Extended video showing the shoot down earlier today of an Iranian one-way attack drone, a Shahed-136, by an air-to-air missile fired from a United Arab Emirates Air Force F-16E.

Photo of the latest soldier to be killed-in-action during Operation Epic Fury, Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington, 26, 1st Space Battalion, 1st Space Brigade, out of Fort Carson, Colorado. Pennington was from Glendale, Kentucky.

According to a release from the United Arab Emirates, during the drone attack last night in Erbil, Iraq, the UAE’s Consulate General was targeted. Only material damage and no injuries were reported. In the release, the UAE calls on both the Iraqi Government and the Government of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to investigate the groups that launched the strike, likely Iranian-backed proxy groups in Iraq.

The U.S. Department of Defense has announced that they will hold a press conference with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine at 8:00a.m. Tuesday.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has released footage of strikes on concealed ballistic missile launchers in Iran.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other senior officials attended the Dignified Transfer tonight at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, of U.S. Army Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington, 26, of Glendale, Kentucky, who was assigned to 1st Space Battalion, 1st Space Brigade, out of Fort Carson, Colorado, and was killed in an Iranian strike on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia on March 1. Sgt. Pennington is the 7th U.S. Servicemember to be killed-in-action under Operation Epic Fury.

The Kuwait National Guard (KNG) has announced that it successfully intercepted and downed six one-way attack drones within its areas of responsibility in the State of Kuwait.

French President Emmanuel Macron led Sailors in the nation’s national anthem “La Marseillaise” in the hangar bay onboard the French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier FS Charles de Gaulle (R91), Monday off the coast of Crete, as the Charles de Gaulle and her Carrier Strike Group prepares to deploy to the Middle East amid the ongoing conflict with Iran.

Republican Sen. John Kennedy was asked Monday by NBC News about the bombing of the girls’ primary school in Iran on the first day of Operation Epic Fury, which resulted in the death of roughly 175 children and which evidence suggests was inadvertently carried out by the U.S. Air Force/Navy. “It was terrible. We made a mistake,” he said. “Other countries do that sort of thing intentionally, like Russia. We would never do that intentionally. I think the Department [of Defense] is investigating it now, and I'm sorry. I’m just so sorry it happened. It was a mistake.”

Air raid sirens sounding now in Bahrain.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has ordered that all flights operated by JetBlue be grounded across the United States.

UPDATE: JetBlue’s nationwide ground stop appears to have been caused by a major connectivity issue with IT Services at the airline’s headquarters in New York City, with JetBlue requesting the grounding of its aircraft be ordered by the FAA.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth states during this morning’s press briefing that today will be the “most intense day of strikes” against Iran.