Reporting on active wars and military operations: missile and drone strikes, air defense, naval activity and the weapons shaping today’s conflicts.
The IDF says it killed Hamas commander Mahmoud Awad, accused of helping hold seven Israeli hostages in a tunnel complex in the Gaza City area.
Suspected Russian drones strayed into Romania and Moldova during a strike on Ukraine; one crashed near Solca and Gerbera wreckage was found in Florești.
Saudi Arabia restarted its East-West crude pipeline at reduced rates after a drone shutdown, reopening a path for Aramco to resume tanker loadings at Yanbu.
Poland scrambled fighter jets after a Russian Mi-8 helicopter from Kaliningrad crossed about 300 meters into Polish airspace near Braniewo for 42 seconds.
An Israeli strike on Khiam cut power across part of south Lebanon, NNA reported, as Israeli shelling and demolitions hit Mansouri and Baraachit.
An AP investigation says IRGC advisers helped Houthi forces seize Yemen’s Red Sea coast, Iran’s most direct battlefield role in Yemen since 2014.
China’s expulsion of Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli from the party and military raises new doubts about PLA cohesion and readiness for a Taiwan conflict.
Russia hit Kyiv with 161 drones and three missiles, striking gas stations, warehouses and rail lines hours after Zelenskyy met Trump in New York.
The G7 urged Yemen’s Houthis to stop threatening shipping and pressed Iran to end arms support, as fighting reached heights over Bab al-Mandab.
UNIFIL says nearly 30 Israeli positions, including eight fortified bases at sites such as Khiam and Maroun El Ras, now sit inside southern Lebanon.
Ukraine struck the Kuibyshev refinery in Samara and the Ufa refinery in Bashkortostan, more than 1,300 km from its border, in a new deep-strike wave.
Trump pulled back planned U.S. airstrikes on the Houthis with bombs already loaded, the NYT reported, after Riyadh intercepted a ballistic missile.
Israeli forces fired phosphorus munitions that set orchards ablaze in south Lebanon’s Tyre district as Merkava tanks moved on Deir Mimas, NNA reported.
Moscow’s mayor said about 450 Ukrainian drones targeted the capital in an “unprecedented” attack that set the Moscow Refinery on fire during Duma voting.
Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya headquarters warned the U.S. is preparing to resume strikes and vowed retaliation, as Trump said he remains in “deciding mode.”
Poland’s Donald Tusk warned Russia is preparing hybrid strikes on Ukraine’s allies disguised as accidents, then flew to Kyiv to discuss air defense.
Moscow’s mayor said over 350 Ukrainian drones targeted the capital overnight as Russia opened a three-day wartime Duma election that excludes anti-war parties.
Romania scrambled F-16s and issued RO-ALERT warnings in Tulcea County as radar tracked drone groups near the Ukrainian border along the Danube.
A UN-backed fact-finding mission found reasonable grounds that U.S. forces committed war crimes in Iran, citing a Minab school strike that killed over 150.
Saudi Arabia, short of interceptors, asked France, Pakistan, Egypt and the UK for air-defense help, AP reported, as the Houthis claimed an F-15 kill.
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