Armed conflicts and attacks
Middle Eastern crisis
CENTCOM announces the U.S. has launched new strikes against Iran for a fifth consecutive day aimed at coastal defense systems, cruise missile storage, and launch sites in the Greater Tunb Island. (AFP via NDTV) (Politico)
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed "until the United States ends its acts of aggression". (Euractiv)
2026 Strait of Hormuz campaign
2026 United States naval blockade of Iran
The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) says that American forces have redirected two commercial vessels since the blockade resumed. (AA)
CENTCOM says that American forces disabled the Curaçao-flagged oil tanker M/T Belma as it was heading towards an Iranian port in the Persian Gulf amidst the blockade. An 18 second video confirms that a U.S. aircraft disabled the vessel. (AA) (Stars and Stripes)
India's Directorate General of Shipping warns companies not to deploy Indian sailors onto vessels transiting through the Strait of Hormuz after two Indian seafarers were killed in separate ship attacks in the waterway. (The Indian Express) (Reuters)
2025–2026 Iran–United States negotiations
Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says that ceasefire negotiations aimed at ending the war have not closed despite renewed fighting between Iran and the U.S. (The New York Times)
2026 Iranian strikes on the Kurdistan Region
The Directorate General of Counter Terrorism of the Kurdistan Region Security Council reports that international coalition forces have intercepted seven drones in Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. (Kurdistan24)
Three drones are reportedly shot down near the U.S. consulate in Erbil. (Shafaq)
Morocco signs an agreement with the Board of Peace to join the International Stabilization Force for Gaza. (Reuters)
Nirim attack, Gaza war hostage crisis
Israel's military claims to have killed a militant from the Hamas branch Al-Qassam Brigades that participated in the abduction of soldiers Col. Asaf Hamami, St.-Sgt. Tomer Yaakov Ahimas, and Sgt. Kiril Brodski during the October 7 attacks on the Nirim kibbutz. (The Jerusalem Post) (Haaretz)
Saudi Arabia–United States relations
The U.S. State Department approves a potential US$1.96 billion deal in arms sales to Saudi Arabia amidst the current Iran war and potential re-escalation with the Houthis. (Al Jazeera)
Sudanese civil war
A drone strike by the Rapid Support Forces hits a power station in the town of Al Dabbah in Sudan's Northern State. (Sudan Tribune)
The Sudanese Armed Forces-allied Joint Forces announce that they have recaptured the Orshi Reservoir area in North Darfur, a month after the Rapid Support Forces seized the area. (AA)
Disasters and accidents
Seven people are killed and one person is missing after a rubber dinghy explodes near Liaoning Province, China. (Xinhua)