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🇾🇪🇸🇦🇵🇰⚡- Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has condemned the Ansarullah attacks on Saudi Arabia last night. Note, Pakistan is a member of the paper alliance known as the 'Mecca Agreement' with Turkey and Saudi Arabia, where the three issue joint-condemnations.

🇮🇷⚡- Anti-ship missile launches from Iran's south coast towards the Strait of Hormuz.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇷🇺⚡- Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denounces the Ansarullah attacks on Saudi Arabia last night and calls them 'counter productive'. Note, Russia had downgraded its embassy in Sana'a to a consulate-general, establishing its primary embassy for Yemen in the then Southern Transitional Council-controlled city of Aden in late 2024.

🇲🇱🇷🇺⚡- Several dozen members from Russia's Africa Corps and pro-Malian junta Dozo militia were killed in a JNIM ambush in the Mopti region, central Mali, yesterday. Videos circulating from the massacre show horrific scenes, including the disfigured corpses of multiple ethnic Russians.

🇸🇾🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli jets enter southern Syrian airspace, possibly en route to northern Lebanon. Israeli recon drones have been operating in the Baalbek region of northeast Lebanon. Therefore Israeli attacks on the north of Lebanon can be expected fairly soon.

🇾🇪 - PLC frontline sources admit they do not control the al-Libnat Military Camp, al-Hazm direction, but report the camp remains 'under siege'. The source also confirms the capture of the al-Yatmah market. Note, orphanage = al-Yatmah and girls' camp = al-Libnat camp.

🇾🇪 - Scenes from the fighting in the vast and open al-Jawf desert, northern Yemen. Footage recorded by PLC-aligned tribal forces.

🇲🇱⚡- Over the weekend, several Platforme (GATIA) militia groups have defected to join the Tuareg separatists, FLA. The groups were ordered by the Malian junta to disband and join the Ministry of Defense, which they had rejected.

🇾🇪 - PLC forces patrolling al-Yatmah market, al-Hazm direction, al-Jawf region, northern Yemen.

🇾🇪⚡- PLC-aligned tribal forces have advanced from the Innab Military Camp, capturing the Suwayqah Military Camp and the al-Yatmah market area in the al-Hazm direction of al-Jawf Governorate, northern Yemen. Note, tribal forces briefly captured al-Yatmah earlier this year before subsequently withdrawing. While the advance can be regarded as a tactical success for PLC-aligned forces along this axis, the setback is of limited significance to Ansarullah. The group's primary defensive line begins at the entrance to Wadi A'atif, west of al-Yatmah. The al-Yatmah area is overlooked by extensive high ground, much of which is heavily fortified by al-Houthi forces. This terrain was a key factor behind the tribal forces withdrawal after their temporary seizure of the market earlier this year. The tribal forces will need to launch immediate forward operations towards Wadi A'atif and the rest of the Atta' high grounds, otherwise remaining in control of al-Yatmah will prove difficult again.

🇾🇪🇸🇦 - Overnight, Ansarullah launched one of its largest attacks against Saudi Arabia in years, which Sana'a describes as retaliation for recent Saudi airstrikes and drone incursions into Yemen. The targets included: - Abha International Airport in Abha, - ARAMCO's Bulk Plant in Abha, - King Khalid Air Bass in Khamis Mushait, - ARAMCO's oil refinery in Jizan, - ARAMCO's Bulk Plant in Najran. Saudi authorities acknowledged the attacks and stated that 73 people, including women and children, were injured. Riyadh has vowed to respond. Footage shows smoke filling the skies over Jizan, southwest Saudi Arabia.

🇫🇷⚡- “Two thieves have broken into a museum dedicated to French impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, stealing four works of art - including one which they dropped as they fled. The mayor of Cagnes-sur-Mer, located in the south of France, says the estimated value of the stolen works is 9 million euros ($10 million).” - BBC.

🇺🇸🇪🇨⚡- "On Sept. 7, under the direction of SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere (JTF-WHEM) forces successfully interdicted a floating refueling station supporting illicit at-sea drug trafficking operations in the Eastern Pacific. Intelligence confirmed the vessel's involvement with the Los Choneros violent narco-terrorist organization. Individuals removed from the vessel will be transferred to Ecuadorian authorities. After clearing the vessel and disembarking the crew, U.S. forces sank it. JTF-WHEM continues to conduct precise and professional operations to dismantle the logistical networks fueling narco-trafficking in the Western Hemisphere," - SOUTHCOM.

🇦🇪🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️ — UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu around 10 days before October 7, 2023, that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was preparing a major operation against Israel, Haaretz reports. During a 45-minute conversation, Netanyahu responded that Hamas was focused on the West Bank and assured bin Zayed that Israel was prepared for any scenario. MbZ later conveyed a similar warning to CIA Director William Burns, saying “something there is about to explode.” Netanyahu didn’t brief the Shin Bet, Mossad, or IDF chiefs about the warning from the UAE. Some senior security officials said the information could have affected their assessment of Hamas’s intentions. The warning follows earlier warnings in September, when intermediaries relayed messages from Sinwar referring to an approaching “earthquake.” Netanyahu’s office denies that the Prime Minister received a warning from the UAE’s MbZ, calling the claim an “absolute lie.”

🇺🇸⚡️- Tucker Carlson and a guest question the usefulness of algebra: Tucker: “Why does algebra put letters into numbers?” Guest: “I think just to fuck with you.”

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- Ansarullah has launched several ballistic missiles and drones targeting oil facilities and King Khalid Air Base in Saudi Arabia.

🇾🇪❌🇸🇦 — Ansarallah/Houthis forces are conducting a joint drone and missile attack against the King Khalid Air Base located in Khamis Mushait, southern Saudi Arabia.

🇾🇪⚡- Saudi / PLC airstrikes on Ansarullah positions in the al-Bayda' region, southern Yemen.

🇾🇪⚡- Large-scale offensive by the PLC forces in at attempt to capture Jabal Naseh from Ansarullah - Ad Dali direction, southern Yemen. The loss of the Naseh heights will open a direct route to the town of Damt.

🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah-affiliated media says PLC forces have successfully reached Sana'a, but as prisoners of war.