Wednesday, August 19, 2026 – Israel escalates its attacks on Gaza, killing 17, wounding 38 over the past 24 hours. Palestinian child dies of malnutrition in Gaza. Nearly 470 attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank in a week. Land seizures, settler attacks and detentions reported across the occupied West Bank. UN: Gaza remains world’s deadliest place for aid workers in 2025 for third consecutive year. Israel announces probe into two high-profile Gaza massacres. United Arab Emirates halts all trade with Iran after accusing it of launching missiles. President Donald Trump calls Hormuz “New U.S. Territory.” Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf visits Iraq, lauds “resistance.” Pentagon considering Gulf drawdown. Vessel struck, “completely” disabled off of Mokha. Missile strikes in Yemen kill three, including a child, in Hodeidah. Israeli forces continue military activity, demolitions in southern Lebanon despite “ceasefire.” Lebanese army chief: Israel keeps attacking even as army implements agreement. Hezbollah MP: Resistance will confront any Israeli move on Ali Al-Taher. Primary results from Florida, Alaska, Wyoming, and California. Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon criticizes party leadership. Trump pauses new 50% Canada tariffs for three days, cites pending trade deal. Whistleblower alleges Trump antisemitism task force pressured universities despite lacking evidence. U.S. quietly deporting Mexican migrants to Guatemala, Honduras instead of Mexico. Minnesota Attorney General sues Texas Governor Abbott over refusal to extradite ICE agent. Trump administration moves to repeal Clinton-era “roadless rule.” Liberia agrees to take up to 1,200 U.S. deportees over the next year. Trump administration issues more International Criminal Court sanctions. Bolivia arrests major Trump-linked right-wing operative over shooting of activist. Half of Venezuela’s oil is being exported to the U.S. Pakistan will challenge Imran Khan ruling. Israel says strike on Syria intended to block Turkish military buildup. Zelenskyy fires senior aide amid corruption probe. Liberia agrees to accept up to 1,200 U.S. deportees. Iraqi resistance leader decries U.S. control over Iraq’s oil money and airspace. South Korea says Trump military drill cuts may be pressure on Seoul over Iran war, investment.

