🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: “At least 3 congressional Republicans—including chairs of House and Senate Armed Services—are hinting strongly that a ground operation in Iran is planned and could potentially be underway soon,” according to National Security reporter for the WSJ Alex Ward.

🇰🇵🇧🇾⚡- Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Jong Un receiving Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Pyongyang, North Korea, earlier today.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "Hezbollah has adopted hit-and-withdraw tactics and urban warfare methods, similar to those used before the 2000 liberation." - Al Jazeera correspondent in Lebanon.

🇮🇷🇧🇭⚡️- BREAKING: Fuel tanks have been struck at Bahrain International Airport, locals tell Rerum Novarum.

🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡️- Missile and drone attack targeting the United Arab Emirates.

🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is racing to pass a state budget to avoid a forced snap election, which would occur within 90 days if no budget is passed by March 31.

Recent polling has shown Netanyahu's coalition falling short of a Knesset majority, according to Reuters.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah rockets launched to central Israel.

A long range barrage.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable, with the ones in Kuwait, which is next door to Iran, suffering perhaps the most damage, according to the NYT.

🇮🇷🇧🇭⚡️- Sirens in Bahrain, locals tell Rerum Novarum.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah releases footage showing the targeting and destruction of multiple Israeli Merkava tanks, along with battlefield visuals.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- Sirens in Kuwait, locals tell Rerum Novarum.

🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡- The Saudi Ministry of Defence claims they've shot down 25 Iranian drones in the eastern region of the nation within the last four hours.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Nearly one month into the war, the president has privately informed advisers he thinks the conflict is in its final stages, urging them to stick to the four-to-six-week timeline he has outlined publicly, according to people familiar with the matter.

White House officials planned a mid-May summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing with the expectation that the war would be concluded before the meeting begins, some of the people said." - WSJ.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡- President Trump wants to shift away from the war in Iran to “his next big challenge,” according to internal White House sources provided to the WSJ.

There is currently a struggle within the administration to determine what Trump will choose:

1) Overthrowing the Cuban regime,
2) or focusing on the cost of living.

It is unclear at this time which side is likely to be chosen.

🇺🇸🇲🇽⚡- United States Customs and Border Protection seized nearly 120 pounds of methamphetamine on March 10th and 11th at the Nogales Port of Entry.

Notably, today, U.S. forces crossed the U.S.-Mexico border into Nogales, where they repaired and added barbed wire to the entrance of a cargo train tunnel.

Mexican forces responded and, according to local media, had a verbal exchange, and the Americans left within the hour after finishing their work.