CENTCOM says US Navy’s Arliegh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS CARNEY (DDG 64), operating in the Red Sea, successfully engaged 14 unmanned aerial systems launched as a drone wave from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen earlier today.

The UAS were assessed to be one-way attack drones and were shot down with no damage to ships in the area or reported injuries.

Hamas to Israel on hostages:

Time is running out.

Hamas message to Israel:

The choice is yours, in coffins or alive.

French shipping group CMA CGM syas it’s pausing all container shipments through the Red Sea amidst Houthi attacks.

Hamas fighters storm IDF position, seize weapon of the killed IDF soldier.

IDF soldiers got attacked from a tunnel shaft in Gaza by a Hamas fighter.

Then they threw a grenade into the tunnel, possibly killing Hamas fighter.

53 years old IDF reserve soldier Yehezkel Azaria was killed in the Lebanese border today.

Turkish aerospace company Baykar’s CEO Haluk Bayraktar was presented with the Medal of Honor of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia on the 88th anniversary of the establishment of the Ethiopian Air Force.

Bayraktar is the first foreigner to receive the Ethiopian Medal of Honor.

Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 UCAVs, which saved Ethiopia from being torn apart & played a decisive role in ending the civil war with a peace agreement, are actively used by the Ethiopian Army.

Russian Wagner PMC in Libya, Mali, etc., is being rebranded as the “Africa Corps” in a clear reference to Nazi Germany.

German Afrika Korps was Nazi Germany’s expeditionary force in Africa during the North African campaign of World War II.

U.S. to announce next week the formation of “Operation Prosperity Guardian”, a new international effort deal with Houthi threats.

One-sixth of the world's commercial shipping passes through the Bab-al-Mandeb Strait and Red Sea.

While there will be a new task force created next week, whether there will be any direct response against Houthi military targets remains to be seen.

Source: The War Zone

Houthi activity on sea lanes in November-December.

Europe is preparing for the fact that Ukraine may lose U.S. military support and will need to be compensated, German Defense Minister Pistorius says.

"We clearly understand that probably sooner or later we will have to compensate for something that may no longer come from Washington."

Nikki Haley to Biden:

Either you're friend or not. Why are you taking Hamas's side?

Israelis are eliminating Hamas. Let them finish the job. Joe Biden needs to stop telling them what they can and can't do.

French Foreign Ministry agent was killed by Israel in Rafah, Gaza during Israeli bombardment.

France says it “condemns” this Israeli bombing of a “residential building which caused the death of many other civilians”.

The Quai d'Orsay demands "that all light be shed by the Israeli authorities on the circumstances of this bombing, as quickly as possible".

US forces in Iraq and Syria have been targeted 115 times since October 17, mostly by groups affiliated with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq. (The map doesn't show the most recent attacks.)

Putin on Biden’s remarks that “Russia is going to fight with NATO”:

This is complete nonsense. Russia has no reason, no interest, neither geopolitical, nor economic, nor political, nor military, to fight with NATO countries.

We have no territorial claims against each other with them, and we have no desire to spoil relations with them. We are interested in developing relations.