US Navy P8 Poseidon 168852heading the #BlackSea

Turkish Bayraktar TB2 UAV tracking north of #Cyprus

#RUAF Il-76s are returning to their bases. According to open sources landing op happened in Crimea but cannot confirm that yet.

Tanker British Heritage now safely south after yesterdays reported incident with Iranian ships.

A Government spokesperson says three Iranian vessels "attempted to impede" the passage of a commercial vessel through the Strait of Hormuz adding HMS Montrose was forced to "issue verbal warnings" to the Iranian vessels which then turned away

A #British Govt Spox said, “Contrary to international law, 3 #Iran-ian vessels attempted to impede the passage of a commercial vessel, British Heritage, through the Strait of Hormuz. HMS Montrose was forced to position herself between the Iranian vessels…

“... and issue verbal warnings to the Iranian vessels, which then turned away. We are concerned by this action and continue to urge the Iranian authorities to de-escalate the situation in the region.”. #Iran

Iran: “If it didn’t succeed, just day we didn’t do it in the first place”. Or perhaps their getting technical here and suggesting they were just harassing the ship and not actually trying to stop it. We need the P-8 Poseidon video to clarify :) https://t.co/i08SK9TC0L

Five Iranian attack vessels unssucessfully tried to seize a U.K oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, but were then scattered after British frigate turned its guns on them. U.K now 2-0 up in Tanker Wars

#Israel|i Navy firing at boats near northern Gaza https://t.co/QRSL4ikoeK

North Korea calls arrival of South Korea's F-35 jets "extremely dangerous action", says "no other choice but to develop and test the special armaments to completely destroy" them https://t.co/Pkm6wP9mPg

Will #Australia build its own private nuclear arsenal? https://t.co/1CqE8WrajN

Nearly all the F-15Es photographed arriving in the Middle East carried Dragon's Eye radar pods: https://t.co/8BeFc29sLr

NO! NO! Bad kitty! 🤣 https://t.co/QmXVA1Uuez

Nuclear safety costs in #Japan surge to staggering heights https://t.co/xOVBmmMQ1S

#FLASH: HMS Montrose reportedly had to place itself between the British Heritage and the IRGC boats. Three IRGC boats attempted to impede the passage of the tanker... According to a British government spokesperson.

IRGC: We will soon announce our response to the British detention of the oil tanker #Iran

#BREAKING: Media in #Gaza reporting one #Hamas member dead after IDF forces fired at Palestinians east of Beit Hanoun near the #Gaza-#Israel border

#BREAKING Huge fire erupts at power station outside #Moscow. (AFP)

#UPDATE: Militant groups in #Gaza vow revenge against #Israel after a #Hamas member was killed earlier today by IDF fire

Russia creates secret arms payment mechanism with India https://t.co/PFaxqbZ35k