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WASHINGTON — The US military carried out strikes on Iran’s Kharg Island in the Gulf and around the southeastern Iranian port city of Jask, east of the Strait of Hormuz, in the latest retaliatory exchange of fire between the two sides. "American forces have struck multiple Iranian tankers tied to the IRGC in response to more attempted missile attacks on a US Navy warship," a US official told Al-Monitor.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and US counterpart Donald Trump on Tuesday discussed the Ukraine conflict in an “extremely frank” and constructive hour-long phone call, the Kremlin said. It came after US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner visited Moscow and Kyiv over the weekend in an attempt to kick-start long-stalled US efforts to end the fighting. Washington has been pushing for fresh face-to-face talks between Moscow and Kyiv. Kyiv says the talks could happen as early as this...
Explosions heard on Kharg Island. The US threatened to hit three Iranian oil tankers. - Mehr News Agency
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The United States, the Norwegians and someone else over there have conducted exercises using a script overtly simulating a war with Russia, the Russian foreign minister said
Lavrov says EU has turned into NATO-like military bloc

THE HAGUE: Nicaragua told the International Court of Justice on Tuesday that Germany’s arms exports to Israel violates the 1948 Genocide Convention and humanitarian law and urged the court to allow its case against Berlin to continue. Germany suspended weapons exports to Israel for a few months in 2025 but they have since resumed. It is Israel’s second biggest weapons supplier after the US and has long been one of its staunchest supporters, principally because of historical guilt for the Nazi H

Trump tells Putin he wants swift end to Ukraine war, Kremlin says ➡️ https://t.co/7scMyB2tPC https://t.co/F6JgPW4KK7
Republican Senator Rick Scott: If we don’t get the House, Trump is gonna get impeached.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius: "I have decided to deliver urgently needed PAC-2 interceptor missiles from Bundeswehr stocks to Ukraine."

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Explosions heard near the ship anchorage on Iran's Kharg Island, according to reports inside Iran.
Republican Senator Rick Scott: If we want to win in November, we are going to have to start acting like we care about the cost of living in this country.

US President Donald Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin he wanted a swift end to the Ukraine war, the Kremlin said, arguing that peace could pave the way for a broad restoration of US-Russia ties. The hour-long call Tuesday followed weekend talks by US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Moscow and Kyiv to try to revive stalled peace efforts.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that "the Iranian hand" was behind attacks launched by Yemen's Houthi rebels against Saudi Arabia.

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The Ministry of Defence has established Programme GRIFFIN to coordinate the UK military contribution to NATO’s Medical Action Plan. Programme GRIFFIN leads UK work on NATO medical readiness first appeared on UK Defence Journal.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul discussed strengthening Ukraine's air defense, its path toward the European Union and threats to food security during a phone call.
Several explosions were heard near the Kharg Island anchorage, Iran’s Mehr News reports. No official information has been released on the cause or possible damage.

The commander of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters: I hereby warn that any attack on Iranian tankers will prompt Iran’s Armed Forces to target U.S. bases across the region.

IRGC Spokesperson: The early-morning capture of the U.S. military’s most advanced 2025 unmanned submarine shows that no advanced technology can get past our surveillance layers in the Strait of Hormuz. Dominance over the Persian Gulf belongs to our young technologists. Go back to the Bay of Pigs.
The Russian president previously said that if someone tries to "devour" Russia, they can expect to "get hit in the teeth"
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EU urges Houthis to 'end all attacks' after strikes on Saudi oil facilities The European Union urged Yemen's Houthi rebels to "end all attacks" on Tuesday, condemning strikes on Saudi Arabia that targeted oil facilities and wounded dozens of people. "These attacks constitute a dangerous escalation, violate international law, undermine regional security and stability and risk further jeopardising efforts towards a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Yemen," said Anouar El Anouni, a spokesman
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Al Arabiya sources: Three foreign journalists leave Baghdad following warnings of kidnapping threats.
Netanyahu: We have to complete the mission. To eliminate the Iranian threat once and for all means defeating this regime. It will fall — we must bring it down, eliminate Hezbollah once and for all, and eliminate Hamas. Now I ask a simple question: who will do this? Us, who fought, or Eisenkot? The one who asked to surrender and leave Gaza — to leave Gaza and surrender to Hamas’s dictates. The answer is clear: only we will do it. Nobody else will do it.
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An explosion was heard in Kharg