🇮🇱 Israeli Strike Kills Eight at Gaza Police Station
An Israeli airstrike on a police station in northern Gaza killed eight people, including the station's chief, other police personnel, and at least one civilian, according to Gaza's interior ministry.
The ministry condemned what it called a "horrific massacre," saying the strike directly targeted the facility and its staff.
The strike is the latest in Israel's ongoing military campaign in Gaza, which has continued to inflict casualties on both security personnel and civilians across the territory.
🇮🇷 US Strikes Bushehr as Iran Moves to Control Hormuz
The US struck four locations in Bushehr, Iran's port city hosting the country's only nuclear power plant, on Tuesday. Simultaneously, Iran's parliament formally submitted a bill asserting Tehran's permanent control over the Strait of Hormuz.
Bushehr is home to Iran's sole nuclear power facility, making it one of the most sensitive military targets struck so far in the conflict. The Strait of Hormuz is a critical global shipping chokepoint through which roughly 20% of the world's oil passes.
The twin developments mark a sharp escalation — US strikes hitting nuclear-adjacent infrastructure while Iran's legislature moves to assert dominance over a waterway vital to global energy supply.
🇮🇷 Iran Claims Ballistic Missile Strike on US Base in Jordan
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it struck a U.S. air base in Jordan with ballistic missiles on Tuesday, calling on Jordanians to dismantle American military installations in the kingdom.
The IRGC statement, carried by Fars News, said: "You know very well that not only do we not have any enmity with your country, but we also love you, the noble people, who understand the pain and oppression of the Palestinian people more than any other nation." The U.S. military separately ended five hours of attacks, the report said.
🇮🇷 U.S. Sea Drones Strike Iranian Naval Base in Combat First
The U.S. military used unmanned surface vessels in combat for the first time on Sunday, targeting a submarine and ship maintenance facility at Iran's Bandar Abbas Naval Base — headquarters of the Iranian navy.
CENTCOM confirmed three Saronic Corsair drones carried out the strike. The Corsair is 24 feet long, with a range exceeding 1,000 nautical miles and a 1,000-pound payload capacity. Video released by CENTCOM shows the drone boats maneuvering into the port before triggering a large explosion. The attack is part of ongoing U.S. strikes against Iranian infrastructure following the breakdown of a June ceasefire.
The Corsair has now logged two operational firsts: last month, one rescued crew members from a U.S. Army Apache helicopter Iran was accused of shooting down. U.S. forces have also deployed underwater drones to clear Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz.
🇬🇧 UK Bans Iran's IRGC as a Terrorist Organisation
Britain has proscribed Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation, making it a criminal offence to belong to the group, attend its meetings, or display its logo in public.
The move, ordered by Keir Starmer and enacted by Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood, also bans the Islamic Movement of Companions of the Right (IMCR), an Iran-linked group that has claimed attacks on Jewish properties in London, as well as proxies of Russia's GRU military intelligence agency. The IRGC was already subject to British sanctions. The bans give police and intelligence services new powers to tackle state-backed threats on UK soil.
The government cited death threats, intimidation, and antisemitic attacks on British streets as the basis for the action — marking a significant escalation in the UK's response to Iranian influence operations.
🇮🇷 Iran Strikes Five Gulf States After U.S. Hits 140 Targets
Iran launched missiles and drones against Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, and Jordan on Sunday — all countries hosting U.S. forces — opening a new front across the Gulf.
The strikes followed a U.S. operation hitting a reported 140 military targets inside Iran, itself a response to an Iranian strike on a commercial vessel near the Strait of Hormuz. The heaviest confirmed damage occurred in Kuwait, where a drone struck an offshore drilling platform.
The attacks directly threaten oil, gas, and shipping infrastructure critical to global energy supply.