🇸🇾 — Syria’s president pledges not to accept “statelets within the state” or any weapons outside military institutions.

🇨🇾🇫🇷 — Cyprus is in active talks with France to acquire 180 armored vehicles for its national guard (La Tribune)

🇮🇷🇸🇦🇺🇸 — Iran’s foreign minister calls to “eject” US forces from the “brotherly nation” of Saudi Arabia.

🇵🇰 — Pakistan’s Sui Southern Gas Company says a natural gas pipeline was blown up in the south of the country.

🇷🇸 — International observers at a local election in Serbia say they saw violence and irregularities during the vote.

🇮🇱🇱🇧 — Israel’s military says four of its soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 — The Kremlin says Ukraine has not presented any “clearly formulated” proposal for an Easter ceasefire.

🇫🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸 — Trump says France did not allow military aircraft bound for Israel to fly over its territory.

🇨🇺🇷🇺🇺🇸 — A Russian oil tanker has arrived in Cuba amid the energy blockade imposed by the US (AFP)

🇮🇱🇱🇧🇺🇳 — Sources at the UN say Israeli shots killed a peacekeeper in southern Lebanon on Sunday (AFP)

🇫🇷🇯🇵 — France and Japan are poised to agree to create a roadmap for diversifying supplies of rare earths (Nikkei)

🇸🇴 — Somalia’s military seized a major town in the South West State after its leader severed federal ties (Somali Guardian)

🇸🇾 — Syria’s president pledges neutrality in the regional conflict unless the country is “targeted by any party.”

🇱🇧🇸🇾 — Syria’s president calls preventing the smuggling of weapons into Lebanon his “duty.”

🇷🇺🇸🇾 — Syria’s president says two Russian military bases remaining in the country will be turned into training centers.

🇽🇰🇵🇸 — Kosovo’s defense ministry confirms it will deploy a force to Gaza as part of an international security mission.

🇷🇺 — A Russian Antonov An-26 military transport aircraft crashed into a cliff over Crimea (TASS)

🇫🇷🇹🇳 — A French judge has refused to extradite the daughter of Tunisia’s former autocrat (Tunisie Telegraph)

🇨🇺🇪🇺 — The European Commission pledges an additional $2.3 million in humanitarian aid to Cuba.

🇧🇮 — Burundi’s military says an explosion at an ammunition depot in the country’s largest city killed 13 civilians.

🇺🇦🇺🇸 — Trump threatened to stop sending arms for Ukraine unless Europe helped reopen the Strait of Hormuz (FT)