Deadly air strikes highlight Egypt-Sudan border insecuritY
By Mohammad Mansour October 12, 2026 Repeated air raids targeting civilian gold miners reveal deepening regional instability as Sudan’s devastating conflict spills across porous borders. Credit: Mohnd Blal/AP An alleged air strike on a gold mining site in northern Sudan has killed at least 72 workers, according to a rights group, highlighting the severe security vacuum along the country’s increasingly lawless border with Egypt. The Khartoum-based rights group Emergency Lawyer
Al Jazeera
Oct 13
Ethiopia Says It Must Defend Itself Against Eritrea’s ‘All-Out Invasion’
Dawit Endeshaw, Reuters October 9, 2026 Ethiopian Foreign Minister Gedion Timothewos attends a joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov following their meeting in Moscow, Russia October 21, 2025. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov/Pool Summary Ethiopian minister says Eritrean troops advanced up to 60 km into Tigray Eritrea accuses Ethiopia of having declared war in bid for sea access More explosions reported overnight near Tigray town of Adigrat Ethiopian Airli
Reuters
Oct 12
Journalists Imprisoned in Vietnam: Families Demand Release
By Quynh-Vi Tran October 9, 2026 Graphic: S.B./The Vietnamese Magazine. Every year, around midnight on Oct. 6, marks the anniversary of the arrest of Phạm Đoan Trang by the Vietnamese authorities in 2020. This year marks six years since I last spoke to her and almost 12 years since we last met. Six years have gone by, and it feels like just a blink. Many people have said to me that she has been in prison for six years, and without advocacy, three more years will pass quickly.
The Vietnamese Magazine
Oct 12
Israel’s ‘Yellow Line’ Squeezes Palestinians In Gaza
By Mohammed Haddad 12 October 2026 (Al Jazeera) A year into a ‘ceasefire’, Israel restricts access to 65 percent of Gaza and crams 2.1 million people into the rest. Israel has expanded its military occupation in the Gaza Strip in violation of a United States-brokered ‘ceasefire’, forcing Palestinians into an ever-smaller share of the besieged territory, devastated by Israel’s ongoing genocidal war. Nearly two-thirds of Gaza is now under Israeli military control or subject to
Al Jazeera
Oct 12
Chaos across airports as Houthis claim Riyadh strikes
By Middle East Eye Staff 12 October 2026 A CCTV screengrab shows the moment King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh was hit in a Houthi strike, 10 October 2026 (Saudi Media Ministry/AFP) Terminals across Saudi Arabia were left in chaos on Monday after repeated attacks on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport and warnings issued by Yemen’s Houthi group. Several airlines halted operations and over a third of all planned flights in the country were cancelled. Approxima
Middle East Eye
Oct 12
Soldiers kill 40 terrorists planning attack in Borno State, nigeria
Troops. Photo: Army By Isah Ojo Troops of Operation Hadin Kai have neutralised over 40 fighters, including a prominent commander of the Islamic State West Africa Province, in a precision air strike on their enclave at Badu Village, south of Gudumbali in Guzamala Local Government Area of Borno State. The Army said the terrorists were neutralised on October 10, 2026, while preparing to launch coordinated attacks on troops operating within Sector 3 areas of responsibility. The a
The Punch
Oct 12
How Russia’s AI broke battlefield verification
By Maksym Panchokha October 8, 2026 Credit: Reuters 2026 On Sept. 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russian forces had captured Sviatohirsk, a town anchoring the northern flank of Ukraine’s Sloviansk-Kramatorsk fortress belt. Six days later, Brig. Gen. Andrii Biletskyi stood in the town and filmed himself speaking calmly. Even a Kremlin-affiliated military blogger conceded it proved Ukrainian control. A pro-war channel that had posted two “liberation” clips l
Washington Examiner
Oct 12
At least 139 dead, 84 missing as migrant boat capsizes off Djibouti
By Al Jazeera October 11, 2026 A member of the International Organization for Migration inspects the abandoned wreckage of a boat that capsized off the coast of Djibouti on April 12, 2026 [File: Luis Tato/AFP] At least 139 people, including 15 children, have died and 84 are missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Djibouti, according to the United Nations migration agency. In a statement on Sunday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) quoted survivors as s
Al Jazeera
Oct 12
Afghanistan Country Report
Country Report: Afghanistan October 2026 By Holly Swiglo Afghan women wearing burqas, as mandated by Taliban law. (Photo: Faruk Tokluoglu) August 15, 2026, marked five years since the Taliban, an Islamic fundamentalist group, took power in Afghanistan after the United States withdrew its troops from the country. The Taliban has since eliminated all political and civic rights, dissolved representative bodies, and imposed a strict interpretation of Islamic law. Independent jou
Genocide Watch
Oct 12
Youths in Myanmar live in fear of being sold to the army
By Gavin Butler and BBC Burmese October 11, 2026 Authorities in Myanmar have been ordered to aggressively fulfil the military's recruitment quotas, leading to corruption, extortion and abductions You do not stay out after dark if you're young and able-bodied in Hpa-An, the capital of Myanmar's southern Karen state. In recent months this has become conventional wisdom. But Zaw Min has no choice. "I worry, but I have to go out to work," says the 26-year-old tuk tuk driver, who
BBC News
Oct 11
Seychelles: Faure Tells UN the Impact of Middle East Conflict
October 12, 2026 By: The Seychelles Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Diaspora Credit: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Diaspora The Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Diaspora, Mr. Barry Faure, received the Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser of the United Nations Secretary General on Africa, H.E. Ms. Ahunna Eziakonwa at Maison Queau de Quinssy on Monday 12 October 2026. Discussions focused on the impact the war in the Middle East has had on Seychelles’ ec
Lebanon seizes Hezbollah explosives, fears of assassinations
By Danielle Greyman-Kennard October 11, 2026 Lebanese forces seized 500 kg. of explosives allegedly linked to Hezbollah, sparking fears of political assassinations and renewed calls to disarm the group. Credit: The Jerusalem Post Lebanese forces seized hundreds of kilograms of explosives from a vehicle at a checkpoint in Dahr al-Baidar in the Bekaa Valley late last week, according to statements by Lebanese officials, which suggest the two people arrested in connection with th
The Jerusalem Post
Oct 11
