Israeli strikes in Gaza kill two people, including a child, medics say
Israeli airstrikes hit a vehicle, killing at least two Palestinians, including a child, and wounding seven others in the northern Gaza Strip neighbourhood of Sheikh Radwan, the territory’s health officials said.
The Israeli military said it had struck a militant in the area, without elaborating.
Witnesses said some of the casualties resulted from a second strike that hit near a group of people who rushed to help in the rescue. A video, that wasn’t immediately verified by Reuters, showed a missile exploding near at least five men
Egypt’s Sisi and Saudi Crown Prince stress need for security of Red Sea navigation
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman stressed the need to ensure freedom and security of navigation in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and the Red Sea during talks, the Egyptian presidency said.
Sisi also expressed support for Saudi measures to protect its security and stability, and for efforts to reach a comprehensive and sustainable political solution to the Yemen crisis, the presidency said.
Oman says searching for two crew members after tanker hit
Oman said it was searching for two missing crew members who were aboard a tanker targeted in the Strait of Hormuz that was now being towed.
Vessels in the vital strait have come under repeated attack as Tehran seeks to maintain a stranglehold on the waterway in its war with the United States. Washington has also kept up a counterblockade of Iranian ports.
More than 100,000 flee fighting in Yemen, UN says
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.
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 Djibouti”.
A makeshift camp for people displaced by clashes between Iran-aligned Houthi fighters and Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces, in Taiz province, Yemen, September 14, 2026. Picture taken with a mobile phone. © Stringer, Reuters
Saudi crown prince lands in Egypt to meet Sisi, Egyptian state-linked media report
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Cairo ahead of meetings with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egyptian state-linked media said, as the kingdom reels from strikes by Yemen’s Houthis.
The Saudi de facto ruler “arrived in Egypt on an official visit”, reported Al-Qahera News, which is close to Egyptian intelligence services. Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry said Sisi received the crown prince for his “work visit”.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R) walking along side Saudi de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a welcoming ceremony on September 15, 2026. © Ahmed Nureldine, AFP
Israeli army kills Palestinian man in West Bank raid
Israel’s military shot and killed a Palestinian man during a raid in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said.
The army said it fired at someone who tried to seize a soldier’s weapon.
The Palestinian health ministry announced the death of 54-year-old Ziad Mohammad Jaber by “Israeli army gunfire in Umm al-Sharayet, in the city of Al-Bireh”, near Ramallah in the central West Bank.
In the early hours of Tuesday, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said its crews were treating someone who sustained “a critical live-fire gunshot wound to the abdomen and thigh” during a military raid in Umm al-Sharayet.
Qatar warns against ‘catastrophic’ Bab el-Mandeb closure
Qatar has warned of dire consequences if the vital Bab el-Mandeb waterway were to close, after a months-long blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and recent Houthi gains on the Red Sea coast.
“The world is suffering enough with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, so we cannot also afford to add the Bab el-Mandeb into that equation,” Qatar foreign ministry official Ibrahim Al Hashmi told reporters.
He said a closure of the southern entrance to the Red Sea would be “catastrophic for the entire world. And we are already seeing the consequences… so Qatar is pushing for diplomacy, dialogue”.
US ambassador visits Lebanon ‘pilot zone’ near Israel
The US ambassador to Lebanon has visited a southern village that recently came under the control of the Lebanese army as part of a framework agreement with Israel.
The US-backed June agreement states that the Israeli military will withdraw from areas of south Lebanon it occupied in parallel with the deployment of the Lebanese army, starting with “pilot zones”, under the condition that militant group Hezbollah disarms.
An AFP correspondent saw a convoy carrying the US envoy, Michel Issa, entering the village of Zawtar al-Gharbiya, where he visited a church, according to Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA).
Israel’s forces remain deployed in what it calls a “security zone”, a stretch of Lebanese territory about 10 kilometres deep along the border.
Houthis say 3 people killed in Saudi airstrikes in Yemen’s southwest
Saudi warplanes have struck southwest Yemen, killing three people, including two children, according to a Houthi official.
The official did not say what the Saudi warplanes had targeted.
Saudi civil defence issues brief attack threat alerts for Mecca, Jeddah, Taif
Saudi Arabia has issued brief alerts over possible attacks in the holy city of Mecca and in the Jeddah and Taif governorates.
The alerts, including the first one issued in Mecca since the Middle East war began, were quickly lifted, according to the Saudi civil defence.
UK monitor reports vessel struck in Strait of Hormuz
A British marine monitor said on Tuesday it received a report of a vessel struck by an unknown projectile the day before in the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
Since US-Israeli attacks on Iran started the Middle East war in February, Tehran has blockaded the strait, a key shipping route for oil and gas.
UK Maritime Trade Operations said there was “no reported damage or environmental impact” from the incident, which it said took place on Monday, and that “authorities are investigating”.
