Israeli currently attacks southern Lebanon.

🇮🇱🇱🇧✈️— Fourth wave of strikes underway across southern Lebanon, hitting Al-Mansouri and Kfar Roummane

🔴 Jet activity is particularly loud across northern Israel, with the noise clearly audible around Kiryat Shmona and Margaliot.

❗️🇮🇱⚔️🇵🇸💥— Palestinian attempts to stab Israeli soldiers during military operation in Telfit village, northern West Bank, shot dead.

🇺🇸❌🇨🇺 — The U.S. State Department has imposed new sanctions on nine Cuban entities and three officials as part of the Trump administration’s campaign against the Cuban government.

The measures target senior officials from the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), including its president Fernando González Llort, as well as state-linked companies operating in mining, metals, construction, trade, and labor services.

Among those sanctioned are Cuba’s Ministry of Construction and major state enterprises involved in nickel and cobalt production, metallurgy, imports, and exports.

🇺🇸⚡️ — U.S. allies are increasingly questioning Washington’s ability to sustain major military operations across several regions after the Iran War depleted key American weapons stockpiles, WSJ reports.

The concerns have shifted from whether the U.S. is willing to defend its allies to whether it retains the military and industrial capacity to fight effectively across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia at the same time.

The Trump administration has rejected reports of serious shortages. The White House says the military has sufficient munitions to meet the president’s objectives and is pushing defense manufacturers to increase production.

The Pentagon similarly dismissed claims of depleted stockpiles, maintaining that the U.S. has "everything required to strike at the time and place of the President’s choosing."

⚡️— Reuters: Only 7 ships transited the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, a drop in traffic.

🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Wall Street Journal quoting Pentagon spokesperson:

“Claims of a shortage of American ammunition are incorrect."

He further said, “Washington has everything it need to strike at the time and place of the President's choosing.”

❗️🇷🇺🚨— Russian MoD: air defenses downed 325 drones across the country overnight.

⚡️🇺🇸🇰🇵🇰🇷 Reuters: US President Donald Trump says he wants to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un later this year, seeking to revive diplomacy and potentially secure another foreign-policy breakthrough. However, Pyongyang has responded cautiously, indicating that any new meeting would depend on significant changes in US policy.

North Korea has stated that the recent reduction in US-South Korean military exercises is insufficient, and suggested that Washington would need to recognise its nuclear status and reconsider its demands for denuclearisation, while Pyongyang denied recent direct talks with Trump despite his claims of an “excellent” relationship with Kim.

The latest standoff comes as North Korea has strengthened its ties with China and Russia, potentially giving Kim greater leverage in any future negotiations with Washington.

— 🇺🇸/🏴 NEW: A 35-year old obese woman, Jessica Bowie, was arrested by the FBI for planning to blow up the New York State Capitol

She is a natural born U.S. citizen and converted to Islam some years ago, after which she pledged allegiance to the ISIS terrorist organization.

🇷🇺🇯🇵⚡️ — Russia’s Pacific Fleet carried out a Bastion coastal missile exercise near the disputed Kuril Islands.

The drill involved a cruiser and a nuclear-powered submarine and simulated strikes against naval targets more than 300 km away.

The announcement comes amid renewed tensions with Japan, which protested Putin’s August 13 visit to Iturup Island and has condemned Russia’s expanding military presence on the islands.

🇸🇾🇹🇷🇸🇦🇵🇰⚡️ — Syria is considering whether to join the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan but has not yet made a decision, Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said in Islamabad.

“Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Türkiye are major countries in the region, and we are naturally reviewing the options available to us,” Shaibani said.

“At this stage, no decision has been made on whether Syria will join the alliance.”

Shaibani also said Israel has "no right" to determine who Syria chooses as its allies or partners, adding that Türkiye is an ally that "stood with the Syrian people for 14 years."

— 🇸🇦/🇾🇪 WATCH: Yemen’s Armed Forces have released a 10-minute compilation of targeting Saudi-backed troops, vehicles, and tanks in Marib and along the Western coast

All of these operations were carried out by munitions dropped from quadcopter drones. The Yemenis are surprisingly very accurate.

— 🇸🇦/🇾🇪 Saudi tank gets hit by a munition dropped from a Yemeni drone, and completely explodes

The Yemenis have clearly received training of some kind; accurate hits from such altitudes are not easy.

❗️🇷🇺🚨— Moscow mayor: 6 drones destroyed as they flew toward the capital.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — The U.S. military has helped roughly 1,300 commercial vessels carry more than 660 million barrels of crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz since early May, according to CNBC, citing CENTCOM.

Shipments have averaged at least 7 million barrels per day over the past three weeks but remain well below the pre-war level of roughly 20 million bpd.

🇷🇺⚡️ — Retired Russian FSB Major General Igor Laptev, whose company supplied communications equipment to Russia’s Defense Ministry and other state agencies, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head in his Moscow apartment on August 20, according to Russian media.

The 83-year-old’s death was reported as a suicide, though Russian authorities have not publicly confirmed the reports and the circumstances remain unclear.

🇮🇷/🇺🇸 NEW: Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy prevents an oil tanker from entering the Persian Gulf.