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In a separate verified time-late report issued the same day, UKMTO stated that a tanker transiting outbound in the Strait of Hormuz was struck by an unknown projectile at 8:39 AM UTC on October 23, disabling the vessel.

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The crew were reported safe, and no damage assessment or environmental impact report was available at the time.

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The spokesman said that a drone was intercepted and destroyed in the Riyadh region. Saudi Civil Defense stated that the danger had passed in Riyadh City.

These intercepts continue a series of coalition-reported actions against Houthi launches directed at Saudi territory. Between October 21 and 24 Al-Maliki’s official account stated that air defenses had intercepted and destroyed additional ballistic missiles directed at Riyadh, Taif, Yanbu, Khamis Mushait, and Najran, along with multiple drones in the Riyadh, southern, and eastern regions.

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree renewed a warning on October 24 that King Khalid Airport in Riyadh remains a military target and is not safe for airlines, employees, or travelers.

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The memo states that the Intelligence Community has received intelligence through various channels that Iran has substantially increased efforts to target U.S. personnel. It further states that the lethal plotting efforts by the Iranians against U.S. citizens have reached advanced stages in both the Middle East and certain other countries.

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In response to a question about how far along any possible attack was, he said he would not reveal that information, called the question stupid, and then stated sarcastically that the administration was “thinking about doing it, and maybe tomorrow,” before immediately repeating that he would not disclose such details.

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A reporter asked, “How far along are you on a possible attack on Iran?” Trump answered, “Would you really think I’d tell you that?” He continued, “What I mean, can anybody from the Wall Street Journal ask a question so stupid?”

He then said, “How far am I? Let me tell you. Well, we’re thinking about doing it, and maybe tomorrow.” He followed at once with, “Do you really think I’m gonna tell you? If I’m going to do it, and there’s a possibility I will, there’s also a possibility we’ll have a nice, big, beautiful agreement.”

The “maybe tomorrow” statement was said after Trump had rejected the premise of answering an operational question and after he had labeled the question stupid. He then restated the refusal to disclose timing.

Some mainstream outlets published accounts that quoted the “maybe tomorrow” phrase presented it as though the strike could happen as soon as tomorrow. Those accounts match portions of the words spoken without the sarcastic context included. The video of the exchange shows the phrase occurring inside the longer refusal to answer the timing question.

Trump continued by saying Iranian leaders “wanna make a deal” but questioning “will they hold the deal?” He stated that he could have conducted the earlier B-2 strikes “a year ago and left,” but that over one to two years Iran “would have somehow figured a way to make a nuclear bomb.”

He said, “I’ve gotta make it permanent. That’s the only reason I’m doing it, as long as I’m doing.” He also described Iranian jet fighters and ships as destroyed, oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz as higher than before the conflict, and Iranian inflation as high.

No official White House or Department of War statement has expanded on the Saturday remarks as of October 25, 2026.

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The site served as a heavily fortified command-and-control center used by the Houthi militia to launch attacks against the civilian population, and the action was taken in response to the Houthi Militia’s targeting of civilians, according to the Yemeni Armed Forces spokesperson.

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The tanker was able to continue its voyage to the next port of call, United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said in Warning 181-26.

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The intercepts occurred hours after Yemeni Health Minister Qasem Buhaibeh reported that a Houthi attack on the Maashiq Presidential Palace in Aden, the seat of Yemen’s internationally recognized government, killed five people and wounded 16 on October 15. The dead and wounded included security guards and civilian employees at the complex, Buhaibeh said.

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Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation has extended the suspension of operations at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh through October 17 following missile and unmanned aerial vehicle attacks earlier in the month that killed at least 17 people there, including one U.S. citizen, and injured hundreds, the Saudi-led coalition said.

The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh issued a security alert on October 15 stating that U.S. government employees require special authorization from the Chief of Mission to use any airport in Saudi Arabia.

King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah and King Fahd International Airport in Dammam remain operational with delays and cancellations.

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United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) issued Warning 172-26 for a 50,000 tonne container ship struck at 4:40 PM UTC while conducting an inbound transit, and Warning 173-26 for a 19,000 tonne container ship struck at 5:00 PM UTC while conducting an outbound transit.

Both warnings stated the source as verified, noted that authorities are investigating, and advised vessels to transit with caution and report suspicious activity.

Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority said GFS Pride, a Singapore-registered container vessel, was struck by an unknown projectile on October 13, sustained damage and a fire, and later sank, with all 21 crew members safely evacuated and no injuries.

GFS Giselle, also Singapore-registered, was struck on October 14, sustained hull damage, and reached a safe anchorage under its own propulsion, with all 22 crew members safe and no injuries. No Singaporeans were among the crews of either vessel.

Iranian state-run media carried an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy statement that a vessel transporting 2,500 containers, found in violation of regulations, began taking on water after hitting a mine in the southern part of the Strait of Hormuz along a route the statement called unsafe.

Commercial ship-tracking data showed the OFAC-sanctioned container ship ZYRA (IMO 9237084) sailing east from Iranian waters in the Gulf of Oman before turning around on October 13 and returning to the vicinity of Jask on October 14.

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The crew has been confirmed safe and the environmental impact remains unknown while authorities investigate.

UKMTO issued Warning 166-26 classifying the event as an attack. The warning advised vessels to transit with caution and report any suspicious activity.

Why Two Separate October 11 Warnings Regarding A Tanker Being Hit With A Projectile Within The Strait

United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations issued two distinct attack warnings for outbound tankers struck by projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz on 11 October.

• Warning 164-26, released on 11 October, reports an incident at 12:00 UTC. A company security officer stated that an outbound tanker was struck on the port side by an unidentified projectile. The vessel sustained damage. All crew were reported safe and no environmental impact was reported at the time of the attack.

• Warning 166-26, released the following day as a time-late report, covers an outbound tanker struck by an unknown projectile on 11 October. Incident time remains TBC. The crew has been confirmed safe and the environmental impact is unknown. Authorities are investigating.

UKMTO has not linked the two warnings or issued an update treating them as the same event. The products carry sequential numbers, different sources of information, and different levels of detail.

Warning 164-26 supplies a specific time, the reporting party, the side of the vessel hit, and a damage assessment. Warning 166-26 is more general and still lists environmental impact as unknown.

A third October 11 event remains separate. Warning 165-26, later updated, concerns a tanker near Sohar anchorage, Oman, reclassified as a UAV strike with local authorities assisting in crew evacuation.

The pattern of multiple verified reports of projectile strikes on outbound tankers on the same day is consistent with UKMTO’s recent sequence of numbered warnings in the Strait of Hormuz.

No official body has confirmed that Warning 164-26 and Warning 166-26 describe the same vessel.

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The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned in the strongest terms the continued attacks by the Houthi group on the airport, which it said resulted in injuries to a number of civilians, and affirmed full solidarity with Saudi Arabia along with support for measures safeguarding its security and stability.

The extension follows successive strikes on the airport earlier in the week. Saudi authorities had previously reported an October 10 attack that killed 12 people, including one U.S. citizen, and injured 309, and an October 11 projectile strike on Terminal 4 that killed one Pakistani resident and injured 11.

Airport operations remained suspended into October 12 while damage assessments continued.

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The coalition called the strike a war crime. On October 11, an unidentified projectile struck Terminal 4 at the same airport and caused a fire, the coalition’s spokesman said, while Saudi authorities reported injuries.

In a follow-up statement on October 12 the General Authority of Civil Aviation said the October 11 attack killed one Pakistani resident and injured 11 others, who were taken to hospital, and caused material damage still under assessment.

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A U.S. military fighter jet struck the stern of the vessel with a precision munition, fully disabling the ship’s propulsion without harming the crew. The large cargo vessel was attempting to transit regional waters after having previously departed an Iranian port, CENTCOM said.

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Crew were reported safe. Damage assessment and environmental impact remained unknown at the time of the report. Vessels were advised to transit with caution and report any suspicious activity to UKMTO while authorities investigate.

In a separate report the same day, UKMTO received accounts from several masters (ship captains) in the vicinity of Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, that they had been directed via VHF broadcast at 6:50 PM UTC to move from their anchorages.

Authorities continued to investigate, and vessels were requested to report any further suspicious activity.

Location

• The attack occurred within the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway between Oman and Iran that carries a substantial share of global seaborne oil trade, at an approximate position of UKMTO Reports Outbound Tanker Struck by Unknown Projectile in Strait of Hormuz derived from the general area of UKMTO reporting for such incidents in the strait.

• The suspicious activity occurred in the vicinity of Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, an emirate on the Arabian Gulf coast north of the strait approaches, at an approximate position of 25.80, 55.95 based on the named location in the advisory.

