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The Navy of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Monday that a super oil tanker seeking to cross the Strait of Hormuz via the "forbidden" route south of the waterway exploded and caught fire after hitting naval mines.

A top Iranian security official said early Tuesday that Iran would not negotiate with the United States unless its conditions are met, Xinhua reported.

Finland has decided to join France's nuclear deterrence initiative which is significant for security in Europe, the Nordic country's defense ministry said Monday.

Japan's Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) is searching for a Global Hawk unmanned aircraft that lost communication over the Sea of Japan, local media reported Tuesday.

More than 7,200 confirmed Ebola cases have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as sustained transmission continues in several provinces despite an overall downward trend of the epidemic, Xinhua reported on Tuesday.

MOD and UK start-up Alloyed co-develop a new family of digitally manufactured turbojet engines, built entirely in Britain, taking one engine from concept to flight in under seven months.

The 70th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) opened in Vienna on Monday, with calls to strengthen multilateral cooperation and efforts to uphold the global nuclear non-proliferation regime amid heightened geopolitical tensions.

The radar surveillance system of the Ministry of National Defence detected several aerial targets in Ukraine, near the border with Romania, on Tuesday, September 15.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri have held a phone conversation to exchange views on the latest regional developments and the escalating Israeli aggression against Lebanon.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has announced the interception and downing of yet another advanced MQ-1 drone of the United States over the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Major General Mohsen Rezaee says no negotiations would take place with the United States until Iran's conditions are met.

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force Brigadier General Majid Mousavi has called on the Iranian people to maintain their nightly gatherings across the country and preserve the unity they have demonstrated since the start of the US-Israeli war in late February.

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US President Donald Trump has said that Russia and Ukraine have agreed not to target each other's energy facilities, a day after he criticized Kyiv for hitting Russian oil refineries.

Today, under Operation Economic Outcast, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated prominent Russian financial institution, VTB Bank Public Joint Stock Company (VTB Bank) for its involvement in Iranian sanctions evasion, including establishing correspondent relationships with sanctioned Iranian banks.

The United States has imposed new sanctions on Russia's VTB Bank, accusing one of the country's largest lenders of helping Iran evade US sanctions through banking relationships and payment arrangements.

Independent UN human rights investigators called for an immediate cessation of hostilities on Monday following a series of United States airstrikes on Iran in recent weeks that have killed civilians as tensions ripple through the region.

The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran today urged all parties to the ongoing regional conflict to abide strictly by international law and cease hostilities, following a series of deadly US airstrikes in southern Iran. The strikes, which hit a wedding celebration and a residential home, killed and injured civilian families, including women and children, from already marginalised minority communities.

Andrei Samuilovski, 32, who has citizenship in Estonia, Switzerland, and Russia, pleaded guilty today in connection with a scheme to illegally export U.S.-origin aviation and aerospace parts to Russia in violation of U.S. sanctions.

The US House of Representatives could take up a sweeping Russia and Iran sanctions bill as soon as September 15, Republican Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina told RFE/RL.