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On 30 July 2026 Russia fired more than 70 missiles and 280 drones at Ukraine; one Kh-101 cruise missile overshot and crashed 95 km inside Poland, forcing NATO jets to scramble but causing no casualties.
On 30 July 2026 Saudi Arabia gathered chiefs of staff from 43 countries and the EU, winning a 14-nation joint statement to build and host a new naval alliance protecting the Red Sea–Bab al-Mandab–Gulf of Aden trade artery after a spike in Houthi attacks.
At about 03:40 on 30 July 2026 a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile crossed 93 km of Polish airspace before detonating in an open field, mobilising—but not engaging—NATO air and missile defences.
Since reinstating its naval blockade on July 14 2026, the U.S. has diverted 24 merchant vessels and disabled two, while publicly denying Iranian reports of breached embargoes or destroyed F-35s.
On 29 July 2026, after Jordan shot down five Iranian missiles aimed at a U.S. base, President Trump vowed “very hard” retaliation and, within hours, U.S. and Saudi jets conducted their first publicly acknowledged joint strikes on Iran-backed forces in Iraq.
On 30 July 2026, US forces restarted bombing runs on Iranian territory at 8 p.m. ET, ending a week-long pause and framing the action as payback for Tehran’s failed five-missile strike against a US base in Jordan the previous day.
Around 03:40 on 30 July 2026, Polish forces detected an unidentified object entering from Ukraine, sounded sirens in Lublin minutes later, and located a 10-metre-wide impact crater near Tarnawa-Kolonia, triggering a full scramble of fighters and air-defence systems.
On 28-29 Jul 2026, US and Saudi fighter jets jointly hit multiple PMF logistics and weapons depots across seven Iraqi provinces—killing scores—hours after Iran-directed militias mounted 30+ drone raids and Tehran answered with intercepted ballistic missiles at a US base in Jordan.
On 28–29 July 2026, U.S. and Saudi warplanes bombed multiple IRGC-linked logistics and weapons hubs in eastern Iraq hours after militias launched more than thirty drones at U.S. troops and Saudi oil facilities within 72 hours.
On 28 July 2026, hours after Yemen’s Houthis fired ballistic missiles at the Saudi tanker NCC Ghazal, China secured case-by-case safe-passage assurances that have already let at least four Chinese-destined super-tankers traverse Bab el-Mandeb despite the rebels’ 20 July blockade on Saudi shipping.
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