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Dozens of university students staged a rare protest in Iran, where the authorities have waged an intensifying campaign against dissent amid the war with the United States.

-Joint Interagency Task Force 401 has awarded the latest in a series of contracts supporting Domestic Shield, a Department of War effort to improve counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS) protection for risk-prioritized DoW facilities and assets within the United States.

Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) sent a letter to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth encouraging a review of military supply chains, which provide troops with the weapons, food, medical supplies, and other resources needed to defend our country. This follows recent reports that F-35 components shipped from Australia to the United States were diverted to Hong Kong and are in the Chinese government's possession.

The US Navy says four personnel were injured in an unexplained "mishap" aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower off Virginia, while separate official data point to as many as 38 casualties across West Asia in September amid Iran's determined retaliation against American regional interference.

Air Education and Training Command achieved a modernization milestone Sept. 16 as instructor pilots from the 99th Flying Training Squadron and civilian simulator instructors from the 12th Training Squadron executed AETC's inaugural live-virtual-constructive capability flight between the T-7A Red Hawk and the T-7A Ground-Based Training System.

Ships, aircraft, and a submarine from the United States and the United Kingdom concluded Exercise Atlantic Thunder 2026, a multi-domain sinking exercise (SINKEX) led by U.S. 6th Fleet, in the North Atlantic, Sept. 25, 2026.

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NATO Allied Air Command (AIRCOM) has completed the second two-week long Joint Force Air Component Applied Targeting Course (JATC) in 2026. The course focuses on NATO targeting processes in crisis and conflict and is designed to strengthen the skills required to provide targeting support within a Joint Force Air Component (JFAC).

On Tuesday (29 September 2026), NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met with Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius of Lithuania at NATO Headquarters. The Secretary General welcomed the Prime Minister on his first visit in that role and said they had discussed how to keep NATO strong and Lithuania safe. "NATO defends every inch of Allied territory, against any threat, from any direction," Mr. Rutte said. He highlighted how Italian jets deployed by NATO from Šiauliai airbase downed a drone that violated Lithuania's airspace on 15 September: "This is collective defence in action."

NATO is stepping up its work with Allies, industry and the research community to ensure that the Alliance is "quantum-ready".

On 24 September, the Saeima approved the participation of the National Armed Forces in international operations in the Strait of Hormuz. Latvia's involvement is part of international efforts to restore freedom of navigation and ensure the safe movement of commercial vessels along one of the world's most important maritime trade routes.

On Tuesday morning, September 29, the Ministry of National Defence was informed about the discovery of debris of an object, possibly a drone, that had fallen on arable land in Insula Mare a Brăilei, near the locality of Gropeni, Brăila County.

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A number of meetings are being held at the Baku Expo Center as part of the 6th Azerbaijan International Defense Exhibition "ADEX" to discuss the development of military-technical cooperation with several Azerbaijan's leading defense industry companies, the Ministry of Defense told AZERTAC.

The China-Laos joint support and training center opened at Ban Keun Airport in Vientiane Province in Laos on Tuesday, and the China-Laos friendship aviation academy officially began operations, China's Ministry of National Defense announced. An expert said the center could help Laos build a systematic talent training system for pilots, ground crew and flight personnel, reducing its reliance on overseas training.

The Norwegian Government has decided to allow exports of Norwegian defence materiel to the Republic of Moldova.

Representatives Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Angie Craig, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Agriculture, sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio raising the alarm on the State Department's reported plans to phase out U.S. support for the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET). The program was created in 1985 to better detect early signs of developing food security crises with evidence-based early warning information and analysis.

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