🇸🇾⚡- The Syrian government has announced a 'military operation' scheduled to start in one hour against SDF-controlled northern Aleppo city.

🇸🇾⚡️- The Syrian National Army (SNA) has zip tied two Kurdish girls who were attempting to flee the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighborhoods. It is unclear why they were taken.

🇾🇪 - Current situation in Yemen:

- Purple: Saudi-backed Homeland Shield Forces have begun entering the Aden and Lahij regions. HSF forces have entered the Green City district of Aden, and the city of Lahij. Both are currently controlled by the right-wing Giants Brigades (part of the pro-Hadi coalition).

- Yellow: Pro-Saudi Yemeni National Resistance (pro-Hadi forces). Most of the areas in the southwest are controlled by the pro-Hadi forces, who have mostly defected to join the pro-Saudi side. Their control also includes the Socotra Island. The pro-Hadi forces are expected to continue to hand over all of their territory to the Saud-backed HSF.

- Green: Remnants of the Southern Transitional Council in the northern Ad Dali region. They are mostly the elite Security Belt Forces and the Storm Brigades.

- Red: Ansarullah.

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🇸🇾⚡- The Syrian government has issued 5 evacuation orders for the SDF-controlled northern Aleppo city (shown in red on the map).

The orders are given for:
- Youth Housing Development,
- Martyrs Housing and April Park, just south of al-Shaqif micro district,
- Two apartment blocks south of the Jewish Cemetery,
- Several complexes west of al-Snoubari Park,
- Saad bin Waqqas Mosque and Montana Mall.

🇸🇾⚡- BREAKING: The Syrian army has launched its military operation in northern Aleppo city. Violent clashes are taking place with the SDF.

🇸🇾⚡- Clashes are taking place at al-Shihan roundabout (36.2288, 37.1273), where the Syrian government forces have made minor advances.

Syrian government troops attempted to storm the Syriac Quarters and the Suleimaniyeh Center, south of the al-Ashrafiyeh district, but failed, leaving behind high casualties.

Contrary to reports, Syrian government troops are not inside al-Ashrafiyeh.

🇺🇸🇨🇭⚡️- Donald Trump has been confirmed to physically attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 16th.

🇸🇾⚡- SDF forces have crossed the al-Zahoor Street and have captured al-Kalima School (36.22291, 37.14046), south of the al-Ashrafiyeh district, Aleppo city.

🇫🇷🇷🇺⚡️- An independant Russian journalist died shortly after being defenestrated from his flat in Meudon, France.

His roommate wasn't able to be interrogated by law enforcement immediately due to a language barrier. Letters were found written in Russian alongside medication thrown in the trashcan.

French law enforcement believes in a suicide for now.

🇸🇾⚡- Syrian government forces have opened a new front in the north. Syrian troops are attempting to cross Khalid bin al-Walid road Road and into the al-Shaqif micro district – north of the Sheikh Maqsoud district.

🇸🇾⚡- Fighting near the al-Shihan roundabout has expanded across the entire Shihan Avenue, reaching the al-Layramoun roundabout, southwest of the al-Ashrafiyeh district.

🇸🇾⚡- Heavy fighting erupts in the Ayn al-Tal district (al-Jalaa), south of al-Jundul roundabout (36.2488126, 37.1729540) – northern Aleppo.

The area is predominantly Christian.

🇸🇾⚡- Visual confirmation: The SDF are advancing in the predominantly Christian Ayn al-Tal (al-Jalaa) district of northern Aleppo.

🇸🇾 - Northern Aleppo covered in a thick fog of smoke.

🇸🇴🇮🇱⚡- Somaliland and Israel are in talks about a potential Israeli military base on Somaliland's territory, Israel Channel 12 reports.

🇹🇷🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "The SDF is stalling, and need to do their part. Instead, they are cooperating with Israel. The SDF has turned into an actor serving Israel’s divide-and-rule policy in our region," - Hakan Fidan, Foreign Minister of Turkey.

🇷🇺⚡- BREAKING: Russian ghost tanker ELBUS was struck by a drone just north of Turkey. The fourth such incident in the Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean area.

The tanker has begun making its way to a Turkish port.

🇾🇪⚡- BREAKING: Aden International Airport begins evacuating all its staff as Saudi and UAE backed forces face off in the area.

Contrary to earlier reports, the Southern Transitional Council has not withdrawn from Aden entirely.

Saudi-backed Homeland Shield Forces are being prevented entry into Aden International Airport and the N5 Highway south, which provides access to the upper-class districts of Khor Maksar and Ma'alla, as well as the Presidential Palace, al-Ma'ashiq.

Map key:
- Purple: Saudi-backed Homeland Shield Forces,
- Yellow: Pro-Hadi Forces (pro Homeland Shield Forces),
- Green: Southern Transitional Council (likely the Storm Brigades).