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26 minutes of madness. One of the most extraordinary desert wars is unfolding right now. Houthi footage shows today’s attack on forces backed by Saudi Arabia in Al Jawf. https://t.co/n8iQvKK4Fq
Vladimir Barbin expressed regret over Denmark’s reluctance to prevent maritime escalation and push toward strengthening mutual confidence

Trump: Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court, one that the Court System took forever to give, and then blamed it, in part, on no time left to implement a solution to our totally CORRUPT and out of control Mail-In voting “disaster,” which is a laughing stock all over the World, and where we are the only country that has to endure such a Nation Destroying SCAM.
Finland is providing Ukraine with its 34th military aid package, worth approximately €290 million.
Russia continues systematic attacks aimed at disrupting logistics across Ukraine, Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha said.

Trump returned to the presidency with renewed determination to mitigate Chinese influence worldwide, giving particular interest to the Western Hemisphere.

After 12 prominent Western nations last week announced they would ban or restrict trade in goods manufactured or produced by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, Israel began threatening to close their embassies. Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK announced they would introduce their own national sanctions on Israel’s settlements or support existing EU restrictions. The import restrictions will target the racist settlement system

Putin Moves Foreign Policy Forum to Moscow Over Ukrainian Drone Threat Putin’s annual Valdai conference has been shifted from Sochi to Moscow after his security service raised concerns over Ukraine’s expanding long-range drone campaign. READ MORE
The U.S. military destroyed two Iranian boats after the IRGC allegedly attempted to capture a U.S. Navy unmanned surface vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, Axios reports. CENTCOM said the U.S. vessel remained under American control, while Iran said the boats were fishing vessels and several fishermen were missing.
Ukraine will significantly strengthen its electronic warfare (EW) capabilities and increase procurement to protect critical infrastructure and logistics from Russian strikes, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said following a meeting of the Stavka (Supreme Commander-in-Chief's headquarters).

US Confirms Weapons in Orbit for the First Time After Decades of Ambiguity Washington has publicly acknowledged an on-orbit weapon capability for the first time, saying such systems can be used for offensive or defensive operations. READ MORE
WATCH: Yemen’s Houthis release lengthy footage showing attacks on Saudi-backed forces and the burning of numerous vehicles east of Al-Jawf.

Analysts warn that a US withdrawal from the western Pacific, as recently suggested by a think tank, would weaken deterrence and strengthen China's position.

On Sept. 30, the US is due to complete its final withdrawal from Iraq, more than two decades after its ill-fated invasion. With this will come a moment Baghdad has branded “sovereignty day.” It is the date on which the Iraqi state is supposed to hold a monopoly on all weapons within its borders. But if recent history is any indication, that landmark achievement will not happen. Not because the process is complicated but because Iran has decided it will not happen. One of the most ironic outcomes

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Saudi Arabia has turned to Israel for intelligence assistance against the Houthis, in talks mediated by U.S. CENTCOM, Walla reports citing Middle East diplomatic sources. Houthi attacks have intensified over the past week, including a drone strike on Saudi oil pipelines and pumping facilities that partially shut the main line, plus an attack near a mosque close to the Yemen-Saudi border.

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More explosions were reported in Kyiv

Poland Lost $230 Million Trying to Buy Venezuelan Oil With Crypto Poland’s Orlen advanced $230 million for Venezuelan crude. Over two years, the money flowed through Dubai crypto firms and Caracas brokers, while three tankers waited largely empty. READ MORE

Overnight, the Russian Armed Forces struck a logistics center in Velikaya Balka in the Odessa Region

UN: More than 100,000 flee Yemen fighting Flaring fighting between government forces and Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen has displaced more than 100,000 people inside the country, while thousands more have fled abroad, the United Nations said Tuesday. The UN refugee agency warned in a statement that "rapidly escalating hostilities along Yemen's western coast have displaced more than 100,000 people inside the country and forced thousands more to seek safety across the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in Djibou

"Few projects illustrate Europe's priorities as clearly as the Port of Klaipeda," EIB Vice-President Karl Nehammer said.
Two Hamas commanders were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, per the IDF. Rafat Abu Zamar, a company commander in Hamas's operations division, was killed in Khan Younis. The IDF says he led training ahead of October 7 and recently worked on rebuilding Hamas capabilities. Muhammad Khader Fahmi Aghour, tied to weapons production, was killed in a separate Gaza City strike on Monday. The IDF says both were advancing attacks in "systematic violation of the ceasefire."

SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and Kazakhstan agreed Tuesday to elevate...

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Analysts warn that a US withdrawal from the western Pacific, recently suggested by a US think tank, would weaken deterrence and strengthen China's position.
Boris Johnson: I don’t know what we gain — and I don’t know what Ukraine gains — by more strategic ambiguity. I think the whole problem for Ukraine is that the status of Ukraine has been ambiguous. You say we shouldn’t worry about escalation. But why are we not offering Ukraine membership of NATO? Why not? Because we’re worried about provoking Putin, right? Well, what a load of bollocks. I mean, it’s the same mentality. You know, we’re either serious about them being a free, sovereign, in

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Boris Johnson: Ukraine wants to be part of the West. They want to be part of NATO. They want to join our clubs. We’ve got to allow that to happen. If we’re serious, we’ve got to make that happen. We’ve got to stop pussyfooting around about this thing. We will only get this thing done when we deliver the Ukrainians the clarity that they need about their destiny.
Boris Johnson on Russia-Ukraine war: This is fundamentally an imperial war. This is about Russia’s sense of its history. It’s about Russia’s sense that there’s no possibility of a Russian future or a Russian empire or Russian dignity without Ukraine. And that is an absolute disaster. And the only way to fix the problem of Ukraine is for the West to be clear about the future of Ukraine, and we’re still not doing that.
A majority of Ukrainians insist on continuing armed resistance even if Russia tries this winter to attack Ukraine's energy sector to leave people without electricity, heat and sewage service, according to a survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).

The death of Jina Mahsa Amini triggered a resistance movement in Iran. Four years later, the Iranian regime endures — but so does the legacy of the "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests.

A DeepSeek engineer has issued a stark warning about the potential concentration of advanced artificial intelligence and resources in proprietary US developers Anthropic and OpenAI, intensifying a growing debate in China over calls by US industry leaders to “pace” AI development amid safety concerns. The comments preceded an expected meeting between President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump on September 24, where AI safety may emerge as a key point of dialogue as the two countries race.

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Russian Frigate Fires Flares at Danish Military Helicopter in Baltic Sea A Russian frigate fired two flares toward a Danish Fennec helicopter conducting routine reconnaissance in international waters, prompting Copenhagen to summon Moscow's ambassador. READ MORE

Explosion was reported in Kyiv

Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) counterintelligence officers and investigators have foiled another Russian attempt to carry out a bombing in Kyiv region, detaining an unemployed local woman who was to blow up a car near an apartment building in a suburb of the capital.

The General Staff said nearly 300,000 losses were roughly equivalent to the personnel strength of 150 motorized rifle regiments, based on an estimated 2,000 troops per regiment.

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