🇸🇾🇱🇾🇹🇷⚡- Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa met Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, Head of Libya's Government of National Unity, Tripoli-based, western Libya, in Ankara, Turkey.

🇺🇸🇴🇲⚡- Trump's Special Envoy Witkoff leaves Russia, and is heading to Oman.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- US-Iran talks are set to begin in exactly 12 hours from now, at 4pm Saturday (Muscat time).

🇸🇦🇾🇪⚡- BREAKING: Saudi military violently artillery shelling the Sa'dah region, Ansarullah-controlled northern Yemen.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- IRNA, Iranian state-owned outlet, says Iran's Abbas Araghchi will not meet US Envoy Steve Witkoff. The talks will be held indirectly.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- "Washington's exaggerated demands, even if they are a tactic, could lead the talks to a dead end," - Iran Nuances, Iranian outlet, citing an Iranian official.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- BREAKING: Iran will propose to the US to support the 'establishment of a nuclear-free Middle East', essentially the denuclearization of Israel.

Source: Iran Nuances, Iranian outlet.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has arrived in Muscat, Oman, and met with his Omani counterpart Badr bin Hamad.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israel intercepts three rockets launched from the Gaza Strip.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇴🇲 - US-Iran talks in Muscat, Oman, will begin in two hours from now.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- The IDF says an IDF soldier was 'seriously injured' on the Lebanon-Israel border.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇴🇲 - The front covers of Iranian papers today ahead of the US-Iran talks.

🇧🇾🇵🇰⚡- Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif meets Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko in Minsk, Belarus.

Both leaders agreed to 150,000 'young, highly-skilled' Pakistani workers to move to Belarus, to contribute to its 'nation-building'.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukraine confirms an F-16 pilot was killed, indicating the jet was likely shot down.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- "Araghchi and Witkoff's talks are taking place in two separate halls, and positions will be exchanged through the Foreign Minister of Oman," - Abbas Araghchi, Foreign Minister of Iran.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Israeli forces have captured the rest of the Morag Corridor, south Gaza Strip. Rafah has now been cut off from the rest of the Palestinian territory.

Israeli troops continued their advance from yesterday along the Morag Corridor, completely encircling the large towns of Tal as-Sultan, al-Adas and al-Bayuk.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "This is your last chance to expel Hamas, release all the hostages, and bring an end to the war. Soon, the IDF will expand its powerful operations to additional areas across most of Gaza," - Israel Katz, Israeli Defense Minister, after the IDF captured the Morag Corridor.