Armed conflicts and attacks
Fifteen civilians are killed during an armed attack by unknown individuals in Madegoua, Far North Region, Cameroon. (Reuters)
Middle Eastern crisis
The Ghana Army says that Battalion 92 of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon will return to Ghana following a year of duty in southern Lebanon. (GhanaWeb)
Houthi forces seize control of the Hanish Islands in the Red Sea consolidating the group's control of the strategic sea lane off Yemen's western coast. (AP)
Houthi forces advance towards the PLC-controlled cities of Marib and Taiz with heavy clashes underway. (Al Jazeera)
The United Nations reports that more than 100,000 people have fled their homes in western and southern Yemen due to the ongoing Houthi offensive against Yemeni government forces, and that 2,400 refugees have arrived in Djibouti in the last four days alone. (Kurdistan 24)
Al-Akhbar reports that Saudi Arabia has sent a proposal for Oman to mediate a two-week ceasefire with the Houthis. (AzerNews)
A Yemeni resident is reported to be killed by debris from a drone in Taif, Mecca Province. (Arab News)
Iranian support for the Houthis
Gulf states call off planned peace talks with Iran in response to Houthi ballistic missile attacks on Saudi Arabia and Yemeni government forces. (Reuters)
Oman's maritime security centre reports that two sailors are reported to be missing after the Panama-flagged oil tanker El Gaia was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz near the Musandam Peninsula. (BBC News)
The Kuwaiti energy ministry reports that Kuwait's electrical grid has held despite attacks from Iran against it. (Arab Times Kuwait)
The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission finds "reasonable grounds" that the United States military may have committed war crimes with attacks on the Minab school and Lamerd sports hall in southern Iran. (Reuters)
Twenty-one people are killed, 45 are injured, and about 100 others are missing after a residential building in Gaza City collapses after it was previously hit by an Israeli airstrike. Twelve children are among the fatalities. (AFP via France 24) (Al Jazeera)
The Israel Defense Forces confirm that they have killed a Al-Qassam Brigades Nukhba Forces commander who took part in the October 7 attacks in a airstrike and a Hamas navy officer in another airstrike in Gaza City. (Israel National News) (JFeed)
Israeli government response to the October 7 attacks
Lt. Col. "Aleph", the chief police officer in the Southern Command's Gaza Division, is dismissed following his role in the failures leading to the Hamas-led October 7 attacks on Israel. (The Times of Israel)
Russo-Ukrainian war
A Russian drone attacks a train bound for Warsaw, Poland, at Yahodyn station in western Ukraine, shortly after former UK prime minister Boris Johnson and top EU security officials had passed through the airspace. Former U.S. CIA director David Petraeus was also at the station at the time of the strike but was unharmed. (BBC News)
Violations of non-combatant airspace during the Russo-Ukrainian war
A drone crosses from Belarusian airspace into Lithuania before being shot down by a NATO fighter jet over the village of Pratkūnai, Kaišiadorys District Municipality, near Kruonis Pumped Storage Plant, two days after an unidentified object flew over Lithuanian airspace from Belarus to Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. (BBC News) (LRT)
Mexican drug war
At least seven suspected gunmen are killed and two others are detained after an armed group attacks Nuevo León police and soldiers in General Treviño, Mexico. Police later arrest three additional suspects. (La Jornada in Spanish)
Sudanese civil war
Sudan's Popular Congress Party and Sudan Liberation Movement faction led by Abdul Wahid al-Nur agree to broaden talks aimed at ending the three-year civil war in the country. (Sudan Tribune)
The Sudanese Armed Forces says that they have killed several Rapid Support Forces militants in Sudan's Blue Nile state. The country's defence ministry also confirms the attacks. (Radio Tamazuj)
Aftermath of the South Sudanese Civil War
Twenty-six people are killed and 82 more injured during clashes between two rival communities in Abyei, at the border between Sudan and South Sudan. (Al Jazeera)
2026 Iran war
The IRNA reports that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has hit the Togo-flagged oil tanker Trend as it attempted to pass the Strait of Hormuz. (AFP via FMT) (Al Jazeera)
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
A suicide car bombing outside a mosque located inside a police station in Kohat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, kills at least 31 people, including 16 policemen, and injures at least 100 more. The Hafiz Gul Bahadur Group claims responsibility. (AFP)
Mali War
At least 100 Malian soldiers are reported to have been killed in a attack on the Dioura central army base in Mali over the past weeks. (AFP via Arab News)