Timeline

Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya headquarters says the US is preparing to resume strikes; Trump says he is in a deciding mode on Iran, and Qatar says US officials assured it Washington seeks an agreement. aljazeera.com

The RSF-led Tasis coalition accuses the SAF of drone and militia attacks on South Sudan's oil export pipeline north of Al Hamadi in South Kordofan since Sept 11, saying seven of its fighters were killed guarding repair crews (single-sourced). radiotamazuj.org

Four people are reported killed in al-Jawf as fighting between the Houthis and Saudi-backed forces continues. aljazeera.com

Pakistani airstrikes hit Nurgal in Kunar and Barmal in Paktika; Pakistan claims 28 militants killed, Kabul says three civilians killed and four wounded, and the Taliban spokesman vows retaliation usnews.com

Pakistan says airstrikes on suspected militant hideouts in Kunar and Paktika provinces of Afghanistan, following the Kohat attack, killed 28 militants; Kabul says three civilians were killed bostonglobe.com

Trump administration reportedly readies entity-wide sanctions on the International Criminal Court, according to Wall Street Journal and Reuters reports citing anonymous officials aljazeera.com

Mozambique's Supreme Court reschedules Venancio Mondlane's trial for Nov 17, postponing the Oct 6 hearing at the defence's request. clubofmozambique.com

Powerful explosions at an army weapons depot at al-Eis south of Aleppo injure at least four; no cause is given. aljazeera.com

RSF drone strikes on residential neighbourhoods of El Obeid from dawn to midday kill at least two people and injure 20, according to the Sudan Doctors Network. aa.com.tr

ISW reported Russia launched 138 drones overnight Sept 19-20, over 2,000 long-range drones and 1,700 glide bombs in the preceding week, and that observers reported ballot stuffing and draft notices at Duma polling stations understandingwar.org

Preliminary Duma results gave United Russia 57.19 percent with 36.87 percent of precincts counted, with the same five parties set to return; official results are due no earlier than Sept 25 meduza.io

Ukraine conducted what ISW called its largest combined missile and drone strike on Moscow Oblast overnight Sept 19-20, damaging the Gazpromneft Moscow refinery; Moscow's mayor claimed over 1,600 drones were intercepted, a figure other outlets put above 1,000 (contested) understandingwar.org

Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf says the Strait of Hormuz will stay closed until Iran's conditions are met. abcnews.com

The DRC rolls out the Ervebo Ebola vaccine to health workers from Sept 19 as the outbreak reaches 7,541 cases and 3,639 deaths; officials say its effect against the Bundibugyo strain is uncertain. aljazeera.com

Al Jazeera reports a Sept 18 Tehran parade for the Janfada mass-mobilisation campaign, with officials claiming more than 600,000 new registrations for active participation in that week. aljazeera.com

Iranian lawmakers submit an NPT-withdrawal bill with triple urgency to parliament's presiding board; it needs the speaker's approval before open debate. presstv.co.uk

North Korea fires two short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea within three hours, one flying about 440 km, its second set of launches in roughly a week euronews.com

Pakistani forces kill five militants the government labels Fitna al-Hindustan and free 23 hostages held at an illegal checkpoint near Kalat in Balochistan bostonglobe.com

ISW noted the FSB's Sept 16-26 closure of the Russian side of the Narva border zone with Estonia, restricting small vessels, hunting and nighttime access within five kilometres of the border understandingwar.org

AfD wins 38.2 percent and becomes the largest party in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election en.wikipedia.org

United Russia is reported at about 57 percent with a quarter of Duma ballots processed, amid reports of coercion and fraud (single-sourced) pravda.com.ua

Egypt's Sisi tells CIA director John Ratcliffe that Cairo rejects any action undermining Somalia's sovereignty or territorial integrity, in talks covering Horn of Africa and Red Sea security. somaliguardian.com

Residents of Berezloji and Dereneu reported a drone-like object and an explosion early on Sept 20; police checks found no debris, impact traces or fires united24media.com

