⌨Morning coverage focused on Iranian retaliatory drone strikes hitting U.S. diplomatic facilities in Saudi Arabia, with multiple outlets reporting damage to the embassy in Riyadh.
By midday, the State Department expanded evacuation orders to fourteen Middle Eastern countries and began closing embassies across the Gulf region, including in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
Evening reports confirmed drone strikes on additional U.S. diplomatic posts in Dubai, while the Pentagon identified four American soldiers killed in Kuwait, bringing the U.S. military death toll to ten over four days of conflict.