
DEFENSE
Iran Army: US vessels ‘do not dare’ approach Iranian shores
Iran’s Army says US vessels are staying far from its shores because of the strength of the country’s naval forces.

Iran’s Army says US vessels are staying far from its shores because of the strength of the country’s naval forces.
Press TV’s West Bank correspondent Naqaa Hamed, a Palestinian-American journalist, was abducted by Israeli occupation forces amid escalating harassment, smear campaigns and repeated targeting over her coverage of Israeli military raids and settler attacks.

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry vows to identify and take legal action against those behind the assassination of a Sunni cleric in southeastern Iran.
Pyongyang rejects the IAEA’s “familiar silly talks” on the denuclearization of North Korea.
An Israeli court sentences a resident of Petah Tikva city to 13 and a half years in prison over allegedly spying for Iran.

Libya’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Sadiq al-Ghariani says the United States claims control over the Strait of Hormuz but it is actually trapped in an increasingly difficult situation in the strategic waterway.
The president of Yemen's Supreme Political Council says those who gifted Jeffrey Epstein, the late convicted American sex trafficker, the Kaaba cover are the ones targeting Mecca and other holy Muslim sites.
The US extends its ban on Palestinians scheduled to attend UN General Assembly in New York.
Political commentator, Syed Mohsin Abbas, says all efforts to stop the Trump administration from arming the Israeli regime are positive, but will likely fail as governments often find ways to bypass the law.

Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 02:00 GMT on September 17, 2026.

Iran’s foreign minister describes his consultations in Beijing as “successful,” commenting on the contents of his trip to the Chinese capital, where he met with his counterpart.

For more than 200 nights, Iranians have taken to the streets under the national flag, expressing their support for the Islamic Republic.

This week on Exposé, Washington says it is winning, but can its own narrative survive the facts?

The US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has levelled a supposedly extreme economic sanctions package against Iran.

A damning report has just come out of the US Department of War about the real costs of the US aggression on Iran.

The US’s military power has come under severe strain during its war against Iran, exposing vulnerabilities in a system long regarded as “the world’s most capable,” American magazine writes.

Ansarullah reiterates Sana’a’s rejection of Saudi Arabia’s allegations of Yemeni Armed Forces’ threatening to target holy sites in the Saudi city of Mecca.
Journalists in Gaza are facing a double threat: Israeli attacks targeting them documenting the war, and a collapsing healthcare system leaving even critically ill journalists without adequate treatment.