Day: October 3, 2026

NEW: Saudi or Yemeni government-aligned forces conducted airstrikes on Sanaa City on October 3, likely to degrade Houthi capabilities central to the group’s offensive campaigns. Yemeni government-aligned forces also struck Houthi frontline positions, reinforcements, and logistics throughout southwestern Yemen. Yemeni Armed Forces Spokesperson Majed al Nuzaili claimed that strikes on Houthi reinforcements and support convoys have caused a state of “deprivation” that is weakening Houthi forces’ ability to fight in Taiz Governorate. (1/2)

Other Key Takeaway:

The Houthis attempted to advance on fronts in western and eastern Taiz Governorate on October 2 and 3, likely as part of the Houthi effort to encircle Taiz City and sever the Yemeni government’s last ground line of communication between Taiz City and Aden. Yemeni media reported that the Houthis’ attempted advances failed, and ISW-CTP has also not observed evidence of significant Houthi advances on these fronts at the time of this writing.

Deputy head of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev:

“We and Iran are strategic partners and will remain so forever.”

Moscow will never sacrifice its relationship with Tehran for any other country, he added.

⭕️The IDF & ISA carried out a strike in an attempt to eliminate the terrorist Ali Ahmed Al-Amoudi, the deputy chairman of the political bureau in Hamas in Gaza.

Al-Amoudi served as Yahya Sinwar’s right-hand man & personal assistant and was involved in the decision-making surrounding the October 7th Massacre.

Today, Al-Amoudi is the most senior Hamas figure in Gaza and is directly involved in Hamas’ terror activities and in rebuilding the organization for war. The terrorist was struck in order to remove the threat.

The strike was carried out while the terrorist was in an apartment used by Hamas for terror activities. This is yet another example of Hamas’ cynical use of civilians as human shields to advance terrorist activities.

🔥 Russia’s oligarchs face a crisis: The war is costly, the Kremlin needs cash. Now Putin is coming for their money.

But it cuts both ways: Russia’s elites see Vladimir Putin has outlived his utility.

👉 Putin has triggered a chain reaction that will have dire consequences.

— @officejjsmart Oct 3, 2026

They made seven arrests—and earned $14 million. See how local police are cashing in on Trump’s immigration crackdown.

🔗:  on.wsj.com/4hCJ2o2

🇬🇧🇮🇷 BRITAIN STILL DOESN’T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED OUTSIDE RAF FAIRFORD

Three white vans approached one of America’s most important air bases in Britain in the middle of the night.

Then one of the men inside apparently called emergency services himself.

What followed looked like the response to a major terrorist plot: five arrests, 85 homes evacuated, a bomb-disposal robot deployed and senior British officials pointing to indications of Iranian involvement.

Then the story got strange.

No explosives were found. Police reportedly recovered gasoline from the vans, and all five suspects were released on bail within 24 hours.

Investigators are now considering possibilities ranging from an attempted attack or diversion to a hoax, or low-level criminals recruited without knowing the purpose of the operation.

The Iranian connection comes largely from intelligence preceding the incident. Western agencies had reportedly warned of a possible Iran-backed attack on RAF Fairford, as for U.S. bases in Germany, while Iranian officials had described European bases supporting U.S. operations as legitimate targets.

But British authorities have not publicly established what these five men intended to do, much less demonstrated a direct connection between them and Tehran.

So Britain may have disrupted an Iranian operation outside a major U.S. air base.

It just still doesn’t know what the operation actually was.

Source: NY Times / Writer: Oliver

The second Baseline 10 and SPY-6 Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to enter the U.S. surface fleet, the future USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128), is set to be commissioned in the next 30 minutes in Whittier, Alaska.
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