🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Officials in the Middle East are increasingly worried the United States will strike Iran in the coming days, an attack that could trigger a cycle of retaliation against U.S. bases across the region by Iran and its proxy groups." - NYT.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iran has the capability to launch anti-ship and surface-to-surface missiles, as well as massive numbers of drones, toward the USS Lincoln in its current position off the coast of Oman. There is also a risk of missiles being launched from Yemen.

The United States faced similar challenges during its campaign against Ansarullah in Yemen, which lasted about seven weeks and resulted in the loss of seven MQ-9 Reaper drones and two F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets, before ending in a ceasefire agreement.

🇸🇾🇮🇶⚡- Initial reports of PKK reinforcements arriving in the al-Hasakah region, northeast Syria, from Iraqi Kurdistan.

🇨🇳⚡- "The divide between Zhang Youxia, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Central Military Commission, and Xi Jinping, President of China, was no longer centered on debate or planning, and instead shifted to execution and direct noncompliance.

This problem was clearly visible across the Chinese military, and it posed a serious threat to Xi’s authority," - Pacific Forum, US-based Indo-Pacific Think Tank.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: Early reports claim Gregory Bovino has been relieved of his duties as Head of U.S. Border Patrol.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Justice Department has formally withdrawn its request for the chief federal judge in Minnesota to issue arrest warrants for Don Lemon despite his admitting to storming a church service on video.

None of the rioters who attacked the Cities Church last week are being charged as of now.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump is seriously considering firing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and her boyfriend Corey Lewandowski.

🇺🇸⚡️- “Chief Gregory Bovino has NOT been relieved of his duties. As Press Secretary Leavitt stated from the White House podium, Gregory Bovino is a key part of the President’s team and a great American.” - Assistant Secretary Deputy of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin

🇺🇸🐘⚡️- Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota, Chris Madel, drops out of the race over “unconstitutional” deployment of ICE, calling it “federal retribution on the citizens of our state.”

🇺🇸⚡️- Minneapolis Police are now protecting hotels housing ICE agents in a major change from previous nights.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- An RC-135W Rivet Joint is headed to the Middle East for the first time in months. Before the June strikes against Iran, this reconnaissance plane conducted intelligence-gathering operations on Iran for several days prior to the strike.

It will presumably do the same now, and after a few days the United States would have completed its intel preparations to strike Iran.

🇰🇷🇯🇵🇰🇵⚡- "Several unidentified ballistic missiles were detected launched from an area north of Pyongyang, North Korea, into the East Sea.

All of the North Korean ballistic missiles are believed to have landed outside Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone," - South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff.

🇪🇺🇮🇳⚡- The European Union and India announce a Free Trade Agreement, after nearly two-decades of talks. The deal was signed between European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.

The deal is set to boost the European car manufacturing industry, with current Indian duties as high as 110% are set to be slashed to under 10%.

🇸🇩🇶🇦⚡- Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Chairman of Sudan, has arrived in Doha, Qatar.