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On 17 Sep 2026, the House’s 262-159 vote gave final congressional passage to a bill letting the US President slap tariffs of up to 100 % on the top five importers of Russian energy, marking the first time secondary trade penalties are formally tied to Moscow’s wartime oil revenue.
On 17 Sep 2026, a UN fact-finding mission sent to the Human Rights Council concluded that two February US airstrikes on a Minab primary school and a Lamerd sports complex were likely indiscriminate war crimes, while Iran’s lethal response to late-2025 protests constitutes crimes against humanity.
In the night of 14-15 September 2026 Ukrainian drones and missiles penetrated over 800 km into Russia, crippling Rosneft’s Syzran refinery and striking a drone-related complex beside an Ozon warehouse in Taganrog, only hours after U.S. President Trump claimed Kyiv had agreed to halt attacks on Russian energy assets.
On 14-15 September 2026, a Steny Hoyer amendment filed with the House Rules Committee added India and nine other big Russian-oil buyers to the bill’s list of countries the U.S. president could hit with up to 100 % import duties, while a rival Meeks amendment seeks to strike that tariff power entirely.
On 16 Sep 2026 the Security Council met for the second time in a week after Houthi forces captured islands near Bab al-Mandab and expanded drone-and-missile attacks into Saudi Arabia, prompting Pakistan, the UK and others to demand immediate de-escalation and protection of Red Sea shipping.
On 15 September 2026 the Trump State Department informally notified key committees of a $2.8 billion Foreign Military Financing sale that would send 40,000 U.S.–made 2,000-lb bombs to Israel, the largest single transfer of the weapon in decades.
Oman has slated a 14 Sep 2026 meeting in Salalah between Iran’s FM Abbas Araghchi and all six GCC foreign ministers to win regional sign-off on a stop-gap plan that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz—now under a U.S. blockade—by routing inbound ships through Iranian waters and outbound traffic through Oman.
On 14 Sept 2026, Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthis seized Greater and Lesser Hanish Islands astride the Bab el-Mandeb and, hours later, unleashed a drone-and-missile barrage on Saudi Arabia’s King Khalid Air Base, reopening full-scale war after four years of relative quiet.
On 13 September 2026, U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Postal Service from enforcing President Trump’s August 21 mail-ballot restrictions, becoming the second court to freeze the order days before midterm ballots go out.
On 10 Sep 2026, Iran-aligned Houthi forces overran Mokha after Saudi-backed troops withdrew, giving the rebels their first direct control of a port city only 40 km from the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait.
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