🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah have launched yet another attack on the Zuqar Island in the Red Sea, after the first two failed.

Pro-Aden National Resistance Forces frontline sources report fierce clashes in the waters around the island, but have so far repelled the al-Houthi attacks.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Earlier this year, Israel trained thousands of Kurdish separatists on Israeli territory as part of a plan to topple the Iranian government, Israeli Channel 13 reports.

🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡- EU's forces have seized a Russian ghost tanker, SUN, in the Mediterranean Sea yesterday.

The forces boarded the vessel which was flying under a false flag. She would be the sixth Russian vessel the EU have seized in international waters.

🇲🇱🇷🇺⚡- Heavy FLA drone strikes on Malian military, FAMa, and Russia's African Corps positions in Aguelhoc, northern Mali.

🇰🇪🇸🇴⚡- Al-Shabaab launched two separate cross border attacks in the past 24 hours on the Lamu region of northeast Kenya.

Both attacks were repelled, forcing the Somalia-based terrorist group back towards the border. The clashes left several Kenyan military and civilian casualties, and came amid a rise of al-Shabaab attacks on Kenya in the past two-three weeks.

🇸🇾⚡- Clashes between the Syrian government and the Israeli-funded Druze separatist militia along the western countryside of As Suwaida, southern Syria

🇮🇷🇴🇲🇸🇦⚡- Saudi tanker, CEDAR, was disabled while attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz via Omani waters, IRIB reports.

🇾🇪⚡- Two Ansarullah ballistic missiles struck al-Zahari, Mocha direction, southwest Yemen.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- Initial reports of Iranian projectiles launched towards the Strait of Hormuz.

🇺🇸⚡️- U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned following months of disagreements and clashes with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. - The Wall Street Journal.

🇾🇪⚡- Southern Yemeni separatists are set to hold what is expected to be their largest pro-Southern Transitional Council, STC, demonstration since the collapse of the STC-led government in Aden earlier this year.

Dubbed "One Million Southerners", a play on Ansarullah's "One Million Man Army" campaign, the protests are scheduled to take place tomorrow across southern Yemen, including Aden, STC-stronghold Ad Dali, Mocha, Shabwah, Lahij, and throughout the Hadhramaut region.

🇺🇳🇭🇹⚡️- Haiti’s ambassador to the United Nations, Eric Pierre, has called upon the international community to rapidly accelerate the deployment of the UN-backed Gang Suppression Force after the Viv Ansanm gang coalition killed 47 civilians, including those who fled to a nearby church, where they were massacred.

In March, Chad committed about 800 police officers to replace their Kenyan counterparts, who saw little success. The current UN Gang Suppression Force reportedly has around 5,500 personnel and receives UN-funded weapons, equipment, and supplies.

🇸🇩🇪🇹⚡- A new large build-up of Rapid Support Forces, RSF, in Ethiopia along the Sudanese border, indicating the RSF offensive in the Ad Damazin direction is far from over.

🇾🇪⚡- One of the most senior Islamic State officials and its spokesman Abu Hudhayfah al-Ansari was killed in an overnight operation by Yemen's Quick Rapid Forces, QRF.

The QRF were designed by the UAE and worked closely with the former Southern Transitional Council. The forces are based in the al-Rayyan Air Base, and operate in a similar way to Sudan's Rapid Support Forces pre-2023.