🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- 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.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa leaves for Ankara, Turkey.

🇸🇩🇦🇪⚡- The UAE have strongly denied all accusations against it of funding the Rapid Support Forces or a genocide in Sudan at yesterday's International Court of Justice. Multiple high-profile UAE figures have made aggressive public statements, with the country very visibly upset over Khartoum's actions.

🇸🇩🇦🇪⚡- "Just when we thought Hamas might finally free the hostages, Sudan’s Islamist-run army, hijacked by the Muslim Brotherhood, proudly declared it will send weapons and troops to serve Hamas and destroy Israel. Yes, you read that right, terrorists helping terrorists and calling it diplomacy. And guess who they’ve decided to attack next? The UAE, ironically, the Middle East’s most peaceful haven and number one promoter of tolerance," - Amjad Taha, UAE's geo-analyst, and co-founder of the Israeli-based Arab Think Tank 'Sharaka'.

🇾🇪⚡- The X account of Ansarullah Spokesperson Yahya Saree has been suspended, along with the accounts of several other senior Houthi officials.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- BREAKING: In response to the US raising tariffs on Chinese goods to 145%, China will raise their tariffs on US goods from 84% to 125%. Tariffs will go into effect from tomorrow.

🌍⚡- The European markets have begun plummeting again, with the Paris stock market down -0.8%, Frankfurt is down -1.5%. London is still trading above, at +0.2%. Moscow is the only large stock market that is doing well currently, at +1.9%.

🇯🇵⚡- Japan's Nikkei 225 down by -4.6%.

🇸🇾🇦🇿⚡- Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa meets Azerbaijan's Ilham Aliyev in Antalya, Turkey.