🇺🇸⚡️- The US Army says three soldiers were on board the Blackhawk in the crash.

🇺🇸⚡️- 18 bodies have reportedly been rescued from the Potomac river.

🇺🇸⚡️- Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington D.C., at which Flight 5342 crashed, has suspended operations until Friday at 5AM EST.

🇺🇸⚡️- The suspension of operations has been extended to Friday at 11AM EST.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Sirens in Ghajar, northern Israel.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Sirens now sounding in Metula, northern Israel.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- First red alert sirens in northern Israel in months. Unknown if the alerts are caused by launches from Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- False alarm.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The Governorate of Jenin announced that 20,000 Palestinians were displaced from Jenin in Israel's recent military operation in the city.

🇺🇸⚡️- Scenes from the Potomac River in Washington D.C., where rescue efforts continue.

It appears that the aircraft pictured is what remains of the Sikorsky H-60 Blackhawk helicopter.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Fire Chief of Washington D.C. says search-and-rescue efforts will continue in the Potomac River for "multiple days," but adds that he doesn't anticipate to find any survivors.

🇿🇦🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "I held two conversations with [South African] President Ramaphosa on the situation in Eastern DR Congo. What has been said about these conversations in the media by South African officials and President Ramaphosa himself contains a lot of distortion, deliberate attacks, and even lies," - Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda.

🇿🇦🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "The Rwanda Defence Force is an army, not a militia," - Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda.

🇿🇦🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "[South Africa-led] SADC Mission is not a peacekeeping force, and it has no place in this situation. It engages in offensive combat operations to help the DR Congo Government, working alongside genocidal armed groups, while also threatening to take the war to Rwanda itself," - Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda.

🇿🇦🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "If South Africa wants to contribute to peaceful solutions, that is well and good, but South Africa is in no position to take on the role of a peacemaker or mediator," - Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda.

🇿🇦🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "And if South Africa prefers confrontation, Rwanda will deal with the matter in that context any day," - Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "Every young Congolese ready to defend his country has a place within our armed forces, enlist massively in the army," - Felix Tshisekedi, President of DR Congo.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "Be sure of one thing, the Democratic Republic of Congo will not let it be humiliated or crushed, we will fight and we will triumph," - Felix Tshisekedi, President of DR Congo.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "A vigorous and coordinated response against these terrorists [M23] and their sponsors is underway," - Felix Tshisekedi, President of DR Congo.

🇶🇦🇸🇾⚡- Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad, arrives in Damascus, Syria. This marks the first visit by a foreign head of state to Syria since the fall of Bashar al-Assad.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have entered the Shevchenko district of Chasov Yar.