🇺🇸⚰️ The Pentagon has quietly revised its death toll from the 3rd Gulf War, adding two more death, 21 in total, up from 19.

That figure includes two additional noncombat deaths: Maj. Sorffly Davius, 46, an Army National Guard member who died in Kuwait on March 6, and an unidentified Navy suicide that occurred in September, according to a U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide additional context on the troop deaths.

The correction comes after The Washington Post reported that the Pentagon had undercounted fatalities, a claim Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dismissed as “a complete lie.”

A separate training accident in Iraq brings the total number of U.S. troops who have died in the Middle East since February 28 to 22.

Sgt. Devin A. Seibel, 26, died during a training accident in Iraq in May. His death is now recorded in DCAS under Operation Inherent Resolve, the military’s decade-long named operation against the Islamic State.

865 other troops were wounded in the fighting.

In a statement to The Post, the Pentagon did not acknowledge the changed numbers but instead said it is making further revisions to how DCAS reports casualties, including a new category of “pending adjudication” as it works through casualty reporting. The new adjudication category was first reported by Defense Scoop.

It has been difficult for the public and lawmakers overseeing the Pentagon to get a clear picture of how many troops have been injured or killed during the conflict in part because the Trump administration changed mid-conflict the way it was publicly accounting for troop deaths, something critics have charged is a way for President Donald Trump to hide the true cost to military personnel.

In previous conflicts those injuries or deaths — whether caused by hostile action or nonhostile causes, such as accidents or suicides — have been captured by named conflict in DCAS.

In part, what has confounded DCAS data in this conflict is that earlier this year Trump declared that Operation Epic Fury had ended, even though the U.S. and Iran were still exchanging fire. In response the Pentagon created a new category of injured and killed that was not tied to Epic Fury, instead those numbers would be tallied under overseas contingency operations.

🔗 https://unwall.app/www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/10/10/pentagon-raises-official-toll-troops-killed-during-war-with-iran-21/

🇾🇪⚔️🇾🇪 Tightening of the Taiz siege ring with the Yemeni army's advance in Wadi Al-Dhabab

🟡 The Yemeni armed forces took control of the areas of Al-Maqhaiyah, Suq Al-Maqhaiyah, Al-Sayahi, and parts of Wadi Al-Dhabab from the control of Saudi coalition forcs and stationed themselves on the entrance road to Taiz city. Clashes continue to clear this area and the heights of Al-Karbah hill and Jabal Al-Kamil.

👉 With this advance, the Taiz-Al-Misrakh road has also been cut off, and the mercenaries now have no way to deliver supplies and aid to the Al-Misrakh and Najd Al-Qasim fronts. Of course, there is a route through Jabal Al-Sabr, but due to its long distance and difficult terrain, it will not meet the needs of the mercenaries stationed in Al-Misrakh under the current conditions.

✍️ Simultaneously with these attacks, consultations are underway between representatives of the Ansarallah leader and opposing sheikhs in Taiz to hand over control of Taiz city to the Sanaa government without clashes. The Sanaa government, while announcing a general amnesty, is willing to allow the militants of the Al-Islah party and other mercenary groups of the Saudi coalition to leave Taiz toward Aden via a safe route.

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🇮🇷⚔️🚢 The IRGC released video footage of the aftermath of the mine explosion which incapacitated the GEM NO.2 tanker carrying 2 million barrels worth of Saudi oil.

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🇪🇺🌐 POLITICO: The rise of rightwing populist parties in Europe worries NATO officials about a collapse in public support for war against Russia

In France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Poland and Romania, these parties are looking to turn voters’ cost-of-living concerns into opposition to aid for Kyiv, and rejection of higher national defense budgets and a greater role for the EU in defense — although each party has often sharply diverging views on those issues.

France’s National Rally leader Marine Le Pen last month called for limiting aid to Ukraine, saying: “financially, we can’t do it anymore.”

Roberto Vannacci, a former general and MEP who leads the far-right National Future party, which is increasingly challenging Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, called for a rethink of defense spending. “Let’s evaluate whether this military spending is justified: in my opinion, it isn’t, especially at a time when commodity prices are hitting record highs,” he said last week.

