The Weekly Edition

April 28, 2024 to May 4, 2024

Armed conflicts and attacks

An Israeli police officer is injured in a stabbing by a Turkish national in the Old City of Jerusalem. The assailant was fatally shot by other responding officers at the scene. (Reuters)

Russian invasion of Ukraine

Russia displays captured NATO military vehicles and equipment at an open-air exhibition in Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow. Among the captured vehicles are a German Leopard 2 tank and an American M1 Abrams tank. (BBC News) (Fox News)

Russian forces take control of the village of Berdychi in Donetsk Oblast. (Al-Arabiya News)

At least nine people, including eight children, are injured in a Russian guided airstrike in Derhachi, Kharkiv Oblast. (AFP via Barron's) (Reuters)

Two people are killed and two others are injured by Russian shelling in the city of Kurakhove in the Donetsk oblast. (The Moscow Times)

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron promises £3 billion of annual military aid to Ukraine for "as long as it takes." (Reuters)

Eastern Ukraine campaign

Ukraine withdraws from the villages of Berdychi, Semenivka, and Novomykhailivka in Donetsk Oblast. (Reuters)

Odesa strikes

Four people are killed and 28 others are injured in a Russian missile strike in Odesa. Ukraine says that Russia used an Iskander-M ballistic missile with a cluster warhead in the attack. (Reuters)

Two Russian ballistic missiles strike the port city of Odesa, killing three people and injuring sixteen others. (Reuters) (Reuters 2) (Kyiv Post)

Kharkiv strikes

Russian forces strike Kharkiv with guided bombs, killing at least two people and injuring six others. (Reuters)

Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus

Two police officers are killed and four more injured during a shooting at a checkpoint in Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia. The five gunmen are also killed in the ensuing shootout. The group also attacked another checkpoint a week ago in the same region, killing two officers and wounding another. (AP)

Israel–Hamas war

Israeli airstrikes in Rafah and Gaza City kill at least 40 people. (Reuters)

The United States tells Qatar to evict Hamas if the latter obstructs an Israeli hostage deal. (The Washington Post)

Spillover of the Israel–Hamas war

Red Sea crisis

Houthi forces strike four ships in the Red Sea and damage the Malta-flagged, Greece-owned bulk carrier Cyclades. (The Jerusalem Post) (AP)

Israeli invasion of Gaza, Humanitarian aid during the Israel–Hamas war

Amid pressure from the United States, Israel reopens the Erez-Beit Hanoun Crossing and allows aid trucks into the northern part of the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)

ISIL insurgency in the Philippines

Five Dawla Islamiya militants are killed and three soldiers are wounded during two shootouts in Munai, Lanao del Norte, Philippines. The military were hunting the group's leader, Nasser Daud, who however escaped from the scene. (MindaNews)

Somali civil war

Five people are killed and five more injured in a bomb attack in El Wak town in Mandera County, northern Kenya, near the border with Somalia. (AP)

Syrian civil war

Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war

Several people are injured in alleged Israeli airstrikes on Damascus, Syria, the first since the attack on the Iranian consulate in April. (The Jerusalem Post)

Alliance of Sahel States

Nigerien crisis

Russian military personnel enter the United States–operated Niger Air Base 101 near Diori Hamani International Airport in Niger. (Reuters)

Kivu conflict

Twelve people are killed and more than 20 others are injured during explosions caused by bombs at two camps for displaced people in Lac Vert and Mugunga, in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)

M23 offensive

The mining town of Rubaya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, is seized by the March 23 Movement. (AP)