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🇾🇪⚔️🇸🇦🇮🇱🇵🇰🇺🇸🇬🇧 Celebrations by citizens of the city of Taiz in anticipation of the arrival of Ansarullah Yemeni armed forces.
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🇾🇪⚠️🇸🇦 Yemeni sources allege plot to stage drone attack on Mecca
Yemeni media citing unnamed regional sources claim approximately 19 American-made LUCAS attack drones have been transferred into Saudi-controlled areas of Yemen, including Al-Jawf.
The sources allege the drones are intended to be launched toward Mecca and the area surrounding the Grand Mosque, in an attack that would subsequently be blamed on Ansarallah.
The allegation has not been independently verified.
LUCAS drones are U.S.-made one-way attack drones modeled on the Iranian Shahed concept and have been deployed by CENTCOM in the Middle East.
The claim comes after Riyadh recently accused Ansarallah of attempting to target Mecca, an accusation Ansarallah denied.
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🇾🇪⚔️🇸🇦🇮🇱🇵🇰🇺🇸🇬🇧 Ansarallah Yemeni armed forces are travelling toward Taiz at speed without any resistance from the remnants of the Saudi-aligned PLC militants.
Ansarullah earlier announced a general amnesty for all those willing to lay down their arms in Taiz.
Ansarullah government has also opened a humanitarian route for all those wishing to leave the city.
We believe Taiz will be liberated in the coming hours rather than days.
@SimurghRes
The United States is returning its strategic assets from the U.S. Central Command, which is responsible for counterterrorism, to the homeland. The reason for this is still unclear.
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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 INFO: The price of chartering an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz has reached $1,3 million dollars per day (per vessel)
Even with the Strait of Hormuz ‘open’ according to U.S. standards, the risk of Iranian attacks is simply too high to bear, which pushes up costs & makes long-term closure of the Strait unsustainable.
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/37370
—❗️🇾🇪/🇸🇦 NEW: Extremely intense clashes are taking place east of Taizz city, between Ansarallah and the Saudi-backed PLC
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✍️Menchosint:
The Saudi Arabian Royal Guard is actively recruiting new soldiers.
Of course, not for operations in Yemen... because their main duty is protecting the King and his family in Riyadh.
**To put this in context for you: The royal "House of Saud" is deeply unpopular among Hijaz's population following Mohammed Bin Salman's policies and actions. The population is feeling indignation after the paedophile Trump’s repetitive public bellitlement of their country.
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—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 NEW: A vessel was targeted in Bab Al-Mandab, UKMTO reports
It was likely a Saudi oil tanker targeted by Ansarallah as part of their naval embargo.
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/37361
❗️Captain in Palestinian military training authority beaten to death by Israeli forces at West Bank checkpoint
Raafat Khairi Ahmad Abu Khalil (Abu Shams), 41, a captain in the Palestinian Military Training Authority in Jericho from the town of Attil, north of Tulkarem, died after reportedly being severely beaten by Israeli occupation forces while detained at the Anab checkpoint, east of Tulkarem, according to Ultra Palestine and local Palestinian sources.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its crews responded to reports of a critically injured man at the checkpoint and found Abu Khalil in cardiac arrest.
Paramedics immediately began CPR, but he was later pronounced dead. Local sources said he had been detained by Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint before his death.
— 🇸🇦/🇾🇪 NEW: Ansarallah announces that any PLC fighter in Taizz that voluntarily surrenders his weapons will be allowed to return to his home governorate safely and unhindered, in accordance with Islamic Law
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BREAKING | Yemeni Armed Forces spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree announces that Yemeni forces have repelled and targeted Saudi military mobilizations east of Al-Jawf after failed attempts to advance toward Yemeni positions.
In an official statement, he said the operation destroyed a large number of Saudi military vehicles, killed and wounded dozens of fighters, pursued the remaining forces into the Al-Jawf desert, and targeted their gatherings with ballistic missiles and drones.
Saree also praised the residents of Al-Jawf and Marib for supporting the Yemeni Armed Forces, saying they helped thwart the advance, defeat Saudi-backed forces, and foil their plans.
—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 BREAKING: Ansarallah have liberated the vital town of Al-Turbah, southern Taizz Governorate
Turbah is the second largest city in the Governorate and lies on the Taizz–Aden road.
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/37348
—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 Visual confirmation of Ansarallah forces in the center of Al-Turbah
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—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 WATCH: Ansarallah forces completely control the Taizz–Aden road between the sections Al-Turbah and Safiya
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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇬🇧 NEW: All B-1 Lancers deployed at RAF Fairford have left the UK and are back in the U.S.
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🇮🇷| Iran plans to upgrade all missiles, incl land & naval missiles, to hit targets farther from Iran’s shores.
