- A new report calls for a massive buildup in America’s Navy. [Link]
- A weapons maker will pay the US government $3.5 million after selling the military substandard parts. [Link]
- The Pentagon announces an additional 5,200 troops will be deployed to the southern border. [Link]
- Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil. [Link]
- North and South Korea agree to remove 22 guard posts from the DMZ. [Link]
- The Italian military will exit Iraq by early 2019. [Link]
- Saudi sentences a man to death for denouncing Islam. [Link]
- The Pentagon claims the US did not kill a civilian in Syrian during September. An NGO reports up to 104 civilians may have been killed by the US. [Link]
- A US airstrike killed a family of five Syrians near the Iraqi border. [Link]
- ISIS fighters kill 40 US-backed SDF forces in eastern Syria. [Link]
- Saudi aid to Yemen was contingent on the UN giving Saudi good publicity for the aid. [Link]
- Oxfam reports that one Yemeni civilian dies every three hours of violence. [Link]