🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡️- The USA is likely to establish a military permanent presence near Damascus, according to Reuters

🇪🇹⚡- Afar region's government have accused TPLF factions of firing on its positions and attacking border towns. Afar have threatened the Tigray Interim Administration, TIA, with military retaliation if it does not stop the TPLF attacks.

Both regions, Afar and the TIA (along with its TPLF army), are pro Addis Ababa and Ethiopia's central government.

Note, as part of the 2022 ceasefire agreement, TIA administers most of the Tigray region, along with some of the bordering regions, including a small area of Afar in the northwest.

🇺🇸🇳🇬⚡- "Claims of genocide of Christians in Nigeria are not true and only increase tensions in the region. ECOWAS strongly rejects these false and dangerous claims, which undermine security in communities and weaken social unity in the region," - ECOWAS.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Squadron of Israeli jets enter Lebanese airspace at very low altitude.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- BREAKING: Ethiopian media accuses TPLF-D and TPLF-M factions of the TPLF of attacking Ethiopia's Afar region.

The two large factions allegedly have ties to Eritrea, and have even fought the Tigray Interim Administration and the TPLF in the past too.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "The Israeli army is preparing for the possibility of engaging in a new round of fighting against Hezbollah soon," - Israeli Channel 12.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: "In a short while, we will issue an urgent alert to the residents of southern Lebanon," - IDF.

🇮🇱⚡- Likud has nominated Benjamin Netanyahu to represent the party in the upcoming general elections.

🇺🇸⚡- "With the rise of Nick Fuentes, and his Groyper movement, it puts the MAGA movement in a time of choosing," - The New York Times.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- The IDF have issued a third evacuation order for the town of Ayta al-Jabal, southern Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - The three Israeli evacuation orders for southern Lebanon (shown on the map as orange circles).

The Israeli airstrike from earlier today is shown as a purple X.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli drones have fired warning shots in the areas required for evacuation in southern Lebanon.

🏳🇵🇰⚡- BREAKING: Clashes have erupted along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border near Spin Boldak, Kandahar Province, between the Afghan Taliban and Pakistani forces.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli jets enter southern Lebanese airspace. Footage shows Israeli jets moving across northern Israel.

🏳🇵🇰⚡- BREAKING: Unconfirmed reports of Pakistani airstrikes against the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar, Afghanistan. Several explosions were heard throughout the area.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Israeli war cabinet will convene tonight. Topic: Escalation in Lebanon.

🏳🇵🇰 - Local sources deny Pakistan launched airstrikes against the Kandahar province of Afghanistan. Pakistani media and channels are circulating old footage of airstrikes, passing it as new.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrikes against southern Lebanon have begun.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem to give a speech today, which is in response to the movement of Hezbollah's wives. Widows and wives of deceased and injured Hezbollah members have penned multiple letters to Naim Qassem in anger over his inaction.