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Donald Trump has conceded that the Iran war is unlikely to be over until after the November midterms.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, 9th September, en route to the Republican National Convention in Dallas, TX, the President said he believed the war would end “immediately after” the elections on Tuesday, 3rd November.

President Donald J. Trump speaks with members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday, April 16, 2026, en route Joint Base Andrews for a trip to Las Vegas.

Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SSO) said this week that it has struck a pair of Russian gas plants in Russia’s Yamalo-Nenets region, in what represents the longest-range strike by Ukraine since the start of the war.

Fox News described it as a strike at Russia’s “Arctic gas heartland.”

HIMARS platform liked used by Ukraine against Russian forces. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

According to the Kyiv Post, the drone strikes went more than 3,000 kilometers (1,864 miles) into Russia.

Yemeni Ansurullah Coalition forces have seized the strategic Yemeni port of Mocha, delivering a major setback to Saudi Arabian and allied U.S. forces, and bringing the coalition’s forces to within approximately 50 kilometres of the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. The development represents a dramatic shift in the security situation along Yemen’s Red Sea coast, and is expected to allow coalition forces to control one of the world’s most important maritime chokepoints.

The Houthis’ war with Saudi Arabia, which appeared to end with a truce in 2022, looks like it’s back on, with the Iran-allied militia recently launching a big attack on Saudi oil infrastructure.

And now, the Houthis have captured a major piece of territory in Yemen.

President Donald Trump meets with President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in the Oval Office.

Ukraine struck eight infrastructure targets across Russia in sweeping attacks on Wednesday, 9th September.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the drone assaults targeted locations across Russia, ranging from the Arctic to the Caspian Sea.

Neptune Missile. Image Credit: Government of Ukraine.

In the process, Ukraine set a wartime record for the deepest strike inside its neighboring aggressor.

Canada has established a new national Defence Drone Initiative Marketplace (DDIM), aiming deepen security collaboration with Ukraine.

The Yak-130M light fighter attracted significant interest from African and Asian countries at the El Alamein International Airshow 2026 in Egypt, according to PJSC Yakovlev test pilot Alexander Guskov. “Here at the exhibition [in Egypt], the African continent is showing a great deal of interest. Asia is also very interested in it,” he stated. He added that the main focus of the aircraft’s modernisation was on improving its combat capabilities. The Yak-130 serves as both a lightweight fighter and as an advanced trainer, and is considered a direct competitor to the U.S.

The changes were chaotic at first. They were even terrifying for many. Then, they became more and more gradual. As time went on, many Americans went about their lives, barely registering the idea that the fabric of our society had taken a very deep, often dark turn.

When American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center, millions of Americans instinctively thought it was a horrible accident. Then the second plane struck, and we realized grave coincidences are for the naïve.
Al-Qaida’s attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, in New York, at the Pentagon, and on United Flight 93 in Pennsylvania initiated two decades of conflict. We fought in Afghanistan and Iraq and, when al-Qaida’s genie escaped the bottle, on the Arabian Peninsula, in Africa, and globally.
Whether those wars achieved durable political objectives is, at best, debatable.

Aerial refueling tankers are the backbone of U.S. airpower, but the tanker fleet is falling apart. Most of the jets are KC-135s, which are over 60 years old, and the jet that’s supposed to replace them, the KC-46, is plagued by development issues and is already running low on spare parts.
With no let-up in operational tempo, it’s becoming more difficult for the Air Force to maintain its tanker fleet. That’s the main takeaway from a Government Accountability Office report published earlier this year.