❗️Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio are clashing over the U.S. approach to the war with Iran, three former U.S. officials and a senior regional official told Middle East Eye.

The two were described as “at each other’s throats” over whether the U.S. should deploy troops to Iran. Hegseth supports the idea, while Rubio is deeply wary of entangling the U.S. in a long war

The attack in Al-Jurn - Al-Jamijmiyah area resulted in casualties

Two Iranian Su-24 bombers flew toward Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar and were reportedly two minutes from striking when Qatari F-15 fighters intercepted and shot them down in Qatar’s first air-to-air combat mission.

Source: CNN

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz spoke overnight with U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Hegseth thanked Katz for condolences over six U.S. soldiers killed and said:

“Keep going to the end — we are with you.”

Iran’s underground “missile cities”—tunnel complexes built to hide its missile arsenal—are becoming key targets for U.S. and Israeli strikes.

Aircraft and drones are destroying launchers as they leave the tunnels, while bunker-buster bombs hit entrances and surface infrastructure.

According to U.S. commanders, hundreds of missiles, launchers, and drones have been destroyed, and Iran’s missile launches have dropped about 86% in four days.

Source: WSJ

📸 Zawtar

The mayor of Al-Kafour, Tawfiq Safa, and his wife were martyred in the dawn raid on the town

❗️ A series of attacks on Maifadoun

From the Iranian ballistic missile impact site in a town in central Israel. MDA says no injuries were reported.

Pissing out everyone, especially whose military is still functioning well and an ally of Israel on your border isn't really the best practice :)

Al-Kfour

Al-Zahrani

Toul

Taybeh, Zawtar and other towns.

Berri, who seems extremely dissatisfied so far with Hezbullah and for that stayed silent, is now heading a meeting with the Amal Movement parliamentary bloc

Venezuela’s state-owned mining company has agreed to sell 650–1,000 kg of gold dore bars to commodities trader Trafigura, with the gold destined for U.S. refineries.

The deal, worth tens of millions of dollars, was helped along by U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum during talks in Caracas.

Source: Axios

NEW: The presence of U.S. aircraft has been authorized “temporarily” on French bases in the Middle East.

“As part of our relations with the United States, the presence of their aircraft has been authorized temporarily on our bases” in the region, a spokesperson for the French Military said.

Source: AFP

Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto:

We intend to deploy a multi-domain force in the Middle East, with air-defense systems against drones and missiles.

Together with the Spanish and the French, we will bring assistance to Cyprus.