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

🇱🇾🇦🇪🇮🇱⚡- During the Israeli Prime Minister’s visit to the UAE, Netanyahu met with eastern Libya’s Commander-in-Chief, Saddam Haftar, son of LNA founder Khalifa Haftar. Saddam sought to use his meeting with Netanyahu to facilitate a summit with Vice President JD Vance.

🇪🇹 - Ethiopian military forces inside an abandoned Tigray Defense Forces, TDF, trench system in northern Alamata, southern Tigray region. TDF-affiliated confirm the withdrawal of the TDF from the city of Alamata to the Grat Kahsu high grounds further north.

🇪🇹⚡- Tigray Defense Forces, TDF, positions along the Sekota axis have completely collapsed, with the Ethiopian military, ENDF, reversing all TDF gains made over the past week and pushing into the Tigray region itself. The ENDF and its allies, the Tigray Peace Forces, have captured Finarwa, Abergele and Zamra. Overnight, the ENDF attempted to advance towards the city of Samre, although it remains unconfirmed whether the offensive succeeded. The loss of Samre would be catastrophic for the TDF, as the major town lies just 38km south of the Tigray capital, Mekele. Six years ago, Samre witnessed some of the fiercest battles of the TPLF-ENDF war. The town was captured and held by the TPLF for much of the conflict. Map key: - Red: Tigray Defense Forces, - Blue: Fano, - Purple: Uguugumo.

The NUG claims that according to their records in the time period between July 2024 and August of 2026 Junta casualties were: 20,383 killed 9,792 wounded Approximately 23,874 deserted or defected 536 are currently POW's This would all equal to roundabout 55k casualties in the last two years, with the conflict ongoing since 2021 Note that these figures are their official confirmed records and as with any military may be inflated, however they may also be an undercount due to only confirmed casualties counting, which is why there are such specific numbers, and there may be more unconfirmed casualties

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- A terrorist infiltration alarm has been sounded in Havat Maginzi, Israeli-occupied West Bank.

🇺🇸 - Interestingly, Owens has not denied the accusations; she has only vaguely referenced them and implied they are not believable.

🇺🇸⚡️- Candace Owens has indirectly responded to today's allegations in a reply on X, accusing "The Feds" of a smear campaign against her. "The Feds are learning this isn't the 60's and they can't bury the Charlie assassination like they did with JFK. The world is awake, and these schizophrenic smear campaigns done in the style of COINTELPRO are no longer effective."

🇺🇸🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡️- Taiwan has broken ground on a new aerospace and drone industrial park as it rapidly expands its unmanned warfare capabilities against the Chinese threat. Taipei's latest defense spending plans include more than 40,000 coastal attack drones, 600+ surveillance and reconnaissance drones and over 100 small suicide drone boats. President Lai also called for deeper drone cooperation with democratic partners and a more resilient allied UAV supply chain.

🇺🇸⚡️- OpenAI is scrapping the release of its next-generation AI model, GPT-6.1 Astra, after tests showed higher levels of deception and a greater willingness to act outside human instructions compared to previous models, according to The Wall Street Journal.

🇺🇸⚡️- Candace Owens has cancelled her show tonight.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Axios just released a story that “Trump” offered Sanctions Relief and Frozen Funds to Iran. This is untrue. I offered them NOTHING! Axios’ story, like most others, is a HOAX, used only for purposes of satisfying their Trump Derangement Syndrome. They should withdraw this fake story, IMMEDIATELY! President DONALD J. TRUMP" - President Trump on Truth Social.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Left wing jews are celebrating GOP Governor of Arkansas Sarah Huckabee Sanders new ad painting young White male gamers as "welfare queens". In reality able bodied White men between 18-30 are around 2% of food stamp or Medicaid recipients.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Alerts in southwest Saudi Arabia amid an Ansarullah ballistic missile attack.

🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Saudi Defense Minister invites UAE's Vice President to visit Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, making it the first visit by a senior Emirati official since the Riyadh - Abu Dhabi rift.

🇺🇸🇮🇶🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Iraq's Kata'ib Hezbollah says it will close the border crossings of any country participating in the air blockade of Iranian flights and shoot down all "hostile aircraft" in Iraqi airspace if the blockade is not lifted by October 1. The statement also threatens Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, stating that if the government does not work for the benefit of the people, it will be brought down by all means.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇵🇸⚡- Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, senior Ansarullah official and Governor of the Dhamar region, says the al-Houthi forces have accepted Hamas mediation efforts in the Ansarullah-Saudi Arabia war.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- The flight of Israeli fighter jets is reported over southern Lebanon, coinciding with heavy artillery fire.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Heavy clashes between Hezbollah and the Israeli Defense Forces reported in Mansouri, southern Lebanon.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Ongoing Russian drone attack against Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, utilizing Geran-5 loitering munitions.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Iran: Operation Economic Outcast has caused the rial to hit record lows. We will continue to degrade the Iranian regime’s ability to fund terrorism and develop a nuclear weapon.