Saudi fires in Sanaa, Yemen
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/ir...3#update-37440The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Houthis said on Thursday the group had attacked a power distribution station in Medina, one of Islam's holiest sites, this week, putting one transformer out of service but without affecting the electricity network.
US doesn't want to defend a second front, but Saudi Arabia is preparing to take the war to Yemen
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...Saudi Arabia is planning an offensive against Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen, with options being considered including a coastal push to secure the Red Sea shipping route or an assault on multiple fronts, regional and Western officials told Reuters.
The operation, expected to be launched in the coming weeks, will by led by Yemeni forces on the ground, which are overseen by Riyadh, and supported by Saudi air strikes, according to six people with knowledge of the preparations.
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Pakistan has deployed between 30,000 and 40,000 troops to Saudi Arabia to help defend the kingdom's land borders and help with drone and missile interceptions [...] Islamabad hasn't made any decision to send troops into Yemen in a fighting capacity...
Aramco plant in Riyadh reportedly hit
Saudis strike Sanaa
Operation Rough Rider was foreshadowing
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...war-rcna599225The 52-day conflict, dubbed Operation Rough Rider, foreshadowed some of the difficulties Trump now faces in the war with Iran: a weaker adversary able to use inexpensive drones and antiship missiles to expose the limits of U.S. air and sea power and threaten the global economy, according to seven former U.S. officials and regional experts.
There are striking parallels between the campaign against the Houthis and the U.S.- and Israel-led war with Iran.
In both conflicts, the U.S. aimed to deliver a swift blow from the air. But air power alone was not enough to achieve a rapid result. The Houthis and the Iranians suffered losses and damage but were both able to keep fighting, launching waves of drones and missiles at the world’s most powerful military.
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-e...eged-city-taizYemen's government declares counter-offensive as Houthis cut vital route to besieged city
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Alimi called on "the armed forces, security forces and all military formations to begin carrying out their assigned missions, in accordance with the approved plans, until the country is liberated from the grip of the Houthi terrorist militia".
The announcement marks the latest major escalation in the war against the Houthis following a rapid offensive by the Iran-backed group last month that saw them seize large swaths of the Red Sea coastline.
Earlier Sunday, several security sources also told AFP that the group had effectively encircled Taiz after cutting the main supply route to the government-held city.
The Houthi advance follows days of heavy fighting in and around the city of Taiz between the group and government forces.
"We were informed that the Houthis had taken control of the al-Safiya area, where they cut the main road and took control of the police station," a police source in the area told AFP.
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oil tanker costs approach 30% of the value of the freight
even if crude oil gets shipped out of the Persian Gulf at 100% of prewar levels, there will be a persistent shortage of refined products due to war damage on refineries
Iran collecting bribes to move GCC oil out of the gulf is speculative, but plausible
Interesting subtext of the US Navy and Air Force subsidizing Chinese oil imports
https://tritaparsi.substack.com/p/ye...ng-through-theI cannot verify whether this is true or not, but I have heard directly from the Iranian side that certain countries in the GCC have struck deals with Iran to allow for their oil to get out, and that this is the main reason why more traffic is flowing rather than the Trump administration’s military efforts. “Whatever flows through the Strait, it’s because we are allowing it to flow,” I have been told.
One can dismiss the Iranian account as a desperate effort to claim control over a situation that on the surface is moving against Iranian interest.
But there may also be a logic that explains why Iran would not only allow more oil to flow, but also a narrative in the West that claims Tehran has lost the battle over the Strait.
As Brohard attests in her interview, the current situation in the Strait is unsustainable. As a U.S. serviceperson in the region told me, the cost of U.S. escorts is enormous and simply cannot be sustained. Whatever the cost the U.S. shouldered for keeping Persian Gulf oil secure before the war, it is dramatically higher now – even though the U.S. itself doesn’t buy any of that oil. China does.
Thus, not only was the U.S. subsidizing Chinese oil imports before the war, but those subsidies have increased severalfold as a result of the war.
It is also unsustainable for these GCC countries to continue to buy Iran off. They are doing so because the region expects a third round of the war to begin in the next few weeks and as a result, they need to move as much oil as possible out of the Persian Gulf before hostilities resume
by attacking Iran, Trump has accelerated the green energy transition
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-G...irst-Time.html
- Gasoline-only cars fell below 50% of global new vehicle sales for the first time, as the Hormuz crisis and record fuel prices accelerated the shift toward EVs.
- EV sales surged across major markets, with European BEV sales jumping 52% year-over-year in August and second-quarter global EV sales rising 35% from Q1.
- High oil and fuel prices could permanently accelerate EV adoption, although charging infrastructure and critical-mineral supply remain major constraints.
thanks, Trump
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/ar...160853971.htmlThe ongoing global energy crunch doesn't just cause pain at the gas pump: As winter approaches, millions of Americans are facing dramatic es in their home heating costs. The price of heating oil, which some 4.8 million households, mostly in the Northeast and Alaska, use to heat their homes, is approaching all-time highs as two wars strain global supply.
Heating oil costs are expected to jump 50% this winter, according to one estimate from the National Energy Assistance Directors Association, adding nearly $900 to the average home's heating bill. The jump is catching consumers by surprise at a time of year when many households fill their tanks for winter, and it's stoking concern that the high prices will force low-income families to make tough choices between warming their homes and paying for necessities.
