🇾🇪⚡- Very unusual deployment: the elite Giants Brigades—formerly aligned with the Southern Transitional Council and now operating under the Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council—have been deployed well beyond their traditional area of operations.

Units from the Giants Brigades have been positioned on the heights of al-Abdiyah and Harib, Marib direction of central Yemen, facing the Ansarullah-controlled city of Dhamar.

Note, last week a large Homeland Shield Forces convoy was seen leaving al-Abr in the direction of Ma'rib.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- President Trump, in a meeting with Lebanon's Aoun at the White House, says the U.S. will soon strike Iran's Pickaxe Mountain, a large and fortified underground nuclear facility.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- In violation of the Lebanon-Israel framework agreement, Israeli ground forces are currently advancing to the summit of Bal'awil Hill (33.1539000, 35.4665000), south of the town of Baraachit, Bint Jbeil direction, southern Lebanon.

🇺🇸⚡️- Buried JSON data has revealed that The Odyssey’s legacy-style organic audience score is just 56%, even as Rotten Tomatoes publicly displays a 97% Popcornmeter. That supposedly places it above Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope at 96%, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring at 95%, Apocalypse Now at 94%, Vertigo at 92%, and, ironically, 2001: A Space Odyssey at 88%, along with Mulholland Drive and Gladiator at 87%.

Defenders say the new system is better because it verifies ticket purchases. Verification, however, only means Rotten Tomatoes could connect an account to a participating ticket service. Being “unverified” does not mean someone never watched the film.

Automatic prompts also disproportionately capture highly committed Nolan fans during the opening-weekend honeymoon period.

Perhaps most seriously, Rotten Tomatoes created a major comparability problem. It overhauled who gets counted, then placed the resulting scores beside decades of older organic ratings as though they measured the same thing.

They do not.

As it turned out, “everyone” did not, in fact, love it.

🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡- Erbil International Airport, Iraq's Kurdistan region, suspends operations due to recent Iranian attacks, Tasnim News reports.

🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡- Large scale Iranian attack underway across Iraq's Kurdistan region, from Sulaymaniyeh to Erbil.

🇮🇷🇧🇭⚡- Iranian arrivals in Manama, Bahrain.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israeli military has raised its state of alert to its highest level, as the likelihood of escalation with Iran has increased significantly," - Israeli Channel 12.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The chance of renewed conflict with Iran has increased by 50%," - Israeli Channel 14, citing a senior Israeli security official.

🇮🇶🇮🇷⚡- Kurdish outlet Rudaw reports Erbil International Airport has reopened.

🇺🇦⚡- Unconfirmed reports, Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi has been dismissed.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇷⚡- "New Prime Minister Andy Burnham has approved the use of select British military bases by the US for strikes on Iran," - Bloomberg.

🇺🇸🇮🇶🇯🇴⚡- A US military operation concluded moments ago which involved three helicopters from Tower 22, Jordan, landing in the western desert of al-Anbar region, Iraq, near the al-Waleed border crossing with Syria.

The operation lasted an hour before the troops crossed back into Jordan.

🇺🇦⚡- BREAKING: Oleksandr Syrskyi has been removed from his post as Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief.

Mykhailo Drapatyi has been appointed as the new chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Afghanistan War: 20 years, 2,000 DEAD.
Iraq War: 9 years, 4,600 DEAD.
Vietnam War: 19 years and 5 months, 58,220 DEAD.
Korean War: 3 years and 1 month, 36,574 DEAD.
Venezuela War: 1 day, 0 DEAD.
Iran Military Conflict: 4 months, 18 DEAD." - President Trump on Truth Social.

🇺🇦 - Mykhailo Drapatyi was the Commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces from late 2024 to June 1st 2025. He had resigned following a Russian strike on Ukrainian training grounds in Dnipropetrovsk. Mykhailo Drapatyi indicated that his reasons for resigning were due to being "unable to ensure the proper execution of his orders" and that "Ukraine's military is disadvantaged by a command culture that is unwilling to accept personal responsibility for and learn from battlefield failures."

🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- The Saudi and Emirati Ministers of Media have released joint statements stating Riyadh and Abu are "bound by a shared heritage and history."

This marks a major warming of relations between the two Gulf countries as tensions spiral around them.

🇸🇦🇦🇪🇾🇪⚡- Following the media statements from the Saudi Kingdom and the Emirati State, in a dramatic turn of events the former Southern Transitional Council President Aidarus al-Zoubeidi is excepted to make a remarkable return to Aden, Yemen, tomorrow.

Al-Zoubeidi, who fled to UAE via a boat to Somaliland, will shortly address the nation of Yemen.

🇸🇦🇾🇪 - Note, Riyadh's joint statement with Abu Dhabi, coupled with its decision to permit the return of the widely popular South Yemeni separatist leader Aidarus al-Zoubeidi to Aden, appears to be a political response to Ansarullah's blockade of Saudi's Red Sea ports.

🇸🇦🇦🇪 - Saudi Royal Court Minister Turki al-Alshikh posts a photo of Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman with UAE's Vice President Mansour bin Zayed.