Saudi Arabia said its air defenses intercepted and destroyed a Houthi ballistic missile targeting Riyadh, while U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM, the U.S. military command for the region) said more than 1 billion barrels of crude had transited the Strait of Hormuz under an American military blockade in recent months. CENTCOM said U.S. forces also supported more than 2,000 commercial vessel transits through the waterway. Israeli aircraft carried out three strikes in southern Lebanon, including one targeting an ambulance team, despite a U.S.-mediated framework agreement. The broader roundup includes a U.S. travel warning for the Middle East, Donald Trump's proposed AI Force, developments in Türkiye's Terror-Free Türkiye process and the Mecca Alliance, and continued violence in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Sudan, Ukraine and the Caribbean. It also covers security incidents in Namibia, Luxembourg and the United States, tensions involving White House media access and Palestinian delegation visas, Germany's election to chair NATO's Military Committee, the opening of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng's planned U.S. economic talks, and a two-rig increase in the U.S. oil count to 452 for the week ending Sept. 18.