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Air strikes targeting telecommunications towers Yemen's Al-Jawf governorate killed four civilians and injured three others on Sunday, the Houthi-run Yemen News Agency (SABA) reported.
According to a local source speaking to SABA, the casualties were workers.
Footage shows explosions at a weapons depot in the early hours of Monday in al-Eis, southern Aleppo, with state media reporting the wounding of at least four as a result.
It is the fifth reported explosion at a weapons or ammunition depot in Syria this month.
Footage shows explosions in the early hours of Monday in Al-Eis, southern Aleppo, with local sources saying the blasts occurred at an ammunition depot belonging to Syria’s Defence Ministry.
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) September 20, 2026
It is the fifth reported explosion at a weapons or ammunition depot in Syria this month. pic.twitter.com/jQB3lNAqsg
A total of 12 vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday and Sunday, shipping date showed on Monday.
The figure is down from 35 during the previous weekend.
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is attempting to bolster support for the unpopular US-Israel war on Iran by visiting military training programs across the country and launching a new “Send Me” tour of duty.
The initiative draws on biblical verses and links an interpretation of Christian scripture to the historical expansion of US military power and its current projection in the Middle East.
The outreach comes as Hegseth’s net favourability reached record low of -24 points as frustration grows among the public over the Iran war.
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is attempting to bolster support for the unpopular US-Israel war on Iran by visiting military training programs across the country and launching a new “Send Me” tour of duty pic.twitter.com/60yOd9g5Hn
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) September 20, 2026
Gaza’s Government Media Office has announced the launching an "urgent emergency plan", where 255 buildings damaged by Israeli attacks across the besieged enclave will be demolished.
"As part of the comprehensive management of this crisis, relevant ministries have issued strict directives to their departments to immediately initiate field operations and implement the evacuation plan," the office said in a press release on Sunday.
"These directives include issuing formal notices to the owners of hazardous buildings requiring immediate evacuation, installing warning signs to prevent access, and arranging temporary shelter for affected families."
However, the office outlined a number of challenges, including some families refusing to evacuate, lack of funding, shortages of equipment and machinery due to Israel's ongoing siege as well as a lack of land to shelter evacuated families.
The announcement follows the collapse of a building damaged by Israeli bombardment last week in Gaza City.
The six-storey building, which had four apartments per floor and was housing at least 100 displaced people, crumbled overnight onto nearby homes and tents in the Tal al-Hawa area of Gaza City.
At least 21 displaced Palestinians, including five children, were killed as a result.
Civil defence in Aleppo indicated that explosions in the southern countryside of the province have left several injured, Syrian state news agency SANA reported.
The head of civil defence operations in Aleppo, Faisal Muhammad Ali, said that explosions were still ongoing in al-Eis, hindering the arrival of more ambulance and rescue teams to the site.
He also warned civilians against approaching the area.
Aleppo's Internal Security Command said that roads leading to the site of the blasts were closed "to ensure the safety of civilians".
Meanwhile, Aleppo governor Azzam al-Gharib urged residents not to leave their homes for the time being, adding that "hospitals, ambulance and emergency teams are on full alert".
Syria's state television Al-Ikhbariya reported powerful explosions early on Monday in Aleppo.
The cause of the blasts, which occured in the town of al-Eis, is currently under investigation.
About a week after the widespread international backlash for dropping his pro-Palestinian support act, Ed Sheeran made his first public comments on stage, apologising to fans and saying that what Israel is doing in Gaza is "unjustifiable".
Last week, American rapper Macklemore announced online that he had been removed from Sheeran's Loop Tour, which is due to stop at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, where Sheeran has shows on 25 and 26 September.
Macklemore was to open for Sheeran, but the stadium's owner, Robert Kraft, wanted him removed over his pro-Palestine speeches on stage, threatening to cancel Sheeran's stadium concerts if he stayed, and lobbying other stadium owners to join him in applying pressure.
"I've had to take and make difficult decisions, and I am making mistakes, and I'm so, so sorry," Sheeran told his audience in Philadelphia, where he performed for the first time since Macklemore was taken off the tour.
Pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside the venue hours before Sheeran's concert was due to start.
