The Weekly Edition

Ethiopian forces capture Mekelle, the capital of the Tigray Region, after the withdrawal of the Tigray People's Liberation Front. (Al Jazeera)

A drone strikes a displacement camp in Sheraro, Tigray Region, killing at least eight people, including a child, and seriously injuring six others. (AFP via France 24)

2026 Eritrean incursion into Ethiopia

The World Food Programme reports an airstrike on a United Nations truck in South Kordofan, Sudan, that killed the driver. (Al Jazeera)

Four women are killed in a Rapid Support Forces drone strike on homes and a mosque in Ad-Damazin, Blue Nile State, Sudan. (The Washington Post) (AP)

An RSF drone strike in Blue Nile State, Sudan, kills 41 displaced people. (AP)

Four people are killed in an American airstrike against an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea. (AP)

The Houthis take control of Al-Turbah, Yemen, after government troops withdrew earlier in the day. This is the first time the Houthis have held Al-Turbah since the war began. (Yemen Online) (AP)

The Presidential Leadership Council launches a large-scale military operation against Houthis in Yemen, with the aim to capture all Houthi-controlled territories. (Al Arabiya) (Al Jazeera) (TRT World)

Turkey and Pakistan agree to deploy troops under the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement to help Saudi and Yemeni forces against the Houthis. (Al Jazeera)

A Yemeni government offensive pushes the Houthis back from the Bab al-Mandab Strait. (Reuters)

2026 Yemen offensives

Israeli defense minister Israel Katz says that the military has killed 4,000 militants who took part in the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023. (The Jewish Chronicle)

Gaza war hostage crisis

October 2026 attacks on Saudi Arabia airports

Israeli settlers launch an attack in the occupied West Bank targeting Palestinians, killing a man and wounding 16 other people. (Al Jazeera)

U.S. president Donald Trump says that the U.S. military will not attack Iran before the midterm elections next month. (AP)

2026 United States military buildup in the Middle East

Four Indonesian seamen return home after Puntland maritime police rescued 17 crew members from the hijacked oil tanker MT Honour 25. Somali pirates had held the crew for more than five months and killed five members. (AFP)

Three gunmen and a police officer are killed, and another officer is wounded, in a shootout during an operation against illegal miners in Inambari District, Tambopata province, Madre de Dios, Peru. Authorities seize 15 AKM rifles, a pistol, and five grenades. (Evidencia de Perú in Spanish) (Infobae in Spanish)

Two merchant ships are hit by drones of unknown origins off the coast of Bulgaria. One of the ships has sunk, leaving the crew missing. (Reuters)

Russian forces launch a massive ballistic missile and drone attack on Ukraine, killing at least 28 people, including 20 people killed at a single apartment hit by a North Korean KN-23 missile in Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast, while hundreds more are wounded. (The Guardian)

Russian forces launch a ballistic missile attack on two buses in the city of Kramatorsk in Ukraine, killing at least 30 people, while 18 others are wounded. (Al Jazeera)

Bulgaria halts the search for the 12 Syrian sailors missing since yesterday after a merchant ship sank after being hit by a drone strike in its waters. The perpetrators are still unknown. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)

At least ten soldiers are killed by Islamic State gunmen during an attack at a military base in Kukawa, Borno State, Nigeria. Over 25 attackers are also killed in the shootout. (AP)

The Malian Armed Forces and the Russian Africa Corps retake Kidal, which was captured by the Azawad Liberation Front five months ago, after days of airstrikes and ground operations. (Al Jazeera)

Twelve people, including a 2-year-old, are killed and 16 more injured during a shootout between different factions of the Sinaloa Cartel at El Castillo Penitentiary Centre in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. The incident is believed to have been an assassination attempt on Eduardo Jonathan Martínez Larios, a leader of Los Chapitos who was reportedly amongst the dead. (Mexico News Daily)

The Pentagon raises the U.S. military death toll in the Iran war to 21 after reporting two noncombat deaths. (The Hill)