Macron emphasized that the French military did not intend to take part in any fighting. „Not to involve ourselves in any conflict, but to protect the site,“ he clarified. Macron also repeated that France was seeking to achieve the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz through diplomatic means, in particular by holding talks with „the Iranians“ and „the Omanis.“
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Saudi Arabia confirms Yemenâs Houthi rebels tried to attack its capital with a ballistic missile
Saudi Arabia on Saturday confirmed that Yemenâs Houthi rebels tried to attack its capital with a ballistic missile, the first targeting of Riyadh since the escalation in fighting with the Tehran-backed rebels that has opened a new front in the Iran war.
The statement by the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis came long after the dawn attempt, which the coalition said was intercepted. Some residents in Riyadh heard an explosion. Later, some saw a plume of smoke near the airport. There were no reports of casualties or damage.
15 JAHRE TERRORKRIEG UND 11. SEPTEMBER: âStehen die Befehle noch?â
(September 11, 2016)
Teil I: Die MilitÀrmanöver
Teil II: Nachspiel
Teil III: Langer Marsch eines Molochs
Teil IV: Die Kommandokette
Teil V: Duplikat, Drone, Plan
Teil VI: Die Attentate â Ablauf, Hergang und WidersprĂŒche
15 JAHRE TERRORKRIEG UND 11. SEPTEMBER: Wie alles begann
Soweit nicht anders gekennzeichnet, basiert dieser Artikel auf der fĂŒnfstĂŒndigen Film-Dokumentation von Massimo Mazzucco, die untenstehend zu sehen ist, sowie auf den oben verlinkten Artikeln âLanger Marsch eines Molochsâ und âDie Attentate â Ablauf, Hergang und WidersprĂŒcheâ, wo entsprechend die Quellen angegeben sind.
Putin-Pezeshkian Talks: Russia Declares âSolidarityâ With Iran At SCO Summit In Bishkek | WATCH
Russian President Vladimir Putin just held a high-stakes bilateral meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the SCO Summit in Bishkek. The optics and message were unmistakable.
Greece moves Patriot system to Crete over reported Iran threats to US bases
The battery was moved from the eastern island of Karpathos to Crete, where there is a major US base at Souda, the reports said.
The aim is to bolster air defence around Souda‘s strategically important naval and air facilities, which serve both the Greek Armed Forces and the United States and NATO.
The Souda base plays a pivotal role in supporting allied operations across the wider region, making its protection particularly critical under the current security conditions.
Russia again exploits Ukrainian air defense shortages as deadly strikes pound Kyiv
CNN producers in the Ukrainian capital heard several explosions and saw smoke over the city, as an air raid alert stretched on for hours. Massive fires lit up the night sky over the capital, video by Reuters news agency showed.
Ukraine has been relatively successful at intercepting the massive numbers of drones that Russia uses in its large-scale attacks. But in recent weeks, Moscow has repeatedly exploited Kyivâs near-zero stocks of Patriot interceptor missiles, which are needed to defend against faster-moving ballistic missiles.
Ukraine steht ohne Luftabwehr da
Wie Simplicius76 bereits am 7. Juli 2026 detailliert ausfĂŒhrte, produziert Lockheed Martin derzeit rund 650 PAC-3-Abfangraketen pro Jahr â fĂŒr die gesamte Welt. Das sind lĂ€cherliche 54 StĂŒck pro Monat. Die Ukraine allein brĂ€uchte ein Vielfaches davon, denn doktrinĂ€r werden pro anfliegender Rakete mindestens zwei, oft vier oder gar sechs Interceptoren abgefeuert.
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Die Lieferkette fĂŒr eine einzelne PAC-3 umfasst ĂŒber 400 Zulieferbetriebe. Die Endmontage allein dauert sechs Wochen. Die Gesamtvorlaufzeit liegt bei mehr als zwei Jahren. Das ist kein Produktionssystem â das ist ein bĂŒrokratisches Monster, das fĂŒr einen kurzen, intensiven Konflikt völlig ungeeignet ist.
