🇨🇾🇪🇬🇬🇷 | Greece's prime minister, Egypt's president, and his Cypriot counterpart met in El Alamein to discuss energy, security, and regional developments — CNA

🇮🇷🇷🇺 | The CEO of Russia's Rosatom says the company has handed over to Iran a draft agreement on the construction of small nuclear power plants — TASS

🇰🇷🇦🇪 | South Korea's defense ministry says it has dispatched an investigative team to the UAE to assess the situation in the Strait of Hormuz — Yonhap

🇮🇷 | The IRGC says it shot down an MQ-1 UAV over the Strait of Hormuz using a new advanced air defense system — IRIB

🇺🇦 | Ukraine lost ~$1.2 billion in 2024 alone to fraud, waste, and mismanagement in defense procurement while awarding contracts to unreliable suppliers — NYT

🇮🇷🇺🇸 | The US has struck targets, including Iranian oil tankers, near Kharg Island and the coastal city of Jask, American officials say — Fox News

🇸🇪🇺🇸 | Sweden is acquiring ~10 HIMARS rocket launchers and ammunition from Lockheed Martin, with deliveries scheduled to begin in 2027 — SVT

🇸🇦 | OPEC's crude oil production declined by 900,000 barrels a day in August, while Saudi Arabia's production hit its lowest level since May — Bloomberg

🇰🇵🇷🇺 | The first road bridge linking North Korea and Russia across the Tumen River has officially been inaugurated and opened to traffic — CBS News

🇮🇷🇯🇴 | Jordan's military says it intercepted and destroyed 18 ballistic missiles fired from Iran, while two others fell in uninhabited areas — PETRA

🇮🇷🇺🇸 | CENTCOM says it has "destroyed" four Iranian oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman and another "near Kharg Island" — statement

🇮🇶🇸🇦🇾🇪 | The Houthis helped Iraqi militias plan and execute a two-day drone swarm attack against Saudi Arabia in July, regional officials say — AP

🇮🇶 | The tanker New Andros was hit by a UAV while carrying 2 million barrels of Iraqi fuel oil in the country's territorial waters, port officials say — Reuters

🇯🇵🇰🇷🇺🇸 | Japan, South Korea, and the US have begun a five-day joint naval exercise in international waters east and south of Jeju Island — Yonhap

🇶🇦 | Qatar posted its widest quarterly budget deficit since 2016 as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz choked off most of its LNG exports — Semafor

🇷🇺🇺🇦 | Ramzan Kadyrov says 76,434 fighters have been sent from the Chechen Republic to combat zones in Ukraine since the start of the war — TASS

🇨🇳🇲🇲 | Myanmar's military is intensifying fighting in Rakhine State as China seeks to revive stalled projects along a 1,700-km infrastructure corridor — Nikkei Asia

🇪🇹 | Ethiopia has been manufacturing UAVs at two factories since last year and is now believed to have a fleet numbering in the thousands, analysts say — AFP