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U.S. officials held a private meeting with the Houthis at the U.S. Embassy in Muscat, Oman, just days after the group captured key Red Sea ports and islands, according to Reuters. The meeting reportedly aimed to de-escalate tensions.
Ed Sheeran's concert in Philadelphia is set to go ahead on Saturday despite multiple opening acts withdrawing and Palestinian advocacy groups calling for a boycott over Israel's actions in Gaza.
Saudi Arabia issued its first air raid alerts in Riyadh since the Houthis increased their attacks in July, according to BBC. The alerts followed reported explosions in the capital.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated he will 'change the face of the Middle East' during his Likud party’s election campaign kickoff. Israelis, however, have shown skepticism with protests outside parliament.
The US government has granted visas to Iranian officials to attend the UN General Assembly in New York, as the war between the two countries enters its seventh month, according to the BBC.
UN human rights experts say there are reasonable grounds to believe the US committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran that killed at least 177 civilians, according to a report by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran.
The Yemeni island of Perim, a key location in the Strait of Bab al-Mandab, is now a focal point in the widening conflict between Iran and the US, according to CNN. The Houthi rebels, backed by Iran, have launched an offensive to gain control of the island.
At least 20 people, including five children, have been killed and dozens are missing after a war-damaged building collapsed in the Gaza Strip, according to rescue teams. The six-story structure in the Tal al-Hawa area of Gaza City had been inhabited by 10 families despite warnings.
A 15-year-old boy and a paramedic were killed in an apparent Israeli double-tap strike in Gaza, according to Al Jazeera.
The Trump administration is preparing to sell Israel a $2.8bn package of 907kg bombs, the largest single sale of the munition in recent years, according to reports by the Washington Post and AFP.
A multi-storey residential building in western Gaza City collapsed overnight, trapping six families, according to local witnesses and Palestinian journalists.
Two sailors are missing and 23 others have been rescued after an attack on an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, according to Oman.
At least 11 people have been injured in an ammonia gas leak in Jordan’s Aqaba industrial complex, according to local media.
Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar has said he will move to revoke the citizenship of filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor after their documentary on Israel’s genocide in Gaza, NAZA, won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, according to Al Jazeera.
The Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in Yemen have captured the Red Sea port of Mokha and advanced toward the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, raising concerns over global shipping and regional stability, according to multiple sources.
Yemen’s Houthis have seized the strategic Mayun Island in the Red Sea, tightening control over the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, according to Al Jazeera.
Yemen's Houthi rebels have captured Mocha port and threatened control of the Bab al-Mandeb strait. The repeated attacks on Saudi Arabia have raised questions about the Mecca Pact's potential activation, according to Al Jazeera.
Saudi Arabia has temporarily shut down its East-West oil pipeline after it was struck by drones launched from Iraq, according to the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Energy.
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels have taken control of a key Red Sea island, completing their takeover of the Bab el-Mandeb strait. According to Euronews.com, this move, combined with Iran's blockade of Hormuz, puts roughly a third of the world's seaborne trade under hostile control.
Israeli forces have destroyed a major underground Hezbollah base in southern Lebanon, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The operation targeted a command center used by Hezbollah's Badr unit, located in a complex built over two decades.
Iran-backed Houthi rebels have taken control of Yemen’s entire Red Sea coast, including strategic islands and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, according to multiple reports. A recent attack on a ship in the strait has caused a 29-mile oil slick, raising environmental and economic concerns.
A United States military base in Bahrain has sustained severe damage due to months of conflict with Iran, according to the acting secretary of the US Navy, prompting evaluations on its future.
Israeli forces say they used over 1,100 tonnes of explosives to destroy alleged Hezbollah tunnels beneath Lebanon’s Ali al-Taher ridge, according to Al Jazeera.
A documentary titled Naza, revealing Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, received a 25-minute ovation at its Venice Film Festival premiere. The film, directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, features testimonies from Israeli military and intelligence sources.
The Israeli military announced it has destroyed Hezbollah’s underground infrastructure on the Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon, according to a joint statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz.
