🇸🇾⚡- Syrian forces have begun moving towards al-Hasakah, SDF's stronghold in the northeast of Syria.

🇯🇵⚡️- Japan's main opposition forces, the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) and Komeito, joined forces together in a new party last week : the Centrist Reform Alliance.

It will be abbreviated Chūdō.

🇳🇬⚡- Unidentified gunmen abduct 160 Christians from two churches in the Kurmin Wali area of the Kaduna State, northern Nigeria. It's likely the perpetrators were Zamfara bandits.

🇶🇦🇸🇴🇦🇪⚡- Following Mogadishu's cancellation of agreements with the UAE, Somalia and Qatar have signed a defense cooperation agreement. The agreement was signed by the defense ministers of both states.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡- Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa called President Trump to discuss the ongoing developments in Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- "We state with firm resolve that just as our comrades carried out the historic resistance in Kobane [Ayn al-Arab] in 2014 and turned it into a graveyard for ISIS backed by Turkey, today we carry the same determination.

From Derik [al-Malikiyah] to al-Hasakah and Kobane, we will turn our cities into a graveyard for the new bearers of the ISIS mentality directed by the Turkish state.

On this basis, we call on all our youth, women and men of Rojava, Northern, Southern, and Eastern Kurdistan, as well as those in Europe, to unite, tear down the occupiers’ borders, and join the resistance.

Today is the day of dignity, the day of historic responsibility.

Once again, we show that the will of the peoples is stronger than any attack or occupation," - SDF.

🇸🇾⚡- BREAKING: Syrian forces have arrived at the outskirts of southern al-Hasakah, SDF-held northeast Syria.

🇸🇾🇮🇶🇹🇷⚡- Protests in Iraqi Kurdistan and southeast Turkey in support of the SDF in Syria.

🇸🇾🇮🇶⚡- Iranian-backed and Iraqi-based Badr Brigade begins reinforcing the Syria-Iraq border.

🇸🇾⚡- Syrian government forces are currently attacking Sarrin, northern Syria, from two directions.

🇸🇾⚡- Syrian government forces have reached Abyad, the final town before al-Hasakah, northeast Syria.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡- US troops have begun deployment to the al-Sina prison in al-Hasakah, SDF-controlled northeast Syria.

Al-Sina is home to the most ISIS prisoners in the world.

🇺🇸⚡- "AMERICA IS BACK!!!" - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇬🇱⚡- "President Donald Trump conceded in a weekend phone call with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer that he may have been given “bad information” on the announcement of troop deployments from European countries to Greenland.

Several European NATO countries announced last week that they’re deploying small numbers of military personnel to Greenland to participate in joint exercises with Denmark, drawing ire from Trump. Danish diplomats had briefed the US in advance of the public announcements. A Danish official told CNN that the deployment was not just communicated in advance, but pre-coordinated within existing European and US military structures," - CNN.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡- "Shockingly, our “brilliant” NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital U.S. Military Base, to Mauritius, and to do so FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER.

There is no doubt that China and Russia have noticed this act of total weakness. These are International Powers who only recognize STRENGTH, which is why the United States of America, under my leadership, is now, after only one year, respected like never before.

The UK giving away extremely important land is an act of GREAT STUPIDITY, and is another in a very long line of National Security reasons why Greenland has to be acquired. Denmark and its European Allies have to DO THE RIGHT THING.

Thank you for your attention to this matter," - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇵🇸⚡- "We have received an invitation to join Trump's Board of Peace, but there are questions that still surround it," - Sergei Lavrov, Russia's Foreign Minister, at his annual press conference.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇬🇱⚡- "We are monitoring the situation in Greenland. There is no proof that Russia or China wants to seize Greenland. But just as Greenland is important for US national security, Crimea is important for Russia's national security," - Sergei Lavrov, Russia's Foreign Minister, at his annual press conference.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇬🇱⚡- "If Western countries want to talk to each other on their own terms - that's their choice, but it's hard to see that discussions about Greenland would call into question the survival of the NATO bloc," - Sergei Lavrov, Russia's Foreign Minister, at his annual press conference.

🇨🇭⚡️- U.N. leader Antonio Guterres has cancelled his attendance to the WEF in Davos because of a "big cold".