North Korea fires two short-range ballistic missiles from the Wonsan area about three hours apart, flying roughly 450 km and more than 600 km; Seoul and Washington analysing stripes.com

Israeli forces kill a Palestinian near Jenin they say attempted a vehicular attack; separately a settler is shot dead near Halamish, Netanyahu orders the suspect's home demolished and Ben-Gvir calls for the death penalty. aljazeera.com

Bessent, Greer and He Lifeng meet in New York ahead of the summit to discuss a Board of Trade for non-sensitive goods, an AI incident-notification mechanism, rare-earth compliance, Iran and the Nov 10 truce expiry ntd.com

Xi heads to the summit with China's global trade surplus on pace to exceed 1 trillion dollars for a second year despite US tariffs (snippet only) usnews.com

The Houthis fire a ballistic missile and drones at Riyadh, the first attack on the capital since the war escalated in July; the coalition says it intercepted the missile, residents report an explosion and smoke near the airport, and attacks on Bisha, Taif, Farasan and Yanbu are also reported thwarted. aljazeera.com

Mohsen Rezaei tells Al Jazeera that Iran's conditions to re-engage in talks, an end to war on all fronts, release of frozen funds and an end to the naval blockade, were sent to the US via Qatar. aljazeera.com

JNIM claims on its Az-Zallaqa channel that its Sept 10 attack on a Malian army camp in central Mali killed 150 soldiers, including two colonels and a captain, and captured 93; the army reports only that several dozen militants were killed and declines to comment on its own losses (contested). arabnews.com

Ukraine's Operation Vivaldi near Lyman was reported to have cleared about 85 sq km, with the 3rd Army Corps claiming the recapture of Serednie and clearing of several villages euromaidanpress.com

The US State Department tells Americans to seriously reconsider travel to the Middle East after the Houthi attack on Riyadh, warning the conflict could escalate rapidly. abcnews.com

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says Turkey will meet Saudi Arabia's defence needs under the Mecca defence pact, citing very serious attacks on Saudi territorial integrity; no Turkish deployment is confirmed. aljazeera.com

Pakistan warns Afghanistan after the Kohat attack that it can eliminate terror threats wherever they are and demands credible, verifiable Taliban action against militant sanctuaries tribune.com.pk

Burma News International, carrying Development Media Group, reports the Arakan Army seized four junta positions on the Sittwe-Ponnagyun front on Sept 15 and 16, including near the Minchaung Bridge and the Shwe Min Gan naval station, as junta forces retreated with heavy losses including commanding officers and answered with near-daily airstrikes (single-sourced) bnionline.net

The US Treasury lifts Biden-era sanctions on Eritrea's ruling PFDJ and military, citing US regional interests in the Red Sea; Eritrea welcomes the move and the State Department calls Tigray peace implementation 'uneven'. aljazeera.com

Mohsen Rezaei says Iran's future nuclear policy depends on Washington's conduct, including lifting the naval blockade. abcnews.com

PM adviser Qasim al-Araji says there is no specific deadline for the disarmament committee's mission; an official close to PM al-Zaidi reports significant militia resistance and only three groups claim to have placed weapons under state control. thenationalnews.com

A Hezbollah roadside bomb wounds two IDF soldiers in the southern Lebanon buffer zone and the IDF strikes Hezbollah sites in response; UNIFIL's commander warns of challenges ahead of its withdrawal. timesofisrael.com

The clearance operation at Kohat Police Lines ends with eight attackers killed after a roughly 22-hour siege dawn.com

Somali Guardian reports the US agreed to extend UN support to AUSSOM for one more year, deferring the UNSOS drawdown to January 2027, as Somali forces remain dependent on external logistics and air support (single-sourced). somaliguardian.com

Russian election officials claim cyberattacks on Duma voting systems were thwarted; no details or independent confirmation globalsecurity.org

La Paz interprovincial transport unions announce indefinite road blockades from Monday Sept 21 over the rise in unsubsidised diesel prices larazon.bo

The IDF says it killed a Hamas commander involved in the Oct 7 attack, as the school year opens in damaged UN-run schools. timesofisrael.com

