The Trump administration has asked Israel to reduce "non-urgent" military action in Lebanon to bolster the Lebanese government's decision to start the process of disarming Hezbollah. (Axios).

U.S. forces took part in a pre-dawn raid in northwestern Syria early on Wednesday that targeted a member of the Islamic State group. (Reuters).

Israel will begin sending up to 80,000 reserve duty call-up orders tomorrow, earlier than planned, as the IDF readies for a ground assault on Gaza City. (Ynet).

#BREAKING: Initial reports of Israeli airstrikes on Houthi-controlled Sanaa in Yemen.

A Palestinian named Ismail Abdel Karim Khattab was arrested by an IDF special forces unit disguised on a bus in the Deir el-Balah area in the central Gaza Strip, operating in an area in the Strip that the IDF doesn't currently control. (Jpost).

Iranian police arrested as many as 21,000 "suspects" during the country's 12-day war with Israel in June, a law enforcement spokesperson said on Tuesday, according to state media. (Reuters).

Commercial satellite images show the Israeli military building up troops and equipment near the border with Gaza that would support a possible new ground invasion of the Palestinian enclave. (NBC).

The Israeli security cabinet approved Prime Minister Netanyahu's proposal for the occupation of Gaza city. (Axios).

Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah ministers and Muslim Shi'ite allies in the Lebanese cabinet have withdrawn from a cabinet meeting on Thursday in protest at discussions on a proposal to disarm Hezbollah. (Reuters).

#BREAKING: Israeli Foreign Ministry has ordered the evacuation of most of its envoys and their family members from Israeli missions in the UAE following travel warning amid threats of attacks against Israelis in the country.

#BREAKING: Mayor Eric Adams says the gunman who killed 4 at a Manhattan office building was targeting the NFL headquarters but took the wrong elevator. (AP).

US President Trump has denied permission for Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te to stop in New York en route to Central America after China raised objections with Washington about the visit. (FT).

The director of Israel's Mossad spy agency visited the White House this week seeking U.S. help in convincing countries to take hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza. (Axios).

Donald Trump has privately encouraged Ukraine to step up deep strikes on Russian territory, even asking Volodymyr Zelenskyy whether he could strike Moscow if the US provided long-range weapons. (FT).

Commercial ships still sailing through the Red Sea are broadcasting messages about their nationality and even religion on their public tracking systems to avoid being targeted by Yemen's Houthis after deadly attacks this week by the militia. (Reuters).

JUST IN: At least 161 people are missing after the Texas flash floods, in addition to the 109 already confirmed dead. (WSJ).

An attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on a Liberian-flagged cargo ship in the Red Sea killed three mariners and wounded two others, a European Union naval force said. (AP).

The Israeli military said it attacked Houthi targets in the ports of Hodeidah, Ras Isa and Salif, and Ras Qantib power plant in Yemen. (Reuters).

Pentagon intelligence officials assess U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities set back its program by up to two years. (WSJ).

Iran said it was suspending cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, leaving it blind for now to any renewed nuclear work that Tehran is able to do. (WSJ).