Morning update

Live Blog Update| War on Iran 22 October 2026 08:05 BST Good morning Middle East Eye readers, Here are the latest developments: US President Donald Trump said that Washington is not holding discussions with Iran, adding that something will "happen fairly soon". "No, I think we’re not negotiating," he told reporters. "We are going to have something one way or the other that’ll happen fairly soon." Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy said that four vessels involved in illegal oil transfers in the northern Persian Gulf were targeted by its forces on Wednesday, and caught fire as a result. It added that three other vessels collided with mines west of the Strait of Hormuz. Israeli forces killed a man with disabilities on Thursday during an incursion in a village in Syria's Daraa governorate, state media reported. The killing follows reports of Israeli forces storming into the village, where they searched several properties, deployed snipers on the rooftops of civilian homes and fired "indiscriminately" across residential neighbourhoods. Other areas in the country also experienced similar Israeli raids, including into the village of Taranga in southern Syria’s Quneitra. One person was killed and eight wounded in an attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, according to Saudi Arabia’s Civil Aviation agency. The agency said in a statement on X that the attack resulted in material damage currently undergoing assessment. The official spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, Turki Al-Maliki, wrote in a post on X on Wednesday that air defences had intercepted and destroyed four drones in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province. Earlier on Wednesday, Al-Maliki announced drones had also been intercepted in the eastern and southern regions.