Israeli attacks kill four Palestinians across Gaza, including Basir al-Bursh, son of the health ministry's director-general, in a drone strike in Jabalia; Al Jazeera puts the toll since the ceasefire at 1,390. aljazeera.com

SOUTHCOM's Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere strikes a go-fast vessel in the Caribbean, killing four people it calls narco-terrorists southcom.mil

Settlers attack Palestinians in several villages, assaulting an elderly man in Burqa and damaging an ambulance near al-Mughayyir. timesofisrael.com

Al Jazeera reports that US officials met Houthi representatives in Muscat and were told the group would target only Saudi-linked vessels, and that Trump declined two Saudi requests for US strikes. aljazeera.com

The IRGC says it struck the Togo-flagged tanker Trend in the Strait of Hormuz; UKMTO reports a tanker hit by an unknown projectile and a fire later extinguished, crew safe. thehill.com

Peskov said Russia had no plans for a covert mobilization after the Duma elections, while a European security official said Russia is preparing to draft an additional 300,000 men by year end english.nv.ua

Pakistan's military spokesman pledges to defend Saudi Arabia against aggression to any extent, while the Foreign Office says no military response is under discussion. aljazeera.com

The Houthis accuse Saudi Arabia of 26 air attacks in 24 hours, and the Saudi-backed government says it killed 30 Houthi fighters in al-Waziiyah district of Taiz. aljazeera.com

UN agencies report more than 112,000 people displaced by the fighting and nearly 3,000 Yemenis reaching Djibouti by boat, over 2,400 of them in the preceding week. aljazeera.com

Ethiopia's federal army says nearly 300 TPLF fighters surrendered on the Tekeze corridor with more than 280 weapons; the TPLF declines to comment, and both sides have massed troops on Tigray's borders. arabnews.com

Fighting between federal forces and TPLF troops reportedly intensifies over two days in western Tigray and along the Tekeze, with TPLF-aligned media claiming a federal drone downed (single-sourced). wardheernews.com

Germany's closure of the Russian consulate in Bonn takes effect, in retaliation for the August explosive-drone attack on Leipzig/Halle airport that Berlin attributed to Russia france24.com

Israeli forces advance from al-Tiri toward Hadatha, shell Chaqra, Wadi Nahla, al-Mansouri and Majdal Zoun, and tanks approach a Lebanese army post at Deir Mimas before withdrawing. aljazeera.com

Development Media Group reports three junta fighter jets dropped 500-pound bombs on former military installations in Mrauk-U Township (snippet only) bnionline.net

Sahara Reporters says ISWAP fighters who attacked the forward operating base at Gajiram, Nganzai LGA, on the evening of Sept 17 briefly overran it and killed seven soldiers before air support repelled them, citing military sources; the army's own account reports four insurgents killed (contested). saharareporters.com

Security forces fire on protesters in Minna over the deaths of 37 detained miners in NSCDC custody; Niger State imposes a 24-hour curfew and the NSCDC state commandant is suspended. aljazeera.com

A suicide car bomb and gun assault on the Old Police Lines mosque in Kohat, claimed by the TTP-linked Ittihad-ul-Mujahideen Pakistan, kills at least 31 people including 15 police and wounds 103 en.wikipedia.org

Polish Prime Minister Tusk told parliament there is a real risk Russian drones or missiles will fly into eastern-flank NATO states and cause destruction, in strikes disguised as accidents meduza.io

FBI, Japan's NPA and Australian and German agencies publish a joint advisory attributing the WaterPlum fake-job-interview campaign (30,000 devices, over 10.7 million dollars stolen) to North Korea bleepingcomputer.com

China Coast Guard cutter 21585 rams Philippine fisheries vessel BRP Datu Magat Salamat 54 nautical miles off Palawan during a refuelling mission for Filipino fishermen; damage but no injuries, and China blames the Philippine vessel aljazeera.com

Cuba's national electricity system collapses island-wide, leaving more than 9 million people without power, at least the sixth partial or total grid collapse of 2026 abcnews.com

