🇺🇸⚡️ — Crash of a U.S. military helicopter in Salado, Bell County, eastern Texas. Two service members are confirmed dead.

Fort Hood, roughly seven miles away from Salado, hosts U.S. Army AH-64 Apache, UH-60/HH-60 Black Hawk, and CH-47F Chinook helicopters.

🇺🇸⚡️ — A U.S. Apache military helicopter from Fort Hood crashed and killed both pilots, CNN reports.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️ — The Trump administration criticized Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz over his remarks that Israeli forces would remain indefinitely in southern Lebanon, saying the position contradicts commitments Israel made under its framework agreement with the U.S. and Lebanon.

A State Department official told Axios that Israel had explicitly stated that it had no territorial ambitions in Lebanon and warned that a permanent Israeli military presence in the south would be inconsistent with the agreement and the long-term security of both countries.

🇲🇦🇪🇸⚡️ — Morocco’s Interior Ministry says it is strengthening security along the country’s borders with the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla following last month’s mass crossing involving around 72,000 migrants.

🇺🇸🇨🇴⚡️ — Colombia has officially joined the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition following a meeting between Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Colombian Defense Minister Mora in Panama City.

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — An Israeli airstrike targeted Al-Mansouri, southern Lebanon, a short while ago.

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — An Israeli airstrike also targeted the outskirts of Deir Siryan in southern Lebanon a few moments ago.