Daily brief
The United States is considering sending additional military forces and potentially providing naval escorts for commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz amid ongoing tensions with Iran, following recent incidents in the waterway.
President Donald Trump warned Iran that the U.S. would bomb its South Pars gas field if energy sites in Qatar were attacked, following an Israeli strike on the Iranian field which Trump said the U.S. was not involved in.
The Pentagon has requested over $200 billion in emergency funding from Congress to support ongoing military operations against Iran.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard claims it struck a U.S. F-35 fighter jet, forcing it to make an emergency landing; the Pentagon has confirmed an F-35 landed but is investigating the cause.
Unidentified drones were detected flying over a U.S. Army base in Washington, D.C., housing the residences of Senator Marco Rubio and Fox News host Pete Hegseth, raising security concerns.