Overview
- The United States stopped launching nightly airstrikes after 13 consecutive nights, a decision that U.S. media report President Trump approved late Friday and that left the campaign on hold on Saturday.
- U.S. officials and reporting cite rapidly shrinking inventories of Patriot interceptor missiles and other air‑defence munitions as a key reason commanders advised against immediate further escalation.
- Washington has kept a naval blockade of Iranian ports in effect even as air operations paused, sustaining pressure on Tehran while leaving open military options.
- The war has broadened to new fronts with Houthi strikes on Saudi Aramco facilities in Jizan and Yanbu and a long‑range strike on an Iranian vessel in the Caspian Sea, and Iran’s military spokesman said Tehran halted its retaliatory operations once U.S. strikes paused.
- Domestic controversy grew after the Pentagon’s online death roll was changed to remove four names, raising questions about casualty accounting that could affect public support and political debate over the campaign.