Israel is pressuring local leaders in southern Lebanon to remove Shiite civilians from their towns.

Christian and Druze communities were told they could remain only if they expel Shiites who had taken refuge there.

Most towns complied out of fear of being targeted, leaving displaced Shiite families with nowhere to go.

“Where will we go then? …Will we sleep on the street?”

Source: NYT

A Russian Su-30 fighter jet crashed in Crimea.

Crew members successfully ejected and survived.

Russia's Medvedev:

Neither Trump nor the United States will withdraw from NATO.

Trump’s rhetoric is pure showmanship.

Kremlin:

To stop the active phase of the "special military operation," Ukraine must withdraw its troops from Donbas, but Russia has not set any deadlines.

Russian drone strikes a residential building in Ukraine.

French President Macron:

We should not be passive in this new disorder.

We have to build a new order.

French President Macron:

Our objective is not to be the vassals of two dominant powers.

We don’t want to depend on the dominance of China, and we don’t want to be too much exposed to the unpredictability of the US.

French President Macron:

There is room, a space, to build new cooperation between Korea and France, in order to have such an agenda shared by Korea and France, and bringing with us other Europeans, Canada, Japan, India, Brazil, and Australia.

You start having a sort of third way — those who don’t want to be dependent on China or aligned by definition with the US.

French President Macron:

Iran is a very bad regime — no discussion about that. I disagree with them on a lot of topics.

But I don’t believe that we will fix the situation just by bombings or by military operations.

Look at what happened with this type of operation in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Libya — we never delivered. Never. Even after 20 years.

So you have to respect the sovereignty of people. If people want to change a regime, they want to react, step up, they can do so.

French President Macron:

We do not consider climate change a crazy idea; it is based on science, it does exist, and it needs to be fixed.

The U.S. quietly expelled Iran’s deputy UN ambassador, Saadat Aghajani, last December over "national security concerns."

At least two other Iranian diplomats in New York were also expelled in recent months.

Source: Axios

BREAKING: Iran's Tasnim claims a U.S. pilot ejected after F-15E jet was downed in Iran and may have been captured by Iranian forces, though details remain unconfirmed.

WATCH: U.S. C-130 Hercules reportedly flying very low over Iran, deploying flares.

The U.S. forces are highly likely searching the pilots of downed F-15E jet.

An account claiming to be IRGC Intelligence posted an image of what appears to be an ejection seat, possibly resembling the ACES II used in U.S. F-15E jets, though unconfirmed.

Source: VigorousFalcon

Recent footage and reports from Iran suggest the US and Iran are now racing to recover the pilots of the downed F-15E fighter jet, dead or alive.