Great-power conflict
This page follows wars and standoffs between countries: strikes, ceasefires, and the diplomacy around them. Every note says what happened and when, and links to the official body or report it comes from, so you can read it for yourself. Casualty and damage figures are the ones those sources published at the time, and they often change as more becomes known.
Snapshot
- Item
- UN Security Council 10214th meeting (SC/16440)
- Date
- Aug 26, 2026
- What
- UN meetings coverage: Gaza humanitarian situation at an “absolute breaking point”; 2 million people still trapped. Acting Special Coordinator Ramiz Alakbarov: about two thirds of Gaza remains inaccessible or faces severe access restrictions; bids for more than 1,200 housing units in E1; UNRWA Kalandia Training Centre seized. No death count is invented here.
- Source
- UN Meetings Coverage SC/16440
Watching official feeds: UN Meetings Coverage (Security Council), UN OCHA, U.S. Department of State. Conflict death counts are not invented on this lane.
Notes
official (Shabwa governor Awad bin al-Wazir, Oct 20; Shabwa province media office, Oct 19; Yemeni armed forces spokesman; Presidential Leadership Council) · media (AP; EFE; BBC News; AFP)
Houthi missile strike on Shabwa training camp: death toll rises to 73, governor says
Al-Alam camp near Ataq, Shabwa, Yemen
Shabwa governor Awad bin al-Wazir said on Tuesday, October 20, that the death toll from Monday's ballistic missile strike on a training camp for security recruits near Ataq had risen to 73, with 14 people still missing. More than 200 were injured. Yemen's armed forces said the Houthis fired three missiles; the Houthis said they targeted Saudi forces.
media (The Guardian with AFP, Oct 19; witness and medical source quoted, no official toll) · official (UN Security Council briefing, Oct 16)
Drone strike near a market in al-Dibab, Sudan, kills 80, a medical source says
Al-Dibab, West Kordofan, Sudan
A drone struck twice near a market transport hub in al-Dibab, West Kordofan, on Sunday evening, Oct 18, killing 80 people, according to a medical source quoted by the Guardian and AFP. A witness said he helped bury 50 bodies and that 47 wounded were taken to al-Mujlad, where the medical source said 30 died. The RSF-declared Tasis administration blamed the army. There is no official toll yet.
official (Armed Forces of El Salvador, Oct 19; Gang Suppression Force, Oct 18 and Oct 20) · media (AP; Al Jazeera; EFE)
Four Salvadoran soldiers are missing in Haiti after gangs blow up their armoured vehicle
Croix-des-Bouquets, north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti
El Salvador's armed forces say four of their soldiers serving with the UN-backed Gang Suppression Force in Haiti are missing after gangs attacked their armoured vehicle with explosives in Croix-des-Bouquets on Sunday, Oct 18. The soldiers escaped the burning vehicle. Rescue attempts by land and air have been hampered by heavy fighting, and helicopters sent to find them were fired on. It is the first major attack on the force.
official statements (Kyiv Police; Mayor Vitali Klitschko; Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi; Ukrainian Air Force), via Kyiv Independent
Russia hits Kyiv with ballistic missiles overnight, striking an apartment block and all three city heat and power plants; five dead
Kyiv, Ukraine · Desnianskyi and Holosiivskyi districts
Overnight Oct 13 to 14, Russia struck Kyiv with ballistic missiles in several waves. A missile hit a nine-story residential building in the Desnianskyi district late Oct 13, igniting a large fire, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. Kyiv Police said three women were killed there and 25 people injured, including a 7-year-old girl; two more people were killed in the Holosiivskyi district. Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi said all three of the city's combined heat and power stations were attacked, along with infrastructure in Kyiv Oblast that powers the capital and central regions. Ukraine's Air Force said no information on the launches was received from partners on Oct 12 or 13.
official (President Zelensky, official Telegram, Oct 7 and Oct 8, Ukrainian posts translated by Doom Signals · Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, official Telegram, Oct 8 · State Emergency Service, via the Kyiv Independent) · media (Kyiv Post; Kyiv Independent; Ukrainska Pravda)
A Russian Kh-101 missile hit a Pryluky apartment block directly, killing 22 people, five of them children
Pryluky, Chernihiv region, Ukraine
A Russian Kh-101 cruise missile scored a direct hit on a five-story apartment building in Pryluky, in Ukraine’s Chernihiv region, in the overnight attack of Oct 7. When the search and rescue operation ended on Thursday morning, 22 people were confirmed dead, five of them children, and 54 were injured, seven of them children, President Zelensky and Ukraine’s interior ministry said. Rescuers pulled 15 people out alive.
