🇹🇷🇹🇩⚡- Turkey to receive two military bases in Chad from the Chad government. The former French bases are located near the Chad-Libya-Sudan border point.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "Russia is considering Saudi Arabia and the UAE as possible venues for a meeting between Trump and Putin," - Reuters, citing Russian sources.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "US shipments of weapons into Ukraine were briefly paused in recent days before resuming over the weekend as the Trump administration debated its policy towards Kiev," - Reuters.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- "Turkey was preparing to launch a major military operation in [SDF-controlled] eastern Syria, but we were the ones who asked them to wait to make room for negotiations with the SDF," - Ahmed al-Sharaa, President of Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- "The majority of the population in [SDF-controlled] eastern Syria are Arabs, and they do not agree to the rule of the SDF," - Ahmed al-Sharaa, President of Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- "I am not very optimistic about reaching an agreement with the SDF," - Ahmed al-Sharaa, President of Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- "I hope that matters with the SDF will be resolved through peaceful negotiations, without harm or bloodshed," - Ahmed al-Sharaa, President of Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- An explosive device exploded in the al-Mazzeh suburb of Damascus, Syria.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- BREAKING: M23 announces a ceasefire on all fronts in eastern DR Congo starting tonight.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- M23 demands SADC (South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi) withdraw their forces from DR Congo.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- "It must be made clear that we have no intention of capturing Bukavu or other areas," - Lawrence Kanyuka, M23 spokesman.

🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡- In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Egypt and Jordan reject Trump's plans of displacing Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Heavy clashes between the Jenin Battalion and the Israeli army in Jenin, West Bank.

🇷🇺🇦🇿⚡- The Azerbaijani state-run channel iTV accuses Russia of 'occupying its historical lands' and 'giving the Zangezur region to Armenia in 1920.'

🇬🇪⚡- Mass arrests taking place in Georgia, with 7 journalists arrested over night in Tbilisi.

🇬🇪⚡- Nika Melia, Georgian opposition leader, and the former mayor of Tbilisi, Gigi Ugulava, have been arrested.

🇬🇪⚡- Scenes outside the Georgian Parliament, Tbilisi, Georgia.

🇬🇪⚡- Georgian opposition media say there is heavy security forces presence on Rustaveli Avenue, Tbilisi. Reports of large-scale arrests of protestors taking place.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 - In the wake of Netanyahu's visit to the US, western outlets have begun ramping up the Iranian nuclear threat story. Following the 'Telegraph,' the 'New York Times' has published a similar piece.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Iran Is developing plans for faster, cruder weapon, US intelligence concludes. As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel prepares to meet with President Trump, the question of whether to strike Iran’s facilities or negotiate with Tehran appears certain to be under debate," - The New York Times.