🇨🇳🇰🇵 — Passenger trains are running between North Korea and China for the first time in six years (Yonhap News Agency)

🇮🇷🇱🇧 — Hezbollah’s “military lifeline” from Iran has “severely decreased” (Lebanese Energy Minister via Euronews)

🇨🇿 — Czechia has other priorities than meeting the defense spending target set by NATO (Czech Prime Minister)

🇭🇺🇺🇦 — Ukraine is trying to put Hungary under a “total energy blockade” (Hungarian Foreign Minister)

🇷🇺 — A Russian court sentenced the four attackers of the 2024 Crocus City Hall terrorist attack to life imprisonment (TASS)

🇮🇱🇱🇧🇹🇷 — Turkey calls on Israel to halt its offensive in Lebanon (Turkish Foreign Minister)

🇸🇦🇺🇦 — Saudi Arabia is in talks to buy Ukrainian drones to protect its oil fields (WSJ)

🇮🇶🇮🇹 — A missile struck an Italian military base in near Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq (Italian Defense Ministry)

🇮🇷 — Iran must keep the Strait of Hormuz “closed” (Iranian Supreme Leader via IRIB)

🇦🇿 — Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev approved reforms reducing Nakhchivan’s autonomy (OC Media)

🇮🇶 — Iraq shot down four suicide drones targeting a military unit in Nineveh Governorate (Iraqi Defense Ministry)

🇯🇵🇰🇵 — North Korea accuses Japan of pushing the region into danger with the deployment of long-range missiles (KCNA)

🇨🇴🇻🇪 — Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez canceled her first trip abroad, to Colombia (Colombian government)

🇮🇶🇺🇸 — A US KC-135 refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq (CENTCOM)

🇫🇷🇮🇶 — A drone attack injured six French soldiers in Makhmour, Kurdistan Region of Iraq (French Defense Ministry)

🇸🇦 — Saudi Arabia intercepted 12 drones in its airspace (Saudi Defense Ministry)

🇫🇷🇮🇶 — A drone attack killed a French soldier in northern Iraq (French President)

🇴🇲 — Falling drone debris killed two foreign nationals in Sohar Province, Oman (Omani security sources via ONA)

🇦🇫🇵🇰 — Pakistan carried out airstrikes in Afghanistan (Pakistani security source via AFP)

🇮🇷🇺🇸 — US President Donald Trump told G7 leaders that Iran is “about to surrender” (officials via Axios)

🇮🇶🇺🇸 — The loss of a US KC-135 refueling aircraft in Iraq killed four crew members as rescue operations continue (CENTCOM)