🇵🇰⚡- Islamabad's security forces are investigating the car blast as a suicide / terror bombing.

🇵🇰⚡- BREAKING: The Islamabad car blast has been confirmed as a terrorist act, with the death toll rising to 12.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "China is keeping rare-earth magnets from reaching US military use, seeking approvals for civilian companies only," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli military columns pass through the Zatara checkpoint just south of Nablus, as the IDF prepares for its large-scale military operation in the West Bank.

🇮🇩⚡- Lipet Sobolim, Commander of the OPM's Red Ant Battalion, was killed in action with the Indonesian military in the contested (grey-zone) town of Dekai, in the Papua Highlands region.

Sobolim was one of the key leading figures of the Papua separatism movement.

🇨🇫🇦🇪🇷🇺⚡- The Central African Republic is shifting to the UAE to finance security operations in the country, turning away from Russia. In return, CAR will offer Abu Dhabi logistical hubs for supporting the Rapid Support Forces in neighboring Sudan, Africa Intelligence reports.

CAR have been using Russian forces for almost a decade to improve the security situation in the country against opposition groups. The UAE already has an existing supply line from within CAR to the Rapid Support Forces, which runs through CAR's Birao Airport and via route RN8.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Russia's war in Ukraine is now just 59 days shy from lasting longer than the entire Soviet Union - Nazi Germany war.

🇮🇱⚡- Avichay Adraee, IDF's Arabic spokesman and who became the face of the IDF in the entire Arab world after serving the role for 20 years, has retired.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ulyanovsk, Russia, has shut down all mobile network connections in the city. Ulyanovsk authorities say the internet blackout is to protect "special-purpose facilities" in the city against Ukrainian drone threats. Previously, internet went out only during drone threats, however Ulyanovsk authorities announced the new restriction will remain in place until the end of the war in Ukraine.

🇵🇰⚡- "We are in a state of war.

Anyone who thinks that the Pakistan Army is fighting this war in the Afghan-Pakistan border area and in the remote areas of Balochistan, should take today's suicide attack in the Islamabad District Court as a wake-up call that this is the war of the whole of Pakistan, in which the Pakistan Army is making sacrifices every day and is giving the people a sense of security.

In this environment, it would be futile to hope for more than successful negotiations with the Kabul rulers.
The Kabul rulers can stop terrorism in Pakistan, but bringing this war to Islamabad is a message from Kabul, which Pakistan, thank God, has the strength to respond fully," - Khawaja Asif, Defense Minister of Pakistan.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Kremlin-run VCIOM poll finds that 56% of Russians want an end to the hostilities in Ukraine, with just 27% supporting the war. 83% of Russians say they feel the fatigue from the war, with most blaming the "stagnating wages, rising inflation and sharply declining living standards."

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- 61% of Russians are in favor of an immediate truce to the war in Ukraine, Kremlin-run VCIOM poll.

🇵🇰⚡- Heavy military movement observed in Pakistan.

Pakistanis were notorious for publishing any and every of their military movement online during the conflict with India earlier this year.

🇵🇰⚡- Tahreek-e-Taliban denies responsibility for the Islamabad car blast.

🇬🇪🇹🇷⚡️- The Republic of Georgia reports a Turkish Military cargo plane has crashed near the Georgian-Azerbaijani border.

🇮🇷⚡- Iran is prepared to launch three new satellites into space, Zafar, Paya, and Kowsar.

🇸🇾🇱🇧⚡- For the second day in a row, both the Syrian and Lebanese militaries continue to build-up along the Baalbek-Damascus (Lebanese-Syrian) border.

A large number of Syrian troops entered the town of Flitah yesterday, and Ras Maara today. Whereas the Lebanese military has built-up in the Azouz area. Syria claims the border is occupied by pro-Hezbollah clans, similar to those the Damascus government fought in February and March of this year along the Hermel-Homs border.