US official has told F14 that Israeli and Iranian action today with missile strikes in Lebanon and now Israel caught Washington off guard, US forces around the Middle East have been put on high alert with troops entering bunkers and airforce jets and refuelling tankers being put airborne in preparation for retaliatory strikes or fending off Iranian drone waves into the Gulf.
European Sources have told F14 that European militaries have been put on high alert in the Middle East due to escalation between Israel-Iran several military cargo flights have been tracked before strikes started landing and taking of from Jordan also indicating evacuations are ongoing.
As of midday today according to US sources a 60 day extension ceasefire deal has been reached with Iran. The terms include fully opening the Strait of Hormuz without tolls, pledges to stop nuclear weapons development followed by 60 days of negotiations and finally a vague commitment from the US
Ukraine's Long-Range Strikes Cripple Crimean Supply Lines The top story today is Ukraine's increasingly successful long-range strike campaign against Russian-occupied Crimea. In recent weeks, strikes have targeted road and railway bridges around the peninsula, key logistical nodes (fuel, ammunition, and other supplies), and
Trump reportedly issued a direct threat to Iranian officials as US-Iran talks opened in Switzerland, warning: “You close the Strait and you won’t have a country.” He reportedly added: “You won’t even make it back to your f**king country.” The warning came as Washington disputed Iran’
Russia is not out-fighting Ukraine in the skies so much as out-producing it. Moscow kept its missile factories; Ukraine's were dismantled after the Cold War. Now, as the ground war stalls, the contest is shifting to who can both build and stop ballistic missiles.
Keir Starmer is on the brink of resignation, clearing a path for Andy Burnham. But the man Labour MPs see as a better communicator than Starmer arrives carrying a record his own former colleagues describe as a people-pleaser who couldn't say no, and a quiet scramble to reassure the gilt markets.
