Iran has developed a new attack drone for Russia's war in Ukraine and appears close to providing Moscow with surface-to-surface missiles, Sky News reports.

Shahed-107 was described as an "explosive and reconnaissance" unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), possibly fitted with technology to seek out high-value battlefield targets such as British and American multiple-launch rocket systems used by Ukrainian forces.

The security source said the new Shahed-107 drone was from the Shahed-101 family of unmanned aerial vehicles, with a V-shaped tail.

About 2.5 metres long and with a wingspan of three metres, the UAV can be launched from a vehicle and is estimated to have a range of up to 1,500km.

Ukrainian source said Russia is now able to assemble the Shahed-136 systems itself at a facility in the Tatarstan region, 500 miles east of Moscow.

"The manufacturing capacity [by] September 2025 should be around 4,000 pieces per year," the source said.

American intel officials warn of risk of Hezbollah attacking U.S, Politico reports.

U.S. officials assess that there’s a rising risk Lebanese Hezbollah militants will strike Americans in the Middle East — and even potentially hit inside the United States.

Biden’s administration is backing legislation that would let it seize some of $300 billion in frozen Russian assets to help pay for reconstruction of Ukraine, Bloomberg reports.

Biden also wants to align the move with G7 allies, particularly in Europe, where about $200 billion of the frozen Russian assets are held and where support for seizure.

The United States has transferred a large supply of fuel to the Philippines from the US military facility in Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

The U.S. Embassy confirmed the transfer after Philippines Senator Maria Josefa "Imelda" Imee Marcos expressed concern on the reported storage of 39 million gallons of fuel of the US Navy in Subic in Zambales.

Marcos said that the "inexplicable silence" of both the Philippine and US governments on the fuel shipment "only raised suspicions about the pre-positioning of military supplies in the country amid predictions of an eventual war between China and the US over Taiwan."

UKMTO has received a report of vessel being boarded by 4-5 armed unauthorised persons in an area 50NM East of Sohar, Oman.

Unauthorised boarders are reported to be wearing military style black uniforms with black masks.

Britain and America are on the brink of launching military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen after repelling the largest attack yet by the Iran-backed rebels in the Red Sea, The Times reports.

Grant Shapps, the defence secretary, suggested that military action was imminent as he warned “enough is enough”.

“This cannot continue and we won’t allow it to continue so watch this space.”

South Africa begins its genocide case against Israel at the ICJ in The Hague.

Pentagon denies reports that Taylor Swift works for the department.

Pentagon responded after Fox News host Jesse Watters suggested this week that pop star Taylor Swift could be “a front for a covert political agenda.”

Watters on Tuesday, during his show Jesse Watters Primetime, told viewers that “around four years ago, the Pentagon’s psychological operations unit floated turning Taylor Swift into an asset.”

He then showed a clip from a 2019 conference organized by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence, where a presenter appears to name Taylor Swift merely as an example of a powerful influencer.

“It’s real. The Pentagon psy-op unit pitched NATO on turning Taylor Swift into an asset for combating misinformation online,” Watters said.

But on Wednesday, Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh pushed back against Watters claim, referencing one of Swift’s big hits by saying in a statement, “as for this conspiracy theory, we are going to shake it off.”

New footage of Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jet passing at extremely low altitude over a ship at the sea.

More than 1,400 Finnish music industry professionals have signed a petition urging a ban on Israel from Eurovision over alleged "war crimes" in Gaza.

If Israel is not excluded from the competition, they want public broadcaster Yle to withdraw Finland's entry from the competition.

China sent a sea-launched Gravity-1 (YL-1) carrier rocket into space from waters off the coast of Haiyang, east China's Shandong Province, sending 3 satellites into the planned orbit.

The launch marked the first flight mission of the YL-1 commercial carrier rocket.

Türkiye, Bulgaria and Romania sign a deal to tackle Black Sea mines

Signatures were signed as part of the "Trilateral Initiative" led by Türkiye, alongside Romania and Bulgaria, aimed at addressing the threat of mines in the Black Sea.

Türkiye says it has carefully, responsibly and impartially implemented the Montreux Straits Convention, which ensures the balance in the Black Sea in line with the principle of regional ownership and is of great importance for the security of the region.

Trilateral Initiative (Black Sea Mine Countermeasures Task Group/MCM Black Sea) will be open only to ships of the three littoral allies.

Following the end of the ongoing war, the participation of the riparian partner countries will be possible with the approval of this tripartite committee.

Iran seized an oil tanker off the coast of Oman.

Marshall Islands-flagged tanker St Nikolas was boarded by armed Iranian intruders as it sailed close to the Omani city of Sohar and its AIS tracking system was turned off as it headed in the direction of the Iranian port of Bandar-e-Jask.

In 2023 the St Nikolas was seized by the United States in a sanctions enforcement operation when it sailed under a different name, Suez Rajan.

The United States said at the time that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had been trying to send contraband Iranian oil to China, in violation of U.S. sanctions.

The ship loaded 145,000 metric tonnes of oil in the Iraqi port of Basra and was heading to Aliaga in western Turkey via the Suez Canal, its operator Empire Navigation told Reuters, adding that it had lost contact with the vessel.

Germany's Bundeswehr is faced with an acute shortage of military personnel due to the lack of “points of contact” with the army among the younger generation, Süddeutsche Zeitung reports.

Bundeswehr's personnel has "drastically decreased" in recent years.

It has only 180,000 troops at its disposal and is thus “very far” from achieving its target of 203,000 troops by 2030.

Russian missile strike targeted the Park Hotel in Ukraine’s Kharkiv last night.

Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency war correspondents were staying at the hotel during the strike. Anadolu team escaped unhurt.

10 civilians were injured.

San Francisco voted 8-3 in support of a Gaza ceasefire resolution, becoming the largest city in the US to call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

French-supplied Ukrainian VAB APC crossing river.

Nearly 30 rockets were launched on Israel's Kiryat Shmona in the last few minutes.

Most of the rockets hit the town.

Israel has previously ordered the evacuation of residents of Kiryat Shmona, a northern town close to the Lebanese border.

Russian Army contracted Somalian man captured by Ukrainian forces.

Yemen’s Houthis declared mobilization in most provinces of the country that are under the control of the Houthis.

#BREAKING UK PM Rishi Sunak is holding a full cabinet this evening.

UK cabinet ministers believe it’s about UK and US military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen, The Times reports.