official statement (Office of the Chairman of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council, Oct 4 2026) · UKMTO warning via Anadolu and The Maritime Executive · Reuters via CNBC and Defense News · Al Jazeera
Saudi coalition strikes Houthi fuel depots; Saudi Energy Ministry says an Aramco building in Dhahran was hit
Yemen · Taiz front (pin: Taiz city, a front named by the Saudi-led coalition and Reuters) · claimed strikes in Riyadh and Khurais, Saudi Arabia · tanker incident about 60 nm south of Mokha
Coalition spokesman Maj Gen Turki al-Maliki said the Saudi-led coalition struck the Yemen Petroleum Company al-Sabaha facility near Sanaa on Tuesday night Oct 13 and intercepted four missiles and two drones near Riyadh afterward (via BBC). Saudi Arabia's Energy Ministry said an Aramco administrative building in Dhahran was attacked, causing a limited fire (via CBC/Reuters). The Houthis say they fired ballistic and cruise missiles and drones at Aramco sites in Dhahran and Riyadh and King Khalid International Airport. A Houthi strike on Riyadh airport on Saturday Oct 10 killed 13 people, per Reuters.
official (President Zelensky; Ukraine’s Air Force; regional authorities; Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, 4 Oct 2026, via the Kyiv Independent and Kyiv Post)
Ukraine: Zelensky says Russia fired 1,900 drones and 1,700 aerial bombs in a week; strikes kill at least 5 on Sunday
Sumy, Ukraine (pin) · also Kharkiv region, Dnipro and Kyiv
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia used more than 1,900 attack drones, 1,700 aerial bombs and 25 missiles against Ukraine this week, more than 800 of the drones jet-powered. Overnight into Oct 4 Russia launched 135 drones (Ukraine’s Air Force). A drone strike on a medical-supplies warehouse in Sumy killed a 52-year-old worker; at least five people were killed and 30 injured across Ukraine over the past day, local authorities said. Kyiv’s Northern Bridge was hit for the fourth day running (Kyiv Independent).
official (WFP statement, 4 Oct 2026, via Al Jazeera)
Sudan: air strike hits clearly marked UN food trucks in South Kordofan, killing a driver, WFP says
South Kordofan state, Sudan (between two army-held cities; not named)
The World Food Programme said an air strike on Saturday, Oct 3, hit its food-aid trucks, “clearly marked as humanitarian vehicles,” as they travelled between two army-held cities in South Kordofan, killing one driver. WFP did not say who was responsible and has called for an investigation (Al Jazeera, Oct 4).
official (IAEA Update 369, Director General statement, 2 Oct 2026 · IAEA statement on X, 3 Oct 2026, via Anadolu Agency)
Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is down to one power line and short on backup diesel, IAEA says
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (IAEA spelling: Zaporizhzhya), Enerhodar, Russian-held southern Ukraine · Zaporizhzhya Thermal Power Plant nearby
IAEA Update 369 (Oct 2): the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant has lost off-site power 10 times since June and now relies on a single line, the 330 kV Ferosplavna-1. Diesel for its emergency generators remains low after nearly three weeks on generators in August and September, and military activity has hampered resupply; the plant is considering keeping fewer generators on automatic standby. On Oct 3 the IAEA said Director General Rafael Grossi is negotiating a localized ceasefire for repairs at the nearby thermal power plant, which would be the eighth IAEA-brokered ceasefire for the plant's off-site power.
official (UKMTO Warning 150-26, Attack, issued 4 Oct 2026) · Iranian official via state-linked media (Nournews, carried by Al Jazeera and Reuters) · AFP
Hormuz: another tanker hit, its engine room damaged, as Iran says the strait stays shut until its conditions are met
Strait of Hormuz (UKMTO gave no coordinates)
UKMTO Warning 150-26 (issued Sun Oct 4): the master of a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz reported being struck by an unknown projectile that damaged the engine room. The crew are safe and no environmental impact is reported; the report time is listed as TBC. The same day, Iran’s parliament speaker and top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said the strait will not reopen until Iran’s seven conditions under the Islamabad memorandum are met (Nournews, via Al Jazeera and Reuters).
