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The escalating Israeli operation against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon may prove to be the most intractable theater of the wider U.S.-Israeli confrontation with Iran, analysts who spoke with @ABC News warned. abcnews.link/CGG3wVJ

IRAN LATEST: A Kremlin spokesperson on Thursday denied a Financial Times report suggesting that Russia is providing drones to Iran. Follow live updates: abcnews.link/bZlZN1k

TSA Deputy Administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill said travelers were facing the "highest wait times in history" as TSA workers called out while going without pay due to the partial government shutdown. @ABC News' @WhitJohnson has the latest. abcnews.link/jKSMAWO

IRAN LATEST: Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said in a post to X that Islamabad is facilitating "U.S.-Iran indirect talks" by carrying messages between the warring nations. Follow live updates: abcnews.link/wO3s8pr

Wind power production will continue to advance, despite the Trump administration's attempts to halt the growing momentum of renewable energy, experts told @ABC News. abcnews.link/5QN1axn

Conservatives from across the country will descend on Texas this week for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), one of the largest gatherings for Republicans in the year. abcnews.link/61U7plr

President Trump on Thursday warned Iran to "get serious" about talks to end the war, writing on social media that Iranian negotiators were "very different" and 'strange.'" Follow live updates: abcnews.link/Z9JrcEP

United Nations peacekeepers operating in southern Lebanon have been fired upon around 20 times since the resumption this month of hostilities there between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia, a spokesperson for the force told @ABC News. abcnews.link/Fw8GG56

U.S. Naval Forces Central Command said in a statement on Thursday that a sailor was injured aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier while it was conducting flight operations in the Arabian Sea. Follow live updates: abcnews.link/sg11H7V

NEW: President Trump said in a social media post on Thursday morning that the U.S. "needs nothing from NATO," claiming that allies "have done absolutely nothing to help" with the war in Iran. Follow live updates: abcnews.link/gCuhgcC

LATEST: An Israeli military official told @ABC News on Thursday that the Israel Defense Forces conducted a strike targeting the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, Alireza Tangsiri. Follow live updates: abcnews.link/2961hWV

Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores are set to return to a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday for a status conference that could determine the trajectory of the criminal case against them. abcnews.link/anYSAQ5

The U.S. hit its 10,000th target in the military campaign against Iran and is on track to “completely eliminate” the country's military manufacturing capacity, Adm. Brad Cooper announced on Wednesday. What You Need to Know is streaming on @DisneyPlus. Stream now: abcnews.link/b6V1bt1?utm_so…

The Bahrain Defence Force said on Thursday that air defenses intercepted 19 drones and one ballistic missile fired from Iran over the previous 24 hours. Follow live updates: abcnews.link/ZDzJMa2

Iran launched five waves of ballistic missiles toward Israel within two hours on Thursday morning. Follow live updates: abcnews.link/NfVfiBu

President Trump said Wednesday night that the U.S. and Iran are negotiating, alleging that leaders in Tehran are eager to make a deal but afraid to confirm that talks are ongoing despite Iranian officials denying that negotiations have been underway. abcnews.link/C02ubIN

Two men who were arrested as part of an investigation into an arson attack on a Jewish charity's ambulances in the north London neighborhood of Golders Green have been released on bail, British police said on Thursday. abcnews.link/Z792MLB

The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Thursday urged all American citizens to leave Iraq, citing "widespread attacks on U.S. citizens and targets associated with the United States throughout Iraq" by "Iran-aligned terrorist militias." Follow live updates: abcnews.link/IVrHmKg

The Abu Dhabi Media Office said in a post to X on Thursday that two people were killed and three people were injured by falling debris after "the successful interception of a ballistic missile by air defense systems." Follow live updates: abcnews.link/FOy4qih

An Israeli soldier was killed during combat in southern Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement issued on Thursday morning. Follow live updates: abcnews.link/LikM42i