Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi confirmed over the weekend that Washington and Tehran reached a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with a ceasefire taking hold Sunday night. Mr. Trump hailed the deal Sunday, saying he had authorized the “immediate removal of the United States Naval blockade” in the strait.

Both sides indicated further negotiations for a final end-of-war agreement will continue over the next 60 days. But questions remain over the extent to which those negotiations would focus on Iran’s nuclear program and whether the diplomatic breakthrough can survive ongoing Israeli attacks on Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. Tehran has demanded an end to the Israeli campaign as a condition of further negotiations.

Israel signaled Monday it has no intention of stopping combat operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon, despite the U.S.-Iran deal promising a ceasefire on all fronts. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who has played a key mediating role between Washington and Tehran, said Sunday that the deal includes a “termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon.”

Outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revoked two previous U.S. intelligence reports that had dismissed the suspicion that brain injuries suffered by U.S. diplomats and intelligence personnel — a condition known as Havana Syndrome — were caused by a type of directed-energy weapon.

An official with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence described the two reports as “Biden-era Intelligence Community Assessments” that were rescinded because of faulty tradecraft.

The assessments linked the causes to psychological problems or environmental factors, angering many of those affected. Havana Syndrome was first reported by American diplomats in Cuba in 2016. Since then, hundreds of diplomats, intelligence personnel and law enforcement officers have reported being affected.

More than four years into Russia’s brutal invasion, more than 90,000 people, civilians and military personnel, are listed in the Ukrainian registry of missing persons. 

Identifying the bodies of fallen servicemen returned by Russia, often months or years after their death, is the only way of bringing closure to their families. Threat Status Special Ukraine Correspondent Guillaume Ptak examines the situation in a dispatch from Odesa, which has emerged as one of the main hubs of a nationwide forensic undertaking.

The scale is overwhelming. Ukraine received more than 6,000 bodies in one large wave last year. Further repatriations have followed, including transfers of 1,000 bodies at a time this year and another of more than 500 in May.

China appears to increasingly view “cooperation among Japan, the Philippines and the United States as part of a broader security architecture that could complicate any attempt to seize Taiwan by force,” writes Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, a former senior U.S. official who serves on the editorial board of The Washington Times.

“To that end, Japan is signaling with increasing clarity that Taiwan’s security is inseparable from its own,” Mr. Shapiro writes in an op-ed for The Times. “Amid continuing uncertainty about how the United States would respond to a Taiwan crisis, Japan has emerged as a committed and capable partner should a conflict unfold in the Western Pacific.

“Closer security coordination between Washington and Tokyo aimed at preserving Taiwan’s security would provide a powerful deterrent to Beijing,” he writes. “It would also maintain America’s strategic partnership with Taiwan, whose semiconductor industry produces roughly 90% of the world’s most advanced [micro]chips.”

There is a dangerous level of tolerance in today’s world for “strategic instability,” according to Joseph R. DeTrani, who warns of the implications tied to North Korea’s growing nuclear warhead arsenal, Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, Israel-Iran hostilities, continued sporadic fighting in the Gaza Strip, and wars gripping Sudan, Myanmar and Congo.

More than 50 countries are currently “directly involved in armed conflicts, the highest level since World War II,” writes Mr. DeTrani, a former associate director of national intelligence and opinion contributor to Threat Status.

“Obviously, more must be done to prevent the proliferation of wars and conflicts,” he writes in an op-ed for The Times. “What the world is currently experiencing should not be viewed as the norm.”

• June 15 — How Should the United States Counter Russia and China’s Hybrid Warfare? Atlantic Council

• June 15-19 — Eurosatory 2026: The Global Event for Defense and Security, COGES Events

• June 16 — What is Necessary to Return Venezuela to Stable Economic Growth and Democracy After the U.S. Operation? Chatham House

• June 16 — Fireside Chat with Assistant Secretary of War Michael Cadenazzi on U.S. Munitions Production, Center for a New American Security

• June 18 — Enforcing, Accelerating and Advancing Global Trade Through Supply Chain Traceability, Stimson Center

• June 18 — Deterring Russia and China: Securing America’s Nuclear Future, Hudson Institute

• June 24 — IndoPac 2026 | Naval Dominance: Shipbuilding, Autonomy & C2, Threat Status Events

• June 25 — Navigating Competition in the Central Arctic Ocean, Hudson Institute