The Hebrew daily Maariv revealed that immediately after the recent Israeli airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburb — which killed Haitham al-Tabtabai, Hezbollah’s chief of staff — the US government made an urgent call to Lebanon, requesting the immediate transfer of an unexploded missile.
In the early hours of today, Israeli army forces stormed the Beit Jinn area in Rif Damascus province. The raid resulted in six Israeli soldiers being wounded and ten Syrians killed.
Opposition media to the Ansar Allah movement claim that Abdul Karim Amir al-Din Hussein al-Houthi, the Interior Minister of the Sana’a government and uncle of the Ansar Allah leader, was injured in Israeli strikes on Sana’a and remains under treatment in hospital. Reports suggest his health condition is critical.
According to a statement from Dana Gas, a liquefied gas storage tank at the Kormor gas field was struck by rockets, sparking a fire inside the facility. Gas production operations were temporarily halted to contain the blaze and assess the damage.
Local media in Shabwah province report that the United Arab Emirates has delivered around 400 Toyota Land Cruiser 2025 vehicles to the Shabwah Defense Forces.
Elizabeth Tsurkov has released a new report alleging details about the structure of Druze armed groups in southern Syria, their ties to criminal networks, and the extent of Israeli support for them. She is the same controversial alleged Israeli operative who was abducted in Baghdad in March 2023 and remained in captivity until September 2025, before being released through mediation by the Iraqi prime minister.
The vehicle carrying Nabil Shamsan, governor of Taiz in the Saudi-backed government, along with Abu Bakr al-Jubouli, commander of the al-Tur al-Bahah axis, was attacked by unidentified gunmen in the Najd al-Bard area, south of Taiz province.
Responding to the call of Sheikh Ghazal Ghazal, head of the Alawite Islamic Council in Syria, Alawites took to the streets and main squares in coastal cities including Latakia, Tartus, Jableh, and Banias, as well as in several villages and towns in Homs and Hama provinces. The gatherings were held to denounce sectarian oppression and systematic rights violations by al-Jolani’s administration.
According to local reports, last night areas in the provinces of Khost, Paktika, and Kunar were targeted by airstrikes. In Khost, an attack on a residential home killed nine children and one woman.
The General Staff of the Israeli army announced a large-scale exercise has begun to assess the readiness of forces against various scenarios, particularly unexpected incidents along the northern border.
The R-77 air-to-air missile is regarded as one of the most important medium-range weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces. Featuring a distinctive lattice-fin design, it offers high agility and maneuverability, and in advanced variants such as the R-77M, its range has been extended to 193 kilometers. Equipped with a multifunction active radar, data link, proximity fuse, and fragmentation warhead, the R-77 is considered a true “fire-and-forget” weapon capable of independent target engagement, and today forms part of the armament of Russia’s fifth-generation Su-57 fighter.
At the Dubai Airshow 2025, India officially unveiled and promoted its domestically developed Astra Mk1 air-to-air missile as a substitute for Russia’s R-77. This move comes at a time when many traditional buyers of Russian arms — including Algeria, Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Serbia — have faced long delays and non-delivery of R-77-1 missiles since 2023.
