The Weekly Edition

November 30, 2025 to December 6, 2025

Armed conflicts and attacks

Tajikistan reinforces its border with Afghanistan, as the Tajik government says that the drone strikes which killed two Tajik and three Chinese citizens over the past week originated from its neighbour. (Anewz)

Gaza War

Palestinian tunnel warfare in the Gaza Strip

The Israeli military claims to have killed more than 40 Hamas militants over the past week who attempted to exit a tunnel in eastern Rafah. (AFP via Barron's)

Russo-Ukrainian war

Kyiv strikes

One person is killed and 19 others are injured overnight after a Russian strike on Kyiv, Ukraine. (ABC News)

Dnipro strikes

Four people are killed and at least 40 others are injured in a Russian Iskander missile strike on Dnipro, Ukraine. (Reuters)

Pokrovsk offensive

Russia says its forces have captured Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast, after months of heavy fighting. (DW)

Republican insurgency in Afghanistan

The Afghanistan Freedom Front claims that its fighters killed three Taliban soldiers and wounded two more in a rocket attack in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. (Afghanistan International)

Sudanese civil war

Siege of Babanusa

The Rapid Support Forces say that they have captured Babanusa, the last stronghold of the Sudanese Armed Forces in West Kordofan, Sudan. (Sudan Tribune)

War crimes during the Sudanese civil war

Fifty people are killed, including 33 children, after the Rapid Support Forces strike a kindergarten in South Kordofan, Sudan. (AP)

Haitian conflict

Haitian gangs launch a large-scale attack on the Ouest and Artibonite departments, causing hundreds of people to flee. Police say the gangs now control 50% of Artibonite, including the town of Pont-Sondé. (AP)

Gaza war

The Israeli army says four of its soldiers were wounded in a Hamas attack in Rafah. (The Times of Israel)

Gaza hostage crisis

Hamas returns the remains of an unidentified person, possibly a hostage, to Israeli authorities to be examined by forensics experts. (PBS)

Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip

Israel says it will reopen the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, allowing Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip. (BBC News) (PBS)

Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip

Five Palestinians, including two children, are killed by Israeli drone strikes near Khan Younis. (Al Jazeera)

2025 Rafah ambush

Yasser Abu Shabab, leader of the Israeli-backed and anti-Hamas Popular Forces, is fatally shot in Rafah, Gaza, by unidentified gunmen. (Middle East Eye)

Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

2025 Bannu ambush

A government administrator, two of his guards and a passerby are killed in an ambush against a vehicle in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)

Yemeni crisis

Yemeni civil war

War on drugs

2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers

The United States Navy strikes a boat in the Pacific Ocean alleged to have been carrying illegal narcotics, killing four people onboard the vessel, according to the United States Southern Command. (The Guardian)

Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict

Afghanistan–Pakistan clashes

Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes

The Afghan military and Pakistani military exchange fire along their border, with Pakistani artillery targeting several Taliban outposts in the Helmand, Kandahar, and Zabul provinces. Both sides accuse the other of instigating the clashes. (Reuters) (WTOP News)

Colombian conflict

Colombia and the Clan del Golfo agree in Doha, Qatar, that the group's combatants will begin assembling in three designated zones in Chocó and Córdoba starting March 1, with arrest and extradition orders suspended during the process. Colombia also designates additional municipalities for pilot peace programs as part of broader negotiations aimed at reducing violence. (Reuters)

Myanmar civil war

The Tatmadaw conducts an airstrike on a tea shop in Sagaing, Myanmar, killing 18 civilians and wounding 20 more. (AP)