged an immediate halt to the hostilities in Tigray, Afar and Amhara and a return to dialogue under the Pretoria Agreement framework, in a statement issued on Friday night in New York by his spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, according to UN News. Also according to UN News, media reports say Ethiopia accused neighbouring Eritrea of an all-out invasion of Tigray and warned that it will defend itself.

At least 15 people, including three children, were killed in Zaporizhzhia after Russia hit the city with five glide bombs. At least 16 others were injured and people are missing under the rubble, according to the BBC. Russian forces struck a five-story residential building in the city with guided aerial bombs early on October 10, according to the Kyiv Independent, which reported four dead and four injured in that strike. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attributed the attack to Russia expressing “its thanks” for a deal announced by US President Donald Trump easing sanctions on Moscow to import Russian diesel, according to the BBC.

A senior Israeli security official told Walla that Hamas is showing signs of preparing for attacks against Israeli forces, according to the Jerusalem Post. Israeli intelligence had identified indications that Hamas was planning to confront IDF troops along the Yellow Line, according to the same official. Asked about the possibility of a large-scale confrontation before Israel's October 27 elections, the official assessed the likelihood as low.

The Saudi-led coalition said a projectile fell near Dammam airport. Coalition spokesperson Turki al-Maliki said Saturday evening that the projectile fell near King Fahd International Airport in the eastern Saudi city of Dammam, according to Xinhua, in a text republished by NAMPA. Reuters reported the same day that the coalition said the projectile fell in the vicinity of Dammam airport.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are investigating a possible ground or air intrusion into northern Israel, Army Radio reported, according to The Jerusalem Post, with the Northern Command deploying checkpoints in the area. The earlier hostile aircraft infiltration alert occurred in the area of Arab al-Aramshe, triggered by a suspected drone launch from Lebanon.

Thousands of people marched across Europe to demand an end to Israel’s war on Gaza, according to Al Jazeera.

A missile struck the complex housing terminals 3 and 4 for domestic flights at Riyadh’s King Khalid airport, wounding many people, according to The Hindu. As a precaution, the airport will remain closed to arrivals and departures until about midnight local time, according to TASS. US President Donald Trump said the United States may join Saudi strikes against the Houthis and will decide quickly, according to The Jerusalem Post. After learning of the attack, he said: “We may. We’re going to look at it,” according to The Hindu.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said an oil tanker exploded and caught fire after striking a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz, according to the Jerusalem Post. The Guards did not specify the tanker’s name or flag, according to the Jerusalem Post.

A Congressional Research Service report released this week says the United States military had 81 aircraft destroyed or damaged in the war with Iran, according to CNN. The number includes airplanes, helicopters and drones, with MQ-9 Reaper drones accounting for more than half of the losses; the list includes an F-35A and an E-3 Sentry. The total cost of the aircraft lost is between $1.9 billion and $3.3 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) cited in the report.

The King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh temporarily suspended operations after an attack on Saturday that wounded several people, according to France 24. Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation authority said the number of wounded was still being assessed and that operations remained suspended pending the completion of the damage assessment and the verification of the safety of the facilities, according to France 24. Reuters reported that several people were wounded in the attack, according to the civil aviation authority. A diplomatic source attributed Saturday’s attack to a missile fired by the Houthis, and the group did not announce a new attack on Saturday, according to France 24.

Former Biden administration official Phil Gordon said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu introduced a series of new conditions against the advice of his own security chiefs, making a hostage deal impossible for another six months after July 2024, in a post cited by the Jerusalem Post. According to Gordon, during that period nearly 9,000 additional Palestinians were killed and more Israeli hostages died, including the six executed by Hamas in August. Among the new demands cited by Gordon was retaining Israeli forces along Gaza's entire border with Egypt — a stretch the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had seized only after the original proposal had already been made — as well as a screening mechanism for Palestinians returning north.

A loud explosion was heard at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Saturday, with parts of the terminal evacuated and more than a dozen ambulances rushing to the site, according to an eyewitness and people briefed on the matter cited by Reuters, in a text republished by the Jerusalem Post. The airport suspended operations and stopped serving inbound and outbound flights, TASS reported. Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways canceled multiple flights between their hubs and Riyadh, with some cancellations extending into Monday, according to Reuters. A medical source told AFP that dozens of people were injured at the airport, at least five of them in intensive care, in a strike that a diplomatic source attributed to the Houthis, according to Middle East Eye. The airport had already been attacked twice this week, leaving four people dead, others wounded and an aircraft damaged, according to Reuters.

A drone strike by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed 41 people at a camp for displaced people in the Abu Shandi area, in Blue Nile state, on Friday, according to the Emergency Lawyers group. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) said it was appalled by the reports and that initial information indicated most of the casualties were women and children, according to the BBC.

US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner may visit Moscow within the next two weeks, a source told TASS. The presidents of Russia and the United States held a phone call on October 9 discussing Russian diesel supplies, according to TASS.

The Kremlin announced on Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin conveyed to US President Donald Trump, in a phone call on Friday, Iran's stance on a potential agreement to end the war, according to Mehr News. According to spokesman Dmitry Peskov, cited by RIA Novosti, Putin conveyed to Trump the Iranian side's views on a possible settlement of the conflict, in coordination with the Iranian president. This week, Putin met with Iran's president on the sidelines of a regional summit in Turkmenistan, where he offered to mediate an agreement to end the war.

The United States pressed Israel to carry out a solo strike operation against Iran during discussions between the two countries over the past two weeks, sources told Maariv, in a report published by the Jerusalem Post. Washington wanted Israel to assume the political risks of a military operation ahead of the US midterm elections, rather than US President Donald Trump. The US has since backed down from its demand, at least for now, and Netanyahu’s position remains undefined.

Yemeni government forces are advancing against the Houthis in areas around the Bab al-Mandab strait, but have not yet secured control of the waterway, Yemeni military sources said, according to France24. The Houthis confirmed that government forces had attacked in the Bab al-Mandab area but claimed to have repelled the assault.

Drones attributed to Ethiopian government forces struck Eritrean troops, vehicles and ammunition near the northern Ethiopian town of Adigrat between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, according to The Media Line, in a text published by the Jerusalem Post. In an October 8 letter to the United Nations (UN) Security Council, Ethiopian Foreign Minister Gedion Timothewos accused Eritrea of invading Ethiopian territory and demanded that its troops withdraw. Eritrea on Saturday asked the council to condemn Ethiopia’s “declaration of war”, warning it could destabilise the region, according to AFP, in a text published by LBC.

The United Nations (UN) Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2830, extending the arms embargo in Darfur until December 11, to allow more time for negotiations. The text also extended the mandate of the panel of experts monitoring the sanctions until January 11, 2027. A United States proposal to widen the embargo to the entire Sudanese territory was not approved, after opposition from Russia and China, according to Al Jazeera.

Neomi Neumann, former head of the Shin Bet research headquarters, told KAN News that Hamas still controls Gaza, according to the Jerusalem Post. She said Hamas generates between 2 and 5 million US dollars daily through heavy taxes on goods in the Gaza Strip, and that it “boycotts some of the humanitarian aid and sells the products at high prices on the black market”.

Iran has retained the ability to manufacture ballistic missiles and drones despite eight months of US and Israeli airstrikes, allowing Tehran to replenish its weapons stockpiles, according to the Jerusalem Post, citing Bloomberg. Western officials speaking on condition of anonymity said Iran had preserved parts of its weapons manufacturing infrastructure despite extensive strikes on its military-industrial capabilities.

A day after US President Donald Trump announced a deal to buy Russian diesel, Russian strikes killed at least 11 people in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region on Saturday, October 10, according to officials cited by The Hindu. Three children were among the dead and at least 16 people were wounded when Russian aerial bombs hit residential buildings, said Mykhailo Semikin, head of the regional military administration. Ukraine's national police said Russia targeted residential neighborhoods with five guided aerial bombs early Saturday, according to Asharq Al-Awsat. Trump wrote that Russia would immediately supply more than 300,000 tonnes of diesel, followed by an additional 500,000 tonnes in November 2026 and 1 million tonnes immediately thereafter, with 3 million more within a short period of time. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the deal “a weak decision, unfortunately, a weak decision by strong partners”.

The death toll from the Russian bombardment in Zaporizhzhia rose to 12, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The bombardment took place on Saturday and Zelensky said five glide bombs hit residential buildings in the city.

A pilot for the flagship carrier Saudia is among the three dead in the Houthi missile attacks on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, which threaten to choke off business travel, according to the Wall Street Journal, in a text republished by the Hindustan Times.

Jared Kushner marked one year since an agreement was reached on Trump's 20-point plan for Gaza, saying significant progress had been made in implementing it over the past year, according to the Jerusalem Post. Among the milestones he cited were the return of the 20 living hostages to Israel in October 2025, the return of the remains of the final hostage in January 2026 and the formation of a technocratic Palestinian administration for Gaza. Kushner said humanitarian aid to Gaza has increased significantly since the ceasefire and that Hamas signed in July a phased disarmament framework that has not been fully implemented.

The city of Taiz is under houthi siege again, after the group captured the town of al-Turbah by October 4, severing the only remaining main road between Taiz city and other government-held areas, according to Al Jazeera. In early September, the Houthis launched an offensive along the Red Sea coast of Taiz governorate, according to Al Jazeera. Residents are stocking up on water and other essentials, fearful of shortages as food and fuel prices rise under the new siege.

Oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz fell to a seven-day average of 9.9 million barrels per day as of October 7, 42 percent below prewar levels and down from about 15.5 million in September, according to Kpler data cited by the Financial Times. Kpler said flows had recovered to prewar levels in September, but intensified attacks on vessels drove exports sharply lower this week.

The Hind Rajab Foundation announced on Thursday that it had asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to investigate the involvement of Israeli medical personnel in alleged abuses at Sde Teiman. The request names medical professionals, hospital administrators, senior Health Ministry and Defense Ministry officials, and leaders of the Israel Medical Association, in connection with alleged abuses at the facility since October 7, 2023. The submission was filed under Article 15 of the Rome Statute and is not an indictment or a court decision to open an investigation, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Two young Palestinian men were shot and wounded during an Israeli military raid on the city of Jericho on Friday night, one in the thigh and the other in the foot, and were taken to hospital, according to the Wafa news agency, cited by Middle East Eye. On Saturday morning, Israeli forces prevented Palestinian farmers from harvesting olives on their land in the town of Kafr Ni’ma, west of Ramallah, Wafa reported.

US, Ukrainian and European officials met in Miami on Friday in a renewed diplomatic push to end Russia's war in Ukraine, as Washington seeks a way out of the dangerous stalemate. US envoy Steve Witkoff said the talks tackled potential avenues to de-escalate and conclude the war before winter, toward a durable peace; according to him, the meeting included the E3, the European Commission, Ukraine and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and covered energy resilience, grain, security guarantees and reconstruction. The meeting follows the announcement that Russia would immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel, with another 500,000 tons in November, and that the US Treasury would issue a temporary license to allow Russian diesel to flow to global markets.

