🇺🇸⚡- USS Iwo Jima has departed from Frederiksted Pier, Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, back into the Carribbean waters.

🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Strategic Minister, and one of Netanyahu's closest political allies, Ron Dermer has resigned.

🇮🇷⚡️- Armed clashes and gunfire can be heard in Zahedan, Iran. It is unclear what the cause currently is.

🇱🇧🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡️- “Al-Sharaa has reduced oversight of smuggling routes into Lebanon, allowing Hezbollah to rearm. Four thousand rockets have been smuggled into Lebanon, including more than 250 drones. Hezbollah is recovering remarkably fast,” Israeli media reports.

Earlier today, Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem stated, “We will not disarm. Israeli strikes cannot continue. There is a limit to everything. I won’t say more.”

🇨🇦⚡- The G7 foreign ministries summit has begun in the Niagara Region, Canada, which will last over the next two days.

🇬🇧⚡- "Downing Street has launched an extraordinary operation to protect Keir Starmer amid fears among the prime minister’s closest allies that he is vulnerable to a leadership challenge in the wake of the budget.

Starmer’s most senior political aides warned that any attempt to oust the prime minister over tanking poll ratings would be a reckless and dangerous move that could destabilise the markets, international relationships and the Labour party," - The Guardian.

🇬🇧⚡- "Secretary of Health and Labour MP Wes Streeting could be planning an imminent coup against Prime Minister Starmer," - The Guardian.

🇩🇴⚡- Power outages knock Dominican Republic's connectivity to half.

Dominican's state-run electric company ETED explained that the blackout originated from a breakdown in the transmission network.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israeli media reports that talks between Tel Aviv and Damascus have stalled.

🇮🇷🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Iran has ramped up the smuggling and arming of Palestinian militant groups in the West Bank. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) are among the groups receiving the weapons.

“Missiles, explosive drones, anti-tank rockets, and rocket-propelled grenade launchers have been delivered to these groups to create a new front against Israeli aggression in the region,” the Washington Free Beacon reported, citing intelligence sources and regional experts.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- BREAKING: Ukrainian forces have retreated from five villages in the southern Zaporizhzhia region amid intense Russian pressure.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israel has demolished over 1,500 residential buildings since the Hamas-Israel ceasefire in areas under the IDF control in the Gaza Strip, BBC reports.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇲⚡- Armenia establishes a new foreign intelligence agency with the help of the CIA and the MI6.

🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz orders the closure of Galei Tzahal (Israeli Army Radio), the IDF's official and only outlet.

Katz claims the outlet "harms the war effort and morale." The radio will cease operations by March 1, 2026.

🇲🇦🇮🇱⚡- "The Franco-Moroccan businessman Raphael Levy has close links with the Israeli defense sector and is working to boost trade between Rabat and Tel Aviv. He has in recent months successfully negotiated several contracts for the Moroccan army," - Africa Intelligence, French Think Tank.

🇮🇳🇧🇹⚡- Indian Prime Minister Modi arrives in New Delhi from his visit to Bhutan.

🇮🇳⚡- "Concrete evidence of an IED being there in the car [of the 10th of November New Delhi car blast] is yet to be found. No wires, timer devices, detonator, batteries or even shrapnel have been found at the spot. However, a second and third inspection is still being done to even scan the area beyond the blast site. But as yet, we have no evidence to confirm or deny an IED.

Forensic experts and Delhi Police suspect that the car was carrying approximately 60–70 kg of ammonium nitrate—an odorless white crystalline chemical—and the explosion was triggered by a detonator or timer," - The Indian Express.