🇸🇾🇦🇿🇮🇱⚡- "What happened in Syria brought dangerous players to the front, such as jihadists and militants. We must ensure that no new threat arises. But the biggest threat is Iran, and that is what we are fighting against. We see that the Middle East is changing before our eyes: Israel is winning, and Iran with all its proxies is losing," - George Deek, Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan.

🇺🇸🇦🇿🇮🇱⚡- "Israel is looking forward to the new Trump administration. We have high hopes for the incoming administration and hope that he will be able to move to the next step. We are getting closer and closer to a more peaceful Middle East," - George Deek, Israeli Ambassador to Azerbaijan.

🇸🇾⚡- The SDF has withdrawn from key Tishrin Dam along the Euphrates, Manbij direction, Syria.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- Turkish airstrikes and artillery shelling across northern Syria for the past few hours.

🇸🇾⚡- Large-scale looting of the town of Set Zeynab, just outside Damascus, a former IRGC stronghold.

🇸🇾🇹🇷 - The moment a Turkish airstrike struck Raqqah, Syria, earlier.

🇸🇾⚡- Hayat Tahrir al-Sham are meeting the Southern Operation Room.

🇸🇴⚡- Celebrations in Kamboni, Jubaland, after the Jubaland forces (JL) capture the city.

🇸🇾⚡- A third scientist has been assassinated in Damascus, Syria, in just 48 hours.

Shadia Habbal, physicist, was found dead in her home along with her husband.

🇸🇾⚡- Media personnel affiliated with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham confirm a church was looted in As Suqailabiyah, north Hama. They say that the HTS has "placed guards at the church door to prevent the theft from happening again".

🇮🇶🇸🇾⚡- "The will of the Syrian people to determine their future must be respected," - Shia al-Sudani, Prime Minister of Iraq.

🇸🇴🇰🇪⚡- 300 Somalian soldiers (FSG), led by Commander 'Iraqi', detected to Kenya.

🇷🇺🇱🇾🇸🇾⚡- Former US envoy to Libya, Jonathan Weiner, claims Russian Navy ships previously stationed in Tartus, Syria, are now at Russia's port in Tobruk, Libya.

Weiner's report is unconfirmed.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump named TIME's Person of the Year

🇸🇴⚡- Somalia's Deputy Minister of Information, Abdulrahman al-Adala, says two Ethiopian planes landed in Jubaland two days ago, both carried military cargo.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukraine struck Sevastopol, Crimea, with drones.

🇺🇸⚡️- FBI Director Christopher Ray is resigning today

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Airports across the Russian Caucasus are suspending operations, after Ukraine's large-scale drone attack.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian UAVs were operating earlier at Sochi, Kursk, Rostov and Bryansk.