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Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) on Monday presented HawkGuard, a new system designed to counter attack drones, at the AUSA 2026 defense exhibition in Washington.

Saudi Arabia stopped issuing public warnings of imminent military attacks days before a series of deadly strikes on Riyadh airport that killed at least 18 people and wounded more than 300.

President Donald Trump said late on Monday he did not believe that China and Russia were helping Iran "at all," adding that Moscow and Beijing had "too much to lose" if they enabled Tehran.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday that Moroccan naval vessels entered Spanish waters off Ceuta without permission after late July's mass migrant crossing into the North African enclave, state broadcaster TVE reported. 

The European Union announced on Monday that it will set up a mission to train the Lebanese army and security forces, separate from the UN peacekeeping force UNIFIL.

Germany's labour minister and co-head of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) quit unexpectedly on Monday, adding to uncertainty around Chancellor Friedrich Merz's struggling coalition after bruising state election defeats last month.

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Monday that a suspected plot targeting the RAF Fairford air base in Britain was "highly likely" to have been coordinated in Iran, and almost certainly directed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The skies over the Saudi capital Riyadh were virtually empty on Monday as authorities extended the suspension of operations at the city's international airport after deadly weekend attacks by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis.

King Abdullah II of Jordan began a state visit to Malaysia on Monday with talks with King Sultan Ibrahim bin Sultan Iskandar in Kuala Lumpur.

Libya's eastern-based authorities have seized about 400 kg of hashish worth around 6 million dinars ($934,000) and arrested some suspects near the coastal city of Tobruk, officials said. 

Iran is still reviewing a US response to its proposal regarding the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and will reply to Washington via intermediaries when the review is over, foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday.

A senior Emirati official on Monday called on Gulf countries to strengthen their collective security system after a series of attacks by Iran-aligned Houthis from Yemen on Saudi Arabia.