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🎥 WATCH: On Feb 28, Tomahawk missiles struck a school in Minab, killing at least 156 people, including 120 children — one of the gravest U.S. war crimes since Vietnam.
@jeremyscahill, @MazMHussain & @SayahTweets spent two months speaking with survivors. This is their story.
@jeremyscahill, @MazMHussain & @SayahTweets spent two months speaking with survivors. This is their story.
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🇪🇬 Speaking at the same conference Saturday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said a renewed US-Iran war would be worse than the first. "The second round will be more dangerous, more destructive, and it will lead to nowhere," he said. "We have to draw lessons from the past."
A few takeaways from a gloomy @IISS_org Manama Dialogue this weekend:
- Very real sense of dread about another, more destructive round of war in the coming weeks, which is unsurprising
- Gulf states are clear and unanimous that they don't want it, a difference from February, when messages to Washington were rather more mixed
- At the same time, there was a feeling of resignation: no one willing to criticize the Trump administration in public, nor to talk in private about what sort of pressure they might bring to bear on America
- There were even some bizarro-world discussions about opportunities for growth and connectivity in the Gulf. Trump is driving a car with no brakes, Gulf states are strapped on the roof, and people are somehow still talking about, like, IMEC and data centers
- Barely any American representation, at a moment when America is deciding the fate of its Gulf allies
- No clarity on what sort of deal (sequencing, nuclear concessions, etc.) the Trump administration would actually be willing to accept. And a broad consensus that Trump himself may not be clear
- Lots of upbeat talk about the Mecca pact, middle powers playing a role in maritime security and so on; little evidence any of this is making a difference yet
- Gargash offered some well-founded criticism of Gulf states failing to work together this year; everyone else offered paeans to Gulf solidarity that seem disconnected from reality
In general, the feeling was a world in torpor: nobody wants this, and nobody has any great ideas for how to stop it
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🇦🇪 Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed, warned Sunday that the region is "braced for the worst" as US and Iranian positions remain far apart. "If these positions are not bridged, then we have to worry about the worst," he said at the International Institute for Strategic Studies' Manama Dialogue security conference in Bahrain.
"We don't really want to see another round of confrontation in the region," Gargash said, adding that the UAE was ready "to protect our achievements, our development model, our country, our citizens and people who are resident here."
He said Gulf states "have not collectively risen to the challenge," adding, "Nationally, we have." Gargash said all Gulf states are in contact with Tehran. "Of course, we are talking to Iran. All Gulf countries are talking to Iran through different channels," he said. He called restoring pre-war shipping through the Strait of Hormuz a non-negotiable priority, saying disruption to "the flow of energy, the flow of trade" cannot be "a cost that we will all bear because of a crisis that we did not create." He also said the war had exposed Gulf collective security in some cases "hollow," and called for "rebuilding Gulf confidence."
🔗 More takeaways from the Economist’s journalist below ⬇️
"We don't really want to see another round of confrontation in the region," Gargash said, adding that the UAE was ready "to protect our achievements, our development model, our country, our citizens and people who are resident here."
He said Gulf states "have not collectively risen to the challenge," adding, "Nationally, we have." Gargash said all Gulf states are in contact with Tehran. "Of course, we are talking to Iran. All Gulf countries are talking to Iran through different channels," he said. He called restoring pre-war shipping through the Strait of Hormuz a non-negotiable priority, saying disruption to "the flow of energy, the flow of trade" cannot be "a cost that we will all bear because of a crisis that we did not create." He also said the war had exposed Gulf collective security in some cases "hollow," and called for "rebuilding Gulf confidence."
