🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Conservative journalist and Trump administration ally Nick Sortor says government sources have told him that the second U.S. pilot has not yet been rescued and that intense clashes are underway in southwestern Iran.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- Iranian drones struck the U.S. base, Camp Buehring, in Kuwait earlier tonight, causing multiple fires on the base, NASA FIRMS confirms.

🇮🇷🇧🇭⚡️- At least 8 explosions heard in Bahrain, locals tell Rerum Novarum.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: A US government official has told Al Jazeera that the second crew member from the downed F-15E has been recovered after a “heavy firefight”.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: A US government official has told Al Jazeera that the rescue operation is still in progress.

The missing crew member is confirmed rescued, they said. but not safe yet. The rescue team must still successfully exfiltrate from Iran and get back to safety, they added.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: 2nd American F15E crew member rescued and safe after complex rescue operation that began Friday morning, two senior US officials confirm to Fox News.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 - WAR IN IRAN | APRIL 4th, DAY 36 RECAP:

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇴🇲 - U.S. intelligence believes Iran is unlikely to reopen the Strait of Hormuz anytime soon, Reuters reports.

🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Israeli attacks on a major petrochemical plant in Bandar-e Mahshahr, southwest Iran.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - 21-year-old IDF Staff Sergeant Guy Ludar was killed in a friendly fire incident after being mistaken for a Hezbollah fighter, and another soldier was seriously wounded, according to Israeli Channel 12.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - The Department of State announced that U.S. federal agents arrested the niece and grand-niece of deceased Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani after Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked their lawful resident status in the United States. Zeinab Soleimani, daughter of Qassem Soleimani, says the individuals arrested by U.S. federal agents have no relation to her father or their family, stating that the State Department is fabricating the claim.

🇮🇷🇰🇼 - The Kuwait Petroleum Corporation building was struck by Iranian projectiles, causing a massive fire inside the building. Locals are reporting power outages in Al Jahra, Kuwait, following Iranian strikes on gas and energy infrastructure.

🇮🇷🇰🇼 - Iranian drones struck two power and water desalination plants in Kuwait, causing "significant material damage," according to the country’s Ministry of Electricity. Two power generation units have been shut down, though no casualties were reported.

🇮🇷🇰🇼 - Iranian drones struck the U.S. base, Camp Buehring, in Kuwait earlier tonight, causing multiple fires on the base, NASA FIRMS confirms.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - A second American F-15E crew member has been rescued and is safe after a complex rescue operation that began Friday morning, two senior U.S. officials confirmed to Fox News.

Here is our recap from yesterday: https://x.com/officialrnintel/status/2040242919282553126?s=20

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- President Trump announces the rescue of the second serviceman from the downed F-15 fighter jet.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will travel to Ukraine this month for peace negotiations.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The NYT reports that during the operation in Iran, two U.S. transport aircraft intended to carry the airmen were disabled and abandoned, then blown up.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah drones launched to northern Israel.

🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡️- BREAKING: Several fires have broken out at Abu Dhabi’s Borouge petrochemicals factory, with damage currently being assessed following an Iranian missile and drone attack.

This comes less than 24 hours after Israel struck Iran’s largest petrochemical facility.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Ballistic missile launches to northern Israel, from Iran.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Sirens activated in northern Israel.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian medias report a preliminary death toll of 5 Iranian deaths during the operation to save the US pilot.

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout is now the longest nation-scale internet shutdown on record in any country, exceeding all other comparable incidents in severity having entered its 37th consecutive day after 864 hours.

How does this compare to other countries and regions in digital darkness?

Iran is the first country to have had internet connectivity and then subsequently lost it by reverting to a national network, while others such as North Korea have skipped the connected phase and been internationally isolated for longer.

Intermittent digital shutdown incidents such as Myanmar, and those experiencing restoration after several weeks like Sudan, and sub-national incidents like Kashmir and Tigray have also been recorded over a longer period.

Wartime damage to infrastructure in countries at war like Ukraine and Gaza has also resulted in extended reductions in connectivity due to damaged infrastructure, resulting in an observable reduction in users though no war is known to have sent an entire country offline.