Palestine

• Israel escalates its attacks on Gaza, killing 17, wounding 38 over the past 24 hours:
  • An Israeli strike on a seaside cafe on Tuesday killed seven Palestinians and wounded 14, with Al Jazeera confirming at least one child was among those killed.
  • “We don’t know what we’re supposed to deal with anymore. Do we deal with the Israelis? Or the sun burning us inside the tents? Or the water—waking up at 6 a.m. to go get water? Or do we deal with the winter that is still coming, when we’ll also suffer from the weather?” Eyewitness Abu Ahmed said.
  • Drop Site’s Mohamed Ahmed submitted video reports from the scene of the port attack, available here and here.
  • At least nine Palestinians were killed and 15 wounded on Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike on the Municipalities Police headquarters in Gaza City, according to Gaza’s Interior Ministry. The strike hit during a busy time in the middle of day and close to a crowded municipal park.
  • Footage from Drop Site contributor Mohamed Ahmed of the police building attack shows ambulances arriving as people rush to carry the dead and wounded, including a woman and a child.
  • “Every day we say, ‘Tomorrow there’s hope. There is still hope,’ while the number of martyrs keeps rising. Let people feel for us. Yesterday, it was the port. Today, the municipal park, full of children. Every day, they take revenge on us,” eyewitness Abu Al-Baha said.
  • Separately, an earlier Israeli strike on a motorcycle in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza killed one Palestinian.
  • Gaza’s Interior Ministry said Israeli attacks on the civil police force are meant to cripple the police and “spread chaos within Palestinian society.
  • Hamas rejected the Israeli military’s claim that resistance leaders were targeted as “baseless.” The group said the attack, coming after recent meetings with mediators and “Board of Peace” member Jared Kushner aimed at advancing the ceasefire agreement, showed Netanyahu’s government was deliberately seeking to undermine those efforts. Hamas called on mediators, particularly the Trump administration, to take immediate action to halt the escalation and pressure Israel to abide by the agreement.
• Palestinian child dies of malnutrition in Gaza: A Palestinian girl died from severe malnutrition on Tuesday as Israel continues to restrict food and other necessities entering Gaza. Since the ceasefire began, Israel has allowed in only 35.3% of the minimum agreed aid deliveries, averaging 211.8 trucks daily against the required 600, a document shared by Palestinian authorities with mediators on Sunday showed.
  • The IPC warns that 74,200 children in the Strip require treatment for acute malnutrition through April 2027, including more than 11,400 severe cases. Without sustained aid, nearly 1.9 million Palestinians could face acute food insecurity by December.
• Nearly 470 attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank in a week: Israeli forces and settlers conducted at least 467 attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in one week, according to the Palestinian prime minister’s office. At least 75 Palestinian homes and structures were also demolished, the office said, calling the attacks “relentless escalation of violence, dispossession, and destruction.”
• Land seizures, settler attacks and detentions reported across the occupied West Bank: Israeli forces detained at least 30 Palestinians in raids across the occupied West Bank between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, while Israeli authorities and settlers carried out land seizures, outpost expansion and the continued siege of Palestinian homes. The detainees included journalist Abdulrahman Hassan from Bethlehem, while Israeli forces separately arrested Palestinian Jerusalem Affairs Minister after raiding his home in Silwan.
  • Ramallah: Israeli forces shot and critically wounded a Palestinian man during a Tuesday evening raid on Al-Amari refugee camp in Al-Bireh, in the central West Bank, according to the Palestinian Information Center. Israeli authorities declared approximately 1,152 dunams (285 acres) of land in Sinjil, Al-Lubban al-Sharqiya and Qaryut as “state property” to expand the Karmei Oz settlement, the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission said.
  • Nablus: For a second straight day, Israeli settlers blocked roads in Beit Imrin, northwest of Nablus, isolating families and cutting farmers off from their land, amid a push to build a new settlement outpost nearby. Settlers, backed by Israeli forces, also continued to besiege three Palestinian homes in the Ras Al-Ain area of Qusra for the 11th consecutive day.
  • Jenin: Palestinian Ahmed Al-Hatnawi told Radio Al-Shams that Israeli forces etched the number “44” on his forehead and arm after detaining him during a raid in Qabatiyah, Haaretz reported.
    • “As if we were animals and beasts,” he said, describing the practice as deliberate humiliation. Al-Hatnawi said Israeli forces took him to a makeshift interrogation site, questioned him for roughly two hours, and threatened him.
• UN: Gaza remains world’s deadliest place for aid workers in 2025 for third consecutive year: Gaza remained the world’s deadliest place for aid workers in 2025 for the third consecutive year, with 186 killed in Israeli attacks despite the ceasefire declared in October, according to the UN humanitarian office (OCHA) in a statement to mark World Humanitarian Day. 68% percent of those killed in Gaza died in aerial bombardments.
  • Globally, 350 humanitarian workers were killed in 2025, the second-highest annual toll on record, while 907 aid workers were victims of violence. Sudan recorded a record 71 aid worker deaths.
• Israel announces probe into two high profile Gaza massacres: The Israeli military announced on Wednesday that it would launch criminal investigations into two high profile attacks in Gaza, including the killing of five-year-old Hind Rajab and six members of her family in January 2024, and the massacre of 15 Palestinian aid workers in southern Gaza in March 2025.
  • The military said it would not launch criminal investigations into three other attacks that killed aid workers from World Central Kitchen and Doctors Without Borders. The decisions followed reviews by the Israeli military’s fact-finding mechanism, which is officially tasked with examining exceptional operational incidents during wartime.
  • In its statement, the Israeli military acknowledged for the first time that it opened fire on the vehicle carrying Hind Rajab and her family after previously denying involvement in the incident and falsely claiming that its forces were not present in the area. Watch an in-depth investigation into the killing of Hind Rajab by Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines in “The Night Won’t End.”
  • An investigation by Forensic Architecture into the aid worker massacre found that Israeli soldiers fired nearly a thousand bullets during the attack and that a number of aid workers were executed by Israeli soldiers at point blank range. Read Drop Site’s coverage here.

