🇲🇲🇨🇳⚡- "China’s security forces fired warning shots to defend the country’s airspace from Myanmar junta warplanes circling over the headquarters of the anti-junta Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in Laiza on the Chinese border in Kachin State, according to residents and the ethnic army," - The Irrawaddy.

Note, the Myanmar junta's jets did not violate Chinese airspace but were still fired upon with warning shots.

🇪🇹⚡- Complete collapse of Tigray Defense Forces positions in the southwest Tigray region.

Ethiopian troops, ENDF, have advanced north of Alamata, capturing the strategic height of Grat Kahsu. The fate of the city of Korem remains unknown, as unconfirmed reports circulate it has fallen to ENDF control.

ENDF have advanced along the Alamata Road northeast, capturing Tao and Kukufto. Meanwhile, ENDF-allied Tigray Peace Forces have seized almost the entire Tigray southeastern countryside.

Ethiopian forces have also recaptured Erebti in the Afar region from the Uguugumo.

Map key:
- Purple: Ethiopian military forces,
- Red: Tigray Defense Forces,
- Orange: Uguugumo,
- Yellow: Fano areas of operations.

🇮🇷🇱🇷⚡️- "Three Liberian-flagged oil tankers were struck by unknown projectiles when ​transiting the Strait of Hormuz on ‌Tuesday." - Reuters, citing the shipping intelligence service Marisks.

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡️- The Popular Mobilization Forces paraded through the streets of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, to celebrate the total withdrawal of American forces from Iraq.

🇫🇷⚡️- BREAKING: LFI and other ultra-left proxies are confirmed to be behind the urban violences across France according to the French prime minister's office. The statement is based on the internal intelligence service's reports.

🇫🇷 - The French government very rarely openly accuses opposition parties of being behind violent protests. Not even during the height of the Yellow Vests' violences had this happened.

🇱🇧🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡️- Hezbollah and the Syrian government have held face-to-face talks in Turkey aimed at easing tensions between the two sides, sources told Reuters.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: The United States is sending the USS Theodore Roosevelt to the Middle East, making it the third aircraft carrier in the region.

🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah have launched a new large-scale offensive to capture the city of Ta'izz, southern Yemen.

Rerum Novarum's map shows the current situation in the Ta'izz - Aden direction.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- Ethiopia has closed its embassy in Eritrea and has demanded 10 Eritrean officials to leave Addis Ababa within 48 hours.

🇸🇾🇱🇧⚡- Syria denies the Reuters reports that Damascus held direct talks with Hezbollah.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡️- BREAKING: President Trump says the attempted hijacking of the FlyDubai flight is linked to Iran.

Trump says that if confirmed, Iran will be “hit very hard.”

🇬🇧🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: The U.K. has arrested a British-Iranian dual national in connection with the RAF Fairford plot.

They believe he planned the operation, British intelligence is investigating potential foreign state involvement.

🇸🇦🇦🇪🇮🇱⚡- A Saudi official tells NBC News that yesterday’s FlyDubai incident increasingly appears to have been an attempted terrorist attack.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Iran’s Foreign Minister offered to restore IAEA nuclear inspectors access to all damaged facilities in exchange for sanctions relief," - Bloomberg.

🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Saudi Arabia has transferred the Omani copilot from yesterday's FlyDubai aircraft to Abu Dhabi, the UAE.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- BREAKING: In retaliation, Eritrea has severed all diplomatic relations with Ethiopia.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- Iranian projectiles struck a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz causing a fire.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Trump has told his aides he will resume attacks on Iran after the midterm elections, The Wall Street Journal reports.

🇾🇪⚡- Several explosions in Sana'a, Ansarullah-controlled capital of Yemen.