🇺🇸⚡️- US Senate confirms Pam Bondi as Attorney General of the United States.

🇺🇸🇸🇦🇮🇱⚡- "The Kingdom's position on the establishment of a Palestinian state is firm and unwavering. We will not stop working tirelessly to establish a Palestinian state," - Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇺🇸🇸🇦🇮🇱⚡- "Saudi Arabia stresses its rejection of attempts to displace Palestinians from their land," - Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇺🇸⚡️- WSJ reports that the CIA is offering buyouts to its entire workforce.

🇸🇾⚡️- Kamel Saqr, the former communications chief under now-exiled President Bashar Al-Assad, gave an interview to NBC News on the final 24 hours of Assad's regime.

🇸🇾⚡️- "On Sunday morning [December 8th] at 2:30AM, there was no one left in the palace, except for me and another person from the media and political office. He [Assad] did not tell anyone where he was going." - Kamel Saqr, former Head of Communications under Assad.

🇸🇾⚡️- "It was supposed to be at the Presidential Palace, and the place was prepared with cameras and the filming team. Everything was ready. Bashar al-Assad prepared a speech, about 400 words long. Instead, the President fled to Khmeimim airbase, and boarded a flight to Moscow." - Kamel Saqr, former Head of Communications under Assad.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡️- "President Putin told Bashar al-Assad that he would request Iranian military aid by air. It didn't happen, neither Putin nor Pezeshkian answered. It wasn't only Iran, Hezbollah and Russia- the Syrian Army itself. We are talking about tens of thousands of soldiers and officers. None of them were willing to fight. After the opposition took Homs, we had to go." - Kamel Saqr, former Head of Communications under Assad.

🇮🇱⚡- "The chances that I will return to the government have increased following Trump's statement," - Itamar Ben-Gvir, member of Israel's Knesset.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli forces block all entrances and exits to southern Hebron, West Bank.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli forces storm Tubas, northeast West Bank.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇵🇸⚡- "We oppose the forced displacement of the residents of the Gaza Strip and support the rule of the Palestinians belong in Palestine," - China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇭🇹🇸🇻⚡- El Salvador troops arrive in Haiti to join the Multinational Security Support, MSS, mission.

🇺🇸🇺🇳🇭🇹⚡- "The United States has requested the United Nations to immediately freeze its contribution to the fund intended to finance the Multinational Security Support, MSS, mission assisting the Haitian police against gangs," - a UN spokesperson announced.

🇺🇬🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- The UN reports an additional 1,000 Ugandan troops are now deployed along the Uganda-DR Congo border, bringing the total number of Ugandan troops stationed along eastern DR Congo to 5,000.

Kinshasa has in the past accused Uganda of supporting the M23 as well.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- " [Trump's] maximum pressure policy [against Iran] is a failed experiment and repeating it will lead to new failure," - Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Ukraine has destroyed Russia's ground offensive potential, that is, it is no longer a dangerous adversary for the US, we have destroyed their experienced army, and we have destroyed them at the cost of the lives of Ukrainians," - Volodymyr Zelenskyi, President of Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Thanks to us, the Americans know how the modern Russian army fights, who fights and who pretends, who are professionals on the battlefield. They know what they can do, where they live, what they are capable of, what they have achieved, what they cannot do and what they will never do - all this is very valuable information," - Volodymyr Zelenskyi, President of Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "We are not trying to assassinate American officials, the allegations are fabricated," - Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Allegations about Iran's efforts to manufacture nuclear weapons are a big lie that we have repeatedly denied," - Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇺🇸🇹🇷🇵🇸⚡- "The displacement of the Gazans is something neither Turkey nor the countries in the region accept. It is absurd and there is no point in discussing it," - Hakan Fidan, Foreign Minister of Turkey.