🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- President Donald Trump and members of his Cabinet will meet with oil company chief executives Friday at the White House to discuss plans for them to enter Venezuela and drill, four people familiar with the plans. - POLITICO

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡️- Russia has sent a submarine and other naval assets to escort suspected Iranian shadow tanker BELLA 1 to avoid US seizure. - WSJ.

🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "The IDF estimates that if it were not for the developments in Iran, the attack plan against Hezbollah - which had already been prepared - would have been carried out. Netanyahu received the green light from Trump, and the army announced preparations are complete." - Ynet.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Since Maduro's capture, the Venezuelan stock exchange IBC Index has surged 74.71% in just 2 trading sessions and is up 156% in the last 30 days.

The Venezuelan IBC index tracks the top 15 most liquid and capitalized stocks in the Caracas Stock Exchange.

🇮🇷⚡️- "Iran considers the escalation of its enemies' rhetoric against it a threat and will not let it continue without a response." - Iranian Army Commander-in-Chief Amir Hatami.

🇮🇷⚡️- Massive amounts of GPS jamming in Tehran since late yesterday, likely by the IRGC and Iranian armed forces.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- BREAKING: Senior Southern Transitional Council, STC, officials report communications with Aidarus al-Zoubaidi, Head of the STC, has been lost, and his whereabouts remain unknown.

Al-Zoubaidi was given 24 hours to leave Yemen by Saudi Arabia. The Head of the STC was scheduled to depart for Riyadh yesterday to attend the Yemen summit, but did not attend.

The Saudi-backed Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council has removed Al-Zoubaidi from the council on charges of high treason.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Saudi-backed Coalition Forces have advised civilians in the Southern Transitional Council controlled Ad Dali, Lahij and Aden regions to stay away from public and military sites.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Renewed Saudi airstrikes against the Ad Dali region, Southern Transitional Council controlled Yemen.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- UAE-backed forces in the eastern Lahij are holding discussions to surrender / defect to the Saudi-backed Coalition Forces.

Similar private talks were held in Abyan yesterday, where the entire governorate defected.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Saudi-backed Coalition Forces spokesman Turki al-Malki says the Head of the Southern Transitional Council, Aidarus al-Zoubaidi, has fled the country.

STC released a statement earlier addressing the rumors, claiming al-Zoubaidi is still in Aden and running the government.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- BREAKING: Saudi choppers operating on the southern coast of Yemen. Initial reports, they are heading towards Aden, STC controlled capital.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪 - Scenes from western Zinjibar, Abyan Governorate, southern Yemen.

🇸🇾⚡- BREAKING: The Syrian government urges all civilians to evacuate SDF held areas in Aleppo immediately!

🇸🇾⚡- BREAKING: "We declare the Sheikh Maqsoud and al-Ashrafiyeh [SDF-controlled Aleppo] a closed military zone starting from today," - Syrian Army.

🇸🇾⚡- "We announce a complete curfew in Sheikh Maqsoud and al-Ashrafiyeh [SDF-controlled Aleppo] starting today," - Syrian Army.

🇮🇷⚡- "Our internal affairs are nobody's business but the Iranian people, and the government takes its responsibilities towards the protests," - Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇮🇷⚡- Casualties reported after live ammunition was used by security forces against protesters in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, western Iran.

🇸🇾⚡- Heavy SDF mobilization in the Dayr Hafr direction, northern Syria.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- The Israeli Home Front Command has advised the Heads of Israeli settlements in the West Bank to "prepare for a rapid transition from routine to emergency."