Saudi military spokesman Gen. Turki al-Maliki:

Saudi air defenses intercepted and destroyed a Houthi ballistic missile launched at Riyadh before dawn. Further attempts on civilians and civilian sites in Bish, Ta'if, Farsan and Yanbu were all thwarted.

Al-Maliki called the Houthi escalation deliberate and systematic terrorist behavior, and said the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen retains the natural right to act as it sees fit to deter them.

Saudi military spokesman Gen. Turki al-Maliki:

Saudi air defenses intercepted and destroyed a Houthi ballistic missile launched at Riyadh before dawn. Further attempts on civilians and civilian sites in Bish, Ta'if, Farsan and Yanbu were all thwarted.

Al-Maliki called the Houthi escalation deliberate and systematic terrorist behavior, and said the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen retains the natural right to act as it sees fit to deter them.

The rift between Israel and Britain traces back to a tense call last month between Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar and British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband on construction in E1.

The British side left the call believing no tenders would be issued there before the elections. A week later, tenders for roughly 1,200 housing units were published, and London read it as a reversal.

Israel's Foreign Ministry rejected the report, saying Sa'ar only stated there would be no "change in the territory itself" before the elections.

New York Times.

The rift between Israel and Britain traces back to a tense call last month between Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar and British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband on construction in E1.

The British side left the call believing no tenders would be issued there before the elections. A week later, tenders for roughly 1,200 housing units were published, and London read it as a reversal.

Israel's Foreign Ministry rejected the report, saying Sa'ar only stated there would be no "change in the territory itself" before the elections.

New York Times.

NOW: The US Embassy in Jerusalem has issued a security alert to US citizens in Israel, warning of potential flight and travel disruptions amid rising tensions in the region.

NOW: The US Embassy in Jerusalem has issued a security alert to US citizens in Israel, warning of potential flight and travel disruptions amid rising tensions in the region.

Earlier today, an Aramco facility at Riyadh airport was hit in a Houthi attack.

Earlier today, an Aramco facility at Riyadh airport was hit in a Houthi attack.

Two Israeli soldiers were lightly wounded in southern Lebanon after an IDF engineering vehicle drove over a Hezbollah explosive charge inside the security zone. The IDF responded with strikes on observation posts and other Hezbollah infrastructure across several sectors of southern Lebanon. Forces remain deployed in the security zone under the terms of the agreement.

IDF Spokesperson

Two Israeli soldiers were lightly wounded in southern Lebanon after an IDF engineering vehicle drove over a Hezbollah explosive charge inside the security zone. The IDF responded with strikes on observation posts and other Hezbollah infrastructure across several sectors of southern Lebanon. Forces remain deployed in the security zone under the terms of the agreement.

IDF Spokesperson

NOW: The US Embassy in Jerusalem has issued a security alert to US citizens in Israel, warning of potential flight and travel disruptions amid rising tensions in the region.

A French military source, asked whether Paris could strike back at Russia without the public knowing, told Le Monde: "It's already the case."

France has begun covert conventional responses to Russian hybrid attacks in Europe. Concern is rising across the continent that Russia could move directly against NATO in the near future.

Intelligence sharing and military consultations against the Houthis are being offered to Riyadh as Netanyahu makes a late push for normalization before Israel's elections, two senior Israeli political sources told Al-Monitor.

Saudi Arabia's public line hasn't moved: no deal without a credible path to Palestinian statehood.

Zelensky:

We already have the second successful deployment today of a new Ukrainian interceptor drone by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).

Soldiers from the SBU’s military counterintelligence unit struck a Russian jet-powered "Geran-5" drone.

"Free Palestine" was chanted repeatedly by Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto at a centennial event for an Islamic school.

Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone:

“We have 4,000 pages of plans for the eastern flank, and this goes from the minimal crisis or interference on our soil with Article 5 and on and on.

In case of an attack, today they have much more to lose than to gain. And that’s deterrence.”

Lebanon reports: earlier, the IDF carried out a strike in South Lebanon, in the area between the villages of Khirbet Haris and Khirbet Aytat.

A promotional video from Turkish drone manufacturer Skydagger shows an Israeli Merkava tank as the target of its explosive drones.

The company runs on about 100 employees and turns out roughly 10,000 drones a month. In June 2026 it signed a cooperation agreement with American defense giant L3Harris Technologies.

Terror infrastructure in Bani Suhayla, east of Khan Yunis, is being demolished by the IDF.

Today a light propeller plane crashed in a rural area in Poxoreo, Brazil.

Firefighters removed the body of two people from the aircraft’s wreckage.

New Hamas footage shows animated combat sequences: vehicles and structures destroyed, detonations, rockets marked M75, and imagery of the Al-Aqsa compound.