🇺🇸⚡- US CENTCOM has announced Carrier Strike Group One, led by the USS Carl Vinson, has arrived in the Middle East.

🇸🇾⚡- BREAKING: Curfew declared in the city of Busra al-Sham, southern Daraa region, Syria.

Source: SNN, Iranian outlet.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Hezbollah is willing to lay down its weapons and hand them over to the Lebanese army in exchange for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon and to sign an agreement to disband the military wing," - al-Araby al-Jadeed, Qatari outlet.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink resigns from her post.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Iran is considering proposing an interim nuclear agreement to the US before continuing negotiations for a comprehensive agreement. Iran believes that reaching a complex nuclear agreement within two months is unrealistic," - Axios.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Hezbollah has denied the al-Araby al-Jadeed, Qatari outlet, report which alleged Hezbollah was prepared to disarm.

🇪🇺🇨🇳⚡- South China Morning Post, Chinese outlet, claims several EU Heads are preparing a joint visit to Beijing, China, in July.

🇯🇵🇺🇸🇪🇺⚡- Japan's Prime Minister Ishiba met NATO Secretary General Rutte, with both agreeing to deepen security ties, and with Rutte reaffirming NATO's support for a free and open Indo-Pacific region.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡- "Our adversaries [Ansarullah] use $10,000 one way drones, and we shoot them down with $2 million missiles. That cost-benefit curve is upside down," - Bryan Fenton, Commander of USSOCAM.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- Russia's Khmeimim Air Base in the Latakia region, coastal Syria, intercepts three unidentified drones over its airspace.

🇸🇾⚡- Scenes from Busra al-Sham, Daraa region, southern Syria, where violent clashes are ongoing.

🇸🇾⚡- Confirmation: Clashes are ongoing between Syria's 8th Brigade, led by Ahmad al-Awda, Head of Southern Operations Room and a former 'reconciled' rebel, and Bilal al-Droubi, a pro al-Sharaa government official in the south.

Al-Droubi infamously led a failed coup in 2016-2017 against al-Awda for the Commander of the Southern Free Syrian Army. A year later, both struck agreements with the Russians, dropping their anti-Assad positions.

The attack by al-Awda against al-Droubi looks like revenge for the attempted coup.

🇸🇾⚡- BREAKING: Video allegedly showing, according to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and pro-Assad media, the moment Bilal al-Droubi, a pro al-Sharaa government official in the south, was kidnapped by Ahmad al-Awda, Head of the Southern Operations Room.

🇸🇾 - Correction: Ahmed al-Awda arrested Hani Yassin Al-Masatfa, Bilal al-Droubi's secretary and a member of Syria's Ministry of Defense.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Iran nuclear threat reaches 'extreme danger' level.

Since February 2024, when the last report was published, the threat posed by Iran's nuclear program has increased significantly and has entered an 'extremely dangerous stage," - American Institute for Science and International Security, ISIS, a US-based Think Tank that "promotes" nuclear nonproliferation.

Immediately after the Trump-Netanyahu meeting, Yinon on Israeli Channel 14 said the Israeli side will attempt to sabotage the US-Iran negotiations.

Note, ISIS is funded by United States Institute of Peace, USIP, a Congress-funded Think Tank, established by Ronald Reagan.

ISIS is also funded by MacArthur Foundation, an organization that invests in NGOs globally, including grants to Israel's Institute of Applied Social Research and Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, two Israeli-based Think Tanks that promoted Israel's nuclear program.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Iran wants to know the contents of a potential nuclear deal before negotiations, but the US won't allow it," - Axios.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff to meet Russian President Putin in Moscow, Russia, today, marking their third meeting.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "If no ceasefire is reached by the end of the month, Trump could move forward with additional sanctions on Russia," - Axios.

🇪🇺🇨🇳⚡- "China and the EU should fulfill their international responsibilities and jointly maintain the trend of economic globalization and the international trade environment," - Xi Jinping, President of China.

🇪🇺🇨🇳⚡- "China and the EU should jointly resist unilateral bullying," - Xi Jinping, President of China.

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇨🇳⚡- "Going against the world means isolating oneself," - Xi Jinping, President of China.