Tigray People's Liberation Front forces seized control of three airports and clashed with federal troops across northern Ethiopia, effectively shattering the 2022 peace deal and signaling return to major conflict.
The Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, aligned with the Rapid Support Forces, killed 27 people including four children in attacks in South Kordofan, according to the Sudan Doctors Network. The violence comes as Trump's Africa envoy calls for a country-wide UN arms embargo amid escalating drone attacks.
Sudan's Rapid Support Forces renewed their assault on al-Obeid and intensified drone attacks across the country following battlefield losses, while officials discovered a mass grave containing at least 25 bodies, including women and children, in Kurmuk after the army retook the town.
Sudan's Rapid Support Forces renewed their assault on al-Obeid and intensified drone attacks across the country following battlefield losses, while officials discovered a mass grave containing at least 25 bodies, including women and children, in Kurmuk after the army retook the town.
UN investigators reported that Myanmar's military intensified aerial attacks on civilians in the run-up to elections held in December and January, using low-cost aircraft including motorized paragliders and gyrocopters. All sides in the civil war committed war crimes including torture and sexual violence over the past year.
A Syrian court sentenced former President Bashar al-Assad, his brother Maher, and cousin Atef Najib to death in absentia for crimes against humanity, war crimes, murder, and torture during Syria's 14-year civil war that killed approximately half a million people. Assad has been living in exile in Russia since his ouster in 2024.
Intense fighting between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and government forces in Yemen has escalated in recent weeks, with attacks on the oil-rich Marib province killing at least 10 people. The violence, among the deadliest in years, is raising concerns that Yemen's civil war could fully reignite and open another front in the broader Middle East conflict.
Violent clashes erupted between rival armed groups in the Libyan cities of Zawiya and Surman, west of Tripoli, leaving at least 4-5 people dead and 10 wounded. Amid the fighting, inmates staged a mass escape from a prison in Surman, prompting authorities to suspend municipal activities and declare an undeclared curfew before calm was restored.
The Sudanese Armed Forces announced it has regained full control of the major highway connecting Khartoum to El-Obeid in North Kordofan State, capturing key towns including Umm Qarfa and Juraikh. The advance aims to break the months-long siege of El-Obeid by the rival Rapid Support Forces, though RSF responded with drone strikes on the city.
The UN human rights chief condemned a sharp increase in drone warfare in Sudan's ongoing conflict, reporting that more than 1,000 civilians were killed in drone strikes during the first five months of 2026. Drone warfare has become an increasingly prominent feature of Sudan's civil conflict.
Multiple attacks on health facilities treating Ebola patients in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo over a weekend period resulted in more than two dozen patients fleeing, including at least one death, as angry residents set fire to treatment centers. The World Health Organization warned that the violence is severely impeding efforts to contain the deadly outbreak.
Myanmar's new military-backed president Min Aung Hlaing called for peace talks with opposition armed groups by July 31, but two key rebel groups immediately rejected the offer, continuing the country's civil conflict.
