🇷🇺⚡️ — 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.

⚡🇺🇸🇨🇳 — US urges China to join economic pressure campaign against Iran.

The death toll increased to 14, while the injured rose to at least 120.

❗️🇮🇷💥— Explosion heard in Amir Abad, Tehran, likely air defense activity.

A Turkish Bayraktar TB-2 surveillance drone is unusually operating directly inside Syrian airspace, following recent tensions with Israel.

The fact that it is flying over Syria rather than along the border represents a significant shift in posture.

The daily Israel attacks on southern Lebanon are currently underway.

Lebanon

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — IDF flares dropped on Ali al-Taher heights, southern Lebanon.

❗️🇵🇸💥— Violent artillery shelling targets northwest of Rafah city.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — U.S. Central Command has published footage of U.S. Navy F/A-18E and F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jets onboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington in the Arabian Sea preparing to conduct nighttime sorties.

↪ 🇮🇷🚀 Missile fired from southern Iran toward the Strait of Hormuz.

🇺🇸⚡️ — Minutes ago, a U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II fighter jet squawked 7700 emergency code as it was making an emergency landing at Al Dhafra AB, UAE.

🤔 🇱🇾 Loud explosions are still being reported in al-Ghiran, western Libya after an ammunitions depot belonging to the al-Isar caught fire over 3 hours ago. The cause of the initial fire still remains unknown.

⚡️🇱🇧🇮🇱 Over the past 24 hours, the IDF has intensified its attacks across southern Lebanon, with more than 45 airstrikes and artillery strikes recorded across 13 locations:

• Ali Al Taher
• Kafr Rumman
• Al Mansouri
• Qantara
• Mayfadoun
• Mays al-Jabal
• Barachit
• Shaqra
• Touline
• Deir Siriane
• Al Hara
• Zawtar El Sharqiyeh
• Byout Il Sayad

The IDF also conducted 10 detonations within the security zones in the following occupied towns: Kfar Tebnit (4), Arnoun (2), Markaba (1) and Barachit (3).