Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

🇾🇪 - The current Ansarullah offensive in the southeast Ta'izz direction, southern Yemen. The primary objective seems to be the al-Ashbut Junction, while the al-Houthi forces also attempt to test At Turbah's northeast defenses. The attack is centered on Ta'izz's final supply route.

🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah forces have launched a large-scale offensive on the al-Ashbut junction in the al-Maqatrah area. The junction is located just south of At Turbah, along the exact same Ta'izz supply route.

🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah forces are approaching the northeast outskirts of At Turbah, a major town south of Ta'izz, southern Yemen. At Turbah sits on the final main supply route for PLC forces into Ta'izz.

🇪🇺🇵🇭⚡️- The European Union and the Philippines have signed a bilateral agreement similar to the one signed between the EU and Indonesia last year. The deal comes off as a major new step in Europe's shifting trade policy towards new allies.

🇺🇸🇦🇺🇨🇳🇭🇰⚡️ — BREAKING: China is in possession of sensitive F-35 stealth fighter components after a UPS shipment from Australia to the U.S. was unexpectedly diverted to Hong Kong, according to Bloomberg. The shipment contained a cockpit canopy and weapons-bay door from an Australian F-35, which were being sent to the U.S. in late May for inspection and possible repair or disposal. The Pentagon says it is working to recover the components.

🇺🇸🇪🇹⚡- "I am disappointed to see the leadership of the TPLF, that the United States sanctioned earlier this year, make the poor decision to launch a large-scale offensive today. Rejecting dialogue sponsored by the AU under President Obasanjo and engaging in an unwinnable fight does nothing for the people. Other armed groups would be wise to avoid this. While the U.S. has tools to sanction additional leaders who try to push Ethiopia down the wrong path, I still believe a reasonable political dialogue is the right way to go," - US Embassy in Ethiopia.

🇪🇹 - Ethiopian media confirm the fall of Mekele, Aksum, and Shire airports to TPLF's TDF.

🇪🇹⚡- Tigray separatist sources report Ethiopian military forces, ENDF, are attempting to enter the Tigray region from Sekota, Tigray-Amhara regional border.

🇪🇹⚡- Initial reports of the downing of an Ethiopian military helicopter by Tigray Defense Forces in the Sekota area along the Tigray-Amhara border.

🇪🇹⚡- The US has issued a security alert for Ethiopia following the eruption of violence in Tigray, Afar, and Amhara.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Neria Leiter, the son of Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter, is in critical condition after being targeted in a car-ramming attack in the West Bank.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️ — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian: The nuclear weapon is in Israel, but the inspectors are in Iran.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Explosions heard in Jizan, southwest Saudi Arabia. Could be a mix of interceptions and impacts.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Alerts in southwest Saudi Arabia.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- Iran has disabled a cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. The vessel is on "fire and adrift," with the crew evacuated, UKMTO reports.

🇷🇺🇵🇱⚡️- A Russian MI-8 helicopter from the Kaliningrad enclave entered Polish airspace today in Braniewo at 11:08AM for 48 seconds and went 300m inside Poland before returning to Kaliningrad.

🇪🇹 - Uguugumo-affiliated media have announced the start of the “March to Sardo” in eastern Afar, northern Ethiopia. Sardo is a vital energy hub for Addis Ababa, but more critically, it lies on the A1 Highway linking Afar’s capital, Semera, with Eritrea’s Assab on the Red Sea coast. The A1 is the only highway through the area, as the surrounding terrain is largely mountainous. Losing control of Sardo and the bridge over the Mille River would effectively cut this corridor, restricting the Ethiopian Armed Forces ability to launch any future offensive towards Assab.

🇪🇹 - Visual confirmation: Ab Ala, Tigray-Afar border, falls to the Uguugumo.

🇪🇹⚡- The TPLF administration, the TDF, says they have entered a "defensive war" with Addis Ababa.

🇪🇹 - Clashes across Tigray and Afar in northern Ethiopia are escalating significantly, with fighting reaching an intensity not seen since the Pretoria Ceasefire Agreement.