Headlines- The IRGC launched ballistic missiles at two US warships "patrolling regional waters," according to US Central Command, which then launched an attack on Iranian oil vessels.
- The US attacks on three oil tankers were denounced by Iran's Foreign Ministry as a "war crime," and the Iranian military threatened to launch further strikes on US naval vessels if the blockade persisted.
- On Saturday evening, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff in Moscow.
- As part of an anti-immigrant protest, hundreds of masked people halted ferry traffic between France and the UK on Saturday at the port of Dover, England.
- Ten days after the catastrophic floods near the border between Nepal and Tibet, a man and a woman found alive, according to officials.
Tag: Armed Conflict
December 31, 2019
Children Continue to Pay a Deadly...
More than 12,000 children were killed or maimed in 2018. UNICEF noted that continued, widespread use of airstrikes and explosive weapons such as landmines, mortars, improvised explosive devices, rocket attacks, cluster munitions and artillery shelling cause the vast majority of child casualties in armed conflict