🇰🇼🇵🇰⚡- "Pakistan has been negotiating an expanded defence pact with Kuwait in exchange for energy cooperation and investment, according to five sources with knowledge of the talks.

Kuwait has had a more limited defence deal with Pakistan for training and joint exercises since 2023.

It is now seeking ⁠a show of force by Islamabad that would be similar to Pakistan's pact with Saudi Arabia, including "thousands of Pakistani troops on the ground, fighter jets, drones, an air defence system, and other defence-related facilities," said a Pakistani government official," - Reuters.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇸🇾⚡- Lebanese President Joseph Aoun told President Trump that any future agreement with Israel must include a complete Israeli military withdrawal, not only from Lebanese territory but also from neighboring Syria.

Aoun argued that the security of Lebanon and Syria is closely linked. He also accused Israel of exacerbating tensions in both states.

Source: al-Mayadeen.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - A damaged vessel in the Strait of Hormuz.

The vessel likely belongs to Iran as the crew can be heard speaking Farsi, and was disabled by the U.S. military for violating the U.S. naval blockade.

Other reports allege the ship is a Thai build carrier, detained at Qeshm Island.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "The Trump administration notified Israel it is sending dozens more refueling planes to the country ahead of a potential expansion of military operations against Iran, three U.S. and Israeli officials said." - Axios.

🇺🇸⚡️- Trump Media is considering a price of $100,000 per month for priotity access to President Trump’s Truth Social posts, according to FT.

🇮🇷🇮🇶 - Incredible footage shows the moment of an Iranian arrival in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq's Kurdistan region.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- An hour ago explosions were heard in Bandar Abbas, southern Iran.

🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡- Secondary explosions are still going off in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq's Kurdistan region, almost 45 minutes after the Iranian attacks.

🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡- Iraq's Kurdistan authorities have begun the evacuation of local communities near the ammunition depot that has been cooking for almost an hour after the Iranian attacks.

Rerum Novarum have geolocated the footage to Highway 18, Tasluja, west of Sulaymaniyah. Traffic is heading southwards.

🇰🇼🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡- Kuwait's air defenses in the east of the country have gone active, responding to Iranian / Iraqi one-way drones.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "U.S. and Israeli officials have stated that Trump may order an escalation in the coming days.

The options being considered include bombing Iranian infrastructure, such as power plants, and carrying out further attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities with the aim of burying enriched Iranian uranium deeper underground," - Israeli Channel 12.

🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡- Iran is now attempting to attack Erbil, Iraq's Kurdistan region. All projectiles have so far been intercepted.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Iran knows that Israel wants to resume the war and is awaiting Trump's greenlight," - Israeli Channel 13.

🇮🇶🇮🇷⚡- Explosions heard in Salahaddin, Erbil. The town headquarters Kurdistan Democratic Party, the ruling party of Iraq's Kurdistan region.

🇮🇶🇮🇷 - Insane scenes from Salahaddin, Erbil, Iraq's Kurdistan region.