Thursday 16 October 2025

An 11-year-old boy is fatally shot by Israeli soldiers near Hebron.

Russian forces say they have crossed the Dnieper river and have entered the city of Kherson for the first time since 2022, and captured Karantynnyy Island and Maly Vilkhovy Island in the city's southwest.

The Afghan government reports that a market and a civilian house were hit in yesterday's Pakistani airstrikes in Kabul. Hospital sources reports that five people were killed and several wounded.

Four Syrian soldiers are killed and nine others are wounded when a bomb explodes on a Ministry of Defence bus in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria.

Heavy armed clashes break out in Zawiya, Tripolitania, Libya, after the attempted assassination of Reserve Force commander Suleiman Al-Fitouri.

Houthi sources confirm the death of general and chief of staff Muhammad Abd al-Karim al-Ghamari from an Israeli airstrike in August.

The United States Navy strikes another alleged drug smuggling boat. Survivors have been reported from the attacked boat.

At least eight people are killed in an attack on a security patrol in Zamfara State, Nigeria.

The African Union condemns the coup and suspends Madagascar's membership.

The prosecution of the International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh formally announces that it seeks the death penalty against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan over alleged crimes against humanity committed during last year's protests. Hasina has been in exile in India since her ousting, and Khan is also believed to be in India.

One person is killed and 100 people are wounded during clashes in Lima, Peru, as protestors demands the resignation of President José Jerí.

Former United States National Security Advisor John Bolton is indicted in a federal court over mishandling of national security documents.