official statements (Israeli military; Al-Shifa hospital; Gaza civil defence; Gaza health ministry) via AFP, carried by CNA
Gaza: Israeli strike aimed at a Hamas commander kills five in a Gaza City apartment, four of them women, hospital says
Rimal neighbourhood, Gaza City
Israel said it tried to kill Hamas’s top leader in Gaza, Ali al-Amoudi, in a pre-dawn air strike on an apartment in Gaza City’s Rimal neighbourhood on Saturday, Oct 3. Al-Shifa hospital said it received five bodies: two women, their daughters and a man. Gaza’s health ministry says Israeli forces have killed more than 1,440 people since the ceasefire was announced a year ago (AFP, via CNA).
official (UN News, 2 Oct 2026 — WHO Representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Dr Reinhilde Van De Weerdt, Geneva · OCHA)
WHO: Gaza medical supplies delayed as winter hits nearly 2 million without shelter
Gaza Strip · approved aid enters only via Kerem Shalom; Rafah open for limited movement of people · pin: Gaza City
WHO said Friday (Oct 2) that repeated delays bringing medicines, prosthetics and other supplies from Israel into Gaza risk devastating consequences. WHO’s OPT representative Dr Reinhilde Van De Weerdt said one prosthetics shipment was rejected four times in six months, while almost 87% of medicines are approved. Approved aid enters only through Kerem Shalom, with four other crossings closed. As winter begins, almost two million people need shelter from cold and flooding, and WHO warns of a heightened risk of preventable disease outbreaks (UN News).
official (UKMTO Warnings 148-26 & 149-26 — Attack · master reports 1122 UTC and 2142 UTC Fri 2 Oct 2026) · GCaptain
Hormuz: UKMTO logs two more tanker hits Friday — fire and blackout, then a strike off Oman
Strait of Hormuz (148-26) · 4 nautical miles east of Oman (149-26) — UKMTO published no coordinates
UKMTO Warning 148-26 (1122 UTC / 7:22 AM ET Fri Oct 2): a tanker’s master reported an unknown projectile strike on an outbound Strait of Hormuz transit — a small fire and a blackout; the fire is out and the ship is underway, with no casualties or environmental impact reported. Warning 149-26 (2142 UTC / 5:42 PM ET): a crude oil tanker struck by an unknown projectile on the port side 4 nautical miles east of Oman; all crew safe. Neither warning names the ship or the shooter. GCaptain counted at least six vessels hit since Sunday, Sep 28 — before 149 was issued.
official (WFP press release, Aden/Rome, 2 Oct 2026 · UN News, WFP briefing in Geneva, 2 Oct 2026)
Yemen hunger surge: WFP finds 74% of reachable households can’t meet basic food needs
Yemen · Ta’iz, Lahj and the southwestern coast · Bab al-Mandab corridor (pin: Ta’iz city — a named displacement hotspot, not a front-line fix)
WFP (Oct 2, Aden/Rome): renewed fighting in Yemen has displaced more than 149,000 people (IOM). In accessible Government of Yemen areas, 74% of households can’t meet basic food needs — WFP’s record for this year. 18.3 million face acute food insecurity nationwide; fighting has cut aid off from about 350,000 people in parts of Ta’iz and Hodeidah. WFP asks USD 109 million for up to 1.5 million people hit by the escalation.
official / UN (UN News, 2 Oct 2026 — High Commissioner Volker Türk to the Human Rights Council, Geneva)
UN rights chief: Ukraine war a ‘human rights catastrophe’ — 15,280 civilians killed or injured in eight months
Ukraine — nationwide; glide-bomb toll in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Sumy and Zaporizhzhia regions · statement in Geneva (pin: Kyiv, the capital — not a single strike site)
UN rights chief Volker Türk told the Human Rights Council (Oct 2) the war in Ukraine is a human rights catastrophe “growing and intensifying by the week.” His office verified some 15,280 civilians killed and injured in Ukraine in January–August 2026 — more than 400 a week, 55% more than a year earlier. Glide bombs near the front: nearly 2,500 civilian casualties (+62%). “Ukraine is a laboratory for drone warfare.”
