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Surface-to-air missiles intercept suspected one-way attack drones launched by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen over Eilat in Southern Israel.
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CCTV footage shows the launch of an interceptor missile from a surface vessel with the Israeli Navy earlier in Eilat, located on the coast of the Red Sea in Southern Israel, resulting in the successful interception of a drone launched by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen.
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Additional footage showing the successful interception earlier of a suspected one-way attack drone launched by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen over Eilat in Southern Israel.
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Elements of the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division were secretly deployed to Israel in early April, as part of joint contingency planning between Israel and the United States, completed since February, for seizing Iranian-controlled Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf and carving out coastal territory inside Iran, according to a deployment order seen by Ken Klippenstein.

The order, issued April 7, 2026, directed paratroopers from the 2nd Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division - the storied “Geronimo!” Battalion - to deploy to Israel on “temporary duty,” in a move not previously reported by the Pentagon. Asked about the number of troops deployed to Israel and their mission, the Pentagon referred questions to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM).
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According to the Ukrainian partisan movement Atesh on Telegram, Russian troops have been forced to withdraw from the Kinburn Peninsula, which is split between the Mykolaiv Oblast and Kherson Oblast in Southern Ukraine, following a serious uptick in Ukrainian drone strikes against Russia’s logistics lines in Russian-occupied Kherson and Crimea.
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Despite the latest round of fighting between Iran and Israel, traders on Polymarket remain optimistic that a new peace agreement or ceasefire extension will be announced by United States before the end of July, with chances down roughly 14% but still over 60%.
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On Monday, NATO Allied Air Command launched Ramstein Flag 2026, a large-scale, multi-domain, combined air exercise involving more than 200 aircraft from 18 nations, carrying out hundreds of sorties per day from more than 20 bases across Europe, stretching from NATO’s Eastern Front in Finland to its Western Flank in Spain.
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On Monday, NATO Allied Air Command launched Ramstein Flag 2026, a large-scale, multi-domain, combined air exercise involving more than 200 aircraft from 18 nations, carrying out hundreds of sorties per day from more than 20 bases across Europe, stretching from NATO’s Eastern Front in Finland to its Western Flank in Spain.
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U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning IIs assigned to the “Grim Reapers” of the 493rd Fighter Squadron, 48th Fighter Wing, out of RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, England, take off earlier today from Pirkkala Air Base, Finland as part of NATO Exercise Ramstein Flag 26.
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The 413th Unmanned Systems Regiment of the Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces carried out a successful drone strike Saturday, June 7, targeting and disabling a Russian locomotive hauling a military logistics train in the Bryansk Oblast of Western Russia, roughly 20 miles from the border with Ukraine.
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A U.S. Army AH-64E “Apache” Attack Helicopter went down near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, and both of the two crewmembers were safely rescued, with it not immediately clear if the helicopter was shot down by Iran, two people briefed on the incident tell The New York Times.
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