🇺🇸🇺🇦 — US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a face-to-face meeting today at the Vatican in Rome during their visit to Pope Francis funeral.

🇨🇮🤝🇺🇸🇬🇧 — Joint training was held between UK and Ivory Coast special forces, simulating a counter-terrorism scenario, under the US-initiated Flintlock 2025 military exercises.

➡️ The exercises are held in Cote d'Ivoire and more than 40 nations participate in them, the main focus is counter-terrorism as Islamist group in the region surge in power.

➡️ UK Special Forces can be seen with USA-made M4A1 assault rifles, and Ivorian soldiers are holding Israeli-made Tavor IWI X95 bullpup assault rifles.

➡️ Following the coups in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso in recent years, Ivorian relations with the general West have thrived, the country receives military training, weapons and vehicles to bolster its' defense apparatus in anticipation of an Islamist uprising in the nation.

➡️ AFRICOM commander, General Michael Langley, was present during the demonstrations.

🏳️❌🇧🇫 — JNIM conducts a large assault on the town of Thiou, and kills over 40 Burkinabe soldiers.

➡️ Yesterday, JNIM terrorists stormed the military formation in Thiou, near Ouahigouya in northern Burkina Faso, and killed more than 40 soldiers and destroyed about 7 vehicles.

➡️ The militants captured large amounts of weaponry, including 46 assault rifles, a 14.5mm heavy machine gun, mounted on a vehicle, 2 vehicles, one large drone, a Starlink user terminal, a pistol and other ammunition and weapons.

➡️ The group has been experiencing an upsurge in lethality, conducting major assaults against Malian, Burkinabe and Beninese armed forces in recent weeks.