Oman agrees to cooperate with Britain and France to secure its territorial waters and ensure safe navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, and France has deployed mine countermeasure ships as part of a Multinational Military Mission.Indirect talks in Qatar, mediated by Qatar and Pakistan, make positive progress toward a framework to end the Iran War and to reopen the strait, and US President Donald Trump says he is optimistic even as diplomats stress that Iran's nuclear program remains contentious.Iran holds public mourning for the late Supreme Leader
Ali Khamenei after his killing in a targeted Israeli airstrike, with temporary airspace closures and tens of thousands of security personnel deployed while burial is planned in Mashhad; a bomb in Damascus kills at least five and wounds 16.