🇺🇸⚡️ — U.S. airlines are pushing back against increased immigration enforcement at airports as ICE expands arrests near gates, ticket counters, and jet bridges under pressure to meet a White House target of roughly 2,000 arrests per day, according to WSJ.

Some airlines, including Southwest Airlines, have refused to allow ICE agents to board aircraft without a judicial warrant. In one incident in Dallas on July 25, Southwest staff denied ICE access to a flight after agents presented only an administrative warrant.

ICE has broadened its airport enforcement beyond individuals with final deportation orders to include some travelers with expired visas who have pending immigration applications, such as asylum or green card cases.

🇺🇸⚡️ — Major Wall Street financial firms have been targeted in a series of sophisticated cyberattack attempts in recent days, according to Reuters.

Targets include some of the world's largest hedge funds and private equity firms, including Point72 Asset Management, Citadel, and Two Sigma Investments. The attackers used phone-based social engineering to trick employees into granting access to internal systems or disclosing sensitive information.

There is no indication that the attempted intrusions were successful.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — In the same article, WaPo citing a U.S. official reports that more than 1300 U.S. Army MGM-140 ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles have been used in the Iran War, and that there's virtually none left.

🇮🇷⚡️ — Controlled demolitions of unexploded ordnance from the Iran War will be conducted by the IRGC in Pakdasht, southeast of Tehran, Iran for the next three hours.

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — Ukrainian UAVs have struck the Slavneft-YANOS oil refinery in Yavoslavl, Russia. At least four fires are burning following the strikes.

🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 — Armed infiltration alerts in the Israeli-occupied West Bank southwest of Ramallah, Palestine.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️ — False alarm.

🇺🇸⚡️ — President Trump denies reports of strategic munitions shortages and announces the leakers of these stories are being "hunted down":

The U.S. has massive amounts of “munitions,” especially of certain types. Additionally, large amounts are being manufactured and shipped to the U.S. as needed. Defense companies are building the largest number of plants and factories in our country’s history.

The “leakers” of these treasonous statements are being hunted down. Long term jail sentences will be sought!

🇸🇴🇸🇴⚡️ — Puntland forces took control of a pro-federal PSF base in Bosaso, Puntland region of Somalia.

The base was handed over peacefully following PSF forces surrendering to the Puntland army.

🇸🇴🇸🇴⚡️ — Said Abdullahi Deni, the president of the Puntland region, gave an ultimatum yesterday to forces aligned with the Somali federal government to surrender.

🇺🇸⚡️ — REMINDER: According to data analysts and news outlets citing U.S. officials, the United States armed forces expended the following strategic munitions in the Iran War:

~ Virtually all of the U.S. Army's MGM-140 ATACMS & PrSM tactical ballistic missiles
~ One third of the U.S. Navy's BGM-109 TLAM cruise missiles
~ One fourth of the U.S. Air Force's AGM-158 JASSM cruise missiles
~ Two thirds of the MIM-104 Patriot's PAC-3 MSE air defense interceptors
~ Around 40% of THAAD anti-ballistic missile interceptors

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — U.S.-Ukraine intelligence sharing has returned to pre-2025 levels, providing a significant boost to Ukraine's long-range drone and missile campaign inside Russia, according to POLITICO.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️ — WATCH: A clip from Alex Holder's upcoming documentary "Lindsey's Game" shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu singing "Happy Birthday" to Sen. Lindsey Graham and handing him a piece of birthday cake.

In the footage, filmed at Blair House in July 2025, Graham jokes: "You should have seen the cake the Saudis got me."

🇨🇩⚡️ — The Democratic Republic of the Congo has banned exports of copper concentrate and cobalt concentrate, according to a new government order reviewed by Reuters, in a major effort to expand domestic mineral processing and retain more value from its mining sector.

The order, signed by the ministers of Mines, Foreign Trade, and Economy, takes immediate effect. It also introduces a new tax regime for economically significant mining by-products, with a three-month transition period.

🇰🇵⚡️ — North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile toward the sea east of the Korean Peninsula earlier today, according to South Korea's military.

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — WATCH: Ukrainian FPV drone successfully downs a Russian fiber-optic quadcopter using a net launcher.

🇮🇷⚡️ — Iran's Ministry of Intelligence announced it has arrested 21 individuals in Kerman Province accused of links to Israel's Mossad, alleging they were gathering intelligence on sensitive military and air defense sites.

The ministry also announced the arrest of four members of an armed group and five additional suspects allegedly connected to a "coup plot," saying authorities seized multiple military-grade weapons during the operation. All detainees have been referred to the judiciary.

🇩🇪🇷🇺⚡️ — German authorities have foiled a suspected Russian plot to assassinate Stefan Thumann, the head of German drone manufacturer Donaustahl, according to Die Zeit.

German intelligence was warned by a partner intelligence service in late 2025 that Thumann faced a serious threat. Investigators allege two suspects, a Ukrainian man and a Romanian woman, conducted surveillance of Thumann's home and company headquarters between December 2025 and March 2026 on behalf of Russian intelligence.

German authorities arrested the suspects in March 2026 in coordinated operations in Spain and Germany. They have since been charged with acting as agents of a foreign intelligence service.

Thumann is now under enhanced police protection.

🇵🇰🤝🇨🇳 — Pakistan and China have agreed to strengthen counterterrorism cooperation against militant groups operating from Afghanistan, following high-level talks in Islamabad between the two countries' special representatives for Afghan affairs.

The discussions focused on the threats posed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), with both sides agreeing to deepen coordination to counter terrorism and support regional stability.