🌆 COMBATE Evening Roundup | October 15, 2026

• Iran officials tell diplomats a US attack is imminent — i24NEWS reports senior officials are "100% sure" Washington will strike, amid an atmosphere of imminent war in Tehran. Bloomberg, citing a US military official, says Israel seeks a broad attack on Iran including oil and gas facilities.

• Yemen says it downed a Saudi Typhoon fighter — A surface-to-air missile seriously damaged the jet over Saada and it may have crashed. Yemeni forces also struck Riyadh's King Khalid airport with a ballistic missile and hit mercenary gatherings with three more.

• Twenty districts of Taiz fall to Yemeni forces — Al-Mayadeen said central areas are negotiating surrender without fighting, as Yemeni units captured mercenaries near Bab al-Mandab and the Zubab airport.

• Trump admits he "probably went too far" on Iran — He said he had promised Tehran not to assassinate any more leaders after successive eliminations left him unsure who to deal with.

• Russia offers to take Iran's enriched uranium — Deputy FM Borisenko said Moscow stands ready to transfer it to Russian soil or help other states receive it, if the parties request and agree.

• Aramco moves oil command functions abroad — Reuters says duties were shifted to Aramco offices worldwide after the Dhahran HQ strike, with staff told to work from home. US employees now need special approval to use any Saudi airport.

• Israel threatens Hezbollah with a permanent buffer zone — Defense Minister Katz said if Hezbollah joins Iran's war it will lose Nabatieh and Litani territory, with Shia residents evacuated north of the Awali and Zahrani rivers.

• US drone wounds Iranian fishermen off Hormuz — A fishing boat was hit off Sirik; a crewman said they were shrimping when struck. Iran's IRGC Navy chief said US carriers "don't dare" approach Hormuz and "we wait to sink them."

• Zelensky says Trump betrayed him, refuses to resign — He denounced the US-Russia diesel deal and said fuel prices rose because of Hormuz, not Ukraine. Musk said Starlink serves no offensive operations and the decision rests with Trump.

• Ukraine bombs two Russian refineries despite truce — Deputy PM Novak said strikes hit Saratov and Ryazan days after the energy truce; Moscow says 91 drones were downed over the two regions.

• German state parliament demands end to Russia sanctions — Saxony-Anhalt backed an AfD-BSW motion to lift sanctions and halt arms to Kiev. Dmitriev said first US diesel contracts will be signed within days.

• Saboteurs torch Bulgarian Starlink station — Masked men burned 11 of 17 antennas near Sofia that supported Ukraine war communications.

• Brazil runoff poll shows 46-44 technical tie — Quaest put Flavio Bolsonaro ahead of Lula within the margin of error, as Lula's camp asked the electoral court to act against alleged Meta bias.

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