Israel says it killed 2 top Iranian security officials — 17 March 2026 (LINK)

Russia has taken 12 settlements in Ukraine as part of general advances, Moscow's top general says. In Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the country's armed forces had disrupted Russian plans for an offensive, with Moscow failing to reinforce its troops — 16 March 2026 (LINK)

Kenya and Russia agree no Kenyans will be recruited for Ukraine war — 16 March 2026 (LINK)

Sean Penn misses 15 March Oscars to visit Ukraineq, meets Zelensky in Kyiv — 16 March 2026 (LINK)

Pakistan air strike kills at least 100 at Kabul drug rehab centre — 17 March 2026 (LINK)

Trump vents frustration with allies over strait of Hormuz; UAE closes its airspace — 16 March 2026 (LINK)

Iran still exporting millions of barrels of oil through Strait of Hormuz even as other traffic paralyzed — 16 March 2026 (LINK)

Trump said he spoke to a former president about bombing Iran. Four denials suggest otherwise — 16 March 2026 (LINK)

— Trump said twice Monday that he spoke to one of his predecessors about the Iran war and that the former president said he wished he had taken the action Trump did. It appears he did not speak to any of the four former presidents. He said it wasn't Bush and then said "I don't want to say" when he was asked it was Clinton.

Sri Lanka brings in four-day week to eke out stocks of oil and gas hit by Iran war: Bangladesh, India and Pakistan have also brought in crisis measures — 16 March 2026 (LINK)

El Salvador has arbitrarily detained nationals deported from the US and 'disappeared' into prison system, Human Rights Watch says — 16 March 2026 (LINK)

BBC asks UK judge to toss Trump's $10 billion defamation case: not aired in US — 16 March 2026 (LINK)

— The network said the president's claims over the way his Jan. 6, 2021 speech was edited fall "well short of the high bar of actual malice".

Last protester in immigration detention after Trump’s campus crackdown has been released on $100,000 bond after a year in custody — 16 March 2026 (LINK)

More airport disruptions expected as TSA agents quit amid first weekend without full pay: more than 300 TSA agents have quit, the Department of Homeland Security said in an X post Friday — 16 March 2026 (LINK)

CEOs of top airlines demand Congress restore funding to Homeland Security and pay airport workers

— 15 March 2026 (LINK)

Cuba's power grid collapses after weeks of US oil blockade — 16 March 2026 (LINK)

Unclear if Iran's leader Mojtaba Khamenei is 'dead or not,' Trump tells reporters — 16 March 2026 (LINK)

'Very rare' severe weather threat prompts statewide warning in North Carolina — 15 March 2026 (LINK)