🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- The Israeli attack on Bekaa last night killed 10, and injured 24 others, the Lebanese Health Ministry announced.

Hezbollah confirmed 7 of the 10 killed were members of its organization.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: “Based on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday, after MANY months of contemplation, by the United States Supreme Court, please let this statement serve to represent that I, as President of the United States of America, will be, effective immediately, raising the 10% Worldwide Tariff on Countries, many of which have been “ripping” the U.S. off for decades, without retribution (until I came along!), to the fully allowed, and legally tested, 15% level. During the next short number of months, the Trump Administration will determine and issue the new and legally permissible Tariffs, which will continue our extraordinarily successful process of Making America Great Again - GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter. - President Donald J. Trump.

🇸🇾⚡- The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIS, have announced a "new phase of Jihad" against the current Syrian government of Ahmed al-Sharaa.

ISIS accuses al-Sharaa of being an "apostate," that does not "differ from Alawites and Kurds." The Islamic State calls the November-December 2024 overthrow of Bashar al-Assad as "Turkish-American theater." ISIS calls Damascus a government run by "crusaders."

🇾🇪⚡- An explosion, allegedly due to an IED attack, struck a Saudi-backed Homeland Shield Forces vehicle in Seiyun, Hadhramaut Governorate, eastern Yemen.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Israel has observed unusual Hezbollah rocket movements in Lebanon in recent days. The IDF estimates that Hezbollah will launch rockets at Israel if the United States attacks Iran. - Israeli Channel 11.

🇺🇸🇬🇷 - Video allegedly showing the recent military build up at Chania International Airport, Crete, Greece, is old – dated to mid-October 2025.

Rerum Novarum have identified one of the C-17s in the video, reg: 99-0169, is currently in the UAE, and hasn't visited the Eastern Mediterranean at all in 2026.

🇺🇸🇮🇱☪️⚡️- Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, the Arab League, etc. Have publicly condemned the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, for a statement in an interview with Tucker Carlson regarding Israel’s right to expand to their Biblically promised territorial length, commonly referred to as Greater Israel.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- BREAKING: Pakistani airstrikes against the Paktika region of Afghanistan.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- Pakistani airstrikes against Nangarhar and Khost, Afghanistan.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- Heavy Pakistani rocket shelling of Helmand, southern Afghanistan, coinciding with Pakistani aerial movement over the region.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- "Very important! Pakistan is likely to strike deep inside Afghanistan now after today's attack in Bannu, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, in which two senior Pakistani soldiers were killed.

The Pakistani military says that the Afghan Taliban have yet again failed to stop Tahreek-e-Taliban from using Afghan soil for 'terrorist activities' inside Pakistan.

Pakistan will not exercise any restraint, and operations will continue against the perpetrators of this heinous act," - Wajahat Kazmi, former Pakistani CNN correspondent.

🏳️🇵🇰 - So far 8 Pakistani airstrikes have been reported across Paktika, Paktia, Khost, and Nangarhar in Afghanistan.

🇸🇩⚡- Sudanese airstrikes against Nyala, capital of the Rapid Support Forces controlled Sudan.

🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡️- The IRGC has begun a massive movement of troops and heavy military equipment toward the Iraqi border. - Israeli Channel 12.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israel was prepared for a US attack on Iran this weekend, but the operation was postponed.

The US strategy is shifting from a short and decisive strike to a long-term attritional campaign aimed at systematically weakening Iran's nuclear facilities, missile systems, and the infrastructure of the IRGC," - Ynet.

🇺🇸🇬🇱🇩🇰⚡️- "Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there. It’s on the way!!!" - President Trump via Truth Social.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff says that President Trump is curious and frustrated as to why Iran has not yet capitulated to the demands under U.S. military pressure.

🇮🇷⚡️- "According to the six senior officials and the Guards members, Mr. Khamenei has issued a series of directives. He has named four layers of succession for each of the military command and government roles that he personally appoints.

He has also told everyone in leadership roles to name up to four replacements and has delegated responsibilities to a tight circle of confidants to make decisions in case communications with him are disrupted or he is killed." - NYT.

🇮🇷⚡️- "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, turned to a trusted and loyal lieutenant to steer the country: Ali Larijani, the country’s top national security official. Since then, Mr. Larijani, a 67-year-old veteran politician, a former commander in the Revolutionary Guards Corps and current head of the Supreme National Security Council, has effectively been running the country.

Mr. Khamenei named three candidates who could succeed him. They have never been publicly identified, but Mr. Larijani is almost certainly not among them because he is not a senior Shiite cleric — a fundamental qualification for any successor." - NYT.

🇺🇸🇸🇴⚡- "Somaliland is willing to give the US access to its rare earth minerals and a military base," - AFP.