UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk stated that there is an increase in the use of the death penalty in Iran and stated that this practice must be stopped immediately.
A Russian plane carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war crashed in the city of Belgorod. It was announced that everyone on the plane died.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war crashed.
Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen announced that the USA and the UK attacked the city of Hudaydah in the west of the country twice. The US Central Command announced that an attack was made against three Houthi anti-ship missiles that were preparing to be launched.
Iran announced that 2 people were neutralized and 2 people were arrested regarding the bomb attack in Kerman. It was stated that one of those arrested was Muhammed Imran Tanvir, nicknamed 'Abu Imran', one of the leaders of ISIS.
The number of deaths and injuries in the bomb attack in Iran has been revised once again and announced as 84 dead and 284 injured. Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Emir Abdullahian announced that they started to take urgent legal and international measures at the UN regarding the attacks.
Kurdish refugees in Xanthi Immigrant Detention Center started a rotating hunger strike against the Imrali isolation.
Criticizing the racist and militarist discourses against Jews based on Israeli attacks, IHD Co-Chairperson Eren Keskin said: "We have to use our language very carefully when opposing this war."
L'Humanite, published in France, carried the Turkey's use of chemical weapons against HPG members in Federated Kurdistan Region in the headline of its latest issue.
At least 5 soldiers were killed in an airstrike carried out by Israel near Damascus airport.
Stating that Turkey uses ISIS to weaken Kurds, Peace in Kurdistan Campaign Spokesperson Stephen Smellie said that the responsibility of the ISIS prisoners should not be left to the Kurds alone and they should be prosecuted in their homelands.
Stating that the chance of the US staying in Syria is lower than in Iraq, Yousif Ismael, the director of the Washington Kurdish Institute, said, “The US will do its best to stay in Iraq. If it decides to withdraw from Iraq, it will also withdraw from the Kurdistan Region”.
At least 100 people have been killed and more than 4,000 injured as a result of a huge explosion in Beirut, on Tuesday.
A prison compound in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad was attacked by fighters. Reports speak of at least 20 people killed and 42 others wounded.
The EU foreign ministers have gathered in Brussels for their first face-to-face talks since the coronavirus pandemic began. One of the topics top of the agenda is the EU relations with Turkey.