🇺🇸 🇸🇦 ✈️ — The U.S. Department of State approved a potential $24.3 billion deal to sell Saudi Arabia 48 F-35 Lightning II fighter jets, the first deal of its kind for the Kingdom, and formally notified Congress.

🔴 Package includes 49 Pratt & Whitney engines, communications equipment, spare parts, and support services.

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🇷🇸 🇮🇱 ✈️ — Serbian President Vucic opened a new military drone assembly factory, a joint project between Israeli company Elbit Systems and Serbian company Yugoimport SDPR.

🔴 The factory employs about 100 people and will produce drones for the Serbian army and for export.

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🇸🇦 ❌ 🇾🇪 ✈️ — Saudi warplanes launched 37 airstrikes with F-15 aircraft over the past 24 hours from Khamis Mushait Air Base, targeting the governorates of Taiz and Hajjah and leaving civilian dead and wounded.

🔴 The strikes were carried out by F-15 aircraft operating from Khamis Mushait Air Base.

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🇺🇸 ✈️ — An F-16 aircraft crashed in Blair County, Michigan.

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🇮🇷 ⚠️ — A ship in the Strait of Hormuz was subjected to a security incident 16 miles off the coast of Oman, according to the British naval authority.

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🇮🇱 🇮🇱 ❌ 🇵🇸 💥 — Settlers, without the protection of the occupation army, storm the Al-Aziz shrine in the town of Awarta, east of Nablus.

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🇺🇸 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 📝 — The United Nations grants Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) official permission to deliver his speech to the General Assembly via video next week, following a U.S. veto that prevented his entry and denied him a travel visa.

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🇮🇷 📰 — There is no explosion on Kharg Island or beyond.

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🇾🇪 💥 — Firing and clashes ongoing near the city of Marib.

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🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇷 🇺🇳 ❗️ — The United States is at war with Iran, yet the Trump administration will issue visas to Iran's president and senior officials for the UN General Assembly, while Mahmoud Abbas has been denied entry once again.

🔴 Mahmoud Abbas seems to poses a greater threat to the United States.

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🇺🇸 📝 — The U.S. federal court has sentenced Samir Othman Al-Sheikh, the former director of Adra Prison during the previous regime, to 60 years in prison. He was convicted of committing three acts of torture, conspiracy to commit torture, immigration document fraud, and attempting to fraudulently obtain U.S. citizenship.

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🇮🇷 💥 — Reports of clashes near University and Daneshju streets in Zahedan, Iran.

🔴 Security forces have reportedly been deployed, with checkpoints blocking entrances to the city.

🔴 Unconfirmed reports claim that several security personnel were killed or wounded in clashes with unidentified gunmen.

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🇾🇪 ❌ 🇸🇦 ✈️ — Air defense systems belonging to Ansar Allah intercepted a reconnaissance drone belonging to the Royal Saudi Air Force over the city of Sanaa earlier.

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🇸🇦 💥 — Saudi Aramco is seeking to secure thousands of tons of diesel fuel from the Mediterranean amid damage to its supplies from a series of attacks on its energy facilities over the past weeks, according to Bloomberg.

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🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇷 ❗️ — Washington offered $15 million through the "Rewards for Justice" program in exchange for information about Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

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🇵🇰 💥 — An explosion at a mosque in the police command headquarters in Kohat, Khyber region, killed 17 people and wounded dozens, according to the Pakistani Ministry of Interior.

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🇸🇾 ❌ 🇮🇱 ⚡️ — Israeli occupation forces kidnapped a shepherd during an incursion into Wadi al-Ruqad in the western Daraa countryside at dawn today.

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