Overview
- Southcom said a Friday strike in the eastern Pacific killed two men and left one survivor, and it alerted the U.S. Coast Guard for a rescue, bringing the campaign’s death toll to at least 192.
- Centcom said U.S. aircraft hit the Iranian merchant ships Sea Star III and Sevda in the Gulf of Oman on Friday with precision munitions after the vessels tried to break a U.S. blockade of Iranian ports.
- Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned that any attack on Iranian tankers would trigger retaliation against U.S. facilities and ships in the region.
- The UK Maritime Trade Operations office reported a freighter 23 nautical miles northeast of Doha was struck by an unknown projectile early Sunday, causing a small fire that was quickly extinguished.
- Human-rights groups, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, call the sea killings unlawful and say Washington has not shown clear public proof the dead were smugglers, with some later identified by relatives as fishermen.