🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: "Israel has received the green light from the US administration to take action in Lebanon." - Al-Jadeed, Lebanese outlet, citing unnamed diplomatic sources.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli forces launch flares over the town of Markaba, southern Lebanon, al-Manar reports.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Several Israeli airstrikes against the al-Zaytoun district of Gaza City – a Hamas stronghold.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Scenes from Gaza City.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrikes against Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip.

🇺🇸⚡️- NBC reports that investigators believe they are "close" to identifying the suspect behind the attack on National Guardsmen today in Washington DC.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: CNN confirms that the FBI has identified the attacker.

🇷🇺🇨🇳⚡- "China is currently the world’s only industrial superpower, and Russia — with its unique natural resource base — is ready to supply China so it can achieve its strategic objectives," - Igor Sechin, CEO of Russia's Rosneft.

🇺🇸🏳️⚡️- BREAKING: The shooter is an Afghan national, according to NBC.

🇺🇸🏳️ - What we know about the shooter so far:

-Traveled from outside DC to DC for the attack.
-Used a handgun in the shooting.
-Is an Afghan national.
-Shot both National Guardsmen in the head.

🇺🇸🏳️⚡️- Initial reports that the attacker screamed "Allahu Akbar!" as he shot the Guardsmen.

This has not been confirmed yet.

🇺🇸🏳️⚡️- "The suspect who shot the National Guard in Washington is believed to be of Afghan nationality and acted alone." - CBS News.

🇺🇸🏳️⚡️- BREAKING: The attacker has been identified as 29 year old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national who entered the United States in 2021.

🇺🇸🇦🇫⚡️- "The suspect applied for asylum in 2024, and it was granted earlier this year." - CNN.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump will deliver remarks on the D.C. Shooting imminently.

🇺🇸⚡️- "We must now re-examine every single alien, who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden, and we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country, who does not belong here, or does not add benefit to our country. if they cant love our country we don't want them."
- President Trump

🇺🇸⚡️- "We will not be deterred from the mission these service members were so nobly fulfilling. That is why tonight I can announce that I have directed the Department of War to mobilize an additional 500 troops to help protect our capital city."
- President Trump

🇺🇸⚡️- "The gunman ambushed two DC National Guard members—a female and a male—outside a downtown Metro station, firing four rounds before taking the female guardsman’s weapon to shoot the male. A third guardsman returned fire, shooting the suspect multiple times and ending the attack. DC police and Secret Service responded but did not fire." - CBS News.

🇺🇸🇦🇫⚡️- BREAKING: Rahmanullah Lakanwal served alongside U.S. Special Forces in the Afghanistan Army for 10 years against the Taliban. A relative who also served with him and U.S. troops says they do not know why this happened. Lakanwal has a wife and five children. – NBC News.