China has permanently stationed four warships in the waters around the island of Taiwan, Yomiuri Shimbun reports.

By doing so, Beijing expects to put pressure on the Taipei administration in peacetime, as well as prevent US ships from approaching the island in the event of a conflict in the region.

Yemen's Houthis claim they fired a missile at US Navy's Lewis B Puller purpose-built expeditionary mobile base vessel in the Gulf of Aden.

Senior security officials from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority secretly met in Riyadh 10 days ago to coordinate plans for the day after the war in Gaza and discuss ways to involve a revitalized Palestinian Authority in governing there, Axios reports.

Sudanese Army FPV drone strike on RSF militia technical vehicle.

Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi, head of Yemen’s Houthi supreme revolutionary committee:

We say to the Americans: If today in Texas you do not accept an immigrant who is trying to come to work for you, then how can you expect the whole world to accept your troops who come, colonize and kill of people?

Bloomberg: Biden Faces Pressure to Confront Iran After US Troops Killed

One possibility is "covert action" that would see the US strike Iran without claiming credit for it but sending a clear message regardless.

Biden administration could also target Iranian officials, as former President Donald Trump did when he ordered the killing of General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad in 2020.

NATO should ‘prepare for Russian missile strikes in Europe’, The Times reports.

Alliance may have only three years before a possible offensive with Putin’s forces targeting military infrastructure in Germany, senior U.S, German and Dutch generals warn.

Operational use of Russian RBU-6000 naval rocket launcher on Ural-4320 truck chassis.

Realistic decoys of Ukrainian mortars.

Palestinian forces preparing IEDs.

Hamas fighters display captured IDF Magni-X VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) micro-UAS in Gaza.

Israel reportedly carried out an airstrike in Sayyidah Zaynab area, south of Damascus.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan:

The current situation in Gaza is a harbinger of disaster. We must fight hunger and epidemics, using different methods if necessary, and if this requires going beyond the existing methods, then we must act accordingly.

Russia analysts at the CIA aren’t allowed to use their desktop computers to access the social media app Telegram, which is popular among Russian military bloggers.

The analysts are also barred from bringing personal devices into the workplace, forcing them to leave CIA premises when they want to access the app, Bloomberg reports.

New Hamas clash footage from Gaza.

French-supplied SCALP cruise missile mounted on a Ukrainian Su-24.

“De Paris avec amour, Rachysty, allez en enfer”

(From Paris with love, Russia, go to hell)

Ukrainian FPV drone stuck on the glass of Russian vehicle.

"Unless the U.S. prepared for an all out war, what does attacking Iran get us?", U.S. official says to Reuters.