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).

Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the Former Leader of Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and now Leader of the Syrian Transitional Government, says earlier today in a Message to the Kurds; that the Kurdish People are part of the Syrian Homeland, and that he and the incoming Government will do everything they can to return the Afrin and other Areas in the North under the control of Turkish Forces, back to the Kurds.

Traders on Polymarket currently believe there is only a 20% Chance that Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad makes a Public Appearance by the end of December; with everything that has happened, some have stated that he is being kept hidden in Moscow by Russian President Putin.

The Israeli Air Force carried out a New Wave of several Dozen Airstrikes tonight on Former Sites and Weapons Depots of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), around the Capital of Damascus and in the Homs and Hama Governorates.