Tuesday 21 July 2026

The Israeli military and Shin Bet states that senior Hamas Gaza City Brigade commander Adham Ibrahim Shaaban Nasman, who was involved in directing the October 7, 2023, attacks and taking hostages, has been killed in a Israeli airstrike in the city last weekend, despite the ongoing ceasefire.

The U.S. military confirms that a third service member, identified as 28-year-old Sgt. Angel S Rampersad of New York, was killed during a recent attack on the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, bringing the total American casualties to 18.

Malta's sustainable mobility ministry confirms that the Greek-owned Malta-flagged oil tanker M/T Kavomaleas was "subject to an attack" in the Strait of Hormuz as it was navigating the southern corridor of the waterway. Additionally, all 23 crew members of the vessel are reported to be rescued.

A tanker is attacked by Iran in the coast of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz in the wake of the U.S. military conducting strikes for a 10th consecutive night yesterday, forcing crew to abandon ship. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations also confirms the attack.

Local medics report that 12 Palestinians, including four children, have been killed in airstrikes across Gaza City, in violation of the ongoing ceasefire.

Two oil tankers departing Saudi Arabia, Xin Long Yang and Rodos, turn around in the Red Sea and head for the Suez Canal instead of the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, after a warning by Houthi-controlled Yemen.

Around 21 people are reported to be killed in a drone strike by Rapid Support Forces in the Tina region of Sudan's North Darfur state near the border with Chad.

A survivor and local official say an armed gang abducted more than 40 people during raids on 11 villages in Maru, Zamfara State, Nigeria, over the weekend. The local government requests additional security forces.

Residents say motorcycle-riding gunmen killed at least 24 farmers and wounded several others in attacks on villages in Talata Mafara, Zamfara State, before stealing livestock and leaving the area.

Three women and a zonal commander are killed, while two youths are injured, as gunmen ambush a youth meeting in Omoku, Rivers State, Nigeria following a local community dispute.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says that they have launched strikes on Amazon's data center in Bahrain.

Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich says that Israel will not join the United States in striking Iran.

U.S. president Donald Trump authorizes U.S. airlines to resume direct flights to Lebanon, ending a suspension imposed after the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismisses commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi amid protests over the removal of defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov and appoints Joint Forces commander Mykhailo Drapatyi as Syrskyi's replacement.

The French Parliament approves legislation allowing limited use of acetamiprid and flupyradifurone, pesticides banned nationally but permitted in the European Union. Environment minister Monique Barbut says she will resign over the measure.

Trump announces that imported generic drugs will remain tariff-free until August 2028, face a 100% tariff for one year, and a 200% tariff thereafter, citing efforts to move pharmaceutical production to the country.

Russia stops issuing bonds after recent auctions failed to find buyers.

Two American tourists are injured, including one seriously, in a stabbing attack near the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. A 60-year-old Greek man is taken into custody.

The U.S. state of Michigan reports 6,571 cases of cyclosporiasis, which is caused by Cyclospora cayetanensis.

The wreckage of Pan Am Flight 526A, a Douglas DC-4 that crashed into the sea off Puerto Rico in 1952, killing 52 people, is located by a veteran aviation search team.

The Australian reports that Australian doctor Tareq Kamleh, who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State, is found alive in a prison in Baghdad, Iraq.

In Vietnam, a fire on a bus travelling from Lâm Đồng province to Ho Chi Minh City kills seven passengers and injures five others.