A Russian attack on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia killed seven people and wounded ten others on the morning of October 10, regional governor Mykhailo Semikin said, as rescuers searched for more people under the rubble. The attack hit several locations at once in the early hours of that day, according to Reuters, in a text republished by The Hindu.

The US Central Command (Centcom) said it redirected 133 commercial vessels as of October 9 through the Strait of Hormuz to enforce the naval blockade against Iran. In a post on X, Centcom called the US blockade against Iran “ironclad”. A second outlet, Ajel English, reported that Centcom announced 133 commercial vessels redirected to enforce the maritime blockade on Iran since its resumption.

Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least eight Palestinians and wounded others across Gaza on Thursday and Friday, according to local medical sources and rescue workers cited by RT. Since the US-brokered ceasefire took effect on October 10, 2025, Gaza’s Health Ministry counts more than 1,450 Palestinians killed and over 5,000 wounded, according to RT.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump held a phone call lasting an hour and a half, described as substantive and friendly, according to Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov. In the same call, Putin told Trump that Russia’s position on the goals and objectives of its special military operation remains unchanged, according to the aide.

The Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed 136 military targets in areas controlled by the Houthis in a large-scale operation, according to Le Monde. Saudi Arabia said Houthi attacks on Riyadh’s international airport earlier this week killed three people, according to Le Monde. Yemen’s government said 1,400 Houthis were killed in 2,750 strikes, according to the Middle East Eye.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that the country is investigating a viral video said to show mercenaries chanting drug cartel slogans in Ukraine, according to Al Jazeera.

Erik Prince signed a wide-ranging contract in late 2024 to provide security and mining services to the government of Democratic Republic of the Congo President Félix Tshisekedi, according to The New York Times.

President Donald Trump left open the possibility of striking Iran before the midterm elections. Asked about it, he said, “We may. I mean, we’ll see,” according to The Jerusalem Post. Trump has signaled to aides that he would be willing to strike Iran again, though his advisers believe the right moment would be after the midterms, according to The Atlantic.

The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said on Friday it was carrying out a wide-ranging operation against the elements and capabilities of the Houthis, according to a statement by the coalition spokesperson. The statement said that 136 military targets had been destroyed in areas controlled by the Houthis, adding that the coalition was providing round-the-clock air support to Yemeni government forces. The UN Special Envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, told the Security Council that the country had slid back into full-scale war. According to the UN, at least 46 civilians have been killed and more than 130 injured since August in the fighting.

An Israeli attack wounded six people in northeast Lebanon on Friday, near the border with Syria, and Israel said it targeted a “Syrian terrorist” who planned attacks against Israel. The Israeli military said it struck Yusuf Ali al-Hassoun, who, according to Tel Aviv, operated under the direction of the Iranian regime.

Houthi media reported that Saudi strikes on Sanaa airport killed two people on Friday, a day after the group launched strikes against Riyadh’s airport, which it said killed three people.

A drone strike in Sudan’s Blue Nile state killed at least 30 displaced people, including women and children, and wounded dozens, according to Al Jazeera. The governor of Wad al-Mahi, Mahjoub Al-Sheikh, said the drone belonged to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and hit the centre of the province, killing 26 women and four children, according to AFP.

Russia’s Defence Ministry said a dry cargo ship carrying military cargo to the port of Odesa was struck at sea, according to Sputnik.

About 245,981 buildings, or 74.5% of all structures existing before October 7, 2023, are likely to have been damaged or destroyed in the Gaza Strip, according to a satellite radar-driven structural analysis by the Conflict Ecology lab, published by The Hindu. The analysis used satellite data from October 7, 2023, to August 3, 2026, with 258 Sentinel-1 radar images in 12-day observation windows. The lab said it completed a three-year assessment in Gaza with active monitoring of repeat damage every 12 days.

The Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, a Palestinian government body operating under the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), recorded at least 19 settler attacks on Friday against the olive harvest in the West Bank, according to Al Jazeera. According to the commission, the incidents included attacks on Palestinian olive harvesters, the burning and uprooting of olive trees, and the theft of crops and livestock. More than 50 olive trees were uprooted by settlers in Qusra, the commission said.

A foreign security source estimated that 5,000 to 8,000 Eritrean soldiers are present in Tigray, according to AFP, cited by DW, which says various sources have confirmed the presence of Eritrean armed forces in Ethiopia. Ethiopia wrote to the UN Security Council calling for the immediate withdrawal of Eritrean troops from its territory, saying it had no option but to defend itself, according to Reuters, cited by DW.

The Aframax Rio tanker was towed to a safe location after an attack by unmanned surface vessels, and specialists from the Marine Rescue Service are assessing its technical condition, according to TASS. The Liberian-flagged vessel was set alight after coming under fire from unmanned boats on Tuesday evening off the coast of Sochi, and its crew of 23 people, all Indian citizens, was rescued, with preliminary information indicating no casualties, according to ABC News.

Rubio said in Lisbon that the war in Ukraine has hit a stalemate that usually ends in negotiation or escalation, and he called escalation “very dangerous”, including possible Russian sabotage or strikes in neighboring NATO countries that could rapidly widen the conflict, according to OilPrice.

Israeli opposition leader Yair Golan said the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was a “mistake”, arguing that it did not serve Israel’s interests, according to the Middle East Eye, citing The Times of Israel. Golan said the appointment of Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei, had left Iran with “more extreme and violent individuals”.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it struck the gas carrier MT Sunshine, later called NV Sunshine, which was attempting to transit via an unauthorized route in the southern part of the Strait of Hormuz, according to TASS. The force said the vessel suffered a massive fire in the engine room and propulsion system, according to Al Jazeera. The IRGC warned that vessels violating its rules and passing through the Strait of Hormuz would be punished, according to the Hindustan Times.

Residents of Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, are being forced to flee the city as drone strikes intensify, according to France 24. On the evening of 8 October, two people were killed in a Russian drone strike on a civilian car in the centre of Kramatorsk, bringing the number of people killed in the city over the course of the day to 32, according to the city council cited by Ukrainska Pravda.

Ethiopia and Eritrea each accused the other of starting a war of aggression on Friday, as an internal Ethiopian conflict threatened to escalate into a regional war, according to France 24, in a text with AFP. A foreign security source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP they estimated 5,000 to 8,000 Eritrean soldiers were present in Tigray. Witnesses told AFP that the rebels had lost two other cities in the region, Shire and Adigrat.

Israeli forces killed eight Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Thursday and issued fresh expulsion orders in several areas, according to local reports compiled by Middle East Eye. A woman and a child were killed in strikes on two houses in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City, minutes after residents were told to leave. According to Shifa and Al-Ahli hospitals, the strike on a house in Sabra killed a woman and a child and wounded 10 other people, while another strike in the city wounded six.

The Saudi-led coalition said on Wednesday it had destroyed 82 Houthi military targets across several provinces, in a large-scale operation, according to CGTN. Coalition spokesman Turki Al Maliki said on X that the operation targeted sites in Saada, Hodeidah, Al-Jawf and Marib. The Houthi group said Saudi Arabia had carried out 156 air and missile strikes on Sanaa, the capital it controls.

Ethiopia told the UN Security Council that Eritrean forces, including mechanized units, advanced up to 37 miles (about 60 kilometres) into its northern territory, according to Africa Today News New York. The letter says the presence of the troops engages Ethiopia's inherent right to self-defense, and it describes the incursion as an “all-out invasion”. Residents of Adigrat told the BBC that Eritrean soldiers had crossed into northern Ethiopia heading towards an area of clashes in Tigray.

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the country would not launch new military strikes against Iran before the November 3 congressional midterm elections, according to The Media Line. “We will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections to be held in the United States on November 3rd,” he wrote. The announcement helped ease market concerns: Brent crude fell to about $103 a barrel on Friday, after climbing above $104.

Yemeni Deputy Minister of Defense, Major General Samir Al-Sabri, told Asharq that forces are advancing on more than one front and that Sanaa is the main battle, according to Arab News. He cited progress on the West Coast, in Dhubab, in the Kahbub mountains and in regions of Marib Governorate.

Saudi Arabia confirmed three deaths in attacks on airports over two days, with two people killed and 28 wounded in Abha, according to the BBC. Three Saudi citizens were killed in two Thursday attacks targeting King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and a Saudia aircraft, according to the Associated Press.

The Philippine Coast Guard accused China Coast Guard vessels of obstructing an emergency evacuation, including with a water cannon in an apparent attempt to block a Philippine patrol ship, in a mission delayed by nearly 10 hours that forced the Philippine vessel to withdraw for safety, without the jet hitting the ship, according to the South China Morning Post.

India advised its nationals in Saudi Arabia to remain alert and follow local authorities, condemned the attacks on civilian infrastructure as completely unacceptable, and saw Air India and Air India Express flights to and from Riyadh cancelled until October 10, 2026, according to The Hindu.

Ethiopian drones struck units of the Eritrean Army in the city of Adigrat, in Tigray, in the early hours of October 8, according to the Russian agency TASS. A local resident said several Eritrean military trucks were destroyed.

South Korea accused North Korea’s government of deliberately laying the land mine that wounded three South Korean soldiers near the inter-Korean border on September 21, according to Opera Mundi. North Korea rejected the accusation and called the case a ploy to shift the blame.

Israelis remain stranded in Dubai as Israeli airlines cancel rescue flights, according to The Jerusalem Post.

The Houthis said they struck Riyadh airport with a ballistic missile, badly damaging a plane, according to The Guardian. Lufthansa and Air India suspended flights to Riyadh. Saudi Arabia did not comment on the claim but confirmed three killed in airport strikes earlier this week.

Ethiopian federal forces entered Mekelle, the capital of Tigray, after rebels withdrew from the city, in fighting that effectively ended the 2022 Pretoria ceasefire, with reports of Eritrean troops in northern Tigray, after Ethiopia closed its embassy in Eritrea and expelled diplomats on October 1, accusing Asmara of hostile acts and involvement in the fighting, according to Al Jazeera.

Israeli attacks have killed or wounded a Palestinian in Gaza every 90 minutes on average since the ceasefire was announced, according to Islamic Relief. The group reports at least 1,454 Palestinians killed and more than 5,000 wounded over the period. The Gaza Health Ministry says 1,471 Palestinians have been killed and 5,189 wounded since the ceasefire.

Seven people were killed in separate Israeli strikes across Gaza, six of them in Gaza City, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defence. According to the same civil defence, two people, a woman and a child, were killed and others wounded when Israeli aircraft bombed a residential building in Gaza City. The Israeli army said three of the victims were “military operatives”. Middle East Eye recorded seven killed in separate Israeli strikes across Gaza.

Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Zelensky’s confrontational statements demonstrate Ukraine’s unwillingness to pursue peace, according to TASS. Peskov said Zelensky’s earlier threats of a 40-day operation against Russia are now backfiring on Ukraine itself.

The Russian attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure on October 8 left most of Kyiv without power, with the metro shut down due to a lack of electricity and water scarce, according to the Kyiv Independent. Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal confirmed the attack on an energy facility important for Kyiv and said crews are trying to restore power. Drone strikes on October 8 killed four people and injured at least 19 in Kyiv, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko. According to Le Monde, 78 people were killed and 215 wounded on October 7 and 8 alone.

The Israeli military announced it had killed Muhammad Muhsen Nimr Yazji, a commander of Hamas’s Shati Battalion, in strikes in Gaza City on Monday, according to the Jerusalem Post. The announcement was made on Thursday evening. Yazji held Emily Damari, Romi Gonen and Matan Angrest as hostages, according to the military. In separate strikes on Tuesday, the military said it killed Muhammad Fawzi Muhammad Awad Gamal, of Hamas’s Daraj Tuffah Battalion.

At least 81 US military aircraft, including fighter jets and drones, were lost or damaged in Operation Epic Fury against Iran, according to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report released on Monday and reported by Al Jazeera. The CBO estimated the cost of the aircraft losses as of August 1 at between $1.9bn and $3.3bn. The aircraft include 12 F-15E fighter jets, one F-35A and seven KC-135 tanker aircraft; 45 of the 81 are MQ-9 Reaper drones. In a separate report in September, the CBO estimated the total cost of the war with Iran as of August 1 at about $38bn.

The Israeli military announced on Thursday the death of Capt. Eliav Haim Tzapalamus, 21, from Haifa, a combat engineering officer in the 603rd Battalion, 7th Brigade, in southern Lebanon, according to the Jerusalem Post. According to the military, he was killed when a Humvee flipped during operational activity in the Litani sector. Three other soldiers were lightly injured, were evacuated to a hospital and their families were notified.

Avi Gil, former military secretary to Benjamin Netanyahu, told N12 News on Thursday that he gave an inaccurate account of his timeline on October 7 and said that Netanyahu’s chief of staff allegedly tried to change the official record of the prime minister’s schedule, according to The Jerusalem Post.

Three people have been killed by Israeli gunfire in Gaza City and northern Gaza since early Thursday, according to Al Jazeera, citing medical sources. In a separate attack, two people were killed and three wounded when an Israeli strike hit a vehicle in Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood, according to the Middle East Eye.

Iranian attacks hit at least nine vessels in the Strait of Hormuz last week, a level of attacks on shipping not seen since July, according to The Washington Post. The uptick came after the Trump administration celebrated that US naval escorts had allowed oil flows to reach nearly prewar levels.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) accused the Turkish state on Thursday of doing little to pursue the peace process that began in 2024, despite the Kurdish group having withdrawn all its combat forces from Turkiye, according to AFP, in a text published by The Hindu. The movement said it has withdrawn all its armed forces, both within and outside of Turkiye, that could be considered near the border.

Syria has called for an “independent and transparent” investigation into the sinking of the Alfa Watan cargo ship, demanding answers over the fate of its 10 crew members — nine Syrians and an Egyptian —, who remain unaccounted for, Al Jazeera reported. The Togolese-flagged vessel went down in Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone early on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States has no plans to attack Iran before November’s midterm elections, an unusual public pronouncement about military plans that came as he said “productive conversations” with Tehran were underway, according to The Washington Post. The USS Abraham Lincoln will return home to San Diego later today after 265 uninterrupted days at sea supporting the Iran war, a record-long deployment, according to The Guardian.

The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel assassinated the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy, Alireza Tangsiri, on March 26, fearing he could become a more formidable IRGC chief than Ahmad Vahidi. Israeli officials viewed Tangsiri as a highly creative and resourceful commander, according to the paper.

Saudi authorities said Houthi strikes on the airports in Riyadh and Abha killed three people and injured dozens, according to The New York Times. Air India said flight AI2243, from Delhi to Riyadh, returned to Delhi on Thursday in the interest of passenger and crew safety; the service was cancelled, with full refunds offered. Flights were disrupted after Iran-aligned Houthi rebels reportedly targeted Saudi Arabia, including a missile fired towards Riyadh International Airport, according to The Hindu.

Germany has announced a new round of military aid for Ukraine valued at approximately €1 billion, to include turbojet-powered drone interceptors, standoff weapons and space-based technology, according to Breaking Defense. The package includes several tens of thousands of Quantum Systems interceptor drones, to be produced in Ukraine and deployed against Russia's intensifying drone campaign. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Germany's new aid package is worth more than €1.3 billion, including funding for interceptors against turbojet Shaheds, according to UkraineToday.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the war in Ukraine is at a dangerous stalemate, according to Reuters, in a text republished by Internazionale. Rubio warned the escalation could become a sabotage campaign in neighboring countries that are members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In an interview, he said he does not believe the war can be settled through negotiations at this time, according to The New Voice of Ukraine.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Turkey will not send troops to Yemen to fight Houthi forces, despite its defence agreement with Saudi Arabia, according to Firstpost. Fidan said the deal is defensive and does not authorise attacks on another country's territory. The Mecca Agreement, signed by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan in August, commits the three to mutual defence, with an armed attack on one member treated as an attack on all three.

Iranian intelligence services are targeting US military bases in Germany, including Ramstein and Spangdahlem, according to German weekly WirtschaftsWoche, cited by The Jerusalem Post. Israel reportedly warned US and German partners three weeks ago of a potential threat, with concern focused on bases supporting operations linked to the conflict with Iran.

Israeli forces have killed at least four Palestinians in Gaza over the past 24 hours, the territory’s health ministry reports. The latest deaths bring the toll from the war in Gaza since October 2023 to 74,254, with 175,306 injured, according to the ministry.

South Korea said it will recall its ambassador to Ukraine, stepping up its protest against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s recent revelation of a supposedly secret transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea, The Associated Press reported. South Korea has accused Ukraine of violating a nondisclosure agreement on their transfer in mid-September, but Kyiv has denied agreeing to such a deal.

A Russian attack on two passenger buses in Kramatorsk, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine, killed 30 people and wounded 18, according to local authorities. The Donetsk regional prosecutor’s office and the governor’s office gave the same toll of 30 dead and 18 wounded. Ukrainian authorities said 30 people were killed and at least 18 injured in Russian strikes in eastern Ukraine that included the attack on a public bus, The Associated Press reported.

Yandex suspended operations at one of its key data centers on Thursday after a drone strike, as Ukraine continues to target the country’s infrastructure, according to CNBC. The attack caused a fire at the company’s data center in Sasovo, in western Russia’s Ryazan region, and affected part of its infrastructure, Yandex told CNBC. Open-source intelligence (OSINT) groups Exilenova+ and ASTRA identified the site as Yandex DC Sasovo, which the company describes as its largest data center, according to the Kyiv Independent.

The Houthis said they struck King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh with a ballistic missile on October 7 — the second time this week they claimed an attack on the main airport in the Saudi capital, according to Al-Monitor. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said in a post on X that the group’s armed forces struck the airport and that the strike was “accurate, by God’s grace,” and caused an “air traffic disruption.” The Saudi-led military coalition backing Yemen’s government said the missile was intercepted.

Syria is considering giving military assistance to Saudi Arabia in the war against the Houthis — with options including defensive aid or deploying forces in support of Saudi-backed Yemeni troops — although the Syrian president's media adviser denies that Riyadh requested Syrian forces, according to The Jerusalem Post.

22 people were killed in Pryluky in a missile attack the previous day, including five children, and 54 others were injured, including seven children, according to Ukraine's Emergency Service, RBC-Ukraine reported.

Yedioth Ahronoth compared a 55-page document released by Netanyahu in February with original records, meeting summaries and testimonies, finding omissions and changes in wording and context, according to the newspaper, in a text republished by Middle East Eye. According to the report, the original records indicate that Netanyahu repeatedly sought calm and rejected approving attacks despite warnings from security officials.

Hezbollah members remain present in the pilot zones of Froun, Srifa and Zawtar al-Gharbiyah, south of Nabatiya, posing as civilians, according to KAN, as reported by the Jerusalem Post. Israeli officials say the pilot program — under which Israeli troops would withdraw so the Lebanese Armed Forces could take over operations against Hezbollah — failed, according to the Jerusalem Post.

About 7,000 troops were stationed at Camp Buehring, in Kuwait, and most were moved before fighting began, according to the Jerusalem Post, citing CBS News. The remaining troops left the base at night in vehicles, taking equipment, and set up forward operating bases in the Kuwaiti desert, after attacks with ballistic missiles and drones and what three service members identified as Iranian F-5 aircraft. No soldiers were killed by enemy fire at Camp Buehring or the desert positions, although several were injured.

The United States formally ended its Operation Inherent Resolve mission in Iraq on September 30, completing a withdrawal agreed on in 2024. The mission, launched in 2014 to fight Islamic State, has been replaced by an Iraqi-led security effort, with Washington keeping training and intelligence support, according to the South China Morning Post.

Houthi attacks on the international airports of Abha and King Khalid, in Riyadh, took place on October 6 and 7, according to the BBC — two women died in Abha and a Sudanese resident in Riyadh, with 28 and 8 wounded respectively. Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority (Gaca) attributes 3 dead and 36 wounded to the attacks. Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said the group's forces hit King Khalid airport, in Riyadh, with a ballistic missile, disrupting air traffic. The Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed the launch platform used in the Riyadh attack and then 82 legitimate military targets, including Houthi mountain-based missile facilities and command-and-control centers. UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the continued Houthi cross-border attacks on Saudi Arabia. The UN said on Wednesday that the fighting in Yemen displaced more than 200,000 people.

Israeli troops shelled late on Wednesday the outskirts of a village in Syria’s southern Quneitra province, according to the Sana news agency — two artillery rounds landed in agricultural areas surrounding Al-Samdaniya Al-Sharqiya, causing no injuries.

The Yemeni army says it “neutralized” 1,860 Houthis in 2,103 targeting operations as part of Operation Dawn of Yemen — the spokesman did not specify how many were killed or wounded, and there was no immediate comment from the Houthis, according to Anadolu (AA).

An adviser to the Revolutionary Guards commander, Mohammadreza Naqdi, told the Fars news agency that transit routes in the Strait of Hormuz deemed illegal by Iran will soon be closed, according to Reuters, in a text republished by Devdiscourse. According to Naqdi, those routes were opened by blasting rocky passages in the waterway and would be used by small boats to smuggle oil, according to The Telegraph India.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said one of its positions near Kfar Shouba, on the Blue Line in the eastern sector, was hit by small-arms fire on the morning of the 7th and that there were no casualties. The peacekeeping force said the shots hit a post on the Israeli border, according to Al Jazeera.

