18/10 6AM GMT - 5 Top Stories

These are the top headlines from Arab News, the Middle East’s leading English-language daily, on Sunday Oct. 18 at 6am GMT.

- Coalition destroy incoming Houthi missiles, drones amid renewed attacks

- Yemen’s military claims 1,417 strikes on Houthis, about 800 fighters killed or wounded

- Two officers dead as Saudi reconnaissance helicopter crashes in Najran

- Israel steps up incursions into southern Syria, detains four in Quneitra

- ‘It’s family’: Lebanese villagers dread looming UN peacekeeper pullout

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