Shelling along the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan continued today, with both sides accusing the other of launching attacks (Associated Press).

Prosecutors in Seoul opened an investigation of Kim Yo-jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, for her alleged role in blowing up an inter-Korean liaison office last month (Yonhap).

A UN peacekeeper was killed and two others injured when the armed group Return, Reclamation, and Rehabilitation (3R) ambushed a convoy in the Central African Republic’s northwest (Al Jazeera).

At least sixteen people, including an Azerbaijani general, have died in an escalating border conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan (Associated Press).

Russian and Turkish soldiers were wounded in Syria’s Idlib province when a joint military patrol was hit by an improvised explosive device. The soldiers were patrolling the M4 highway in the southern part of the de-escalation zone, where Russian and Turkish forces have been since March (Al Jazeera).

An average of sixteen civilians were killed or wounded every day of the last six months, according to a report from the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty).

The country’s national oil company blamed the United Arab Emirates for imposing a blockade that has stopped oil production. The UAE backs rebel commander Khalifa Haftar in the Libyan civil war (Bloomberg).

Russia, the European Union, and the United States called for calm after two days of border clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan left at least four soldiers dead (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty).

The World Health Organization (WHO) is raising alarms about a growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which ended its tenth Ebola outbreak last month (Al Jazeera).

The United States shuttered five military bases in Afghanistan as part of a peace deal with the Taliban (TOLO). A wave of violence has continued despite the agreement, with eleven people killed and dozens more injured yesterday in a Taliban attack on an Afghan intelligence agency (Wall Street Journal).