Analyst Michelle Brohard of Kpler said she suspects Gulf countries pay Iran for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, possibly 10% to 20% of the cargo. The report itself notes that the suspicion has not been independently verified and that there is no public proof of a systematic state toll system, according to Al Jazeera, in a text republished by Yahoo.

Videos obtained by CBS News show Iranian attacks with ballistic missiles, drones and F-5 jets on the U.S. military base at Camp Buehring, in Kuwait, at the start of the war, according to the network. Service members who spoke to CBS said the base was abandoned and the troops moved out into the desert at night, where they set up forward bases; no one died there from enemy fire, according to CBS News.

A Russian overnight missile and drone attack hit Ukrainian cities on October 7 and killed at least 26 people, according to the Kyiv Independent. In Pryluky, in the Chernihiv region, a Russian cruise missile hit a residential building, killing at least 20 people, including five children, and wounding at least 55, according to the Kyiv Independent. The Kyiv Post later reported a toll of 18 dead in Pryluky and 24 overall, citing updated figures from the Ukrainian emergency service, as rescue operations continued in the rubble of a five-story building.

Russia has begun sabotage operations against Danish companies supplying Ukraine after concluding that broader disruption efforts failed, according to Reuters, in a text republished by The Straits Times. Analyst Josefine Christensen of Denmark’s PET intelligence service said at a conference in Copenhagen that Russia is now trying to hit targets with a direct impact on the front line, namely weapons production, according to Reuters, in a text republished by SRN News.

The White House asked the Pentagon to prepare options for strikes on Iran that could take place before the November 3 midterm elections, according to The Atlantic, which cited two administration officials in a report carried by The Jerusalem Post. US Central Command is developing the options, and the potential targets, the scope of an operation and whether President Donald Trump will authorize military action remain under discussion. The Pentagon has also presented options for operations after the elections, ranging from limited attacks to a broader campaign that could include additional strikes on Iran’s energy industry.

The Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed 82 targets in a “comprehensive operation” across Saada, Hodeidah, al-Jawf and Marib, according to spokesperson Major-General Turki al-Maliki. According to him, the targets included 11 mountain-based ballistic missile storage sites in Saada, as well as command and control centres, communications systems, missile and weapons depots. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the Ansar Allah movement launched ballistic missile strikes on coalition positions south of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

Three people were killed and 36 others were injured in two attacks on international airports in Saudi Arabia, according to the kingdom’s General Authority of Civil Aviation, in a TASS report. In the strike on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, a Sudanese national was killed and eight others were injured, including five Saudis, two Egyptians and one Pakistani.

Iran’s ambassador to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Hadi Farajvand, said US military attacks damaged 111 Iranian petrochemical and pharmaceutical facilities, according to the Tehran Times. According to the account, 60 petrochemical complexes, 44 pharmaceutical factories and seven pharmaceutical facilities were damaged. The statement was made at the 113th session of the OPCW Executive Council, in The Hague, which runs until October 9.

The death toll among Palestinians in Gaza rose to five after an Israeli air strike targeted a house in the Khan Younis refugee camp, according to Al Jazeera, injuring several others, one of them critically.

Russia’s Defence Ministry said it had carried out a massive strike with precision weapons and drones on military-industrial facilities in Ukraine, in Kyiv and other regions. The ministry confirmed the overnight strike and did not mention civilian casualties. In the Chernihiv region, a missile hit a five-storey residential building in Pryluky, killing nine people, including three children, and wounding 34, according to Ukraine’s Interior Minister, Ihor Vyhivskyi.

Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem declared that the liberation of southern Lebanon is within sight and that Israeli forces will not manage to maintain what he called their illegal occupation, whatever the time, according to the Tehran Times. Iranian general Ali Abdollahi said the 7th of October turned the Resistance Front’s defensive strategy into an offensive one and accelerated the decline of what he called the usurping Zionist regime.

Eritrean troops have entered Ethiopia, raising fears of a direct confrontation with Addis Ababa, according to Le Monde. In recent days, the troops have deployed around a town in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, a local official and residents said, after two weeks of internal conflict threatening a wider regional war, according to AFP, in a report published by Modern Ghana.

Israeli authorities razed a warehouse and a chicken coop belonging to Yousef Zyadna, a Palestinian citizen of Israel who rescued 30 Israelis at the Nova festival on October 7, 2023, and his nephew’s home, according to Middle East Eye, citing the Israeli news site Local Call. Dozens of bulldozers arrived in the Zyadna neighbourhood near Rahat, where they demolished homes and other structures in the Bedouin community; there are 65 demolition orders against homes in the neighbourhood.

Israel carried out new strikes in Gaza on October 7, 2026, on the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks, and Palestinian officials reported three people dead. In Gaza City, Al-Shifa hospital reported two people killed in an Israeli strike overnight. The Israeli military said it struck and killed two Hamas members who had exited Kamal Adwan Hospital. In Khan Yunis, Nasser Hospital said that Hisham Ibrahim Abu Mustafa, 60, was killed in an Israeli strike and that others were injured, according to AFP, in a report published by The Hindu.

Mali’s army, supported by Russian paramilitary forces, re-entered the northern town of Kidal, forcing Tuareg separatists to withdraw, according to Deutsche Welle. The Azawad Liberation Front said it decided to carry out a strategic and controlled withdrawal from Kidal, without direct fighting, citing disproportionate use of air power by Russian mercenaries of the Africa Corps. Mali’s transitional government said, in a statement read on state TV, that the retake was carried out by air and ground forces with the support of Russia’s Africa Corps, according to the Associated Press.

Iranian armed forces will soon block illegal routes used to transport oil through the Strait of Hormuz, said Mohammad Reza Naghdi, an adviser to the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), according to TASS, citing the Fars agency. Naghdi said the volume of oil transported illegally through the strait is extremely small, carried in small vessels up to tankers.

Turkey is sending mainly defensive and technical support to Saudi Arabia to help it fight Yemen’s Houthis, two officials said on Wednesday, according to Reuters, in a text republished by the Jerusalem Post. The support expected would be only military equipment, intelligence sharing and weapons systems, with no other form of deployment by the alliance so far, according to the officials. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said, after a meeting of the Mecca alliance, that the sides had discussed what support to provide Saudi Arabia for its defensive capabilities.

More than 200,000 people have left their homes in Yemen since the recent fighting began, according to data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) released on Wednesday, in a Reuters text republished by the Jerusalem Post. Displacement surged from 76,000 in mid-September to more than 200,000, nearly all of them fleeing since the fighting started in early September. The Houthis seized the country’s entire Red Sea coast last month from forces of the internationally recognized government, based in Aden.

A 44-year-old Palestinian, Ali Hassan al-Bazari, was killed in an attack by Israeli settlers on farmers harvesting olives near Burqa, in the occupied West Bank, according to Middle East Eye. The Palestinian Health Ministry said nine Palestinians were wounded, one of them critically. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers were present and protected the settlers during the attack, and it was not immediately clear whether al-Bazari was killed by settler or army fire.

Three years into the war in Gaza, US military aid to Israel remains unconditional, according to Al Jazeera. Washington has provided nearly $300bn in aid to Israel since its creation in 1948, adjusted for inflation, more than to any other country. At least 74,243 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel, which killed at least 1,139 people.

In an interview with the Haredi site Hashtiblach on Monday, Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich said Israel would destroy Sinai if Egypt attacked Israel, according to The Jerusalem Post. Egyptian presenters responded with threats against Tel Aviv, Ben-Gurion Airport and Netanyahu. Journalist Ahmed Moussa said all 120 million Egyptians would die defending Egypt. There was no immediate official response from the Egyptian authorities, only reactions from journalists, lawmakers and influencers close to the authorities, according to the Middle East Monitor.

Israeli forces launched several brigade-level operations across the West Bank overnight, arresting and questioning dozens of wanted suspects accused of involvement in terrorism and incitement, including expressing support for Hamas’s October 7, 2023 onslaught, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. The goal, per the IDF announcement, is to arrest and interrogate dozens of individuals wanted for terrorism and incitement to terror, with particular emphasis on those who expressed support for the October 7 attack.

Ali Fadavi, head of the advisory group to the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), claimed on Sunday evening, October 4, that for the first time no American naval vessels are present in the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz or the Gulf of Oman, according to IranWire.

Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for the dismantling of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank during an event on Wednesday morning marking the third anniversary of Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack. Arriving at exactly 6:29 a.m. at the security fence near the Nitzanei Oz interchange, he warned that the October 7 attack could repeat itself.

Israeli forces raided Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, imposed a curfew, arrested residents and demolished memorials to Palestinians, according to the Wafa agency via Mehr News. Settlers attacked a Palestinian home and set a vehicle on fire in Deir Nizam, near Ramallah, on Wednesday, according to Palestinian reports cited by N12 via the Jerusalem Post.

The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) denied Iranian state media reports that a US Navy MH-60R helicopter had crashed in the Red Sea after declaring an emergency, calling them false, according to Türkiye Today via CENTCOM. According to the command, all US military aircraft and personnel across the Middle East are safe. The semi-official Fars agency claimed the helicopter sent an emergency signal near Yanbu and that radar data showed its altitude at zero.

The attack on Aden airport gains detail: a missile landed near the runway minutes before a flight from Cairo was to land, according to Al Jazeera via Yemen’s government. Yemen’s government says the Houthis targeted the runway and passenger terminal with at least two ballistic missiles and drones; the Houthis say they targeted Saudi military supplies at the Badr camp, and the Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted a ballistic missile north of Riyadh.

The toll from the Russian overnight attack from October 6 to 7 rose from 2 to at least 11 killed and more than 34 injured in Pryluky, Dnipro, Kremenchuk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kyiv, according to The Guardian. Ukraine’s Air Force says, according to Reuters, in a text republished by G1, that Russia launched 130 drones and 48 cruise and ballistic missiles and that 161 targets were shot down; Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed a “massive attack” on the military-industrial complex. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian ballistic missiles remain the greatest challenge and that air defense packages are a vital necessity.

Two people died in a fire in the Darnytskyi neighbourhood in Kyiv as a result of Wednesday’s attack, according to France24, with information from the Agence France-Presse (AFP). On the eve, Volodymyr Zelensky said there was updated intelligence indicating Russian preparation of a massive attack and that Ukraine’s position depended largely on what weaponry the allies could provide, according to Reuters, in a text republished by The Hindu.

Brent rose 93 cents, to $101.51 a barrel, according to Mehr News. The gains reflected supply fears from a storm heading for US oil-producing regions and attacks by Yemen’s Ansarullah movement on Saudi Arabia, according to Reuters, in a text republished by Mehr News. Brent for December delivery stood at $101.45 as of 02:30 GMT, up 0.87%, according to Al Jazeera.

About 223,000 Ukrainians left the country between January and June 2026, according to Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service, in data obtained by TASS. The flow follows years of departures: about 7 to 8 million in 2022, around 180,000 in 2023, 460,000 in 2024 and 302,000 in 2025, according to TASS.

