🇾🇪 ❌ 🇸🇦 ⚡️ - The Houthis have published footage they say shows a Saudi AH-6i attack helicopter being shot down near Najran on October 18.
They claim it was hit by a domestically produced surface-to-air missile while operating near the border. Saudi Arabia had blamed the crash on a technical fault.
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🇦🇪 🇸🇦 🇾🇪 ⚡️ - The UAE has agreed with Saudi Arabia to re-enter the war in Yemen by resuming payments to government forces fighting the Houthis in the south, The Guardian reported on October 17, citing sources in Yemen. In return, Saudi Arabia has agreed to provide air cover for the anti-Houthi forces.
The UAE quit all operations in Yemen in January after a rift with Riyadh.
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🇮🇱 🇾🇪 🇪🇬 🇸🇦 ⚡️ - Egypt is sending thousands of troops and heavy equipment to Saudi Arabia as it prepares for a battle on the Houthi front, Israel's Channel 14 reports.
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🇱🇹 ⚡️ - Suspected drone debris has been found in Lithuania's Pasvalys district after residents reported an explosion, Lithuania's crisis management centre says. The army says the object flew into Lithuanian airspace from Poland, and NATO jets were scrambled but it disappeared from radar.
Air raid alerts were issued in the Panevėžys and Šiauliai regions. Military police are searching the area, and the object's origin has not been identified.
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🇮🇱 🇺🇸 🇮🇶 ⚡️ - Israel carried out airstrikes on Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) positions in Iraq on October 18, after receiving U.S. approval to target Iraqi armed militias, according to reports.
On October 5, the U.S. administration reportedly lifted restrictions on Israeli Air Force operations in Iraqi airspace, giving Israel more freedom to strike pro-Iranian factions there.
On October 17, a stockpile of munitions exploded inside a PMF headquarters east of the canal in Baghdad, with no casualties
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🇦🇪 ⚡️ - UPDATE: The tug struck by two projectiles northeast of Khor Fakkan was sailing southbound, UKMTO says. One casualty was reported, and the tug is continuing its route despite the damage.
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🇦🇪 ⚡️ - A tugboat was hit by two projectiles northeast of Khor Fakkan in the UAE, UKMTO reports. There is no word yet on the crew or the damage.
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🇺🇦 🇷🇺 ⚡️ - UPDATE: St Petersburg governor Alexander Beglov confirms emergency crews are putting out fires at the Petersburg Oil Terminal and at civilian infrastructure in three districts of the city after the overnight Ukrainian drone attack, saying there are no casualties. Leningrad region governor Alexander Drozdenko now says 95 drones were shot down over the region, with debris hitting a house near Kirovsk and an apartment building in Vsevolozhsk.
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 ⚡️ - Ukraine launched a large drone attack on St Petersburg overnight. Leningrad region governor Alexander Drozdenko says 57 drones were shot down and falling debris damaged cars and started a fire, while Moscow's mayor says 87 drones were downed over the capital. Pulkovo airport has halted flights. Ukrainian monitoring channels claim the port, an oil terminal and a power substation were hit, which Russia has not confirmed.
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🇮🇷 🇾🇪 🇸🇦 ⚡️ - Iran is giving the Houthis targeting intelligence, training and tactical guidance for their drone and missile attacks on Saudi Arabia and its Yemeni allies, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing people briefed on intelligence from Saudi Arabia and Yemen's anti-Houthi alliance. Iran has previously said the Houthis make their own decisions.
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🇷🇴 🇷🇺 ⚡️ - Romanian F-16s shot down two drones over Romania's Black Sea waters near Sulina on Saturday, which the defense ministry said were jet-powered attack drones of the Geran family. Romania's foreign minister says NATO's North Atlantic Council will discuss Black Sea security on Tuesday.
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🚢 TANKER REPORT 🔥 The IRGC says a supertanker carrying over 2 million barrels of crude caught fire after hitting a mine on an "unauthorized" route; CENTCOM says the strait has been cleared of mines. 💥 A tanker was hit by an RPG fired from a small boat 78 nm northeast of Saudi Arabia's Jubail, UKMTO says, a new type of attack. ⚠️ Gunmen fired on another tanker off Yemen's Mukalla, UKMTO says.
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5️⃣ 🇱🇧 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 - Lebanon's President Aoun says a Lebanese military delegation will join a trilateral meeting with Israel and the U.S. in Tampa, Florida on Tuesday.
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4️⃣ 🇾🇪 🇸🇦 - The Houthis claim they shot down a Saudi Apache helicopter near Najran and say Saudi jets carried out 53 airstrikes in Yemen in 24 hours. The Saudi-led coalition says it destroyed four drones over Riyadh and the Eastern and Southern provinces.
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3️⃣ 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 - Trump signed an order waiving the new Graham Act sanctions and tariffs on Russia, drawing bipartisan outrage; Zelensky says it came as Russia launched one of its largest attacks yet on Ukraine's energy grid.
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2️⃣ 🇪🇬 🇸🇦 🇾🇪 - Egypt's Sisi called for an emergency session of parliament to authorize him to send defense help to Saudi Arabia if Riyadh asks, after a wave of Houthi attacks on the kingdom.
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1️⃣ 🇮🇷 🇮🇶 - Iranian drones struck a base of the Iranian Kurdish opposition group Komala in Erbil province in Iraq's Kurdistan Region, damaging buildings with no casualties, a Komala official told Rudaw.
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📋 TODAY'S 5 BIGGEST DEVELOPMENTS - Sat, Oct 17. 👉👉
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🇮🇷 🇮🇶 ⚡️ - Iranian drones struck a base of the Iranian Kurdish opposition group Komala in Balisan, Erbil province, on Saturday night, damaging buildings with no casualties, a Komala official told Rudaw. Footage circulating online purportedly shows the strike.
