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.

Asked about reports stating that senior members of the Trump Administration were dismayed by Israel’s wide-scale bombing of oil infrastructure in and around the Iranian capital of Tehran, sparking large fires that burned for days and oily rain across the city, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated:

“Well, I would just start by saying Israel has been a really strong partner in this effort. Where they have different objectives, they've pursued them. Ultimately, we've stayed focused on ours. But when Iran -- what Iran has felt is the power of the world's two most powerful air forces, in that particular case, that wasn't our -- those weren't our strikes or that objective, or that wasn't our -- necessarily our objective.”

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says that the war with Iran is actually “quite contained” and not expanding or spreading, despite Iranian ballistic missile attacks Monday against Turkey and continued strikes against other nations across the Middle East.

The Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, Ali Larijani, in a post this morning on X directed at U.S. President Donald J. Trump:

“Watch out for yourself—lest you be eliminated!”

U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan “Raizin” Caine, states that they are currently looking at a “range of options” for potentially escorting oil tankers and other ships through the Strait of Hormuz.

The UK Ministry of Defense states in its daily update regarding ongoing operations in defense of attacks by Iran, that a British Counter-Uncrewed Aerial Systems Unit shot down an Iranian one-way attack drone last night over Iraq, while British pilots have completed more than 230 flight hours on defensive operations protecting bases and personnel across the Middle East.

The RFA Lyme Bay, a Bay-class auxiliary dock landing ship under the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA), currently docked in Gibraltar, had been ordered to a heightened state of readiness in preparation for possible deployment to the Eastern Mediterranean, according to a statement from the UK Ministry of Defense.

The Israel Defense Force announced this morning that the Air Force completed yet another large-scale wave of strikes against military and infrastructure targets across Tehran overnight, with a number of strikes targeting an underground weapons research and development complex used for ballistic missile development by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The Turkish Ministry of Defense has announced that a NATO MIM-104 “Patriot” Surface-to-Air Missile System will be deployed to the Malatya Province of Southeastern Turkey, near NATO’s Kürecik Radar Station, which operates as an early-warning radar against ballistic missile attacks and was used to help detect, track, and intercept at least two Iranian ballistic missiles in the last few days over Turkey.

According to Axios, in August of last year Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky showed U.S. President Donald J. Trump a presentation detailing the effectiveness of Ukrainian counter-drone technology and offered it to the U.S. in the event of a war in the Middle East, warning that the Iranians were improving the effectiveness of their drones. U.S. officials did not entertain the offer at the time.

Moody Air Force Base near Valdosta, Georgia, the home of the 23rd Wing, was placed on Lockdown earlier this morning for roughly an hour due to a possible security incident, which has since been labeled a “simple miscommunication,” with base authorities thanking personnel for their vigilance and advocating for programs like “See Something, Say Something.”

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright claimed this morning, in a now deleted post, that the U.S. Navy had successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz, with the post being removed only minutes later and officials denying to Fox News that the Navy had carried out any such operation through the Strait near Iran.