Israel marks on Wednesday the third anniversary of the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, weeks before a general election and after a ceasefire in Gaza last year, according to France24. The attack killed 1,221 people, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) tally based on official Israeli figures. Israel’s military offensive in response left most of Gaza in ruins and killed more than 74,200 people, according to Gaza’s health ministry. Since the ceasefire, Israeli forces have killed more than 1,430 people in Gaza, according to the territory’s health ministry.

Reports indicate that explosions were heard in Riyadh without any prior warning being announced, according to Mehr News. Saudi authorities had not commented by the time of publication on reports of suspended airport operations and the downing of the drone. The Houthis claim to have shot down a Saudi CH-4 reconnaissance and strike drone in the airspace of Al-Jawf, according to TASS.

Russian troops advancing near Golubkovo, a settlement Russia says it has liberated in the Zaporozhye region, approached Novoukrainka, military expert Andrey Marochko told TASS. After liberating Golubkovo on October 6, Russian servicemen were establishing a foothold for an offensive in two directions, north and northwest of the settlement, according to TASS.

The Panama-flagged tanker On Peace was struck 9 nautical miles off Limah, Oman, and caught fire, according to Oman’s Ministry of Defence. Oman’s air force evacuated 10 crew members and took them to Khasab hospital. Of the 19 crew members, 12 were injured, according to India’s Ministry of External Affairs.

United States attacks damaged 111 petrochemical and pharmaceutical facilities across Iran, according to the Iranian representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) cited by Middle East Eye.

Two missiles launched by the Houthis targeted Aden International Airport on Wednesday, according to Aden’s security office cited by Middle East Eye. Videos show explosions near the airport after Yemen’s Saudi-backed government said the two missiles were fired by Houthi forces, with no casualties reported, according to Al Jazeera.

Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority said airports in Najran and Jizan were hit on Monday, with three lightly injured and damage to both facilities, according to AP, in a text republished by PBS News. The Saudi-led coalition said on Tuesday it intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the Iran-backed Houthis toward Khamis Mushait, a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia home to a major Saudi military base. Al Jazeera reported two powerful explosions near Aden international airport, in a Middle East Eye live blog update.

A Liberian-flagged oil tanker caught fire off Russia's Black Sea coast, near Sochi, after being attacked by unmanned boats, according to Russia's Transport Ministry. All 23 crew members, Indian nationals, were rescued with no injuries, the ministry said. The ship was identified as the Aframax Rio and was hit by “naval drones” on Tuesday, in a Times of India report citing Reuters.

The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis towards the city of Khamis Mushait, in southern Saudi Arabia, according to Middle East Eye. The coalition also said it intercepted a missile fired by Yemen’s Houthis, according to the Hindustan Times.

British police arrested a seventh suspect on Tuesday in a widening investigation into a suspected Iran-backed plot to attack an air base that hosts U.S. bombers, according to The Washington Post. The arrest is the seventh linked to the airbase incident, according to France 24.

The Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) announced a strategic and controlled withdrawal of its forces from the city of Kidal, in northern Mali, according to AFP, in a text republished by Arab News. Kidal had been captured by the Tuareg separatists in April, alongside allied jihadists, in attacks aimed at weakening Mali’s junta rulers. Mali’s armed forces announced large-scale operations in the region.

Two commercial vessels were struck by drones on Tuesday, October 6, in Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea — the first attack on shipping in the exclusive economic zone of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member, according to CBC News. The Togo-flagged Alfa Watan suffered critical structural damage and sank, and the crew’s fate remains unknown. The second ship, registered in Palau, caught fire and its Turkish and Indian crew members were rescued, according to RFI. Bulgaria’s prime minister said, according to CBC News, that the situation is seriously disrupting shipping in the Black Sea, driving up insurance costs even further and making shipping extremely difficult.

Two US officials told Reuters that fear of an Iranian drone attack plot on RAF Fairford led the country to remove its B-1 bombers from the British base, in a text published by the Middle East Eye. Iran denied any involvement in the alleged plot at Fairford, the preferred European base for US bombers, according to the Middle East Eye.

The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) denied reports of a downed US Navy helicopter in the Red Sea, after news that an MH-60R Seahawk disappeared from radar with a distress signal off the Saudi coast, according to TASS. The command said all US military aircraft and personnel across the Middle East are safe and accounted for.

The spokesman for Iran's Defense Ministry, Brig. Gen. Reza Talaei-Nik, said the country's weapons production capacity has reached 2.5 times the level of the period before its conflict with the United States, according to the Tasnim news agency, in a text published by TASS. According to the spokesman, production of separate types of weapons, which involves the private sector, more than tripled in the reported period. Talaei-Nik threatened that if the enemy makes a wrong calculation, it will face more advanced weapons and a heavy response from the Armed Forces.

Yemen’s government said on Tuesday, October 6, that its forces are inflicting heavy losses in personnel and equipment on the Houthis in southern Taiz, according to the Middle East Eye. The fighting is taking place on the Al-Salw front, south of Taiz, with government-aligned troops backed by popular resistance forces.

British police arrested a 22-year-old British national in Westminster on Tuesday, the seventh suspect linked to the Fairford incident, according to TASS. Counter Terrorism Police say the detainee is connected with activity that took place close to RAF Fairford, according to Al Jazeera. The six people arrested earlier on suspicion of terrorism in the same case were all released on bail. On Monday, US President Donald Trump said his administration withdrew the B-1 bombers from the base because of what he described as “some threats”, according to Al Jazeera.

A Panama-flagged commercial vessel was hit by a projectile while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, India's Ministry of External Affairs said. Of the 19 crew members of the MT On Peace, 17 are Indian; 12 were injured, including 11 Indians, and were evacuated to Khasab, Oman. India condemned the attack and called for an immediate halt to attacks on commercial navigation in the region.

Russia said it intercepted nearly 900 Ukrainian drones overnight on Tuesday over multiple regions of the country, as well as the occupied Crimean peninsula and the Sea of Azov, according to the Defence Ministry in Moscow. Unconfirmed media reports said a major fuel depot in the Moscow region was on fire after the attack, which killed two people. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 650 drones flew towards the Moscow region between Monday evening and Tuesday morning.

A merchant ship has sunk and its crew is missing after a drone attack in the Black Sea, Bulgarian officials say. A second vessel carrying grain was hit within Bulgaria's exclusive economic zone, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said. Its crew of 18 were rescued. The attacks took place at about 03:00 (23:00 GMT), some 70 miles (112 km) off the coastal town of Byala in eastern Bulgaria, and involved air and sea drones, Radev said. The sunken ship was flying the flag of Togo.

Of the 521 locomotives hit in Ukraine since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, almost 60% have been this year, according to statistics released by the state-owned operator.

Yemen's government says it retook the Red Sea port city of Mocha on Monday, according to the Hindustan Times. The Houthis of the Ansar Allah movement denied the advance of pro-government forces in western Yemen and said they retain control of their positions, according to TASS. The Houthis also said more than 200 Yemeni government army troops were killed or injured in dozens of strikes.

The Houthis said on Monday, October 5, that they had struck Riyadh’s international airport, a refinery and other sites in Saudi Arabia, in fighting that the UN says displaced more than 184,000 people and made the country the most active front in the regional war, while Pakistan and Turkiye pledged to deploy troops to Saudi Arabia under a new defence pact after weeks of Houthi attacks, according to The Hindu.

Russia said the overnight drone attack saw 868 vehicles intercepted over Russian regions and the Sea of Azov, according to TASS calculations based on Defense Ministry data, with drones shot down over 11 regions, Crimea and the Sea of Azov, including Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk and the Moscow region, according to TASS.

Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz put the military on alert for the anniversary of the October 7, 2023 attack, according to The Hindu. According to Katz’s office, the move came after intelligence about Hamas’s intention to attempt attacks against Israeli forces in Gaza on that date, and the statement warned that if forces are harmed, Hamas and the population of Gaza will pay a heavy price — beyond all proportion, according to France 24.

In a claimed detailed account of the three operations, the Houthis say they launched three missile and drone operations against targets in Saudi Arabia on Monday night, according to Xinhua. According to the Houthis, the claimed targets were King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, an Aramco refinery in Rabigh and Abha airport, King Khalid Air Base, Aqifa camp and other sites in Najran and Jazan. There was no immediate confirmation from Saudi authorities and the reported damage could not be independently verified. The Saudi-led coalition says, in turn, that it foiled a plot targeting southern Red Sea waterways in an operation in Hodeidah.

Witnesses describe a broad campaign of forced recruitment in Tigray, targeting men and boys between the ages of 15 and 65 — according to The Guardian. Renewed conflict erupted on September 23 between Ethiopia’s federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), breaking the November 2022 Pretoria agreement. Human Rights Watch says Tigray authorities have been abducting and unlawfully recruiting civilians, including children as young as 15, since at least April 2026.

At a rally in Grand Island, Nebraska, United States President Donald Trump said about the war with Iran that they can take out a city — let them take out Los Angeles and San Diego, according to the Los Angeles Times. California Governor Gavin Newsom reacted to the remarks in a post on X. It was unclear whether the remarks were based on any intelligence, and whether Iran would have the capability for a missile attack on the United States.

The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution condemning drone attacks on civilians in Sudan and demanding an immediate and complete ceasefire, without preconditions, according to Al Jazeera. The resolution, which extends the mandate of the independent international fact-finding mission for Sudan, passed by a vote of 28 to 10, with nine abstentions.

650 drones headed toward the Moscow Region between the night of October 5 and the early hours of October 6, most destroyed at long range and 105 intercepted on approach, according to the mayor of Moscow, TASS reported.

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza on Monday, October 5, ahead of the third anniversary of the October 7, 2023 attack, The Hindu reported. “It is time for the ceasefire to become permanent. It is time to allow humanitarian assistance at scale. And it is time to respect international law,” he said.

The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said it had destroyed a ballistic-missile launch platform in Sanaa and a depot housing 20 ballistic missiles in northwestern Saada, according to the Middle East Eye.

Forces allied with Yemen’s internationally recognized government retook the town of Dhubab, just north of the Bab el-Mandeb strait, as well as Bab and Hadeid, Yemeni officials told the AP in a text republished by The Hindu. Saudi-led coalition spokesman Maj. Gen. Turki al-Malki said 100 fighter jets were supporting the Yemeni government forces, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Saudi-backed government was expected to hit back to reclaim territory, according to the AP in a text republished by The Hindu.

Israeli forces opened fire on a vehicle carrying three Palestinians near Bani Naim, east of Hebron, on Monday, according to Al Jazeera. The Palestinian civil authority named the man killed as 38-year-old Hossam Alaa al-Din Abdul Jabbar Walad Ali. The Palestinian Red Crescent said its crews treated three people injured in an attack by Israeli settlers in the Imriha area.

