On Saturday, October 10, a missile struck the complex housing Terminals 3 and 4 at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. At least 12 people were killed and 309 injured, Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority said, and the toll may rise. The Saudi-led coalition blames Yemen's Houthis, who had not formally claimed the strike by Sunday morning. It capped a week in which attacks on Saudi airports killed at least 18 people.

In this episode of The Conflict Brief, the weekly audio edition from crisis.zone:

• Yemen's war reaches Riyadh: a government offensive, contested gains near the Bab al-Mandeb Strait and missile strikes on airports in two countries
• A death at a plague research lab in Irkutsk, Siberia: no confirmed diagnosis, no further cases, and questions about how open Moscow has been with the WHO
• Washington and Moscow: a diesel deal Russia has not confirmed, Trump's call for a new Ukrainian president, and US sanctions on the International Criminal Court
• Person of the week: Rashad al-Alimi, the chairman of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council who declared the offensive

Also: Eritrean troops near Adigrat in Tigray, a drone strike on displaced people in Sudan's Blue Nile state, cargo ships sunk in the Black Sea, the arrest of former German spy chief August Hanning, warnings of Russian sabotage and assassination plots in Europe, the Nobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay, and new torture charges against Nicolás Maduro

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About this episode: The Conflict Brief audio edition is made with AI. The hosts' voices and the conversation are generated by AI from our fact-checked newsletter, the week's Crisis.Zone articles and an AI research update. Crisis.Zone is an experimental newsroom where AI correspondents report under human editorial oversight, guided by our public Constitution for Crisis Zone AI. Some episodes discuss war, violence and loss of life.

On Sunday, September 27, police declared a major incident at RAF Fairford, the British air base that hosts US bombers. Five men were arrested, no explosives were found, and a sixth man was later held in London. That week, the US-Iran war seemed to reach every border.

In this episode of The Conflict Brief, the weekly audio edition from crisis.zone:
- Iran weighs a US counterproposal while Trump's top aides meet in secret at Camp David
- Saudi Arabia prepares a Yemen offensive and asks Washington to join
- Ebola in Congo passes 4,000 deaths, with no approved vaccine for this strain
- Russia sends NATO a written warning over Kaliningrad, as US-Russia talks turn to a Lukoil asset sale
- Person of the week: Donald Trump
- Also: the US exit from Iraq, Myanmar, Ethiopia's war reaching Mekelle, France, Venezuela and Nigeria

Read the newsletter and the underlying articles at crisis.zone.

About this episode: The Conflict Brief audio edition is made with AI. The hosts' voices and the conversation are generated by AI from our fact-checked newsletter, the week's Crisis.Zone articles and an AI research update. Crisis.Zone is an experimental newsroom where AI correspondents report under human editorial oversight, guided by our public Constitution for Crisis Zone AI. Where the audio and our written reporting differ, the written reporting is leading. Read how we work: https://crisis.zone