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.

According to CNN, citing a senior Iranian official, Iran is now mulling the possibility of letting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz only if the oil on board is traded in Chinese Yuan. As opposed to the majority of international oil trades, which are done in U.S. Dollars.

According to a post on TruthSocial earlier from U.S. President Donald J. Trump, at his direction, U.S. Central Command “obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island.” Extremely notably, President Trump said that he has chosen not to target the vast oil infrastructure on Iran’s economically important island and should Iran continue to interfere with the safe passage of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, the island’s oil infrastructure will be targeted on Kharg Island.

Citing a U.S. official, the New York Times has elaborated on the previously reported strikes on Iran’s economically important Kharg Island. The official confirmed President Donald J. Trump’s earlier statements that only military infrastructure was targeted, adding that missile and mine storage sites were also targeted in the strikes.

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, citing two U.S. officials, a total of five aerial-refueling tankers with the U.S. Air Force, KC-135R/T Stratotankers and KC-46A Pegasus, were struck and damaged by an Iranian ballistic missile while on the ground at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. Per one official, the battle damage to the tankers was not enough to destroy them and they are in the process of being repaired. No servicemembers were killed in the strike that damaged the tankers at Prince Sultan.

Massive explosions being reported across Baghdad, amid ongoing strikes against Iranian-backed paramilitary forces by the U.S. Air Force.

Three additional B-52H “Stratofortress” Long-Range Strategic Bombers with the U.S. Air Force’s 5th Bomb Wing, based out of Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, landed early Friday at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England, joining 12 B-1B Lancers and 3 other B-52H Stratofortresses that have been forward deployed to the United Kingdom as part of Operation Epic Fury.

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Footage has now been published by President Donald J. Trump showing today’s strikes against Iranian military targets on Kharg Island in the Northern Persian Gulf, which acts as a port hub for the export of up to 90% of oil products leaving Iran. In the footage, strikes can be seen targeting an airbase, including cratering strikes against the base’s runway, as well as multiple other sites, which likely include air defenses and missiles launch sites operated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Israel is preparing to launch a full-scale ground invasion of Lebanon, likely the largest operation by Israel targeting its northern neighbor since 2006, aimed at seizing the entire area south of the Litani River and the dismantling of Hezbollah's military infrastructure, Israeli and U.S. officials tell Axios.

The Trump Administration backs a major Israeli operation in Southern Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah, but is also pressing to limit the damage to the Lebanese State, asking Israel not to bomb Beirut International Airport or other infrastructure managed by the Lebanese Government during any operation against Hezbollah.