🇮🇷🇮🇱 — Israel has authorized its military to kill any Iranian official identified by intelligence (Israeli Defense Minister)

🇮🇶🇹🇷 — Iraq has resumed oil exports from its fields in Kirkuk to the Turkish port of Ceyhan after a three-year hiatus (NOC)

🇮🇷🇸🇪 — Iran executed a Swedish national (Swedish Foreign Minister)

🇮🇷🇮🇱🇶🇦 — Qatar condemns Israel’s attack on an Iranian gas field as an “irresponsible act” (Qatari Foreign Ministry)

🇹🇷 — Turkish defense company Baykar unveiled the K2, a new AI-powered one-way attack drone (Breaking Defense)

🇦🇫🇵🇰 — Pakistan will temporarily halt its military operations against Afghanistan (Pakistani Information Minister)

🇫🇷 — France will name its future aircraft carrier “France Libre” (French President)

🇮🇱🇱🇧 — Israel struck two bridges over Lebanon’s Litani River (Israeli Defense Minister)

🇦🇫🇵🇰 — Afghanistan confirms that it has paused its “defensive operations” against Pakistan (Taliban-led government)

🇨🇴🇪🇨 — Ecuador denies accusations that it bombed targets in neighboring Colombia (Ecuadorian President)

🇮🇸🇪🇺 — Iceland expressed hope that it will join the EU as early as 2028 (Icelandic Foreign Minister via Reuters)

🇮🇷🇶🇦 — Qatar reports that an Iranian attack caused a fire at Ras Laffan Industrial City (Qatari Interior Ministry)

🇮🇷🇶🇦 — Damages caused by an Iranian attack on Ras Laffan Industrial City are “extensive” (Qatar Energy)

🇮🇷🇮🇱 — Israel struck multiple Iranian vessels in the Caspian Sea (IBA)

🇨🇷🇨🇺 — Costa Rica will close its embassy in Cuba to “​cleanse the hemisphere of Communists” (Costa Rican President)

🇻🇪 — Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez dismissed her defense minister (statement on X)

🇮🇶🇺🇸 — Kata'ib Hezbollah is pausing its attacks against the US Embassy in Iraq for five days (statement)

🇵🇸 — Falling missile debris killed four Palestinian women in Beit Awwa, West Bank (Palestine Red Crescent Society)

🇫🇷🇱🇧 — French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot will visit Lebanon on Thursday (French Foreign Ministry via AFP)

🇪🇬🇮🇷 — Egypt’s energy bill has more than doubled since the start of the war in Iran (Egyptian Prime Minister)

🇨🇳🇹🇼🇺🇸 — The US assesses that China seeks to control Taiwan without the use of force (US Intelligence Community)