🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Trump badly wants the war to end, but the Iranians are so far refusing to give him what he needs to save face and leave." - POLITICO citing a senior Gulf Arab official.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Saudi Arabia refused to allow the United States to use its bases and airspace for Project Freedom, which was a key reason for President Trump suspending the operation. - NBC News.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇸🇦⚡️- Leadership in Saudi Arabia was angered by Trump's announcement of Project Freedom, a source said Saudi Arabia was “very supportive of the diplomatic efforts” by Pakistan to broker a deal between Iran and the U.S. to end the war. - NBC News.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- Kuwait also refused to allow the U.S. military to use its bases and airspace for Project Freedom, an administration official told journalist Ryan Grim.

🇺🇸⚡️- In a CBS interview, Tom Homan said President Trump is considering legal status for illegal migrants like "Dreamers" and farm workers.

🇦🇪🇮🇳⚡- India and the United Arab Emirates are set to establish a defense cooperation agreement within six months after the signing of the Letter of Intent on January 19th, Hindustan Times reports.

🇨🇳⚡️- Two Chinese ex-Defence Ministers have been sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for corruption.

The former defense ministers being Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu. If no crime is committed within the two year reprieve, their sentences are reduced to life imprisonments.

🇸🇴⚡- Tensions arose between Somalia's Federal Government, FSG, and the Galmudug regional administration. FSG, led by President Hassan Mohamud, has criticized Galmudug's appointment of a new head of the region's police force.

Multiple Galmudug Members of Parliament have blasted the President. The FSG have demanded Galmudug's police take direct orders from Mogadishu and not the regional administration head.

Galmudug was one of the final and few remaining Somali regions somewhat loyal to the FSG and Mogadishu.