The Houthi spokesperson Yahya Saree said drone and missile attacks targeted King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. The same statement said the Aramco refinery in Rabigh was also hit, along with military installations and smaller airports in the country’s south. According to Middle East Eye, the group targeted King Khalid International Airport for the second time on Monday. The Houthis declared Saudi airspace an open theatre for their operations, except the holy airspaces of Makkah and Madinah. UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed concern over the “strong escalation” of the fighting in Yemen and condemned the Houthi attacks on Saudi territory, according to AFP.

Forces of Yemen’s internationally recognised government recaptured Dhubab, just north of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, along with Bab and Hadeid, under Saudi coalition cover, according to the Times of India. Saudi coalition spokesman Maj. Gen. Turki al-Malki said 100 fighter jets are supporting government forces and that the coalition secured air protection of the strait. The escalation killed at least 959 people and wounded more than 4,200, with about 174,097 displaced inside Yemen, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Russian bombs struck a residential area of Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine, killing at least five people and injuring more than 50, according to officials cited by Reuters, in a text republished by Yahoo. The toll later rose to six dead and 59 injured, according to Ukrainska Pravda. The attack used guided aerial bombs in the Slobidskyi district, with hits on civilian businesses and near a residential building.

Russia condemned the crime of the FlyDubai co-pilot, according to the Foreign Ministry, in a statement cited by TASS. Australian authorities launched a probe into the Omani co-pilot’s time in Australia after he was detained over an alleged attempt to seize an Israel-bound aircraft and crash it, according to AP, in a text republished by the San Bernardino Sun. The pilot is in custody in the United Arab Emirates after the alleged attempt to take control of the plane.

Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey agreed to immediately implement their collective defence commitments, with the rapid deployment of agreed military forces and capabilities into Saudi Arabia, according to the Times of India. Saudi Defence Minister Khalid bin Salman said the alliance committee agreed to activate collective deterrence measures in response to attacks by the Houthi group. Pakistan and Turkey announced military support for Saudi Arabia after the emergency meeting of the alliance committee, in a joint statement by the three foreign ministers, according to the Middle East Eye.

Airstrikes and artillery fire hit the Tigray region, in northern Ethiopia, overnight into Monday, in clashes between the federal government and rebels, according to aid sources cited by Reuters, in a text republished by The Hindu. Airstrikes killed at least 17 people northwest of Mekelle, Tigray's capital taken by federal forces over the weekend, according to a bulletin circulated among humanitarian groups. On Monday morning, Ethiopian military and Tigrayan forces exchanged heavy artillery fire near the Tekeze River, close to the town of Mai Tsebri, according to the same bulletin.

US Vice President JD Vance said he has confidence that Iran was behind the incident at the base in Fairford, in the United Kingdom, and linked the withdrawal of the B-1 bombers to the episode, saying it was out of an abundance of caution to protect the troops, according to TASS. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he would not directly tie the removal of the B-1s to the incident, according to Al Jazeera. Five British nationals were arrested near the base on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts and released on bail; a sixth man, a dual UK-Iranian national, was also released on bail, according to Al Jazeera.

Yemeni pro-government forces backed by Saudi Arabia say they have secured the Bab al-Mandab Strait at the start of a major offensive against the Houthis, according to the BBC. A Yemeni military spokesman said the Giants Brigades and National Shield forces are besieging Houthi fighters in Dhubab, a Red Sea coastal town, after taking its airport and cutting the road to the port city of Mokha. Houthi-run media denied that government forces had advanced in the Dhubab area. The Saudi-led military coalition said its fighter jets destroyed more than 300 high-value targets in strikes supporting the offensive, according to the BBC.

Eleven crew members, nationals of Azerbaijan and India, have been rescued after an attack on a vessel carrying corn in the Black Sea, according to the BBC. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the “horrific” Russian attack on the ship, also according to the BBC. Romania's interior ministry said the ship sank about 30 nautical miles south of its port of Sfantu Gheorghe.

An Israeli mathematics lecturer from Petah Tikva in his 60s has been indicted over an alleged plan to kill hundreds of Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians in the occupied territories and force them from their homes, according to Middle East Eye. The indictment was filed on Monday by Central District prosecutors Roy Reis and Tomer Steinberg, according to i24NEWS. The plan called for recruiting 72 Jewish attackers, including himself, divided into 12 cells of six people, also according to Middle East Eye. The university said it “condemns in the strongest possible terms” and is “deeply appalled” by the acts attributed to the lecturer, and announced his immediate suspension, according to i24NEWS.

Yemen's military said it carried out more than 1,000 strikes and began an offensive against the Houthi-held capital, Sanaa, with 100 planes from the Saudi-led coalition flying sorties at dawn, according to The Hindu, in an AFP report. Coalition spokesman Major General Turki al-Maliki said 100 jets flew at daybreak in the operation dubbed “Dawn of Yemen”, providing “round-the-clock air support for the Yemeni armed forces on the ground”, according to The Hindu. The Houthis effectively encircled the city of Taiz after cutting the main supply route linking it to Aden, also according to The Hindu.

The coordination center for humanitarian operations controlled by the Houthis called on airlines to avoid Saudi Arabia’s airspace, according to TASS, citing the Houthi-controlled SABA agency. The same center said the kingdom’s airspace “will become a theater of military operations” for the rebel forces. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued an advisory to airlines to avoid Saudi airspace, according to Reuters, following a recent increase in Houthi attacks.

Yemen’s Deputy Defense Minister Samir Al-Sabri said in an interview with Al Jazeera, according to TASS, that the army intends to restore state control over all provinces of the country. According to him, combat operations “will be concentrated in the area of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and the city of Mokha”.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said that at least one person was killed and another wounded in a Russian drone attack on a Turkish-owned civilian vessel in the Black Sea. According to him, Azerbaijani and Indian citizens were on board and the ship’s captain was killed, with eleven crew members rescued and one of them injured; the fate of one other person is still being established. Romanian authorities said, according to AFP, in a text republished by RFI, that two crew died and 11 were rescued after a fire caused the ship to sink.

A young man says he is not formally enlisted in the Yemeni government forces but fights shoulder to shoulder with his older brother and cousins, according to Middle East Eye. A March 2025 report by the UN secretary-general documented 564 cases of child recruitment and use in Yemen between 2021 and 2023. The SAM Organisation for Rights and Liberties documented the recruitment of 11,310 children from 2014 to February 2023.

All of the US Air Force’s B-1 strategic bombers were withdrawn from the Fairford airbase in the United Kingdom and returned to the United States after the incident that occurred there last week, according to TASS, citing The Wall Street Journal. The report is attributed by the paper to unnamed US administration officials. France 24 confirms the full withdrawal of the bombers from the British base at the centre of a suspected terror attack.

Britain’s Green Party voted on Sunday to class Zionism as a form of racism, according to France 24. The motion passed by 1,022 votes to 813, and Israel banned the party’s leader, Zack Polanski, from entering the country after the vote, according to the Middle East Eye.

South Korea said on Monday that a border blast that seriously wounded two of its soldiers was caused by mines planted by North Korea, according to Reuters, in a text republished by WIFC. Seoul says the mine exploded on September 21 and was believed to have been planted about a year ago, and demands an apology and the removal of the mines. On Friday, Kim Yo Jong, the sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said South Korea’s accusation was “groundless” and dismissed the demand for an apology.

The army of Yemen’s internationally recognised government says it has seized control of the Dhubab district and key positions near the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. Al Jazeera notes that it could not independently verify the battlefield reports.

Russia's state nuclear company (Rosatom) says two buildings at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant — the laboratory and the radioactive waste facility — were attacked overnight, with roof damage, according to TASS. Rosatom chief Alexey Likhachev said there is no threat to nuclear safety, according to TASS.

The spokesperson for Yemen's government-aligned forces says 1,122 attacks were carried out against Houthi targets, according to Middle East Eye. The same spokesperson claims around 1,747 Houthi fighters were killed, according to Middle East Eye.

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Ali Fadavi said the US moved more than 1,000km away from Iran's borders, according to Middle East Eye. Fadavi added that American vessels are not present in the Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz, the Sea of Oman or the northern Indian Ocean, according to Middle East Eye.

Syrian state media reported an explosion in Beit Jinn, west of Damascus, according to Mehr News in English.

Iraq’s Hashd al-Shaabi forces say they carried out security operations across 12 provinces, arresting 55 suspects, including at least 23 linked to the dissolved Baath party, according to the force itself.

Russia says that a mercenaries unit from Ecuador arrived in Kharkov for counterattacks in the area of Kazachya Lopan and Goptovka, where about 16,500 mercenaries now serve in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, according to TASS citing Russian security agencies.

The British center United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported a possible shelling of a tanker near Yemen’s coast, according to TASS. The report describes an incident 60 nautical miles south of Al Mukha; the Company Security Officer said the tanker sighted multiple explosions close to the vessel. The crew are reported safe and no environmental impact has been reported, and the vessel’s name and port of registry were not disclosed.

The US Southern Command killed four people in a strike on a suspected drug-trafficking vessel in the Caribbean on Sunday, according to the Times of India. The command said confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel’s active involvement in narco-trafficking and called the dead narco-terrorists. According to US media cited by TASS, more than 230 people have been killed in US strikes on boats allegedly used by drug traffickers since such attacks began last fall.

Initial findings indicate that the Flydubai co-pilot accused of attacking the captain and trying to take control of an Israel-bound flight acted alone, according to US authorities and a former Israeli security official. US officials stress that the investigation into last Wednesday’s incident is still in its early stages. Emirati authorities, who are overseeing the investigation, said on Saturday that the co-pilot allegedly attacked the captain with a crash ax and tried to take control of the flight controls.

Yemen’s Saudi-backed government declared a “battle for liberation” to retake the territory still held by the Houthis, according to Al Jazeera. AP News reported that the Yemeni government declared a major operation against the Houthis.

The United States is expected to deploy more troops and aircraft to Israel in the coming weeks, according to the Israeli news website Walla, cited in a Middle East Eye live blog. The report presents the move as part of preparations for an escalation in the Middle East.

Egypt, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan called for political and peaceful solutions amid escalating conflicts across the region, according to Al Jazeera, in a joint declaration on Sunday following a meeting in New Alamein City in Egypt; the declaration also said control of the Red Sea should remain with the coastal states.

The Israeli army killed a man in southern Syria early on Monday, as it continues to carry out raids in the country, according to Middle East Eye. The army claimed the man attempted to enter one of its military posts when troops opened fire and killed him, according to Middle East Eye.

Ethiopian federal forces were in full control of Mekelle, the Tigray rebels' regional capital, according to a local journalist, on Sunday, as Ethiopia's regional rivals gathered in Egypt. The presidents of Egypt, Somalia, Sudan and Eritrea, all with difficult relations with Ethiopia, were set to meet in Alamein on Sunday to discuss the conflict, according to AFP. The People's Liberation Front of Tigray (TPLF) said it had temporarily moved out of Mekelle to operate from somewhere else, according to Al Jazeera.

