Global Peace & Conflict Updates

Washington 23 January 2026 gnada Fri, 01/23/2026 – 22:31 Washington Fri, 01/23/2026 – 12:00 23 January 2026 The U.S. sanctioned “nine shadow fleet vessels and their respective owners or management firms that have collectively transported hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of Iranian oil and petroleum products to foreign markets”.

Washington 22 January 2026 gnada Fri, 01/23/2026 – 22:32 Washington Fri, 01/23/2026 – 12:00 22 January 2026 President Trump said: “We have a big force going toward Iran. I’d rather not see anything happen but we’re watching them very closely. I stopped 837 hangings on Thursday…. I said, ‘If you hang those people, you’re going […]

The new year provides an opportunity for Colombia to keep advancing towards lasting peace, a decade after a landmark accord that ended more than 50 years of conflict, the UN Special Representative told the Security Council on Friday. 

Amid reconstruction talks on Gaza linked to President Trump’s just-launched Board of Peace, UN aid agencies insisted on Friday that what Gazans need most is immediate relief from the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe there. 

Washington 21 January 2026 #2 gnada Fri, 01/23/2026 – 03:37 Washington Fri, 01/23/2026 – 12:00 21 January 2026 President Trump said: “We hope there’s not going to be further [U.S.] action. But, you know, they were shooting people indiscriminately on the streets”. In warning that the U.S. could strike Iran’s nuclear program again, he said: […]

Tehran 21 January 2026 gnada Fri, 01/23/2026 – 03:36 Tehran Fri, 01/23/2026 – 12:00 21 January 2026 Iranian authorities announced that security forces had killed the “ringleader” and detained nearly a dozen members of a “terrorist group” in south-eastern Iran.

Tehran 22 January 2026 gnada Fri, 01/23/2026 – 03:35 Tehran Fri, 01/23/2026 – 12:00 22 January 2026 President Masoud Pezeshkian wrote: “The conspiracy of Iran’s ill-wishers transformed the arena of civil and rightful protest into a bloody and violent battleground, resulting in the loss of nearly three thousand lives among the citizens of this land […]

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed urged countries to protect the UN Charter in a powerful speech to the Danish Parliament on Thursday, urging countries to “stand up for a rules-based order” – or pay the price. 

A tense standoff between the Syrian Government and Kurdish-led forces in the country’s northeast risks igniting wider instability just as Syria struggles to emerge from years of conflict and authoritarian rule, senior UN officials told the Security Council on Thursday.