VerschÀrfend kommt hinzu: Die USA haben im MÀrz 2026 ihren eigenen Krieg gegen den Iran begonnen und brauchen ihre Patriot-BestÀnde nun selbst.
Trump Threatens âLeakersâ With Jail Time Over Reports About Munitions Shortages
(August 6, 2026)
Media reports have also said that the US has used up nearly all of its ATACMS missiles and Precision-Strike Missiles, which were both used extensively in strikes on Iran.
Trump also responded to a report from The Washington Post that said he lashed out at US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth over the munitions shortages, which one source told the outlet was part of the reason why Trump held off on his threats to dramatically escalate the war.
Sources told the Post that on the sidelines of a recent cabinet meeting at Camp David, Trump vented his frustration at Hegseth over the munitions shortages. The report said that Hegseth then blamed his deputy, Stephen Feinberg, for both the shortages and for failing to ensure Trump was informed about the issue.
Renewed Iran War Would Test Diminished Interceptor Inventories
(July 27, 2026)
Note: Estimated inventories today account for additional interceptor use and new deliveries since the April 8 ceasefire. THAAD deliveries during the ceasefire outpaced estimated use over the same period, resulting in higher inventories today than in April. Patriot calculations include the latest MSE variant and PAC-3s. Several hundred PAC-2s, not represented in the chart, are estimated to remain in the U.S. inventory.
Source: Authorsâ calculations based on FY 2027 DOD budget materials and publicly released information. Methodology detailed in Mark F. Cancian and Chris H. Park, âLast Rounds? Status of Key Munitions at the Iran War Ceasefire,â CSIS, April 21, 2026.
Saudi military strikes Houthi targets in Yemen after the Iran-backed militia attacked Red Sea shipping
Saudi Arabia said on Saturday that its coalition forces struck Houthi militia in Yemen after the Iran-backed group claimed to have attacked two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea earlier in the week.
Air defenses in Saudi Arabia reportedly intercepted two ballistic missiles from Yemen.
The latest salvos appeared to indicate an escalation in fighting in a second front in the Iran war.
Who is striking Iraqi Kurdistan? New drones deepen an unanswered question
The structural reason attribution stays murky is itself worth naming because the „Islamic Resistance in Iraq“ is not a single group but an umbrella of interchangeable front names, staffed largely by Kataib Hezbollah personnel, under which the harder-line factions operate. Attacks surface under disposable labels while the parent organizations issue denials, distributing deniability by design. In that framework, the absence of a claim is not evidence of an outside hand; it is the system working as intended.
Which leaves open a possibility that neither the proxy-signal nor the internal-defiance reading captures: that the strikes serve simply to manufacture instability in a region whose neutrality makes it a soft and symbolically useful target. When drones are intercepted over the cities, their debris cleared and their intended target never confirmed, even the object of the attack becomes a matter of inference.
Why has Iranâs air defence network failed so badly?
(March 3, 2026)
For long-range defence, Iran has developed the Bavar-373 which has comparable capabilities to the Russian S-300. For short range air defence, the country has reverse engineered the Chinese HQ-7 as the Ya Zahr, and in 2021 the Zoubin system was unveiled.
Besides these copy cat systems, the country also leans on ageing Russian air defences, most notably the S-300PMU-2 battery.
However, Israel destroyed a significant number of these components in October 2024 and again during the 12-Day War the following year. Worse still, the Israeli Defence Forces learned all they can about the system in 2015 during joint air drills with Greece, which formerly operated its predecessor, the S-300PMU-1.
The exercise allowed Israel to develop comprehensive electronic warfare (EW) technologies specifically designed to compromise radars like those used with S-300 batteries: the Icebreaker missile and Haroop loitering munitions.