🔗 More takeaways from the Economist’s journalist below ⬇️
A few takeaways from a gloomy @IISS_org Manama Dialogue this weekend:
- Very real sense of dread about another, more destructive round of war in the coming weeks, which is unsurprising
- Gulf states are clear and unanimous that they don't want it, a difference from February, when messages to Washington were rather more mixed
- At the same time, there was a feeling of resignation: no one willing to criticize the Trump administration in public, nor to talk in private about what sort of pressure they might bring to bear on America
- There were even some bizarro-world discussions about opportunities for growth and connectivity in the Gulf. Trump is driving a car with no brakes, Gulf states are strapped on the roof, and people are somehow still talking about, like, IMEC and data centers
- Barely any American representation, at a moment when America is deciding the fate of its Gulf allies
- No clarity on what sort of deal (sequencing, nuclear concessions, etc.) the Trump administration would actually be willing to accept. And a broad consensus that Trump himself may not be clear
- Lots of upbeat talk about the Mecca pact, middle powers playing a role in maritime security and so on; little evidence any of this is making a difference yet
- Gargash offered some well-founded criticism of Gulf states failing to work together this year; everyone else offered paeans to Gulf solidarity that seem disconnected from reality
In general, the feeling was a world in torpor: nobody wants this, and nobody has any great ideas for how to stop it
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Anderson Cooper: What changed between last night when you spoke to Debbie Dingell and this morning? “Did you have a dream?”
Haley Stevens says "we all want Democrats to win" while repeatedly dodging Anderson Cooper's question about what changed from last night, when she was saying she would vote for Abdul El-Sayed, to today
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Haley Stevens tells CNN that Abdul El-Sayed expressed too much anger and frustration: “Why the obsession with Iran and all these other issues about what’s going on overseas?”
Actually quote from Haley Stevens on CNN: “Why the anger? Why the frustration? Why the obsession with Iran and all these other issues about what’s going on overseas?”
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Tucker Carlson: “Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran… Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. ‘Bibi calls Trump about it every day,’ says an informed observer.”
Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.
Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.
To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.
The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.
And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.
We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.
Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.
They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.
One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.
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Sharing the report, Ansarallah-aligned commentator Hussain al-Bukhaiti suggested Ansarallah could soon capture Ras al-Ara port on the Gulf of Aden, comparing it to Ansarallah's rapid seizure of the Red Sea port of Mocha on Sept. 10. Taking Ras al-Ara would put Ansarallah on both sides of the strait.
💢🇾🇪 UPDATE: Ansarallah forces have taken the al-Maqatirah district administration building and the district's hilltop fortress in Yemen's southern Lahj province, bringing them within 5 kilometers (~3 miles) of the center of neighboring Tur al-Baha, according to a Yemeni h the Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council.
Saudi outlets claim the Giants Brigades, a UAE-built force, and Saudi Arabia's Homeland Shield forces, both fighting for the council, have instead retaken positions and contained the advance. Drop Site could not independently confirm either account.
The push threatens to encircle the council's forces in the coastal pocket they hold at the Bab al-Mandab Strait. With Ansarallah already controlling the high ground to the north and the Red Sea coast to the west, taking Tur al-Baha and pushing south on the main road from Taiz to Aden would sever the routes that link the pocket to Aden, the council's base and the main source of its reinforcements and supplies.
Sharing the report, Ansarallah-aligned commentator Hussain al-Bukhaiti suggested Ansarallah could soon capture Ras al-Ara port on the Gulf of Aden, comparing it to Ansarallah's rapid seizure of the Red Sea port of Mocha on Sept. 10. Taking Ras al-Ara would put Ansarallah on both sides of the strait.
▪️@bonzerbarry contributed to this report.
