🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Vice President JD Vance supported U.S. strikes on Iran, saying Trump needed to uphold his red line, despite his usual opposition to Middle East military interventions, according to WaPo.

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — Syrian Arab Army forces captured the strategic city of Al-Tabqah in the Raqqa countryside.

🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡️ — NEW: The Trump administration is seeking at least $1 billion from countries in exchange for a permanent seat on Gaza’s Board of Peace, according to Bloomberg.

➡️ Trump would serve as chair, control membership, approve decisions, and oversee funding.

➡️ States that contribute $1 billion in the first year would be exempt from term limits.

➡️ Critics warn the initiative could amount to an alternative or rival to the United Nations, which Trump has repeatedly criticized.

➡️ According to its draft charter, the board would be “an international organization aimed at promoting stability, restoring lawful governance, and securing lasting peace in conflict-affected or at-risk regions.” The body would become official once three countries sign on.

🇸🇾🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡️ — Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has invited SDF Commander-in-Chief Mazloum Abdi to join today’s meeting in Damascus with U.S. Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack.

🇺🇸⚡️ — Around 1,500 active-duty Army paratroopers from the 11th Airborne Division in Alaska have been placed on standby for a potential deployment to Minnesota, according to ABC News.

➡️ President Trump has not yet decided whether to deploy two battalions.

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — The SDF has withdrawn from all oil fields in the Deir ez-Zor countryside, according to Syrian media.

➡️ Syrian forces are now in control of all the sites.

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — SDF fighters destroyed two bridges over the Euphrates River to prevent Syrian army and tribal forces from crossing to the western bank near Raqqa.

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — Tehran's chief prosecutor Ali Salehi:

Trump's statement about canceling 800 executions is a lie.

No such an arrangement was made.

All the rioters and terrorists will be held accountable to the full extent of the law, with expedited processes.

🇨🇳⚡️ — The Chinese People’s Liberation Army released video from a live-fire exercise practicing a simulated “decapitation strike,” involving continuous drone reconnaissance and nighttime special forces infiltration.

➡️ The exercise is broadly viewed as modeling a strike directed at Taiwan’s top leadership.

🇸🇾🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡️ — Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa will meet today in Damascus with U.S. Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack and SDF's Mazloum Abdi, according to Al Jazeera.