Third Strike on Prince Sultan and Still No HQ-9 Intercept
(July 18, 2026)
Pakistan deployed the HQ-9 battery to Saudi Arabia in May 2026 under the Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement, according to the Times of Islamabad and The Daily Star. The system is operated exclusively by Pakistani military personnel â not Saudi or American crews â and functions as a standalone package integrated with Pakistanâs own command-and-control architecture rather than with Saudi Arabiaâs existing air defense network, according to Defence Security Asia reporting from May 2026. The Jerusalem Post noted that Pakistan âdeploys the defenses as part of a package because of their interoperability with other Pakistani systems,â a formulation that carries an embedded concession: the HQ-9 is not interoperable with anything else at the base.
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The HQ-9 familyâs combat record is now the most extensively documented peacetime marketing success that has failed every wartime test it has faced. During Operation Sindoor in May 2025, Indian Air Force Su-30MKI fighters launched two BrahMos-A air-launched cruise missiles at Pakistanâs Nur Khan Airbase near Rawalpindi, and Pakistan fired approximately 18 HQ-9B interceptors in response, according to Indian Defence Research Wing. The result was zero confirmed intercepts â both BrahMos missiles struck their targets, an 0-for-18 record that prompted Brandon J. Weichert, national security writer at The National Interest, to call the system âa Frankensteinâs Monsterâ reverse-engineered from Russian S-300 technology.
Iranâs strike on Sultan Air Base puts Pakistan-Saudi Defense Pact in spotlight
(July 18, 2026)
A report shared by Axios, said Iran allegedly fired a ballistic missile at a U.S. base in the Kingdom. Unverified videos circulating on social media purport to show a direct impact at Prince Sultan Air Base, though neither Washington nor Riyadh has officially confirmed the authenticity of the footage or the reported strike.
Iranian missiles fly over Amman, target US base in Saudi Arabia
(July 18, 2026)
Footage surfaced showing Iranian ballistic missiles flying over Amman, Jordanâs capital, reportedly targeting a U.S. military base in Saudi Arabia.
Iran Update Special Report, July 16, 2026
2. The United States has continued its effort to degrade the Iranian ability to attack commercial traffic around the Strait of Hormuz. The United States has also conducted strikes further inland, the purpose of which is unclear.
US strikes bridges and collapses a tower at a key port as its Iran campaign expands
The strikes also collapsed a tower at Iranâs Chabahar port on the Gulf of Oman, a key trade route for landlocked, neighboring Afghanistan, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.
Chabahar port, which Iran had been running with support from India, has been a repeated target of American airstrikes. Iranian state media acknowledged a third round of strikes on the facility without immediately acknowledging the towerâs collapse.
US strikes target 5 bridges, multiple cities across southern Iran
At least 8 dead, several more injured in attacks on Bandar Abbas, Bandar Khamir, Qeshm Island, Sirik and Iranshahr
US Hits Civilian Infrastructure With Strike on Iran Bridge
Speaking during an interview on Fox News, Trump said the United States would broaden its target list if diplomacy failed.
âNext week it gets really bad for them,â President Trump said. âWeâre going to knock out all their power plants. Weâre going to knock out all their bridges unless they get to the table and negotiate.â
He also said energy facilities remained under consideration: âIâll save the energy targets for last, but ultimately weâll hit energy targets.â
More than 30 civilians killed in recent southern Iran attacks
More than 30 civilians have been killed in US attacks on southern Iran over the past few days, according to Iranian government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani.
US strikes kill 7 Iranian soldiers in southeast: Military
Thirteen US missiles struck facilities at a barracks in Bampour killing seven personnel from the 388th Brigade and injuring several others, it said. The army said âpassive defence measuresâ limited casualties.
Qatar says it intercepted missile attack
Qatarâs defense ministry said on Sunday morning local time its armed forces had intercepted a missile attack targeting the country.
Iran reports 14 killed in US strikes across five provinces, Tehran-Mashhad rail operations halted
Earlier on Thursday, Mehr News Agency reported that the Aq Tekeh Khan Bridge in the northern Golestan province had been struck by a projectile.
A US official told Axios that the American military targeted two railway bridges in northern Iran with cruise missiles as part of Wednesday‘s strikes.