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🗳️ New New York Times polls put Democrats ahead in seven key Senate races:
Michigan
🔵 Abdul El-Sayed (D): 53%
🔴 Mike Rogers (R): 42%
Texas
🔵 James Talarico (D): 50%
🔴 Ken Paxton (R): 43%
Maine
🔵 Troy Jackson (D): 51%
🔴 Susan Collins (R): 45%
Ohio
🔵 Sherrod Brown (D): 49%
🔴 Jon Husted (R): 44%
Kansas
🔵 Adam Hamilton (D): 49%
🔴 Roger Marshall (R): 44%
Alaska
🔵 Mary Peltola (D): 48%
🔴 Dan Sullivan (R): 46%
Iowa
🔵 Josh Turek (D): 48%
🔴 Ashley Hinson (R): 47%
Michigan
🔵 Abdul El-Sayed (D): 53%
🔴 Mike Rogers (R): 42%
Texas
🔵 James Talarico (D): 50%
🔴 Ken Paxton (R): 43%
Maine
🔵 Troy Jackson (D): 51%
🔴 Susan Collins (R): 45%
Ohio
🔵 Sherrod Brown (D): 49%
🔴 Jon Husted (R): 44%
Kansas
🔵 Adam Hamilton (D): 49%
🔴 Roger Marshall (R): 44%
Alaska
🔵 Mary Peltola (D): 48%
🔴 Dan Sullivan (R): 46%
Iowa
🔵 Josh Turek (D): 48%
🔴 Ashley Hinson (R): 47%
Johnson: The corrupt media is using fake polls to create a narrative. We are going to win and shock the world.
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Today's quick update [Nov 1]:
- RSF's targeting of power infrastructure continues with drone strikes on power stations in Aldabba, Northern State and Abu Hamad, River Nile State.
- "Attacks also hit military sites and fuel stations, killing one civilian."
#KeepEyesOnSudan
- RSF's targeting of power infrastructure continues with drone strikes on power stations in Aldabba, Northern State and Abu Hamad, River Nile State.
- "Attacks also hit military sites and fuel stations, killing one civilian."
#KeepEyesOnSudan
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🛢️ A tanker was struck by two projectiles 72 nautical miles (about 83 miles) east of Ras al-Khafji, the Saudi town on the Kuwaiti border in the northern Persian Gulf, the UK Maritime Trade Operations agency (UKMTO) reported Sunday. It was the second ship attack of the day, and it rom the Strait of Hormuz.
Earlier Sunday, UKMTO said a merchant ship's master had relayed a Mayday call reporting that "another vessel has been struck by an unknown projectile" in the strait.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy said two oil tankers had hit naval mines while on "an unauthorized route in the Strait," and that one, a supertanker, was "engulfed in flames following a powerful explosion." The IRGC said the ships had switched off their tracking systems and ignored radio warnings, and that their owners "shall bear full responsibility for all consequences resulting from this unauthorized transit."
The attacks follow the IRGC's claim Thursday that four tankers hit mines on the US-promoted southern route, and a Friday attack on the Qatari liquefied natural gas carrier Al Mayeda. On Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi demanded recognition of the shipping lane Iran set with Oman "and the closure of the other lanes."
Earlier Sunday, UKMTO said a merchant ship's master had relayed a Mayday call reporting that "another vessel has been struck by an unknown projectile" in the strait.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy said two oil tankers had hit naval mines while on "an unauthorized route in the Strait," and that one, a supertanker, was "engulfed in flames following a powerful explosion." The IRGC said the ships had switched off their tracking systems and ignored radio warnings, and that their owners "shall bear full responsibility for all consequences resulting from this unauthorized transit."
The attacks follow the IRGC's claim Thursday that four tankers hit mines on the US-promoted southern route, and a Friday attack on the Qatari liquefied natural gas carrier Al Mayeda. On Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi demanded recognition of the shipping lane Iran set with Oman "and the closure of the other lanes."
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McMorrow: “This is not a surprise to a lot of us who have known Haley Stevens for a long time. This is how she operates behind the scenes. If she doesn't get her way, she threatens people.”
“People are finally starting to see who she is.”
“People are finally starting to see who she is.”
‼️Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow slammed Democrat Haley Stevens’ endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers as a “sad, desperate attempt to be relevant” just days before the election.
“It feels like it’s more about her feelings than Michiganders,” McMorrow said, accusing er constituents and alleging a pattern of threatening political opponents.
