Armed conflicts and attacks
Syrian conflict
SDF–Syrian transitional government clashes
Syrian government forces capture many towns in Aleppo Governorate, including Dayr Hafir and Maskanah, after Syrian Democratic Forces units withdraw from their positions. (Al Jazeera)
Iraqi conflict
The United States Armed Forces formally withdraws from Iraq's Al-Asad Airbase, handing over full operational control of the airbase to the Iraqi Armed Forces for the first time since 2014. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
At least 24 people are killed and 45 others are injured in two separate road crashes in Pakistan, when a truck plunges into a canal in Sargodha, Punjab, and a passenger bus overturns on a highway in Balochistan. (AP)
2026 Binaliw landslide
The death toll from the landslide in the Binaliw Landfill in Cebu City, Philippines, rises to 35. Search operations are ongoing for the last victim. (ABS-CBN News)
2026 Indonesia Air Transport ATR 42 crash
An Indonesia Air Transport ATR 42-512 aircraft operated by the marine affairs ministry carrying eleven people loses contact in Maros Regency, South Sulawesi, while flying to Makassar and crashes. A search and rescue effort is underway. (Detikcom in Indonesian) (ANTARA)
Politics and elections
2026 Beninese parliamentary election
Provisional results in Benin reveal that the Progressive Union Renewal won 60 out of 109 seats in the National Assembly, followed by the Republican Bloc with 49 seats. Both parties in the National Assembly are part of a coalition supportive of president Patrice Talon. (Benin Web TV)
2026 Ugandan general election
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is re-elected to a seventh term with 71.65% of the vote, while opposition leader Bobi Wine comes second with 24.72% of the vote. (France24)
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