🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — BREAKING: Multiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to jump overboard as its crew faces mounting mental health pressures during the extended deployment supporting operations against Iran, The Guardian reports.

The carrier’s roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines are in their ninth month at sea and have spent a record 250 consecutive days without making land. Families have raised concerns about severe burnout, deteriorating living conditions, and inadequate support aboard the ship.

Reports describe moldy showers, broken toilets and laundry facilities, shortages of hot water and basic hygiene products, and limited food.

Several suicide attempts have been thwarted aboard the aircraft carrier. One wife said her husband had tried to jump overboard after his spell at sea kept being extended, adding, "He’s scared." She received a call about the incident after her husband jumped but has not heard from anyone with the Navy in several weeks now.

In one of many incidents, a sailor on watch spotted a shipmate preparing to go overboard and intervened, pulling them back onto the deck. In another incident, watchstanders prevented a crew member from jumping from the carrier.

The carrier originally deployed in November 2025 for operations in the Pacific but was redirected to the Middle East after the war with Iran began, with its planned return repeatedly postponed.

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — The Ukrainian General Staff has claimed that four Russian warships were hit in Novorossiysk.

According to the General Staff, two frigates, Admiral Makarov and Admiral Essen, as well as a Buyan-M-class small missile ship and the patrol ship Vasily Bykov, sustained damage of varying severity.

🇦🇪🇮🇷⚡️ — A UAE government VIP jet, a Boeing 737-700 BBJ operated by Royal Jet, made brief visits to Iran on two consecutive days.

On August 11, the aircraft flew from Abu Dhabi to the Tehran area, remaining there for roughly an hour before departing.

The same jet returned on August 12, landing at Karaj/Payam Airport around 40 kilometers west of Tehran. It stayed for approximately 30 minutes before leaving Iran.

🇺🇦🇺🇸⚡️ — Ukrainian drone units decisively defeated a U.S. armored brigade during the Combined Resolve military exercise in Germany earlier this year, highlighting shortcomings in the U.S. military’s adaptation to modern drone warfare, WSJ reports.

Operators from Ukraine’s 412th Nemesis Regiment quickly located American armored vehicles, which were particularly visible because of the dust they generated, before using simulated explosive-dropping and FPV drone attacks to destroy them.

The Ukrainian teams eliminated U.S. vehicles so rapidly that American units had to repeatedly “respawn” to keep the exercise running. Around 3,500 U.S. personnel, primarily from the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Cavalry Division, participated.

U.S. forces improved during subsequent rounds by dispersing vehicles, improving concealment and making greater use of electronic warfare. Ukrainian operators later switched sides and helped the Americans employ drones offensively.

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — A Russian resident in Novorossiysk captured the intense air defense fire during last night's Ukrainian drone attack on the port.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — CENTCOM says U.S. forces have redirected 59 commercial vessels, disabled 3, and boarded 2 to ensure compliance since the reinforcement of the blockade on Iranian ports.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — WATCH: An intercepted Russian Geran-2 drone fell on a road in Ukraine's Kyiv region earlier today, almost hitting a car.

🇨🇦🇺🇸⚡️ — Canada and the U.S. are not yet close to reaching a tariff agreement, with Canadian officials dissatisfied with Washington’s latest proposal, CBC reports.

The U.S. presented a new offer on Tuesday that would reduce some sector-specific tariffs, but not by as much as Canada is seeking. Washington is seeking preferential access to Canadian critical minerals as part of a broader agreement covering trade, security, and energy.

Negotiators have exchanged several proposals in recent weeks ahead of President Trump’s August 19 deadline for imposing a 50% tariff on hundreds of Canadian goods.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️ — The IDF said it received intelligence indicating that Hamas was conducting a military exercise in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday night, prompting the military to increase its intelligence-gathering and strike capabilities.

However, the IDF said no Hamas operatives were identified at any point during the night.

🇷🇺🇾🇪🇸🇦🇾🇪⚡️ — Yemen’s Houthis (Ansarallah) are using Russian satellites to support attacks against Saudi Arabia and Saudi-backed forces in Yemen, according to Kan News.

Saudi Arabia is aware of the Russian satellite assistance, and the information has also been passed to the U.S.

Meanwhile, Oman is attempting to mediate a de-escalation between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia, although the prospects of the talks succeeding are currently considered very limited.

🇾🇪❌🇸🇦 — Saudi oil exports from the Red Sea are increasingly disappearing from public tracking systems as tankers switch off their signals to reduce the risk of Houthi attacks amid the maritime embargo, Reuters reports.

All recent crude loadings from Yanbu have been conducted “dark,” making it increasingly difficult to determine how much Saudi oil is being exported and whether Houthi attacks are significantly disrupting flows.

The lack of tracking data has produced sharply different estimates. For the week beginning August 3, Vortexa estimated Yanbu exports at 2.38 million barrels per day, while Kpler put them at 1.78 million and AXSMarine at just 850,000 barrels per day.

🇺🇸⚡️ — BREAKING: President Trump announced that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave her position at the end of August to spend more time with her children and family.

Trump said Leavitt will remain involved as one of his top outside advisers and an influential Republican voice as the party campaigns for the midterm elections.

He praised Leavitt as a key member of his team since 2018 and described her as one of the best press secretaries in White House history.