🇮🇶 — A drone strike killed two members of the PMF in Iraq’s Babil Province (Iraqi security source to Shafaq)

🇭🇺🇷🇺 — Russia will release two ethnic Hungarian prisoners of war (Russian President)

🇮🇶🇺🇸 — US citizens are “strongly encouraged” to leave Iraq (US Embassy in Baghdad)

🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸 — An estimated 100,000 people left Tehran in the first two days following the US-Israeli attacks in Iran (UN)

🇸🇦 — The Saudi military intercepted and destroyed three cruise missiles (Saudi Defense Ministry)

🇮🇷🇮🇱 — Israeli airstrikes struck defensive systems at Tehran’s Mehrabad International Airport, Iran (Israeli military)

🇦🇫🇵🇰 — Clashes between Taliban and Pakistani forces have displaced nearly 66,000 Afghans (UN)

🇮🇷🇺🇸 — The US will “bitterly regret” sinking an Iranian warship, an “atrocity at sea” (Iranian Foreign Minister)

🇸🇾🇹🇷 — Syria, with Turkey’s help, foiled a terrorist plot targeting Damascus (Syrian Interior Ministry source via SANA)

🇦🇿🇮🇷 — Two drones launched from Iran struck an airport in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry)

🇮🇶 — Iraq’s oil storage capacity is reaching its limits as traffic in the Strait of Hormuz has fallen by 90% (Kpler)

🇦🇿🇮🇷 — The Iranian drone attack in Nakhchivan will “not go unanswered” (Azerbaijani Defense Ministry)

🇨🇳 — China will raise its diplomatic budget by 9.3% in 2026, the largest increase in three years (Chinese Finance Ministry)

🇺🇸🇻🇪 — The possibilities for collaboration between Venezuela and the US are “unlimited” (US Interior Secretary)

🇮🇷🇦🇪 — The UAE is intercepting missiles and drones launched from Iran (UAE Defense Ministry)

🇫🇷🇮🇱🇱🇧 — Lebanese President Joseph Aoun urges France to press Israel to halt airstrikes in Beirut (Lebanese presidency)

🇮🇷🇶🇦 — Qatar intercepted 14 ballistic missiles and four drones launched from Iran (Qatari Defense Ministry)

🇮🇱🇱🇧 — Israeli airstrikes have killed 102 people in Lebanon (Lebanese Health Ministry)

🇦🇿🇮🇷 — Iran is not behind a drone attack on Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan exclave (Iranian Foreign Minister)

🇮🇷🇮🇱 — Israel destroyed more than 300 ballistic missile launchers in Iran since the war began (Israeli military)