🇺🇸🇰🇼🇮🇷⚡- The US Department of State approves $1 billion in infrastructure construction for the Kuwaiti Navy to build a naval base in Kuwait.

The State Department says this "will not change the military balance in the region," even though it will be in very close proximity to Iran.
 
"The proposed sale will advance the foreign policy and national security goals of the United States, by helping improve the infrastructure of a major non-NATO ally that is an important force for political stability and economic progress in the Middle East," - Department of State.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡- "The new US administration will take a different approach to the Houthis than the previous one. We are not going to sit back and wait for them to attack us. Expect us to escalate and intensify in the coming weeks," - al-Arabiya, Saudi outlet, citing a source in the Trump administration.

🇮🇷🇵🇸🇱🇧⚡- "Iran knew about Hamas' plans to invade Israel in the summer of 2023.

Back in the summer of 2023, Hamas informed the IRGC of the date of the upcoming attack on Israel. Iran, however, decided not to inform Hezbollah of these plans.

Iran decided not to inform Hezbollah about Hamas' plans so as not to interfere with the organization's former leader Nasrallah's plans to carry out his own armed invasion of northern Israeli towns, or Iran chose to sacrifice Hamas so as not to put Hezbollah, its closest ally in the region, at risk," - i24, Israeli media.

The report published, citing Israeli intelligence, contradicts Iranian statements by Mohammad Javad Zarif, Vice President for Strategic Affairs and former Foreign Minister of Iran, who had earlier said Iran was not aware of Hamas' operation.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Negotiations with America are not intelligent, wise, or honorable. It has no impact on solving the country's problems," - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "If Americans threaten us, we will threaten them. If they carry out their threat against us, we will carry out our threat. If the Americans attack the security of the Iranian nation, we will undoubtedly attack their security," - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran.

🇿🇦🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- South African National Defense Forces, SANDF, will likely withdraw from DR Congo in the next 72 hours, after 14 SANDF were killed in action fighting the M23.

SANDF follows Malawian troops which withdrew a few days ago.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- BREAKING: The Russian army has captured Dzerzhinsk (Toretsk).

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- DR Congo military reinforcements arrive in Bukavu, South Kivu region, eastern DR Congo.

🇸🇾🇱🇧⚡- Al-Mayadeen, Lebanese outlet, says two Syrian rockets fell inside Lebanese territory, Hermel region.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Turkish Airlines will start to resume flights to Israel in June, with full operations restored in October 2025," - Globes.

🇸🇾🇱🇧⚡- Clashes continue between the Syrian government forces and pro-Hezbollah clans (the Zaiter and Jafaar families mainly) along the Syrian-Lebanese border.

Footage published by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham affiliated media.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "The United States has drawn a red line under which Hezbollah will not be part of the government that will be formed in Lebanon," - US Deputy Envoy to the Middle East.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Israel defeated Hezbollah and we are grateful to it for that and we emphasize the issue of the party not participating in the new Lebanese government in any way," - US Deputy Envoy to the Middle East.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "We hope that Hezbollah's influence in Lebanon will end and the era of the party's terror in Lebanon and the world has ended," - US Deputy Envoy to the Middle East.

🇱🇧❗️People protesting the US Envoy statements about Hezbollah and Israel.

🇸🇾🇱🇧⚡- Syrian government forces firing rockets at Zaiter clan positions well inside Lebanese territory.

🇬🇪🇩🇪⚡- Salome Zourabichvili, former Georgian President, will be attending this year's Munich Security Conference.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- After several videos went viral of the Russian army using donkeys on the front lines, the Russian State Duma declared that donkeys at the front line "are completely normal".

🇸🇾🇱🇧 - Footage from yesterday showing the clashes in Hawik, Homs region, between the Syrian government forces and the Lebanese Zaiter clan.

Video recorded by the Syrian side.

🇸🇾🇱🇧⚡- The Lebanese army is sending further military reinforcements to the Hermel-Homs (Lebanese-Syrian) border.