🇸🇾⚡- "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.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "New intelligence about Iran’s nuclear program has convinced American officials that a secret team of the country’s scientists is exploring a faster, if cruder, approach to developing an atomic weapon," - The New York Times.

🇮🇷⚡- The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs denies the rumors of the western outlets, announcing that "there has been no change in the management of Iran's nuclear case."

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- 80% of Israelis support Trump's plan to relocate Gazans from the Gaza Strip to Egypt and Jordan, according to a poll by the Jewish People Policy Institute, JPPI.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- China imposes 15% tariffs on US imports starting February 10, in response to the tariffs imposed by the US on China.

🇬🇪🇱🇻⚡- "We are deeply concerned by yet another violent show of force against peaceful protesters and journalists in Georgia. With the latest repressive actions, the ruling elite continues to widen the divide with the Georgian people and their European aspirations. Full support for Georgians in their pursuit of freedom and democracy," - Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.