🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Regional officials warn that another Israel-Iran war is brewing and only a matter of time, with Iran having built a new enrichment site named "Pickaxe Mountain." - NYT.

🇮🇱⚡- Israel's Ministry of Defense has barred all senior generals from briefing the media. All military staff must first request permission from Defense Minister Katz personally, and must state who's speaking, to which outlets, and the topics of discussion.

🇸🇾⚡️- Mass anti-Shiite protests in Syria aimed at pressuring the HTS-led authorities to expel the Shiite population.

🇺🇸⚡️- Deal between GOP and Democrats is near completion to end the Government shutdown, the deal will include a December vote on Obamacare subsidies.

🇺🇸⚡️- The funding end date for this CR would be January 30th, when another shutdown fight will likely begin.

🇸🇾⚡- BREAKING: Gunfire heard in the Shiite-dominated Sayida Zainab district of Damascus, Syria, amid anti-Shiite protests taking place in the area.

🇸🇾 - Anti-Shiite protests, led by Bedouin Sheikhs not even from Damascus, erupted after the Syrian government opened 'al-Zahraa Hussainiya' Shia religious center in the Shiite-dominated Sayida Zainab district of Damascus.

The Bedouin-led protests are demanding the closure of the center, and for all Shiite to be expelled from Damascus city.

🇸🇾⚡- Anti-Shiite protestors demand Sheikh Adham al-Khatib, the Syrian Shia representative, be removed from the country.

🇸🇾⚡️- Reports of unarmed clashes between protestors and Shiites in the area.

🇸🇩⚡- Multiple Sudanese airstrikes against Nyala Airport, Nyala, Rapid Support Forces controlled southwest Sudan.

🇺🇸⚡️- Democratic leadership has told ABC news that there are enough votes to end the shutdown.

🇸🇾⚡- "In the coming days, we will either swim in diesel or burn in it," - Ehtemlat, pro Syrian government outlet.

(Reference to the SDF oil-rich controlled fields of the al-Jazeera region of Deir ez-Zur, northeast Syria.)

🇺🇸⚡- 2,100 flights have been canceled across the US today, FlightAware reports.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrikes against east of Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- A large Israeli convoy has entered deep into south Syrian territory, surrounding the town of Ma'riyah in the Yarmouk Basin area, western countryside of Daraa.

An Israeli search operation has begun in the town.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Israeli forces detonate multiple buildings in Hula, southern Lebanon.

🇮🇷⚡- Despite the snapback sanctions coming into effect, over the past month Iran has exported 2.3 million barrels of oil per day. Record numbers for Tehran since early 2018, Tanker Trackers reports.

🇯🇵🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡- "New Prime Minister of Japan Sanae Takaichi has asserted that if China were to impose a naval blockade on Taiwan, it could constitute an existential crisis for Japan," - The Japan News.

🇯🇵🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡- "Chinese could impose a naval blockade of Taiwan to prevent the arrival of US forces," - Senae Takaichi, Prime Minister of Japan.

🇯🇵🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡- "If such [Chinese naval blockade of Taiwan] was to happen, the limited exercise of the right of self-defense is possible, allowing the deployment of the Self-Defense Forces for defense as well as the use of force," - Senae Takaichi, Prime Minister of Japan.

🇯🇵🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡- "Rescuing Japanese nationals would be the top priority. We must also be prepared for the worst-case scenario," - Senae Takaichi, Prime Minister of Japan.