🇸🇾 - The moment of Amjad Youssef's arrest.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- The IDF announces Hezbollah shot one of their drones in southern Lebanon.

🇺🇸🇾🇪🇦🇪⚡- Al-Jazeera Arabic reports Emiratis are behind a push to convince Washington in labelling Yemen's al-Islah Party as Foreign Terrorist Organization, and linked to Yemen's Muslim Brotherhood chapter.

The push comes after the UAE suffered a major strategic defeat in Yemen at the turn of the year.

Al-Islah Party (Reform) is a right-wing Islamist group with strong ties to Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and even Iran. The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council had previously reported that most of Ansarullah's weapons arrive via a 'land-bridge' that starts in eastern Yemen's al-Mahrah region.

🇮🇳🇮🇱⚡- "The first group of Indian migrants claiming to belong to a lost biblical tribe have arrived in Tel Aviv, as part of an Israeli government relocation programme," - al-Jazeera.

🇺🇸⚡️- The DOJ has dropped the investigation into FED Chair Jerome Powell.

🇺🇸⚡️- A bus accident took place near the Pentagon an hour ago. No deaths have been reported, but 10 Department of War personnel are injured.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡- BREAKING: JD Vance nor Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf will attend the next round of talks in Islamabad.

Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, while Vance will reportedly be on standby if the talks progress, as members of his staff will attend regardless. - CNN.

🇮🇷⚡- Iran says that Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s visit to Pakistan is a part of his normal schedule, and he will be in Muscat by the time the American delegation team arrives.

President Trump is still planning to send Witkoff and Kushner to meet Araghchi in Pakistan in the coming days.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has forbidden negotiations with the United States under the current circumstances, according to Iranian officials.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡- White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt says the "Iranians reached out" and requested an "in-person meeting," so President Trump "dispatched Steve [Witkoff] and Jared [Kushner] to go hear what they have to say."

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- “Araghchi will not negotiate with the Americans in Islamabad.” - Tasnim News Agency.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡- King Charles III will meet with NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani next week during his visit to the United States.

🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi has arrived in Islamabad, Pakistan.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah has released FPV drone footage showing a direct strike on an Israeli army vehicle carrying soldiers on April 22 in Qantara, southern Lebanon.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- Today’s and tomorrow’s talks between Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Pakistani officials will focus on relaunching negotiations, confirming that there will be no direct negotiations between Iran and the United States.

Araghchi is expected to leave for Muscat and Moscow soon after the talks with Pakistan, a Pakistani official tells Axios.

🇺🇸🇦🇲🗽⚡️- New York Mayor Mamdani commemorates the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide during WW1.

Mamdani also acknowledges the ethnic cleansing which took place in 2023 of Armenians from Nagomo-Karabakh, which took place shortly before the Israel-Hamas war began.

GOP politicians and Christian organizations, with the exception of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, were notably silent when this happened when compared to their reactions to October 7th.

🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡- Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrives in Islamabad.