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DUBAI/CAIRO, 10 September, 2026 (Nosheen): The Middle East war intensified on Tuesday as Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen launched strikes on several Saudi cities, while U.S. forces destroyed multiple Iranian oil tankers and Iran targeted a U.S. military base in Jordan. The Houthis attacked four cities in southern Saudi Arabia, wounding 73 people and setting oil installations ablaze in what appeared to be a major escalation of the six-month-old conflict. The U.S. military’s Central Command said it destroyed five Iranian crude oil carriers on Tuesday, describing the strikes as a response to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targeting a U.S. Navy warship with ballistic missiles twice over the previous two days. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Iran would continue to lose tanker...

KYIV, 10 September, 2026 (Ghufran): Ukraine is contracting a supply of around 1,000 missiles for U.S.-designed Patriot air-defence systems with the support of its allies and through a European Union loan, Ukrainian Defence Minister Yevhenii Khmara said on Tuesday. Speaking at a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, Khmara said the majority of the missiles would only be delivered in the coming years and urged allies to provide more urgent assistance. In comments released later by the Defence Ministry, Khmara said Ukraine was asking Western partners to provide additional air-defence missiles from their existing stocks in exchange for improvements in missile performance under contracts signed with Kyiv. He also said Ukraine was facing a $27 billion shortfall in financing for drone sup...

VIENNA, September 10, 2026 (Kamran Raja): The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors has passed a resolution drawing a line under Syria’s past secret nuclear activities during the rule of the Assad family, saying the country’s new authorities have cooperated in resolving all outstanding questions. The 35-nation board declared Syria in breach of its nuclear non-proliferation obligations in 2011 and referred the matter to the United Nations Security Council. The move followed Israel’s 2007 bombing of a site in Syria’s eastern Deir al-Zor province, which Israel said was a secret nuclear reactor nearing completion. The IAEA subsequently demanded that Syria provide information about its nuclear activities, but Syria failed to do so at the time. Following the overthrow of B...

RIYADH, 9 September, 2026 (Nosheen): Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strongly condemned attacks carried out by Iran against Jordan, describing them as a blatant violation of international law and calling for their immediate cessation. In a statement, the Saudi Foreign Ministry urged an immediate end to attacks on Jordan and other countries in the region and called for serious and effective measures to promote peace and stability across the Middle East. Saudi Arabia stressed the need for efforts to prevent further escalation and protect regional security. Earlier, a Cabinet session chaired by Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah reiterated Saudi Arabia’s commitment to defending its sovereignty, protecting the security of its citizens and expatriates, ...

 TEHRAN 8 September, 2026(Ghufran): Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has vowed that Iran will continue its resistance with “full strength” until those responsible for aggression against the country are brought to “complete regret.” In a statement posted on social media platform X, Pezeshkian said Iran had consistently opposed war and believed that avoiding conflict was essential to protecting the interests of the Iranian people and maintaining regional security. “Iran has always opposed war and has considered the preservation of the people’s interests and regional security to lie in refraining from igniting conflict,” the president said. However, Pezeshkian stressed that Tehran would continue defending itself against what it describes as aggression. He said Iran had “boldly ris...

 LONDON, 8 September, 2026 (Kamran Raja): Britain, France and Canada have announced coordinated measures targeting Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, reaffirming their support for a two-state solution and opposing continued settlement expansion. British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced that the United Kingdom would impose a trade ban on goods produced in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, saying Britain could no longer merely “call out” injustice and suffering and must take concrete action to oppose settlement expansion and the destruction of prospects for a two-state solution. Miliband said Britain considers the Israeli occupation of the West Bank unlawful and believes Palestinians are facing ethnic cleansing in parts of the territory. The move come...

 KYIV, 8 September 2026 (Kamran Raja): Russia resumed airstrikes on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early Tuesday, shortly after U.S. peace envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff departed following a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, with Russian ballistic missile strikes injuring six people and damaging residential buildings, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. Klitschko said people were trapped inside a residential building and fires broke out in several parts of the city following the strikes. The Kyiv Military Administration said separately that falling debris damaged a five-storey apartment building and a three-storey residential block, while urging residents to seek shelter. As explosions were heard in Kyiv, neighbouring Poland activated military aviation operat...

 LONDON, 8 September 2026 (Nosheen): Some departing flights at major British airports were disrupted on Tuesday after air traffic control provider NATS experienced a technical issue, with Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester and Stansted among the airports affected by restrictions and delays. NATS said in a statement that it had identified the problem as being in its flight processing system, adding that its engineers were on site and working urgently to restore normal operations as quickly as possible. The air traffic control provider said flights were still departing and British airspace remained open, but warned that recovery would take some time. Heathrow, Britain’s biggest aviation hub, said it was working with NATS to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. Edinburgh Airport sa...

 KATHMANDU, 7 September, 2026 (Ghufran): Nepal observed its final day of national mourning on Monday following devastating floods and mudslides that have killed at least 1,380 people, while rescue teams continued searching for more than 5,500 missing people. Government offices across the Hindu-majority country and Nepal’s diplomatic missions abroad flew the national flag at half-mast to mark the 13th day after the deaths, in accordance with traditional Hindu mourning rituals. The disaster occurred on August 26 when a massive wall of mud and rock, triggered by a glacier breaking off in the Himalayan region along the Nepal-China border, collapsed into a river, sweeping away towns and villages and burying roads and highways under debris. In recent days, rescue teams have managed to s...