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.

According to a statement published this morning by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), last night Iran launched a ballistic missile towards Kuwait that was successfully intercepted by Kuwaiti air defenses, in what they refer to as an “egregious ceasefire violation by the Iranian regime.” Additionally, CENTCOM confirms that it downed a total of five one-way attack drones launched yesterday by Iran, which posed a clear threat in and near the Strait of Hormuz, while a sixth was struck at an Iranian ground control site in Bandar Abbas.

The Israeli Air Force carried out a strike moments ago on a residential building in the Lebonese capital of Beirut, reportedly targeting Ali Al-Husayni, the head of missile operations in Hezbollah’s Imam Hussein Division.

Documentation of the residential building targeted earlier in the Lebanese capital of Beirut by the Israeli Air Force.