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• Airstrikes launched on Yemen's Sanaa and Hodeida, Houthi TV says VOA 05 Oct 2024 -- The U.S. Navy guided-missile submarine USS Georgia struck about 15 Houthi targets in militant-held areas of Yemen on Friday, a U.S. official told VOA.

Defense Policy / Programs

• NATO Plans to Create Extra 49 Brigades With About 5,000 Soldiers in Each - Reports Sputnik 05 Oct 2024 -- NATO is planning to create an extra 49 combat-ready brigades with about 5,000 servicepeople in each that would bring a total number to 131 units, German broadcaster on Saturday, citing the alliance's unpublished documents.
• CSpO Joint Statement: Ten Years, Ten Nations: One Initiative Australia DOD 05 Oct 2024 -- This year, the Combined Space Operations (CSpO) Initiative celebrated ten years of working together to lead as responsible space actors.
• DRDO successfully flight-tests 4th Generation Very Short Range Air Defence System at Pokhran Field Firing Ranges in Rajasthan India PIB 05 Oct 2024 -- Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully conducted three flight-tests of the 4th Generation, technically-advanced miniaturised Very Short Range Air Defence System (VSHORADS) at the Pokhran Field Firing Ranges in Rajasthan on October 03 & 04, 2024
• Upcoming Chang Tai military drills to adopt non-stop 24-hour format CNA 05 Oct 2024 -- Taiwan's Army said Friday that its brigade-level exercises later this month will adopt a non-stop 24-hour training format to test the troops in various scenarios, including nighttime combat.
• Initial statement Royal New Zealand Navy 05 Oct 2024 -- The Royal New Zealand Navy Ship HMNZS Manawanui has grounded near the southern coast of Upolu, Samoa.

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• Contracts For Oct. 4, 2024