Smoke rose from a foam factory in Yemen's Houthi-held capital, Sanaa, after a strike that the Houthi-run broadcaster Al Masirah attributed to Saudi Arabia, according to Middle East Eye. Yemen's Saudi-backed government forces said they carried out strikes on Houthi targets in Sanaa and elsewhere on Sunday, according to Middle East Eye.

The United States has withdrawn all its bombers from RAF Fairford in England and redeployed them to their home stations in the United States, following an investigation into an alleged terror plot against the base, according to The Guardian. The base, run by the US military, had been used to launch strikes on Iran, according to the Times of India.

Wafa, the Palestinian news agency, reported that more than 15 people were wounded and one was killed in attacks by Israeli forces and settlers on Palestinian towns and villages, according to the Middle East Eye. Israeli opposition leader Avigdor Lieberman called for dismantling the Palestinian Authority and creating an Israeli-Jordanian confederation to control parts of the West Bank currently under the PA’s control, according to Haaretz. Under the plan, Israel would apply sovereignty over Area C, which makes up about 60 percent of the occupied West Bank and remains under full Israeli control.

The Houthis said they launched ballistic missiles and drones at an Aramco facility in Riyadh, in a statement posted on X on Saturday by military spokesman Yahya Saree. The spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, Turki al-Maliki, called the claims of an attack on Riyadh “misleading”. Early on Sunday, the coalition said it carried out 97 “precise targeting operations” against Houthi reinforcements on the Tor al-Baha front and the Taiz axis, using warplanes, drones, artillery, missiles and snipers. A tanker reported seeing several explosions about 60 nautical miles south of the Yemeni port city of Mocha in the Gulf of Aden on Sunday, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO). The Houthis also said they forced two Saudi F-15 formations to withdraw from Taiz’s airspace with locally made anti-aircraft missiles.

Israel said it killed the director of a Turkish NGO in a strike in the Gaza Strip. Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah had earlier announced the death of Saqr al-Qaisi, who led the Turkish humanitarian organisation Deniz Feneri, in a strike on a vehicle in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the Hindustan Times.

An aerial attack hit two trucks contracted by the World Food Programme (WFP) in South Kordofan in the early hours of Saturday, October 3, killing one driver, according to the programme, in a text by allAfrica. The trucks were en route from Dilling to Kadugli and clearly marked as humanitarian vehicles.

Russian drones hit a warehouse storing medical supplies in Sumy, killing a 52-year-old employee and injuring three others, according to the Kyiv Independent, citing local authorities, in a text by the Hindustan Times. The Ukrainian embassy in Delhi said the warehouse belonged to Indian owners.

More than 70 people were killed over the past day in fighting in and around the southwestern Yemeni province of Taiz, according to AFP, which cited sources from both sides, in a text by the Middle East Eye.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia has transferred jet-powered drone technology to North Korea as part of its intensifying defense partnership, according to the Kyiv Independent. Asked whether Moscow had shared the new jet drone technology with Pyongyang, Zelenskyy’s response was unequivocal: “Yes, of course.”

Federal forces took control of Mekelle, the regional capital of Tigray, after leaders and troops of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) abandoned the city without a fight on Saturday, according to AFP, in a text published by The Hindu. The presidents of Egypt, Somalia, Sudan and Eritrea, all of whom have difficult relations with Ethiopia, were set to meet in the Egyptian city of Alamein on Sunday to discuss the conflict. Ethiopia has accused Eritrea of directly backing the Tigray rebels, with the added support of Sudan and Egypt, which all three countries deny.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Germany will provide another aid package worth more than 1.3 billion euros, including weapons and support for the energy sector, after his meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Kiev, according to TASS. The amount includes 1 billion euros for interceptor drones and long-range weapons production and 350 million euros for energy, according to German government sources cited by DPA.

The Green Party of England and Wales voted at its conference in Brighton to declare Zionism a form of racism, in a motion that also backs a single democratic Palestinian state with equal rights for all ethnic and religious groups, rather than a two-state solution. The proposal has split the party, and critics claim it is antisemitic, according to The Guardian.

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Paris on Saturday against continued aid to Ukraine, in a national protest by the Les Patriotes party of Florian Philippot, according to RT. The protesters called on President Emmanuel Macron to halt the aid and pushed for France's withdrawal from the European Union and all supranational institutions, including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

The head of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council, Rashad al-Alimi, announced the start of military operations to retake the territory still held by the Houthis and restore state authority, according to Al Jazeera.

The Sudanese army said it captured the town of al-Mazroub, a key position of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in North Kordofan, after fierce fighting. According to Al Jazeera, a spokesperson described the capture as an important step in cutting the RSF's supply lines between North and West Kordofan.

Russia's Defense Ministry said it will intensify strikes on military and defense industry facilities in Kyiv and other Ukrainian regions. The decision was presented as a response to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's statement that Ukraine will double down on attacks on Russian refineries, according to Reuters, in an article republished by the Hindustan Times.

Russia's Defense Ministry said Ukraine carried out a deliberate attack on residential areas of Belgorod, where, according to the ministry, there are no military facilities. The strike killed and wounded civilians and damaged apartment buildings, private homes and vehicles, the ministry said.

The Houthis cut a vital supply route linking Taiz with Aden, the interim capital of the Saudi-backed government, according to Middle East Eye. Three Yemeni military sources confirmed Houthi control over the area and the route, with the group effectively encircling Taiz city.

Israeli air strikes hit two areas in southern Lebanon, according to Middle East Eye, citing Al Jazeera. The strikes targeted the Wadi al-Hujair area and the outskirts of the town of Kfar Tebnit in the Nabatieh district, with no casualties reported so far.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told the United States that there is no military solution, nor any solution based on new sanctions to the conflict between the two countries, according to The Hindu. Araghchi warned that, if the enemies again choose the path of military confrontation, Iran's response will be stronger than before, according to France24, in an AFP report. Spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei characterised the latest US counterproposal as being in line with previous US proposals concerning nuclear issues.

The governor of Russia's Belgorod region, Alexander Shuvayev, said 17 municipalities came under 141 Ukrainian attacks over the past day, with 182 drones downed or suppressed, according to TASS. One civilian was killed in Grayvoronsky district and two more died in hospitals after injuries in Belgorod and Krasnoyaruzhsky. Russia's Defense Ministry said Russian forces used Geran drones to strike a data center in Odessa and a Nova Poshta logistics center in Chernomorsk, as well as a ship carrying military supplies.

Israeli forces detained three Palestinian farmers and seized a truck loaded with bananas in Ras al-Ahmar, southeast of Tubas, according to the Middle East Eye. Israeli settlers protected by soldiers attacked Palestinian homes in Wadi al-Hasin and Harat Jaber, in the Old City of Hebron, and settlers wounded a 27-year-old Palestinian in the village of Usarin, south of Nablus.

Israel’s defence ministry said that 1,318 Israeli personnel have been killed since Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack, whether in the line of duty or as a result of an accident, illness, or suicide, according to the Middle East Eye.

A United Arab Emirates official said the flydubai co-pilot attacked the captain with an axe, the BBC reported. A publication linked to Al-Qaeda reportedly called for copycat attacks on American and Israeli airliners, according to the Hindustan Times; the call appeared in the latest edition of al-Bayan, a weekly launched in July by supporters of Al-Qaeda.

Saudi Arabia has not reported an attack on Aramco in Riyadh, nor has the state oil giant commented on the cause of the fire, according to Al Jazeera. The Saudi-led coalition said it carried out 97 “precise targeting operations” against Houthi reinforcements on the Tor al-Baha front and the Taiz axis, according to the Yemeni government.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte urged member states to blame Russia for any incident they consider suspicious, even without irrefutable evidence of involvement, according to RT. Rutte praised Estonia's recent accusation against Russia and called on other nations to follow suit.

Iran's Intelligence Ministry arrested in Kerman province at least 31 people linked to four networks that Tehran says were backed by the US and Israel, according to Press TV, as reported by Middle East Eye. According to the ministry, the suspects in Sirjan prepared molotov cocktails to damage urban surveillance cameras in preparation for unrest and acts of sabotage.

Ethiopia’s government forces said they seized Mekelle from Tigray fighters after a week of intense battles. The federal army and pro-government fighters recaptured the main airport in the capital of the northern Tigray region, with the rebels seen leaving the city, according to unnamed sources. One source with knowledge of events in the city and a humanitarian source told Reuters that the Ethiopian National Defence Forces regained control of Alula Aba Nega Airport in Mekelle.

At least three tankers were struck by unidentified projectiles in and around the Strait of Hormuz since October 1, according to United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) warnings. In its weekly review released on October 2, UKMTO said 91 incidents of damage to vessels have been reported since February. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is “ironclad” and that US President Donald Trump has “all the options he needs on the table” if Iran continues to “play games” with the strait, according to the Associated Press, in a report carried by the Times of Israel.

A military expert cited by the Russian state news agency TASS, Andrey Marochko, said Ukraine has lost more than 80% of exports shipped through the port of Odessa after Russian strikes on the port of Izmail. According to him, container ships can no longer sail without fear of repercussions, making it impossible to deliver supplies on the scale previously provided by the West.

The Houthi military spokesman, Yahya Saree, said the group struck an oil facility in Riyadh with ballistic missiles and drones, claiming the attacks caused fires. In a post on X, he said the strikes were a response to Saudi air raids on territory the group controls in Yemen, including Sanaa. An AFP journalist at the scene reported seeing fire engines trying to extinguish a blaze at Aramco’s Riyadh refinery, with ambulances and police vehicles stationed nearby.

Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with Iranian broadcaster Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) that Ukraine will need to embrace a neutral, non-nuclear status, reject its nationalist policy course and recognize the four new Russian regions for a lasting political settlement, according to TASS. Medvedev said Russia and Iran are developing joint activities in defense and attach great importance to this, and that Iran plays a key role in ensuring security in the Strait of Hormuz in terms of geography and international law.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invited to Israel as a guest of honour the Indian captain of a Tel Aviv-bound flydubai flight, Smit Machchhar, and said he wanted him and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to light a flame at a national ceremony for Israel’s Independence Day next May, a role usually reserved for Israeli citizens. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers and soldiers attacked and blocked Palestinian farmers from harvesting olives, according to Al Jazeera; more than 80,000 Palestinian families rely on the olive harvest as a source of income.

Israel said on Saturday it attempted to kill Hamas’s top leader in the Gaza Strip, Ali al-Amoudi, in an airstrike on an apartment. Local officials say the strike killed five people, and an official at Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital told AFP it received at dawn the bodies of five people and a number of injured in the Rimal neighbourhood. The Israeli military said it aimed to kill al-Amoudi, describing him as the right-hand man of slain Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar and saying he was involved in planning the October 7 attack.

