🌆 COMBATE Evening Roundup | September 17, 2026

• US burned 80 interceptors failing to repel one Iranian strike — The Wall Street Journal reported the US military fired up to 70 Patriot and over a dozen THAAD interceptors yet failed to stop a single Iranian strike on US facilities in Jordan last week. A Pentagon inspector general report confirms strategic munitions shortages.

• Secret US-Israeli-Arab military summit on Iran held in Germany — Axios reported CENTCOM chief Brad Cooper convened senior commanders from Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan and Egypt, the first such meeting since the war began. Cooper told them the US will not withdraw from the Middle East.

• Trump to meet all six Gulf states on Iran war's 'day after' — Axios says Trump will meet GCC leaders in New York next Tuesday to finalize a postwar strategy. Trump separately said he believes Tehran seeks a peace deal and hopes the war is about to end.

• House sends Graham Russia-Iran sanctions act to Trump — Lawmakers passed the bill 262-159, targeting Russia's shadow fleet and authorizing tariffs up to 100% on major buyers of Russian energy.

• Fed hikes for first time since 2023 as war inflation bites — The Fed raised rates 25bp to 4%, erasing $490 billion in US equity value in 25 minutes. Middle East crude topped $130 a barrel, US diesel hit a record $6.31, and the EU pegged its extra war energy bill at €90 billion.

• Washington and Yemen's Ansar Allah held talks in Oman — Reuters reported the weekend meeting, where the movement assured the US it would attack only Saudi ships. Fighting on Yemen's coast has meanwhile displaced over 100,000 people across Bab al-Mandab to Djibouti.

• Saudi Arabia cancels European oil deliveries after pipeline hits — Aramco aims to restore half the East-West pipeline's capacity within days and full capacity in six weeks, Bloomberg reported; Reuters says repair timelines for damaged pump stations remain unclear.

• Riyadh accuses Sanaa of Mecca drone attack; Yemen denies — Yemen's Ansar Allah rejected the claim as an attempt to inflame Muslim opinion, while Egypt's Al-Azhar said the security of the holy sites concerns the entire Islamic world, not politics.

• US prepares $2.8 billion heavy bomb sale to Israel — The package covers 40,000 two-thousand-pound bombs including MK-84s and penetrating warheads, the Washington Post reported.

• Kosovo's Thaci sentenced to 25 years for war crimes — The Hague tribunal convicted the former president over torture, murder and illegal detentions of opponents during the 1998 conflict.

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