ICE planning to deport Afghans through Pakistan, official says

Multiple U.S. officials told CBS News on Monday evening that American forces launched what they described as limited defensive strikes at Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz. One senior military official said the strikes were directed at Qeshm Island in southern Iran and came in response to Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps firing upon a U.S. aircraft. President Trump on Monday signaled progress in talks with Iran to avoid a return to war, as Tehran said "intensive" exchanges were underway while offering to reopen the Strait of Hormuz under strict conditions.

The U.S. military has launched limited defensive strikes at Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz, three U.S. officials confirmed to CBS News. A senior U.S. official said the strikes targeted Iran's Qeshm Island after Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired at an American aircraft. The strikes came on the eve of Election Day, as President Trump floats restarting hostilities with Iran after the midterms and as the U.S. and Qatari mediators broker talks on a U.S.-Iran deal.

At least 26 people were killed after Russian bombs hit an aid distribution centre, in an attack that Ukraine's leader has called "utterly horrific". Five people were injured and 27 initially reported missing after at least nine 3,000kg aerial bombs hit the village of Komyshuvakha in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, regional head Mykhailo Semikin said. President Volodymyr Zelensky said that after the first strike on the local school "used for humanitarian needs", there was a second attack on the place where people were sheltering.

Western officials stress that any force sent to Ukraine would not take part in any offensive operations.