The United States has informed European allies it plans to significantly cut its military contributions to NATO, urging them to move quickly to close the gap, according to the German media outlet Der Spiegel.

Alexander Velez-Green, a senior advisor and envoy for U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, briefed allies on plans during a confidential meeting last week at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels, with European officials reported to have been taken aback by the scale of the planned drawdown by the Trump Administration.

As part of the drawdown, the U.S. Armed Forces plans to commit much fewer assets to NATO’s pool of readily available forces in the case of a conflict, significantly reducing the number of deployable drones, fighter jets, aerial refueling aircraft, strategic bomber, as well as warships, submarines and other naval assets, with a roughly one-third cut in just its fighter-aircraft contribution to forces in Europe.

On Wednesday, President Trump intends to hold a Cabinet Meeting at Camp David, officials tell CBS News, in his first visit to the presidential retreat in Maryland since June 2025 and only his second visit since the start of his second term as President of the United States.

The U.S. Navy has resumed operations in the Strait of Hormuz under “Project Freedom,” a previously announced and quickly suspended initiative to escort commercial vessels - including cargo ships and tankers - through the vital shipping corridor near Iran, U.S. military officials tell The Wall Street Journal.

According to officials, a Greek supertanker laden with two million barrels of crude oil, stuck in the Persian Gulf since early March, was recently guided by the U.S. Navy as it crossed the waterway off coast of Oman, with it now bound for India. Officials say that the Navy intends to assist roughly a dozen vessels over the next few days as they cross through the Hormuz Strait.

Heavy spoofing of automatic identification system signals northwest of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in the Persian Gulf continues with hundreds of vessels appearing on top of each other.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) is now denying reports that it has resumed Project Freedom and is assisting/escorting commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.

Syria’s transitional government has located remnants of the clandestine chemical weapons program operated under Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, including raw materials and munitions similar to those used to carry out deadly gas attacks, killing over a thousand and injuring tens of thousands, during the Syria Civil War, according to Reuters.

Syrian teams, working with inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), have located more than 70 rockets and aerial bombs, as well as raw ingredients for the production of the nerve agent Sarin. While Syrian authorities have taken into custody 18 suspects for alleged involvement in Assad’s chemical weapons program, including high-level military, political and technical officials previously serving in the Syrian Arab Army.

A McDonnell Douglas T-45C “Goshawk” Trainer Aircraft assigned to the U.S. Navy’s Training Air Wing ONE (TW-1), based out of Naval Air Station Meridian, crashed earlier today on a plot of private farmland along Highway 45 in Noxubee County, Mississippi. Two pilots safely ejected from the aircraft prior to the crash, with the cause of the incident under investigation by Naval Safety Command (NAVSAFECOM).

U.S. President Donald J. Trump has announced that due to “possible bad weather conditions,” tomorrow’s Cabinet Meeting, which was supposed to take place at Camp David, will instead convene at the White House.

U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) has announced that earlier today, May 26, at the direction of Gen. Francis L. Donovan, the Commander of SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force-Southern Spear (JTF-SS) carried out a strike against an alleged narco-trafficking vessel operating in the Eastern Pacific. According to SOUTHCOM, intelligence indicated that the vessel was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, with one suspected narco-terrorist killed in the strike while two others survived, all believed to have been members of a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO). Following the strike, search-and-rescue assets were notified and launched by the U.S. Coast Guard.

Iran has signaled that last night’s skirmish in the Strait of Hormuz with U.S. Forces, in which it lost several speedboats and fighters of it’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), would not derail negotiations with the United States, as Tehran’s top negotiator, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, remained in Qatar for talks throughout the day Tuesday.

Following last night’s round of clashes in and around the Strait of Hormuz, chances that normal traffic will resume soon in the vital waterway have fallen even further on Polymarket’s betting market, with traders predicting that there is only a 42% chance that traffic will return to normal by June 30, 2026.

Insane footage published over the weekend by CFSW Ukraine shows the successful interception of a Russian Kh-101 Air-Launched Cruise Missile by the Ukrainian Air Force, with the missile losing control and crashing onto an empty tennis court in the suburbs of Kyiv.

The Arab Spokesman for the Israel Defense Force (IDF) has just issued an evacuation order for the entire city of Tyre in Southern Lebanon, besides the Old City, in addition to several other nearby towns and communities, instructing them to move north of the Zahrani River. Close to 200,000 civilians live in the Tyre Metro Area.

Iran has obtained a draft of an initial, unofficial framework for a Memorandum of Understanding with the United States on ending the ongoing Iran War, under which, Iran would restore commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz to pre-war levels within a month and the U.S. would lift its blockade and withdraw military forces from near Iran, according to the Iranian financial media outlet Eghtesad Online.

Israel’s first of six ordered KC-46A “Pegasus” Aerial-Refueling Tankers, dubbed “Gideon” by the Israeli Air Force and expected to replace its aging fleet of Boeing 707s, arrived today at Nevatim Airbase in the Negev Desert of Southern Israel from the United States.

A review of data available from MarineTraffic.com's network of automatic identification system (AIS) receivers across the region shows a total of 8 vessels made the transit through the Strait of Hormuz over the last 24 hours, with 4 ships using the Iranian traffic separation scheme and 4 ships hugging coastal Oman, using the route established by the U.S. Project Freedom. There may have been other vessels that transited without their AIS transponder active and are not shown here.