The Petersburg Post

Sunday, Feb 1st, 2026 - QUETTA, Pakistan — Pakistani security forces killed 145 militants in a 40-hour battle launched as a series of coordinated gun and bomb attacks across Balochistan left nearly 50 people dead, the province's chief minister said on Sunday. Authorities in the southwestern province are battling one of the deadliest flare-ups in years, as insurgents in the resource-rich province bordering Iran and Afghanistan step ...

Sunday, Feb 1st, 2026 - Around 50 people a day will initially be allowed to cross in each direction, officials say. But movements will be subject to strict rules. The Rafah border between Gaza and Egypt is to reopen after nearly two years of near-total closure. The resumption of travel through the crucial border crossing - which sits between Gaza and Egypt - is one of the key steps of the US brokered ceasefire. On Sunday Israel announced ...

Sunday, Feb 1st, 2026 - Twelve miners have been killed by a Russian drone strike in eastern Ukraine, the country's largest private energy firm have said. DTEK said a bus carrying workers after a shift in the Dnipropetrovsk region had been targeted in Sunday's attack. At least 15 people were injured, State Emergency Services said. Earlier, at least two others were killed and nine injured in separate Russian attacks overnight and on Sunday. ...

Saturday, Jan 31st, 2026 - Attacks, which killed women and children, come day before border crossing is due to open in Gaza's southern most city Israel has carried out some of its deadliest airstrikes on Gaza in months, killing at least 30 Palestinians, some of whom were sheltering in tent cities for displaced people. Despite a nominal ceasefire, the Israeli military struck a police station in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood west of Gaza ...