British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Monday that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) almost certainly directed a suspected terrorist plot targeting RAF Fairford, a British military installation used by American bombers conducting strikes against Iran.

A dramatic decline in “Free Palestine” and other inflammatory social media content following Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers is fueling widespread speculation that Moscow may have been operating a massive online influence campaign.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced Sunday that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an immediate ceasefire covering attacks on each other’s energy infrastructure, but questions emerged after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy indicated he had not been informed of such an agreement.

Belgium’s interior minister has called for the immediate arrest of masked protesters following violent clashes in Brussels, where demonstrations against government budget cuts were overshadowed by unrest and eight detained youths were released because juvenile detention facilities were full.

Australian engineer Robert Pether and his Egyptian colleague Khaled Radwan have left Iraq after a five-year ordeal involving imprisonment and travel restrictions over disputed fraud convictions that United Nations experts condemned as arbitrary detention.

The Netherlands has agreed to return a historic diamond seized during its colonial rule over Indonesia, along with 19 other cultural objects, while advancing plans to transfer thousands of fossils and ancestral remains under an earlier restitution decision.

Indonesia’s influential Islamic religious council has urged the government to ban concerts by world-renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli over his alleged support for Israel, days after authorities refused permission for an American Gospel singer to perform in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation.

Iran-backed Houthi militants launched a devastating missile attack Saturday against King Khalid International Airport in Saudi Arabia’s capital, killing at least 12 people and injuring more than 300, as the widening Middle East conflict threatens to draw the United States into another confrontation with Tehran’s regional allies.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused the United States on Saturday of helping finance Russia’s invasion of his country through a new diesel supply agreement with Moscow, as Ukrainian families mourned 12 people, including three children, killed in a Russian airstrike.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused the United States of being unwilling to help Ukraine after a Russian bomb attack killed at least 35 people in the eastern city of Kramatorsk on Thursday, bringing the reported death toll from Russian strikes across the country over two days to at least 78 people.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sharply rebuked French President Emmanuel Macron after the French leader told the United Nations General Assembly that Hamas had “never been active” in Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank — remarks that came just days after a French-Israeli father of six was murdered in a shooting attack carried out by a reported Hamas operative.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa told the United Nations on Wednesday that peace with Israel remains possible, even as he insisted Damascus will never surrender its claim to the Golan Heights and demanded Israeli forces withdraw from areas of southern Syria.

Israel’s Central Elections Committee voted Wednesday to bar the United Arab List, commonly known as Ra’am, from competing in the country’s October 27 parliamentary election, accepting petitions that accused the party of supporting armed struggle against the State of Israel.

President Donald Trump used his address to the 81st United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to deliver a sweeping indictment of Iran, describing the Islamic Republic as the central force behind decades of terrorism and instability across the Middle East.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sharply shortened his upcoming visit to the United States, adding another layer of uncertainty to an already tense week.

Thousands of people, many of them Christians, braved the rain at Amsterdam’s central Dam Square for a pro-Israel rally, while police arrested more than a dozen pro-Palestinian protesters who attempted to disrupt the gathering.

Organizers were weighing their options after Ireland joined the Netherlands in boycotting the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest over Israel’s participation, deepening divisions surrounding one of the world’s most watched music events, which attracted about 131 million television viewers last year.

Space Force plans to double in size over the next five years as America’s top military officer calls on U.S. forces to prepare for a battlefield that could extend to the space around the moon.

Vice President JD Vance said the United States should maintain its close partnership with Israel without treating agreement with its government as a condition of that relationship.

The Air Force’s plans for pilotless combat aircraft are moving beyond prototypes. This week, the service gave two of them official names: FQ-42 Vengeance and FQ-44 Fury. It also laid out an ambitious timetable, saying it intends to have 500 combat-ready aircraft by 2032 as part of an eventual fleet of about 1,000.

The Supreme Court has refused to let the U.S. Postal Service enforce new rules for mailing federal election ballots this fall, leaving a lower court’s injunction in place as states prepare for the November midterms.

House Speaker Mike Johnson canceled votes scheduled for Thursday, September 17, sending lawmakers home a day early for their planned recess before the November midterm elections. The House majority leader’s schedule had listed Thursday as a day for legislative business.

The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point Wednesday, bringing its target range to 3.75% to 4%. The unanimous decision marks the Fed’s first rate increase in more than three years.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is facing potential impeachment after U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., filed a resolution accusing him of committing high crimes and misdemeanors.

At least 21 civilians, believed to be Christians, died when suspected Islamists attacked two villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local sources said.

A Christian family in Pakistan’s city of Rawalpindi lives in fear after their young daughter, Saba, was shot and killed by an Islamic extremist while other attackers abducted and tortured her teenage brother, according to sources familiar with the case.

A Russian strike on an ammunition depot near Kyiv triggered massive destruction that also wiped out a Christian humanitarian aid warehouse serving thousands of war-affected Ukrainians, while dozens of people were killed in the surrounding area, aid workers and officials said.

Lothar Velten, one of Germany’s best-known evangelists and a leading figure in the nation’s tent mission movement, has died after some six decades of preaching the Gospel in Germany and Austria, his ministry confirmed. He was 82.

Members of a Christian family of nine say they fear for their lives after being freed through court intervention from a brick kiln in eastern Pakistan following 11 years of alleged forced labor, beatings, threats and severely reduced wages.

A young Christian brick-kiln worker in Pakistan’s Punjab province says he was beaten, chained, and threatened after protesting low wages and working conditions, while his wife and children were also assaulted in a case raising fresh concerns about bonded labor among impoverished Christians.

Iranian authorities have killed or imprisoned dozens of Christians amid a widening crackdown on the country’s underground church, according to Iran Alive Ministries, a Texas-based Christian ministry with a network inside Iran.