🇱🇻🇫🇷 When a UAV entered Latvian airspace, NATO air policing forces responded to protect the safety and security of NATO airspace.
French Rafale fighters assigned to NATO Baltic Air Policing identified and neutralised the UAV over an uninhabited area.
The incident demonstrates NATO readiness and France’s continued contribution to security on NATO’s eastern flank.
NATO remains ready, vigilant and united.
#WeAreNATO
Iran says it is ending its strikes on Israel.
But based on my understanding, the key question is Hezbollah. If Hezbollah resumes attacks on northern Israel, Israel is expected to strike Beirut.
If Israel strikes Beirut, the IRGC has indicated it would respond with further attacks on Israel.
In other words, whether this holds or unravels may depend on whether Hezbollah stays quiet.
⚡🇫🇷 Nuclear arms race accelerates: France adds 80 warheads in a single year
France's nuclear arsenal has grown from 290 warheads in 2025 to 370 in 2026, an increase of 80 nuclear weapons in just one year, according to the latest SIPRI report.
As global powers continue to modernize and expand their arsenals, concerns over a renewed nuclear arms race are mounting.
Source: SIPRI Yearbook 2026
A Russian spy under diplomatic cover who spent years infiltrating think-tanks tied to the Orbán government was quietly sent home from Budapest — but only after Orbán's electoral defeat removed the shield that had protected him for months. @VSquare_Project https://t.co/7xJW2j0U04
Iran is trying to impose new rules of engagement with Israel: any attack against Beirut will invite Iranian retaliation against Israel. This serves several purposes: to reaffirm the link between the Iran and Lebanon fronts, against those wanting to separate them; to bolster Iran’s credibility with Hezbollah’s base, which has paid a horrific price for this war; and to create strains in the U.S.-Israel relationship, since Trump wants a deal, while the Israelis are trying to torpedo any breakthrough in negotiations between Washington and Tehran: https://t.co/9rIKCqaXtn
Iran's IRGC announces that it conducted a ballistic missile attack on Israel's Ramat David airbase tonight after Israeli forces struck Beirut earlier today.
The IRGC says the attack serves as a "warning" and will escalate if Israel responds.
Police release new footage showing the rescue of hostages Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv by forces of the elite Yamam unit from Hamas captivity in the central Gaza Strip two years ago.
The hostage rescue mission was named “Operation Arnon” after Yamam officer Chief Inspector Arnon Zmora, who was critically wounded by Hamas fire amid the rescue of three of the hostages and later died of his wounds.
The IDF reveals a major Hezbollah tunnel system near the Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon, which it says was constructed with direct Iranian assistance.
According to the military, the main reason for its raid on the Beaufort Castle area was to capture and demolish the underground site, as well as to prevent Hezbollah from carrying out rocket attacks on Israel from the area.
"The IDF launched operations in the Beaufort area to achieve operational control over the area, which constitutes a threat to Israeli civilians, and to enable the destruction of the tunnel network," the military says.
The IDF says the tunnel was "built in a civilian area, in a location that enables operational control over the Galilee Panhandle region, only six kilometers from Metula, and served as Hezbollah's center in the area."
Troops are now working to destroy the "major Hezbollah underground infrastructure site in the Beaufort Ridge area," IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin says in a video statement.
"This is an underground network consisting of several levels excavated deep into the rocky ground. The entire network was built with full funding and planning by the Iranian terror regime over more than a decade," he says.
Defrin says the underground site served Hezbollah as a "significant command-and-control center, where hundreds of Hezbollah operatives were stationed."
The Hezbollah operatives managed the fighting from the underground site, including during the current war, but fled when the IDF launched its operation, he says.
"We planned the operation for a long time and waited for the appropriate operational opportunity to carry it out. The complex was struck from the air several times, and now, through a ground operation, we are working to destroy it," Defrin says.
The military says the tunnel featured water and electricity infrastructure, anti-tank and anti-aircraft capabilities, and numerous rooms, including several living quarters, showers, restrooms, an operating room, and kitchens.
Hezbollah also stored weapons at the underground site, with the IDF reporting that it found a room with anti-tank missiles, a launcher, and other military equipment.
According to the IDF, Hezbollah launched over 400 rockets from the area at northern Israel during the current fighting, as well as drones, shoulder-launched missiles, and anti-tank missiles at troops.
The IDF says that the underground site was constructed "in an area where the Lebanese army operates."
"As part of efforts to enforce the agreement between Israel and Lebanon, a request was submitted to the Lebanese army to address the site, but Hezbollah clearly prevented it from doing so," the military adds.
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🇦🇲 According to exit polls, Prime Minister Pashinyan's party is gaining 56.7% of the vote and is confidently winning the parliamentary elections.
In second place is Karapetyan's party with a result of about 17.5%.