🇫🇷🇱🇧🇺🇳 — Lebanon’s prime minister says French peacekeepers with UNIFIL were attacked (X)

🇫🇷🇱🇧🇺🇳 — France’s president says Hezbollah likely killed a French peacekeeper with UNIFIL in southern Lebanon (X)

🇱🇧🇺🇳 — UNIFIL confirms that “non-state-actors” fired small-arms and killed a peacekeeper in Lebanon (statement)

🇮🇶 — Iraq’s oil ministry says it will resume oil exports from all fields in the country within the next few days (INA)

🇮🇳🇮🇷 — An Indian government source says an Indian-flagged oil tanker was attacked by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz (Reuters)

🇫🇷🇱🇧🇺🇳 — Hezbollah denies “any connection” to the killing of a French UNIFIL peacekeeper in southern Lebanon (statement)

🇦🇲🇷🇺 — Armenia’s prime minister pledges to uphold existing military-technical deals with Russia (presser)

🇸🇾🇹🇷 — Thousands of Kurds are returning to Afrin and Ras al-Ayn in Syria as Turkish forces withdraw (Al-Monitor)

🇦🇺🇯🇵 — Australia’s defense minister says Japan will provide new frigates under a multi-billion-dollar contract (statement)

🇹🇬🇺🇳 — ECOWAS, the AES, the UN, and European officials met in Togo to define a new strategy for the crises in the Sahel (RFI)

🇫🇷🇱🇧🇺🇳 — Lebanon’s presidency condemns the attack that killed a French UNIFIL peacekeeper (statement)

🇪🇸🇻🇪 — Venezuela’s main opposition leader drew thousands at a rally in Spain’s Madrid where many exiles live (AP)

🇮🇷🇵🇰🇺🇸 — Trump says his representatives will travel to Pakistan’s Islamabad tomorrow for talks with Iran (Truth)

🇱🇧🇸🇾 — Syria’s interior ministry says it has foiled a cross-border attack by a Hezbollah-linked cell (Telegram)

🇨🇳🇳🇿 — New Zealand’s military denies that a recent mission by a P-8A patrol aircraft was directed at China (statement)

🇨🇳 — Europe’s Airbus denies providing China’s MizarVision with satellite images of the Middle East (Newsweek)

🇧🇬 — Bulgaria’s electoral authorities say voter turnout in the parliamentary elections stood at 34.63% as of 4 p.m. (data)

🇫🇷🇮🇷 — France’s CMA CGM says one of its ships came under warning fire in the Strait of Hormuz (AFP)

🇮🇷🇺🇸 — Trump says the US has seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship that “tried to get past our naval blockade” (Truth)

🇮🇶🇸🇾 — Iraq’s customs officials say another border crossing with Syria will reopen after a decade-long closure (INA)