Security Council holds third Secretary-General straw poll; Grynspan leads with nine encourage votes, Rodrigues Birkett eight, no consensus passblue.com

Italy says it will deploy warships to protect shipping through Bab al-Mandeb after the Houthis captured Mayyun island on Sept 11. aljazeera.com

Islamic State Iraq Province claims three attacks on the Iraqi army and tribal mobilisation units in Anbar and Kirkuk, reportedly its first Iraqi claims since May (snippet only) memri.org

The US drug-transit determination listing Mexico, without the failed-demonstrably finding, is entered in the Federal Register; Sheinbaum replies that Mexico does not need to be judged from outside latintimes.com

Kim Yo Jong, via KCNA, threatens 'more offensive' responses to the US-led multinational Pacific Vanguard drills and vows no change in strengthening nuclear deterrence nknews.org

OFAC ends the Ethiopia emergency with related delistings and issues an amended Russia-related general licence and FAQs ofac.treasury.gov

A blast at an army weapons cache in Ayyash, western Deir ez-Zor, kills 11 soldiers and wounds nine; the cause is under investigation. aljazeera.com

AEI's China and Taiwan Update records Taiwan's Sept 16 to 18 joint live-fire exercises integrating the Altius-600M loitering munition and land-based anti-ship missile sinking drills, and reports China building an unmanned-submarine mothership at Hudong-Zhonghua aei.org

The US, Denmark and Greenland reach a security agreement granting the US permanent basing, access and overflight rights in Greenland without any transfer of sovereignty npr.org

Nippon.com reports Takaichi's revamped cabinet faces a year-end revision of the three security documents and pressure over Trump's 3.5 percent of GDP defence-spending call nippon.com

Ruto tells 1,273 newly trained GSU officers to stay out of partisan politics before the 2027 election and warns that protests cannot justify violence, looting or destruction. allafrica.com

Turkish Minute reports PKK co-chair Cemil Bayik saying the group will not disarm or return to Turkey unless Ocalan is freed. turkishminute.com

ISW reported Ukrainian strikes on the Slavneft-Yanos refinery in Yaroslavl and on transport aircraft and helicopters at a Rostov Oblast airfield, and Russia launching 157 Shahed drones overnight Sept 16-17 understandingwar.org

The US Development Finance Corporation approves 414 million dollars for Global Atomic's uranium project in Niger, two years after US troops left the country. aljazeera.com

Al Jazeera reports the East-West pipeline still offline, with Rystad Energy expecting a restart within a couple of weeks at 40 to 60 percent capacity. aljazeera.com

The SAF announces control of more than 11 villages and military positions in North and West Kordofan, advancing toward Sodari and the Route 40 supply line into Darfur. radiotamazuj.org

De la Espriella rejects the ELN's proposal to exchange four hostages (three police officers and a civilian) kidnapped on Aug 17, saying there will be no swap and ordering reinforced deployments to find them eluniversal.com.co

The ELN proposes swapping four hostages (three police officers and a civilian); the president rejects any exchange colombiaone.com

The seventh DRC-Rwanda JSCM meeting in Geneva (Sept 16-17) ends without a public communique or new implementation deadlines; FDLR neutralisation and Rwandan defensive measures remain unresolved and an October trilateral planning conference is set. trendsnafrica.com

The Trump administration approves a potential sale of 48 F-35 jets to Saudi Arabia. aljazeera.com

Macron, Aoun and Jordan's King Abdullah meet in Paris on alternatives to UNIFIL and backing for the Lebanese army. aljazeera.com

Troops report foiling attacks on FOBs at Gajiram and Mairari in Borno and killing four insurgents. vanguardngr.com

AFRICOM strikes an al-Shabaab conventional weapons storage warehouse in Sanaag, about 80 km southwest of Bosaso, in coordination with the federal government. globalsecurity.org

An election law amendments bill is tabled before parliament in Juba. radiotamazuj.org

Clashes between Ngok Dinka and Misseriya communities around Amiet market in the disputed Abyei area kill at least 26 people and injure 82, according to UNISFA. aljazeera.com

