Iran said Sunday that it struck an unmanned U.S. military boat in the Strait of Hormuz, marking the latest exchange of fire between the countries after a month of relative calm.
Meanwhile, Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed four people and injured at least 20, including children, according to Lebanese authorities, near an area that has become a flash point in fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.
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Mourners carry the flag-draped bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes in the war with Hamas, whose remains were recently recovered from the rubble, during their funeral in Gaza City, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Mourners gather around the flag-draped bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes during the war with Hamas, whose remains were recently recovered from the rubble, in Gaza City, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
People carry a body of a person who was killed at a house that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Arab Salim village, southern Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) CORRECTION: Corrects village name to Arab Salim instead of Araba Salim
A man searches between the rubble of a destroyed house that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Arab Salim village, southern Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
People carry a body of a person who was killed at a house that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Arab Salim village, southern Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Here’s a look at the news in the Middle East. Full coverage can be found here.
State-run media in Tehran said the U.S. vessel was trying to enter a restricted area in the Strait of Hormuz.
U.S. Central Command, which oversees the U.S. military operations in the Middle East, did not confirm the claim or respond to request for comment. It comes one day after the U.S. said it struck Iranian oil tankers in retaliation for Iran launching ballistic missiles at Navy warships.
Attacks resumed last week after roughly a month of quiet.
The war began with U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran on Feb. 28. But since a ceasefire agreement was announced in June, on-and-off fighting has persisted with both sides trying to inflict military and economic pain as negotiations have collapsed.
Israeli strikes killed at least four people in southern Lebanon on Sunday and leveled a hospital, Lebanon's Health Ministry said.
Strikes on the Lebanese village of Arabsalim killed two, the ministry said. Another two were killed in the city of Nabatiyeh, near a strategic hill that Israel said its forces gained control over Thursday.
At least 20 others were wounded in the Sunday strikes, the ministry said, among them three children and five women. The strikes also destroyed an empty hospital, the ministry said.
The Israeli military said its latest strikes came in response to a drone attack launched earlier Sunday by Hezbollah on Israeli troops in southern Lebanon. It did not respond when asked about the hospital.
Since a ceasefire went into effect between Israel and Hezbollah more than two months ago, fighting has subsided in much of Lebanon but low-level skirmishes and Israeli strikes continue. ------ This report will be updated throughout the day as new developments emerge.
Mourners carry the flag-draped bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes in the war with Hamas, whose remains were recently recovered from the rubble, during their funeral in Gaza City, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Mourners gather around the flag-draped bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes during the war with Hamas, whose remains were recently recovered from the rubble, in Gaza City, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
People carry a body of a person who was killed at a house that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Arab Salim village, southern Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) CORRECTION: Corrects village name to Arab Salim instead of Araba Salim
A man searches between the rubble of a destroyed house that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Arab Salim village, southern Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
People carry a body of a person who was killed at a house that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Arab Salim village, southern Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are set to arrive in Kyiv on Sunday for their first visit to the Ukrainian capital, as part of a renewed push for peace after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The visit follows a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Saturday, seeking to revive peace talks during escalating aerial attacks by both sides.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that Kyiv is ready for a “constructive” discussion with U.S. representatives.
“We are interested in bringing the end of the war closer. Peace is needed. Security guarantees are needed. A just and sustainable postwar peace is needed. Our proposals are prepared,” he said in a post on Telegram.
Washington’s push to end the fighting has lost momentum, with the United States focused for the past six months on the Iran war. The last known visit to Moscow by Witkoff and Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, was in January when they also held talks with Putin at the Kremlin.
Saturday's meeting in Moscow lasted more than three hours behind closed doors and ended without announcements of any breakthroughs. Putin’s foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov, described them afterward as constructive, frank, and useful but didn’t discuss specific outcomes.
While Moscow offered its “comprehensive assessment” of the battlefield situation in Ukraine, Ushakov said, the talks were not purely focused on the war in Ukraine.
“Economic issues and potentially large, mutually beneficial joint projects for Russia and America were discussed in considerable detail,” he said.
The air war between Russia and Ukraine has intensified as troops have struggled to make progress along the 1,250-kilometer (775-mile) front line. Russia has recently been using fast-flying, jet-powered drones, and the recurring wail of air-raid sirens has become part of daily life in Kyiv.
Putin and Zelenskyy had agreed to pause strikes on each other’s capitals while the talks take place. Still, the two traded fire overnight into Sunday, officials said.
Russian attacks across multiple Ukrainian regions killed one person and injured at least 10 others overnight into Sunday, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said.
In Zaporizhzhia, drone strikes killed a 74-year-old man and wounded three people, while a drone damaged an apartment building, injuring seven people, in the Khmelnytskyi region.
Ukraine’s Air Force said Sunday 82 drones out of the 108 launched by Russia overnight, along with six missiles, were intercepted.
In Russia, a man was killed and a woman seriously wounded when a Ukrainian drone struck a vehicle, local authorities in the Belgorod border region said.
The Russian Defense Ministry said Sunday that its air defenses overnight shot down 258 Ukrainian drones over 14 Russian regions, occupied Crimea and the waters of the Black and Azov seas.
In Kyiv on Sunday, dozens gathered for a nationwide 9 a.m. moment of silence honoring Ukraine’s fallen soldiers, a daily ritual held in cities across the country. Among them was Nataliia Lipei, 67, whose son Viktor was killed in December 2022. Despite a health condition, she has traveled from city to city to take part, and she said she hopes the talks in Moscow and Kyiv will finally bring an end to the war.
“I hope these steps and these meetings will definitely produce results, because there has been so much bloodshed and so many deaths here that we have to stop all of this,” she told The Associated Press.
Not everyone shared her hope for the talks. Oleksandr Pastukhov, 27, a video editor who joined the commemoration, was skeptical the envoys’ visit would change anything.
“We’ve already seen delegations like this come here before,” he said. “We’ve seen this so-called ceasefire for three days, which ended after just a couple of hours, and now we’re supposed to naively think that two people will come and change something.”
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U.S. President Donald Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff, right, Jared Kushner, center, and Presidential Envoy Kirill Dmitriev stand prior to talks at the Senate Palace of the Kremlin in Moscow, on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026. (Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
President Vladimir Putin, right, greets U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff, prior to talks at the Senate Palace of the Kremlin in Moscow, on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026. (Mikhail Metzel/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
President Vladimir Putin, background center left, speaks to U.S. President Donald Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff, center foreground, back to a camera, and Jared Kushner, right, as Kremlin foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov, second left, and Presidential Envoy Kirill Dmitriev attend the talks at the Senate Palace of the Kremlin in Moscow, on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026. (Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
U.S. President Donald Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff, right, and Jared Kushner wait to attend the talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Senate Palace of the Kremlin in Moscow, on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026. (Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
