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US Lawmakers Introduce ‘Stop Iranian Drones Act’

Drones are seen during a large-scale drone combat exercise of Iran's Army (Reuters)
Drones are seen during a large-scale drone combat exercise of Iran's Army (Reuters)
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US Lawmakers Introduce ‘Stop Iranian Drones Act’

Drones are seen during a large-scale drone combat exercise of Iran's Army (Reuters)
Drones are seen during a large-scale drone combat exercise of Iran's Army (Reuters)

Several US Democratic and Republican lawmakers have put forward a bill calling for sanctions on the Iranian drone program and its suppliers.

The lawmakers introduced the Stop Iranian Drones Act (SIDA) to clarify that US sanctions on Iran's conventional weapons program under CAATSA (Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act) include supplying, selling, or transferring to or from Iran of unmanned combat aerial vehicles.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory Meeks indicated that deadly drones in the hands of Iran jeopardize the security of the United States and regional peace.

"Recent Iranian drone attacks on US troops, commercial shipping vessels, and against regional partners, along with the export of drone technology to conflict zones, pose a dire threat," said Meeks.

He noted that SIDA aims to send a strong signal to the international community that support for the Iranian drone program will not be tolerated in Washington.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Michael McCaul warned that Iran's UAV proliferation threatens the US and its allies throughout the Middle East.

"Whether the attack is launched by Iran, the Houthis, Iran-backed militia groups or any other Iran-sponsored entities, these attacks are intolerable."

He claimed that people of the Middle East, including US citizens living there, cannot live in freedom, stability, or prosperity under assault by Iran's drones.

The bill ensures the world knows that the US will use every tool to cut off Iran's UAV supplies and punish those who continue to supply Iran with drones and parts despite their destructive impact.

Last August, the United States, Britain, and Israel blamed Iran for the attack on the Mercer Street oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, which killed two British and Romanian sailors.

The US Treasury Department has issued sanctions against a pair of companies and a handful of individuals for supporting unmanned systems for the Revolutionary Guard Corps and its al-Qods Force.

Among those sanctioned are Brig. Gen. Saeed Aghajani and top IRGC official Abdallah Mehrabi.

US officials have accused Iran of being behind a drone attack on a US base in Syria. Washington believed the drone was supplied by Tehran, but it was not launched from Iran.

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Russia Hits Petrol Station, Warehouse Facilities in Kyiv, Mayor Says

Firefighters work at the site of a non-residential building hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, September 11, 2026. (Reuters)
Firefighters work at the site of a non-residential building hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, September 11, 2026. (Reuters)
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Russia Hits Petrol Station, Warehouse Facilities in Kyiv, Mayor Says

Firefighters work at the site of a non-residential building hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, September 11, 2026. (Reuters)
Firefighters work at the site of a non-residential building hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, September 11, 2026. (Reuters)

A drone hit a petrol station in Ukraine's capital of Kyiv early on Tuesday, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, just a day after US President Donald Trump said Ukraine and Russia had agreed not to target each other's energy assets.

The attack injured one person, and there was also a strike on warehouse facilities in ‌another part ‌of the city, Klitschko added on the Telegram ‌messaging ⁠app. A Reuters ⁠witness heard an explosion in Kyiv.

Russia has recently started hitting petrol stations in Kyiv, expanding the range of target facilities. In recent months, Russia hit some 300 petrol stations, mainly in or near Ukraine's frontline regions, according to Ukrainian authorities.

As Moscow was striking Ukraine, neighboring Poland briefly began military aviation operations as a preventive step, Poland's ⁠Armed Forces said in a statement on social ‌media website X, adding later there ‌was no violation of its airspace.

Military drones straying into the airspace ‌of Ukraine and Russia's neighbors have stoked concerns that Russia's ‌war in Ukraine is spilling over NATO's borders.

In Lithuania, a NATO fighter jet shot down a drone early on Tuesday, the Lithuanian National Crisis Management Centre said, after a drone alert was issued earlier in the ‌capital Vilnius and the surrounding region.

In Russia, which invaded Ukraine in 2022, a Ukrainian missile attack damaged ⁠a warehouse ⁠of the e-commerce company Ozon in the southern port city of Taganrog, among other facilities, the regional governor said on Telegram.

Separately, a drone attack hit an industrial facility in Samara region on the Volga River, Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said on Telegram, without naming the facility. The region is home to a number of large oil refineries.

