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Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸🇾🇪 - Current situation along the Hays direction, southwest Yemen: - Tihamah Brigades (pro Presidential Leadership Council, PLC) launched heavy artillery attacks on Ansarullah positions yesterday evening. - Ansarullah responded with 14 ballistic missiles…
🇾🇪 - Situation update in the Ta'izz direction:
After nearly 24 hours of fighting, Ansarullah's offensive along the Ta'izz axis appears to have failed.
Ansarullah initially achieved tactical gains, capturing several positions around the Bani Bakari Heights overlooking al-Qash‘ah and Jabal Nu'man. Following the advances in the heights west of Bani Bakari, Ansarullah forces pushed towards Jabal al-Rawa in an attempt to reach the As Safi crossroads.
However, reinforcements from the Presidential Leadership Council, including the Giant Brigades and Homeland Shield Forces, launched a counteroffensive in the Bani Bakari sector, recapturing the lost positions and reversing all of Ansarullah's gains.
The objective of the Ansarullah operation was clear:
- Seize the Bani Bakari Heights and isolate Ta'izz from Jabal al-Rawa and As Safi. The Bani Bakari heights provided Ansarullah full fire control over the Ta'izz - As Safi road.
- The al-Houthi forces would then attack Jabal al-Rawa and its crossroad As Safi just south, and had the surrounding high grounds around fallen, the main supply route linking Ta'izz to Dhubab and the Bab el-Mandeb corridor would have been severed.
- The loss of the As Safi crossroad would have forced PLC forces to rely on the much longer coastal route from Aden to sustain Dhubab, the logistical hub for the National Resistance Forces operating along the Hays front. In turn, this would have placed the entire Hays direction at significant risk.
Map key: Blue circle: Ta'izz. Yellow circle: Bani Bakari. Orange circle: As Safi. Red circle: Dhubab.
Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸🇾🇪 - Initial reports, Ansarullah launched ballistic missiles from the al-Hodeidah and Ash Sha'f areas.
🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah forces are launching relentless waves of assaults against the al-Matahif heights, attempting to pass through the grey-zone, and breach the PLC's defensive lines - Hays direction, southwest Yemen.
Fighting has been ongoing across the entire Hays and Ta'izz fronts for over 40+ hours.
Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸🇸🇩🇪🇹⚡- A new large build-up of Rapid Support Forces, RSF, in Ethiopia along the Sudanese border, indicating the RSF offensive in the Ad Damazin direction is far from over.
🇸🇩⚡- The Rapid Support Forces have launched new offensives towards the al-Bukuri area and the town of Khandaru, Ad Damazin direction, southeast Sudan.
Clashes are still ongoing despite the initial wave of RSF attacks being repelled in al-Bukuri.
Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸🇩🇪⚡️- Volkswagen plans to fire another 50,000 workers between 2031 and 2034. This announcement comes months after a first decision to fire 50,000 workers by 2030. The company explained they have been forced to double that number to due rising economic pressure…
🇩🇪🇪🇺⚡️- German economists interpret the announcement as a worrying sign that the country's economy is heading into a death spiral.
Manufacturing accounts for nearly 20% of Germany's GDP, well above the 15% average across other EU nations. Germany generates nearly a third of all European manufacturing, with the automotive industry making up the largest part of this sector. Since the first Q1 2026, the German manufacturing industry has been bleeding an average of 13,500 jobs per month.
🇩🇪⚡️- Volkswagen plans to fire another 50,000 workers between 2031 and 2034. This announcement comes months after a first decision to fire 50,000 workers by 2030. The company explained they have been forced to double that number to due rising economic pressure and increased competition from Chinese manufacturers.
Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸🇮🇷🇯🇴⚡- "Iran started attacking Jordan two hours after the war started. That was an implementation of a premeditated policy rather than a reaction. Iran has been attacking us long before even this war by meddling in our internal affairs, by investing in proxies…
🇮🇷🇯🇴⚡- "How much time does the Jordanian Foreign Minister believe Iran should wait before responding to an aggressor that respects neither Arab sovereignty nor Iranian sovereignty?
And is he truly unaware that Arab airspace, lands, and waters were used in the initial American attacks that resulted in the killing of innocent Iranians?" - Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister.
🇮🇷🇯🇴⚡- "Iran started attacking Jordan two hours after the war started. That was an implementation of a premeditated policy rather than a reaction.
Iran has been attacking us long before even this war by meddling in our internal affairs, by investing in proxies, and by clandestine operations," - Ayman Safadi, Jordan's Foreign Minister.
🇫🇷🇪🇺⚡️- French EU deputies N. Loiseau and M. Maréchal have notified the European Commission that the Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organizations (FEMYSO) was still benefiting from EU funding despite being banned from EU institutions in July.
According to recent investigations, the FEMYSO was proven to belong to the Muslim Brotherhood's influence network in Europe. It aggregates over 30 muslim associations among 22 EU countries. According to the EU deputies' investigations, left-wing EU groups are behind the maintained financing of the FEMYSO.
🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) is conducting an internal review of a civilian casualty incident at a wedding during the strikes in Iran on Tuesday," - Axios.
"Four military weapons experts who reviewed footage said the damage pattern was consistent with a direct strike rather than debris from a munition that missed another target.
Three of the four said the weapon was likely American rather than an errant Iranian air-defense missile; one said the munition may have simply missed its intended target," - Reuters.
Iran's Mehr News reports five civilians were killed, with over 70 injured, some remain in critical conditions. One of the victims was a 22-year old woman, while another was a 4-year old boy.
🇸🇩🇱🇾🇪🇬⚡- Sudan has launched a large wave of airstrikes on the Sudan-Libya-Egypt border point targeting Rapid Support Forces reinforcements from southeast Libya.
🇺🇸⚡- "On Sep. 3, at the direction of SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, and in coordination and collaboration with the Government of Ecuador, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere (JTF-WHEM) successfully interdicted a vessel operating as a floating refueling station in support of illicit at-sea drug trafficking operations in international waters of the Eastern Pacific. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was operating in support of the Los Choneros violent narco-terrorist organization.
Littoral Combat Force 24 launched from USS San Antonio (LPD 17), interdicted, boarded, searched, and cleared the vessel without incident. Individuals removed from the vessel will be safely transferred to Ecuadorian authorities. Once cleared, U.S. forces sank the vessel.
This interdiction cuts off a critical node in the traffickers' logistics chain and advances the goals of the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition (A3C) and JTF-WHEM to dismantle narco-terrorist networks. The Department of War and the A3C remain unwavering in their mission to defeat narco-terrorists in the Western Hemisphere and defend our homeland," - SOUTHCOM.
Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸🇾🇪 - Confirmed: Ansarullah forces have captured the heights west the Bani Bakari areas, Ta'izz direction, southwest Yemen. The Tareq Salah's brigades have retreated from the area.
🇾🇪⚡- Yemen's PLC forces have recaptured the heights west of Bani Bakari, including Jabal Nu'man, Ta'izz direction, southwest Yemen, forcing Ansarullah to withdraw.
🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The explosion that killed four people at an Iranian wedding on Monday was likely caused by a direct hit by a U.S. munition and not a ricochet, according to a Reuters investigation.
Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸🇺🇸⚡️- The foreperson on the Lindsay Clancy jury has reportedly told the judge that there is a single holdout who refuses to acquit her.
🇺🇸⚡️- Multiple legal experts say language from the judge and defense today signals that the Lindsay Clancy jury is currently in an 11-1 deadlock, with a single holdout wanting to vote guilty while the remaining eleven favor not guilty.