The challenge for Europe’s mainstream parties is how to sustain support for higher defense budgets even if that means competing with welfare and other priorities.

“People are struggling with the rising cost of living across the board … so there’s room for populistic rhetoric about how much should we support Ukraine financially, or how much should we invest in defense,” said Janne Kuusela, permanent secretary at Finland’s defense ministry.

The dilemma is sharpening as several large NATO members, including France, Italy and Poland, face elections in 2027, when far-right parties stand a real chance of coming to power. Many countries are also beginning talks on next year’s budgets.

For NATO, a spending slowdown would complicate efforts to meet the alliance’s target of spending 5% of GDP on defense and security by 2035. Four NATO diplomats, granted anonymity to speak freely, said the risk is a growing concern, though some said its effects may not be clear until next year’s budget cycle.

“We’re already in a situation where we need to catch up” with Russia, said a NATO military official. “So far, we’re on a positive trajectory — if someone closes the faucet, there’s a risk of losing capabilities.”

European countries and Canada are expected to spend $634 billion on core defense needs this year, an 11% hike relative to 2025. But public support has limits.

In eight European countries, an average of 46.2% of respondents said they would not back higher defense spending if it meant higher taxes, while 35.5% were in favor, according to an August poll assessed by the European Council on Foreign Relations and shared with POLITICO. More people were opposed to increasing taxes to finance military spending in Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Poland. Respondents in the Netherlands, Sweden and the U.K. were more likely to accept higher taxes for military spending.

Protests against higher defense spending have taken place in Rome, Brussels and Madrid this year, with demonstrators criticizing cuts to funding for hospitals, universities and social services.

🔗 https://unwall.app/www.politico.eu/article/europe-far-right-nato-defense-spending-ukraine-aid/

🇾🇪⚔️🇸🇦 Ansarallah's strikes are threatening Saudi Arabia's flagship investment summit, the Future Investment Initiative, known as "Davos in the desert," which opens in two weeks, the Financial Times reported.

Scheduled speakers include BlackRock's Larry Fink, JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon and Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio. Organizers told participants Friday night that the summit would go ahead as planned, with "comprehensive security measures" at Riyadh's airports, venues and hotels. That was followed by Saturday’s attack on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport, the third this week, which killed 12 people and wounded 309.

"We have no idea what's going on," an executive at one firm scheduled to attend told the FT. "It's a very dicey situation." Italy's energy minister has pulled out of a ministerial energy meeting in Riyadh next week and will appear by video instead.

🔗 https://unwall.app/www.ft.com/content/e29fd05b-9e71-474c-906e-c3fd45dfaa03

🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 President Zelensky and an official close to him have told Axios and the FT that the ceasefire was "news to [him]" and something "nobody has heard" of.

Prior to this announcement which appears to have caught him off guard, President Zelensky said he’d be open to organizing national elections during a 60 day full ceasefire, if Russia would agree.

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🇺🇸 Republican Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Don Bacon are backing legislation to block U.S. purchases of Russian oil following President Trump’s diesel agreement with Moscow. Fitzpatrick plans to seek a House vote through a discharge petition, requiring 218 signatures.

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🇾🇪❌🇸🇦 — Ansarallah announces conducting 4 operations against KSA and 1 against PLC, involving ballistic missiles, cruise missiles & UAVs:

- Targeting King Khalid Intl. Airport, Riyadh in 3 separate phases, causing the airport to completely close [at least 1 of the phases were successful]
- Striking Shegdum Gas Plant, Eastern Province, causing a fire
- Striking Tanajib Oil Complex, Eastern Province, causing a fire
- Striking King Fahd Intl. Airport, Dammam, causing disruption of air traffic
- Striking PLC forces on the Bab el-Mandeb front with 6 ballistic missiles and 2 UAVs, causing dozens of casualties

These operations were carried out in response to 124 Royal Saudi Air Force airstrikes conducted over the past 24 hours against Ansarallah-controlled Sana'a city and Ta'izz, Ma'rib, al-Jawf, Hajjah, Al-Hudaydah, and Sa'dah governorates, causing civilian fatalities among women and children.