Reuters could not immediately independently verify the reports.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Kyiv was ready to support a US proposal for a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire on energy sites only if Washington could ensure Moscow was genuinely ready to end its war on Ukraine.

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US Military Says Iran War Has Led to Munitions Shortfall

An Iranian woman stands next graffiti reading in Persian, “We have a blood feud with the US,” in a street in central Tehran, Iran, 13 September 2026. (EPA)
An Iranian woman stands next graffiti reading in Persian, “We have a blood feud with the US,” in a street in central Tehran, Iran, 13 September 2026. (EPA)
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US Military Says Iran War Has Led to Munitions Shortfall

An Iranian woman stands next graffiti reading in Persian, “We have a blood feud with the US,” in a street in central Tehran, Iran, 13 September 2026. (EPA)
An Iranian woman stands next graffiti reading in Persian, “We have a blood feud with the US,” in a street in central Tehran, Iran, 13 September 2026. (EPA)

The US Defense Department's inspector general revealed Monday that the United States is facing a shortfall in ammunition as a result of its costly war in Iran.

In a first-of-its-kind mandatory report to Congress, the inspector said that between February 28 and June 30, Operation Epic Fury (OEF) had an estimated cost of $33.4 billion, with $22.3 billion of that spent on expended munitions alone.

The report noted "the munitions expenditure on OEF has resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply."

It also lists losses to the American fleet, including four F-15s destroyed, one F-35 damaged, seven KC-135 tanker aircraft damaged and up to 30 MQ-9 Reaper drones destroyed.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly brushed off concerns of depleted weapons stores during the six months of war in the Middle East, saying the US has "virtually unlimited" ammo just a couple weeks ago.

On Monday Trump posted to his Truth Social platform saying again the US is producing "more Exquisite and Elite Weapons than at any time in our History."

CNN has previously reported shortages of long-range guided missiles and air-defense interceptors had affected Trump's strategy in the conflict with Iran, with the US military having "nearly exhausted 80%" of its stock of THAAD interceptors.

During the first 24 hours of war against Iran, the United States struck more than 1,000 targets, US Central Command (CENTCOM) has said, and has not returned to such large-scale attacks in recent months.

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Netanyahu Threatens Retaliation if Israel’s Enemies Attack

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to members of the press, in Jerusalem, September 8, 2026. (Reuters)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to members of the press, in Jerusalem, September 8, 2026. (Reuters)
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Netanyahu Threatens Retaliation if Israel’s Enemies Attack

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to members of the press, in Jerusalem, September 8, 2026. (Reuters)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to members of the press, in Jerusalem, September 8, 2026. (Reuters)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Monday of heavy reprisals on Israel's enemies if they attacked, as he lauded the recent demolition of a Hezbollah tunnel network in southern Lebanon.

Netanyahu said Israel's destruction of Hezbollah positions at the Beaufort castle and Ali al-Taher ridge was a "massive victory" and vowed to "continue to destroy terrorist infrastructure".

"I say to our enemies: If you haven't learned the lesson by now, and you choose to attack us again, you will suffer even heavier blows. There is still work to complete," Netanyahu added, according to a video published by his office.

On Thursday, Israel blew up what it described as a vast network of tunnels under the Ali al-Taher ridge where Hezbollah kept a command center, living quarters and stocks of weapons with which to strike northern Israel and invading Israeli troops.

A huge fireball was seen in the area, with the US Geological Survey recording a tremor equivalent to a 4.1 magnitude earthquake.

The blast came a week after Israeli troops said they had seized the strategic highlands as they solidified control of an occupied "security zone" in southern Lebanon.

Israel said the tunnel network was built over two decades with the help of Hezbollah's patron Iran, whose clerical government has also backed Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Israel and the United States attacked Iran in late February, sparking the Middle East war.

Hezbollah dragged Lebanon into the wider conflict when it fired rockets at Israel in solidarity with Iran.

Israel has struck south Lebanon during the war and its forces continue to occupy what it calls a "security zone" there.

The Ali al-Taher ridge lies on the edge of Israel's security zone just a few kilometers from the UNESCO-listed Beaufort castle, another strategic site that Israel captured in recent months.

Lebanon and Israel signed a US-sponsored framework agreement in late June that involves the disarmament of Hezbollah, a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon's south and the deployment of the Lebanese army to the region, starting in test areas known as "pilot zones".