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.

Speaking during today’s Cabinet Meeting at the White House, President Trump threatened to “blow up” Oman, a close long-time ally of the United States in the Middle East, if they do not “behave” regarding the Strait of Hormuz.

Initial reports of several explosions and air-defense activity near the Iranian coastal city of Bandar Abbas, according to Iran’s state-run Fars News Agency.

U.S. Forces carried out a new round of strikes tonight against Southern Iran, a senior official tells Reuters, targeting a military site near Bandar Abbas that posed a threat to American troops and commercial traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, while also downing a number of drones launched from Iran.

Senior U.S. official tells Axios that Iran fired a total of four one-way attack drones earlier today at a American commercial ship, with U.S. Forces responding by downing the drones and attacked another Iranian drone launching unit on the ground in Southern Iran.

The Trump Administration has quietly instructed federal prosecutors in Miami to avoid pursuing criminal investigations into Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez, a longtime target of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) alongside Former President Nicolás Maduro, who was captured during an operation in early January, according to an exclusive report from The Associated Press.