🇮🇷🇺🇸 — The US is responsible for a deadly attack on a school in Iran that left 168 people dead (Amnesty International)

🇦🇫 — Strong explosions are heard in Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP)

🇪🇺 — The EU has “no appetite” for changing the mandate of the European naval mission Aspides (EU foreign policy chief)

🇨🇺 — Cuba will allow nationals living abroad own businesses on the island (Cuban Deputy Prime Minister via NBC News)

🇮🇶 — The spokesperson for Kata'ib Hezbollah was killed in Iraq (statement)

🇮🇶 — A “projectile” hit the roof of a hotel in Iraq without causing any damage or casualties (Iraqi source via AFP)

🇮🇷🇺🇸 — The US has lost over a dozen MQ-9 military drones over Iran (US military officials via WSJ)

🇮🇷🇮🇱 — The war against Iran marks a “historic turning point” (Israeli President via AFP)

🇦🇫🇵🇰 — Pakistan violated Afghan airspace and targeted a hospital in Kabul (Taliban-led government)

🇨🇺🇺🇸 — The US told Cuba that its president must step down for negotiations to meaningfully advance (sources via NYT)

🇭🇷🇷🇸 — Croatia warns that an attack by Serbia would be terrible, but “even worse for them” (Croatian President)

🇦🇫🇵🇰 — Afghanistan accuses Pakistan of killing at least 400 people in an airstrike in Kabul (Taliban-led Health Ministry)

🇦🇿🇫🇷 — France condemns the sentencing of one of its citizens in Azerbaijan (French Foreign Ministry)

🇮🇶 — A strike on a house killed four people in Baghdad, Iraq (Iraqi security officials via AFP)

🇮🇷🇮🇱 — Israel’s defensive systems are working to intercept threats from Iran (Israeli military)

🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸 — NATO is not involved in US and Israeli strikes on Iran (Bulgarian Defense Minister)

🇸🇦 — Saudi Arabia downed 26 drones over its eastern regions since early morning (Saudi Defense Ministry)

🇦🇱🇮🇷 — Albania’s parliament adopted a resolution declaring Iran a “state sponsor of terrorism” (Balkan Insight)

🇮🇷🇺🇸 — The US denies needing help to reopen the Strait of Hormuz against Iran (US President)

🇺🇸 — For the first time in 20 years, the largest share of arms exports by the US went to Europe in 2021–25 (SIPRI)

🇫🇷 — In 2021–25 France’s arms exports rose by 21% compared with 2016–20 (SIPRI)