🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷⚡- "Several parties have asked us in the past two months: If America and Israel go to war against Iran, will Hezbollah intervene? We are concerned with what is happening and determined to defend ourselves. We will decide at the right time how to act - whether to intervene or not.

The war against Iran this time could ignite the region," - Naim Qassem, Secretary-General of Hezbollah.

🇸🇩⚡- BREAKING: The Sudanese Armed Forces have lifted the 31 months long siege of Dilling, South Kordofan.

Sudanese troops broke through the Rapid Support Forces (+ al-Hilu Forces) encirclement from the east and entered the city in the past hour.

Map by VistaMaps.

🇺🇸 - CENTCOM confirms the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and its strike group have entered the Middle East arena.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Just recovered the last Hostage body in GAZA. Thus, got back ALL 20 of the living Hostages, and ALL of the Dead! AMAZING JOB! Most thought of it as an impossible thing to do. Congratulations to my great team of Champions!!!" - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- Federal Immigration agents are responsible for 67% of shooting deaths in Minneapolis so far this year.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump is attempting to sideline Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowsky in favor of Tom Homan. Homan has been against the Minneapolis strategy since the beginning.

🇸🇦🇧🇭🇦🇪⚡- "Bahrain has emerged as a quiet partner in efforts aligned with Abu Dhabi's broader regional agenda.

The objective is not direct confrontation with Saudi Arabia, but a gradual campaign to weaken Riyadh’s leadership role inside the Gulf, restrict Qatar’s reintegration, and fracture the momentum of Saudi–Qatari rapprochement," - The Dark Box, French-based Middle East Think Tank.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump in a new statement says he had a call with Tim Walz and they were "on a similar wavelength" on how to move forward with ICE in Minneapolis.

🇺🇸⚡️- Tim Walz has again today compared ICE operations to Nazi Germany.

🇺🇸🇸🇦🇮🇱⚡- "Saudi Arabia, which I’ll never forgive for 9/11,  is trying to destroy the UAE, which is our closest Arab ally in the Middle East and has friendly relations with Israel," - Mark Levin.

🇸🇦🇶🇦🇦🇪⚡- The UAE has begun limiting Qatari and Saudi media in the Emirati State, Saudi outlet Ajel reports.

🇺🇸✡️⚡️- The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jennifer Mnookin, has been selected as Columbia’s next president.

Jennifer Mnookin will be the first Jewish president of Columbia University, following repeated Presidential dismissals during pro-Palestinian protests after October 7th.

This appointment now makes Mnookin the sixth Jewish president out of the eight Ivy League schools.

🇺🇸🇧🇷⚡️- “I spoke today by phone with the President of the United States, Donald Trump. We discussed topics related to bilateral relations and the global agenda. We exchanged information on the economic indicators of both countries, which point to good prospects for the two economies. President Trump stated that the economic growth of the United States and Brazil is positive for the region as a whole. We welcomed the good relationship built in recent months, which resulted in the lifting of a significant portion of the tariffs applied to Brazilian products.

I reiterated the proposal, forwarded to the State Department in December, to strengthen cooperation in combating organized crime. I expressed interest in tightening the partnership in repressing money laundering and arms trafficking, as well as in freezing assets of criminal groups and exchanging data on financial transactions, a proposal that was well received by the U.S. president.

Regarding the Peace Council, I proposed that the body presented by the United States be limited to the Gaza issue and provide a seat for Palestine. In that context, I reiterated the importance of a comprehensive reform of the United Nations, which includes expanding the permanent members of the Security Council.

We exchanged impressions on the situation in Venezuela. I emphasized the importance of preserving peace and stability in the region and working for the well-being of the Venezuelan people.

We agreed on a visit to Washington after my trip to India and South Korea in February, on a date to be set soon.” - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

🇮🇱⚡- "Without providing an explanation: The judges decided to shorten Netanyahu's trial session tomorrow, and it will only last until 1pm, local time," - Israeli Channel 12.

Netanyahu is also scheduled to meet Knesset Opposition Leader Yair Lapid tomorrow to brief him on the security situation in the region.

🇬🇧🇨🇳⚡- "China hacked the mobile phones of senior officials in Downing Street for several years. The spying operation, Salt Typhoon, is understood to have compromised senior members of the government, exposing their private communications to Beijing.

Chinese state-sponsored hackers are known to have targeted the phones of some of the closest aides to Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak between 2021 and 2024.

The Downing Street hack formed part of a global espionage operation by Beijing that targeted multiple countries, including the United States and the other three members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance: Australia, Canada and New Zealand," - The Telegraph.

🇶🇦🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "We're in the process of blocking the Iranian Shiite radical axis. But there is another one, the radical Sunni axis, the Muslim Brotherhood," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇺🇸⚡️- “Top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino and some of his agents are expected to leave Minneapolis tomorrow and return to their respective sectors, according to three sources familiar the discussions,” - CNN.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The US Holocaust Museum has condemned Democratic leaders comparing illegal immigrants detained by ICE to Anne Frank.

🇺🇸⚡️- DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has agreed to testify to the Congressional Judiciary Committee on March 3rd.