RBC-Ukraine, citing The Moscow Times, reported the Sept 15-18 exercise involved mechanized and tank battalions near the Suwalki corridor, with Minsk saying troop numbers stayed below Vienna Document notification thresholds newsukraine.rbc.ua

Peru's interior minister Cesar Astudillo faces interpellation over the crime wave; the Chamber of Deputies grants his request to hold it in secret, and Juntos por el Peru does not rule out censure larepublica.pe

US sanctions on ICC President Tomoko Akane and senior trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye take effect aljazeera.com

Al Jazeera analysis: Egypt, which joined a Saudi-led Red Sea maritime security coalition in August, weighs how far to go in securing the southern Red Sea, straining ties with the UAE. aljazeera.com

India summons Pakistan's charge d'affaires and Pakistan summons India's top diplomat over the Sept 15 collision, each accusing the other of violating the 1991 agreement; analysts warn of the lack of an incidents-at-sea mechanism aljazeera.com

An unidentified drone entered Moldovan airspace at 08:56 toward Tudora and left near Palanca at 08:58 during a Russian attack on Odesa Oblast army.md

OFAC posts Iran-related and Cuba designations together with Belarus-related designation removals ofac.treasury.gov

Conatel orders providers to restore access to about ten blocked news portals as transition talks resume; about 200 domains remain blocked latintimes.com

Settlers raid areas near al-Taybeh and al-Mughayyir in the Ramallah district and graze sheep on Palestinian land (single-sourced). english.palinfo.com

Datafolha puts Lula at 46 percent and Flavio Bolsonaro at 44 in a run-off, a technical tie unchanged from Sept 11, and 39-36 in the first round usnews.com

Escudero rebukes House prosecutors for violating the sub judice rule after issuing show-cause orders on the 26th trial day of Sara Duterte's impeachment philstar.com

Erdogan adviser Mehmet Ucum says Ocalan will join the disarmament and strategic coordination subcommittee, stressing it does not mean his release. turkishminute.com

The US House passed the Graham sanctions bill 262-159, sending Trump authority to impose tariffs of up to 100 percent on the top buyers of Russian oil and gas npr.org

The US presidential determination lists Colombia, Bolivia and Venezuela as having failed demonstrably in counternarcotics, but waives the assistance cut-off as vital to US national interests upi.com

WHO chief warns the Ebola fight in the DRC is 'far from over'. aljazeera.com

RNDDH attributes the Kenscoff attacks, with at least 164 killed and 71 kidnapped, to groups affiliated with Viv Ansanm and warns of its persistent capacity for repeated offensives haitiantimes.com

Iran HRM reports at least 61 executions between Aug 23 and Sept 15 and new death sentences for protest detainees Mohammadreza Majidi-Asl and Omidreza Heidari (single-sourced). iran-hrm.com

A drone launched from the direction of Kermanshah hits a Komala camp in the Zargwezla area of Iraqi Kurdistan, two days after missile fire on the same site (single-sourced). voiceofemirates.com

Malaysia offers to invite Myanmar's leader as part of a push for Rohingya repatriation aljazeera.com

The Sentry reports that Russian Africa Corps commanders hold approval authority over air and drone strikes in Mali, even when Malian pilots fly them (single-sourced) riotimesonline.com

The US Justice Department charged five people, including FSB colonel Kirill Khrameyev, over FSB-run surveillance and assassination plots that included a murder-for-hire offer against a target in Vilnius and a plot to set fire to buses in the Czech Republic rferl.org

Nauseda said the drone downed over Lithuania on Sept 15 was a Russian Gerbera most likely headed for Ukraine and diverted by Ukrainian electronic warfare, and that the army was analysing its electronics themoscowtimes.com

Belarus freed 25 prisoners in exchange for the US lifting sanctions on Lakokraska and Bellesbumprom, a day after Lukashenko met US envoy John Coale themoscowtimes.com

AEI reports Wang Yi met his Iranian counterpart and used unusually forceful language urging restraint on Houthi attacks (single-sourced) aei.org

