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World Monthly Headline News September 2026
Story by David Brennan, Nadine El-Bawab, Ivan Pereira

President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military, government and infrastructure sites.

Delegations from the U.S. and Iran entered negotiations in June aimed at a war-ending deal based on a memorandum of understanding signed by both countries.

The U.S. and Iran have nonetheless continued to exchange strikes, with the strategic Strait of Hormuz as the primary flashpoint.

Iran claims attacks on US bases in Kuwait, UAE

Iran's army claimed Thursday morning that it conducted overnight strikes on U.S. military bases in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

In statements carried by official and semiofficial Iranian news agencies, Iran's army said it used missiles and drones to target satellite communication systems, equipment depots and fighter jet hangars at Ahmed al-Jaber Air Base in Kuwait.

The statements also claimed attacks on troop positions and radar systems at Al Minhad Air Base in the UAE.

-ABC News' Morgan Winsor
Story by Alex Henderson

Since returning to the White House roughly 19 and one-half months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump has found a variety of ways to alienate the United States' closest allies — from steep tariffs to the Iran war to threatening to take Greenland by force. And according to liberal economist Paul Krugman, some of those allies are taking steps that prove the United States "is no longer trusted."

In a Substack column posted on Friday morning, Krugman warns that fears that Trump and his allies will "seize gold" no longer seem far-fetched. And U.S. allies, according to the economist, are taking steps to protect themselves.

"'Rule of law' is not a phrase often applied to the Trump administration," Krugman argues. "And the administration has special contempt for international law. Many of Trump's tariffs have been ruled illegal under U.S. law, but more or less all of those tariffs were and are in clear violation of past agreements solemnly signed by previous U.S. presidents, including Trump himself. So, the idea that the U.S. government might devise some excuse to seize gold held in the Fed's vault is no longer far-fetched. And nations are taking precautions."
Story by Rasmus Senator

For thousands of years, the Bajau people have lived a life unlike that of almost anyone else on Earth, spending hours at a time beneath the waves, diving to incredible depths without scuba gear. Now, scientists have discovered a remarkable difference in their bodies that could help explain how they do it. The reason has left many people amazed

For most people, holding their breath underwater for even a few minutes would be extremely difficult. But for the Bajau people of Southeast Asia, diving deep into the ocean has been part of everyday life for generations.

Known as the “Sea Nomads,” the Bajau traditionally spend hours fishing and searching for food beneath the surface. Some divers can descend to impressive depths while holding their breath for several minutes at a time.

Now, scientists believe they may have discovered one reason for their extraordinary ability. Researchers studying the Bajau found that they have significantly larger spleens than nearby populations.
By Sahana Bajracharya, Navesh Chitrakar and Joseph Campbell

KATHMANDU, Sept 5 (Reuters) - A Chinese national was pulled alive from a tunnel in Nepal on Saturday, authorities said, 10 ‌days after a wall of ice, rock and mud tore through a Himalayan valley, killing more than 1,300 people.

The Nepali army said Lu Haitao was rescued from inside a 225-meter tunnel at the Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project.

He was the third person so far to be pulled out alive from various tunnels where ​authorities believe 900 people might be stuck after the August 26 collapse of a glacier on the upper reaches of the river.
Laura Kuenssberg

Nigel Farage has said he "frankly wasn't listening" during a conversation with his former chief of staff and an undercover reporter discussing what appears to have been a scheme to funnel foreign money to Reform UK.

His former chief of staff Dan Jukes and ex-head of policy James Orr have both been removed from their jobs after an investigation recorded them talking about how to get money to the party from an American donor and asking a fake company to pay for polling.

Jukes has denied doing anything wrong. Orr has told Sky News he will co-operate fully with Reform's internal investigation.

In an interview with the BBC, the Reform leader said he was not listening to the discussion and revealed his family are "begging" him to leave his job amid increasing pressure.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he has told SBU to deliver ‘appropriate, tangible response’ to Kyiv strike
Amy Hawkins in Kyiv

The head office of Ukraine’s SBU intelligence agency has been hit in a Russian drone attack, sending plumes of black smoke rising into the air in the heart of Kyiv.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said he had instructed the SBU to deliver an “appropriate, tangible response” to the strike, while the foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, described it as a “major escalation”.

The streets around the SBU headquarters were cordoned off shortly after Friday’s attack, with armed officers patrolling the area.

Numerous ambulances and emergency services vehicles were stationed around the site, which is close to St Sophia Cathedral, a Unesco world heritage site.
Story by Samy Magdy and Julia Frankel

Iran said Sunday it struck an unmanned U.S. vessel trying to enter the Strait of Hormuz, the latest salvo in a new flare-up of fighting between the two countries.

The U.S. did not immediately confirm the purported attack, which came a day after the U.S. military said forces struck three Iranian oil tankers in response to a missile attack on Navy warships.

The war began with U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran on Feb. 28. But since a ceasefire agreement was announced in June, on-and-off fighting has persisted with both sides trying to inflict military and economic pain as negotiations have collapsed.

Strikes come about a week after fighting resumed

The U.S. and Iran resumed attacks last week, following a month of relative calm, with the Strait of Hormuz and Iranian communities along it again being targeted. At least five people were killed earlier in the week during a U.S. bombardment of southern Iran.
Story by Francis Kapper

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu allegedly received an explicit warning that Hamas was preparing a major attack roughly 10 days before the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre but failed to share with top security officials, a bombshell investigation published Tuesday found.

United Arab Emirates President Mohamed bin Zayed personally warned Netanyahu during a 45-minute phone call that then-Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was planning a major operation against Israel, Haaretz reported, citing three senior foreign sources familiar with the conversation. Netanyahu's office categorically denied the allegation, saying the prime minister never had the reported conversation or received such a warning, according to the outlet.

"If a sufficiently clear warning had led Israel to reinforce the border before October 7, I believe it is entirely plausible that the scale of the disaster would have been significantly reduced," Amos Nadan, director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. "Whether the attack itself could have been prevented is much harder to establish."
By Elwely Elwelly, Yomna Ehab and Muhammad Al Gebaly

DUBAI/CAIRO, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The Middle East war intensified on Tuesday with Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen launching strikes on several Saudi cities, further embroiling a U.S. ally in the conflict, while U.S. forces hit multiple Iranian oil tankers and Iran targeted a U.S. base in Jordan.

The Houthis attacked four cities in the south of Saudi Arabia, wounding 73 people and setting oil installations ablaze in what appeared to be a major expansion of the six-month-old war.

As global oil markets were pricing in the Saudi attacks, the U.S. military's Central Command said it destroyed five Iranian crude oil carriers on Tuesday and posted video of the strikes, which it called a response to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targeting a U.S. Navy warship with ballistic missiles twice over the previous two days. No Americans were harmed, the U.S. said.
Alexander Willis

Onlookers were left in shock Tuesday after the leader of a U.S. ally openly boasted on live television about a successful "influence" campaign waged on American leaders to push the U.S. into launching its deeply unpopular war against Iran.

Underwater in the polls ahead of the nation's October elections, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to Israel's popular Channel 14 Sunday night with a pitch to voters.

“I’ve been against Iran for almost 40 years… it took a long time to bring the United States to its senses,” Netanyahu said in Hebrew, according to Zeteo’s Prem Thakker.

“[I’ve had] close to 1,000 hours on American television with the ability to influence the United States — with the intimate knowledge of all its leaders, both those who support us and those who don’t support us — the ability to navigate this field, through it.”

A White House insider told Bloomberg in March that President Donald Trump’s decision to launch a war against Iran was “partly motivated by pressure from outside allies” — chief among them being Netanyahu.
Iran says it captured an unmanned U.S. submarine near the Strait of Hormuz early Tuesday morning, calling it a major escalation. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said the underwater vehicle was seized as a prize of war during a complex intelligence and operational action at dawn. Iran said the submarine had been added to the U.S. Navy fleet in 2025 and was equipped with some of the world's latest technology.
Opinion by Malcolm Ferguson

Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao reportedly admitted that the Iranian military “blew the hell” out of the U.S. naval base in Bahrain—a shocking claim that contradicts the Trump administration’s narrative of total destruction of Iran’s attack capabilities.

While the damage to the U.S. Fifth Fleet headquarters at Naval Support Activity Bahrain in a February 28 drone attack has been well-documented, Cao’s Thursday comment to a reporter at the conservative outlet The Epoch Times is perhaps the most vivid, sober analysis of the situation from an individual of his ranking.

Cao also told The Epoch Times’ Ryan Morgan that Iran’s attack left them unable to “pull in” the USS Abraham Lincoln, the aircraft carrier that was at sea for months and ravaged by reports of poor conditions and low morale.
Story by Rachel Chason, Mohamad El Chamaa, Suzan Haidamous, Meg Kelly

AMMAN, Jordan — Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen seized a key port city on the Red Sea on Thursday, providing what could be substantial leverage for the Iranian regime in the ongoing U.S.-Iran war.

Videos shared online, verified by The Washington Post, showed militants shouting Houthi slogans rolling in trucks down the main thoroughfare of the coastal city of Mokha, which had been held by forces aligned with Yemen’s internationally recognized government.

In another video, filmed in the city’s port area, just north of the airport, two men linger near what appears to be a mine-resistant military vehicle produced in a joint venture between U.S. manufacturer Oshkosh and Saudi Arabia’s Al Tadrea Manufacturing Co.

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Analysts and a Yemeni official confirmed what the videos suggested: The Houthis had taken control of the city, amid renewed fighting in Yemen and between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia, in the latest front of the multipart conflict that has swept the region over the more than six months since Israel and the United States attacked Iran.

Since Iran largely blocked maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz in late February to exert economic leverage in the face of attacks, the Bab al-Mandab Strait off Yemen has become an increasingly crucial waterway for global shipping, including oil exports from the Persian Gulf.
Pres. Trump said there was no damage "whatsoever" to U.S. warplanes based in Jordan.
Iranian-designed drones gave Russia a relatively inexpensive way to conduct long-range attacks against Ukraine while putting constant pressure on Ukrainian air defenses. Their usefulness is not measured only by how many targets they successfully destroy: forcing Ukraine to detect, track and intercept repeated waves can itself consume valuable resources.
Story by Jonah Kaplan

New photos obtained exclusively by CBS News reveal for the first time the widespread damage and destruction of buildings and vehicles at multiple U.S. positions across the Middle East, as a result of Iranian missile and drone attacks.

The images were sent to CBS News by active service members on condition of anonymity because of rigid media restrictions within the military.

"This is major damage to our bases that hasn't been communicated to the American public," one deployed service member told CBS News. "We're standing there with our eyes closed getting punched in the face."

One photo, taken at Prince Sultan Air Force Base in Saudi Arabia, shows a direct hit on the back half of a Boeing E-3 Sentry four-engine aircraft, its tail severed from the charred fuselage that also supported a rotating radar that is essential for collecting midair intelligence.
Story by Chris Morris

Donald Trump and his family generated at least $2.2 billion in income last year (1), which is nearly four times more than he reported in 2024. Much of that money came from his supporters who invested in his businesses, such as Trump Media and Technology Group, or bought his $TRUMP meme coin.

Their fortunes, however, didn’t fare nearly as well. In fact, Trump’s supporters are reportedly down an estimated $7 billion after investing in the president’s business ventures.

Trump Media shares have lost 56% of their value in the past year (2) , while the Trump coin’s value also tumbled about 81% in that time (3). Many of the retail investors who sunk their savings into those ventures — often as a sign of loyalty to Trump — have seen the money vanish right as economic volatility began to spike. And they’re not happy with Trump, or the members of his inner circle.
CBS News obtained new images of damaged buildings and equipment at U.S. positions in the Middle East. This comes amid renewed scrutiny surrounding military resource management and Iran war spending. CBS News' Jonah Kaplan has more.
MS NOW has exclusive new reporting about military families living in fear as U.S. troops face undisclosed missile attacks abroad. Nicolle Wallace is joined by Priya Sridhar, authored on this story, for analysis on Deadline White House.
Story by Bennito L. Kelty

The Pentagon's thoughts about withdrawing 25,000 troops from Europe are spurring fears of the threat the move would create for U.S. allies.

On Thursday, NBC News reported that the Pentagon is considering pulling out 25,000 or more U.S. troops from Europe, which is nearly a third of the American forces stationed there. The withdrawal would include aircraft, ships, and weapons, even though NATO allies have warned about the growing threat from Russia.

Online critics pointed to the move as proof that President Donald Trump and his administration are aligned with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

"For the umpteenth time: Trump works for Putin," wrote former GOP congressman Joe Walsh in a post on X. "He's a Russian asset. Plain & simple. Putin is smiling again today."
Story by Noah Robertson, Tara Copp, Warren Strobel, Alex Horton

More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the Defense Department’s internal casualty accounting data.

Five of the officials said there have been at least 22 military fatalities — four more than what appears in the Pentagon’s public database, known as the Defense Casualty Analysis System, or DCAS.

A sixth official, who like the others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the figures, said 23 service members have died since Feb. 28, when the Trump administration, in concert with Israel, initiated the Iran war. Not all of the undisclosed deaths are directly tied to the conflict but have involved U.S. personnel who were in the Middle East amid ongoing hostilities, this person said.
Story by AP

Ukrainian forces fired more than 1,000 drones at Russia overnight, including hundreds that were launched toward Moscow, officials said Sunday as the Kremlin was wrapping up the third and last day of its parliamentary elections.

Moscow’s mayor described the wave of drones as the “largest ever” drone attack on the Russian capital and said there had been damage to a Moscow oil refinery and a residential building.

Across the wider Moscow region, the attack killed two people and wounded 20, local Gov. Andrei Vorobyov said. The dead were a 74-year-old man and a 44-year-old woman, he said.

Writing on social media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Kyiv had used a range of missiles and drones in the attack — including Ukraine’s domestically made Flamingo and Pelican missiles — to hit oil and logistics facilities.

“These are billions of dollars that sustain the war machine,” Zelenskyy said, referring to the financial pressure that Kyiv hopes to put on Russia’s economy.
Opinion by Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Iran has threatened to unveil a new weapon and alter the landscape of the war if Donald Trump follows through on his pledge to “wipe out” the nation.

“If a new aggression takes place, we will definitely change the weapons and geography of the war,” Hossein Mohebbi, a spokesman for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, told Fars news agency Monday.

Mohebbi did not elaborate on the weapon types, or clarify which new areas could be hit. But he did add that the world would be “astounded” by the new weapons, and reiterated that the U.S. has already “been defeated in this war” but “it does not have the courage to admit and accept this defeat.”
Story by Thomas Kika

President Donald Trump's bruising return to the White House has sent many longtime foreign allies scrambling to get their distance, and according to a new piece from The Atlantic, that distance will last long after Trump is gone.

Trump's second term as president has been marked by notable and widespread disrespect toward nations once seen as close U.S. allies. Between his attempts to level massive tariffs against nearly every nation in the world and his frequent breaches of diplomatic norms, Trump has created a hostile global environment in which allies no longer feel safe trusting in the stability of the U.S.

In a new piece for The Atlantic on Tuesday, staff writer Vivian Salama argued that this new dynamic, in which the nations of the world are working to establish a safe distance from the U.S., is bound to become the new normal for years to come, even after Trump leaves office and is potentially replaced by a more traditional, dependable administration.

"For years, the strategy among U.S. allies was to wait President Trump out," Salama explained. "Now many are preparing for a world in which the United States is no longer indispensable — not simply during Trump’s presidency but afterward as well, regardless of who occupies the White House. They are building military capabilities, diversifying trade, developing new domestic industries and forging relationships that reduce their dependence on Washington."

Writing further, Salama stressed that this is not a wholesale abandonment, but more of a precaution being taken to protect against the recurring instability of American leadership.
Opinion by Edith Olmsted

One of our closest allies now believes that it can’t rely on the United States under President Donald Trump’s leadership.

Belgium’s foreign ministry warned that America was “no longer the ally it has been in the past,” according to a late-2025 strategy document reviewed by the Financial Times.

The Belgian document called for a “thorough re-evaluation of the relation between the European Union and Belgium on the one hand, and the U.S. on the other hand.” It argued that the current political dynamics in the United States were “likely to compromise several vital interests of Belgium and the European Union.
Story by IdahoLearningNews Editorial Team

A veteran foreign correspondent says Russian intelligence left messages in his family's apartment to prove a point about how thoroughly the Kremlin watches people — and he thinks that same machinery explains a presidency.

Luke Harding has a theory about why President Donald Trump, 80, seems so careful with Vladimir Putin, 73 — and it comes from an unsettling place: his own apartment in Moscow. The veteran Guardian correspondent alleges that Trump “excessively appeases” the Russian president because the Kremlin likely holds compromising material on him, and that Trump knows it.

Harding made the claim on The Daily Beast Podcast in a conversation with host Joanna Coles, and he grounds it in personal experience: in 2007, while he was reporting from Moscow, he says Russia’s Federal Security Service, known as the FSB, broke into his family’s home and planted bugs. It is an allegation, not a verified fact, and it should be weighed that way.

A Sex Manual by the Bed
In Harding’s telling, the surveillance he describes was meant to be noticed. Returning from a family holiday in Berlin, he found a Russian-language sex manual placed beside the marital bed — a message, he says, that left no ambiguity about who had been inside the apartment.

“They made it clear that they were watching us,” Harding said, recalling the moment he had to assure his wife the object was not his. “Darling, this really isn’t mine. The KGB have introduced this.”
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