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On 28-29 Jul 2026, US and Saudi fighter jets jointly hit multiple PMF logistics and weapons depots across seven Iraqi provinces—killing scores—hours after Iran-directed militias mounted 30+ drone raids and Tehran answered with intercepted ballistic missiles at a US base in Jordan.
On 28–29 July 2026, U.S. and Saudi warplanes bombed multiple IRGC-linked logistics and weapons hubs in eastern Iraq hours after militias launched more than thirty drones at U.S. troops and Saudi oil facilities within 72 hours.
On 28 July 2026, hours after Yemen’s Houthis fired ballistic missiles at the Saudi tanker NCC Ghazal, China secured case-by-case safe-passage assurances that have already let at least four Chinese-destined super-tankers traverse Bab el-Mandeb despite the rebels’ 20 July blockade on Saudi shipping.
On 23 July 2026 simultaneous wildfires in Sicily, southwest France, and central Spain escalated, killing three firefighters and prompting mass evacuations—most dramatically 12,000 holidaymakers near Bordeaux—as 40 °C heat and dry winds fanned >50 active blazes.
After two weeks of bombardment over the Strait of Hormuz, both Washington and Tehran have observed a 72-hour halt in attacks (24-27 July 2026) while Qatar- and Pakistan-led mediators work to revive June’s interim truce.
On 25 July 2026 Ukrainian long-range drones reached the land-locked Caspian Sea, damaging a Russian warship and an Iranian-flagged merchant vessel, killing one Iranian sailor and opening a new theatre in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
After settlers burned two mosques and killed four Palestinians on 26-27 July 2026, Ireland’s new law banning West Bank-settlement imports and Gulf states’ condemnations signalled a sudden, coordinated pushback against Israel’s accelerating annexation drive.
Late on 25–26 July 2026, after 13 straight nights of bombing, President Trump ordered the Pentagon to hold fire on a planned new wave of attacks on Iran while Oman-mediated negotiations gained traction and aides flagged dangerously low missile stockpiles.
After 13 consecutive nights of U.S. strikes, President Trump halted further attacks on 24 July 2026, citing space for diplomacy and Pentagon warnings of dwindling interceptor missiles; Iran immediately stopped its own retaliatory assaults on Gulf states.
Between 24-27 July 2026 a runaway wildfire south-west of Bordeaux and parallel blazes in central Spain forced a record 325,000 people from their homes, pushing Paris and Madrid into emergency cabinet sessions and halting parts of the Tour de France.
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