The attack marked the first reported US strike on Iranian transportation infrastructure since the ceasefire took effect on April 8.
Barakah false flag: How Israeli drones targeted UAE nuclear plant to frame Iran, unleash nuclear catastrophe
The UAE‘s long-range AN/TPY-2 radar, integrated with the THAAD missile-defense system, can reportedly detect ballistic missiles at roughly 1,000 to 2,000 kilometers under optimal conditions. General air-surveillance radars like the Ground Master 400 typically track aircraft out to about 470 to 515 kilometers.
Patriot system radars, used for engagement and fire control, usually operate in the 150 to 300-plus kilometer range, depending on target type and altitude.
None of these radars can detect the launch or low-altitude flight of a small kamikaze drone originating in Iraq. That is a technical fact, not a matter of interpretation.
Even if the Emiratis possessed precise intelligence from Iraq about the exact time and location of the drone‘s launch, a highly unlikely scenario given the operational security of such attacks, a more fundamental question remains.
Why would Abu Dhabi not inform its Saudi neighbors that a hostile drone would be traversing at least 800 kilometers of the Saudi mainland, flying freely for up to five hours, without any reaction from Saudi air defenses? The absence of such notification is telling.
What can be determined with certainty is this: the drone attack was indeed carried out from the western border and over Saudi territory. And, there is no evidence â technical or otherwise â to support the claim that it was launched from Iraq.
Fedorov asks 40 countries to provide Ukraine with Patriot missiles this month, contribute to PURL, JUMPSTART
As the minister recalled, to provide the country with anti-ballistic missiles, in April the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense signed a record-breaking contract for hundreds of PAC-2 missiles for the Patriot system, with Germany‘s support. Deliveries will begin over the next few years.
A first step has also been taken toward purchasing about a hundred missiles for the Patriot system for $1 billion using an EU loan. This year, Ukraine also began receiving missiles from the stockpiles of its European partners for the first time.
Trump Says Iran Attack on Cargo Ship Violated the Cease-fire
The strike on the vessel, the Ever Lovely, a container ship that was passing near the Omani side of the strait, appeared to be the first known Iranian attack on a commercial vessel since the signing of a preliminary peace agreement between Tehran and Washington last week. It laid bare the challenges to restoring prewar levels of traffic through the strait, a crucial conduit for oil and gas shipping.
Trump hails Russia, China for being âneutralâ on Iran
Trump has thanked Chinaâs Xi Jinping and Russiaâs â Vladimir Putin for being âneutralâ during the US-Israel war on Iran.
âI just want to thank them because they made it â a lot better,â Trump said, adding that China was âterrificâ and made efforts to help settle the conflict.
Hezbollah claims to shoot down Israeli drone in Lebanonâs Nahle
Hezbollah has issued a statement claiming to have shot down an Israeli drone over the Nahle area in the Bekaa Valley.
Lebanonâs National News Agency also reported an Israeli drone being downed in the area, where it said several Israeli air raids had occurred.
Army intercepts 20 missiles launched from Iran towards Jordan â JAF source
AMMAN â The air defence systems and Royal Jordanian Air Force aircraft intercepted and shot down 20 missiles launched from Iran towards Al Azraq in Zarqa early Thursday, a military source said.
The source from the General Command of the Jordan Armed ForcesâArab Army, said that the interception operation resulted in the fall of missile debris in several locations, with no injuries or property damage reported.
JAF says Iran targets Jordan with 5 missiles, all intercepted
AMMAN â The Jordan Armed ForcesâArab Army (JAF) on Wednesday said that air defence systems had intercepted and shot down five missiles launched from Iran towards Jordanian airspace.
The army added that no injuries or material damage were reported.
JAF stressed that it remains at the highest level of operational readiness to protect Jordanâs airspace and safeguard the Kingdomâs sovereignty and territorial integrity. It also reaffirmed that Jordan will not allow any violation of its airspace by any party.