🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Israeli military announces the dismissal of IAF reservists who signed a letter opposing the war in Gaza.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Iran considers it unrealistic to reach a nuclear agreement within the next two months.

🇪🇪🇷🇺 - Estonia detains a Russian shadow fleet tanker in the Baltic Sea for the first time.

🇸🇾🇺🇳 - UN High Commissioner for Refugees says 400,000 Syrians have returned from abroad to the country since December 2024.

For the second time this week, Saudi Arabian artillery shelling has targeted border villages under Houthi control in Yemen. This coincides with continued U.S. airstrikes on various parts of Houthi-controlled Yemen.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Indirect talks between Iran and the US begin in Muscat, Oman.

🇬🇦 - African Union and EU deploy observers to Gabon to monitor the voting process during the presidential elections, held 20 months after the 2023 coup.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - 26-year-old Ukrainian pilot Pavlo Ivanov dies while piloting an F-16 during a combat mission.

🇸🇾 - Syrian forces take control of the Tishreen dam in the Aleppo countryside.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Iran is not expecting "long" discussions with the US in Oman.

🇬🇷🇹🇷 - Turkish human traffickers open fire on a Greek Coast Guard vessel near southern Lesvos.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Talks have ended in a "positive and constructive atmosphere". Both parties agreed to meet again next week.

🇱🇧🇧🇬 - Lebanon buries a Lebanese-French national accused of detonating explosives in a 2012 attack in Bulgaria that killed five Israeli tourists, laying him to rest in a cemetery designated for fallen Hezbollah fighters.

🇺🇸🇷🇺 - US President Donald Trump extends the sanctions package on Russia for another year.

🇷🇸 - Rally in support of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić attracts a crowd of 55,000.

🇷🇸🇪🇺 - UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy believes Serbia genuinely wants to accede to the EU.

🇸🇾 - Syrian 8th Brigade announces its dissolution and the transfer of its remaining resources to the Defence Ministry.

ܐܘܫܥܢܐ ܒܡܪ̈ܘܡܐ ܀ ܐܘܫܥܢܐ ܠܒܪܗ ܕܕܘܝܕ
أوشعنا في الأعالي مبارك

Blessed Palm Sunday! Today let us pray for all the children of our East in the diaspora unable to celebrate in their own lands. May they return triumphantly as our Lord entered Jerusalem triumphantly.

🇬🇦 - Brice Oligui Nguema, leader of the 2023 coup, secures a landslide victory with 90% of the vote.

🇩🇪🇺🇦 - Incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz suggests his government may consider supplying Taurus missiles to Ukraine.

🇫🇷🇦🇲🇦🇿 - French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot:

With regard to Azerbaijan, I am very concerned by the rising tensions at the border. I hope that the European mission deployed there will be able to increase its numbers to observe and contain these tensions. The peace treaty must now be signed, and the arbitrary detainees and prisoners must be released.