A Yemeni military officer was killed in clashes with Houthi fighters, according to the army, which reported the incident on Monday.

A Russian court has sentenced Georgian politician Koba Khazazi in absentia to 13 years in a maximum-security penal colony for participating in hostilities on the side of Ukraine, according to the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office.

Fighting resumed along the Afghanistan Pakistan border on Wednesday after a temporary ceasefire expired, killing at least two civilians and wounding others in eastern Afghanistan, Taliban officials said.

Ukraine’s F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets were left without enough air-to-air missiles for more than three weeks late last year, forcing pilots to improvise as Russia intensified its winter aerial assault, according to sources familiar with the situation.

Clashes have been reported along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border, particularly near the Durand Line, the disputed frontier separating the two countries.

The situation in the Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad area remains tense – Russian forces are trying to advance in the Pokrovsk direction, intensifying air strikes on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Rising tensions between Saudi Arabia and the UAE over clashes in eastern Yemen are not expected to impact OPEC+ oil production plans.

Fighting has broken out in Yemen’s eastern Hadramout province along the border with Saudi Arabia, involving forces loyal to the region’s Saudi-backed governor and the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC).