🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Axios just released a story that “Trump” offered Sanctions Relief and Frozen Funds to Iran. This is untrue. I offered them NOTHING! Axios’ story, like most others, is a HOAX, used only for purposes of satisfying their Trump Derangement Syndrome. They should withdraw this fake story, IMMEDIATELY! President DONALD J. TRUMP" - President Trump on Truth Social.

🇺🇸⚡️- Candace Owens has cancelled her show tonight.

🇺🇸⚡️- OpenAI is scrapping the release of its next-generation AI model, GPT-6.1 Astra, after tests showed higher levels of deception and a greater willingness to act outside human instructions compared to previous models, according to The Wall Street Journal.

🇺🇸🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡️- Taiwan has broken ground on a new aerospace and drone industrial park as it rapidly expands its unmanned warfare capabilities against the Chinese threat.

Taipei's latest defense spending plans include more than 40,000 coastal attack drones, 600+ surveillance and reconnaissance drones and over 100 small suicide drone boats. President Lai also called for deeper drone cooperation with democratic partners and a more resilient allied UAV supply chain.

🇺🇸⚡️- Candace Owens has indirectly responded to today's allegations in a reply on X, accusing "The Feds" of a smear campaign against her.

"The Feds are learning this isn't the 60's and they can't bury the Charlie assassination like they did with JFK. The world is awake, and these schizophrenic smear campaigns done in the style of COINTELPRO are no longer effective."

🇺🇸 - Interestingly, Owens has not denied the accusations; she has only vaguely referenced them and implied they are not believable.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- A terrorist infiltration alarm has been sounded in Havat Maginzi, Israeli-occupied West Bank.

The NUG claims that according to their records in the time period between July 2024 and August of 2026 Junta casualties were:

20,383 killed
9,792 wounded
Approximately 23,874 deserted or defected
536 are currently POW's

This would all equal to roundabout 55k casualties in the last two years, with the conflict ongoing since 2021

Note that these figures are their official confirmed records and as with any military may be inflated, however they may also be an undercount due to only confirmed casualties counting, which is why there are such specific numbers, and there may be more unconfirmed casualties

🇪🇹⚡- Tigray Defense Forces, TDF, positions along the Sekota axis have completely collapsed, with the Ethiopian military, ENDF, reversing all TDF gains made over the past week and pushing into the Tigray region itself.

The ENDF and its allies, the Tigray Peace Forces, have captured Finarwa, Abergele and Zamra. Overnight, the ENDF attempted to advance towards the city of Samre, although it remains unconfirmed whether the offensive succeeded.

The loss of Samre would be catastrophic for the TDF, as the major town lies just 38km south of the Tigray capital, Mekele.

Six years ago, Samre witnessed some of the fiercest battles of the TPLF-ENDF war. The town was captured and held by the TPLF for much of the conflict.

Map key:
- Red: Tigray Defense Forces,
- Blue: Fano,
- Purple: Uguugumo.

🇪🇹 - Ethiopian military forces inside an abandoned Tigray Defense Forces, TDF, trench system in northern Alamata, southern Tigray region.

TDF-affiliated confirm the withdrawal of the TDF from the city of Alamata to the Grat Kahsu high grounds further north.

🇱🇾🇦🇪🇮🇱⚡- During the Israeli Prime Minister’s visit to the UAE, Netanyahu met with eastern Libya’s Commander-in-Chief, Saddam Haftar, son of LNA founder Khalifa Haftar.

Saddam sought to use his meeting with Netanyahu to facilitate a summit with Vice President JD Vance.

🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡- UAE's Representative to the United Nations has once again asserted that the Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa are occupied islands and demands an Iranian withdrawal from the strategic territories in the Strait of Hormuz.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- Earlier this morning, a vessel was struck in the Strait of Hormuz by an Iranian projectile, causing a fire onboard. The fire has since been extinguished, UKMTO reports.

🇹🇷🇮🇷⚡- Iranian passenger aircraft EP-KPB was preparing to depart Istanbul for Tehran with passengers on board when Turkish bailiffs seized the Caspian Airlines plane over €3 million in unpaid debts to Turkish aviation company ACM Temsil Gozetim.

🇳🇱⚡- Four train stations in the Netherlands have been evacuated due to 'abandoned bags'.

🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says Israel has "indications that as the election date approaches, our [Israel's] enemies will try to attack."

Opposition leaders are demanding to be briefed on the intelligence.

🇷🇺⚡- A Russian Tu-95MS strategic bomber crashed in the Amur region, killing six of the seven onboard.

🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to hold a security meeting with opposition leader Lapid tonight following the "new intelligence" regarding "indications of Israeli enemies preparing to attack."

🇮🇹🇮🇶⚡️- Italy has finalized its withdrawal of troops from Iraq.

🇪🇹🇪🇷 - Ethiopian and Uguugumo-affiliated media report that the Ethiopian Armed Forces, ENDF, have withdrawn from the Afdera area of northern Afar. It remains unconfirmed whether Uguugumo forces advancing from Dalol have captured the town of Afdera.

Interesting observation: While the ENDF continues to advance through the harsh terrain of Tigray against the far more formidable Tigray Defense Forces, it has seemingly allowed Uguugumo rebels to seize vast swathes of open territory in Afar that could otherwise be defended using Ethiopia’s air and drone power.

Compounding this is Addis Ababa’s decision to bar international media from entering northern Afar to cover the Uguugumo offensive, with access restricted to Ethiopian state-backed outlets and of course al-Jazeera. The only individuals permitted to speak with al-Jazeera have been pro-Addis Ababa Afar regional officials, all of whom have repeated the exact same line: Eritrean forces are involved in the Uguugumo offensive.

Map key:
- Red: Tigray Defense Forces,
- Blue: Fano,
- Purple: Uguugumo.