Other Conflicts

Ukraine Conflict News

Operation Iron Swords / Operation Al-Aqsa Flood

• Press Briefing by IDF Spokesperson RAdm. Daniel Hagari-October 5, 2024 Israel Defense Forces 05 Oct 2024
• Statement by PM Netanyahu Israel - Prime Minister 05 Oct 2024
• Netanyahu Says Israel Has Right, Duty to Respond to Iranian Missile Attack Sputnik 05 Oct 2024 -- Israel has the right and the duty to respond to Iran's recent attack, and it will do so, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday.
• Satellite images indicate Iran's missiles hit Israeli bases: WSJ IRNA 05 Oct 2024 -- The Wall Street Journal says that based on the satellite images and available videos of Iran's missile response to the Zionist regime, at least 22 Iranian long-range ballistic missiles passed through the Israeli air defense systems on Tuesday night and hit its military bases.
• IDF Admits Iranian Missiles Hit Two Israeli Air Bases Sputnik 05 Oct 2024 -- Despite the missile strikes, an Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) spokesman stressed that Israel's operational readiness remains unaffected.
• Oct. 4: 'Axis of Resistance' operations against Israeli occupation Press TV 05 Oct 2024
• Gaza war: At least 41,825 Palestinians killed since Oct. 7 IRNA 05 Oct 2024 -- The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip has announced that 41,825 civilians have been martyred in occupied Palestine since October 7 last year, when the Israeli regime launched an ongoing genocidal war on Gaza.
• Israel stages 'very violent' airstrikes against southern Beirut: Lebanese media Press TV 05 Oct 2024 -- The Israeli regime has conducted dozens of ferocious airstrikes against the southern suburbs of Lebanon's capital Beirut, pressing on with its months-long escalation against the country.
• Lebanon displacement crisis deepens amid surging airstrikes VOA 05 Oct 2024 -- The United Nations warns Lebanon's displacement crisis is deepening as aid agencies scramble to protect and assist tens of thousands of people fleeing for safety. The warning was made amid a surge in airstrikes as Israel's "limited, localized and targeted" operation against Hezbollah militants intensifies in scale and scope.
• Israel Hits Hamas Leaders In Lebanon As World Awaits Potential 'Significant' Strike On Iran RFE/RL 05 Oct 2024 -- As the world awaits a potentially "significant" Israeli strike against Iran, fighting continued in and around Beirut and throughout Lebanon, with Tehran-backed militant groups acknowledging the deaths of additional leaders from the latest attacks.
• Hezbollah Launches Missile Strike on Military Production Complex in Northern Israel Sputnik 05 Oct 2024 -- Lebanese movement Hezbollah said on Saturday that it had fired missiles on the facilities of the ATA Defense Industries, located in the northern Israeli city of Sakhnin.
• Hezbollah inflicts 'casualties' on Israeli troops Press TV 05 Oct 2024 -- The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has said that it inflicted "casualties" on Israeli forces attempting to infiltrate the town of Odaisseh in southern Lebanon.
• Israel resumes Beirut airstrikes as Lebanon death toll passes 2,000 Press TV 05 Oct 2024 -- Israel has launched a fresh airstrike on Beirut's southern neighborhood of Dahiyeh, as the regime's unrelenting aggression against Lebanon continues.
• Israeli fighter jets bomb southern Beirut dozen times: Report IRNA 05 Oct 2024 -- Israeli fighter jets have bombarded southern Beirut, Lebanon, a dozen times since Friday midnight.
• Israeli drones attack Beddawi Refugee Camp in northern Lebanon IRNA 05 Oct 2024 -- Israeli drones targeted a building in Beddawi Refugee Camp in Tripoli, northern Lebanon.
• Intense clashes break out in northern occupied lands IRNA 05 Oct 2024 -- Intense clashes have been reported between the fighters of the Islamic resistance and the occupying forces in northern occupied Palestine.
• Hezbollah carries out missile attack at Galilee IRNA 05 Oct 2024 -- Hezbollah of Lebanon has conducted a missile attack against Galilee in northern parts of the Israeli-occupied territories, according to Zionist media.
• Conflicts continue on Lebanon's borders IRNA 05 Oct 2024 -- Some news outlets have reported that conflicts between fighters of the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah and Zionist forces persist, with several missiles launched at northern occupied Palestine.
• Hezbollah fires 70 rockets to north of occupied territories in 25 minutes IRNA 05 Oct 2024 -- News sources report that 70 missiles and rockets were fired from Lebanon to the north of the occupied Palestinian territories within a period of 25 minutes.
• Lebanon Health Ministry calls on WHO, UN to halt Israeli 'massacre' of healthcare Press TV 05 Oct 2024 -- The Lebanese Health Ministry has called on the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations to put an end to the Israeli regime's "massacre" of Lebanon's healthcare system, amid the indiscriminate Israeli strikes on the Arab country.
• Hezbollah Launches Missile Attack on Israel's Ramat David Airbase Near Haifa Sputnik 05 Oct 2024 -- The Lebanese movement Hezbollah have struck Israel's Ramat David Airbase located north of the city of Haifa, the movement's press service said on Saturday.
• Israeli Air Forces Carry Out Fresh Strikes on Lebanese Cities Sputnik 05 Oct 2024 -- The Israeli Air Force carried out two strikes on residential buildings in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Lebanese field source told Sputnik.
• Guterres urges global community to repeat 'utter condemnation' of 7 October Hamas terror attack UN News 05 Oct 2024 -- In a message to mark one year since the Hamas-led terror attack during which more than 1,250 Israelis and foreign nationals were brutally killed on 7 October, the UN Secretary-General has called on the international community to loudly condemn those "abhorrent acts" which have triggered a shocking wave of violence across the region.
• Secretary Blinken's Call with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud US Dept. of State 05 Oct 2024
• Secretary Blinken's Call with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani US Dept. of State 05 Oct 2024
• Secretary Blinken's Call with French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Barrot US Dept. of State 05 Oct 2024
• Iran says there are initiatives for ceasefire in Lebanon, Gaza IRNA 05 Oct 2024 -- Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says there are initiatives for a ceasefire in Lebanon and Gaza, which he hopes would bear fruit amid the continuous hostilities and crimes by the Israeli regime.
• Iran's missiles can reach any point in occupied Palestine: Cmdr IRNA 05 Oct 2024 -- A commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps in Qazvin province, Brigadier General Hossein Mohammad Shafiei, has said that Iran's missiles can reach any point in occupied Palestine.
• Death toll in Israeli airstrike on West Bank camp rises to 18 People's Daily 05 Oct 2024 -- At least 18 Palestinians were killed and many others wounded in an Israeli airstrike targeting the Tulkarm refugee camp in the northern West Bank on Thursday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a brief statement.
• Iraqi resistance hits Israeli targets with missiles, drones IRNA 05 Oct 2024 -- The Islamic Resistance in Iraq says it has launched a number of drone and missile strikes against vital Israeli targets in the occupied territories.
• Iraqi resistance launches fresh drone, missile attacks on vital Israeli targets Press TV 05 Oct 2024 -- Fighters from Iraqi anti-terror groups have claimed responsibility for a series of drone and missile attacks on key targets across the Israeli-occupied territories in retaliation for the Tel Aviv regime's ongoing aggression in Gaza and Lebanon.
• Iraqi resistance leader: Nasrallah's blood will bring about elimination of Israel Press TV 05 Oct 2024 -- The leader of an Iraqi resistance group says Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's blood will not go in vain and will bring about the elimination of the Zionist regime off the face of the earth.

