🇺🇸⚡️ — FBI Director Kash Patel abruptly canceled a planned weekend trip to Chicago to visit his girlfriend after senior Trump administration officials summoned him to the White House, according to MS NOW.

➡️ The exact reason for the meeting remains unclear, but administration officials have grown frustrated with several of Patel's recent actions. Some questioned his decision to leave Washington amid renewed fighting with Iran and reported threats against President Trump's life.

➡️ Several allies have staged multiple interventions in an effort to help Patel rebuild trust with the White House and strengthen his standing as FBI director.

🇺🇸🇮🇶🇸🇾⚡️ — Iraq, Syria, and the U.S. are planning to revive the historic 500-mile Kirkuk-Baniyas oil pipeline to Syria's Mediterranean coast as part of efforts to reduce reliance on energy routes through the Strait of Hormuz, according to Middle East Eye.

➡️ An agreement is expected to be announced next week when Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi meets President Trump at the White House. U.S. envoy Tom Barrack has been working on the details, while Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani is expected to travel to the U.S. for the signing ceremony.

➡️ Officials estimate the pipeline may need to be almost entirely rebuilt, with reconstruction potentially taking two to three years. A consortium of U.S. companies has already been enlisted for the project.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Russia has temporarily halted shipping through the Don-Azov Channel, the key waterway linking the Don River to the Sea of Azov, following the recent Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian vessels, according to Reuters.

➡️ Russian border guards also stopped accepting requests for passage through the Kerch Strait, which connects the Sea of Azov with the Black Sea, with no indication of when traffic will resume.

➡️ With roughly 25% of Russia's wheat exports passing through the Sea of Azov route, traders fear the shipping disruption could affect global grain supplies, pushing wheat prices up around 4%.

🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — At least 4x Israeli drone strikes hit a vehicle on Wadi Gaza Bridge, west of Nuseirat Camp in central Gaza, killing several people and wounding others.

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — WATCH: A Russian Geran-3 jet-drone struck Chernihiv, northern Ukraine, this morning.

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — Another Israeli airstrike targeted Al-Mansouri in southern Lebanon.

🇲🇩🇪🇺⚡️ — Moldova's President Maia Sandu has nominated 44-year-old ​financier Vasile Tofan to be the country's prime ‌minister.

➡️ The prime minister-designate says his goal is to sign ​an agreement ​on Moldova's ⁠accession to the EU by the end of 2028.

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Russian Geran drones struck the BRSM-Nafta LLC oil depot in Pereyaslav, Kyiv region.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — Scenes from Tver, Russia, where the oil refinery is still burning following a recent Ukrainian drone strike.

🇺🇸⚡️ — The U.S. Air Force and Zone 5 Technologies have developed and tested a new low-cost cruise missile, the AGM-188A Rusty Dagger, at a "new speed of acquisition," Defence Blog reports.

➡️ Developed under the Extended Range Attack Munition (ERAM) program, Rusty Dagger moved from contract award to production in just 14 months and reached live-fire testing in under 16 months.

➡️ Engineers at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex also built and tested an F-16 scale model carrying the missile in less than three days, delivering data to the 96th Test Wing within 67 hours.

➡️ The air-launched missile is designed to provide long-range standoff strike capability at a fraction of the cost of traditional cruise missiles.

🇦🇱🇺🇸⚡️ — Albanian prosecutors suspect a Miami-based businessman of using forged property deeds to claim land later sold for the controversial multi-billion-dollar resort project backed by Jared Kushner, according to case files reviewed by Reuters.

Albania's anti-corruption and organized crime agency SPAK alleges Artur Shehu and associates trafficked South American cocaine into Europe and laundered the proceeds through real estate, including by creating false property titles and artificially expanding land holdings.

Shehu sold the Albanian coastal land intended for the Kushner-backed resort for around €110 million, but prosecutors have frozen the funds in a notary account, preventing him from receiving the money. SPAK said there are "reasonable suspicions" the assets were acquired using forged documents.

The files make no allegations of wrongdoing against Kushner, the resort developers, or other investors, and Reuters found no evidence they were aware of suspicions surrounding Shehu when the land was purchased.

Shehu denies all allegations, with his lawyer insisting he is "neither a drug trafficker nor a forger of property documents" and claiming his family has owned the land since the Ottoman era.

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇯🇴 — Iranian ballistic missiles destroyed at least two facilities (likely hangars) at the American Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan on Thursday.

🇶🇦🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡️ — Qatari officials are participating in talks between Iran and Oman in Muscat over the Strait of Hormuz, according to Axios.

➡️ The parties are discussing a potential statement on the full opening of the strait's "median lane," located in international waters, to allow full and free movement of vessels.