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On 26 June 2026, U.S. jets hit Iranian missile, drone and radar sites hours after Tehran’s one-way drone damaged the Singapore-flagged M/V Ever Lovely in the Strait of Hormuz, prompting the IRGC to fire on U.S. bases and putting the 10-day ceasefire on life-support.
A projectile—U.S. officials say from Iran—hit the Singapore-flagged Ever Lovely on 25 June 2026, prompting the UN’s maritime agency to halt its just-launched plan to shepherd 600 stranded ships and 11,000 sailors out of the Strait of Hormuz.
On 26-27 June 2026, Israel and Lebanon signed a 14-point Washington agreement that begins Israeli troop withdrawal from two pilot zones in southern Lebanon while obliging Beirut’s army to assume control and commit to verifiable disarmament of Hezbollah.
On 26 June 2026 Venezuela’s health ministry raised the casualty count from Wednesday’s back-to-back quakes, confirming 235 dead and more than 4,300 injured as international rescue teams and field hospitals mobilised.
Acting President Delcy Rodríguez on 25 June 2026 declared a nationwide state of emergency after back-to-back 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes struck north-west of Caracas the previous evening, raising the death toll to 164 and accepting large-scale foreign rescue assistance, including the first U.S. deployment to Venezuela in years.
On 24 June 2026 President Donald Trump said U.S. experts will accompany the IAEA’s next visit to Iran’s bomb-damaged enrichment sites, while his administration asked Congress for $672 million to fund uranium removal and inspections—marking Washington’s first formal move to put boots and dollars inside the agency’s Iran work since last year’s “Operation Midnight Hammer.”
On 24-25 June 2026, President Zelenskyy publicly ordered Ukrainian intelligence and forces to hit Russian war-support sites inside Russia and Crimea ahead of any Russian buildup, prompting Moscow to redeploy large numbers of air-defense launchers to Moscow, Valdai and the Kerch Bridge.
On 23 June 2026 multiple outlets revealed that the F-15E pilot shot down over Iran on 3 April told debriefers he saw a networked swarm of Iranian drones moving in a single “jellyfish” formation—hinting at an unexpected leap in Tehran’s autonomous-swarm capability.
On 24 June 2026 an Israeli UAV destroyed a car near Kfar Rumman, killing two and marking the first deadly breach of the four-day truce while Israeli-Lebanese negotiators in Washington tentatively endorsed U.S.–backed “pilot security zones” for a phased Israeli pull-back.
Washington and Tehran signed a 60-day memorandum of understanding that ends active hostilities, lifts the U.S. naval blockade, and obliges Iran to halt further enrichment while negotiating verifiable down-blending of its highly enriched uranium.
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