The differences between the prophecies of Jesus and the things that have always happened are several:
1) the number of occurrences, their frequency
2) The places where they are happening have multiplied
3) despite advances still cannot be predicted or losses avoided
4) events are happening not only more frequently, but many of them together at once, not just sporadically.
So, the character is totally diferent than "normal".
About wars and news about it, the
news is new as I said before, and there is not any doubt that wars are a characteristic of the last days ... I know because that was said by an angel also to Daniel. There was never a WWI before the WWI (1914)