🇷🇺🇱🇾🇸🇾⚡- 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.

🇸🇴🇪🇹🇹🇷⚡- Somalia and Ethiopia reach agreement to end dispute, following the third round of talks brokered by Turkey.

🇺🇸⚡️- Donald Trump announces that former television anchor Kari Lake will be appointed Director of Voice of America, the federal government's state-funded broadcasting network.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Hamas concedes on Israeli troops in Gaza, raising hopes for a hostage deal," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇷🇺🇸🇾 - Rebel groups capture the moment a Russian military column drives past them in Syria yesterday.

🇫🇷🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- "France, contrary to international law, is one of the main forces behind the militarization of the Armenian side. Armenia is an occupier and an aggressor," - Hikmet Hajiyev, Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "At the moment, Ukraine is not ready for negotiations with Russia. In order to start negotiations, Ukraine must be strong, and then it will be able to talk to Russia on equal terms," - Andriy Yermak, Head of Ukraine's Presidential Office.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israeli forces have captured Umm Batnah, Daraa direction, south Syria.

The IDF had forced its residents to evacuate the town earlier.