🌆 COMBATE Evening Roundup | September 21, 2026

• IRGC-linked channel claims missile strike on Mossad site in Erbil — A Guards battalion channel said five ballistic missiles hit a Mossad building near Erbil's airport during a meeting with a Kurdish party's operatives; Kurdish authorities called the blasts military exercises.

• Trump: "very big things" coming on Iran — He told Fox News he is in "deciding mode" between wiping Iran out, letting its economy rot, or making a deal, and again floated a meeting with Pezeshkian.

• Iran downs advanced drone over Strait of Hormuz — Air defenses destroyed an Orbiter reconnaissance UAV over the strait at 18:30; Iranian channels said the type is operated by the UAE, not the US.

• Tehran files NPT exit bill as military warns of unlimited strikes — Lawmakers submitted a triple-urgency bill to quit the Non-Proliferation Treaty, while the Khatam al-Anbiya command warned any US aggression would bring sustained "painful" attacks on all American bases and told neighbors not to side with Washington.

• United Russia wins Duma vote after record drone raid — Early counts give the ruling party about 57.5% on 57% turnout; Moscow vowed to intensify strikes on military targets in Kyiv in response to attacks on civilian infrastructure.

• Trump pressed Zelensky to stop hitting Russian refineries — Axios reported Trump repeatedly demanded an end to the strikes over diesel prices, with a meeting now being planned.

• AfD wins German state vote; Merz calls result a "disaster" — The party took Mecklenburg-Vorpommern with 37% as the Left topped Berlin; the chancellor ruled out resigning.

• Trump to meet Venezuela's Delcy Rodríguez on Tuesday — Their first meeting since Maduro's arrest in January; the US is also preparing sweeping sanctions on the ICC, WSJ reported.

• Saudi stocks fall as Yemen strikes Riyadh and Yanbu — Yemeni attacks hit fuel depots at Riyadh's airport and Aramco's Yanbu; Sanaa counted 760 Saudi airstrikes on Yemen, and a CNN reporter said Trump held a Camp David session on Yemen attack options.

• North Korea fires second missile salvo in a week — Japan tracked a second launch hours after a first; US Indo-Pacific Command said the tests pose no direct threat.

• Iran seals French embassy language center — Prosecutors closed the CLF over national-security claims including facilitating elite emigration; Paris called it unacceptable and will summon Iran's ambassador.

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