Iran and Oman Could Use a Hormuz Fee to Build a Way Out of the War: Iran and Oman are moving toward a financial compromise that could help reopen the Strait of Hormuz: charge selected ships for defined maritime services while preserving free passage. A Fortune examination of the proposals found growing interest in a fee that could bridge Tehran’s demand for a regional role and Washington’s insistence that Iran cannot tax an international waterway.
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The mostly abandoned neighborhoods on Adak Island, Alaska, were once home to 5,000 Navy sailors and their families. But after 40 years as a supply depot, Naval Air Facility Adak closed in 1997, leaving scores of homes and buildings behind. Today, a small community of government workers and Alaska Native families have turned the streets and buildings of the former base into the town of Adak.
Houthis Warn Shipping Companies To Avoid Saudi Arabia: The Houthi rebels on Monday declared a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia, in an attempt to pressure the United States in its war with Iran and raise the threat to global energy supplies and trade beyond the Gulf.
The Houthis sent an email to shipping companies that they shouldn’t load or discharge cargo at Saudi Arabian ports because that activity may result in being targeted “in any location” by Iran’s proxy force.
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Ukraine Says a 1950s Bofors Gun Downed Russia’s New Banderol Cruise Missile: Ukraine says crews from its 121st Separate Territorial Defense Brigade used Cold War-era Bofors L70 anti-aircraft guns to intercept Russia’s newer S8000 Banderol and Kh-59 cruise missiles. A Defense Express report on the brigade’s claim said one engagement occurred near Odesa and another took place over a different southern city.
The reported interceptions have not been independently confirmed through wreckage analysis or a separate official assessment.
Yemen’s Houthis Are Opening a Second Front in the Iran War – Yemen’s Houthi movement has moved closer to direct participation in the Iran war by declaring a maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia and threatening ships that use the kingdom’s ports. The escalation, covered in the latest New York Times reporting, places the group inside the wider confrontation between Iran and the United States.
The warning is broader than a threat to one waterway. In an email reviewed by Reuters, the Houthis told shipping companies not to load or discharge cargo at any Saudi port.
The Defense Department has identified Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton as the soldier killed on July 19 during the controlled detonation of a downed Iranian one-way attack drone’s ordnance in Erbil, Iraq.
Swinton, 30, was assigned to D Battery, 2nd Battalion, 55th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, a Pentagon news release says.
“His service will not be forgotten, and his sacrifice is not in vain.” Lt. Gen. John L. Rafferty, commanding general of U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, said in an Army news release.
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The Department of War announced the death of an active-duty Soldier who was supporting overseas contingency operations in Iraq.
Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was killed in action during a controlled detonation of a downed One-Way Unmanned Aerial
System on July 19, 2026, at Erbil Air Base, Iraq. The incident is under investigation.
Sgt. Swinton was assigned to D Battery, 2nd Battalion, 55th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
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Russia’s Hybrid War Is Exploiting the Threshold NATO Refuses to Define: Russia says hundreds of Ukrainian drones targeted Moscow and the surrounding region earlier this week, wounding ten people. Kyiv said an oil depot and logistics facilities were among the targets. Zelensky has described the strikes as a way of putting greater pressure on Russia to end the war. The point is to make it harder for the Kremlin to treat that war as something happening somewhere else.
The question many are asking after these strikes is whether Putin will now escalate the conflict by retaliating against NATO.
