- Iran has launched what its state media called the "most intense and heaviest" barrage since the start of the conflict; Israel said it had tracked missiles being fired from Iran, while Saudi Arabia said it destroyed two drones heading towards an oil field.
- President Donald Trump has threatened Iran with a military response “at a level never seen before” after the US said it destroyed more than a dozen Iranian mines laid in the Strait of Hormuz.
- A bulk carrier was struck by an unidentified projectile approximately 50 nautical miles northwest of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Wednesday.
- US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has boasted about “crushing the enemy” in Iran and promised the war would not be a repeat of Iraq.
- Four people were injured when two drones fell in the vicinity of Dubai Airport, but air traffic is continuing as normal.
