Alexander Kynev studied Russia's elections for a living. The month of the Duma vote, a Moscow court jailed him on a drug charge carrying up to 20 years. The FSB, Russia's domestic security service, was behind it, Russian outlets report. He pleaded not guilty.

Hired hands threw incendiaries at a Munich drone-maker arming Ukraine and a defence electronics firm. German security officials attributed the operation to GRU, Russia's military intelligence agency, operating from Slovakia. Their methods, investigators noted: amateurish.

Belgium's CUTA assessed Tehran directed the March bombing outside a Liege synagogue and an Antwerp arson. At the UN this week, Iran's FM was told Britain had made 80+ IRGC-linked arrests. The resistance narrative doesn't survive contact with the evidence.

Iraq set a September deadline for every gun to come under state control. Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah and Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba refused, per Al Jazeera. The deadline passed. Baghdad moved it to June 2027. A state gave its own armed forces an order. They said no.

Suraj Yadav, a wiper from Deoria, was in the engine room of the MV Cape Dao when it was struck 2.5 nautical miles off Oman. Oman's Maritime Security Centre confirmed one dead. His union says it was two torpedoes. No state has claimed the strike. Someone knows.

Rubio told the UN the Saudi pipeline strikes were "probably" carried out "in part" by Iran-backed Iraqi groups. Iraq confirmed its soil was used. The groups denied it. One added: "We would be proud if we did it." That is their alibi, in full.

38 of the 44 people Ukraine sanctioned today for helping run Russia's Duma vote on occupied soil hold Ukrainian citizenship. Asset freezes, capital bans. Per Ukrinform, one is a former Melitopol councillor who began collaborating after Russia occupied the city.

Iran-backed Houthi forces (Ansar Allah) fired missiles at Yanbu this month, a main Saudi oil port. Now the UN Security Council has condemned the attacks and France is sending soldiers and air defences to guard the site, Macron said. A deniable war, no longer deniable.

Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council offered amnesty to Iran-backed Houthi forces (Ansar Allah) today. Al Jazeera reported it was al-Alimi's first address since a coastal rout. When a government dangles defection to a militia, the militia is winning.

Trump rejected Iran's Hormuz roadmap on 26 September, Reuters reported. A spokesman for the IRGC, US-designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, told AFP on 25 September it requires ending Yemen hostilities. Iran-backed Houthi forces (Ansar Allah) fight there. Same hand.

Human Rights Watch found graves of Afghan boys in Tehran, the youngest 14. Iran calls them volunteers. A father told Iran's own Quran News Agency his son falsified his birth year so recruiters would let him enlist. No IRGC commander has been prosecuted.

The Pentagon, Secret Service, and DHS bought phone-extraction software that prosecutors say came from a Russian team also serving the FSB, Russia's domestic security service. Lee Reiber told DHS in March 2026, prosecutors say, no Russian was involved. DOJ charged him this month.

The UAE Central Bank cut off Bank Melli Iran from all transactions over money-laundering failures, The National reported. UAE also grounded Iranian airlines. Iran closed its airspace to Emirates and Etihad in reply. Tehran used the UN the same week to call for sanctions relief.

55,000 photographs of tortured detainees, authenticated by the FBI. That is what the Iranian Shia-backed Assad regime left behind. Ahmad al-Sharaa told the UN on 23 September: Syria is rising. Some people spent a decade insisting it never would.

Five workers killed. Four strikes in five weeks. ArcelorMittal said it cannot safely restart Ukraine's largest steel plant, per Reuters. The FT reported those plants produced 90% of the country's steel. Russia is not just hitting the front line. It is hitting the future.

Alexander Kynev built his career documenting how Russia manages its elections. On September 25, Moscow's Perovsky court ordered his arrest on drug charges. He pleaded not guilty. Russia's Justice Ministry designated him a foreign agent in February. Meduza reports.