Reporting on active wars and military operations: missile and drone strikes, air defense, naval activity and the weapons shaping today’s conflicts.
Senators vote 17-0 to back the Status of Visiting Forces Agreement, making France the first European nation with such a defense pact with Manila.
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.
Seoul says its homegrown hypersonic glide vehicle separated from its booster, maneuvered at low altitude and hit its target as President Lee watched.
Riyadh says Houthi missiles and drones killed three foreign residents at Abha and Riyadh airports; the coalition struck back across four Yemeni provinces.
Donetsk officials say a guided bomb struck two passenger buses at a Kramatorsk stop, prompting a halt to public transport in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
South Korea tests its first hypersonic weapon, Manila approves a visiting forces pact with France, and EU lawmakers push back on China over Taiwan.
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.
US agents seize 90 biodiesel shipments bound for a sanctioned Cuban fuel firm, Havana calls it piracy, and the grid runs 1,320 MW short of demand.
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.
Findings on Russian war crimes, from Soviet tanks in Hungary in 1956 to Ukraine, where UN monitors have verified 17,257 civilian deaths since 2022.
The Navy will buy 30 medium unmanned surface vessels from HII, Saronic and Galliano at about $40 million each, with first deliveries due by late FY2027.
UKMTO logs nine attacks so far in October, half of September’s total, as Gulf-to-China tanker rates hit a record $1.3 million a day.
Seimas advances repeal of Article 137, which bars nuclear arms and foreign bases; a final vote is set for Jan. 12 as the Kremlin warns of escalation.
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey invoke the Mecca pact for the first time after Houthi strikes, agreeing to a rapid deployment to the kingdom.
Ukrainian officials say at least 20 civilians died nationwide, 14 of them in a Pryluky apartment block, as Russia fired 70 missiles and 130 drones.
Russia launches its heaviest strike of the window as the October 7 civilian toll reaches at least 19, and drones sink a ship in Bulgaria’s economic zone.
Nine PLA sorties cross the Taiwan Strait median line, a Marine-linked killing roils Okinawa, and Seoul blames North Korean mines for a DMZ blast.
Cuba’s envoy in Washington describes open channels but no agenda, as forecast blackouts near 1,857 MW and a detained protester is charged.
Yemen’s Red Sea coast offensive stalls near Dhubab as Houthi missiles and drones reach Saudi airports, and a Hormuz tanker attack injures 12 crew.
The Marine Corps will send NMESIS ship-killing launchers to Yonaguni, 110 km from Taiwan, for Keen Sword, days after a $404M Kongsberg launcher deal.
Guiteras rejoins Cuba’s grid amid blackouts as SOUTHCOM announces a Caribbean strike and Guantanamo unmanned systems deploy.
China’s Southern Theater Command warns Manila over Scarborough as Taiwan logs ships only and an Okinawa murder case advances.
Ukraine reports 172 of 205 drones downed overnight as Odesa port fires burn and diplomacy stays split from the fighting.
IRGC turns a tanker back in the Strait of Hormuz, Yemen’s Taiz road fight intensifies, and Israel digs in east of Gaza’s Yellow Line.
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