Iran’s Army Spokesman said, “In this war, we came to the conclusion that we definitely need to increase the range of our missiles, and we have now moved in that direction.”
He says Iran has done very good work in terms of missile speed and precision-strike capability, and future generations of missiles will possess these capabilities to an even greater extent.
He says while the missiles that were used against US bases such as in Kuwait or against US assets in the sea were very good and effective, they have now concluded that Iran needs to increase their speed and range, because today the enemy is positioned farther away from Iran’s shores, at distances of up to 1,000 kilometers.
@FotrosResistancee
—❗️🇾🇪/🇸🇦 BREAKING: Ansarallah have captured Al-Safiya junction, cutting off the Taizz–Aden road
The city of Taizz is besieged.
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/37331
—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 Ansarallah entering the center of Al-Safiya, Taizz–Aden road
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— 🇸🇦/🇾🇪 NEW: Ansarallah will open a humanitarian corridor to allow aid into Taizz and allow those who want to leave the city the opportunity to leave
Only those not carrying weapons or military vehicles (technicals, heavy trucks, etc.) will be allowed to exit.
This has already been agreed & will soon be implemented after mutual understandings were reached.
@Middle_East_Spectator
—❗️🇮🇷 NEW: An unidentified C-130 cargo plane was seen landing at Mehrabad Airport, Tehran, with its AIS turned off
Some say unfrozen money is being delivered to Iran through Turkey.
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https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/37346
— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The USS George H.W. Bush has left the CENTCOM area of operations
That leaves only the USS George Washington in the Middle East.
The USS Roosevelt is currently on its way from San Diego to CENTCOM, and will arrive in November.
@Middle_East_Spectator
🇾🇪🇸🇦| Yemen’s AnsarAllah forces have effectively besieged Taiz by cutting the key Taiz–Aden road and capturing several surrounding areas & heights.
They are still fighting around Al-Burkani, while advancing toward Al-Turbah, Al-Mansurah, and Najd Al-Nashmah. Graphic by: @iswnews_en
@FotrosResistancee
🇾🇪🇸🇦| The Yemeni Armed Forces’ spox, Yahya Sarae, announced Yemen retaliated against the 50 airstrikes on Sana'a, al-Jawf, Taiz, Amran, Hajjah, and Saada.
They carried out 2 big operations using a several ballistic missiles and drones which successfully struck ARAMCO facilities in Riyadh & Khurais area.
@FotrosResistancee
— 🇮🇷 NEW: Iran’s Minister of Oil, Mohsen Paknejad, has resigned
Hamid Bourd, the Deputy Minister of Oil & President of the National Iranian Oil Company, has become the acting Minister.
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/37354
— 🇸🇦/🇦🇪/🇾🇪 NEW: The pro-Emirati ‘Southern Giants Brigades’ have intercepted convoys of the Islah Party forces (Saudi-backed Islamist forces part of the PLC) that fled Taizz
They demand that they return to Taizz Governorate to fight the Houthis, or surrender their weapons to the Southern Giants Brigades.
@Middle_East_Spectator
—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 NEW: Ansarallah forces have captured the newly constructed luxury home of Saudi-backed Yemeni Parliament Speaker Sultan Al-Barakani
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https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/37333
—❗️🇾🇪/🇸🇦 NEW: Visual confirmation of Houthi forces inside the house of Saudi-backed Parliament Speaker Sultan Al-Barakani
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#WesternSyria : #Suqaylabiyah Attacked Three Times This Year by Gunmen from Qalaat al-Mudiq, So Where Is the Accountability? And Why Do They Find It So Easy to Attack the City Again and Again?
Suqaylabiyah, a Christian-Orthodox-majority city, was attacked during 2026 by a group of Jolani regime thugs coming from the town of #Qalaat al-Mudiq three times this year, in March, in July, and yesterday in October.
Official media claimed yesterday that a "brawl" had taken place and that they had detained "those involved." What official media did not say is that yesterday, a group of pro-Jolani thugs attacked the city, opened fire, vandalized and smashed shops, and wounded a woman with gunfire, and that the #HTS-led General Security militias arrested young men from Suqaylabiyah because they tried to stop the attack on their shops.
So where is the accountability when the same city is attacked repeatedly, three times in a single year? Are the attackers arrested? Are they held accountable? They find it easy to carry out the attack each time because they know there will be no consequences for it.
In the end, the Christian presence in Syria continues to shrink, with emigration rising as a result of growing extremism and the danger it poses to them and their property, and due to the absence of a state or Security apparatus to provide them with protection.
🇾🇪⚔️🇸🇦🇺🇸🇮🇱🇬🇧🇵🇰 The ARAMCO refinery in Yanbu is on fire, possibly after the latest round of missile and drone strikes by Ansarullah Yemeni armed forces.
