🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡️- Earlier today, the USS Gettysburg Ticonderoga-class guided missile destroyer accidentally shot down a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet twin-seat multirole fighter jet launched by the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier with a single SM-2 ship-launched surface-to-air missile. Both the pilot and his weapons system operator (WSO) safely ejected, with one of the occupants sustaining minor injuries.

🇸🇪⚡️- Scenes from Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.

A bomb was detonated in the center of the city, likely in a terrorist incident.

🇬🇪⚡- Georgian Prime Minister Kobakhidze said that President Zourabichvili could be held criminally liable if she calls new parliamentary elections and does not leave her residence after the inauguration ceremony on December 29.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- Turkish Foreign Minister arrives in Damascus to meet Abu Muhammad al-Julani.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡- "In Yemen they act freely and it is unpredictable what they will do. They are increasing their attacks against Israel," - Channel 11.

🇷🇺🇸🇰⚡- Slovakian Prime Minister, Robert Fico, arrives in Moscow, Russia.

🇮🇷🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡- Head of Mossad, David Barnea, recommends attacking Iran in response to Ansarullah attacks against Israel.

🇮🇷🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡- "We have to move forward. If we only attack the Houthis, it will not help," - David Barnea, Head of Mossad.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israel must immediately turn back from its mistake," - Devlet Bahceli, member of Turkey's Meclis and head of the far-right MHP.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "We have no fear or acceptance of Zionist infamy. Once we start to get our bearings, it is clear who will think about the rest," - Devlet Bahceli, member of Turkey's Meclis and head of the far-right MHP.

🇹🇷🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "If Damascus has been conquered, the conquest of Jerusalem is also close," - Devlet Bahceli, member of Turkey's Meclis and head of the far-right MHP.

🇬🇧🇸🇾⚡- Asma al-Assad, wife of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has allegedly filed for divorce and plans to move back to the UK. Asma is a dual British-Syrian national.

🇬🇧⚡️- The initial ONS estimate of GDP growth for the 3rd quarter of the year was revised down from 0.1% to 0%.

🇷🇺⚡- YouTube has been blocked in Russia.

🇸🇾⚡- HTS sources confirm that the SDF is advancing towards Manbij, taking several settlements from the SNA.

🇺🇸🇧🇾- The US State Department has urged its citizens to leave Belarus immediately.

🇹🇷🇮🇱 - The 27th legislative session of the Turkish parliament was opened in October of 2020. The above speech by Erdogan which is being circulated now is 4 years old.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- DEM members, a pro-Kurdish party in Turkey, tried to cross into Ain al-Arab, SDF-controlled Syria, but were stopped by the police.

🇸🇾⚡- Violent clashes between the SDF and SNA near the Tishrin Dam, Raqqah direction.

🇲🇩⚡- Moldova's army is preparing for a military operation in Pridnestrovie (Transnistria), according to Russia's SVR.