Conflicts
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Russian Guided Bomb Strike Kills Mother and Daughter in Sumy as Nationwide Air Campaign Intensifies
4 July 2026 A Russian guided-bomb strike on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy killed a 34-year-old woman and her...
Ukrainian Drones Hit St. Petersburg Oil Terminal as Kyiv Claims Strike on Kronstadt Naval Base
4 July 2026 Ukrainian drones struck oil infrastructure in St. Petersburg and the Baltic port of Vysotsk overnight on July...
Putin Falsely Claims Capture of Eastern Ukrainian City as Ukraine Hits Oil and Naval Targets Near St. Petersburg
July 4, 2026 Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed on July 3 that Russian forces had captured Kostiantynivka, a strategic city...
Iran Buried Its Leader. It Left the War Unanswered.
July 4, 2026 Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the former supreme leader of Iran, was killed on February 28, in the war’s...
Ethiopia-Eritrea Tensions Rise as Excluded Tigray Vote Deepens Rift
Tigray’s exclusion from Ethiopia’s June 1 general election followed the electoral board’s May 2025 revocation of the TPLF’s legal status...
Bint Jbeil Clash Exposes the Fault Lines Built Into the Israel-Lebanon Framework
An Israeli reservist was severely wounded on July 2 when a Hezbollah gunman opened fire on troops in Bint Jbeil,...
NATO Draft Reaffirms Article 5 and Sets €70bn Ukraine Aid Pledge
NATO leaders are expected to reaffirm an “ironclad commitment” to collective defence and endorse €70 billion ($80 billion) in military...
UN Experts Say Congo Peace Deal Is Being Violated as M23 Holds Ground in the East
A UN Group of Experts report says all sides in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s war are violating the Washington...
Damascus Café Bombing Strikes at Heart of Syria’s Post-Assad Justice System
3 July 2026 A bomb tore through a crowded café near Damascus’s Palace of Justice on Thursday, killing at least...
UN Warns of Atrocity Risk as RSF Tightens Grip on Sudan’s El Obeid
Speaking at an urgent UN Human Rights Council debate on 3 July, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk...