🇪🇹⚡- Addis Ababa cancels all flights scheduled to land / depart from the Tigray region.

🇪🇹⚡- TPLF-D (and TPLF-M) are reinforcing positions along the Asegede, Indabaguna and the Waldeba areas of the Tigray region, northern Ethiopia.

🇪🇹⚡- Tigray separatists clash with Addis Ababa backed Tigray Peace Forces in the Wajerat area, Tigray region, northern Ethiopia.

🇪🇹⚡- Getachew Reda, former Head of the Tigray Interim Administration before fleeing to Addis Ababa in 2025, has called on the separatist factions of the TPLF to "halt advancing" towards populated centers in the Tigray region, which could "provoke war" with Addis Ababa.

🇷🇺🇦🇪⚡- Russian President Putin receives his UAE counterpart Mohamed bin Zayed at the Kremlin, Moscow.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- A squadron of Israeli jets enter southern Syrian airspace.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- A massive cold wave is about to hit most of Ukraine and Western Russia, with temperatures dipping as low as -30C°.

🇺🇸🇸🇦🇮🇱⚡- Saudi and Israeli military officials are in Washington today. The Israeli delegation is providing the American side with a list of potential targets inside Iran, while the Saudis are pushing for diplomacy and to avoid war.

🇺🇸⚡- Four US aerial tankers departed from the northeast US towards the Atlantic.

🇺🇸⚡- The four US tankers are dragging six E/A-18G Growlers across the Atlantic towards Europe / the Middle East.

🇪🇺🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas says the EU's foreign ministers have agreed to list the IRGC as a terrorist organisation.

🇸🇴🇹🇷⚡- Somalia grants Turkey's Air Force access to Mogadishu International Airport. At least 3 Turkish F-16s are to be deployed at the base.

🇮🇱⚡- With the support of the ultra-Orthodox parties, the Likud-bloc's state budget has passed the Knesset's first reading with a majority of 62-55.

🇮🇱⚡- "The ultra-Orthodox threaten and threaten [against the Likud-bloc], but when the moment of truth comes, they back down. No one believes their threats anymore, and rightly so," - Israeli Channel 12.

🇮🇷⚡- Iran's navy announces live fire exercises in the Bandar Abbas area of the Strait of Hormuz.

Exercises are planned for this Sunday and next week Monday.

🇪🇹⚡- TPLF-17 (the Suhul Division) have mostly defected and joined the TPLF-D led separatists, fighting against the Ethiopia-backed Tigray Interim Administration.

🇺🇸⚡️- Tom Homan has taken full control of the Minneapolis situation and confirms that Minnesota will begin allowing ICE to arrest illegals from jails. In return for the state rolling back more sanctuary policies the number of agents in the city will decrease.

🇺🇸⚡️- Senator Amy Klobuchar has announced her candidacy for Minnesota Governor to replace Tim Walz. She delayed her announcement due to the Alex Pretti shooting.

🇪🇺🇮🇷⚡️- European leadership are all but endorsing strikes against Iran.

🇮🇷🇨🇳🇷🇺⚡️- Russia and China will join Iran in Naval exercises in the Sea of Oman and Indian Ocean over the coming days. - Al Jazeera.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- “IDF Intelligence Chief Maj.-Gen. Shlomi Binder and Mossad Director David Barnea have both recently visited the US to present a one-two punch for advice about how to handle Iran.

Barnea landed in the US on January 16, meeting with US Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff and a variety of other critical national security meetings,” - Jerusalem Post.