According to Axios, citing an Israeli official, Israel will not consider Lebanon as a part of the currently in place ceasefire framework during negotiations with Lebanon. Israel-Lebanon negotiations on the disarmament of Lebanese Hezbollah are set to commence in the coming days.

According to Reuters, citing three European diplomats, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has told his counterparts in NATO member states that U.S. President Donald J. Trump is looking for commitments to a Strait of Hormuz framework within days. One diplomat said “We note the frustration in Washington, but they did not consult allies either before or after starting this war.”

Following the announcement by UK Defense Secretary John Healey of Russian undersea operations near the UK’s undersea critical infrastructure in the North Sea, the UK Ministry of Defense also announced that, alongside other NATO partners, they shadowed two Russian shadow fleet vessels that were being escorted by the Russian frigate Admiral Grigorovich through the English Channel.

Reports of several explosions over the last hour in Northern Tehran, Iran.

On Thursday, a total of six ships traveled through the Strait of Hormuz, a one ship increase since Wednesday but still significantly lower than averages seen prior to the Iran War, with today’s transits including two oil, chemical or liquid natural gas tankers, three cargo ships, and one bunkering tanker, according to data provided to CBS News by the global ship tracking firm MarineTraffic.

Entering the ninth day of their ten-day mission, NASA’s Artemis ll has now reached its halfway point on their return to Earth from their journey around the Moon, with the crew scheduled to splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, California at around 8:07PM Eastern Time on Friday, April 10, 2026.

The U.S. delegation, led by Vice President JD Vance, White House Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, and Special Envoy Jared Kushner arriving earlier today in Pakistan for the U.S.-Iran ceasefire talks in Islamabad.

According to Iranian state media reports, the U.S.-Iran ceasefire talks have moved past the principal stages and into technical discussions. However, it’s yet unclear how well the initial talks went.

The United States and Iran have begun their highest-level direct talks in almost 50 years, since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, in a bid to end their more than five-week war that has spread across the Middle East. The U.S. delegation led by Vice President JD Vance, consists of Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, while Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, one of Iran’s senior wartime leaders, is leading the delegation from the Islamic Republic. Pakistan’s Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir, who has a close relationship with U.S. President Trump as well as senior leaders in Iran, mediated the face-to-face meeting between the top officials from both countries, according to the Financial Times.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump highlighted the effect that the conflict in the Middle East has on fertilizer prices, as significant portion of the world’s fertilizer supply passes through the Strait of Hormuz.

Despite the ongoing face-to-face negotiations between Iran and the United States in Islamabad, which have reportedly advanced into technical talks on a potential peace deal to end the Iran War, fighting continues between Israel and Lebanon. In the last 24 hours alone, the Israeli Air Force reports that it has carried out over 200 strikes on Hezbollah military infrastructure and other targets in Southern Lebanon.

The Crew of Artemis ll: Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency, stand in front of the Orion Capsule inside the well deck of the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, USS John P. Murtha (LPD-26), after splashing down yesterday in the Pacific Ocean.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump said earlier that the United States is now in the process of clearing the Strait of Hormuz of mines, following reports that U.S. naval vessels transited the strait this morning into the Persian Gulf.

Forces under U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) have began setting conditions for clearing mines in the Strait of Hormuz, with the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers, USS Frank E. Peterson (DDG-121) and USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112), transited the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday and now operating in the Persian Gulf as part of a broader mission to ensure the strait is fully clear of sea mines previously laid by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) during the Iran War.

Two U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers, identified as the Pentagon as the USS Frank E. Peterson (DDG-121) and USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112), passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, according to three U.S. officials, marking the first transit of American warships through the waterway since the start of the Iran War. The two vessels passed through the strait and entered the Persian Gulf, completing a “freedom-of-navigation mission” and suffering no issues, with the destroyers having since withdrawn, the officials told the Wall Street Journal.

In a speech this evening directed at the People of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said their campaign against Iran is “not yet over” though Israel has achieved “historic results” in the current conflict, as the United States and Iran conduct high-level direct ceasefire negotiations in Pakistan in an effort to end the ongoing Iran War.

Face-to-face negotiations between Iran and the United States are expected to last well into the night and possibly even stretch into Sunday, a Pakistani source told CNN.