According to South Korea’s Yonhap News, the former South Korean Minister of Defense, Kim Yong-hyun tried to commit suicide in the detention facility where he is being held. Kim played a key role in the president’s declaration of martial law and the subsequent events. This comes amidst reports that the offices of President Yoon Suk-yeol are being searched by police as we speak. 

In the last 72-Hours, the Israel Defense Force has launched over 400 Strikes on Targets inside of Syria, resulting in the Elimination of 70-80% of the Military Capability of the Former Syrian Arab Armed Forces (SAAF). The Locations struck included Anti-Aircraft Batteries, Syrian Air Force Airfields, Naval Bases, and Dozens of Weapons Production Sites in Damascus, Homs, Tartus, Latakia, and Palmyra; which resulted in the Destruction of Scud Tactical-Ballistic Missiles, Cruise Missiles, Surface-to-Sea, Sea-to-Sea, Surface-to-Air and Surface-to-Surface Missiles, UAVs, Fighter Jets, Attack Helicopters, Ships, Radars, Tanks, Hangars, and more.

A U.S. Rescue Team led by Mouaz Moustafa, Executive Director for the Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF), is set to arrive in Damascus tomorrow, where he will meet with Members of the New Syrian Government to begin the search for Missing American Journalist and Marine Corps Veteran, Austin Tice. Moustafa claims to have received Geolocations from both the U.S. Government and Rebel Groups, on where Tice may be being held; with many including President Joe Biden believing that Tice is still Alive, despite having been Kidnapped and not seen since 2012.

The World Central Kitchen (WCK) has fired 62 of its roughly 500 Employees working in the Gaza Strip, after Background Checks done by the Israeli Security Service determined them to have links to Hamas and other Terror Groups.

According to CNN, U.S. officials, under a condition of anonymity, have told them that the MQ-9 Reaper drone shot down over Syria this past Monday was in fact downed by U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). According to the officials, the SDF forces mistakenly downed the drone believing that it was Turkish.

After statements from the Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary and confirmation on the false nature of the Iranian drone carrier claims from naval watchdog MT_Anderson on X, U.S. Northern Command USNORTHCOM has released a statement on the drone sightings in New Jersey. The release says that they “have not been requested to assist” with any of the drone sightings by local entities.

In the past couple of days, there have been a number of diplomatic developments regarding the ongoing situation in Syria. Yesterday, both the Turkish and Qatari intelligence chiefs, Ibrahim Kalin and Khalfan Al-Kaabi, visited Damascus to discuss next steps and the future of the Turkish-Syrian diplomatic relationship. Most notably, in a move reminiscent of Putin’s visit to North Korea, Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham’s (HTS) leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa (al-Jolani), picked up both intelligence chiefs in his car. Additionally, after 12 years of severed diplomatic relations, Turkey has appointed a new charge d'affaires, Burhan Koroglu, to run its embassy in Damascus.

Yesterday, amidst ongoing clashes between the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Ankara and met with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan. The SDF has been on the back foot since the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime due to a significant SNA offensive backed by Turkish artillery and drone strikes. 

After last week’s imposition of martial law, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has now been impeached by South Korea’s parliament. While Yoon will still remain in office, his powers will be suspended. His prime minister, Han Duck-soo, will take on the role of acting president and the powers that Yoon lost. 

Iran’s Tehran Revolutionary Court has sentenced Iranian-American Reza Valizadeh to 10 years in prison for “collaborating with the hostile U.S. government.” Valizadeh, a former journalist for VOA News and Radio Free Europe, came back to Iran back in March of this year but was not arrested until six months into his stay, his lawyer Mohammad Hossein Aghasi told The Associated Press. Valizadeh’s arrest and subsequent sentencing is the latest development against the backdrop of rising U.S.-Iranian tensions in the past year. 

During their Withdrawal this week from the City of Deir ez-Zor in Eastern Syria, the U.S-Backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were seen transporting several 2K12 "Kub" Surface-to-Air Missile Batteries that they had captured from what used to be the Syrian Arab Army (SAA).