“If she doesn’t get her way, she threatens people,” McMorrow said. “People are finally starting to see who she is.”
McMorrow also said that Stevens’ endorsement has backfired, galvanizing support for Abdul El-Sayed: “I don’t think this has had the effect that Haley thought it would. It has pissed people off in a big way.”
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⭕️ President Trump threatens Iran: “But at some point, we're going to have to give them the hammer.”
Trump on Iran:
The only reason we are not finished with Iran is because I want to be nice. I want to try and save all those lives if I can.
But at some point, we're going to have to give them the hammer.
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‼️Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow slammed Democrat Haley Stevens’ endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers as a “sad, desperate attempt to be relevant” just days before the election.
“It feels like it’s more about her feelings than Michiganders,” McMorrow said, accusing er constituents and alleging a pattern of threatening political opponents.
“If she doesn’t get her way, she threatens people,” McMorrow said. “People are finally starting to see who she is.”
McMorrow also said that Stevens’ endorsement has backfired, galvanizing support for Abdul El-Sayed: “I don’t think this has had the effect that Haley thought it would. It has pissed people off in a big way.”
“It feels like it’s more about her feelings than Michiganders,” McMorrow said, accusing er constituents and alleging a pattern of threatening political opponents.
“If she doesn’t get her way, she threatens people,” McMorrow said. “People are finally starting to see who she is.”
McMorrow also said that Stevens’ endorsement has backfired, galvanizing support for Abdul El-Sayed: “I don’t think this has had the effect that Haley thought it would. It has pissed people off in a big way.”
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The US-Israeli war on Iran entered its ninth month Sunday. When it began on Feb. 28, President Donald Trump said it would take "four to five weeks." "I always thought it would be four weeks. And we're a little ahead of schedule," he told CNN on March 2.
On Saturday, Trump said he was not "in much of a hurry" to finish talks with Tehran, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presses him to resume major strikes right after Tuesday's midterms, according to Axios, a frequent conduit for placing US leaks.
On Saturday, Trump said he was not "in much of a hurry" to finish talks with Tehran, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presses him to resume major strikes right after Tuesday's midterms, according to Axios, a frequent conduit for placing US leaks.
Trump:
I could have won the Vietnam War in a week.
They kept bombing forests for years instead of going after Ho Chi Minh City.Community noteHo Chi Minh City was called Saigon during the Vietnam War and was the capital of US-allied South Vietnam; North Vietnam's capital was Hanoi.
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💢🇾🇪 UPDATE: Ansarallah forces have taken the al-Maqatirah district administration building and the district's hilltop fortress in Yemen's southern Lahj province, bringing them within 5 kilometers (~3 miles) of the center of neighboring Tur al-Baha, according to a Yemeni h the Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council.
Saudi outlets claim the Giants Brigades, a UAE-built force, and Saudi Arabia's Homeland Shield forces, both fighting for the council, have instead retaken positions and contained the advance. Drop Site could not independently confirm either account.
The push threatens to encircle the council's forces in the coastal pocket they hold at the Bab al-Mandab Strait. With Ansarallah already controlling the high ground to the north and the Red Sea coast to the west, taking Tur al-Baha and pushing south on the main road from Taiz to Aden would sever the routes that link the pocket to Aden, the council's base and the main source of its reinforcements and supplies.
Sharing the report, Ansarallah-aligned commentator Hussain al-Bukhaiti suggested Ansarallah could soon capture Ras al-Ara port on the Gulf of Aden, comparing it to Ansarallah's rapid seizure of the Red Sea port of Mocha on Sept. 10. Taking Ras al-Ara would put Ansarallah on both sides of the strait.
▪️@bonzerbarry contributed to this report.
Saudi outlets claim the Giants Brigades, a UAE-built force, and Saudi Arabia's Homeland Shield forces, both fighting for the council, have instead retaken positions and contained the advance. Drop Site could not independently confirm either account.
