In his first reaction to the attack on the US Embassy in Riyadh about 5 hours ago, US President Trump told NewsNation that the retaliation will be made clear soon. He added that American troops on the ground are unlikely to be necessary.

Israeli Mossad had information from signals intelligence, including hacked traffic cameras and deeply penetrated mobile phone networks, that Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was on a schedule for meeting with senior officials in his compound near the Pasteur street in Tehran. In addition, US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had something even more concrete — a human source. And at At 0338 pm ET on Friday, President Donald Trump, travelling on Air Force One to Texas, gave the order to proceed with Operation Epic Fury, in which the US launched cyber attacks to disrupt Iran's ability to see, paving the way for Israeli fighter jets to drop about 30 precision guided bombs on Khamenei, according to a report by the Financial Times.

US President Donald Trump dispels concerns that US munitions reserves are dwindling, saying in a post on Truth Social that stockpiles of some weapons "have never been higher", but added that quantities of higher-grade weapons were "not where we want to be." He also said that the country had a "virtually unlimited supply" of munitions at a "medium and upper medium grade".

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116163464520215003

Footage released by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) show Air Force aircraft striking and thwarting a cell of operatives from the Iranian air defense array as they were attempting to operate systems against the IDF.

The Israeli Air Force has begun targeted strikes against military objectives in Tehran and Beirut.

US State Department orders "non-emergency" staff to leave Bahrain, Jordan, and Iraq, according to AFP.

Three plumes of white smoke can be seen in Tehran as the Israeli Air Force (IAF) carries out an extensive attack on the Iranian capital.

Lebanese Hezbollah has announced that it targeted Mount Meron Air Traffic Control Base in northern Israel at 0630 local time with a swarm of drones, "damaging one of the radars at the base and a command building."

Israeli Air Force F-35I “Adir” fighter jet shot down an Iranian Air Force YAK-130 fighter jet, marking the first kill for a F-35 “Adir” in history.

A Kuwaiti F/A-18 Hornet was the cause of the accidental shootdown of 3 F-15E Strike Eagles in a “friendly fire” incident over the country on Sunday, not a Kuwaiti “Patriot” Surface-to-Air Missile Battery like had initially been believed, three people familiar with initial reports of the incident told the Wall Street Journal.

One F/A-18 launched three missiles against the F-15s, according to a U.S. official, with all three aircraft being hit and going down, but their pilots ejecting safely. The incident occurred soon after multiple Iranian drones had penetrated Kuwaiti air defenses, one striking a commercial port and killing six American servicemembers, with Kuwaiti officials on edge when their radars detected the jets flying in and fired on them. — OSINTdefender

A drone has attacked for the second time Ras al-Tanūra facility of Aramco in Saudi Arabia, according to the Saudi Military of Defense, with no damage recorded.

The US Embassy in Qatar has asked its non-emergency personnel and their family members to leave Qatar.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have issued an urgent evacuation order to all residents living south of the Litani River in southern Lebanon, instructing them to immediately move north of the river.

US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle in full counter drone loadout for Operation Epic Fury, armed with 4x AIM-120 air-to-air missiles (AAMs), 4x AIM-9 AAMs, 28 FALCO APKWS laser-guided rockets, and a 20 mm Vulcar autocanon.

https://x.com/aviation_intel/status/2028986046302830733

A Sri Lankan Navy spokesman told Reuters that the report of 101 people being missing was not true, and that 32 people ⁠injured in the incident had been rescued by Sri Lankan Navy, after an unidentified submarine attacked an Iranian ship earlier today.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) says it is working on targeting ballistic missile launchers west and in central Iran, while the US Armed Forces focus on launchers in the south, as they’re closer to US bases in the Arabian Gulf.

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is planning for one or two more weeks of operations in Iran, aiming to hit thousands more of targets, and expects that Gulf countries may join the campaign offensively in response to the Iranian attacks against the them, the Times of Israel reports.