🇱🇾🇸🇩⚡- 350 UAE-purchased armed Land Cruisers are being transported from a base in Benghazi to al-Kufrah, southeast Khalifa Haftar-controlled Libya - al-Jazeera reports.

The vehicles will then be transferred to the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan.

🇪🇬⚡- "Our position is firm regarding limiting Red Sea governance to the countries bordering it," - Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to hold a security cabinet meeting tomorrow to discuss the Iranian file.

🇸🇩🇪🇬⚡- The African Union turned down the Egyptian proposal that sought to reintegrate Sudan into the Union, and the formal recognition of Chairman Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's government, the Sudan Times reports.

According to the outlet's sources, the "final communique was drafted in a compromise tone to avoid directly embarrassing Cairo after the Egyptian proposal failed."

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- “There is zero chance that Iran agrees to anything the U.S. proposes — or vice versa.” - a U.S. official told Axios.

🇪🇷🇪🇹⚡- Unusual movement of Eritrean troops along the Ethiopian border.

🇪🇹⚡- Ethiopia has cancelled accreditation for three Reuters journalists after the outlet reported on a Rapid Support Forces training camp in the southwest of the country.

🇺🇸⚡️- The DOJ released a six-page list of individuals named in the Epstein files. The names range from Les Wexner to Elvis Presley, who was deceased before Epstein began his blackmail operation, seemingly to confuse the public by listing the names without context.

Contrary to false rumors, no new information has been unredacted in the Epstein files, nor have any new files been released, with three million files still unreleased.

🇺🇸⚡️- Multiple large accounts on X are spreading the false claim that the DOJ has fully released every Epstein file with no redactions. In reality, the "release" was a six-page document listing individuals mentioned in the Epstein files, either by reference or in connection with Epstein. However, the list includes names such as Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Elvis Presley, Todd Blanche, and Pam Bondi, none of whom appear in the Epstein files.

It’s unclear why the DOJ released this list, as it’s incomplete; many names are missing, and several new ones were added that were never mentioned in the files.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Hezbollah have, for the first time in decades, worried intelligence chiefs in Tel Aviv over the prospect of Hezbollah forging new 'smarter' alliances on Israel’s northern border that reach across sectarian divides.

Israel is so concerned that they have launched ground raids into southern Syria and southern Lebanon to take out and disrupt [the Sunni and Lebanon-based Muslim Brotherhood affiliate] Jamaa Islamiya.

Last weekend’s decision to risk a ground incursion into hostile territory to capture Atwi alive – he is now being interrogated – illustrates just how seriously they are taking the resurgent terror group," - The Telegraph.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: The US seized VERONICA III, an Iranian ghost tanker, in the Indian Ocean.

The tanker was under sanctions by the US and was falsely flying the Panamanian flag. The vessel was loaded with illegal American oil from Venezuela, which was being transported to South East Asia (likely to Melaka, Malaysia).

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "We defend the Homeland forward. Distance does not protect you.

Overnight, U.S. forces conducted a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding of the Veronica III without incident in the INDOPACOM area of responsibility.

The vessel tried to defy President Trump’s quarantine —hoping to slip away. We tracked it from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, closed the distance, and shut it down. No other nation has the reach, endurance, or will to do this.

International waters are not sanctuary. By land, air, or sea, we will find you and deliver justice.

The Department of War will deny illicit actors and their proxies freedom of movement in the maritime domain," - Department of War.

🇶🇦🇮🇱⚡- "When the current regime [of the al-Thanis] fall, Qatar will sign the Abraham Accords with Israel," - Khalid al-Hail, Qatari opposition leader, based in London.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- The Taliban have evidence that Pakistan's intelligence, ISI, is funding Islamic State, IS-K, camps in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan regions, Zabihullah Mujahid, Taliban spokesman, says.

🇺🇸🏳️🇮🇷⚡- "In the event of a possible conflict between Iran and the United States, Iran would have the capacity to emerge victorious.

The Islamic Republic of Iran was ultimately successful the last time it faced an attack, and this time as well due to its capabilities and its legitimate right to self-defense," - Zabihullah Mujahid, Taliban spokesman.

🇺🇸🏳️🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: Zabihullah Mujahid, Taliban spokesman, says Afghanistan is "ready to cooperate with the Iranian people" in a potential conflict with the US.

🇪🇹⚡- Fano separatists have withdrawn from Wereta, Amhara region, after briefly capturing the major town earlier today.

Wereta, just west of Debre Tobor, returns to Ethiopian military control.