The push threatens to encircle the council's forces in the coastal pocket they hold at the Bab al-Mandab Strait. With Ansarallah already controlling the high ground to the north and the Red Sea coast to the west, taking Tur al-Baha and pushing south on the main road from Taiz to Aden would sever the routes that link the pocket to Aden, the council's base and the main source of its reinforcements and supplies.
Sharing the report, Ansarallah-aligned commentator Hussain al-Bukhaiti suggested Ansarallah could soon capture Ras al-Ara port on the Gulf of Aden, comparing it to Ansarallah's rapid seizure of the Red Sea port of Mocha on Sept. 10. Taking Ras al-Ara would put Ansarallah on both sides of the strait.
▪️@bonzerbarry contributed to this report.
💢🇾🇪 Ansarallah launches offensive on the Bab Al-Mandab front in southwest Yemen
In the last 72 hours, Ansarallah has captured the highlands of the historic Al-Maqaterah District in Lahij Governorate after seizing control of Al-Maqaterah Castle.
Forces from Al-Maqaterah southwest to meet up with Ansar forces in Al Madaribah and Ras Al Ara District as they advanced along multiple fronts extending down to Jabal Al Rafad and the village of Ad Durad.
Only a couple hundred square kilometers of highland terrain remains under the control of the Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) in the vicinity of the Bab Al-Mandab.
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Rep. Jim Clyburn criticized Democrat Haley Stevens for endorsing Republican Mike Rogers, telling Don Lemon the decision was “unfortunate” and one she may come to regret. Asked whether it would affect Michigan’s Senate race against Abdul El-Sayed, Clyburn said, “I don’t think it ”
Asked about Stevens citing Israel as her reason, Clyburn said, “Nobody is a bigger supporter of Israel than I am,” but argued that support for Israel should not be conflated with support for Netanyahu’s government.
In 2020, after Bernie Sanders won New Hampshire and Nevada and secured the most votes in Iowa, Clyburn, a former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and a major recipient of AIPAC support, endorsed a struggling Joe Biden ahead of the South Carolina primary. Biden went on to win decisively, reviving his campaign ahead of Super Tuesday.
As president, Biden provided Israel with billions in military aid and weapons as it carried out what Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and a UN commission of inquiry have concluded is genocide in Gaza. The UN commission reported in October 2026 that the genocide remains ongoing.
🎥 Don Lemon
Asked about Stevens citing Israel as her reason, Clyburn said, “Nobody is a bigger supporter of Israel than I am,” but argued that support for Israel should not be conflated with support for Netanyahu’s government.
In 2020, after Bernie Sanders won New Hampshire and Nevada and secured the most votes in Iowa, Clyburn, a former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and a major recipient of AIPAC support, endorsed a struggling Joe Biden ahead of the South Carolina primary. Biden went on to win decisively, reviving his campaign ahead of Super Tuesday.
As president, Biden provided Israel with billions in military aid and weapons as it carried out what Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and a UN commission of inquiry have concluded is genocide in Gaza. The UN commission reported in October 2026 that the genocide remains ongoing.
🎥 Don Lemon
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My update on the Ansarallah offensive on the Bab Al-Mandab front. They have claimed a couple hundred square kilometers of mountains and highlands in a few days and they are almost within FPV range of the Homeland Shield base on the southern coast. If this trend continues, then the PLC counteroffensive in the Bab Al-Mandab will soon be over.
💢🇾🇪 Ansarallah launches offensive on the Bab Al-Mandab front in southwest Yemen
In the last 72 hours, Ansarallah has captured the highlands of the historic Al-Maqaterah District in Lahij Governorate after seizing control of Al-Maqaterah Castle.
Forces from Al-Maqaterah southwest to meet up with Ansar forces in Al Madaribah and Ras Al Ara District as they advanced along multiple fronts extending down to Jabal Al Rafad and the village of Ad Durad.
Only a couple hundred square kilometers of highland terrain remains under the control of the Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) in the vicinity of the Bab Al-Mandab.
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