NEW: Ukraine is discovering innovative ways to deploy its thermite-spewing dragon drones against Russian forces, now targeting bunkers and tanks with precision strikes.

Türkiye officially ratifies a free trade agreement with Ukraine, strengthening economic ties between the two nations.

New Iranian anti-drone laser system spotted during Tehran's Friday prayer led by Khamenei.

Failed interceptions by Israel's David's Sling air defence system using Stunner interceptors on October 1, 2024.

The self-destruct mechanism was activated on the Stunner missiles.

None of the Iranian missiles were intercepted.

Son of killed IRGC Deputy Commander Abbas Nilforoushan:

"My father's body has not been found yet."

Nilforoushan was killed in an Israeli airstrike during a meeting with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut.

The United States Central Command:

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted strikes on 15 Houthi targets in Iranian-backed Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen today at about 5 p.m. (Sanaa time).

The Houthi-affiliated al-Masirah TV reported four strikes on Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, seven on the port city of Hodeidah and at least one strike on Dhamar, south of the capital.

Turkish defense manufacturer Otokar won a tender for the supply of 1,059 COBRA II 4×4 Light Armoured Tactical Vehicles to Romania for approximately $934 million.

The first 278 vehicles will be produced at Otokar, with the remainder to be built in Romania.

U.S. Senator Graham as usual:

The flooding was bad, but "Israel is running out of ammunition."

Trump:

Iranian nuclear facilities are the things you want to hit. It's the biggest risk we have.

Biden should've said "hit them first, and worry later".

According to the Washington Post, Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, gave a veiled hint about the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on 7 October to Gazan businessmen he met with six months before the operation.

‘There will be a surprise,’ Sinwar said, according to one of the participants in the previously unreported meeting.

‘God will help us,’ he said.

‘Evidence accumulated over the past year has brought new clarity to Hamas's operational planning prior to 7 October, revealing how and where it acquired the means for both the attack itself and a carefully thought-out phase of resistance lasting up to 12 months,’ the WP said.

In the published article, Ghazi Hamad, one of Hamas' leaders in Gaza, explains the long-term nature of the preparations for the operation and the vital context of the tunnels in Gaza in the post-7 October period:

‘We managed to set up factories that produce underground because we knew that one day all the channels would be closed’.

Biden:

No administration has helped Israel more than I have – none, none, none.

And I think Bibi (Netanyahu) should remember that, and whether he’s trying to influence the election, I don’t know, but I’m not counting on that.

The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) says it will not leave positions in the country’s south despite what it said was an Israeli request to “relocate.”

“On September 30, the IDF (Israeli military) notified UNIFIL of their intention to undertake limited ground incursions into Lebanon. They also requested we relocate from some of our positions,” the UN Interim Force in Lebanon says in a statement, adding that “peacekeepers remain in all positions and the UN flag continues to fly.”

Six Pakistani soldiers including a Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Ali Shoukat killed and 21 others critically injured in an ambush on Pakistani military convoy in North Waziristan.

A Pakistan Army convoy which was going for an operation was ambushed by Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the Spinwarm area of North Waziristan.

The instability in Pakistan's Waziristan region and the TTP's heavy presence there have long put Islamabad in a difficult situation. The Pakistani army had lost many soldiers in an ambush at the end of September.

The Walla news website reported, citing an Israeli official:

Hezbollah intelligence chief Hussein Ali Hazzima may have been killed in the bunker of the Hezbollah intelligence headquarters targeted by the Israeli army in Beirut on 3 October.

No escape from FPV drones: Russian T-90 tank with cope cage gets destroyed.

The latest evacuation orders from Israeli Army displace more residents and clearing additional territory in South Lebanon.

Russia to remove the Taliban from the list of terrorist organizations.

“The removal of the Taliban from the list of terrorist organizations will be announced soon.”

Special Representative of the President for Afghanistan affairs Kabulov