🇸🇾⚡- The SDF announces a ceasefire along the Manbij front with the SNA, through US mediation. The SDF confirms they're in talks with Damascus and are open to a ceasefire across the entire front.

🇸🇾⚡- "The Syrian authorities will not allow part of its territory to escape from Damascus' control," - al-Jazeera, quoting a representative of the new Syrian government.

🇸🇾⚡- The Syrian National Army inside the Deir-ez-Zur military airport.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "China’s broader maritime deployment is aimed at blocking forces from Japan and the Philippines from coming to Taiwan’s aid in a potential Chinese military attack against the island," - Hsieh Jih-sheng, Taiwanese Senior Intelligence Officer.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "China is forming two 'walls' in the western Pacific. China is deploying large numbers of vessels to the eastern end of Taiwan’s ADIZ and an area further out in the Pacific," - Hsieh Jih-sheng, Taiwanese Senior Intelligence Officer.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "With these two walls, they are sending a clear message: The Taiwan Strait is their internal waters," - Hsieh Jih-sheng, Taiwanese Senior Intelligence Officer.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 - China's yet to even acknowledge its largest military exercises around Taiwan since 1996.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "Taiwanese military operators may have a difficult time discerning when an attack is actually coming when every day looks like an attack," - VoA, quoting a senior Taiwanese defense official.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Very unusually quiet over Ukraine tonight. Just two Russian drones operating over Ukrainian airspace. No Russian jets have lifted off yet. No missile carriers in the Black Sea.

However, Ukraine's monitoring forces say several Russian bombers have been fully equipped over the past few days. And multiple Russian missile carriers are ready to depart into the sea at any moment.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- An Israeli airstrike just hit a radar system in Tartus, Syria.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "The attacks on the Kurds must stop," - Gideon Sa'ar, Israeli Foreign Minister.

🇸🇾⚡- Scenes from the Kobani direction, SNA firing upon SDF positions.

🇸🇾⚡- Visual confirmation, the Syrian National Army in central Deir-ez-Zur, east Syria.

🇺🇸🇸🇴⚡️- "A Trump White House looks set to recognize Somaliland as an independent nation." - Semafor, American outlet.

🇮🇷⚡- Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, begins his speech.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇸🇾⚡- Khamenei: "What happened in Syria was planned in the American and Israeli command rooms."

🇮🇷🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- Khamenei: "There is a neighboring country that played a prominent role in what happened in Syria and is still playing this role."

🇮🇷🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Khamenei: "We have evidence of Israel and the US planning what happened in Syria."

🇮🇷⚡- Khamenei: "The more you push resistance, the stronger it becomes, the more you commit crimes, the more motivated it becomes."

🇮🇷⚡- Khamenei: "I tell you that the resistance, God willing, will cover the entire region more than ever before."