🇲🇱⚡️- The blocus by the JNIM on certain roads leading to Bamako has forced hundreds, if not thousands, of vehicle drivers to wait for days. Moroccan truck drivers report large quantities of food have rotten.

🇲🇱⚡️- Despite the Malian junta claiming the blocus around Bamako isn't fully in effect, drivers attempting to breach checkpoints were shot at and others saw their cargo seized and burnt by JNIM fighters.

🇲🇱⚡️- The road linking Bamako to Guinée is fully blockaded, with similar reports of burnt trucks.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: The Israeli Air Force just carried out an airstrike in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon.

Channel 14 reports this is an assassination strike.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "The target of the strike in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut was a Hezbollah 'Radwan Force' commander." - Galei Tzahal, official IDF outlet.

🇸🇾🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- IDF fighter jets are reportedly loitering over southern Syria, preparing for another round of airstrikes - possibly assassination strikes - against Beirut.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli outlets are now naming Malek Balut as the target of Israel's strike on Dahiyeh.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Malek Balut is being identified as the commander of Hezbollah's elite Radwan Force, or Unit 125, a special operations force within Hezbollah's military structure.

The Israeli military has not confirmed a name, but most Israeli outlets are reporting that Balut has been eliminated, alongside other Hezbollah military officials.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "With the approval of Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Katz, the Israeli army launched an attack on the commander of Hezbollah's Radwan force in Beirut with the aim of thwarting his plans. The terrorists, led by Radwan, were responsible for bombing Israeli settlements and harming Israeli army soldiers. There is no immunity for any terrorist. Israel's long arm will reach every enemy and combatant. We have promised to provide security for the residents of the north, and this is our way!" - Joint statement released by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli channels are reporting that the commander of Hezbollah's Radwan Force as well as the deputy commander have been assassinated.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Following the airstrikes against Dahiyeh, Home Front Command has issued additional security measures for northern Israel, anticipating a retaliatory strike by Hezbollah in response to today's strikes in Beirut.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli channels are alleging that the strike in Beirut was carried out in coordination with the United States.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah has released footage of an FPV drone strike on three IDF soldiers on May 1 in Bayada, southern Lebanon.

🇸🇴⚡- BREAKING: Violent clashes in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. Gunfire, artillery and tanks are being used.

Earlier today, several units of Somalia's military set-up road blocks demanding missed salaries, and threatened to march on the defense ministry.

Multiple casualties reported, including civilians.

🇸🇴 - Scenes from Mogadishu, Somalia. Two government military vehicles were hit by RPGs.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Iran has one week to reach a deal, I'm cautiously optimistic." - President Trump.

🇸🇴 - Somali journalists on the ground report the situation with the missed payments for soldiers only fuelled an already tense situation.

Mogadishu's council, backed by the Somali government, were allegedly attempting to evict residents from the Deynile district, when portions of the army came to the residents aid.

🇸🇴⚡- Four prominent Somali journalists have been arrested in Mogadishu for covering the evictions in the Deynile district.

🇯🇵🇵🇭🇨🇳⚡- "Japan will fast-track the transfer of Abukuma-class destroyers to the Philippines under a new defense agreement, as both sides seek to counter Chinese aggression in the South China Sea," - TaiwanPlus News.

🇲🇱🇷🇺⚡️- A plane containing at least 100 Russians and equipment landed in Bamako last night, per local journalist.