Middle East War Update — October 13, 2026
Middle East war update: Houthis fire on Riyadh a third day, 29 nations back the UK’s Fairford blame on Iran, and Tehran readies its Hormuz reply.
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Middle East war update: Houthis fire on Riyadh a third day, 29 nations back the UK’s Fairford blame on Iran, and Tehran readies its Hormuz reply.
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.
Middle East war update: a Riyadh airport strike kills 12, Trump weighs hitting the Houthis, and US jets disable a blockade runner.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Naza: The Real Story is a 49-minute Israeli film of IDF officers’ accounts. Who made it, what it claims, its rival NAZA, and what UN and rights bodies found.
Yemen opens a campaign to retake Houthi territory as another Hormuz tanker is struck and Israel’s strike on Hamas’s top Gaza official stays unresolved.
A critical investigation of the UN’s Gaza genocide report: its standard of proof, its omissions, Hamas’s own founding words and the blood libel’s history.
Opinion: the UN inquiry’s genocide finding rests on an inferred intent, a one-sided record and investigators with documented credibility problems.
The GREAT Trust Gaza reconstruction plan sketched a US-led trusteeship and $70–100B in public funds; no backer is confirmed and several firms disown it.
An Israeli strike killed Izz al-Din al-Beik, Hamas’s northern Gaza commander; medics say strikes killed at least six more on Wednesday despite the ceasefire.
Two Israeli reservists died when an IDF drone crashed inside their northern Gaza outpost and exploded; the military suspended use of the model.
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