🇸🇾⚡- 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.

🇦🇹⚡️- Austrian Parliament has voted to lift lawmaker protections for the leader of the right wing Freedom party in order to investigate him for perjury allegations related to media buys from Russian sources.

The Freedom Party (FPO) won the most votes and seats in the recent September elections however it has been unable to form a government as no other party is willing to work with them.

This is the 2nd EU/NATO country to take extraordinary undemocratic steps to stop the rise of right wing parties using Russia as an excuse in the past few weeks.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "The Israeli army is preparing for the possibility of staying in Syria for a long time," - Channel 12.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "We saw readiness in the Israeli army as well to deepen the operation and get closer to Damascus," - Channel 12.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- The biggest infiltration in Israel in decades, as 30, mostly Jewish citizens, are arrested for spying for Iran.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Shin Bet called the espionage as "among the most severe the state of Israel has known".

🇸🇴 - New image shows the mass surrender of Somalian forces to the the Jubaland forces earlier today.