   

  * An earlier version of today’s Daily said that Palestinian journalist and Drop Site contributor Mohamed Awad had been placed under administrative detention by Israeli authorities based on a post by journalist Mutassem Saqf Al-Hait. This has not been confirmed. Awad’s case has repotedly been referred by military authorities to a legal advisor who will decide next steps in the case. We will update as soon as we have more.

Iran

• UAE halts all trade with Iran after accusing it of launching missiles: Iranian air defenses detected two ballistic missiles launched from Iran, the first falling outside its territorial waters and the second within them, the UAE Defense Ministry said on Tuesday, with a phone alert warning residents of a “potential missile threat.” The UAE Foreign Ministry then announced it was halting all trade, commercial exchanges, and financial transactions with Iran until further notice, citing regional escalation.
  • Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei “completely rejected” the claim that it launched missiles targeting Emirati territory, calling it damaging to efforts to build regional trust.
• Trump calls Hormuz “New U.S. Territory”: U.S. President Donald Trump posted a map labeling the Strait of Hormuz “NEW U.S. Territory,” and, in a separate post, said no talks with Iran are underway and that the U.S. naval blockade remains “in full force and effect.”
  • Trump also claimed Hormuz is “open and operating” and that all naval mines have been removed or detonated.
  • Just three transits were recorded on August 16 and 10 crossings on August 17.
  • Kpler said vessels continue using Iran’s unilateral routing scheme, with none recorded through the conventional Hormuz traffic-separation system or southern Omani routes yesterday.
  • Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Tuesday that “until the United States implements its commitments under the memorandum, including lifting the blockade, releasing frozen assets, lifting oil sanctions, ending threats and military operations on all fronts, and the other agreed conditions, the strait will not reopen.”
• Ghalibaf visits Iraq, lauds “resistance”: Ghalibaf arrived in Iraq on Wednesday for a three-day visit.
  • Speaking at the site where former General Qassem Soleimani was killed, Ghalibaf said, “Today’s visit to Iraq is aimed at strengthening the new order in the region and accelerating mutual cooperation among all countries of the region, without the intervention of foreign powers.”
  • Referring to Iran-backed militias in Iraq, Ghalibaf added, “After years of experience in Iraq, the resistance has gone beyond the borders of the two countries and has become an influential force at the regional and global levels
• Pentagon considering Gulf drawdown: The Pentagon is assessing whether to reduce its Persian Gulf military presence after Iranian strikes exposed the vulnerability of Washington’s regional base network, eight officials told The Washington Post on Tuesday.
  • CENTCOM normally stations about 40,000 troops across nearly 20 sites. More than 200 U.S. facilities have been damaged or destroyed since U.S. and Israel launched war; strikes killed six troops in Kuwait and four in Jordan, while U.S. defenses burned through more than 1,000 Patriot and THAAD interceptors.
  • Officials have considered shifting forces west toward Jordan, Israel, or Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast.
• Rubio talks with UAE national security official: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke by phone Tuesday with UAE National Security Adviser Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed, discussing “regional security issues” including recent developments in Lebanon and the Strait of Hormuz, the State Department said in a statement.
  • Rubio continued to call for “freedom of navigation” through the Strait, and urged further U.S.-UAE coordination against Iran and its allies.

Yemen

• Vessel struck, “completely” disabled off of Mokha: A cargo ship was struck by multiple unidentified projectiles about 40 nautical miles southeast of Mokha, Yemen, resulting in a “complete constructive loss” of the vessel, United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said on Wednesday.
  • The ship was unmanned at the time of the incident, local authorities said.
• Missile strikes kill three, including a child, in Hodeidah: Three civilians, including a child, were killed after two Ansarallah ballistic missiles reportedly struck Al-Khawkhah district in Yemen’s southern Hodeidah province, the Saudi-backed and government-aligned National Resistance Forces said on Wednesday.