At the start of the concert at Lincoln Financial Field, Sheeran called Israel's war on Gaza "catastrophic and unjustifiable and disproportionate".
According to US media reports, the start time of Sheeran's concert was pushed back by two and a half hours because of the withdrawal of all the opening acts, and Sheeran performed solo.
Read more: ‘I'm so, so sorry’: Ed Sheeran addresses Gaza on stage after losing every opening act
Israeli forces opened fire on civilians in several areas of Gaza, wounding a woman and two children.
A Palestinian woman was seriously injured by gunfire in Jabalia camp, while a girl was shot in the thigh at the Halawa camp and a boy was wounded by an Israeli drone at Bureij, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported, citing local sources.
Israeli naval vessels also opened fire towards fishermen along the shoreline in the al-Zahra area of central Gaza.
The Houthis have declared what they call an "equation of blockade for blockade and escalation for escalation", vowing that Riyadh will face consequences for restrictions imposed on Yemen.
Mahdi al-Mashat, who heads the group's Supreme Political Council, said in a televised address that Yemen was pressing ahead to end the Saudi campaign and the blockade, reopen its airports and seaports, recover national resources, and secure compensation.
He said shipping and international commerce passing through the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab faced no threat from Yemen, with Saudi vessels the sole exception.
Separately, Houthi political bureau member Mohamed al-Bukhaiti said in an interview with the Associated Press on Sunday that the group had given the Trump administration assurances it would not strike American ships in the Red Sea.
He said Washington had contacted Houthis following their swift push along Yemen's western coastline towards the Bab al-Mandab Strait earlier this month.
Only Saudi Arabia was being targeted in the waterway, al-Bukhaiti affirmed.
The Trump administration is preparing to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing officials.
The sanctions would forbid most transactions with the ICC after a grace period of six to seven months, the report said, citing documents viewed by the Journal.
Just days after he assumed power in late January 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to sanction the ICC over its investigations into top Israeli officials.
Netanyahu and his then-defence minister, Yoav Gallant, were issued arrest warrants in November 2024 over war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza since October 2023, alongside three Hamas leaders, who have since been killed by Israel.
France will summon Iran's ambassador and take appropriate measures in response after Iranian authorities sealed a French language centre affiliated with its embassy in Tehran, the foreign ministry said on Sunday.
"This new attack against France’s cultural presence in Iran, following the assault on two staff members of the French embassy last July, is unjustifiable and unacceptable," Foreign ministry spokesperson Pascal Confavreux said in a statement.
Qatar is working to restart negotiations between the United States and Iran, its foreign ministry said on Sunday, as the prime minister warned that regional security cannot rest on repeated confrontation.
A ministry spokesperson said Qatari officials were “shuttling between capitals” in the hope of making progress, and that Doha had received assurances from US administration officials that Washington wants to reach an agreement.
The spokesperson called for a regional solution that delivers stability, alongside an international understanding that protects waterways such as the Strait of Hormuz.
Speaking also on Sunday, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani said lasting security could not be built through "repeated cycles of escalation and retaliation", nor through "arrangements that leave any state vulnerable to the absence of security".
He called for a framework in which sovereignty is respected, and no state can pose a "threat to another", adding that Qatar “had worked with regional and international partners to keep channels of communication open and reduce tensions.”
In a statement, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry has condemned the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound by Ben Gvir and Israeli settlers on Sunday, saying “repeated provocations will fuel cycles of violence and escalation in the region”.
Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi headed to New York on Sunday to take part in the UN General Assembly, as Tehran and Washington traded threats.
Araqchi will stop on his way in Qatar, Iran's state media reported.
A group of Israeli settlers torched a Palestinian vehicle, attacked residents and tried to seize a child north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
A Palestinian man said settlers approached his car, set it on fire and then moved to attack him.
Two homes were also broken into, with women and children assaulted and an attempt made to take a child away, according to media activist Mohammed Awad.
Residents intervened before the settlers could do so.
In a separate incident, Israeli troops swept through a number of villages and towns in the western Jenin area in the occupied West Bank, detaining residents and compelling shopkeepers to shutter their premises.
Also in Raba village, soldiers searched houses and took several people into custody before moving on to a neighbouring village where businesses were ordered to close.
