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Pakistan summons US envoy over Kashmir remarks
Pakistan summons the top US envoy in Islamabad in protest at remarks by the American ambassador to India regarding the status of the disputed Kashmir region.

Pakistan summons the top US envoy in Islamabad in protest at remarks by the American ambassador to India regarding the status of the disputed Kashmir region.
Iran’s IRGC says it will use more destructive and advanced weapons if a new war begins against the country.
Human rights activist, Mohsin Naqvi, says Israel's investigations into Gaza killings rarely result in accountability.
Araghchi warns that the US will face further defeat if it continues to escalate its failed economic policies against Iran.
An analyst says the fact that Israeli officials are allowed to use clearly racist and inhumane words without facing any consequences is extremely appalling.
Satellite images showed the devastation left behind after wildfires ripped through Europe this summer.
Iran's integrated security doctrine insists that any war-ending deal must cease US-Israeli aggression across all fronts – Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and Palestine – as regional security is indivisible and a separate peace on any single front is strategically untenable
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky dismisses senior aide amid continued corruption crisis.

A new poll finds that a majority of Americans believe Trump’s private business interests influence his decisions in office.

A pro-Palestine alliance has formally requested the UK government to intervene, and take action in the face of Israel’s genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf is on an official visit to Iraq.
A protest has been held in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, against US interventions in the affairs of that country.
The Union of Municipalities in Gaza has sounded the alarm on an imminent catastrophe in the Strip.

Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 02:00 GMT on August 20, 2026.

The head of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) anti-terror resistance coalition says Iran faced a “quasi-global war” waged by the Islamic Republic’s adversaries.

This edition of Spotlight is about the rift between the US and South Korea over Trump's insistence that Seoul join the US aggression against Iran.

The Israeli military admits that its forces fired on a vehicle carrying five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab in Gaza in January 2024.

Iran’s ambassador and deputy permanent representative to the UN denounces the world body’s Security Council for politicization, double standards, and selective application of its rules.