🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — UKMTO reports an LNG tanker was attacked while attempting to exit the Strait of Hormuz.

🇸🇦❌🇾🇪🇾🇪 — WATCH: A Saudi Terrorist attack struck a popular market in Dhubab District, Taiz Governorate, Yemen.

🇺🇸🇸🇦❌🇾🇪 — NEW: Trump considered but paused direct US strikes on Ansarallah in Yemen after CENTCOM prepared target options, Axios reports.

He held off, citing active direct channels with Ansarallah representatives and an understanding to avoid targeting US forces while Washington focused on non-combat intelligence and advisory support, Axios reports.

🇾🇪❌🇹🇷🇵🇰🇸🇦 — Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi warned Turkey and Pakistan not to join Saudi Arabia’s campaign in Yemen, saying Riyadh is seeking their military support.

🇾🇪❌🇵🇸🇮🇱 — Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi vowed the group will back Palestinians in any future escalation on a greater scale than during the Al-Aqsa Flood.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇺🇸⚡️ — Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi made an unusual statement, saying Saudi authorities gave Jeffrey Epstein a piece of the Kaaba’s kiswah, which he said was later used in “satanic rituals.”

Records showed Epstein received three items connected to the Kaaba, including a kiswah that had covered its exterior, The New York Times reported in April.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ — A chatbot nearly sent US troops onto a Chinese ship, CNN reports.

During the war with Iran this spring, a US intelligence report claimed the vessel was carrying components for a nuclear weapons program. Armed personnel prepared to board it, while US aircraft were already in the air.

Then, just before the operation, officials discovered the intelligence was wrong. The report had been produced with AI assistance, and the chatbot had misidentified the cargo. One source called it “entirely false” and said it “almost started a war.”

What alarmed officials was how far the mistake had already traveled. AI had combined open-source material with classified intelligence, then helped package the false conclusion into a normal-looking military report commanders could act on.

CNN says similar AI hallucinations have surfaced elsewhere as the Pentagon rapidly expands AI use in intelligence analysis and targeting.

The same kind of intelligence failures also helped enable the bombing of a school in Minab, Iran, which killed at least 120 students.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) strikes with FAB-1500 bombs equipped with UMPK guidance kits:

• UAV control post of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ 158th Mechanized Brigade near the settlement of Khoten.

• UAV control post of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ 156th Mechanized Brigade in Druzhkivka.

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🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — BREAKING: Gazprom Neft’s major Moscow refinery halted crude processing after fires hit its main distillation units following a Ukrainian drone attack on Sept. 20, Reuters reports.

🇮🇶🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Iraq to suspend operations of Iranian airlines sanctioned by the United States.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Destruction of a Ukrainian Armed Forces cargo truck by the 50th Separate Unmanned Systems Brigade “Varyag”.

During aerial reconnaissance, a cargo truck involved in the construction of fortifications was detected. As a result of a strike, the target was destroyed.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — The Moscow oil refinery owned by Gazprom Neft has completely halted oil processing operations following an attack by Ukrainian drones on September 20th, according to Reuters.

The agency reports that the fires damaged both primary oil processing units – AVT-6 and "Euro+" – which accounted for 100% of the refinery's capacity.

There is no confirmation of this information other than from an "anonymous source."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Warehouses caught fire near Kiev after a “Geran” drone attack in Brovary district, the regional military administration head Tkachenko said.

🇬🇧🇸🇦🇾🇪❌🇾🇪 — The UK is close to agreeing on defensive military support for Saudi Arabia against Houthi attacks, potentially including aerial refuelling, Bloomberg reports.

PM Andy Burnham is expected to urge other countries to provide similar assistance.