Other Conflicts

• China and Vietnam capable to handle law enforcement conflict in S.China Sea properly; Philippines' intention to stigmatize China 'won't work' Global Times 05 Oct 2024 -- Photos and information exclusively obtained by the Global Times on Saturday show that Chinese authorities' interception, boarding, inspection and expulsion of a Vietnamese boat which illegally entered waters near China's Xisha Islands on September 29 were conducted with restraint and in full accordance with the law. The Vietnamese government previously accused China of "brutal behavior" on the matter, which has been taken as an opportunity of the Philippines to hype its own claims in the South China Sea and draw Vietnam to its side against China.
• Russia decides 'at highest level' to remove Taliban from list of terrorists Press TV 05 Oct 2024 -- Russian Special Presidential Representative for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov says Moscow has already made a principal decision to remove the Taliban from its list of terrorist organizations.
• Moscow Format Meeting Opposes 3rd Parties' Bids to Deploy Military Objects in Afghanistan Sputnik 05 Oct 2024 -- Participants of the Moscow format of consultations on Afghanistan called attempts by third countries to deploy their military infrastructure in Afghanistan and neighboring states unacceptable as it does not correspond to the interests of regional peace and stability, a joint statement, issued by the participants, read.
• Envoy: 'Russian leadership' decides to delist Taliban as terrorist group VOA 05 Oct 2024 -- Russia reported Friday that a "principal decision" had already been made to remove Afghanistan's ruling Taliban from Moscow's list of terrorist organizations.
• 6 Pakistani Soldiers Killed In Attack By Islamist Militants RFE/RL 05 Oct 2024 -- Pakistan's military has said that six of its soldiers, including a high-ranking officer, were killed on the evening of October 4 when a military convoy was attacked by Islamist militants in the country's restive northwest.
• Militant ambushes, bombing kill 16 Pakistan soldiers VOA 05 Oct 2024 -- Pakistan reported Saturday that multiple militant attacks killed at least 16 soldiers, with most of the casualties occurring in areas bordering Afghanistan.
• Haiti: Statement by the Spokesperson on the latest deadly violence European External Action Service (EEAS) 05 Oct 2024 -- The European Union condemns the horrific massacre in Pont Sondé, carried out by the Gran Grif gang, marking yet another escalation in the extreme violence these criminal groups are inflicting on the Haitian people. This latest atrocity underscores the urgent need for the full deployment of the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSSM) to assist the Haitian National Police in combating gang violence and restore the rule of law.

