🇺🇸⚡️- 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.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranian missile factories are operating 24 hours a day. Iranian officials hope to launch 2,000 missiles simultaneously to overwhelm Israeli defenses, rather than launching 500 missiles over a 12-day span. - Iranian officials to Ali Vaez, ICG Iranian project director.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Both the Iranian and Israelis have worked extensively to rearm and prepare for another war, the Iranians have done a better job at rebuilding and rearming themselves and their proxies considering the Israelis were fighting wars on multiple fronts, Iranian oil exports have since skyrocketed which allows them to quickly rearm while also funding Hezbollah and other militias in the region, which came to a surprise to the Israelis.

Iran has also boosted construction at "Pickaxe Mountain," a deeply buried facility just one mile south of the Natanz enrichment facility. Israeli officials worry the majority of Iran's enriched uranium is safely stored in "Pickaxe Mountain."

Since US strikes during the Twelve-Day War, Iran has set up a security wall around "Pickaxe Mountain" and created multiple tunnel entrances inside the mountain. Iran has also refused to allow IAEA inspectors near "Pickaxe Mountain" since the Twelve-Day War, causing fear in the international community that Iran is rebuilding key parts of its nuclear program.

Israel could use this as a pretext to launch more preemptive strikes against Iran and its nuclear facilities while also targeting the regime itself, as Iran currently faces a severe water crisis in its major parts of the country.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli drone strike targets car in southern Lebanon.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump has pardoned Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Sidney Powell, and some others who were charged for their activities during Stop the Steal in late 2020.