UN urges access for international investigators to Gaza after bodies found
The United Nations has called for international investigators to be granted access to all of Gaza “to assist with evidence-gathering” as hundreds of bodies are pulled from the rubble.
“The discovery of extensive remains under the rubble in Gaza City resurfaces these concerns of war crimes and other atrocity crimes,” UN rights chief Volker Turk said in a statement.
The UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese warned last week that the large-scale rubble removal in parts of Gaza under Israeli control could risk erasing “evidence relevant to the investigation of alleged international crimes”.
UN Security Council to discuss Bab el-Mandeb today, French diplomats say
The United Nations Security Council will hold a meeting later today to discuss the situation in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, two French diplomats told Reuters.
The meeting, which was called by France, will be held on Tuesday afternoon, New York time, they said.
Iran rejects talks with US after Trump ‘mixed signals’
Iran’s security chief has rejected any talks with the United States after President Donald Trump said he was open to resuming discussions on the Middle East war.
“Don’t get distracted by the US president’s mixed signals — from ‘no negotiations’ to ‘we’re ready to talk’,” the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, posted on X.
“The stakes around oil and the straits have changed. Damage control won’t stop what’s coming. No talks until Iran’s conditions are met. Period!” he added.
Trump on Monday said he was open to holding talks with Iran, after weeks of saying it was too early to make a deal to end the war.
Hormuz traffic dwindles as Middle East attacks intensify
Shipping traffic at the Strait of Hormuz has dwindled further this week after attacks intensified in the Middle East, shipping data shows.
Commodity vessel transits totalled four on Monday, down from 10 during the previous day, preliminary data from Kpler showed.
Two dry bulk carriers exited the waterway, including one laden and one ballast vessel, while two oil tankers entered the strait, both in ballast mode.
Iranian news agency Fars reported on Monday that an oil tanker exploded and caught fire after colliding with mines in the strait, without saying when the incident occurred.
US nominates new envoy to Saudi Arabia after lengthy vacancy
US President Donald Trump has nominated Republican congressman Wesley Hunt, a US Army veteran, as his new ambassador to Saudi Arabia — a post that had been left vacant amid the war with Iran.
Hunt’s nomination was sent Monday to the US Senate, which must vote on his confirmation.
“Having served in the region both in combat as an Army officer and for two years as a diplomatic liaison in the Kingdom, I understand the strategic importance of the partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia and the profound responsibility of this position,” Hunt said in a post on X.
The nomination comes at a sensitive time for Saudi Arabia, a key US ally, after fresh attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis on Saudi soil opened a new front in the Middle East conflict.
Riyadh warns it will react ‘firmly’ to Houthi attacks
Saudi Arabia has warned it will react “firmly” to Yemen’s Houthis after a series of attacks carried out by the pro-Iranian rebels using ballistic missiles and drones wounded 13 civilians in the country’s south.
The Riyadh-led coalition confirmed there had been missile and drone attacks on Khamis Mushait, Abha and Taif in the south, reporting 13 wounded.
Saudi Arabia responded with more than 50 strikes, as it had the day before, according to the Houthis.
The coalition said it would deal with the attacks “firmly to protect the sovereignty of the Kingdom” and would take “all necessary operational measures to deter this… hostile and extremist approach”.
US faces ammunition shortfall after costly Iran war
The US Defense Department’s inspector general revealed Monday that the United States is facing a shortfall in ammunition as a result of its costly war in Iran.
In a first-of-its-kind mandatory report to Congress, the inspector said that between February 28 and June 30, Operation Epic Fury (OEF) had an estimated cost of $33.4 billion, with $22.3 billion of that spent on expended munitions alone.
The report noted “the munitions expenditure on OEF has resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply.”
It also lists losses to the American fleet, including four F-15s destroyed, one F-35 damaged, seven KC-135 tanker aircraft damaged and up to 30 MQ-9 Reaper drones destroyed.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly brushed off concerns of depleted weapons stores during the six months of war in the Middle East, saying the US has “virtually unlimited” ammo just a couple weeks ago.
On Monday Trump posted to his Truth Social platform saying again the US is producing “more Exquisite and Elite Weapons than at any time in our History.”
Saudi Arabia issues all clear after alerts in six cities
The Saudi Arabian Civil Defence sent an all clear on Tuesday after issuing alerts for potential danger in six cities including Yanbu, the kingdom’s main Red Sea oil port, where millions of barrels a day are loaded.
Saudi Civil Defence said the danger had passed in Jeddah, Abha, Jazan, AlUla and Taif after the areas received emergency alerts amid an uptick in attacks by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis.
The Houthis have stepped up attacks on Saudi cities and energy infrastructure while advancing along Yemen’s Red Sea coast towards the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a key shipping route.
