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.

Air raid sirens sounding, amid a possible drone attack against Kuwait.

The General Staff of the Kuwaiti Armed Forces reports that air defenses are currently responding to “hostile missile and drone threats,” following the activation of air raid sirens across the country and possible launch of ballistic missiles from Iran.

Explosions, likely resulting from successful interceptions by air defenses, heard in the sky to the northwest of Kuwait City.

The U.S. Department of Defense has been directed by the Trump Administration to erect a 50 to 250-bed quarantine facility and military field hospital in Kenya within the next week, which will be used to house Americans exposed to the deadly Ebola virus in the growing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, two people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has announced that it carried out a drone and missile attack this morning against an American airbase in Kuwait, as retaliation for last night’s U.S. strikes against a drone launch site near Bandar Abbas.