Following earlier reports of warning sirens sounding across parts of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority says the activation was caused by a technical malfunction.

The head of Iran’s National Security Commission, Ebrahim Aziz, threatened Iran’s Gulf neighbors, warning them against fostering close ties with the U.S., furthur threatening renewed fires against their Gulf neighbors over the administration of the Strait of Hormuz.

The U.S., Lebanon, and Israel signed a trilateral framework agreement today, following multiple rounds of government and military-to-military negotiations between Israel and Lebanon in Washington D.C. over the last 2 months. This framework agreement, while not a final agreement, compounds on and seeks to begin the implementation of the joint Israel-U.S.-Lebanon statement on June 3, which called for the cessation of hostilities, implementation of withdrawal frameworks, and the Lebanese Armed Forces administrating key contested areas in Southern Lebanon.

Asked earlier if the United States would response to yesterday’s Iranian drone attack on a non-allied commercial shipping vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, President Trump said, “You’ll find out.”

U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Kevin J. Jarrard, who has been tasked with leading the earthquake response effort by U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) in Venezuela, met earlier today with Venezuela’s Minister of Defense Gustavo González López.

Gustavo González López, who previously served as the Director of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service, has been sanctioned over the years by a number of countries for human rights violations and undermining democracy, including by the United States in 2015.

The U.S. military conducted strikes earlier against Iran in the area of the Strait of Hormuz, according to a senior official who spoke to Axios.

USA-01, one of the elite heavy urban search-and-rescue teams under the U.S. State Department, which is sponsored by the ⁠Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department in Virginia, arrived in earthquake-torn Venezuela earlier today onboard a U.S. Air Force C-17A Globemaster lll. The group which deployed consisted of a 79-person, 6-dog heavy urban search-and-rescue team, which will assist with response operations in Northern Venezuela.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has now confirmed that aircraft carried out strikes earlier today, June 26, against Iranian missile and drone storage locations as well as coastal radar sites, in retaliation for yesterday’s drone attack on a commercial shipping vessel in the Strait of Hormuz by Iran.

U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Ospreys with the “Blue Knights” of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 365 (VMM-365), assigned to the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD-28), arrive at Simón Bolívar International Airport in Venezuela.