🇨🇳⚡️- China built and launched five nuclear submarines since the year began, an all-time record.

During the Cold War, the USSR was launching an average of six nuclear submarines a year.

The U.S. is reportedly averaging 1.2 nuclear submarines launched yearly, half of what members of the GOP recommended in 2023.

🇮🇷🇯🇴 - Rerum Novarum have identified Iranian attacks on Jordan's Muwaffaq Salti Airbase between 15 and 20 July.

The grab from 20 July shows additional impact sites, along with the three Iran published, and, more notably, visible damage from strikes predating 15 July that remains unrepaired, with no apparent signs of restoration work.

🇮🇷🇧🇭🇶🇦⚡- Alarms in Bahrain and Qatar.

🇮🇷🇶🇦⚡- All clear given in Qatar.

🇺🇸🇯🇴🇮🇷 - On the 17th of July Iran claimed to have struck U.S. troops / military assets in al-Tanf military base (a Free Syrian Army position), Palmyra direction, eastern Syria. The claims were absurd as all U.S forces south of the Euphrates have withdrawn, the last of which withdrew in early February 2026.

However, satellite imagery from July 20 shows an impact at Tower 22 (33.3148254, 38.7011922), a Jordanian military installation in the north of the country, near the tri-border Syria-Iraq-Jordan point.

A significant number of U.S. personnel formerly stationed at al-Tanf had been relocated to Tower 22. The base is currently assessed to host approximately 200–300 U.S. troops and serves as a key hub for counter-terrorism operations.

It's likely that Iranian officials intended to refer to Tower 22 rather than the Syrian garrison at al-Tanf.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡- Iran's Interior Minister's meeting with mediators in Islamabad has begun.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- "J.D. Vance's team is actively preventing a meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, concerned that the Israeli prime minister would use the encounter to lobby for a tougher U.S. stance on Iran.

Netanyahu hopes to combine a U.S. visit with Senator Lindsey Graham's funeral on 27 July, but has made clear that he will not travel without first securing time with Trump," - Ynet, citing senior Israeli officials.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- LBCI reports Israeli forces in Zawtar al-Charqiyeh fired upon the Lebanese military unit that had been deployed to the first experimental zone in neighbouring Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh - Nabaiteh direction. No casualties reported.

🇺🇸🇯🇴🇮🇷 - Iranian-released satellite imagery confirms Rerum Novarum's earlier assessment of an impact at Tower 22, northern Jordan.

The exact structure destroyed sits at 33.31484, 38.70099.

🇰🇼🇮🇷⚡️- Kuwait reports power and water desalination plants were attacked again by Iran, for the fourth day in a row.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- “We have no interest in joining war on Iran.” - Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

🇰🇼🇧🇭🇮🇷⚡️- Alerts have been activated in Bahrain and Kuwait.

🇲🇩🇷🇺⚡️- "On July 19, Moldovan police stopped a Russian embassy bus in Chisinau, allegedly to check documents, and removed the diplomatic registration plates without explanation. During this incident, the police used force and threatened to detain the embassy staff," - Russian Foreign Ministry.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇶 - Major destruction at Erbil International Airport, Iraq's Kurdistan region, following sustained Iranian attacks.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇶 - New Iranian-released satellite imagery has been geolocated by Rerum Novarum to Erbil International Airport, Iraq's Kurdistan region, showing a structure at 36.2396, 43.97295 completely destroyed.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Initial reports of a US airstrike on the Sarallah military base in Shiraz, southern Iran.

🇸🇦🇾🇪⚡️- "Two oil tankers which loaded Saudi crude for China and India this week made U-turns in the Red Sea on Tuesday and ​were headed toward the Suez Canal, shipping data on LSEG showed, following a ‌warning from Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi militia." - Reuters.

🇾🇪🇸🇦 - Ansarullah's blockade of Saudi seaports in the Red Sea has caused four tankers to U-turn towards the Suez Canal.

One of the tankers is Russia's TRUST, with the other three being MICA, NAVIG8 EXPRESS, and AGIOS GERASIMOS.

Source: Kpler's map.

🇾🇪⚡- Major anti-Saudi and pro Southern Transitional Council protest took place in al-Mukalla, capital of the Hadhramaut region, eastern Yemen.