US is retreating from a UK airbase ~3400 miles from Iran
is this what winning looks like?
Read more about the withdrawal and threats here: www.stripes.com/branches/air...eAll U.S. bombers deployed to RAF Fairford in England have been pulled out and returned to their home stations in the United States as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns across Europe.
if Pete Hegseth can't protect US strategic forces from a mid-tier power in England, why does he think they'll be any safer here?
To be clear, these are strategic assets. They are nuclear-capable heavy bombers. This isn't some special forces A-team that got exposed and had to break contact. It isn't a planned redeployment.
These are strategic U.S. military assets being run off the battlefield
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troops exposed to foreseen hazards wounded and subsequently neglected
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/iran-...b0f45fd4cd663aThe shrapnel hit Army Lt. Col. Arturo Lincón’s body like shattered glass.
One chunk of metal lodged into the left side of his jaw. Another piece sliced through his salivary gland before bouncing off his jaw and piercing the back of his neck, severing an artery and embedding in a vertebra.
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Lincón’s wounds included a damaged left vertebral artery, which supplies blood to the brain, and put him at risk for a stroke. That was not considered by the Army to be serious enough to be admitted to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, a major U.S. military facility, even though Lincón said a nurse there marveled that he was alive.
Instead he was sent to the nearby Army barracks and told to schedule outpatient appointments.
“I was just kind of on my own, at least it felt like that,” said Lincón, a veteran of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Another soldier who had shrapnel removed from his head, Maj. Stephen Ramsbottom, said he waited over four months to receive his MRI results.
“I’ve had to build my own case for everything,” Ramsbottom told the AP. “It’s very frustrating.”
Chief Warrant Officer 4 Rodney Bearman, who had shrapnel embedded from his face to his legs, and some of the other soldiers who were briefly seen at Kuwaiti medical facilities were sent to the homes of U.S. government employees. Iran had unleashed missiles and drones that made it risky for evacuation flights.
Some 10 days after the attack, the soldiers were loaded onto a cargo plane. They sat on the floor with straps, including Bearman, who could barely eat or lie down.
When they arrived in Germany, Bearman said they learned they were not do ented as wounded in combat and would not be hospitalized at Landstuhl. Instead, they were sent to the barracks, as Lincón had been, and told to get outpatient care. Bearman said they were do ented that way due to a coding error.
Lincón says he went days without pain medication. He carried a CD with a copy of medical records from Kuwait that he showed the ER doctor at Landstuhl who expressed concern that he had not been evaluated yet by a trauma team.
months went by without diagnosis
Medical records shared with the AP by Ramsbottom and another officer show they were not diagnosed with TBIs until Fort Hood. The officer, who was blown off his chair, said he did not get care for weeks after that diagnosis and had to identify the specialists he needed, like a neuro-ophthalmologist to diagnose the blurred vision from his TBI rather than counting on the military’s medical system.
Maj. Billy Key says he did not get specialized care until mid-April when he was sent to a U.S. soldier recovery unit to be treated for his head injury, hearing loss and the smoke inhalation that damaged his lungs.
Lincón, who was born in Texas to Mexican parents, was issued only a temporary one-year passport after his passport was blown up in the attack and he was asked for additional do entation to prove his U.S. citizenship. After the AP reached out to the State Department to inquire about his case, the 1995 West Point graduate said he received a call saying the request for more information was a mistake and he would be receiving a passport that would be good for 10 years.
“I’m American enough to have fought in three different wars,” Lincón said.
He’s also concerned his medical records are incomplete. His claim for Traumatic Injury benefits under the Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance was denied due to not meeting the threshold for hearing loss, though it never addressed his other issues, he said. The program gives cash to service members who suffer severe injuries.
new front in Iraq?
Turkiye and Pakistan "activate deterrence measures"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/art...183204189.htmlTurkiye, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have agreed to activate "deterrence measures" under a mutual defence pact and rapidly deploy forces to the Gulf kingdom to counter attacks by Yemen's Houthis.
The decision was announced on Monday after the three countries' defence and foreign ministers held an emergency meeting in Riyadh. It marked the first time the alliance – known as the Mecca Alliance for Defence – has been invoked since it was signed on August 7.
The agreement declares that an attack on any of the three nations will be treated as an attack on all, mirroring a central provision of NATO's founding treaty.
US policy of retaliation for Iranian oil tanker strikes abandoned for some reason
ttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/06/crude-oil-tanker-strait-hormuz-iran-attack.htmlIran has stepped up its attacks on tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz, threatening a fragile rebound of crude oil exports from the Persian Gulf.
Nearly 20 commercial ships, mostly tankers, have come under attack over the past month while sailing through Hormuz, the Persian Gulf or off the coast of Oman, according to the Joint Maritime Information Center, a group of U.S.-allied militaries that provide security updates to merchant vessels.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ir...06/id/1271816/At least 11 tankers have been attacked in and around the Strait of Hormuz since last Monday, threatening a recovery in Persian Gulf oil exports as fighting spreads across the region.
Four of the attacks occurred in the past two days, underscoring the risks facing ships despite protection from U.S. forces, The New York Times reported Monday.
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