🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡- CENTCOM Commander Brad Cooper met with Iraq's Prime Minister Shia al-Sudani in Baghdad.

🇫🇷⚡️- The Urssaf, France's social tax collecting organism, has been hacked earlier this week. At least 12 million employees' data has been partially extracted from their databanks. The Urssaf has warned French citizens of a potentially increased amount of phishing emails in the coming weeks. No culprit has been found yet.

This is the third massive hack of a French public institution or ministry in under two months.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Today, amidst the Iranian regime’s brutal crackdown on peaceful protestors and its complete shutdown of internet access to conceal its abuses against the Iranian people, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control is increasing pressure on the regime’s shadow fleet.

OFAC is targeting nine shadow fleet vessels and their respective owners or management firms that have collectively transported hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of Iranian oil and petroleum products to foreign markets," - US Department of Treasury.

🇫🇷⚡️ – As local elections are set to take place in March in France, French far-left LFI party leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon said "LFI must represent the new France, the France of the Great Replacement".

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Special Envoy Witkoff and Kushner will meet Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in Jerusalem tomorrow evening, Israeli Channel 12 reports.

The three will likely discuss moving onto Phase Two of the Hamas-Israel ceasefire deal.

🇵🇰⚡- A major suicide attack at a wedding in the Dera Ismail Khan district of western Pakistan. The wedding was reportedly related to a senior military official of the peace committee.

5 dead so far, the death toll is expected to climb very high.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- British Airways, KLM and Air France have cancelled flights to certain destinations in the Middle East tonight.

🇹🇷🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "We have seen indications that Israel is preparing to attack Iran," - Turkey's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡- "The Trump administration is weighing new tactics to drive regime change in Cuba, including imposing a total blockade on oil imports to the Caribbean country.

Preventing shipments of crude oil to the island would be a step-up from Trump’s statement last week that the U.S. would halt Cuba’s imports of oil from Venezuela, which had been its main crude supplier," - Politico.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- CENTCOM Commander Brad Cooper to arrive in Tel Aviv tomorrow to meet Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The Israeli security system estimates that Hamas will not agree to disarm, and the Southern Command has prepared extensive military plans in case of the renewal of fighting," - Israeli Channel 12.

🇩🇪🇸🇦🇮🇱⚡- Germany's Lufthansa has now also cancelled flights to Tel Aviv and Riyadh tonight.

🇨🇦🇨🇭🇮🇱⚡- Air Canada and Swiss Air have also cancelled flights to Tel Aviv.

🇺🇸⚡- "USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group is not yet in the CENTCOM area of responsibility, and has not crossed the line of demarcation from INDOPACOM to CENTCOM in the Indian Ocean.

This means that the USS Lincoln is not yet in the Gulf of Oman, or within striking distance of Iran," - Fox News.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🌎⚡️- “On Jan. 23, at the direction of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two narco-terrorists were killed and one survived the strike. Following the engagement, U.S. Southern Command immediately notified U.S. Coast Guard to activate the Search and Rescue system for the survivor.”

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇳⚡️- UK PM Keir Starmer has pulled the bill that was going to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after treaty concerns and pressure from the Trump admin. Diego Garcia's central location in the Indian Ocean is incredibly strategic, enabling US power projection into the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. A transfer would have allowed China to consolidate and control the Fourth Island Chain.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iran will treat any attack—limited, kinetic, or unlimited—as an all-out war and respond in the hardest way possible. - Reuters citing an Iranian official.

🇮🇷⚡️- “We will defend Iran until death.” – Ali Jahanshahi, Commander of the Iranian Army (Artesh) Ground Forces, in a coordination meeting with the IRGC.

🇺🇸⚡️- The US to host the first Western Hemisphere Defense Sunmit on February 11. Military leaders from 34 countries are scheduled to attend.

🇨🇳⚡️- "Top Chinese military leaders Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli have been placed under investigation for suspected “serious” disciplinary violations, according to the Ministry of National Defence.

Zhang is the first-ranked vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), China’s top military command body headed by President Xi Jinping, while Liu is chief of its Joint Staff Department.

Zhang’s position as CMC No 2 after Xi makes him the highest-ranking uniformed officer in the Chinese military," - South China Morning Post.

🇺🇸⚡- The Pentagon releases its new National Defense Strategy, NDS:

"Defend the US homeland: We will secure America’s borders and maritime approaches, and we will defend our nation’s skies through Golden Dome. We will actively and fearlessly defend America’s interests throughout the Western Hemisphere. We will guarantee U.S. military and commercial access to key terrain, especially the Panama Canal, Gulf of America, and Greenland. This is the Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, and America’s military stands ready to enforce it with speed, power, and precision, as the world saw in Operation ABSOLUTE RESOLVE.

China: President Trump seeks a stable peace, fair trade, and respectful relations with China, and he has shown that he is willing to engage President Xi Jinping directly to achieve those goals. Our goal is simple: To prevent anyone, including China, from being able to dominate us or our allies. We will erect a strong denial defense along the First Island Chain.

Increase burden sharing with US allies: In the Indo-Pacific, where our allies share our desire for a free and open regional order, allies and partners’ contributions will be vital to deterring and balancing China. In Europe and other theaters, allies will take the lead against threats that are less severe for us but more so for them, with critical but more limited support from the United
States.

Russia: Russia will remain a persistent but manageable threat to NATO’s eastern members for the foreseeable future. Indeed, although Russia suffers from a variety of demographic and economic difficulties, its ongoing war in Ukraine shows that it still retains deep reservoirs of military and industrial power. European NATO dwarfs Russia in economic scale, population, and, thus, latent military power. Fortunately, our NATO allies are substantially more powerful than Russia—it is not even close. Germany’s economy alone dwarfs that of Russia.

Iran: President Trump has consistently made clear that Iran will not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” is similarly devastated. Israeli operations have left Hezbollah and Hamas severely degraded. Although Iran has suffered severe setbacks over recent months, it appears intent on reconstituting its conventional military forces. Iran’s leaders have also left open the possibility that they will try again to obtain a nuclear weapon, including by refusing to engage in meaningful negotiations. Nor can we ignore the facts that the Iranian regime has the blood of Americans on its hands, and that it remains intent on destroying our close ally, Israel.

North Korea: The DPRK poses a direct military threat to South Korea as well as to Japan, both of which are U.S. treaty allies. Although many of North Korea’s large conventional forces
are aged or poorly maintained, South Korea must stay vigilant against the threat of a North
Korean invasion. North Korea’s missile forces are also capable of striking targets in the ROK
and Japan with conventional and nuclear weapons as well as other weapons of mass destruction. At the same time, the DPRK’s nuclear forces are increasingly capable of threatening the U.S. Homeland."