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.

According Iran’s IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency, a number of vessels attempted to transit westbound through the Strait of Hormuz without coordinating with Iran’s newly formed Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) and following warnings from the IRGC-N, they were stopped and turned back around.

Sweden has officially announced that it will donate a total of 16 Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D Multirole Fighters to Ukraine, beginning in 2027, with long-range capabilities, ammunition, electronic warfare capabilities and support to be provided by the Swedish Air Force. Additionally, Ukraine has agreed to purchase upward of 20 Gripen E/F utilizing funds from the EU’s Ukraine Support Loan, with deliveries starting in 2030.

Significant damage seen to the residential structure targeted by the Israeli Air Force earlier in Beirut, in a reported assassination strike against the head of missile operations in Hezbollah’s Imam Hussein Division, Ali Al-Husayni.

According to a release from U.S. Central Command, since the start of the U.S. blockade of vessels traveling to and from Iranian ports, 111 vessels have been redirected by more than 20 participating U.S. naval vessels.

According to a release from the Israel Defense Force (IDF), the IDF conducted a strike yesterday in Gaza’s city of Khan Yunis that targeted and eliminated a key Hamas financial facilitator Ihab Karazim. Per the release, Karazim was in charge of managing the transfer of monies estimated in the millions to Hamas’ military wing. Additionally, a key Hamas weapons production official, Muhammad Alhabash, was also eliminated in the strike.