President Trump Considers F-35 Warplanes for Saudi Arabia + US Secretary of State Optimistic About Gaza International Stabilization Force + Russian Intel Ship Operated Near Hawaii Last Month + More
For review:1. The body of slain hostage Israeli Meny Godard was returned to Israel by Hamas on Thursday night, officials confirmed. The bodies of three slain hostages now remain held in the Strip — two Israelis and one Thai national.2. US Secretary of State Optimistic About Gaza International Stabilization Force.3. Indonesia has trained up to 20,000 troops to take on health and construction-related tasks during a planned peacekeeping operation in the war-torn enclave of Gaza, the defense minister said on Friday.4. US President Donald Trump urged Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in a phone call last month to normalize relations with Israel following the October 9 Gaza ceasefire.5. President Trump Considers F-35s for Saudi Arabia.6. Ukraine President Zelenskyy said Ukraine is facing a “very difficult” situation in the city of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, where Russian forces are attempting to seize control after months of intense fighting.Speaking in an interview with Bloomberg, President Zelensky said decisions about any troop withdrawals from the area are being left to military commanders on the ground. “Nobody is pushing them to die for the sake of ruins,” he said.7. The U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday that it had detected and tracked a Russian intelligence-gathering vessel off the coast of Hawaii late last month.8. Colombia on Friday signed an agreement for 17 Gripen E/F fighter jets, with a value of €3.1 billion ($3.6 billion). Delivery of the jets will take place between 2026 and 2032. 9. The US Navy has begun efforts to salvage a fighter jet and helicopter from the South China Sea, Breaking Defense has learned.The MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter and F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter crashed within 30 minutes of each other on the afternoon of Oct 26 while conducting routine operations from the USS Nimitz.
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Houthis Indicate a Halt to Military Operations Against Israel and Red Sea Shipping + Dense Fog Enables Russian Forces Entry into Pokrovsk + US Envoys Visit Israel to Discuss Hamas Fighters Trapped in Rafah Tunnels + More
For review:1. US Envoys Visit Israel to Discuss Hamas Fighters Trapped in Rafah Tunnels.2. France hosted Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris for a meeting on Tuesday, during which French President Emmanuel Macron committed to helping the PA draft a constitution for a future state.3. Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa threw cold water on the prospect of his country joining the Abraham Accords, saying that conditions were premature for talks on a normalization deal with Israel.4. Houthis Indicate a Halt to Military Operations Against Israel and Red Sea Shipping.5. Inspectors of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) visited Iranian nuclear sites last week, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday.6. Dense Fog Enables Russian Forces Entry into Pokrovsk.7. Finland’s former president Sauli Niinistö has called on the European Union to open direct channels of communication with Russian President Vladimir Putin to press for an end to the war in Ukraine.8. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is keen on ordering more than two dozen Raytheon-produced Patriot air defense systems.Figures from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) thinktank claim that a Patriot battery costs $1.1 billion — split between $690 million for the weapon systems’ missiles and $400 million for the system itself.9. The Navy has awarded General Dynamics a $1.7 billion contract to construct two more John Lewis-class fleet replenishment oilers.The fleet oilers are 742 feet in length with a displacement of nearly 50,000 tons when fully loaded and can carry 162,000 barrels of oil and dry cargo.
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IDF Officer's Body Returned After More Than 11 Years in Hamas Captivity; 4 Hostages Remain + Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov Ready to Meet with US Sec of State Rubio to Discuss Ukraine + German Armed Forces counter-Drone Munition + More
For review:1. Pakistan said Sunday it was committed to “dialogue” with Afghanistan despite peace talks ending after deadly violence, with Islamabad stressing its security concerns persist.2. IDF Officer's Body Returned After More Than 11 Years in Hamas Captivity; 4 Hostages Remain.3. Israel has warned Lebanon’s army that it is not satisfied with the actions taken so far against the Hezbollah terror group, vowing to continue its stepped-up bombing campaign unless the situation changes.The Israel Defense Forces has recently stepped up these strikes, killing three Hezbollah members in two separate strikes on Saturday, after an intense bombing campaign on Thursday.4. In a late Friday interview, John Hurley, the undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said Iran has managed to funnel about $1 billion to Hezbollah this year despite a raft of Western sanctions that have battered its economy.5. Another Israel-Iran war is “only a matter of time,” according to a report by The NY Times, which says Iran still has a stockpile of enriched uranium and is racing to build thousands of missiles.6. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov Ready to Meet with US SEC of State Rubio to Discuss Ukraine.7. German Armed Forces counter-Drone Munition.Dubbed SADM, the Small Anti-Drone Missile will be fitted onto Rheinmetall-made Skyranger 30 anti-aircraft vehicles. The missile will extend the Skyranger’s effective engagement range from 2 to about 6 kilometers
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Secretary of War Hegseth Speech to Defense Industry Leaders + US to Establish Presence at Airbase in Syria + B-52 Warplanes Fly Along Venezuelan Coast + More
For review:1. Secretary of War Hegseth Speech to Defense Industry Leaders.2. Ukrainian forces continue to stubbornly defend the pocket around Pokrovsk despite relentless Russian assaults, leading to an ever-increasing threat of encirclement.3. US to Establish Presence at Airbase in Syria.4. The US has added the entire text of US President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan for ending the Gaza war to the UN Security Council Resolution.5. US President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the Central Asian, Muslim-majority country of Kazakhstan will be the first country to join the Abraham Accords in his second term.6. Senate Republicans blocked a war powers resolution on Thursday aimed at preventing President Trump from conducting strikes against Venezuela.The vote to advance the resolution failed with 49 supporting it and 51 senators opposing. 7. A pair of US B-52 bombers flew over the Caribbean Sea along the coast of Venezuela on Thursday, in the fourth such show of force by American military aircraft in recent weeks.
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Saudi Arabia Requests Purchase of F-35 Fighters from US + Ukraine General Staff: No Encirclement of Units & Divisions in Pokrovsk + Hamas & PA Agree on Temporary Committee to Manage Gaza + More
For review:1. Hamas & PA Agree on Temporary Committee to Manage Gaza.2. Saudi Arabia Requests Purchase of F-35 Fighters from US. The Trump administration is considering a Saudi Arabian request to buy as many as 48 F-35 fighter jets.3. US President Donald Trump will host Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa for talks on November 10, the White House announced Tuesday.4. Ukraine General Staff: No Encirclement of Units & Divisions in Pokrovsk.The important hub in Ukraine’s Donetsk region lies on a major supply route for the Ukrainian army and has been in Moscow’s sights for over a year.5. North Korea has dispatched around 5,000 military construction troops and 1,000 engineers to Russia since September, according to South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS).6. Ukraine has signed up approximately 2,000 Colombian nationals as contract soldiers to help fill critical manpower gaps according to German media (Die Welt).7. A Russian Il-76 cargo plane that recently arrived in Venezuela- later made several stops in other Kremlin-aligned Latin American countries before returning to Russia, flight records show.
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