Also flights to the Saudi capital Riyadh are once again getting diverted, so it's possibly getting pummelled.
A very brave Saudi citizen has videoed the Yemeni mIssiles speeding onto their targets, in the country's sky.
@SimurghRes
Images and video: https://t.me/SimurghRes/10657?single
— 🇸🇦/🇾🇪 NEW: Advisor to the Saudi-backed PLC President, Abdul Malik Al-Makhlafi, says some areas in Taizz have ‘fallen temporarily’
He also accuses Saudi Arabia of betraying the PLC.
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/37334
🇮🇷🇦🇪🇮🇱| According to Tabnak, the UAE has transferred 4 Iranian prisoners to Israel, with the transfer taking place via Abu Dhabi.
@FotrosResistancee
Alawite Woman Released After Being Held in Lebanon Following Her Kidnapping in Syria...
"Baraah al-Hassan," 35, has been released. She was kidnapped in the "Safita" area of Tartus province on September 20, 2026, while on her way home to the #TalKalakh ( w #Homs).
She returned to her family from Lebanon on Friday, October 2, 2026, after being taken there by her kidnappers. She came back in poor psychological and physical condition, with visible signs of torture, and was treated and discharged from the hospital today.
According to testimonies from families of kidnapped Alawite women, kidnappers have been transferring abducted women to Lebanon, most often smuggling them through Tal Kalakh.
https://t.me/syriajusticearchive/9908
Crime against humanity’: Saudi airstrikes hit maternity and child hospital in Yemen
Saudi airstrikes have hit near Al-Sabeen Maternity and Childhood Hospital in Yemen’s capital Sana’a, causing extensive damage to the facility and injuring several people.
—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 BREAKING: Saudi-backed President of Yemen, Rashad Al-Alimi, announces the start of full-scale military operations on all fronts to liberate Yemen from Houthi control
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BREAKING | Backed by Israeli occupation forces, dozens of Israeli settlers attack the village of Osarin, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. Israeli settlers are targeting Palestinian vehicles and property in an effort to forcibly displace residents.
🇮🇷🇺🇸| Iran’s MFA denies rumours spread by Axios’ Barak Ravid who claims Rubio “kicked out 2 Iranian diplomats from New York.”
Iran says all Iranian diplomats left NY as soon as UNGA ended.
@FotrosResistancee
🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸🇦🇪 Iranian Armed Forces used a Khordad-15 air defence system to bring down a small reconnaissance drone.
The interceptors used are Sayyad-3 with a range of 300 km.
This is an expensive way to bring down a drone, unless Iran is trying to make a point that its top of the line air defence systems are back in operation in sufficient numbers.
@SimurghRes
https://t.me/SimurghRes/10646?single
—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 Taizz front map, Turbah direction: Ansarallah have captured Al-Masahin, Al-Muqarmah heights, and Al-Zakirah.
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/37329
The oil routes around Hormuz face their own chokepoints
The war has made bypass pipelines strategic prizes, but the barrels still have to make the journey safely.
By Kamran Yeganegi
—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 NEW: Yemeni ballistic missiles targeted Dammam, eastern Saudi Arabia
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🚨#Update: Major Tension in Christian-Majority City of #Suqaylabiyah, Armed Attack on the City, General Security Militias Launch Arrest Campaign
Gunmen coming from the Sunni nearby town of Qalaat al-Mudiq carried out an attack on the city of Suqaylabiyah in the Hama countryside and opened fire on civilians, wounding a woman on al-Mashwar Road.
🚨 Shops in the city of Suqaylabiyah smashed by gunmen from Qalaat al-Mudiq
🚨 Terrorist General Security militias launch an arrest campaign against young men of Suqaylabiyah city following the attack by the gunmen on them!!!
🚨 Arrest of the two Christian young men "Shadi Nassab" and "Amjad Lyous" from Suqaylabiyah.
❗️Five charged in France over alleged Hamas funding through aid groups
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Five people have been charged in France over allegations that they sent funds through humanitarian organizations to a third party seeking to raise money for Hamas, the French National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) said Saturday.
The PNAT told AFP that the five were detained on Tuesday by investigators from the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI), which is overseeing the investigation.
A judicial inquiry was opened on Friday into “financing a terrorist organization, in this case Hamas,” an offense that, if established, could also constitute a breach of trust and money laundering linked to a 'terrorist' group.
Three of the suspects were placed under judicial supervision at the PNAT’s request.
The prosecutor’s office said it “requested the pretrial detention of the two association presidents,” with one “was placed in pretrial detention pending a postponed adversarial hearing he had requested,” according to the public prosecutor’s office.
“My client participated in fundraising efforts for exclusively humanitarian purposes; his detention would be scandalous,” his lawyer, Lucie Simon, told AFP.
The second association president was placed “under judicial supervision,” the PNAT said.
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