🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- U.S. officials to CBS News also deny Trump's claim that Washington and Tehran are currently talking. The only contact between the two sides is via Qatari-Pakistani mediators.

🇮🇶🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡- Loud explosions heard over the Kuwait-Iraq international border. Kuwaiti air defenses in the east of the country are engaging Iraqi/Iranian one-way drones.

🇮🇷🇮🇶🇰🇼⚡- Explosions are also heard in northern Kuwait too.

🇮🇷🇮🇶🇰🇼⚡- Impacts reported in eastern Kuwait, with fire services currently moving to the scenes.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: Telegram has been removed from the App Store.

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🇺🇸⚡️- Telegram has said their application has been restored on the app store, and will soon become available to all users again. They did not provide any explanation as to why it was removed.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- "Iran and Oman are close to reaching an agreement to reopen navigation in the Strait of Hormuz," - The New York Times.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- "Iran wants control over inbound shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and visibility over outbound traffic, with the ability to intervene if necessary, under a plan being discussed with Oman to reopen the strategic waterway," - Reuters, citing a senior Iranian source.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- "The Yemeni armed forces were able to target a sensitive Saudi enemy target at Najran International Airport, southern Saudi Arabia, using a drone, and the strike was precise.

This targeting comes in response to the Saudi enemy's violation of airspace in the Yemeni governorates of Sa'dah and Hajjah with its drones.

We assure the Saudi enemy that any violation of our airspace will not go unpunished," - Ansarullah.

🇵🇸🇪🇬🇮🇱⚡- Cairo is requesting permission from Tel Aviv to use its own Egypt-Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip, Walla reports.

The Egypt-Rafah crossing is currently under Israeli forces control. Israel is determined to prevent the opening of the Egypt-Rafah crossing, as it will allow the transfer of goods into the strip without Israeli inspection. Israel instead insists, telling Washington and the Gaza Board of Peace, that the entry of goods must pass through the Kerem Shalom crossing only.

🇺🇬🇪🇹🇸🇴⚡- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni disclosed that Uganda's 20-year peacekeeping mission in Somalia was driven primarily by Kampala's solidarity with Ethiopia.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- “The U.S. has used virtually all of its precision strike missiles during the war in Iran. Stockpiles on ATACMs and Precision Strike Missiles are almost depleted.” - Reuters.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇮🇳⚡- Sea surface drones, USVs, sank an Indian-flagged commercial vessel, FAIZE NOORE OLIYA, south of al-Hodeidah in the Red Sea.

No group has yet claimed responsibility, as the cargo vessel had just entered the Red Sea from the Gulf of Aden, having departed from Oman's Port of Salalah. Therefore the ship was not in violation of the Ansarullah blockade of Saudi seaports.

Pro-Hadi and Saudi-backed Yemeni National Resistance Forces said they rescued all 14 members of the crew.

🇸🇾🇮🇶⚡- Syrian media reports the Syrian military has entered a state of high alert.

🇸🇾🇮🇶⚡- Syria's First Corps Command in Deir ez-Zur, eastern Syria, has ordered all personnel back to bases, and has barred any leaves.

🇸🇾🇮🇶⚡- "The Syrian army has announced a state of military alert without disclosing the reasons.

The Ministry of Defense has instructed its personnel to enter "Alert Level C" and deploy units along the Syrian-Iraqi border.

The state of alert coincided with instructions for personnel to immediately report to their military units.

The Syrian authorities have not yet issued any clarifications regarding the reasons for declaring the state of alert," - al-Khabour, Syrian outlet.

🇸🇾 - Syrian frontline sources are reporting that the heightened alert is in regards to the SDF, with unconfirmed reports stating SDF's Commander-in-Chief Mazloum Abdi rejecting al-Sharaa's final proposal to integrate into the Damascus military command.

🇸🇾⚡- Former Syrian National Army factions in the Idlib-Azaz region, northwest Syria, have been put on high alert as well.

🇸🇾🇮🇶⚡- Syrian military reinforcements have been observed along the Syria-Iraq border, al-Mayadeen's office in Iraq confirms.