The Lebanese Health Ministry says the death toll from a fuel tank explosion in the northern Lebanon region of Akkar has risen up to 28.

A year after the explosion that rocked Beirut on August 4, 2020, killing 218 people, injuring more than 7,000 and devastating much of the city, the Lebanese investigation into the blast has yielded no credible results.

Multiple roadside bombs explode near convoys of US-led coalition forces in the Iraqi provinces of Dhi Qar, al-Qadisiyah, as well as Babil.

Two people are seriously injured in an explosion at a chemical park in Leverkusen, western Germany, the site's operator says.

Fuel tanker explodes in western Kenya, killing 13 people.

An explosion is reported at the Israeli regime’s Ashdod reactor facility in the south of the occupied territories, with reports not providing details on the cause of the blast or the number of possible casualties.

Tehran slams western countries for supporting and participating in the annual meeting of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization terror group. The Iranian foreign ministry Spokesman said the MKO is a terrorist cult that has the blood of Iranian people on its hands.

US forces have come under fire in the eastern Syrian province of Dayr al-Zawr.

An explosion near the international airport of the capital city of Bangkok left a plastics factory in flames, killing at least one and wounding 27 others.

A huge fire erupts off the Caspian Sea coast of Azerbaijan, where the Central Asian nation operates vast offshore oil and gas fields.