Tier-1 press (BBC — Chris Mason interview with PM Andy Burnham, Sep 30 · BBC breaking report, Oct 1) · Al Jazeera explainer (Oct 1) · Iranian Foreign Ministry · US officials
UK prime minister: ‘strong indications’ Iran played a part in the RAF Fairford incident
RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire, UK · arrests in Whelford, east of the base, and in Westminster, London
PM Andy Burnham to the BBC: “There are strong indications that Iran played a part in what happened over the weekend at RAF Fairford” — no details given. Five British men aged 23–25, arrested Sunday near the base, are on strict bail; police found petrol, no explosives. Iran denies it. Thursday: counter-terror police arrested a 27-year-old UK-Iranian dual national on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts (BBC). No evidence has been made public.
Tier-1 press (AP via CBC — “What we know so far”, Oct 1 · BBC, Oct 1 · Reuters via Dunya News) · UAE Public Prosecution via WAM (Arab News) · Israeli officials / Netanyahu (Fox) · Flydubai statement
A pilot stabbed his captain and tried to crash a jet with 174 aboard. Passengers stopped him.
Flight FZ1073, Dubai to Tel Aviv · diverted over Saudi Arabia, briefly into Jordanian airspace · landed Tabuk, Saudi Arabia (pin: Tabuk airport, the landing site — not where the attack happened)
Flydubai FZ1073, Dubai to Tel Aviv, Wed Sep 30: the co-pilot stabbed the captain and the Boeing 737 lost about half its altitude in about a minute (AP). The wounded captain opened the cockpit door; a passenger and a crew member subdued the attacker, and the jet landed at Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. Israeli officials say he tried to crash it; Flydubai calls it an “altercation”. The UAE has opened a prosecution probe; Flydubai suspended Dubai–Tel Aviv flights.
Tier-1 press (Reuters via MarineLink — Marisks vessel IDs, Oct 1 · AP via ABC News · Politico) · UKMTO warnings 144-26 to 146-26 (via bne IntelliNews) · Seatrade Maritime (UKMTO Sep 28 report / IMO list) · IRGC via Fars (Dawn) · Reuters markets · Trump remarks, White House Hispanic Heritage event, Sep 30 (Yeni Şafak transcript quote; Dawn / agencies)
Hormuz: Trump claims ‘virtually total control’ — the same week four tankers were hit
Strait of Hormuz (pin: boarded Hormuz reference point, not the strike positions — UKMTO gave none)
Trump, Wed Sep 30 at the White House: “We have virtually total control of the Hormuz Strait.” The same week, late UKMTO warnings logged four tankers hit by unknown projectiles in two days: a fire aboard a tanker late on Sep 28 (IMO lists VLCC Al Funtas) and three struck on Sep 29 — named by Reuters/Marisks as Al Ruwais, Mersin Prosperity and Sinbad. No one has been confirmed as the shooter. In the Oval Office: “We blow them up or make a deal.”
official / UN (UN News — Secretary-General statement and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, Tue Sep 29 2026) · casualty figures as reported by the UN (“reportedly”)
UN: airstrike on a Myanmar market reportedly kills at least 50 in Rakhine — UN chief condemns
Kyauktaw township, Rakhine state, Myanmar
UN News (Tue Sep 29): the Secretary-General strongly condemned an airstrike that reportedly killed at least 50 people at a market in Kyauktaw township, Rakhine state, on Monday — junta forces reportedly hit around midday when the 200-plus-shop market was busy; women and children among the dead, at least 58 injured, toll expected to rise. Türk: Myanmar “wracked by extreme violence”.
official statements (Ukraine PM Serhiy Koretskyi, Telegram; Centrenergo; Ukraine energy ministry) via Tier-1 / agency carry (BBC News · Interfax-Ukraine) · Russian defence ministry claim attributed
Russia hits Ukraine’s grid with its largest energy strike since spring — Trypilska plant damaged
Ukraine — Kyiv, Kyiv region (Trypilska thermal power plant, ~40 km from Kyiv) and 11 regions overall
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Serhiy Koretskyi: the biggest mass, combined missile-and-drone attack on energy infrastructure since the end of the last heating season — 11 regions hit overnight into Wed Sep 30; five dead including a child, 14 casualties known (his morning count). Centrenergo: generating equipment at the Trypilska thermal plant near Kyiv damaged. BBC · Interfax-Ukraine.
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Notes about armed conflict and serious tension between states, such as attacks, escalations, ceasefires and major diplomatic moves, each tied to a named source and a date.
