🇺🇸🏴⚡️- The mugshot of the suspect in the foiled IS New Years terrorist attack, Christian Sturdivant.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- BREAKING: Saudi-backed Hadhramaut Tribal Alliance, HTA, have launched their own offensive in the Tarim area of Hadhramaut region, eastern Yemen.

HTA have advanced south from the al-Masnaah mountains and have captured Seiyun International Airport as well as the 1st Military Region headquarters.

The status of the city of Seiyun is currently unknown, which lies on the opposite side of Airport Road.

Meanwhile, further west the Saudi-backed Homeland Shield Forces clash with UAE-backed Hadhrami Elite Forces in al-Qatan.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪 - Saudi airstrikes against al-Qatan, Hadhramaut region, are false. Reports are mistaking Homeland Shield Forces artillery and rocket fire against the town as airstrikes.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- In the past few hours, large swathes of eastern Yemen have come under Saudi-backed Yemeni forces control.

Saudi-backed Yemeni forces have captured the city of Seiyun, Tarim and the Tena-Sana highway, eastern Hadhramaut region. The entire Shipping Road near the Oman border, al-Mahrah region, has also come under Saudi-backed Yemeni troops control.

Reports of UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council troops withdrawing from the coastal towns and cities.

🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian Basij forces cornered an anti-regime protester while he was chanting slogans against Khamenei and forced him to apologize. The protester then urinated on himself.

🇮🇷⚡️- Majority of the cities around Iran are reported to be calm, NOPO forces stormed multiple riots and protests dispersing the crowds shooting at rioters and arresting many others, a women in Neyshabur was arrested for allegedly being trained by Mossad on how to organize the protests.

Riots were worst in Hamedan, Qom, and Lorestan. Tehran had some small pockets of clashes but overall was heavily under NOPO control and kept peaceful, NOPO forces have regained control of every major city with rioters arrested or retreating.

Rioters attempted to take over Basij bases but were shot by NOPO forces. A rioter attempted to throw a grenade at NOPO forces but was shot dead before doing so, which then the grenade exploded in his hand. Iran has not enacted Code 3, indicating that NOPO forces are considered sufficient to contain the riots for now.

Contrary to some reports, today’s riots were less widespread and less intense than in previous days.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Reports of factions within the UAE-backed the Hadhrami Elite Brigades and the far-right ultra-conservative Giant Brigades defecting to the Saudi-backed Homeland Shield Forces.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Al-Qatan, the last major stronghold of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council in the central Hadhramaut region, falls to the Saudi-backed Homeland Shield Forces, HSF.

Only the resource-rich regions of Wadi Dawan and Ghayl Bin Yemen now stand between the HSF and the coast.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- "The Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda are waging war on the people of the south of Yemen under the cover of Saudi air power," - Southern Transitional Council spokesman tells Sky News Arabia.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Saudi drones operating over Ghayl Bin Yemen and along areas of the coast of Hadhramaut, eastern Yemen.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- BREAKING: "The [Saudi-backed] Yemeni Presidency is turning its attention to Aden [Southern Transitional Council capital] after Hadhramaut," - Asharq Al-Awsat, Saudi outlet, citing a source in the Yemeni Presidential Office.

🇸🇦 🇶🇦 🇹🇷 Saudi Arabia's recent initiatives in Yemen, Sudan, and the Horn of Africa reveal a growing rift with the United Arab Emirates and an increasing alignment with Qatar and Turkey.

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