Iran Fires Missile and Drone at U.S. Destroyers in Sea of Oman After U.S. Boards Sanctioned Tanker

U.S. destroyers in the Sea of Oman on Friday, according to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps statement.

U.S. Navy hostilities and the seizure of commercial vessels in the region. U.S. Indo-Pacific Command stated.

INDOPACOM said it will continue global maritime enforcement to disrupt illicit networks and interdict vessels providing material support to Iran. Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri stated on Friday that Hezbollah would withdraw from south of the Litani River if Israel pulls out and a comprehensive ceasefire is reached.

Berri said he agrees to the withdrawal in parallel with an Israeli withdrawal and a complete ceasefire without conditions.

He criticized the current Lebanon-Israel ceasefire as booby-trapped and said it should have included an unconditional ceasefire on land, sea, and air. Israel's air force struck the Lebanese village of Arqoun on Friday after warnings to residents of six towns and villages, including Sarafand, to evacuate immediately, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported.

Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee had earlier warned residents of three villages north of the Litani River to leave their homes.

Overnight strikes killed seven people in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, according to a Lebanese civil defense source. The continued war in the Middle East is pushing millions of people in vulnerable countries into hunger, an updated World Food Programme report stated.

A March WFP report had warned that if the regional conflict continued and oil remained at around $100 per barrel, 45 million people could fall into acute food insecurity.

The updated report confirms that scenario is unfolding. 3 million in Afghanistan are struggling to meet basic food needs. Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi told Iranian state broadcaster IRIB that any agreement with the United States must fully safeguard Iran's interests.