🇺🇸🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- BREAKING: "There is a possibility of an escalation in the conflict between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-backed Houthis." - U.S. State Department.

🇮🇷⚡️- Iran's armed forces have been placed on the highest alert level, according to local Iranian reports.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump has returned to the White House after an overnight stay at Camp David, where he reportedly looked over strike options in Yemen, according to CNN.

American Embassies in the Middle East issued security alerts today due to the possibility of retaliatory strikes against them.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️- At least 186 Ukrainian drones were shot down overnight around Moscow according to local authorities. An oil refinery in Moscow's region was hit alongside several other sites.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️- "Our long-range responses had a very significant impact in the Moscow region last night. One of Russia’s key oil industry facilities and the aggressor’s logistics facility were hit. These are billions of dollars that sustain the war machine." - Ukrainian President Zelenskyy on Twitter, with the attached video of successful drone hits in Russia.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️- Russian authorities claim at least 1600 drones, with 450 targeting Moscow, came from Ukraine last night.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️- The Kapotnya refinery seems to have sustained heavy damage across multiple direct hits. No information regarding its operations has been published by the local authorities as of yet.

An AVT-6 distillation unit is reported to have been completely destroyed in an explosion.

🇻🇪🇫🇷⚡️- Venezuelan Interim President Delcy Rodríguez has signed an oil and gas trade agreement with France's TotalEnergies. The content of the deal has not yet been disclosed.

🇷🇺🇪🇪⚡️- "Information from the FSB Directorate: The Border Directorate for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region informs that from September 16th to 26th, 2026, events aimed at preventing border and migration violations, as well as protecting aquatic bioresources, will be held in the border territories of Slantsy and Kingisepp districts." - Excerpt of the message on the Russian Kingisepp Municipal District's website announcing an ongoing curfew near the Russo-Estonian border of Narva.

🇫🇷🇷🇺⚡️- The French state has ordered each French prefecture to create local and decentralized general staffs for "security and defense purposes" to better detect and respond to hybrid warfare, hinting at Russian activity. The order was given to start organizing these measures tomorrow.

🇷🇺🇪🇪 - The curfew bans any and all movement at night, on foot or in vehicles, any movement off the coast even by day, any hunting or any firearm being carried by civilians.

The reason, as stated, is border control and aquatic wildlife protection.

🇫🇷🇷🇺⚡️- French intelligence is now almost certain there will be a major Russian attack on Europe by 2030. Current projections assess the attack will happen in autumn 2027.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Iran's Central Command says the US has received the greenlight from several regional countries to resume action against Iran.

Source: Mehr News.