Two sources told CNN early on Saturday that the United States was planning fresh strikes on Iran as soon as this weekend, with the scope unclear and officials cautioning they could still be cancelled. Later in the day Trump announced the cancellation, saying Iran and "other Middle Eastern countries" had asked him to hold off. Sources said he had spoken with the Saudi crown prince, who raised concerns about the consequences of new American attacks. This is the first time in this phase that an announced US operation has been stood down at the request of regional partners, and it arrives without any accompanying ceasefire, terms or negotiation — Riyadh, newly exposed after entering offensive operations on Day 152 and absorbing Houthi strikes on its own coast, appears to have been the decisive voice.

[CNN]

Kuwait’s defence ministry said its forces responded to a new round of drone attacks early Saturday, part of what the ministry described as Iran’s assaults on the country. Spokesman Major General Saud Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi said the drones struck a number of vital facilities including a government structure in the north, and reported no casualties. It is the third consecutive day on which Kuwait has been targeted, following the Chinese company building struck on Day 153 and the air base attack Iran claimed on Day 154.

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The British Navy said a tanker had been struck by an unknown projectile near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz, with a separate vessel also affected. The attack lands as Washington presses publicly for the strait’s reopening, and it keeps the maritime front active in the same waters where Iran’s closure has held since the July collapse.

[Fortune] [AP]

The State Department issued fresh security alerts for Americans in ten regional countries — Bahrain, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — urging heightened caution and preparation for flight cancellations and airspace closures, with earlier guidance suggesting citizens consider departing. Iran sharpened its own message to the states hosting American forces: Major General Ali Abdollahi warned that nations cooperating with the US "will burn in the fires of war." The Gulf hosts are now being targeted by one side and warned by both.

[PBS] [CNN]

Israel carried out heavy strikes across the Gaza Strip a day after Hamas agreed to disarm under the US-brokered plan, which calls for the group to hand power to an independent Palestinian administration, for Israel to withdraw and for an International Stabilization Force to deploy. Strikes left a large crater at a hospital and destroyed a medical supply warehouse at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, with this tracker logging several fatalities across the day. Israeli far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called the agreement unacceptable and said the killing in Gaza must continue.

[AP] [Al Jazeera]

Israeli forces killed three Hezbollah members on a strategic hilltop ridge in southern Lebanon. Jordan again intercepted Iranian missiles crossing its territory. Iranian Kurdish party bases in Iraq were struck. In the West Bank, Israeli raids and detentions swept towns around Ramallah with Palestinian children among those held, and in southern Syria Israeli troops demolished homes beyond the disengagement line. Logged as secondary theater.

[NYT] [Al Jazeera]

Tracker status holds at WAR RESUMED. Day 155 is the first genuine restraint signal from Washington since the pause collapsed — but it is a cancellation, not an agreement: no terms, no ceasefire, no talks, and Trump spent the previous day promising to hit Iran until it could take no more. Everything below the decision continued: Kuwait struck for a third day, a tanker hit at the mouth of Hormuz, ten countries under US security alert, Tehran threatening the Gulf hosts by name. The one structural change worth watching is who stopped the strikes — not a mediator, but Riyadh.