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Ed Damazin Drone Strikes: What Is Known About the Fighting in Sudan’s Blue Nile

Ed Damazin Drone Strikes: What Is Known About the Fighting in Sudan’s Blue Nile

Drone strikes on Ed Damazin, the capital of Sudan's Blue Nile state, killed at least four civilians at dawn on Wednesday 7 October 2026 and...

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Houthi Attacks on Riyadh and Abha Airports: What Saudi Arabia Has Confirmed

Houthi Attacks on Riyadh and Abha Airports: What Saudi Arabia Has Confirmed

Attacks on Abha International Airport and Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport on 6 and 7 October 2026 killed three people and wounded 36, Saudi Arabia's...

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ISWAP Attack on Kukawa Special Forces Base: What Nigeria’s Military Has Confirmed

ISWAP Attack on Kukawa Special Forces Base: What Nigeria’s Military Has Confirmed

Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters attacked a Nigerian Army special forces position in Kukawa, Borno State, on the night of Tuesday 6 October...

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Ethiopia’s Army Takes Mekelle as Air Strikes Spread Across Tigray: What Is Confirmed

Ethiopia’s Army Takes Mekelle as Air Strikes Spread Across Tigray: What Is Confirmed

Ethiopia's federal army and the allied Tigray Peace Force (TPF) have taken Mekelle, the capital of Tigray. The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) withdrew from...

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Mali’s Army Re-enters Kidal After FLA Withdrawal: What Is Confirmed

Mali’s Army Re-enters Kidal After FLA Withdrawal: What Is Confirmed

Mali's armed forces re-entered Kidal on Tuesday 6 October 2026, five months after the Tuareg-led Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) and the al-Qaeda affiliate JNIM drove...

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South Africa Puts Five Brigades Through Exercise Vukuhlome V

South Africa Puts Five Brigades Through Exercise Vukuhlome V

South Africa has put five brigades through a three-month combat-readiness exercise at its largest training ground, the fifth run of an annual drill the army...

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South Africa Ends 27 Years of DRC Peacekeeping as Operation Mistral Closes

South Africa Ends 27 Years of DRC Peacekeeping as Operation Mistral Closes

South Africa has formally ended 27 years of peacekeeping in the Democratic Republic of Congo, withdrawing its last soldiers under Operation Mistral after a mission...

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Amnesty Details Civilian Killings by Mali’s Army and Wagner Forces

Amnesty Details Civilian Killings by Mali’s Army and Wagner Forces

Amnesty International says it has documented 34 civilian killings and two drone strikes that killed at least 23 people, including five children, carried out by...