Armed conflicts and attacks
2016 Jakarta attacks
The confirmed death toll from this week's attacks rises to eight. (Reuters via Jerusalem Post)
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
A suicide bomber kills at least 13 people and injures 14 in the Afghan city of Jalalabad. (Reuters via LBC Australia)[permanent dead link] (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Syrian Civil War
ISIL militants abduct at least 400 civilians from the eastern Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor. (Sky News)
Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)
At least 13 civilians have been killed by a roadside bomb while fleeing from fighting between Iraqi security forces and ISIL near Ramadi. (Al Jazeera)
Three Americans are missing, feared kidnapped, in Baghdad. Several unconfirmed reports claim that they were kidnapped by a shi'ite militant group. (Washington Examiner)
Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)
A suicide-bomb attack outside the police chief's house in Aden, southern Yemen, leaves at least 7 people dead. (AP via ABC News)
Disasters and accidents
At least five people are killed and ten injured in a microbus crash in Egypt's New Valley Governorate. (Ahram Online)