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60 stories for“regional security”
Gulf foreign ministers used a July 28 consultation to focus on practical understandings, de-escalation and the safe flow of ships through Hormuz.
Jul 29, 2026
A July meeting between the new ESCWA and Arab League leadership renewed attention on Arab Vision 2045, a regional roadmap built around security, equity, innovation and prosperity.
Aug 3, 2026
American strikes on Revolutionary Guard sites drew missile and drone retaliation aimed at American assets in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait and Iraq. Iranian officials report at least eleven dead, including five at a wedding in the south.
Sep 2, 2026
The Pentagon said roughly 1,500 American and coalition troops left Erbil Airbase in an orderly departure, closing out Operation Inherent Resolve and a withdrawal deal first struck between Baghdad and the Biden administration in 2024.
Oct 1, 2026
The group named Ras Tanura, Abqaiq and two airports, while Saudi forces reported only interceptions, one minor injury and, on Friday, a drone destroyed over the Makkah region.
Oct 30, 2026
About 200 patients are being moved out of a damaged Kharkiv medical facility, Russia says 856 drones were shot down overnight, and Washington has set trilateral talks for 10 November.
Nov 3, 2026
The announcement came two days after Washington eased sanctions on Russian diesel, and by Monday Kyiv said it had learned of the truce from the news while its energy sites were still under attack.
Oct 13, 2026
The honest answer is low but not zero, and it is not evenly spread. Tremors felt in Dubai towers usually come from Iran. The region's own exposure sits in Oman, the eastern UAE and the Red Sea coast.
Aug 12, 2026
Merz, Frederiksen, Costa and Kallas went to Rovaniemi to talk icebreakers, satellites and the Northern Sea Route. Then a drone struck a Kyiv to Warsaw locomotive minutes after Boris Johnson's train had passed. Berlin called it a calculated escalation.
Sep 15, 2026
Ali al-Zaidi met Ahmed al-Sharaa in the first such visit since Assad fell, with the Baniyas pipeline on the table as Hormuz stays disrupted. No deal, timetable or financing was announced.
Oct 29, 2026
Guided bombs hit a closed school where Komyshuvakha residents collect weekly aid, then the shelter where survivors and rescuers took cover; 27 people are missing and the region mourns on Tuesday.
Nov 2, 2026
WMO forecasts point to a rapidly strengthening El Niño, raising the odds of disruptive heat, drought and heavy rain. Preparedness now can reduce damage later.
Jul 31, 2026
The five Londoners in their early to mid twenties were held on suspicion of terrorism and explosives offences after a farmer reported vans and a group of masked men near the US-used air base, and remain under stringent bail conditions.
Sep 29, 2026
With the East-West pipeline still shut, no Saudi crude has left the Red Sea since 11 September and Europe's late-September cargoes are being cancelled. The coalition called the Mecca drone a red line. An American drone killed the crews of two IRGC boats.
Sep 17, 2026
Foreign Minister Araghchi says indirect talks via Pakistan and Qatar continue, but the strait stays closed; late Wednesday state media reported unexplained blasts at Sirik, overlooking the strait.
Oct 22, 2026
After every major earthquake, a prediction resurfaces that appears to have called it. Here is how that trick works, why seismologists say prediction is not currently possible, and what forecasting can actually do.
Aug 12, 2026
A report from Systemiq and three mountain institutes says the range that feeds the Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra will reach peak water by mid-century. Nearly 200 glacial lakes in India are high risk. Last month a glacier collapse killed at least 1,300.
Sep 15, 2026
Mohsen Rezaei says any ship entering a zone that starts at the American blockade line will be put on an Iranian sanctions list. The same day Aramco's Jizan refinery took a second strike in a month, Brent passed 97 dollars, and flydubai cut its schedule.
Sep 8, 2026
Ed Miliband told Parliament the trigger was the E1 tender for 1,200 homes east of Jerusalem, a red line Britain drew two decades ago. The ban covers settlement goods and the services that build settlements, not Israel itself. Twelve countries signed on.
Sep 10, 2026
With Hormuz reduced to a trickle, Saudi exports go out through the Red Sea. On Thursday the Houthis took Mocha, eighty kilometres from Bab al-Mandeb, after the heaviest fighting since the 2022 truce. Hours later four projectiles hit two ships off Khasab.
Sep 12, 2026
Seven Republicans crossed, the most yet, for a resolution that binds nobody. The budget office says the war costs two to three billion a month and has used up to two thirds of the missile-defence interceptors. Vance says the first phase is done.
Sep 17, 2026
Russian drones and missiles killed four people in Zaporizhzhia and Sumy while Ukrainian strikes on refineries and industrial sites in Krasnodar killed six, as Trump urged Zelensky to settle with Putin.
Sep 27, 2026
