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.

IDF is carrying out deep strikes on Jabal Safi, south Lebanon.

UK Foreign Secretary Cameron says “to say that Israel has the intent to commit genocide is nonsense.”

"I think the South African action is wrong, I think it is unhelpful and I think it shouldn't be happening."

Houthi F-5 fighter jet is not combat effective, a U.S. official tells Pentagon reporter Chris Gordon.

The main targets of Russian missile strikes are increasingly focusing on Ukrainian defense industry facilities, and not the energy system, as last winter, Financial Times reports.

Russia is working on its own Starlink

Three domestic low-orbit communication satellites launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome, developed by the Russian company Bureau 1440, provided the first Internet connection.

Currently, the data transfer rate to the device is 12 Mbit/s, and the latency is 41 milliseconds.

The next stage is serial and mass production of domestic devices, as well as increasing the data transfer speed to more than 100 Mbit/s.

The goal of the project is to create a commercial satellite broadband Internet access service that will operate in low orbits, at high speeds and with minimal delays. It will begin its work in 2027.

From 2025, it is planned to launch 10-12 rockets into orbit per year, with about 15 satellites placed in one rocket.

In total, by 2035, more than 900 low-orbit domestic satellites will be developed and launched into orbit.

They will provide high-speed satellite Internet to residents throughout Russia. The plans are to provide broadband services using Russian spacecraft in 75 countries around the world.

This is how a Russian soldier evaded Ukrainian FPV drone strike.