Lebanon

• Israeli forces continue military activity, demolitions in southern Lebanon despite “ceasefire”:
  • Israeli warplanes carried out strikes on multiple locations in southern Lebanon early Wednesday, according to Lebanese media. The strikes, according to the Lebanese outlet Al Mayadeen, targeted the important Ali Al-Tahir heights and the area of Kfar Rumman.
  • In Nabatieh, two young men were killed and others wounded when a suspicious object believed to be unexploded ordnance left from previous Israeli attacks detonated near the earthen berm between Mayfadoun and Zawtar Al-Sharqieh, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported.
  • Israeli forces conducted demolition operations Tuesday evening in Talousseh, Zawtar Sharqieh and Kounin, destroying several homes as attacks continued across southern Lebanon, L’Orient Today reported.
  • Forces demolished a water reservoir supplying Mansouri, destroyed two three-story buildings in the village and demolished at least one building.
• Lebanese army chief: Israel keeps attacking even as army implements agreement: The Lebanese military continues carrying out its obligations under the U.S.-brokered framework agreement while Israeli forces continue their “attacks and violations,” Lebanese Army commander Rodolphe Haykal said via NNA.
  • Haykal made the remarks during a meeting with Edward Gabriel, president of the American Task Force for Lebanon.
• Hezbollah MP: Resistance will confront any Israeli move on Ali Al-Taher: Hezbollah Member of Parliament Hassan Ezzeddine said the group would not abandon the Ali Al-Taher heights and would “confront any act of aggression” against the strategic position with all available capabilities, speaking to the Russian news outlet Sputnik.
  • Israeli forces have been dropping explosives around the heights almost daily, amid reports Israel could be preparing a larger operation there.
  • “Ali Al-Taher is one of the resistance’s key positions,” Ezzeddine said, adding that Iranian assistance would provide additional strength. “If assistance comes from Iran, that would be light upon light,” he said. He suggested Iran, which has established deterrence against Israeli strikes on Beirut, may act if Israel acts against the strategic heights.