Sweden's centre-left opposition wins the Sept 13 election by 175 seats to 174, SVT reports (snippet only) cnn.com

SOUTHCOM reportedly sinks a floating refuelling station supporting drug trafficking in the Eastern Pacific in an operation with Ecuadorian partners (snippet only) riotimesonline.com

Sheinbaum uses the Independence Day military parade to stress sovereignty, saying the nation does not bow or kneel latintimes.com

Belarus frees 25 political prisoners in return for the US lifting sanctions on Lakokraska and Bellesbumprom, the fifth such release aljazeera.com

OFAC posts Russia-related designation removals and an amended Venezuela general licence ofac.treasury.gov

Syria's parliament abolishes the Assad-era Counter-Terrorism Court as Kurdish protests over fuel prices and Kurdish-language teaching flare in the northeast. aljazeera.com

Bloomberg reported that Georgia's ruling party is moving to ban all parliamentary opposition parties (snippet only) bloomberg.com

Thailand and Cambodia conclude their first UNCLOS maritime-boundary conciliation meeting in Singapore; Thailand expects the process to take about 12 months and yield a non-binding report thestar.com.my

Saudi Arabia activates Mecca's emergency warning system for the first time in the war, with alerts also issued for Jeddah and Taif governorates, before announcing the danger has passed. al-monitor.com

The Saudi-led coalition says Houthi missile and drone attacks on Khamis Mushait, Abha and Taif wounded 13 civilians and damaged seven homes and two vehicles; spokesman Turki al-Maliki vows a firm response. aljazeera.com

Iranian security official Mohsen Rezaei rejects negotiations with Washington unless Tehran's conditions are met, after the Trump administration signals it is seeking a way to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz (single-sourced). timesofisrael.com

The RSF is reported to have accepted a proposed 90-day humanitarian truce while rejecting parts of the withdrawal arrangements (single-sourced). thenationalnews.com

Ukrainian drones hit Rosneft's Syzran refinery in Samara Oblast overnight, with Ukraine's General Staff confirming a direct hit and fire and damage to the AVT-6 unit and tank farm; Ukrainian forces also struck the Atlant Aero drone manufacturer in Taganrog. kyivindependent.com

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright says the Saudi East-West pipeline, shut after drones launched from Iraq struck it, will resume exports within days. aljazeera.com

US envoy Massad Boulos says there is 'no future' for Sudan's two rival military leaders as Washington pushes for a nationwide UN arms embargo; the RSF reportedly accepts a 90-day humanitarian truce while Burhan rejects a ceasefire. thenationalnews.com

Brent rises 1.77 percent to about 107.55 dollars a barrel on the Saudi pipeline outage and fresh Houthi attacks; Goldman Sachs says the attacks raise the probability of Brent above 120 dollars. rte.ie

The UN Security Council holds an emergency meeting on Yemen over the Houthi advance along the Red Sea coast and their control near Bab el-Mandeb (single-sourced). rte.ie

The UN reports more than 125,000 people from over 18,000 households displaced in Yemen since the start of September. aljazeera.com

Yemen's internationally recognised prime minister accuses the Houthis of killing and displacing civilians during their territorial advance. aljazeera.com

Pakistan's state broadcaster reports Afghanistan Freedom Front leader and former Afghan army chief Yasin Zia claiming that armed resistance to the Taliban is gaining momentum and beyond Taliban control, an interested-party claim with no independent corroboration found. (single-sourced) (snippet only) radio.gov.pk

Armed men believed to be ELN use machinery to destroy what remained of the Betoyes police station in rural Tame, Arauca (single-sourced) infobae.com

Colombia awaits the US anti-drug certification determination due that day; Rubio said in Barranquilla on Sept 8 that the new government's cooperation is different from the past but that the assessment covers the previous twelve months under Petro. (snippet only) elheraldo.co

De la Espriella announces the capture of seven alleged members of the 'Cordillera' drug-trafficking organisation in Dosquebradas, Risaralda under Operation Mars. (single-sourced) eluniversal.com.co

