🇴🇲🇺🇸 | CENTCOM has reduced its air-based defense for tankers using the Omani route through the Strait of Hormuz to two specific time slots daily — FT

🇮🇶🇹🇷 | The PMF is preparing to absorb hundreds of members of the PKK excluded from the peace process with Turkey, Iraqi security officials say — The New Region

🇮🇳🇮🇷🇦🇪 | Iran's president and Abu Dhabi's crown prince discussed international and regional issues on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in New Delhi — WAM

🇮🇷🇮🇶 | Iraq has announced a phased timeline to reopen three land border crossings with Iran, a day after closing them to probe drone launches — AFP

🇷🇺🇺🇦 | Ukraine's navy says its Sargan 3000 USV engaged and destroyed a Russian USV in the Black Sea, marking the first-ever battle between USVs — Telegram

🇨🇾🇸🇾🇺🇸 | Cyprus, Syria, and NYC-based UNIFI have signed an agreement to establish the Ebla cable between Tartus and Pentaskhinos by 2028 — SANA

🇦🇲🇦🇿🇺🇸 | Azerbaijan's foreign minister says groundbreaking work on the Trump-backed TRIPP project with Armenia has been delayed until early 2027 — Interfax

🇧🇬 | Bulgaria will tighten security at strategic and potentially hazardous sites in response to explosions at two ammunition depots over the past month — BTA

🇰🇵 | North Korea has refrained from reporting on all four of its ballistic missile launches over the past month — KBS World

🇩🇯🇺🇳🇾🇪 | The IOM says 82,164 people have been displaced in Yemen since September, while over 2,000 people have reached Djibouti's shores — statement

🇸🇩 | Sudan's anti-smuggling department in Red Sea State seized military hardware, including magazines and a Kornet anti-tank missile launcher — Sudan Akhbar

🇱🇾 | A plane carrying a prominent figure has crashed at Misrata Airport in western Libya, prompting the closure of the airspace — Al Arabiya

🇮🇷 | The IRGC says it intercepted and destroyed an MQ-1 UAV over the Strait of Hormuz using a new advanced air defense system — IRNA

🇩🇿🇲🇱 | Algeria's prime minister arrived in Bamako on a goodwill visit and held one-on-one bilateral talks with his Malian counterpart — APS

🇪🇷🇮🇱🇦🇪 | Eritrea's foreign minister has accused the UAE of pursuing "port imperialism" across Africa and Israel of "running to control the Horn of Africa" — MEE

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸 | Trump says Russia and Ukraine have mutually agreed to stop striking each other's "energy targets" — Truth

🇫🇷🇮🇶 | Iraq's defense ministry has signed a letter of intent with France's Harmattan AI regarding strategic cooperation in the field of air defense — INA

🇸🇦🇬🇧🇾🇪 | The UK is considering requests from Saudi Arabia for military support against the Houthis and has sent advisers to the kingdom, sources say — Bloomberg

🇺🇦 | Ukraine's prosecutor general was suspended after leaving the country shortly after resigning amid a major corruption investigation into his office — Euronews

🇮🇷🇮🇱🇷🇺🇺🇸 | Iran has asked Russia for advanced Geran UAVs to use against Israel and the US, Western security officials and a person close to the Kremlin say — FT

🇩🇪🇱🇹 | Germany's defense ministry says it plans to order compulsory troop deployments to fill staffing gaps in the 45th Panzer Brigade in Lithuania — dpa