Portugal’s public prosecutor’s office opened an investigation into whether the government acted within the law when it authorised the use of the Lajes Base in the Azores by the United States during the conflict with Iran, according to Reuters, in a text republished by G1. Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel said, on the other hand, that Portugal was not involved in the conflict and that the use of the base respected international law.

India summoned Pakistan’s chargé d’affaires to protest the “continued facilitation of illegal cross-border infiltration” and rejected as unfounded Pakistan’s accusations over the October 2 incident in the Ferozepur sector, according to NDTV, citing a statement from India’s Ministry of External Affairs. Pakistan summoned India’s chargé d’affaires to protest the killing of two Pakistani civilians by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel in the Bedian sector along the international border, according to Dawn. The two countries summoned each other’s diplomats over Friday’s incident, in which New Delhi rejects Islamabad’s account of the killing of two unarmed Pakistani civilians, according to Al Jazeera.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Vivaldi operation has de-occupied about 125 to 140 square kilometres so far and is not yet finished, in an interview with Reuters published by Ukrainska Pravda. He also said that Russian casualties rose to 42,000 a month in the recent period, up from 30,000 to 32,000 a month since the start of the year, according to Ukrainska Pravda, citing the Reuters interview.

Algeria sent fighter jets to Niger in late August to help thwart a coup attempt in Niamey, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said, according to Al Jazeera. Algeria’s Defense Ministry said that two patrols of Su-30 jets landed at Niamey airport, accompanied by a tanker, at the request of Nigerien authorities, according to AeroTime.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Ukraine is ready to consider India’s proposal for a ceasefire in energy and the Black Sea, but only in that combination, and that it is the broadest of the four proposals received. The initiatives came from India, Turkiye, Egypt and the United States, Sybiha said. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Indian Prime Minister Modi has “very good ideas” aimed at finding mutually acceptable solutions.

Russia proposed that Moldova conduct a joint investigation into drone incidents, rather than levelling baseless accusations, according to TASS. Russia’s ambassador-designate to Chișinău, Oleg Ozerov, said Moldova blames Russia for all its troubles, following the European Union’s lead, without providing any evidence. Moldova handed a note of protest to Ozerov after three drones violated the country’s airspace on September 30, two of them exploding on Moldovan territory, according to Radio Moldova.

Blasts were heard in Sanaa, and the Houthis blamed the attacks on Saudi Arabia, according to France24. The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted and destroyed four drones launched by the Houthis toward Khamis Mushait, in southern Saudi Arabia, as well as two ballistic missiles, according to Israel National News.

The United States delivered to Taiwan the first two new F-16V Block 70 fighter jets, the first of 66 aircraft approved for sale by Washington in 2019, according to RT. The two aircraft arrived on Friday.

Yemeni government forces have confirmed attacks on what they describe as legitimate vital military targets in the Houthi-held capital Sanaa, according to Middle East Eye. Government-affiliated media reported a series of air strikes on Houthi positions in the Al-Nahdain and Jabal Attan areas of the city.

Dubai’s Crown Prince, Hamdan bin Mohammed, praised the “courage” of Indian pilot Smit Machchhar for averting a possible tragedy on flydubai flight FZ1073 and visited the pilot in hospital, where he remains under treatment, the Hindu reported. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) attorney general, Hamad Saif Al Shamsi, said the co-pilot used a crash axe to attack Machchhar and attempted to take control of the aircraft, the state-run WAM news agency reported.

At least five people were killed in the long-range strikes exchanged by Kyiv and Moscow, Al Jazeera reported, and Russia again urged diplomats and foreigners to leave the Ukrainian capital. Russia said its drones had hit the two bridges used to transfer Ukrainian troops and military cargo, the BBC reported.

Pakistan’s security forces killed five Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants in an intelligence-based operation on Saturday, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to an official cited by the Times of India. The operation took place in South Waziristan district, based on intelligence about hideouts, with weapons and ammunition seized. On Friday, seven militants from the same group were killed in North Waziristan district.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Moscow will continue large-scale retaliatory strikes against military targets in Ukraine, in response to what it calls Kiev’s terror against Russians, according to Sputnik. The ministry reiterated its warning to foreign nationals, including diplomatic mission staff, against staying in Ukraine or travelling to its territory.

Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry summoned India’s chargé d’affaires to protest the killing of two Pakistani civilians by Indian border troops, according to Al Jazeera. Islamabad urged India to conduct an “immediate, transparent and credible” investigation, with disciplinary and legal action against those responsible. The Indian side says the Border Security Force (BSF) shot dead two suspected Pakistani infiltrators in Tarn Taran, in Punjab, on Friday, according to officials cited by ETV Bharat.

Ethiopian federal forces and pro-government fighters recaptured the main airport in Mekelle, the capital of the northern Tigray region, with rebels seen leaving the city, according to unnamed sources cited by Reuters and AFP in a text published by Al Jazeera. The airport is about 10 km from the centre of Mekelle and was one of three airfields seized by the rebels at the start of the fighting, on September 23. Al Jazeera notes that it could not independently confirm the reports, with media access heavily restricted in Ethiopia and significant communications blackouts.

Israel’s National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, said the entire occupied West Bank “belongs to Israel” and vowed to dismantle the Palestinian Authority, according to Middle East Eye. In an interview with Channel 14, he said that, if appointed defence minister, he would work to dismantle the Palestinian Authority and push for Palestinians to leave the occupied West Bank and Gaza. The Anadolu Agency reported that the minister said the entire West Bank “belongs to Israel” and threatened to dismantle the Palestinian Authority.

An Israeli airstrike killed at least five Palestinians, including four women, in a residential building in Gaza City on Saturday, according to health authorities and the territory’s Civil Defence, cited by G1. Among the dead are a Christian woman and her daughter, according to medical teams. There was no immediate comment from Israel’s armed forces on the strike. A witness, Ahmed Al-Dahdouh, told Reuters, in a text republished by G1, that residents were sleeping when they heard continuous attacks and strong explosions, and that the children woke up scared and started running and screaming.

An official of Iran’s security council, Mohsen Rezaei, hit back on Saturday at the claim US President Donald Trump made in Denton, Texas, that Tehran was approaching surrender, according to the Hindustan Times. Rezaei said the United States can win every day in its own imagination, but that reality is shaped by Iran — by its people, its soldiers and its missiles.

Yemen’s army said it caused more than 1,500 Houthi casualties in the past 24 hours, according to Al Jazeera.

Four people were arrested after drones attacked the Zawiya oil station in western Libya and caused a fire, according to the Guardian. Three Libyans arrested were linked to Saddam Haftar, son of the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar, who faces allegations he oversaw a “terror cell” that launched drone attacks on fuel facilities and power stations. The Tripoli-based Government of National Unity says working with Saddam Haftar is “impossible”. The tank that was hit held about 4.5 million litres of fuel.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces took control of the settlement of Novaya Kazachya in northern Kharkov region, according to Sputnik. The village lies a few kilometers from Russia’s Belgorod region and close to Kazachya Lopan, a road and rail hub.

Saudi Arabia and Yemeni government forces are planning a major counteroffensive against the Houthi Ansar Allah movement, but the United States is not yet prepared to participate, according to TASS. Washington has rebuffed, for the second time in recent weeks, the Saudi request to join the operation and conduct airstrikes against Houthi positions, and had provided Riyadh with more than 200 Houthi targets to strike, TASS reported.

Israeli forces detained dozens of Palestinians during a raid on the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, according to Wafa, cited by Middle East Eye. Israeli settlers attacked olive harvesters again in the town of Beita, south of Nablus, on Saturday morning as farmers picked olives, and damaged olive trees and crops in al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, after allowing their sheep to graze on agricultural land, Middle East Eye also reported.

A strike on Saturday morning damaged the road surface and trolleybus overhead wires on the Northern Bridge in Kiev and blocked traffic, according to the BBC. It was the second major bridge hit in the city in days: the Southern Bridge was targeted several times by Russian drones on Thursday and Friday, the BBC also reported. Russia's Defense Ministry said that overnight drone strikes hit the Severny road bridge over the Dnieper, used to move troops and deliver military cargo, according to TASS.

Israeli forces opened artillery fire on a demilitarized zone in Quneitra Governorate in southern Syria, according to TASS, which cited Al Mayadeen TV channel. Shell impacts were recorded in the countryside near the Al-Mantara dam, with no civilian casualties reported, according to TASS. Israeli forces also shelled an area southeast of the town of Al-Rafid in the southern Quneitra countryside in southwestern Syria, according to Anadolu Agency.

Reserve Major General Nitzan Alon, the former government point person on hostage negotiations, said the Israeli hostages in Gaza could have been brought home up to a year earlier, according to Middle East Eye. Alon pointed to “political and personal considerations” as an obstacle during a conversation hosted by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy on Friday, according to the outlet.

Yemen's armed forces said they carried out 71 targeted operations against Houthi military sites, supply routes and gatherings of fighters across Taiz province, hitting positions in multiple districts, destroying several logistics vehicles and causing fighter casualties, according to Breaking The News, citing Al Jazeera.

The death toll from the Israeli attack on the al-Asala building in the Remal neighbourhood of western Gaza City rose to five, including three women and a young girl, according to Middle East Eye, citing Palestinian medical sources who spoke to Al Jazeera. The attack hit the building early on Saturday without prior warning, killing at least five people and severely wounding at least six, according to medical staff at al-Shifa Hospital.

More than 800 people have been killed and thousands more injured or displaced since fighting resumed in Yemen, according to The New York Times. The Yemeni army said it carried out 474 operations across multiple fronts over the past 24 hours, killing or wounding 1,540 Houthi fighters, with the heaviest casualties reported in Taiz, according to Al Jazeera.

A 19-year-old Palestinian, identified by the Palestinian Health Ministry as Bahaa Sami Amin al-Natsheh, was killed by Israeli settler gunfire in Kobar, north of Ramallah; Palestinian authorities say 30 Palestinians have been killed by settlers since the start of 2026, more than in any full year since 2022.

Palestinian medical sources said an Israeli air attack on a residential apartment complex west of Gaza City killed four people, including a young girl, and wounded several others. Health officials in Gaza said an Israeli airstrike killed at least four Palestinians in an apartment building in Gaza City early on Saturday, according to Reuters, in a text republished by The Straits Times.

The Trump administration unveiled sanctions against three individuals allegedly related to the Islamist militant group Hamas and against two charities based in France, according to The Guardian. Investigators alleged that the network moved more than $2m to Hamas “through deceptive charitable fronts and cryptocurrency channels”. All property in the US of those sanctioned is blocked and must be reported to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

A US Department of Energy electrical engineer has been arrested on charges of providing support to the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, including by buying materials for homemade explosives and drones and traveling to Yemen, according to the Associated Press, in a text republished by WGEM. Ashton Hamed Ellaboudy, 51, of Richland, Washington, was arrested Thursday and is due to make his first court appearance Friday. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says he had a goal of helping the Houthis improve their communications capabilities and traveled last September to Yemen.