🇸🇦📉— Saudi crude oil exports fell in August to their lowest level in at least 9 years amid attacks on tankers

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🇾🇪🇸🇦🚀— Yemeni armed forces renew intensive ballistic missile strikes on Saudi-backed militia positions in western Yemen

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🇮🇷❗️— Iranian rial plunges to 2.2 million against the US dollar

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🇱🇧💥— Explosions heard in southern Lebanon

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❗️🇰🇼🚨— BREAKING Attack on Kuwait now underway as sirens blare

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❗️🇰🇼🚨— BREAKING Air-raid sirens sounding in Kuwait City

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↪ 🇰🇼🚀 UPDATE — Kuwaiti Army confirms joint missile and drone attack targeted Ali Al Salem Air Base

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❗️🇰🇼❌🇮🇷🚨— BREAKING Kuwaiti army: air defenses currently intercepting hostile missile and drone attacks following an Iranian aggression

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🇰🇼🚨— Kuwait closes airspace, airports disrupted after recent attack

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❗️🇺🇸❗️— WSJ: Pentagon extends US troop deployment in Middle East through 2027

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🇾🇪🚀— Houthi drone strike hits east of Hays district in Yemen's Hudaydah

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🇮🇱🇵🇸⚠️— Israeli army issues orders to raise alert level in occupied West Bank

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🇮🇱🇵🇸❗️— Hamas launches probe after Israeli raid captures senior Internal Security official in Gaza

🔴 Hamas sources say Muin al-Arabid, a senior Internal Security official, was captured and transferred to Israel during an operation two days ago.

🔴 Investigators are reviewing civilian and security-camera footage to reconstruct the raid, which involved gunfire and left al-Arabid wounded in the leg.

🔴 His wife was killed in the incident, and two sons were seriously wounded while trying to allow him to escape.

🔴 Israeli forces removed him from Gaza City under air cover from jets and drones.

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🇰🇼🇮🇷🚀— Kuwait says it was attacked by missiles and drones launched from Iran

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🇱🇧🇸🇾❗️— Lebanon uncovers network smuggling Syrian fighters for training in Bekaa Valley

🔴 Five Lebanese and Syrian nationals were arrested, and the network was found to be in possession of machine guns, sniper rifles, grenades, and explosives. Among those arrested is a former intelligence officer from Syria.

🔴 The network was operated by a former general in the Syrian army who currently resides in Moscow, and its goal was to train operatives for attacks against the Syrian government forces, with a focus on the coastal region of Syria.

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❗️🇾🇪⚡️— BREAKING Yemeni government forces: We are engaged in violent clashes with Houthi group in Al-Kadha front west of Taiz

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🇺🇸🇮🇷📰— US extends Middle East troop deployment into next year, WSJ reports

🔴 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has extended the operational deployment of American forces in the region, according to the Wall Street Journal.

🔴 The move suggests the confrontation could resume or that Washington wants to retain leverage over Iran.

🔴 The deployment includes nearly 20 vessels, fighter squadrons, paratrooper forces, and air-defense units.

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🗣🇮🇱🇵🇸❗️— Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz publicly discusses plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza, says occupation is ready to implement it by sea, air, and all possible means

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🇮🇱🇱🇧💥— Israeli forces fire mortar shells toward Hulta Heights

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📰🇮🇱❗️— Israeli army faces financial crisis, pulling tank battalions from service

🔴 The Israeli army is on the verge of a financial crisis, leading to the withdrawal of several tank battalions due to a shortage of spare parts and the risk of production line closures.

🔴 The security establishment warned that Elbit Systems may halt production of Merkava tank shells in the coming days. The artillery shell production line is expected to close in October, and the mortar shell line in November.

🔴 The Finance Ministry has not yet transferred the first installment of the 40 billion shekel increase to the defense budget ordered by the prime minister. The army warned that the shortfall is already harming operational readiness and the ability to fight a multi-front war.

🔴 A military official said: "We have debts exceeding 15 billion shekels to the defense industries."

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