News Reports

• Chinese envoy urges Security Council to keep attention on probe of Nord Stream explosions People's Daily 05 Oct 2024 -- A Chinese envoy on Friday called on the UN Security Council to keep its attention on the investigation of the Nord Stream pipelines explosions, refrain from allowing it to fade away, and put an end to double standards.
• EU pushes ahead with controversial tariffs on Chinese EVs, ignoring members' opposition People's Daily 05 Oct 2024 -- The European Commission announced Friday that it passed a vote to impose punitive tariffs on Chinese battery electric vehicles (EVs), sparking criticism from several European countries and auto industries who warn the move could boomerang against the European Union's (EU) competitiveness.
• Foreign Ministry Spokesperson's Remarks on President Joe Biden Sending Message of Congratulations to President Xi Jinping on the Occasion of China's National Day PRC MofA 05 Oct 2024
• Mainland slams "Hong Kong independence" activities in Taiwan People's Daily 05 Oct 2024 -- A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Friday criticized the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities and certain politicians for supporting "Hong Kong independence" separatist activities in Taiwan and damaging cross-Strait relations.
• PLA activities in the waters and airspace around Taiwan ROC MND 05 Oct 2024
• Enlarged Plenary Meeting of DPRK Cabinet Held KCNA 05 Oct 2024 -- An enlarged plenary meeting of the DPRK Cabinet took place on October 3.
• Iran oil minister says not worried about crises created by enemies IRNA 05 Oct 2024 -- Iran's Petroleum Minister Mohsen Paknezhad has said that he is not worried about the crises created by enemies of the Islamic Republic.
• Iran's minister tours southern oil facilities despite Israel's threats Press TV 05 Oct 2024 -- Iran's Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad has dismissed threats of a potential Israeli attack on the country's oil facilities after he toured energy production installations in the south of the country.
• FM: Iran's response to any Israeli aggression will be stronger IRNA 05 Oct 2024 -- Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says his country will give a stronger response to any act of aggression by the Israeli regime against the Islamic Republic.
• Iran's response to any Israeli aggression will be stronger: FM IRNA 05 Oct 2024 -- Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said that Iran's response to any Israeli aggression will be stronger and harsher.
• Iran's response to any Israeli aggression will be stronger: FM Press TV 05 Oct 2024 -- Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Iran will give a "stronger" response to any Israeli attack, saying the regime can once again test the Islamic Republic's will.
• Paying ransom to Zionist regime leads to more bullying by them: Iran IRNA 05 Oct 2024 -- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmail Baqaei Hamaneh Bullies are self-centered and know no bounds in evil. Paying attention to bullying only leads to more bullying.
• Iran looking for a strong region: FM Araghchi IRNA 05 Oct 2024 -- Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has highlighted Iran's constant efforts to create a strong region through regional cooperation.
• Pezeshkian: Tehran reaches understanding with Doha on 6 billion dollars of Iran's assets in Qatar IRNA 05 Oct 2024 -- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian announced that he has reached a good understanding during his visit to Qatar on the 6 billion dollars of Iranian assets in Qatar after the meeting of the governors of the central banks of the two countries and the conversation with the Emir of Qatar.
• Iran says will continue supporting Syria, resistance to counter Israel Press TV 05 Oct 2024 -- Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran will continue to provide full support for Syria and the resistance front to counter Israel's occupation and warmongering in the region.
• Iranian FM in Syria after 'important negotiations' in Lebanon Press TV 05 Oct 2024 -- Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says there are initiatives for a ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip and Lebanon, expressing hope that they come to fruition amid the Israeli regime's continuation of crimes and massacres.
• Iran captures three Daesh members seeking to carry out terrorist attack Press TV 05 Oct 2024 -- Iranian law enforcement forces have arrested three members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the country's northern province of Mazandaran, thwarting their plot to carry out an act of terror.
• Iran to launch Kowsar satellite soon: Official IRNA 05 Oct 2024 -- Head of the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) Hassan Salariyeh has announced that Iran will launch and put into orbit its Kowsar observation satellite soon.
• Iran to launch three indigenous remote-sensing satellites into space by yearend: Official Press TV 05 Oct 2024 -- The head of the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) says the country plans to launch three homegrown remote-sensing satellites into orbit by the end of the current Iranian calendar year, which ends on March 20, 2025.
• Kazakhstan's Nuclear Power Vote: Many Questions, But Just One On The Ballot RFE/RL 05 Oct 2024 -- Kazakh voters will head to the polls on October 6 to decide whether to approve the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan -- the world's largest producer of uranium.
• Pakistani Police Lock Down Islamabad As Ex-PM's Supporters Gather For Protest RFE/RL 05 Oct 2024 -- Islamabad appeared to be in lockdown mode on October 5 as supporters of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan sought to bypass police barricades and enter the Pakistani capital to demand his release.
• Cambodian anti-Vietnamese sentiment will stalk Hun Manet beyond trade zone spat Radio Free Asia 05 Oct 2024 -- After months of disquiet, Prime Minister Hun Manet announced on Sept. 20 that Cambodia would be withdrawing from the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Area (CLV-DTA), a major investment pact.