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- Houthi missile strike on Shabwa training camp: death toll rises to 73, governor says
- Drone strike near a market in al-Dibab, Sudan, kills 80, a medical source says
- Four Salvadoran soldiers are missing in Haiti after gangs blow up their armoured vehicle
- Russia hits Kyiv with ballistic missiles overnight, striking an apartment block and all three city heat and power plants; five dead
- A Russian Kh-101 missile hit a Pryluky apartment block directly, killing 22 people, five of them children
- Saudi coalition strikes Houthi fuel depots; Saudi Energy Ministry says an Aramco building in Dhahran was hit
- Ukraine: Zelensky says Russia fired 1,900 drones and 1,700 aerial bombs in a week; strikes kill at least 5 on Sunday
- Sudan: air strike hits clearly marked UN food trucks in South Kordofan, killing a driver, WFP says
- Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is down to one power line and short on backup diesel, IAEA says
- Hormuz: another tanker hit, its engine room damaged, as Iran says the strait stays shut until its conditions are met
- Gaza: Israeli strike aimed at a Hamas commander kills five in a Gaza City apartment, four of them women, hospital says
- WHO: Gaza medical supplies delayed as winter hits nearly 2 million without shelter
- Hormuz: UKMTO logs two more tanker hits Friday, fire and blackout, then a strike off Oman
- Yemen hunger surge: WFP finds 74% of reachable households can’t meet basic food needs
- UN rights chief: Ukraine war a ‘human rights catastrophe’, 15,280 civilians killed or injured in eight months
- UK prime minister: ‘strong indications’ Iran played a part in the RAF Fairford incident
- A pilot stabbed his captain and tried to crash a jet with 174 aboard. Passengers stopped him.
- Hormuz: Trump claims ‘virtually total control’, the same week four tankers were hit
- UN: airstrike on a Myanmar market reportedly kills at least 50 in Rakhine, UN chief condemns
- Russia hits Ukraine’s grid with its largest energy strike since spring: Trypilska plant damaged
- Iran: US formal proposal delivered, Araghchi presents it to Pezeshkian
- Araghchi: Iran awaits formal US Hormuz response through mediators
- Trump rejects Iran’s seven-day Hormuz reopen plan: on the record
- Iran’s security chief: US has 4–5 days, no Hormuz reopen, no talks until conditions are met
- Pezeshkian at UN: ‘bully’ Trump, no surrender, talks only without the language of force
- Trump tells UN: annihilate Iran or make a deal, then confirms a three-hour meeting
- Iran: Strait of Hormuz stays closed until the US meets war-end conditions
- Saudi coalition: Houthi ballistic missile toward Riyadh intercepted, first capital alert since July
- Iran war: Tehran sends 7 conditions, warns of ‘decisive war’ if Trump rejects
- Nigeria methanol brew: almost 50 dead in Ondo, ~100 ill
- Gaza building collapse: UN says at least 20 dead, about 50 children were inside
- Six UN workers killed in a Gaza school strike: UNRWA says staff safety is being ignored
- UNDP chief: drones over Chornobyl are gambling with millions of lives
- Over 13,000 Gaza patients got out: ambulances still blocked as winter nears
- UN FFM: foreign fighters and drones fuel Sudan war, up to 2,000 Colombian contractors with RSF
- UN peacekeepers count a sharp jump in fire along Lebanon's border
- WFP: airstrike destroys 50 tons of marked food aid outside Dilling
- OCHA: attacks kill 12 civilians across six regions, energy hits raise winter fears
- WHO: Gaza water contamination triples, diarrhea nearly doubles ahead of rains
- Haiti GSF mandate renewal on September Security Council docket
- After a month of quiet, U.S. and Iran trade strikes again across the Gulf
- UNAMA: 95% of war victims report psych harm, justice still out of reach
- WFP halves West Bank food aid: Gaza coordinator starts 3-day strip visit
- Lebanon: aid stuck south of Litani, ~46,000 inside IDF military zone
- MONUSCO rushes Bamande after ADF clashes: UN: Ebola growing exponentially
- Sudan war appeal barely half funded: more villages emptying in the south
- U.S. hits Iran’s Larak Island: mines in Hormuz; Tehran fires on Jordan bases
- UN: ~60 dead, 240 hurt in Ukraine weekend strikes, Kyiv hit hardest
- UNIFIL sees heavy IDF fire across Blue Line: mission clock ticking
- Kenscoff massacre: UN counts at least 47 dead as Haiti gangs tighten the noose
- Gaza at “an absolute breaking point”: 2 million still trapped, UN warns