U.S. News

• Tuesday’s primary results:
  • State Rep. Angie Nixon defeated former Lt. Col. Alex Vindman in the Florida Democratic Senate Primary. Vindman had a significant fundraising advantage over Nixon, having raised $16.3 million to Nixon’s $975,000 before the primary, but Nixon handily defeated him, receiving 56% of the vote in Tuesday night’s primary. DSA-member Nixon will face GOP Sen. Ashley Moody in the November general election. In an interview with CNN following her victory, Nixon said Democratic leaders Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer should face scrutiny as too many “corporate-established Democrats” are beholden to companies rather than ordinary people.
  • Rep. Jared Moskowitz defeated his DSA-backed opponent Oliver Larkin in the Democratic primary for Florida’s 23rd congressional district. Moskowitz, one of the Democratic Party’s more ardent supporters of Israel, used the occasion of his primary victory to taunt political streamer Hasan Piker, offering his “condolences” to Piker after the AP called the race.
  • Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz won her primary in the redrawn 20th congressional district, defeating four Black opponents in the majority Black district.
  • Rep. Byron Donalds easily won the Republican nomination in the Florida gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, and will face Democrat David Jolly in the November election to replace term-limited Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
  • Republican Rep. Cory Mills, under investigation for sexual misconduct by the House Ethics Committee, lost to Ryan Elijah, a former local TV anchor, in Florida’s 7th district. President Trump had endorsed Mills, making him the second Republican (after Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles) to lose a primary with the president’s endorsement. Elijah will face Democrat Bale Dalton, a former NASA official, in the November general election.
  • Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola holds a tentative, 2-point lead over GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan in Alaska’s nonpartisan primary. Both are projected to advance to the November general election, in a race that could determine the control of the Senate.
  • Progressive state Sen. Aisha Wahab holds a narrow lead over the moderate and AIPAC-backed public transit official Melissa Hernandez in the special primary to replace California Rep. Eric Swalwell. As of Wednesday morning, Wahab leads Hernandez by 2 percentage points, according to NBC News.
  • Eric Barlow, a rancher and state senator, defeated the Trump-endorsed public education superintendent Megan Degenfelder in Wyoming’s gubernatorial primary on Tuesday. His victory makes him nearly certain to win the general election in the deep-red state, where voters gave Trump his highest margin of victory in the 2024 presidential election.
• Trump administration moves to repeal Clinton-era “roadless rule”: The U.S. Forest Service advanced a proposal Tuesday to repeal the 2001 “roadless rule,” opening nearly 45 million acres of national forest wilderness to road construction and logging and eliminating protections that have stood for a quarter century, including for nine million undeveloped acres in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest.
  • Environmentalists have warned that the move endangers drinking water supplies and wildlife habitats, and ecologists told the New York Times that new roads could increase wildfire risk by bringing more human activity into previously undisturbed areas.
  • The proposal, expected to be published in the Federal Register this week before a public comment period, follows Trump’s push for a 25% increase in national forest logging and Rollins’ prior declaration of an “emergency situation,” which allowed the Forest Service to fast-track timber production by curtailing environmental review.
• Trump pauses new 50% Canada tariffs for three days, cites pending trade deal: President Donald Trump said Tuesday night he was pausing the 50% tariffs on Canadian goods for three days, saying on Truth Social that the U.S. and Canada “have a DEAL!” pending finalization, following talks with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. The tariffs, which had been set to take effect early Wednesday under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, targeted goods including alcohol, hockey equipment, cement, and dairy products.
• Whistleblower alleges Trump antisemitism task force pressured universities despite lacking evidence: A whistleblower complaint from former DOJ civil rights attorney Haley Van Erem, made public by Rep. Jamie Raskin on Tuesday, alleges the Trump administration’s antisemitism task force pursued “predetermined” outcomes against Harvard, Brown, and Columbia despite little evidence supporting systemic Title VI violations, overruling career attorneys who objected to the investigations.
• U.S. quietly deporting Mexican migrants to Guatemala, Honduras instead of Mexico: The Trump administration has been sending deportees from Mexico to Guatemala and Honduras rather than back to Mexico, despite Mexico’s willingness to accept all its citizens, according to two Department of Homeland Security officials who spoke to CBS News on Tuesday.
• Minnesota AG sues Texas Gov. Abbott over refusal to extradite ICE agent: Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday to compel the extradition of ICE agent Christian Castro, who faces Minnesota charges of assault and falsely reporting a crime in connection with the January shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis.
  • Ellison warned Castro could be released from Texas custody as soon as August 26 under a 90-day detention limit and potentially flee to Mexico, where the lawsuit says he has discussed marrying a woman and buying a house.

