Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem:

We stand with Iran, its people, leadership, and revolution.

Iran is strong and steadfast, and God willing, it will remain a pillar of resistance and support for the oppressed worldwide.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, top 2028 Democratic contender, rejecets labeling Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide:

“I don’t share that opinion… I do not agree with that notion.”

BIG: Syrian Army says its forces are advancing on Tabqa Military Airport from multiple directions to seize control and expel PKK militias and remnants of the former regime.

It warned SDF/PKK militias to withdraw immediately for their safety, saying events are accelerating, and urged them not to become “fuel for projects coming from Qandil,” stressing that the land belongs to its people and the future depends on wise choices.

Thousands protested in Copenhagen against Trump’s threats to seize Greenland.

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has won a seventh term, extending his rule to nearly 45 years.

Official results show him with about 74–76% of the vote.

The vote was marred by an internet blackout, heavy security, and allegations of fraud and intimidation.

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Italy will NOT join the European troop deployment to Greenland, with Defense Minister Guido Crosetto dismissing the small NATO contingents as symbolic and ineffective, calling them “the beginning of a joke.”

NEW: Arab tribes and clans in U.S-backed SDF/YPG occupied Hasakah issued a statement reaffirming their commitment to Syria’s unity and sovereignty, rejecting division, armed chaos, and illegal militias.

They called for limiting weapons to the state, resolving disputes through dialogue, releasing detainees, ending arbitrary arrests, and restoring full state authority and services across the province, while urging national unity and rejecting sectarian incitement.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, top 2028 Democratic contender:

The devastation in Gaza… I have strong opinions that it was not just collateral damage.

I have a lot of issues with how Bibi ultimately conducted the war.

Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto:

Italy did not start this war. Ukraine did not start this war.

Europe did not start this war. NATO did not start this war.

Someone did start it — and only that same actor can stop it.

Syrian Army’s Operations Command calls on SDF/PKK leadership to immediately honor its commitments, withdraw fully east of the Euphrates, and remove all military presence from Tabqa to allow civilian administration, warning that compliance is the only way to end escalation.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, top 2028 Democratic contender:

I didn’t like the way Netanyahu talked about the Palestinian people. I just didn’t.

There was a dehumanization.

Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto:

Ukraine cannot and will never win the war.

Ukraine is trying to survive.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, top 2028 Democratic contender:

I am crystal clear about my love for Israel and my condemnation of Bibi — there’s a distinction.

Argentina’s President Javier Milei said Trump invited Argentina to join the new “Board of Peace” on Gaza.

Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto on European troop deployment to Greenland:

Imagine 15 Italians, 15 French, 15 Germans in Greenland. To me, it seemed almost like the beginning of a joke.

I believe, instead, that it is in our interest to keep the Western world, the free world, together.

Terror group SDF/YPG supporters blocked the road to the international coalition base in Qasrak, north of Hasakah, protesting what they called the coalition’s “silence” and chanting “death to betrayal.”

Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence:

Russia is considering options for strikes on substations of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants in order to force the signing of unacceptable capitulation demands to end the war.

U.S. officials had been quietly talking with Venezuela’s Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello for months before the U.S. raid that captured Maduro, and those contacts have continued since.

Washington warned Cabello not to use security forces or pro-government militias against the opposition. Talks also covered U.S. sanctions and the drug-trafficking indictment he faces.

Cabello, long seen as Maduro’s chief enforcer, was not arrested and retains control over key security institutions.

Source: Reuters

BREAKING: Syrian Army take control of Tabqa Airbase, liberating it from SDF/YPG terror group.

Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey:

You will not convince Americans to go fight another war, even if it is just.

I don't think that America could work itself up enough to go fight the Nazis again.

I think we literally don't have it in us.

Source: The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey:

Look at the kids who were on the beaches in Normandy on D-Day. Do you think that we have a few million of those?

Source: The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe