Explosions now being reported in Kyiv, Ukraine, amidst a wave of Russian drone and missile strikes on the country. Both Russia and Ukraine have stepped up reciprocal strikes on each other in recent weeks and months, as Ukraine has increasingly effectively targeted key Russian assets and infrastructure, specifically in the Kerch region, Moscow region, Sea of Azov, and other key oil and gas infrastructure across Russia.

Commercial shipping visible via MarineTraffic.com shows traffic transiting the Strait of Hormuz has slowed to a trickle over the past 24 hours, with just five merchant vessels completing the transit-all via the Iranian (northern) traffic separation scheme.

One vessel, Jin Zeng 5, initially appeared to be routing through the U.S. established safe route through Omani waters, but altered course before entering the Strait and instead completed its transit through the Iranian channel.

It is possible additional vessels transited the Strait with their Automatic Identification System (AIS) transponders disabled, in which case they would not appear in publicly available tracking data. Even so, the visible traffic suggests commercial operators continue to overwhelmingly favor the Iranian route despite the availability of the expanded southern corridor.

The Department of War today published the fourth tranche of declassified UAP/UFO records under the PURSUE transparency initiative, adding dozens of new reports, videos, photographs, and historical documents spanning from the late 1940s through 2025.

Among the most notable releases:
• A 1949 Los Alamos Conference on Aerial Phenomena, bringing together military officials, Atomic Energy Commission personnel, the FBI, and scientists—including Edward Teller—to discuss unexplained "green fireballs" near the sensitive facility.
• An unresolved 2025 East China Sea UAP report (PR105), including sensor footage of an unidentified object observed during U.S. military operations that investigators were unable to conclusively identify (video below).
• Additional military videos, NASA imagery, and historical Air Force investigations into unresolved aerial phenomena.

According to the New York Times, citing U.S. officials, Iran is expected to make a public statement in the coming days announcing free passage for commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Per the officials, if such a statement, followed by commensurate action, is not made, “we’re not going to have a good outcome for them,” signaling renewed and expanded U.S. strikes on Iran.

The New York Times reports that the Trump administration has issued grand jury subpoenas to several of its journalists following the newspaper's reporting on security concerns surrounding the President's new Qatari-donated VC-25B Bridge that recently entered service in the "Air Force One" fleet.

According to the Times, some subpoenas were delivered by federal agents at reporters' homes and require the journalists to testify before a federal grand jury next week as part of an alleged criminal leak investigation. The articles at issue reported that President Trump departed Turkey aboard the older VC-25A at the recommendation of the Secret Service and that the new aircraft may lack some of the defensive capabilities of the legacy VC-25A and new VC-25B fleet.

The Times called the move an attempt to intimidate journalists and said it intends to challenge the subpoenas, while the administration has not publicly commented on the specific investigation.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/business/media/new-york-times-trump-subpoenas.html

Eyes are on Muscat, Oman today, as Iranian, Qatari, and possibly Pakistani decision-makers descend on the Gulf nation for discussions surrounding a transit framework for the Strait of Hormuz. Per reports, specifically from regional news outlets and @BashaReport, Omani officials hope to secure a framework where the Median Transit Lane, a transit route that separates the pre-war inbound and outbound lanes, will be opened for free commercial maritime traffic through the strait.

According to U.S. President Donald J. Trump, he just finished another physical, where he also requested another cognitive evaluation. The majority of the president’s statement was spent lambasting journalist Margot Hagerman.

Talks in Oman between Iran, Qatari officials, and others have concluded with seemingly not much being agreed upon, other than a commitment to continue talks, centered on commercial maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, at the technical level in the future. Per the release, the talks, which were brokered by Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamoud Al Busaidi, ended with an agreement “to continue these talks at the technical and political levels to reach the necessary agreements in accordance with international law.”

Reports now of gunfire and tanks being mobilized in the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq.

Following reports of gunfire in Baghdad’s Green Zone, regional news outlets are now reporting that former Iraqi MP, Talal Al-Zoubi, has been arrested. Al-Zoubi is a member of Iraq’s Azem coalition, a Sunni-Arab coalition. His arrest does not yet indicate a wider targeting of the coalition, and is subordinate to the ongoing widespread crackdowns on corruption by current Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi.

In direct contradiction to reports that the U.S. was expecting an Iranian announcement on freedom of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and more evidence that little to nothing was gained by Oman-Iran talks today, the IRGC has announced that they struck a vessel that they say was in violation of their Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) transit framework. In addition to this, the IRGC has now said that the strait is closed until further notice.

U.S. retaliatory strikes are likely underway, following Iran’s announcement that they struck a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, as explosions and reports of strikes in Bushehr and other areas are now being reported.

From the desk of U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, following renewed U.S. retaliatory strikes on Iran.

Following the Iranian strike on the M/V GFS Galaxy in the Strait of Hormuz, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) Centre has said that the crew has now abandoned the ship due to the significant damage the vessel sustained. The crew has embarked onto a lifeboat, per the report.

Commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively unchanged despite the rapidly deteriorating security situation in the region.

Over the past 24 hours, just six merchant vessels were observed, visible via MarineTraffic.com, completing the transit via the Iranian (northern) traffic separation scheme, while none utilized the U.S.-supported southern corridor through Omani waters.

The static traffic picture follows Iran's attack on the Cyprus-flagged M/V GFS Galaxy, subsequent U.S. self-defense strikes against Iranian military targets, and reports of air raid sirens sounding across multiple Gulf states as regional tensions continue to escalate.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced it has completed a third round of strikes this week against Iranian military targets in response to another attack on a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz.

According to CENTCOM, approximately 140 military targets were struck during the latest operation, including missile and drone sites, naval assets, ammunition depots, communications networks, and coastal surveillance systems.

Across three nights of operations, the U.S. says it has now struck more than 300 Iranian military targets aimed at degrading Tehran's ability to threaten commercial shipping. CENTCOM also stated that, since early May, U.S. forces have helped facilitate the safe transit of more than 800 commercial vessels carrying approximately 400 million barrels of crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz.