https://warinfohub.com Factual conflict news, analysis, and explainers. en Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/south-korea-cheonghae-unit-hormuz-patrol-aircraft https://warinfohub.com/articles/south-korea-cheonghae-unit-hormuz-patrol-aircraft South Korea will expand its Cheonghae unit anti-piracy mission from the Gulf of Aden to waters south of Oman, about 650 kilometres from the Strait of Hormuz, adding a P-8A patrol aircraft, an explosive ordnance disposal team and 75 personnel — a strictly noncombat step, officials stressed, that also prepares Seoul for postwar mine-clearing in the strait if hostilities end. Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/komyshuvakha-death-toll-42-bodycam-second-strike https://warinfohub.com/articles/komyshuvakha-death-toll-42-bodycam-second-strike The Komyshuvakha death toll has reached 42, Ukrainian police said on Thursday, with up to 33 people still buried under the rubble of Monday's bombing of an aid distribution point in the Zaporizhzhia region — and bodycam footage from a police officer who was killed, verified by Reuters, has recorded the moments before a second strike destroyed the shelter where residents were hiding. Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/dmitriev-white-house-melania-trump-first-contact-midterms https://warinfohub.com/articles/dmitriev-white-house-melania-trump-first-contact-midterms Kirill Dmitriev, President Vladimir Putin's special envoy, will attend a White House event hosted by First Lady Melania Trump on Thursday and meet US administration officials — the first in-person contact between Russian and US officials since midterm elections in which Democrats secured control of both the Senate and the House, five days before trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi. Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/algerian-war-explained https://warinfohub.com/articles/algerian-war-explained The Algerian War (1954–1962), explained: the National Liberation Front (FLN) launched its uprising on 1 November 1954 against a French Algeria that Paris insisted was not a colony but France itself — three departments, legally integral to the Republic since 1848, home to about a million European settlers. France sent an army that peaked at some 470,000–500,000 troops, drafted about two million conscripts over the war, dismantled the FLN's Algiers network in the Battle of Algiers and, under the Challe Plan of 1959, regained military control of most of the country — and still lost. The war destroyed the Fourth Republic, brought Charles de Gaulle to power, and ended with the Évian Accords of 18 March 1962 and a referendum in which some six million Algerians voted for independence and only about 16,000 against. How many Algerians died is still disputed: historians' estimates put total deaths at 400,000–700,000, Alistair Horne put Algerian casualties at around one million, and the FLN and the Algerian government have claimed 1.5 million. Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/sudan-drone-strikes-power-water-fuel-un-warning https://warinfohub.com/articles/sudan-drone-strikes-power-water-fuel-un-warning Sudan drone strikes on energy and fuel infrastructure have stranded hundreds of aid trucks, stopped dialysis treatment for 25 people at a hospital outside Khartoum and left fuel queues kilometres long in the capital, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Denise Brown told UN News, describing an intense pattern of attacks over the past couple of weeks that appears to target civilian infrastructure systematically. Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/north-korea-missiles-sondok-fourth-launch-kim-yo-jong https://warinfohub.com/articles/north-korea-missiles-sondok-fourth-launch-kim-yo-jong North Korea missiles fired from the Sondok area toward the sea off the east coast on Wednesday were Pyongyang's fourth weapons launch in a month, South Korea's Defence Ministry said — hours after Kim Yo Jong, the sister of Kim Jong Un, ruled out dialogue with Washington until the US abandons what she called its hostile policy, and denied the FBI's accusation over the theft of more than $6 billion in crypto assets from Binance. Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/boxer-rebellion-explained https://warinfohub.com/articles/boxer-rebellion-explained The Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901), explained: the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists — the 'Boxers' — rose in drought-hit Shandong against missionaries, Chinese Christians and the foreign privileges built up since the Opium Wars; the Qing court under Empress Dowager Cixi backed them, declared war on the treaty powers on 21 June 1900, and besieged Beijing's legations for 55 days. An Eight-Nation Alliance relief force took Beijing on 14 August 1900, the court fled to Xi'an, and the Boxer Protocol of 7 September 1901 imposed an indemnity of 450 million taels of silver — about one tael for every person in China, more than the government's annual tax revenue — payable over 39 years at 4 per cent interest, for a total of 982,238,150 taels with interest included. Death tolls have varied widely: Britannica puts the total at up to 100,000 or more, the great majority civilians, while a compiled tabulation records 32,000 Chinese Christians and 200 Western missionaries killed in northern China. Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/0902-komyshuvakha-toll-rises-31-nearly-50-missing https://warinfohub.com/articles/0902-komyshuvakha-toll-rises-31-nearly-50-missing The death toll from Monday's Russian bombing of a school used as a humanitarian aid centre in the village of Komyshuvakha has risen to at least 31, officials said on Tuesday, with nearly 50 people still missing under the rubble. The UN humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine condemned the strikes, which he said killed at least 29 civilians and, in follow-up strikes, two rescuers and four police staff. CNN reported a higher confirmed toll of 33. All figures are Ukrainian officials' figures carried by independent outlets; they have not been independently verified, and no Russian statement on the Komyshuvakha strikes appeared in the reporting opened on Tuesday. Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/second-opium-war-explained https://warinfohub.com/articles/second-opium-war-explained The Second Opium War (1856–1860), explained: Britain and France, seeking wider trade, resident envoys in Beijing and the legalisation of opium that the Treaty of Nanking had left unsettled, used the seizure of the lorcha Arrow at Canton in October 1856 — and France the execution of a missionary — to renew war on Qing China. Allied forces took Canton, imposed the Treaties of Tianjin in June 1858, were repulsed at the Dagu forts in 1859, then returned in 1860, defeated the Qing army at Palikao, looted and burned the Old Summer Palace, and imposed the Convention of Peking (24 October 1860): Tianjin ratified, Kowloon ceded, indemnities raised to 8 million taels each for Britain and France, and the opium trade legalised. Recorded casualties are strikingly one-sided — a compiled tabulation gives 134 British and at least 25 French killed against 2,100–2,801 Qing killed or wounded — but no separate agreed Qing death toll exists. Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/russia-strikes-ukraine-power-grid-zhytomyr-180000 https://warinfohub.com/articles/russia-strikes-ukraine-power-grid-zhytomyr-180000 Russia's massive overnight strike on Ukraine's power grid inflicted severe damage on energy facilities in 10 regions, Ukraine's Deputy Energy Minister Artem Nekrasov said on Tuesday, leaving more than 180,000 customers in the Zhytomyr region without power, heavily damaging a DTEK facility in Odesa region, and injuring at least 73 people in Kharkiv, according to updated figures from regional authorities reported by the Kyiv Post. Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/black-sea-shipping-attacks-nato-romania-bulgaria https://warinfohub.com/articles/black-sea-shipping-attacks-nato-romania-bulgaria Black Sea shipping attacks hit 317 merchant and other vessels between May and October — more than four times the previous half-year, Ambrey Analytics told Reuters — as strikes on cargo ships off NATO members Romania and Bulgaria sank vessels in their exclusive economic zones, cut Ukraine's September port exports to 0.81 million tonnes from 2.1 million a year earlier, and left analysts saying Russia is testing NATO's red lines. Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/2105-us-ukraine-russia-abu-dhabi-talks-november-10 https://warinfohub.com/articles/2105-us-ukraine-russia-abu-dhabi-talks-november-10 The United States will bring together delegations from Ukraine and Russia in Abu Dhabi on November 10-11 to discuss ending Moscow's war against Ukraine, post-war security agreements and de-escalation, US envoy Steve Witkoff said on Monday. It would be the first US-mediated trilateral round since February, before the United States and Israel launched their war against Iran. Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to the new round after meeting Witkoff in St Petersburg two weeks ago, a senior US official told Reuters, while cautioning that Ukraine and Russia remain far apart on the terms of any peace deal. Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/2102-us-struck-qeshm-island-officials-journal https://warinfohub.com/articles/2102-us-struck-qeshm-island-officials-journal The United States struck Iran's Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, US officials told the Wall Street Journal, in what the Journal described as the latest in a series of limited strikes Washington has carried out in recent weeks without public announcement. Iran's state news agency IRNA reported several explosions on the island, and Al Jazeera reported five explosions heard on Qeshm with further blasts in Bandar Lengeh. US Central Command did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and the strike attribution rests on the Journal's account of US officials' statements, published here with that limitation stated. Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/1510-komyshuvakha-aid-centre-bombing https://warinfohub.com/articles/1510-komyshuvakha-aid-centre-bombing At least 26 people were killed on Monday when Russian aerial bombs hit a school in the village of Komyshuvakha in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region while it was being used to distribute humanitarian aid, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, with a repeat strike hitting the shelter where people had gathered. The toll rose through the day from an initial 18, and Ukraine's emergencies service said its confirmed count of 24 included two rescuers and four police officers. All figures come from Ukrainian officials; the Russian military has not publicly commented, and the toll and the attribution have not been independently verified. Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/ukraine-russia-oleshky-ceasefire-reinforce-positions https://warinfohub.com/articles/ukraine-russia-oleshky-ceasefire-reinforce-positions Ukraine's General Staff said on Monday that Russian forces used last week's six-day Oleshky ceasefire — the longest local pause since 2022, which evacuated nearly 800 people — to rotate units, fortify positions and bring in ammunition, a claim the Kremlin answered by assuming Ukraine had regrouped too, as Russian forces shelled 16 settlements across Kherson region in the 24 hours to 0400 GMT on Monday. Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/sudan-ethiopia-un-complaint-rsf-drone-attacks https://warinfohub.com/articles/sudan-ethiopia-un-complaint-rsf-drone-attacks Sudan said late Sunday it had filed complaints against Ethiopia with the UN Security Council and the African Union's Peace and Security Council, after a Sudanese report alleged 70 RSF drone attacks launched from Ethiopian territory since February — attacks Khartoum says killed or wounded 484 civilians — an allegation Ethiopia has denied. Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/gaza-ceasefire-strikes-khan-younis-1580-killed https://warinfohub.com/articles/gaza-ceasefire-strikes-khan-younis-1580-killed Israeli strikes killed at least three Palestinians in Gaza on Monday — two in Khan Younis and one in Al-Mussadar — a day after eight were killed, taking the toll since the year-old ceasefire to at least 1,580, according to Gaza's health officials, while Israel still controls about two-thirds of the territory and its more than 2 million residents crowd into the remaining third among the ruins. Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/first-opium-war-explained https://warinfohub.com/articles/first-opium-war-explained The First Opium War (1839–1842), explained: Britain bought Chinese tea with silver, then with Indian opium; when Commissioner Lin Zexu destroyed more than 20,000 chests of opium at Canton in 1839, Britain sent an expedition that Qing forces could not stop. The Treaty of Nanking (29 August 1842) ceded Hong Kong Island in perpetuity, opened five treaty ports, abolished the Cohong monopoly and imposed a $21 million indemnity that included $6 million for the destroyed opium, while leaving the trade itself neither legalised nor prohibited. Casualty totals still dispute: one compiled count gives about 3,100 Qing killed, while broader estimates cited from Julia Lovell run to 20,000–25,000 Chinese deaths. Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/2115-ukraine-russia-alert-apps-hacked-false-nuclear-warnings https://warinfohub.com/articles/2115-ukraine-russia-alert-apps-hacked-false-nuclear-warnings Ukraine's public air raid alert app was hacked on Sunday night and briefly sent false nuclear, chemical and street-fighting warnings, the Air Force said — and hours later Russia's emergencies ministry said its own mobile app had been hit by a massive cyberattack that spread false information. Neither side's attribution is independently confirmed, and Reuters reported it was not immediately clear whether the two incidents were linked. Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/un-staff-member-dies-houthi-custody-yemen https://warinfohub.com/articles/un-staff-member-dies-houthi-custody-yemen A UN staff member dies in Houthi custody: Mohammad el Shami, of the UN Human Rights Office in Yemen, had been held since June 6, 2024, and his family was told of his death only recently, more than a month after it happened, with no explanation of the cause. UN rights chief Volker Turk demanded an urgent, independent investigation and the release of the more than 70 UN employees Yemen's prime minister said remain detained. Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/ukraine-power-outages-kstovo-refinery-drone-attack https://warinfohub.com/articles/ukraine-power-outages-kstovo-refinery-drone-attack Ukraine power outages left hundreds of thousands of households without electricity on Sunday after Russia hit power infrastructure in four regions overnight, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said — while in Russia, the governor of Nizhny Novgorod region said a massive drone attack caused significant damage to an industrial facility in the Kstovo district, amid reports the target was a refinery thought to be one of Russia's largest. Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/mexican-american-war-explained https://warinfohub.com/articles/mexican-american-war-explained The Mexican-American War (1846–1848), explained: the United States annexed Texas in 1845, disputed whether its border was the Nueces River or the Rio Grande, and fought Mexico across the north, California and the road to Mexico City. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (2 February 1848) ceded some 525,000 square miles to the United States — 55 percent of Mexico's pre-war territory on the U.S. Office of the Historian's reckoning — for $15 million. The standard U.S. tabulation counts 13,283 American dead, most from disease; historians estimate about 25,000 Mexican dead. Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/ethiopia-drone-strikes-amhara-tigray-25-killed https://warinfohub.com/articles/ethiopia-drone-strikes-amhara-tigray-25-killed Ethiopia drone strikes killed at least 25 civilians in two days this week, witnesses and a medical source told AFP: repeated strikes on a displacement camp in Amhara, and a second strike in Rama, Tigray, on people collecting grain spilled from a lorry hit the night before. Addis Standard's own reporting put the Rama toll at 12 — a resident told AFP 13 — and the camp toll at 16, and the Ethiopian army did not respond to requests for comment. Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/taiping-rebellion-explained https://warinfohub.com/articles/taiping-rebellion-explained The Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864), explained: Hong Xiuquan, a failed examination candidate who believed he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ, built the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in southern China, took Nanjing in 1853 and held it for eleven years. The Qing survived only by handing armies and taxes to provincial leaders such as Zeng Guofan. Britannica puts the dead at an estimated 20 million; Meyer-Fong's conventionally cited totals run to 20–30 million, and ChinaKnowledge gives 20–50 million. Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/sudan-rsf-commander-defects-family-control https://warinfohub.com/articles/sudan-rsf-commander-defects-family-control Senior Rapid Support Forces commander Siddiq Ander has defected from Sudan's paramilitary group, Al Jazeera reported on Friday, accusing relatives of RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, of tightly controlling the group's finances, weapons, troop movements and military promotions. Ander's accusations are published here as his own claims, in his own words; his exit is the latest in a string of senior RSF defections this year, several of them made alongside hundreds of fighters. Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/qatar-mediators-tehran-marathon-talks-us-iran https://warinfohub.com/articles/qatar-mediators-tehran-marathon-talks-us-iran Qatari mediators held more than 12 hours of talks in Tehran on Friday to secure reciprocal steps that could restart direct negotiations between Washington and Tehran, Axios reported — a marathon session, coordinated with the United States, that follows Sunday's Qatari draft, which a senior Iranian official dismissed as unacceptable. A diplomatic source said there had been 'positive progress' but talks were ongoing, with discussions expected to continue in Doha on Saturday. Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/hormuz-riti-tanker-rescue-oman https://warinfohub.com/articles/hormuz-riti-tanker-rescue-oman Oman's navy evacuated all 25 crew members from the Panama-flagged crude tanker RITI after the ship was targeted and caught fire near the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, Oman's Maritime Security Centre said — while Iran's Revolutionary Guards said three oil tankers had been halted after incidents on a route Tehran calls unauthorised, and the US commander in the region said the strait's main transit routes had been cleared of Iranian sea mines. It is not clear whether the RITI was one of the vessels in the Iranian account. Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/1602-ethiopia-jari-2-camp-drone-strikes-15-killed https://warinfohub.com/articles/1602-ethiopia-jari-2-camp-drone-strikes-15-killed A series of drone strikes hit the Jari 2 camp for displaced civilians near Hayk in Ethiopia's Amhara region on Friday, killing at least 15 people — five of them children — according to rescue sources cited by Reuters, while Addis Standard put the toll at 16 killed from its own reporting among camp residents. Who carried out the strikes is not known, and Ethiopia's government had not commented. Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/1002-novokuybyshevsk-refinery-strike-pause-ends https://warinfohub.com/articles/1002-novokuybyshevsk-refinery-strike-pause-ends Ukraine struck Rosneft's Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery in Russia's Samara region early on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported, ending a two-week pause in refinery attacks that had held under heavy pressure from the Trump administration. Fires broke out at the plant, which makes jet fuel for Russia's air force; the region's governor confirmed a major drone attack on the region but did not name the refinery, and the extent of the damage is not yet known. Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/0402-hormuz-tanker-hull-explosives-ukmto https://warinfohub.com/articles/0402-hormuz-tanker-hull-explosives-ukmto Attackers in a small boat attached two explosive devices directly to the hull of an outbound tanker in the Strait of Hormuz late on Thursday, sparking an engine-room fire that temporarily disabled the vessel 25 nautical miles northeast of Khasab, Oman, the UK Maritime Trade Operations centre said in a verified report carried by Reuters. The crew were safe, the fire was extinguished and the tanker resumed its voyage — but Seatrade Maritime said the close-approach tactic marks a change in method in a campaign that, on IMO figures, produced 34 confirmed attacks on vessels in the month to October 27. Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/war-markets-weekly-2026-10-30 https://warinfohub.com/articles/war-markets-weekly-2026-10-30 The war impact on markets this week was a fourth straight weekly oil rally: December Brent settled up 2.40% at $117.64 on Friday, up 1.5% on the week and about 15% in October, and WTI settled up 1.98% at $104.12 as UKMTO counted 43 Gulf shipping incidents in October — the most since the war began — and Houthi attacks on Saudi refineries kept the risk premium in place. Gold futures fell 3.7% on Friday to $3,883, below $4,000 for the first time in over a year, wheat fell for a ninth straight week, and the S&P 500 closed at 7,580.07, down 0.57% on the week. Figures checked Friday, October 30, 2026, 4:20 PM Central Time. Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/taiz-famine-hrw-starvation-warning https://warinfohub.com/articles/taiz-famine-hrw-starvation-warning Yemen's third-largest city, Taiz, is in famine rather than on its brink, its governor said in a front-line briefing, as Human Rights Watch reported on Thursday that Houthi forces had fully encircled the city in October, blocking and attacking its last major supply route — a deprivation of food, water and medicine that may amount to the war crime of using starvation as a method of warfare. The World Food Programme says it cannot reach more than 600,000 people in Taiz who depend on humanitarian assistance, and wheat flour stocks are nearly exhausted. Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/spanish-succession-war-explained https://warinfohub.com/articles/spanish-succession-war-explained The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714), explained: when Charles II of Spain died childless, his will left a global empire to Louis XIV's grandson Philip — and the Grand Alliance of Britain, the Dutch Republic and the Emperor fought France and Spain for thirteen years to stop a Bourbon superstate. Philip kept Spain but renounced France, Spain lost its European empire, Britain took Gibraltar, Minorca and the asiento slave-trade contract, and compiled death estimates range from about 400,000 to more than 1.2 million. Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/oleshky-aid-enters-residents-leave-ceasefire https://warinfohub.com/articles/oleshky-aid-enters-residents-leave-ceasefire Officials from both warring sides said humanitarian aid was entering the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky in southern Ukraine on Friday, and residents who wish to leave were offered buses to Ukraine or to Russia — the culmination of a US-brokered local ceasefire that has held for more than three days. Ukraine's prime minister retracted an early figure of 527 evacuees, saying the number planning to leave was still being determined as the rescue operation continued. Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/ethiopia-su-35-jets-s400-russia-deal https://warinfohub.com/articles/ethiopia-su-35-jets-s400-russia-deal Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced in Moscow on Wednesday that Ethiopia has taken delivery of 12 Russian-made Su-35 fighter jets — a year ahead of schedule, he said — with four S-400 air defence batteries to follow, in a milestone for an air force that has relied on Russian aircraft since the 1990s. The deal, experts told Al Jazeera, strengthens Moscow's foothold in the Horn of Africa while Addis Ababa fights a renewed war in Tigray and accuses Eritrea of backing the rebels. Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/1002-dnipro-railway-station-drone-strike-14-killed https://warinfohub.com/articles/1002-dnipro-railway-station-drone-strike-14-killed A Russian jet-powered drone struck a crowded platform at Dnipro's main railway station on Thursday morning as a commuter train prepared to depart for Zaporizhzhia, killing at least 14 people, Reuters and CNN reported. Daytime strikes on two other Ukrainian cities killed five more people the same day — two teenagers on a central street in Chernihiv and three people in an apartment building in Kremenchuk — bringing Thursday's reported toll to at least 19, even as the US-brokered humanitarian ceasefire around Oleshky in the Kherson region held for a third day. Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/uganda-27-killed-presumed-dead-russia-ukraine-recruitment https://warinfohub.com/articles/uganda-27-killed-presumed-dead-russia-ukraine-recruitment Twenty-seven Ugandans enlisted to fight for Russia's army in Ukraine have been killed or are presumed dead, a letter from Uganda's embassy in Moscow to its foreign ministry showed on Thursday: 11 confirmed dead, and 16 whose bodies could not be located anywhere, including among prisoners of war. The letter, whose authenticity a Ugandan foreign ministry official confirmed, follows a UN-backed inquiry's finding this week that Russia recruited men from 29 countries into its armed forces through deception or coercion — Uganda among them. Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/ethiopia-moyale-clashes-50000-flee-kenya-unhcr https://warinfohub.com/articles/ethiopia-moyale-clashes-50000-flee-kenya-unhcr Up to 50,000 people have crossed from Ethiopia into Kenya since last Thursday to escape clashes between Oromia and Somali regional forces around the divided border town of Moyale, the UN refugee agency said on Wednesday, up from 36,000 a day earlier. Many of those fleeing are women and children, food is the most urgent need, and UNHCR has deployed an emergency team to Moyale — while the figure remains an estimate from local authorities, still subject to verification as people continue to arrive. Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/contship-jet-sunk-naval-drones-bulgaria-black-sea https://warinfohub.com/articles/contship-jet-sunk-naval-drones-bulgaria-black-sea The Liberian-flagged container ship Contship Jet sank during the night after three maritime drones struck it off Bulgaria's Black Sea coast on Wednesday, Bulgarian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Kiril Mihaylov said — after all 18 crew members, 14 Filipinos and four Ukrainians, were rescued uninjured and taken to Varna. Twenty of the ship's 421 containers fell overboard and are drifting, some carrying hazardous cargo; the navy says it does not know where the drones came from, and no one has claimed the attack. Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://warinfohub.com/articles/chaco-war-explained https://warinfohub.com/articles/chaco-war-explained The Chaco War (1932–1935), explained: landlocked Bolivia and Paraguay fought over the Chaco Boreal, a waterless wilderness of about 100,000 square miles thought to hold oil. About 100,000 men died, Paraguay won three-quarters of the disputed land in the 1938 settlement, and historians still argue over whether oil caused the war at all — the best archival work finds no known deposits in the disputed Chaco and no hard evidence the oil companies started it. Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT