🇷🇺 | A fire broke out aboard the Russian polar icebreaker Admiral Makarov while it was undergoing repairs in Kronstadt near St. Petersburg — Kommersant

🇱🇾 | Libya has arrested a cell responsible for launching attacks on oil tanks in Tripoli and Zawiya as well as on a power station, a government source says — Al Arabiya

🇮🇷🇺🇸 | CENTCOM says the Iranian crude carrier M/T Kylo sank in the Gulf of Oman after being struck by the US — X

🇺🇦🇺🇸 | Trump's special envoys, Witkoff and Kushner, have arrived in Kyiv for talks with Ukraine's president — Ukrinform

🇮🇶🇺🇸 | Iraq ranked as the ninth-largest supplier of crude oil to the US last week at 38,000 barrels per day up from zero the previous week — Shafaq

🇦🇫🇶🇦 | Qatar has expressed interest in investing in Afghanistan's oil and gas sector, with both sides discussing the establishment of an oil refinery — BNA

🇳🇪 | The governor of Niamey in Niger has reiterated the strict ban on civilians wearing military uniforms in the capital and its surrounding areas — Aïr-Info Agadez

🇸🇦🇾🇪 | The Houthis say they shot down a Chinese-made Wing Loong II UAV belonging to Saudi Arabia over Taiz Governorate in southwestern Yemen — statement

🇲🇩🇷🇺 | Russia will open 15 polling stations in Transnistria for the State Duma elections on September 20, despite Moldova's official protest — NewsMaker.md

🇰🇵🇺🇳🇺🇸 | North Korea will likely send a vice foreign minister to address the UN General Assembly in New York on September 28, sources say — Yonhap

🇹🇷 | Turkey plans to sell 30-year operating rights for two bridges spanning the Bosphorus between Istanbul's European and Asian sides — Daily Sabah

🇾🇪 | Yemen's coast guard intercepted the oil tanker Nereida in the Gulf of Aden after it illegally unloaded cargo at the Houthi-controlled port of Ras Issa — Yemen TV

🇩🇪🇺🇦 | A site near Munich has begun mass-producing more than 5,000 medium- and long-range attack UAVs funded by Germany's government for Ukraine — dpa

🇮🇱🇱🇧 | Israel has claimed control over the strategic Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon following sustained fighting against Hezbollah — Al Jazeera

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸 | Witkoff and Kushner told Ukraine's president that the US wants a breakthrough in talks with Russia before winter, a source says — Axios

🇸🇦🇾🇪 | The Houthis say they shot down a Chinese-made CH-4 UAV belonging to Saudi Arabia over Hajjah Governorate in northwestern Yemen — statement

🇩🇿🇬🇷🇮🇹🇺🇳 | Algeria's defense ministry says a Greek missile frigate and an Italian patrol ship assigned to NATO docked in Oran for a joint naval drill — statement

🇸🇦 | Saudi Aramco's oil infrastructure in the industrial city of Jizan was struck again on Monday and the damage is currently being assessed, sources say — FT