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.

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