🇦🇫🇵🇰 — 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)

🇺🇦 — Ukraine has sent 201 drone experts to the Middle East (Ukrainian President via AFP)

🇨🇳 — China’s arms imports more than halved (-72%) between 2016–20 and 2021–25 (SIPRI)

🇨🇴🇪🇨 — Bombings on the border between Ecuador and Colombia have left 27 ”charred bodies” (Colombian President)

🇸🇴 — Somalia’s South West State is severing all relations with the country’s federal government (South West officials)

🇮🇷🇮🇱 — Israeli airstrikes killed the commander of Iran’s Basij paramilitary force (IRCG via Fars New Agency)

🇦🇿 — Azerbaijan will keep its borders closed until the summer of 2026 to “prevent the spread of COVID-19” (AZERTAC)

🇱🇧🇸🇾🇺🇸 — The US denies seeking to draw Syria into hostilities against Hezbollah in Lebanon (US Special Envoy for Syria)

🇮🇳 — India was the second-largest recipient of major arms in 2021–25, behind Ukraine (SIPRI)