🇺🇸🇲🇦⚡️- A Moroccan military search team has recovered one of the bodies from the two U.S. Service members who went missing last week during AFRICOM exercise African Lion 26.

AFRICOM has identified the soldier as 1st Lt. Kendrick Lamont Key Jr., 27, of Richmond, Virginia. He was a platoon leader assigned to Charlie Battery, 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command.

His body was found along the shoreline roughly one mile from where both soldiers entered the ocean. The search and rescue mission is still underway for the second missing soldier.

🇮🇷⚡️- A statement from Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (Iranian state media) last night: "An enemy drone in the southwest of Iran was shot down by the Iranian Army's air defense.".

🇺🇸⚡️- Seven people have been injured in Paterson, New Jersey after a drive by shooting.

🇬🇧⚡- Labour's David Smith has called for the resignation of Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Channel 12 reports the IDF is preparing to expand group military operations in southern Lebanon, citing continuous Hezbollah ceasefire violations.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- A Qatari LNG tankers and an Emirati LPG tanker have departed from their ports, and are currently sailing through the Strait of Hormuz.

🇬🇧⚡️- Over 50 Labour MP's are calling on Starmer to step down.

🇬🇧⚡️- Now Chris Curtis, chair of the Labour Growth Group, has called for Starmer to step down.

His resignation is now incredibly likely.

🇬🇧⚡️⚡️- The number of Labour MP's calling for Starmer to step down has reached 67.

🇬🇧⚡️- Cabinet members will tell Starmer to resign tomorrow morning.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Our armed forces are ready to deliver a well-deserved response to any aggression; mistaken strategy and mistaken decisions will always lead to mistaken results— the whole world has already figured this out. We are prepared for all options; they will be surprised." - Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- Despite its role as a mediator, Pakistan allowed Iranian military aircraft to park on its airfields, potentially shielding them from U.S. airstrikes, according to CBS News.

🇪🇺🇪🇸⚡- The Spanish Foreign Minister calls for the creation of a unified European Army to replace the current system of protection by the U.S. under NATO.

🇲🇱⚡️- The JNIM has sabotaged the Senegal River Basin Development Authority's electrical line and have started planning to attack this organization's power plant.

🇳🇬⚡️- This Sunday, Nigeria's military forces struck a market in the state of Zamfara, killing dozens of civilians.

A few days ago, they also conducted strikes on "bandits" near Shiroro, Niger. Locals claimed those were actually fishermen from Niger. A few dozen individuals were killed in those strikes as well.

🇨🇮⚡️- The Ivory Coast dissolved the controversial Independent Electoral Commission. The organism created in 2001 was tasked with regulating and ensuring the integrity of the Ivory Coast's elections. Recent opposition groups claimed the Commission had grown corrupt in recent years.

The government has not yet announced the details for the new organism that will replace the IEC.

🇪🇺⚡️- In the past days, multiple NGOs and European countries have issued statements sharing their concerns regarding the increased instability and violent acts in West African nations.