Portal:Current events/2026 February 7

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Gaza war
    • An Israeli airstrike destroys a residential building outside the areas controlled by Israel in Zaytun Quarter, Gaza Strip, Palestine. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israeli settler violence
    • Three Palestinians are injured when Israeli settlers attack residents in the northern Jordan Valley. (Al Jazeera)
• Kivu conflict
  • Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
    • The Allied Democratic Forces attack a village in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing at least 20 people. (AP)
• Russo-Ukrainian war
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure, Ukrainian energy crisis
    • Ukraine schedules emergency power outages across the country citing Russian attacks on thermal power stations. (The Kyiv Independent)
• Sudanese civil war
  • Kordofan Campaign
    • At least 24 people are killed, including eight children, in a drone strike by the Rapid Support Forces on a vehicle carrying displaced families near Er Rahad, North Kordofan, Sudan. (CTV News)
• 2026 Islamabad mosque bombing
  • Pakistani security forces arrest four people allegedly associated with the Khorasan Islamic State, accusing them of bombing the Shia mosque in Islamabad yesterday. (AP)
• Nigerian bandit conflict
  • Armed men kill three people and kidnap eleven others, including a Catholic priest, in Kaduna State, Nigeria. (AP)

Business and economy

• Saudi Arabia–Syria relations
  • Saudi Arabia and Syria sign agreements covering a joint low-cost carrier, a new international airport in Aleppo, and a US$1 billion telecommunications project as part of broader investment efforts following the lifting of U.S. sanctions on Syria. (AFP via The Straits Times)

Disasters and accidents

• Fifteen people are killed after a minibus veers off a road and crashes into a valley near Badakhshan province, Afghanistan. (The Express Tribune)
• Eight people are killed in an explosion at a biotechnology factory in Shanyin County, Shanxi, China. (Xinhua)
• Seven people are killed in a mining accident at a gold mine in Zhaoyuan, Shandong, China. (Xinhua)
• Six people are killed and three are injured after a truck rams into a bus on the Yamuna Expressway, Uttar Pradesh, India. (The Hindu)
• Two people are killed, nine others are injured, and several are trapped, including students, when a three-story restaurant collapses in Kota, Rajasthan, India. (The Times of India) (CNN-News18)
• Three skiers are killed in avalanches in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Lombardy, Italy. (Reuters)
• The bodies of six men killed in a coal mine explosion in Colombia are recovered. (ABC News)

International relations

• Algeria–United Arab Emirates relations
  • Algeria begins formal procedures to terminate its 2013 air transport agreement with the United Arab Emirates. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2026 Winter Olympics
  • Suspected saboteurs damage rail infrastructure in different locations near Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, disrupting journeys on the first full day of the Winter Olympics. (CBC News)
  • Anti-Olympics protestors and police clash in Milan, Italy, with officers and their vans being targeted with fireworks and firecrackers. (CNN)
• Bashkir State Medical University attack, Neo-Nazism in Russia
  • Seven people are injured, including the perpetrator and four Indian nationals, in a mass stabbing at the Bashkir State Medical University in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia. (The Hindu)
• Police arrest a woman and seize over 10,500 blasting gelatin sticks, wires, and detonators from a lorry carrying onions parked at a bricks manufacturing unit in Chemmad, Kerala, India. (PTI)
• Police detain 313 people involved in a raid on the Aristotle University campus in Thessaloniki, Greece, after they attacked a group of riot police. (AP)

Politics and elections

• Haitian crisis
  • The mandate for the Transitional Presidential Council in Haiti expires, with the powers of the presidency transferred to Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, who survived a removal attempt by the council two weeks ago. (AFP via RFI) (The New York Times)