Thursday

February 19, 2026

Armed conflicts and attacks

Sudanese civil war

Kordofan campaign

At least three aid workers are killed and four others are injured in a drone attack by the Rapid Support Forces and Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North on an aid convoy in South Kordofan, Sudan. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

Eighteen people are killed and three others are injured when two trucks collide head-on near Port Said, Egypt. (Egypt Today)

Sixteen people are killed and several others are injured after a gas explosion which then caused the building to collapse in Karachi, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)

Six firefighters are killed and another is injured when a fire engine plunges off a cliff in Xinhua County, Hunan, China. (Xinhua)

At least four people are killed and 17 others are injured when a truck transporting liquid gas crashes and explodes in Santiago, Chile. (Reuters)

A person is killed and five others are injured in Pétion-Ville, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, when a high-voltage power line breaks and falls into a public market. (Reuters)

Five miners are trapped underground and presumed dead in a diamond mine after a mudslide in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. (AP) (Reuters)