De la Espriella confirms that army Gaula units freed eight people held hostage by the ELN in rural Convencion, Norte de Santander, in an operation he says was carried out with US assistance. infobae.com

DRC and Rwanda set to meet in Geneva on Sept 16-17 under the Joint Security Coordination Mechanism with US, Qatari, Togolese and AU mediators; FDLR neutralisation and Rwanda's lifting of defensive measures both remain undeclared. aljazeera.com

Police use tear gas against C64 opposition protests in Kinshasa, Lubumbashi and Uvira against the proposed constitutional amendment. aljazeera.com

UN says Ebola responders are grappling with a still-widening outbreak in DR Congo and appeals for renewed international support. news.un.org

Denmark summons Russia's ambassador after a Russian frigate fired flares toward a Danish Fennec helicopter in international waters on Sept 14; the foreign minister calls it unacceptable and the prime minister calls it reckless. themoscowtimes.com

NATO jets on Baltic Air Policing shoot down a drone over Lithuania's Kaisiadorys district, the first such shoot-down in Lithuanian airspace; the drone most likely entered from Belarus and flew for about 30 minutes. npr.org

NATO jets on Baltic Air Policing shoot down a drone over Lithuania, the first drone downed in Lithuanian airspace; EU calls Russian actions reckless and dangerous irishtimes.com

Saudi East-West pipeline, struck by drones launched from Iraq, is reported to need three to five weeks of repairs, keeping the main Hormuz bypass out of service dtnpf.com

The opposition NCRI cites state media putting Iran's poverty line above 70 million tomans a month against a minimum worker income below 25 million tomans, and reports a death sentence against Marziyeh Ebrahimi for photographing a missile strike site in Bandar Abbas (single-sourced). ncr-iran.org

130 Iranian lawmakers sign a statement calling on parliament to start the legal process for NPT withdrawal under Article X. tehrantimes.com

US Ambassador Michel Issa visits southern Lebanese villages under Lebanese army control while an Israeli drone surveys the area; the IDF says troops located Hezbollah rocket launchers in southern Lebanon (single-sourced). timesofisrael.com

Belarus's Defence Ministry opened a Sept 15-18 Western Operational Command exercise under Chief of the General Staff Pavel Muraveiko at the Gozhsky, Brestsky and Ruzhansky ranges in the Grodno and Brest regions, rehearsing border cover, martial-law enforcement and counter-drone tasks. tass.com

Denmark's foreign ministry summoned Russian ambassador Vladimir Barbin after a Russian frigate fired two flares at a Danish Fennec helicopter off Gedser on Sept 14; Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen called it completely unacceptable and Copenhagen said it would not activate NATO Article 4 or 5. cphpost.dk

Italian jets flying NATO's Baltic air-policing mission shot down a drone that had entered Lithuanian airspace from Belarus, between Vilnius and Kaunas, the first such shootdown over Lithuania; Lithuania notified NATO and requested reinforced air defences along the Belarusian border. stripes.com

Kiir removes National Elections Commission chair Abednego Akok Kacuol and appoints NEC secretary-general Gabriel Bol Deng Majok, three months before the Dec 22 elections. radiotamazuj.org

WFP warns that a 'super El Nino', continuing violence and reduced aid are deepening South Sudan's food crisis. news.un.org

Belarus's Defence Ministry opened a Sept 15-18 Western Operational Command command-and-staff exercise led by Chief of the General Staff Pavel Muraveiko at the Gozhsky, Brestsky and Ruzhansky ranges near the Polish and Lithuanian borders, practising border security, martial law, counter-sabotage and counter-drone operations. charter97.org

NATO fighter jets destroyed a drone over central Lithuania that Lithuanian officials said had entered from Belarusian territory. france24.com

Sweden's election stays too close to call with about 95 percent of districts counted, 176 seats to 173 for the centre-left bloc, and close to 300,000 advance and overseas ballots still to be counted; the final result is reportedly delayed by a day to Sept 17 (single-sourced on the delay). aljazeera.com

