2,200 Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, accompanied by the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group: which consists of the USS Tripoli (LHA-7), USS San Diego (LPD-22), and USS New Orleans (LPD-18), alongside roughly 20 F-35B Lightning lls, have been ordered to deploy to the Middle East, amid the ongoing conflict with Iran, according to ABC News.

The USS Tripoli (LHA-7) and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit are based out of Sasebo and Okinawa, Japan.

During this morning’s press conference at the Pentagon, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan “Raizin” Caine, revealed that MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), a surface-launched tactical ballistic missile operated by the U.S. Army, have been utilized to sink several Iranian ships, including a submarine, since the start of Operation Epic Fury.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) continues to release footage of strikes against targets in Iran, with the below video showing the destruction of two ballistic missile launchers as well as what appears to be a Sukhoi Su-22 in service with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force (IRGCASF).

The U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service is offering Iranians up to $10 million for information on a number of key leaders within Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani.

The U.S. Army has sent 10,000 Merops AI-enabled interceptor drones developed in Ukraine by the California-based defense venture Project Eagle to the Middle East, as it looks to repel Iranian one-way drone attacks without using up high-cost missile defense systems, according to a statement Friday by U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll.

After Iran’s latest ballistic missile strikes on Central Israel, damage can be seen in one town as fires burn after an impact of a missile on the roof of a building.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met today in Paris with the Exiled Crown Prince of Iran Reza Pahlavi, amid the ongoing war in the Middle East between Iran, Israel, and the United States.

Formula 1 has cancelled the Grand Prix in both Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, citing the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

Kilmeade: “You think Putin is helping them [Iran]?”

President Trump: “I think he might be helping them a little bit, yeah, I guess, and he probably thinks we're helping Ukraine, right?”

Kilmeade: “And you are, right?”

President Trump: “Yeah, we're helping them also, and so he says that, and China would say the same thing, you know. It's like, hey, they do it and we do it, in all fairness. They do it, we do it.”

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has released footage showing B-2A “Spirit” Long-Range Strategic Stealth Bombers with the 509th Bomb Wing taking off from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, for strikes against targets in Iran under Operation Epic Fury.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump has denied statements from the Pentagon and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky stating that the United States had requested and been granted direct assistance from Ukraine in order to help counter the threat posed by Iranian one-way attack drones across the Middle East.

Kilmeade: “Are they [Ukraine] helping us with drone defense too?”

Trump: “No, we don't need their help with drone defense. We know more about drones than anybody. We have the best drones in the world, actually.”

U.S. President Donald J. Trump claims in a post on TruthSocial that Iran had plans of “taking over the entire Middle East, and completely obliterating Israel,” which he states are now dead “JUST LIKE IRAN ITSELF.”

Following U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s announcement that the next 24 hours will see some of the most significant strikes of the war so far, intense strikes are now ongoing across Iran, specifically Tehran, as a part of joint U.S.-Israeli operations against Iran.

Per an Israeli official to Israeli media outlets on strikes against Iran: There is an intention to launch attacks on Iranian nuclear targets and sites soon.

The Israeli Air Force announced that, under the guidance of Military Intelligence, they conducted a strike yesterday that killed Marthsa Hussein Sarour, who was responsible for the production of weapons for Lebanese Hezbollah (LH) and also the brother of LH’s now dead head of their aerial forces.

According to Axios, citing an unnamed source close to the matter, U.S. President Donald J. Trump rejected a proposal from Russian President Vladimir Putin to move Iran’s enriched uranium to Russia in order to end the war in the Middle East. The move by the U.S. leader took place during a call this week with his Russian counterpart. While Russia has served in this capacity in past deals and has the capacity to store Iranian uranium, a U.S. official told Axios that Russian proposals were repeatedly denied by the Trump Administration.

Video shows the launch of Iranian one-way attack drones against, Israel, their Gulf neighbors, and U.S. bases and infrastructure across the Middle East.