🇸🇦🇮🇶🇾🇪⚡- Moments ago, a U.S. one-way drone was downed in the Babil Province in Iraq (shown on Rerum Noavrum's map in purple). The group responsible has not yet been identified.

Interestingly, al-Jazeera's Yemen correspondent Ahmed al-Shalfi, citing Iraqi sources, claims an Ansarullah delegation from Yemen recently arrived in Musayyib (shown on the map) in the Babil Province, Iraq, to meet with pro-Iranian Iraqi-based militias. The meeting took place on Saturday, one of the Ansarullah individuals was a senior al-Houthi official Abu Ali al-Azi.

In mid-2024, a U.S. airstrike targeted a house in Jurf al-Shakhar (now Jurf al-Nasr) in northern Babil Province during a clandestine meeting between Ansarullah and Hezbollah figures. Those killed were later identified as Mustafa al-Shabal of Ansarullah and Abu Hassan al-Maliki of Hezbollah.

Ironically, two days after the Ansarullah-Iraqi militias meeting on Saturday, Saudi Arabia claimed Iraqi-based groups attacked ARAMCO's refinery in Abqaiq in the east of the Kingdom.

Has Ansarullah escalated its tit-for-tat campaign with Saudi Arabia by bringing Iraqi-based militias into the fight?

🇱🇾 - Massive protests erupted last night in Tripoli, Misrata, and nearby towns of the Government of National Unity, GNU, controlled western Libya.

The protests initially began as a youth movement, known as the Sons of Sough al-Jumah (Friday Market - a district of Tripoli), but escalated into calling for the downfall of the Prime Minister of western Libya, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh.

Protestors stormed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building, Mellitah oil facilities, administrative buildings of multiple different towns, and the Ministry of Youth building. Protestors also set up multiple roadblocks across Misrata and Tripoli.

Local armed group leaders were also present in the anti-Dbeibeh protests.

🇱🇾 - The Jewish Community and Michael Rubin of the Middle East Forum in the past 24 hours have wrote anti-Dbeibeh pieces, accusing him of preventing Libya from uniting.

Michael Rubin, who in the past was ousted by Amnesty International of being on UAE's payroll and has called for the arming of PKK to counter NATO partner Turkey, called warlord Khalifa Haftar's eastern Libya an ideal anti-Islamist and nationalist society, comparing it to the former Yemeni Southern Transitional Council and Iraq's Kurdistan region.