Houthi drone made of tree branches.

Egypt-Gaza border. Rafah.

American-supplied Ukrainian M1A1SA Abrams tanks are being equipped with first-generation ARAT ERA on the sides of the hull, similar to the BRAT dynamic protection on Bradley IFVs.

This will increase the protection of the Abrams from the strikes of UAVs, RPGs and ATGMs.

Yemen’s Houthis, in cooperation with Iranian and Hezbollah experts, transfer ballistic and naval missiles to Hodeidah, Sky News Arabia reports.

OpenAI (ChatGPT) has quietly made changes to its usage policy, removing the ban on using its technology for "weapons development" and "military and warfare".

The rewritten policy page stated that changes had been made to the document to make it "clearer" and "more readable".

Since then, the word "clearer" has been replaced with "added service-specific guidance".

Ukrainian FPV drone just before it strikes a large group of Russian soldiers on a military vehicle.

French cement maker Lafarge's factory in Syria has been struck by Turkish UCAV strikes.

A large part of the Lafarge cement factory was destroyed after Turkish strikes.

Lafarge pleaded guilty to aiding Daesh/ISIS, to pay over $777M in 2022.

"Lafarge made a deal with the devil, foreign terrorists who pledged to, and in fact did, harm the United States, its people and its national security, and they did it for profit," Breon Peace, US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, told as the Justice Department announced the plea deal.

Lafarge paid the terror groups from 2013 through 2014 for protection and to allow the continued operation of a cement plant in northern Syria run by Lafarge's local subsidiary, Lafarge Cement Syria (LCS).

In total, nearly $6 million was sent to the two groups, according to prosecutors.

Biden "running out" of patience with Bibi as Gaza war hits 100 days, Axios reports.

Biden hasn't spoken to Netanyahu in the 20 days since a tense Dec. 23 call, which a frustrated Biden ended with the words:

"This conversation is over."

If you're worried about your ship getting hit by Houthis through Bab al-Mandab Strait, here's a quick trick:

Just relay this message:

"ALL CHINESE CREW"

Taiwan is an indivisible part of China & will not become a separate state, it will return to China, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says after Taiwan elections.

Trump:

Iraq is now controlled by Iran. That was the stupidest war.

I used to say…don’t ever go into Iraq, but if you do go in—keep the oil. They didn’t keep the oil.

We’re the only country where we in, we obliterate somebody, and we never keep anything.

Map of Starlink usage in the world. Ukrainian front line is glowing.

Precise Turkish UCAV warning strike at a building near the fire brigade trying to extinguish the fire that broke out at the Lafarge cement factory today in Syria.

#BREAKING Turkish Intelligence (MIT) UCAV strikes destroyed 23 targets of the terror organization PKK/YPG in Syria, including

- 5 critical infrastructure facilities
- 3 control points
- 8 military points
- 2 ammunition depots
- 2 logistics depots
- 2 technical vehicle depots and
- a vehicle used in tunnels/alignment works.

Nobody wants a conflict with the Houthis, the United States does not seek a conflict with Yemen, the White House says.

Britain’s aircraft carriers are not ready to be sent to the Red Sea because of the recruitment crisis engulfing the Armed Forces, The Telegraph reports.

Calls to send the £3bn HMS Queen Elizabeth to the region set to be spurned because crew shortages mean only support ship cannot sail.

Houthi sources claim American-British strikes targeted Jabal Jad’a in Al-Lahiya district in the coastal province of Al-Hudaydah, west of Yemen.

Russian soldiers saw gender-neutral toilets in Ukrainian schools and therefore “understand well what they are fighting for”, Russian governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov says.

Hundreds of Gazans rush into the aid trucks upon their arrival on the coastal area.