Mexican authorities have confirmed the killing of Luis Enrique Barragan Chavez, alias "R5" or "El Wicho," identified as the leader of the Los Reyes cartel, during a security operation in the western state of Michoacan.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday warned Russia would face retaliation if it targets Ukraine’s energy system this winter.
A key oil pipeline system in Saudi Arabia was struck by projectiles Thursday, triggering fires at pumping stations, CNN reported Friday, citing two US officials familiar with the matter.
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck near Teluknaga in Indonesia’s Northeastern Java province on Friday, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Europe is pushing its countries toward war with Russia, warning that deploying European troops to Ukraine would amount to war with Moscow, state-run news agency Tass reported.
US officials have tied high-resolution satellite images supplied by Chinese entities to an Iranian missile strike that killed three American soldiers in Jordan in July, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
Britain's sanctions against illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank will also include those in occupied East Jerusalem and Syria's Golan Heights, according to a media report on Friday.
Türkiye's indigenously developed Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) Akinci successfully hit a target over 250 kilometers (155 miles) away using the UAV-300 supersonic ballistic missile.
OpenAI confirmed Friday that artificial intelligence agents it was testing were involved in an incident that disrupted the RubyGems software service, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Saudi Arabia said Friday that it had shut down its East-West Pipeline after it was hit by multiple drone attacks originating from Iraq in the Riyadh and Madinah regions Thursday, leaving several people injured and causing damage.
At least 15 people died in Nigeria after contracting diphtheria, a bacterial infection that primarily affects the respiratory system, a health official said Tuesday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party has fallen to 19 seats, its lowest level since May 2025, according to an opinion poll published on Friday, about six weeks before the Oct. 27 general election.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say missiles struck US aircraft carrier, destroyer Anadolu Ajansı
Russia remains open to negotiations with Ukraine and expects to hold a trilateral meeting with the United States in the foreseeable future, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Friday.
Tugce Ersoy Ceylan is a professor of International Relations at Izmir Katip Celebi University in Türkiye.
Abdennour Toumi is a Senior Consultant at Middle East & Africa Strategic Institute (MEA).
The death toll from devastating flash floods and mudslides along the Nepal-China border on Friday climbed to 1,428, while the search for 5,649 people continues more than two weeks after the disaster struck the region.
The number of health zones affected by Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has increased to 61 across six provinces after the virus spread to the Kayna Health Zone in North Kivu province, the World Health Organization (WHO) Africa region office said in a situation report la...