Ecuador's Executive Decree 498 takes effect: a 60-day state of exception in eight provinces and three cantons, suspending three rights, with a curfew in four provinces from Sept 17 to 30 riotimesonline.com

France, as Security Council president for September, requests an emergency Council meeting on the Bab al-Mandab Strait after Houthi forces seize Yemen's Red Sea coast and strike commercial shipping. arabnews.com

Security Council emergency session on Houthi advances toward Bab al-Mandab, the second Yemen emergency meeting in under a week press.un.org

Israeli strikes kill at least five Palestinians in Gaza, including an eight-year-old girl in Khan Younis; the IDF says it killed Hamas commanders Nael Abu Obeid and Ahmad al-Batash (contested). timesofisrael.com

Indian destroyer INS Kolkata and Pakistani patrol vessel PNS Hunain collide in the North Arabian Sea, the first direct military contact since May 2025 thediplomat.com

AP reports the last coalition troops packing up as Iran-aligned factions signal their weapons will stay; an official from one faction says there is "absolutely no decision among the factions to surrender weapons", and only a handful of less-influential militias have agreed to hand anything over. The government's formula is that factions surrender "dynamic weapons" (missiles and long-range aircraft) to the PMF central command and dissolve into PMF and army structures. abcnews.com

Asharq Al-Awsat reports a phased formula under negotiation: fighters integrated into the PMF as brigades from Sept 30 to Dec 31, 2026 while keeping their weapons, Turkish withdrawal by July 1, 2027, and faction arsenals left outside state control into early 2028 under a monitoring committee of the PMF, the Coordination Framework, the factions and the government, with a clause voiding the terms if war against Iran resumes or a Coordination Framework party or faction faces an existential threat (single-sourced). english.aawsat.com

The US Justice Department charges a 21-year-old Pennsylvania man, arrested Sept 12, with receiving a firearm and ammunition in support of the Islamic State; the FBI says he was building attack concepts while acquiring weapons. abc7news.com

Palestinian media report a drone strike on passers-by in Sheikh Ajleen southwest of Gaza City and a strike on a vehicle in al-Saftawi in northern Gaza City (single-sourced). english.palinfo.com

The UN says Israel is failing to show respect for the dead buried under Gaza's rubble. aljazeera.com

Roundup reporting describes M23 running parallel governance in Goma and Bukavu and extracting revenue from taxation, coltan and cross-border trade. (single-sourced) allafrica.com

Culiacan and other Sinaloa municipalities hold the Independence Day Grito after two years of cancellations caused by the Chapitos-Mayiza war infobae.com

Al Jazeera reports the first Russian resupply of Tartous under an early-August memorandum turning Tartous and Hmeimim into joint training and capacity-building centres, by a four-vessel convoy that arrived on Sept 7. aljazeera.com

A second round of US-backed government-opposition talks opens in Caracas, with Jorge Rodriguez and Dinorah Figuera leading the delegations and church mediators present ewtnnews.com

President Ruto, touring Nyanza, warns political leaders against violence, tribalism and division ahead of the 2027 general election and says Kenya has no room for leaders promoting chaos. allafrica.com

Armenian FM Mirzoyan said he plans to meet Azerbaijani FM Bayramov in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, with no final agreement yet panorama.am

Gazprom suspended Russian gas supplies to Armenia from Sept 15 to Sept 25 for pipeline maintenance, with Armenian officials signalling the country could raise rent for Russia's military base if gas prices rise; Gazprom Armenia said domestic reserves and Iranian volumes would cover demand. jam-news.net

Day 25 of Vice-President Sara Duterte's impeachment trial hears an Office of the Ombudsman records official on the unexplained-wealth article, covering the rise in her declared net worth from P7.25 million in 2007 to P98.656 million in 2025. (snippet only) newsinfo.inquirer.net

Thailand and Cambodia open a compulsory conciliation process under UNCLOS in Singapore over their disputed maritime boundary, with foreign ministers Sihasak Phuangketkeow and Prak Sokhonn exchanging opening statements before a five-member commission; the process runs to Sept 17 and any outcome is non-binding. abcnews.com