Reporting on Active Conflicts.
Information war: Zelenskyy warns Europe of Russian hybrid ops, CISA flags a China-linked cyber enabler, and deepfake clips of Gates and Iran strikes fall.
Middle East war update: a second Riyadh airport strike kills one, a drone hits a tanker off Oman, and Tehran rejects the US Hormuz reply.
The Missile Defense Agency awarded Raytheon up to $6.3B for SM-3 Block IB interceptors. Only $454M is committed so far, and no missile count is public.
What sources show about the IRGC’s hold on Iran: executions, mosque statistics, GAMAAN polling, Reza Pahlavi’s stated plan and analysts’ views on collapse.
Trump tells Kyiv to stop refinery strikes, Russia resumes diesel exports, and the Zaporizhzhia glide-bomb death toll rises to 23.
Information war update: Russian media amplify calls to replace Zelensky, Beijing targets Taiwan’s National Day, and fact-checkers debunk Riyadh airport fakes.
Middle East war update: a Riyadh airport strike kills 12, Trump weighs hitting the Houthis, and US jets disable a blockade runner.
OpenAI disrupted Russian and Iranian AI influence operations, Chinese military media warned a Taiwanese host, and fact-checkers debunked recycled war videos.
Ukraine power grid: about 15 GW at the evening peak, 19.6 GW promised by November 1, as Russia strikes Kyiv. What officials, Ukrenergo and experts say.
Washington licenses Russian diesel after a Trump-Putin call, Kyiv says its envoys were used as cover, and glide bombs kill at least 11 in Zaporizhzhia.
Middle East war update: Iran claims a tanker strike, Yemeni forces take the Bab al-Mandab shore, and Moscow relays Tehran’s terms to Trump.
Latvia says armed escorts pushed 20 migrants at its troops, then masked men took border cameras; Lithuania put 100 soldiers on its Kaliningrad border.
Kramatorsk bus strike toll rises to 33 as a grid strike darkens Kyiv, Ukraine hits the Omsk and Ukhta refineries, and its envoys meet US mediators.
Trump rules out Iran strikes before Nov. 3, Houthi missiles kill three Saudis at Riyadh airport, and tanker attacks spread beyond Hormuz.
Israel takes the Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon, the UN warns of 20,000 displaced, and a Gaza drone accident: September in review.
Kyiv’s three-day pause, the U.S. envoys’ visit, strikes near Poland and Ukraine’s deep drone raids: our dated September timeline, with analysis.
Tanker strikes, missiles at Gulf bases, Houthi attacks and stalled talks on the Strait of Hormuz: a dated timeline of September’s U.S.–Iran war.
AeroVironment, Epirus, Kord and Boeing laser and microwave weapons will face drones in a yearlong Pentagon trial at five U.S. military bases.
Yandex says a drone fire took its Sasovo data center fully offline; Kyiv has not claimed it, but its General Staff confirmed a strike on a Bashkir refinery.
Reuters says State Department intelligence chief Michael Vance met Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing in Naypyidaw, with scam centers and rare earths on the agenda.
Tehran says it fixed safe Hormuz corridors with Muscat, while an IRGC adviser vows to shut ‘illegal routes’ and CENTCOM calls the closure claim false.
Donetsk officials say a guided bomb struck two passenger buses at a Kramatorsk stop, prompting a halt to public transport in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
A guided-bomb strike on Kramatorsk buses kills at least 30, jet drones force Kyiv blackouts, and Ukraine hits a refinery 1,300 km from the front.
Houthi strikes kill three at Saudi airports as the coalition hits 82 targets, a tanker is struck off Qatar, and Washington weighs new Iran strike options.
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