Overview
- Kyiv reports Russia’s second wartime use of the Oreshnik ballistic missile, striking near Lviv during a mass attack that killed four people in the capital and damaged infrastructure.
- U.S. Central Command says American and partner forces carried out large airstrikes on Islamic State targets across Syria in direct response to a December attack in Palmyra that killed three U.S. personnel.
- U.S. authorities seized the sanctioned Venezuelan tanker Olina in the Caribbean as part of a continuing effort to disrupt a shadow fleet moving illicit oil tied to Venezuela and Russia.
- Human-rights monitor HRANA reports roughly 500 people killed and more than 10,600 detained during Iran’s nationwide protests, with internet shutdowns and hardline warnings from authorities.
- Mongolia’s prime minister ordered a joint Anti-Corruption–Police–Intelligence task force to scrutinize land and customs issues in Zamyn-Üüd as Ulaanbaatar expands a school milk program to 189,600 pupils and health officials report 4,352 imaging diagnoses and 594 remote consults via telemedicine.