🇾🇪 - The approximate current situation in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait area, Mocha direction, southwest Yemen.

PLC forces have captured Murad. Control over Dhubab Airport is practically impossible without securing al-Omari, which remains under Ansarullah control. Therefore, the airport likely remains under al-Houthi control, or at best, lies within a grey-zone.

The control of Mayun Island also remains unclear.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- BREAKING: Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline has ceased operations again following Ansarullah attacks on a number of pumping stations, AFP reports.

Update: Reuters and Bloomberg have denied AFP's report, stating the pipeline is operating as normal.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- UKMTO reports Iran forced a tanker to turn around that attempted to leave the Gulf via the Strait of Hormuz. The tanker complied with the IRGC instructions.

🇾🇪 - Further visual confirmation of PLC forces at Dhubab Airport, Mocha direction, southwest Yemen.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Widespread violent clashes are ongoing in the Ma'rib direction, central Yemen, PLC forces in the area seem to have launched offensive operations.

Multiple Saudi airstrikes against Ansarullah positions in the Ma'rib direction in the last few minutes.

🇾🇪⚡- PLC forces have captured Faliha, southern Ma'rib direction. Clashes are ongoing north of the Ansarullah-controlled Umm Rish Military Camp.

🇾🇪 - Videos published by PLC forces appear to show members of the Southern Giants Brigades committing heinous abuses against Ansarullah prisoners of war at Dhubab Airport. The footage, which will not be published by Rerum Novarum, appears to show PLC heavy vehicles driving over captured Ansarullah fighters, the mutilation of corpses, and other serious abuses.

Note, it's not a single video, there are several that are currently in circulation.

🇾🇪 - Visual confirmation of PLC forces in control of Qurun al-Bur and Faliha, southern Ma'rib direction, central Yemen.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Ansarullah says all Saudi airspace has become an 'arena of activity' and have warned airlines from operating over the Kingdom.

🇺🇸⚡️- Former Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is joining Fox News as soon as next month.

🇺🇸⚡️- Former GOP House Speaker and gay pedophile Dennis Hastert has passed away at age 84.

Hastert was sentenced to 16 months in prison for financial offenses related to sexual relations with underaged boys in 2016.

🇪🇸- Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez has called a snap election in response to public protests over housing policy over the last few days.

His Government had also given amnesty to over a million new immigrants before the Moroccan migrant invasion of Ceuta earlier this year caused international outrage to defend Spanish territory and deport the migrants back home.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇵🇰⚡- BREAKING: A Pakistani national was killed in an Ansarullah drone strike earlier today in central Yemen.

The PLC-backed 1st Brigade Emergency Forces says an alleged Pakistani aid truck was struck by an Ansarullah drone. The vehicle was reportedly driven by a Pakistani national who, for reasons that remain unclear, was operating directly on the front lines in Ma’rib.

🇺🇸🇮🇶🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: The United States has given Israel the green light to strike Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, according to Israeli media.

🇪🇹⚡- The Ethiopian Armed Forces, ENDF, has encountered its first stiff resistance from the Tigray Defense Forces, TDF, in the current phase of the conflict.

For the past 24 hours, ENDF forces have repeatedly attempted to capture Mai Tsebri, Sheraro direction in the northwestern Tigray, without success. The town is strategically vital for the TDF, as the B30 Highway provides the only likely route for a military crossing of the Tekeze River (shown in blue on the map), which currently stands between the ENDF and the Sheraro region.

Map key:
- Green: Tigray Defense Forces,
- Red: Ethiopian National Defense Forces.

🇷🇺⚡- Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan have followed Kazakhstan in tightening health checks at their borders in response to the Irkutsk laboratory plague outbreak.

Several regions across Russia have also introduced additional precautions, with Moscow imposing temporary mandatory health checks on all passengers arriving from Irkutsk.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- An Iranian projectile struck a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz causing a fire in the engine room, UKMTO reports.