Armed conflicts and attacks
Middle Eastern crisis
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says that they have killed five members of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan near Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan, Iran. (Reuters)
Seven Palestinians are injured in an Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip. (Middle East Eye)
Tunnel warfare in the Gaza Strip
Israeli defense minister Israel Katz reports that the military has demolished 83% of Hamas tunnels in the Gaza Strip. (The Times of Israel) (Ynetnews)
The Israeli military says that the Egoz Unit commando group has killed a Hezbollah militant who emerged from a underground tunnel in Ali al-Taher in southern Lebanon. (The Times of Israel)
Nine people are killed and 22 others are injured in a bombing at a coffeehouse in Damascus, Syria. No group has claimed responsibility. (Al Jazeera)
Russo-Ukrainian war
Russian forces launch a major ballistic missile and drone attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, killing at least 30 people and injuring 98 others, and forcing more than 50,000 civilians to shelter underground. (AP) (Kyiv Independent)
Terrorism in Indonesia
The West Papua National Liberation Army says it set fire to a plane that landed with eight people in Highland Papua, Indonesia, after shooting and killing its American pilot. The Indonesian military announces the recovery of his body and that the plane's seven Papuan passengers returned unharmed. (BBC News) (Reuters)
Arts and culture
2026 Écône consecrations
The Holy See excommunicates the entire clergy of the Society of Saint Pius X for consecrating four bishops yesterday without the Pope's permission, barring the group from officiating marriages and hearing confessions. The Catholic laity are also warned that they will also be excommunicated if they attend SSPX masses. (AP) (Vatican News)