On Oct. 3 in Kabul, Afghanistan, a mosque holding prayers for Taliban officials was bombed. Three people were killed, and multiple injuries were reported. The Islamist militant group Daesh (ISIL) was blamed for the attack.

On Oct. 8 in the city of Kunduz, a suicide bombing in a Shia mosque with over 300 worshippers killed at least 50 people and injured more than 100. Daesh was again blamed.

Daesh, a Sunni Muslim sect**, is opposed to the Taliban, who are Shia. Shortly after the...

Ethiopian and allied troops began an offensive into the Tigray region of Ethiopia in early October, attacking Tigrayan rebel positions in an ongoing civil war and causing what a Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) spokesperson described as “staggering casualties.”

The conflict began Nov. 3, 2020, when the TPLF, a political-military group that was very powerful during Ethiopia’s single-party government system, attacked Ethiopian National Defense Force bases...

Flooding and landslides in late October killed at least 180 people in Nepal and the Indian states of Kerala and Uttarakhand, sweeping away houses, roadways and bridges. Dozens of people were still missing at press time.

In Uttarakhand, where the average total October rainfall is 1.2 inches, more than a foot of rain fell in a 24-hour period.