Monday

January 18, 2016

Armed conflicts and attacks

2014–16 Russian military intervention in Ukraine

Ukraine says that a cyberattack on Boryspil International Airport near Kiev came from Russian computers. (Sky News)

Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen

A Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a police building in Yemen's capital, Sana'a, kills at least 26 people and injures 15 others. (RT)

Spillover of the Syrian Civil War

A rocket fired from ISIL-controlled territory in Syria's Aleppo Governorate, kills at least one person and injures another in the Turkish city of Kilis, close to the Syria–Turkey border. The Turkish military responded with artillery fire on ISIL positions. (AFP via Daily Mail)

Arts and culture

Glenn Frey, a founding member of the Eagles, dies of complications arising from rheumatoid arthritis, colitis and pneumonia. (BBC)