A Syrian diplomat responding on behalf of the Syrian foreign ministry stated that Syria's primary focus remains on domestic priorities, including recovery from the country's 14-year civil war

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Sudan has been gripped by war since April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, drawing in local militias and foreign powers

The oil-rich Abyei region is jointly administered by South Sudan and Sudan, with both nations maintaining competing territorial claims and experiencing frequent inter-ethnic or militia clashes

One year after the October 2025 Gaza ceasefire agreement, promised reconstruction has not begun, 80 percent of Gaza's population remains unemployed, and Israeli forces hold over 60 percent of the territory.

All of West Kordofan state, an oil-rich region linking western and eastern Sudan, is under the control of the Rapid Support Forces.

UN Undersecretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo informed the Security Council that the warring parties in Sudan are making no progress toward dialogue and rely on external support to make battlefield gains.

The United Nations reported that more than 1,100 people were killed in drone attacks across Sudan during the first half of 2026.

Emergency Lawyers reported that the Sudanese military bombed a market in al-Muglad with drones on Saturday, October 17, 2026.

An October 18, 2026 drone strike near a market in Al-Dibab, West Kordofan state, killed 80 people, with 50 buried at the scene and 47 injured transported to Al-Mujlad, where 30 died from injuries.

During the Long March in China's civil war, communist forces escaped from their Kuomintang rivals, setting the stage for their ultimate return to power

Colombia's 2016 peace deal between the government and FARC granted FARC leadership 10 seats in Colombia's Congress and established the Special Jurisdiction for Peace to investigate conflict atrocities.

Three former members of the FARC's last secretariat, including former Senator Julian Gallo, are among the 10 individuals charged by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace.

A 2022 report from Colombia's Truth Commission found that over 450,000 people were killed and millions were forcibly displaced during Colombia's civil conflict between 1985 and 2018.

Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace charged 10 former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) members on October 13, 2026 with war crimes and crimes against humanity committed between 1996 and 2016.

The Special Jurisdiction for Peace stated that former FARC commanders oversaw the torture, murder, and forced displacement of Indigenous leaders across five Indigenous groups in southeast Colombia between 1996 and 2016.

On October 15, 2026, the Military Criminal Court in Aleppo sentenced Al-Waddah Ismail and Maher Ali to death for inciting civil war and leading armed groups against Syrian public forces.

On September 17, 2026, Aleppo's Military Criminal Court sentenced one defendant to death, one to life, and one to 20 years imprisonment over March 2025 coastal abuses.

A Syrian investigative committee reported that March 6, 2025 attacks by former regime remnants killed 238 military and security personnel in Tartous, Latakia, and Hama.

On October 15, 2026, Aleppo's Military Criminal Court sentenced Syrian Defence Ministry 82nd Division member Mohammed Bakour to 20 years in prison for intentional murder during March 2025 coastal violence.

On October 15, 2026, the Military Criminal Court in Aleppo sentenced Ammar Abdul Aal to three years in prison for torture and acquitted defendants Abdul Raouf Bakrjan and Mohammed Zarzouri.

Turkish intelligence arrested Omar Al Khatib in October 2026 for allegedly coordinating between attackers and Syrian intelligence during the 2013 Reyhanli bombings that killed 52 people.