Conflict Archive (War Diary) OSINT

A Turkish commercial vessel, Royad Mammadov, sank in the Black Sea after being struck by a drone.

Romanian authorities said 11 crew members were rescued and two were killed. The vessel was about 30 nautical miles south of Sfântu Gheorghe, inside Romania’s exclusive economic zone, when a fire was reported and a search-and-rescue operation was launched.

More than 200 U.S. intelligence and military analysts are working inside Saudi command centers, helping analyze and select targets for Saudi-backed Yemeni forces fighting the Houthis.

The U.S. is also providing aerial refueling for Saudi defensive patrols, though Trump rejected Saudi requests for direct U.S. strikes on Houthi targets. Source: NYT

🇾🇪🇾🇪❌🇸🇦 - Geo-location evidence of PLC advancements. @GeoPWatch

#BREAKING 🇾🇪🇾🇪❌🇸🇦 - The PLC and affiliates re-capture Bab AlMandeb, following the launch of a counter-offensive this morning, as announced yesterday. The group heads to 'Dhubab'. @GeoPWatch

A car with three Palestinian suspects in it accelerated toward troops near the West Bank town of Bani Naim, the IDF says in a update on its initial report earlier on a suspected car-ramming in the area. The suspicious car struck an army vehicle, causing no injuries to the soldiers, the military says. The IDF says the troops then opened fire on the car, hitting the three Palestinians inside. Medics say that one of the Palestinians was killed, one was seriously injured, and one is lightly hurt. The military adds that it has set up roadblocks in the area as it conducts scans

The IDF says troops opened fire on two suspects spotted approaching a military post in southern Syria on a motorcycle a short while ago. After the pair were identified approaching the military position, the soldiers began a "suspect arrest procedure," which included live fire toward the motorcycle. Both suspects were detained, the military says, without detailing their conditions. The incident comes less than a day after a suspect was shot dead while trying to breach an IDF post in southern Syria.

A soldier was severely wounded and an officer was moderately hurt by an accidental grenade explosion in southern Lebanon over the weekend, the military says. The "operational accident" took place during army activity on Friday in southern Lebanon. The IDF says the wounded soldiers were taken to a hospital for treatment and their families were notified. The circumstances that led the grenade to injure the troops is under further investigation by the army.

A soldier was severely wounded and an officer was moderately hurt by an accidental grenade explosion in southern Lebanon over the weekend, the military says. The "operational accident" took place during army activity on Friday in southern Lebanon. The IDF says the wounded soldiers were taken to a hospital for treatment and their families were notified. The circumstances that led the grenade to injure the troops is under further investigation by the army.

🇮🇷 #Iran: The al-Qaeda-affiliated People’s Fighters Front, formerly known as Jundullah and Jaish al-Adl, has released footage of its militants carrying out an attack in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchestan Province. According to the group’s account, after Iranian security forces raided a suspected militant safehouse in the Manzelabad area, additional militants moved toward the cordon and attacked two police patrols deployed to secure the area. Conflicting accounts arised regarding the militants' operation. While the group itself claims the attack was a success, Iranian media reports that all of the jihadists involved were killed.

#Iran 🇮🇷: “Jaysh al-Adl” (People's Fighters Front) carried out several attacks against Iranian Police Forces (FARAJA) in #Sistan & #Balochistan. Militants used #USA-made 🇺🇸 M16A4 rifle with Thermal Sight, RPG-7 pattern Launcher with PG-7V Anti-Tank rocket and AKM pattern rifles. https://x.com/war_noir/status/2105707813922066888

🇮🇶 — Iraqi PM al-Zaydi sets the deadline for the disarmament of militias "outside state control" to June 30th 2027 after Operation Inherent Resolve ended in Iraq yesterday, September 30th.

A Russian Mi-8 helicopter crashed in the Anninsky District of Voronezh Oblast, killing all three crewmembers onboard.

A Ukrainian MiG-29 multirole fighter was shot down, killing Captain Marat Mambetov, a flight commander with the 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade, known as the “Ghosts of Kyiv.” According to the Ukrainian side, the aircraft was hit by a missile while carrying out a combat mission. Mambetov ejected but did not survive.

BIG: CENTCOM officially ends Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq, last US forces and equipment departed Erbil Air Base today. CENTCOM commander: Iraqi security forces now possess the capacity to unilaterally manage threats to their homeland. US forces "remain ready to respond to any ISIS threats that arise."

As of October 1st, for the first time since U.S. forces arrived in Afghanistan in 2001, there are no active U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan anymore.

https://t.me/milinfolive/180575 "From an interview with the then-Chief of Staff of the 61st Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) regarding the experience of the first clash with DPRK soldiers during the fighting in the Kursk region: "At first, we expected tactics similar to the Russian ones, but the reality turned out to be different. North Korean units operated according to classic—essentially Soviet—doctrines: using massed infantry lines that advanced across the field regardless of casualties. The first clash with them occurred on an adjacent sector of the front, to our left, and the way they advanced shocked even experienced troops: a solid wall of soldiers that was difficult to stop, given that we had long since moved away from the massed use of artillery against manpower in that specific format. This required a significantly higher expenditure of ammunition than the combat operations we were accustomed to; positions would literally exhaust their entire ammunition supply under the pressure of such waves. The defensive line began to buckle noticeably after encountering these tactics—withstanding such an onslaught was extremely difficult," stated AFU Colonel Artem Kholodkevych. According to Kholodkevych, the 61st Separate Mechanized Brigade’s first engagement with North Korean troops took place on December 29, 2024, near Cherkasskaya Konopelka. As a result, Ukrainian units were forced back in less than 24 hours, having expended nearly their entire artillery ammunition supply in the process. "I rate the training level of the DPRK units as high—they inflicted significant losses on us and made holding our positions much more difficult. It is telling that the first prisoners (https://t.me/milinfolive/139624) captured in this sector of the front were taken by a special operations unit. The prisoners themselves gave the impression of being elite, physically fit personnel," adds the former chief of staff of the 61st Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is worth noting that enemy claims regarding North Korean soldiers attacking in infantry waves are not entirely fabricated; in the initial videos (https://t.me/milinfolive/137690) of the fighting in the Kursk region, DPRK soldiers were indeed seen clustering in large groups and moving across the terrain in ranks."

Damage can be seen on the tail of the FlyDubai plane as a result of the flight's rapid descent. t.me/conflictarchive

Photo of the Flydubai plane that made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.