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GACA said the attacks killed three Saudi citizens and injured Saudi citizens and residents of several nationalities, with injuries ranging from minor to critical, and that airport operations had resumed and air traffic had returned to normal.

Saudia, the national airline, said on October 9 that Captain Hamoud Ali Alkalthami lost his life on October 8 in the incident at the airport.

In a separate incident on October 9, a vessel was struck at 10:00 AM UTC (2:00 PM local UAE time) 13 nautical miles, about 15 miles (24 km), west of Al Jazeera, a port in Ras Al Khaimah. The notice of that strike names no attacker and no ship.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on October 8 that the United States will not attack Iran before the November 3 midterm elections, that talks with Iran were under way, and that a blockade of Iranian ports would remain.

The U.S. Mission in Saudi Arabia said on October 8 that it was aware of attacks on the Riyadh airport, that the Houthis, the Iran-aligned armed group fighting Yemen’s internationally recognized government from the north, had engaged in hostilities against Saudi Arabia including civilian airports, and that U.S. government employees now need special authorization to use the airport.

In a separate, earlier incident, a warning issued on October 8 describes a crude oil tanker struck by an unknown projectile at 5:09 PM UTC on October 6 while transiting the Strait of Hormuz. It reported no casualties and names no ship.

Saudi Civil Defense said on October 8 that debris from a ballistic missile, which it said had been intercepted and destroyed after a Houthi launch, damaged a kindergarten and a medical clinic complex in Riyadh. That notice gives no casualty count.

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), the European air-safety regulator, revised its Saudi airspace bulletin on October 9 and told operators not to fly in defined portions of the Jeddah flight information region, the airspace Saudi controllers manage.

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• King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. GACA said two attacks on October 8 hit airport facilities and a Saudia aircraft. Published airport references place the field near 24.96, 46.70, about 22 miles (35 km) north of central Riyadh. The October 8 U.S. mission alert printed no impact coordinate.

• A kindergarten and a medical clinic complex in Riyadh. Saudi Civil Defense said ballistic-missile debris fell there on October 8. The notice printed no street or coordinate.

• Waters west of Al Jazeera Port, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), the British office that takes security reports from merchant ships, placed the October 9 strike 13 nautical miles west of Al Jazeera. Port references place the harbor near 25.72, 55.80. The strike position is approximate, near 25.72, 55.56, worked from that distance and a due-west bearing, with a possible error of about 2 miles (3 km) because the warning printed no coordinates and port references differ in the second decimal.

• Strait of Hormuz. UKMTO Warning 159-26 placed an October 6 projectile strike on a crude oil tanker in the strait and printed no position. The Joint Maritime Information Center (JMIC), the combined maritime desk that publishes threat levels for the Gulf, kept the strait at severe in its October 8 note.

• Jeddah flight information region, Saudi Arabia. EASA’s October 9 revision tells operators not to fly in portions of that region bounded by listed navigation points, and to use caution in the rest of it.

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The report time on the warning is 4:50 PM UTC (7:50 PM local Aden time). The warning does not give the time of the explosions.

The officer reported the crew safe and no environmental impact. The warning says authorities are investigating, and it advises ships to pass with caution and to report suspicious activity.

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United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), the British center that takes hazard reports from ships and company security officers, placed the report 60 nautical miles south of Al Mukha, Yemen, the Red Sea port also called Mocha.

• Country: Yemen. The warning names Al Mukha and does not name a sea area.

• Distance and bearing: 60 nautical miles south of Al Mukha, about 69 miles (111 km) on a south bearing. The warning gives no finer bearing.

• Coordinates: the warning publishes none. No point is printed here, because a south line from the port is not a fix.

• What the place is: a coastal port on Yemen’s Red Sea shore, used here only as the warning’s reference point. The reported position is at sea, not in the port.

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The report said the crew was safe, and it left the damage assessment and any environmental effect unknown. It did not name the tanker, the projectile, or who fired.

Locations Affected

• Strait of Hormuz, between Iran and Oman’s Musandam Peninsula: the October 1 warning and the four earlier reports place the strikes in the strait, including one outbound case in the southern quarter. No strike coordinate was published.

• Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates: the September 29 outbound tanker was reported in the vicinity of this Gulf of Oman port after the strike, with its damage assessment not finished. GeoNames, the gazetteer cited for the city, places Khor Fakkan at 25.33, 56.34.

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