President Trump said inflation he attributes to Democrats has fallen sharply and that his administration will seek to reduce it further.

G7 foreign ministers issued a joint statement urging the UN Security Council to expand the current Darfur-focused arms embargo to cover all of Sudan.

On the morning of the 15th local time, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it struck US military facilities in Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait, including the US Fifth Fleet facility in Bahrain. The IRGC said it destroyed the Fifth Fleet's command-and-control center in Bahrain, fuel storage and munitions depots; hangars at Azraq air base in Jordan housing F-15, F-16 and F-35 aircraft and several MQ-9 drones; and US sites in Kuwait including a satellite communications centre, air-defence radar, a Patriot air-defence system, a US logistics base and a HIMARS rocket-launcher platform. The IRGC said the strikes were carried out in response to US night strikes on multiple locations along Iran's southern coast on the night of the 14th.