Other International News

• Trump administration issues more ICC sanctions: The Trump administration sanctioned International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane and senior trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye on Tuesday as the court pursues investigations into Israel’s crimes in Gaza and the West Bank.
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu celebrated the move on X, called the ICC a “kangaroo court” and praised Secretary of State Marco Rubio for making its officials “face consequences.” Rubio says his campaign aims to “dismantle” the court.
  • Washington has sanctioned at least 11 ICC officials, including prosecutor Karim Khan, who secured arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on charges of committing war crimes in Gaza.
• Bolivia arrests major Trump-linked right-wing operative over shooting of activist: Bolivian police have arrested Fernando Cerimedo, an Argentine political operative with connections to President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, as the main suspect in the shooting of his former partner, lawyer and activist Nadia Beller.
  • Beller, 33, was shot three times outside a hotel in Santa Cruz de la Sierra on Monday night by two attackers disguised as delivery workers, according to La Nación. She survived and is hospitalized in stable condition.
  • Cerimedo was detained early Tuesday at Viru Viru airport trying to board a flight to Buenos Aires. He denies involvement, calling it a “campaign against him.”
  • Cerimedo is a business partner of Brad Parscale, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, in the Buenos Aires consultancy Numen. The firm worked the campaigns of Javier Milei in Argentina, Rodrigo Paz in Bolivia, and Nasry Asfura in Honduras, all right-wing victories.
• Half of Venezuela’s oil is being exported to the U.S.: About half of Venezuela’s oil production is now being exported to the United States, Kyle Haustveit, an undersecretary in the U.S. Department of Energy, said Tuesday.
  • “In the last couple of months, we’re seeing north of 500,000 barrels, or approximately half of the production coming out of Venezuela, coming to the United States…to the refineries that were built specifically for that crude,” Haustveit told an industry event in Houston.
  • The surge marks a sharp redirection of Venezuela’s oil away from China, its longtime top buyer, toward the U.S. At the end of 2025, only about 135,000 of Venezuela’s roughly 1 million barrels per day went to American refineries.
• Pakistan will challenge Imran Khan ruling: Pakistan’s government said on Wednesday it would challenge a Supreme Court order requiring jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan to be transferred within two days to Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad and given access to his personal physician.
  • Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar said the ruling was “not within four walls of the law,” arguing that convicted prisoners must be treated in jail or at a public hospital. The government will seek a review and modification of the order, according to AFP.
  • Khan, 73, has been jailed in Rawalpindi since August 2023. His lawyers say he has lost significant vision in his right eye. His PTI party welcomed the order and demanded it be implemented immediately.
• Israel says strike on Syria intended to block Turkish military buildup: Israel said its eight strikes on Syria’s Abu al-Duhur airbase in Idlib province were intended to prevent a Turkish military deployment, according to Axios and the Israeli prime minister’s office.
  • The attacks damaged the runway and storage facilities, with no casualties reported, according to regional media.
  • Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office claimed Syria was about to breach a “status quo” security agreement by permitting Turkish troops to deploy at the base.
  • A Turkish official denied any Turkish presence there, telling Axios: “Israel is inventing pretexts to bomb neighboring countries and destabilize the region.”

• Zelenskyy fires senior aide amid corruption probe: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed deputy presidential office head Iryna Mudra after anti-corruption investigators searched her office in a money-laundering probe.
  • The latest scandal follows a series of corruption investigations that have reached officials close to Zelenskyy, including the resignation of his former Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak last year.
  • The political crisis widened after recently ousted Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for a mechanism to hold national elections despite martial law, arguing that Ukraine’s political system had become focused on preserving itself and resisting change.
• Liberia agrees to accept up to 1,200 U.S. deportees: Liberia said it will receive as many as 1,200 people deported from the United States who are not Liberian nationals, in one of the largest such arrangements under the Trump administration’s expanded use of third-country removals.
  • The transfers are expected to take place over the next year, with an initial group of 20 due to arrive Thursday. Liberian officials said the group will include people from Africa, North and South America, and the Caribbean.
  • The deal is part of a broader U.S. policy of deporting migrants to countries other than their own, including people who may have U.S. protection orders barring return to their home countries.
• Iraqi resistance leader decries U.S. control over Iraq’s oil money and airspace: Abu Ala al-Walai, secretary-general of the Iraqi armed group Kataib Sayyed al-Shuhada, denounced U.S. economic and military domination of Iraq in a statement on X on Tuesday.
  • “In my country, oil is sold, but Iraq has no right to dispose of its own money because there is an American occupation,” he wrote. He said Iraqi planes “don’t fly in our skies except with America’s permission,” and that Washington blocks Iraq from buying electricity from Turkey or Iran, striking deals with China, or contracting firms like Siemens to fix its power grid. “The people want full sovereignty for Iraq. So where is the sovereignty, gentlemen?” he wrote.
• South Korea says Trump military drill cuts may be pressure on Seoul over Iran war, investment: South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s order to sharply reduce joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises appeared partly intended to pressure Seoul over Washington’s efforts in the Iran war and other unresolved issues, including South Korea’s pledged $350 billion investment in the United States, Reuters reported.
  • Cho said Trump’s move appeared aimed at “breaking a stalemate in the Iran war,” while also sending a message to North Korea. Seoul and Washington announced Wednesday that their annual joint drills would be shortened from 11 days to five and some field training scaled back.

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