🇺🇸 Today in New York City:

9:55 AM: President Trump delivers remarks to the United Nations General Assembly

10:40 AM: President Trump participates in a trilateral signing with the Prime Ministers of Denmark and Greenland

11:45 AM: President Trump holds a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain

12:30 PM: President Trump holds a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of Japan

12:45 PM: The First Lady delivers remarks on expanding Fostering the Future Together

1:15 PM: President Trump holds a bilateral meeting with the President of Ukraine

2:15 PM: President Trump participates in a Shield of the Americas event

2:45 PM: President Trump holds a multilateral meeting with the Gulf Cooperation Council

7:15 PM: President Trump participates in an UNGA leaders’ reception

7:40 PM: President Trump holds a pull-aside meeting with the Acting President of Venezuela

📎 Rapid Response 47

🇪🇹 An array of ethno-nationalist rebel groups, including the TPLF, Amhara Fano National Movement (AFNM) and Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), formalized a coalition intended to overthrow the Ethiopian federal government.

The convergence of the rebel groups intertwines several conflicts that the federal government was already struggling to contain.

Preexisting tensions and strategic differences will likely undermine the operationalization of a coherent military and political alliance, however.

The Ethiopian Peoples' Forces Alliance for Survival announced its formation on September 20, stating that it would seek to overthrow the federal government and sponsor a "popular and constitutional dialogue" regarding Ethiopia's governance structure.

The primary members of the coalition are the TPLF, AFNM, and OLA, although four other groups also joined.

An informal coalition between some members had already existed for months following high-level meetings, which also included Eritrea and Sudan, to discuss military collaboration.

The coalition intertwines several conflicts that the federal government was already struggling to contain in major regions of Ethiopia.

The TPLF and federal government have engaged in a deteriorating low-intensity conflict in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region, which is outside of federal control, in 2026.

The AFNM and OLA have also waged separate insurgencies challenging federal control of large swaths of Ethiopia's two-most populous regions, Amhara and Oromia, respectively.

Preexisting tensions and strategic differences will likely undermine the operationalization of a coherent military and political alliance, however.

The AFNM has separate, long-standing land disputes with the TPLF and OLA that have led to fighting between the different factions.

The three groups also differ on Ethiopia's ethno-federal governance system, which the TPLF and OLA largely support and the AFNM opposes.

The OLA released statement on September 17 reaffirming its opposition to Amhara ethno-nationalist activity in western Oromia, where the AFNM has operated, and stating that the coalition "is not an agreement on substantive political questions."

📎 Critical Threats

🇪🇹 Major Ethiopian Ethno-Nationalist Militias Area of Operations

📎 Critical Threats

The U.S. government has made a rare public intervention into Australian politics by warning us our proposed social media laws would be “extraterritorial censorship of protected speech".

Trump's admin warned mandating platforms change feeds or filter content to avoid “foreseeable harm” liability would “facilitate censorship.”

All of this dropped while Prime Minister Albanese is in New York promoting Australia’s tech-safety agenda at the United Nations.

From X

🇺🇳 🇵🇸 🇮🇱 UN Secretary-General Guterres:

Violence, displacement and settlement expansion by Israel in the occupied West Bank are bulldozing the path to peace and raising the spectre of ethnic cleansing.

📎 Clash Report

📢 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Trump at the UN says he has a "big decision to make:" "Will a deal be made with Iran? ... Or, do I annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly? ... Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness for generations?"

📎 Disclosetv

—❗️🇮🇷/🇦🇿 NEW: After U.S. pressure, Azerbaijan officially suspends Iran Air flights

@Middle_East_Spectator

— 🇮🇷/🇹🇷 NEW: Turkish Airlines, Anadolujet, and Pegasus have suspended all flights to and from Iran until March 2027 due to the war

@Middle_East_Spectator