Saturday

February 7, 2026

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Gaza war

Israeli military aircraft destroy a residential building outside the areas controlled by Israel in Zaytun Quarter in the Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)

Israeli settler violence

Three Palestinians are injured when Israeli settlers attack residents in the northern Jordan Valley. (Al Jazeera)

Russo-Ukrainian war

Sudanese civil war

Kordofan Campaign

At least 24 people are killed, including eight children, in a drone strike by the Rapid Support Forces on a vehicle carrying displaced families near Er Rahad, North Kordofan, Sudan. (CTV News)

Nigerian bandit conflict

Armed men kill three people and kidnap eleven others, including a Catholic priest, in Kaduna State, Nigeria. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

Fifteen people are killed after a bus veers off a road and crashes into a valley near Badakhshan province, Afghanistan. (The Express Tribune)

Six people are killed and three are injured after a truck rams into a bus on the Yamuna Expressway, Uttar Pradesh, India. (The Hindu)

Five people are killed in an explosion at a factory in Shanyin County, Shanxi, China. (Xinhua News Agency)

One person is killed, eight others are seriously injured, and nearly 15 are trapped, including students, when a three-story restaurant collapses in Kota, Rajasthan, India. (Hindustan Times) (CNN-News18)

International relations

Iran–United States relations, International sanctions against Iran

United States president Donald Trump signs an executive order threatening 25% tariffs on countries doing business with Iran, but does not apply them yet. (Bloomberg)

Law and crime

Seven people are injured, including the perpetrator and four Indian nationals, in a mass stabbing at Bashkir State Medical University in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia. (The Hindu)

Police arrest a woman and seize over 10,500 blasting gelatin sticks, wires, and detonators are seized from a lorry carrying onions parked at a bricks manufacturing unit in Chemmad, Kerala, India. (PTI)

Politics and elections

Haitian crisis, Haitian conflict

The Transitional Presidential Council's mandate in Haiti expires, transferring the powers of the presidency to Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, who had recently survived a removal attempt by the council two weeks ago. (AFP via RFI) (The New York Times)

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