🇺🇸⚡️- An estimated 500.000 - 600.000 homes are without power due to the winter storm in the U.S. and over 9000 flights were cancelled.

A state of emergency is in effect in 20 states.

🇺🇸⚡- EA-37B electronic warfare aircraft has departed from Bermuda towards Ramstein Air Base, Germany.

The aircraft entered service in 2024 and could mark its first operational use if Ramstein is a fuel stop towards the Middle East.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- "Zhang Youxia, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Central Military Commission (highest ranking officer after President Xi), is under investigation for allegedly leaking Chinese nuclear weapon files to the US," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇺🇸🇨🇳 - Note, the allegations against Zhang Youxia are not yet confirmed. The Chinese military has witnessed a power-struggle between Xi Jinping and Zhang Youxia (a once close ally of Xi) for several years now, which has resulted in numerous purges on either side.

The recent purges have effectively dismantled the CMC.

🇺🇸🇨🇦🇨🇳⚡- "Canada is systematically destroying itself. The China deal is a disaster for them. Will go down as one of the worst deals, of any kind, in history.

All their businesses are moving to the USA. I want to see Canada SURVIVE AND THRIVE!

China is successfully and completely taking over the once Great Country of Canada. So sad to see it happen. I only hope they leave Ice Hockey alone!" - President Donald Trump.

🇮🇶🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Kata'ib Hezbollah announces that it will join a war to defend Iran and urges its fighters to prepare.

🇱🇧🇮🇶🇮🇷⚡️- The official Hezbollah website in Lebanon reposts this statement as it was released.

🇮🇶🇮🇷⚡️- Kata'ib Hezbollah also states 'martyrdom operations' are now a possibility and portrays the conflict as a 'holy war'.

🇮🇶⚡️- Full statement from Kata'ib Hezbollah:

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

“Fight the polytheists altogether as they fight you altogether, and know that God is with the righteous.”

We direct our call to the mujahideen brothers in the eastern and western parts of the earth, and to everyone whose heart is filled with faith, who loves God and His Messenger, and who is certain that honor belongs to God, His Messenger, and the believers; and to everyone who refuses to allow the front of disbelief and hypocrisy to dominate the people of faith and justice—to prepare for a comprehensive war in support of and assistance to the Islamic Republic of Iran, the fortress of the Ummah and its honor, which has stood for more than four decades alongside the oppressed and all the just causes of the Ummah of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), without regard to sect, color, or race.

Today, the forces of misguidance—among the Zionists of the earth and their tyrants—have united in an attempt to subjugate it, or rather to destroy it and demolish all moral and ethical constants across the face of the globe. As we stress the necessity of supporting it by the forces of the Axis and assisting it to the fullest of their ability, we affirm to the enemies that war against the Republic will not be a picnic; rather, you will taste in it the many forms of deadly death, and nothing of yours will remain in our region. “And We shall cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve.”

And we say to our dear mujahideen brothers to prepare themselves militarily for that, and to ready themselves for one of the two good outcomes, especially if jihad is declared by the honorable religious authorities to wage this sacred war, and for whatever rulings or jihadi actions it entails, rising even to martyrdom operations, in defense of the people of Islam and its sanctity. “So fight the leaders of disbelief; indeed, they have no oaths.”

“Peace—a word from a Merciful Lord.”

The Secretary-General of Kata'ib Hezbollah
Al-Hajj Abu Hussein Al-Humaidawi
25 January 2026

🇺🇸⚡- USS Abraham Lincoln, CVN-72, has crossed into the Arabian Sea and has therefore entered CENTCOM's area of responsibility.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Large-scale Israeli airstrikes against southern Lebanon. At least 15 Israeli arrivals reported.

🇺🇸⚡️- Minnesota's National Guard have been seen distributing food and beverages to anti-ICE protesters while wearing yellow vests to not be associated with any ICE agent.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Israeli airstrikes allegedly involved the use of 'bunker buster' GBU-31 missiles to penetrate underground fortified positions.

🇺🇸⚡- "We will conduct exercises for several days to enhance the deployment and sustainability of our capabilities in the region.

The exercises aim to prepare for a flexible response in the region. During the exercise, we will deploy teams to multiple emergency sites to verify readiness," - A CENTCOM source tells al-Jazeera.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "As part of President Trump's 20-point plan, Israel has agreed to open the Rafah crossing for civilian passage only, and under full Israeli supervision.

The opening of the crossing is conditioned on the return of all living hostages and 100% effort by Hamas to locate and return all fallen hostages.

The IDF is currently conducting a focused operation to exhaust all intelligence information obtained in the effort to locate and return the final fallen hostage Ran Gvili. Upon completion of the operation and in accordance with the agreement with the US, Israel will open the Rafah crossing.

The State of Israel is committed to the return of Israeli hero Staff Sergeant Ran Gvili, and will spare no effort to bring him back to the soil of Israel," - Netanyahu's Press Office.

🇺🇸🇪🇬🇮🇱 - The US military has deleted photos and videos of Egyptian troops it initially published from inside Kiryat Gat Command Center, south of Tel Aviv.

The media was taken down at the request of the Egyptian side, as it provided evidence for the presence of the Egyptian military on Israeli soil, Israeli Channel 11 reports. Despite the surface-level political tensions between Cairo and Tel Aviv, the two continue to cooperate closely militarily.

Kiryat Gat Command Center currently oversees the Hamas-Israel ceasefire.

🇵🇭⚡- Akmad Ampatuan, Mayor of Shariff Aguak, Mindanao region of southern Philippines, survived an assassination attempt.

Armed suspects struck the mayor's Land Cruiser with an rpg, but failed to severely damage it. The mayor's office reports Ampatuan is currently safe.