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Friday, July 17th, 2026
Iranian drone strikes near Erbil in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region kill eight Kurdish rebels and injure several more. (Times of Israel)
The Iranian Army says that it has launched a drone strike at the Al-Sakhir Air Base in Bahrain, where US military helicopters and P-8 reconnaissance aircraft are stored, as part of its 11th phase of a “Saegheh” operation. (AA)
Iranian state media reports that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps have targeted a US special operations command center in Al-Tanf in response to the killing of Iranian soldiers in Iranshahr. (Arab News)
Multiple houses and residential buildings are buried after a landslide in Pengshui Miao and Tujia Autonomous County, Chongqing, China. Nine people are rescued with multiple people still reportedly trapped and unknown casualties. (ABC News)
Andy Burnham is elected as the new leader of the British Labour Party. He will formally succeed Keir Starmer as Prime minister on Monday. (BBC News)
Thursday, July 16th, 2026
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that Iran is still interested in an agreement with the United States. (Reuters)
The Kuwaiti defense ministry reports that the military intercepted and destroyed 32 drones entering the country’s airspace. (Arab Times Kuwait)
The United States Central Command launches new strikes against Iran for a sixth consecutive night in an effort to degrade Iranian military capabilities. (Middle East Eye)
Explosions are reported in Iran’s Qeshm Island, Bushehr, Ahvaz, and Bandar Abbas, including a bridge in Bandar Khamir. A truck on the bridge is reported to be targeted, killing the driver. (Turkiye Today)
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei reports a U.S. strike near a children’s cancer hospital in Ahvaz, prompting the evacuation of 211 cancer patients undergoing treatment, including chemotherapy. (Muslim Network TV) (Arab News)
Tasnim News Agency reports that American fighter jets attacked the Iranshahr Airport in the Sistan and Baluchestan province. (Ynetnews) (MTV)
Around 1,000 Sudanese returnees in Egypt are reported by a local committee to have returned to Sudan. (Middle East Monitor)
The Sudanese Armed Forces says that they have destroyed around 205 combat vehicles, military supply trucks, and four strategic drones belonging to the Rapid Support Forces in the past two weeks. (Sudan Tribune)
Eleven people are killed and 19 more injured in a fire at a care facility in Algiers, Algeria. (BBC News)
Six members of a family are killed after a fire engulfed their house in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. (Xinhua)
The Ugandan health ministry reports that Uganda has discharged its last patient diagnosed with Ebola, triggering a 42-day countdown clock on when it can be declared free of the virus. (Reuters)
The Washington Post links the iceberg lettuce produced by Taylor Farms and supplied to American fast food chain Taco Bell as a source of the current cyclosporiasis outbreak in the United States, which is caused by Cyclospora cayetanensis. (Reuters)
Taco Bell removes lettuce from some of their restaurants following reports that the Food and Drug Administration has opened an investigation into iceberg lettuce supplied to them. (The Hill)
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reports that the amount of hospitalizations in the state linked to the cyclosporiasis outbreak has surpassed more than 100 people. (ABC News)
Ernesto Ruffo Appel, former governor of Baja California, Mexico, is arrested on charges related to organized crime and fuel smuggling. (Gringo Gazette)
Sudanese Justice Minister Abdallah Dirif says that the government will launch lawsuits against the United Arab Emirates in international courts for its role in supporting war crimes by the Rapid Support Forces in the ongoing civil war. (Sudan Tribune)
Former Autostrade per l’Italia (ASPI) CEO Giovanni Castellucci is convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison for his role in the 2018 collapse of the Ponte Morandi in Genoa, Liguria, Italy, which killed 43 people. (TrasportoEuropa)
Protests take place in Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine against president Volodymyr Zelenskyy‘s decision to replace defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov with major-general Yevhenii Khmara. (BBC News) (Reuters)
Ukrainian Air Force deputy commander Pavlo Yelizarov resigns from his position in protest of Fedorov’s removal as defense minister. (BBC News)
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Thursday, July 16th, 2026
Eleven people are killed and 19 more injured in a fire at a care facility in Algiers, Algeria. (BBC News)
Six members of a family are killed after a fire engulfed their house in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. (Xinhua)
Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
The family of British national Craig Foreman says an Iranian court has added two years to his 10-year espionage prison sentence for speaking to the media, as he and his wife Lindsay continue a hunger strike. (CBS News)
Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says that ceasefire negotiations aimed at ending the war have not closed despite renewed fighting between Iran and the United States. (The New York Times)
The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) says that American forces have redirected two commercial vessels since the blockade resumed. (AA)
CENTCOM says that American forces disabled the Curaçao-flagged oil tanker M/T Belma as it was heading towards an Iranian port in the Persian Gulf amidst the blockade. An 18 second video confirms that a U.S. aircraft disabled the vessel. (Stars and Stripes)
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed “until the United States ends its acts of aggression”. (Euractiv)
CENTCOM announces the U.S. has launched new strikes against Iran for a fifth consecutive day aimed at coastal defense systems, cruise missile storage, and launch sites in the Greater Tunb Island. (AFP via NDTV) (Politico)
Morocco signs an agreement with the Board of Peace to join the International Stabilization Force for Gaza. (Reuters)
Israel‘s military claims to have killed a militant from the Hamas branch Al-Qassam Brigades that participated in the abduction of soldiers Col. Asaf Hamami, St.-Sgt. Tomer Yaakov Ahimas, and Sgt. Kiril Brodski during the October 7 attacks on the Kibbutz Nirim. (The Jerusalem Post) (Haaretz)
The Sudanese Armed Forces-allied Joint Forces announce that they have recaptured the Orshi Reservoir area in North Darfur, a month after the Rapid Support Forces seized the area. (AA)
A drone strike by the Rapid Support Forces hits a power station in the town of Al Dabbah in Sudan‘s Northern State. (Sudan Tribune)
The total amount of cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo exceed 2,000. (Medical Xpress)
The United Kingdom and the European Union remove the land-border fence between Gibraltar and Spain under a post-Brexit treaty, allowing free movement while introducing joint British-Spanish checks at Gibraltar’s airport and port. (AP)
A district court in Kathmandu, Nepal, sentences former deputy prime minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi to four years in prison and former home minister Bal Krishna Khand to two years for roles in forging documents for a fraudulent Bhutanese refugee resettlement scheme. (Reuters)
The Democratic Republic of the Congo establishes a council composed of mostly international war crimes lawyers to advise state institutions seeking accountability and reparations for victims of violence in the country’s east. (Reuters)
Moroccan prosecutors release journalist Ali Lmrabet after questioning him over online posts allegedly defaming unnamed individuals and institutions, while the criminal investigation continues. (Reuters)
U.S. president Donald Trump announces that American citizen Dena Karari has been released from Iran after being detained on espionage charges since 2024. Her lawyer, Jared Genser, also confirmed her release. (The Guardian) (NBC News)
France‘s National Assembly gives final approval to a bill allowing eligible adults with incurable, life-threatening illnesses to obtain lethal medication under strict conditions. The measure awaits Constitutional Council review before taking effect. (AP)
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