🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡️- Unidentified reconnaissance drone above Baghdad. This was posted less than 30 minutes ago.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Israeli centrist newspaper Yediroth Ahronoth says that Gaza will be governed by "direct military rule" by Israel after the war ends, quoting Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

🇵🇰⚡️- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been sentenced 10 years in prison for leaking state secrets.

🇸🇪🇵🇸⚡️- Sweden has announced the suspension of funds for UNRWA.

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡️- Kataib Hezbollah announces a suspension of military operations against the US in Iraq in Syria, in order to avoid "embarrassment" for the Iraqi government.

🇺🇸⚡️- House Republicans have voted to advance effort to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

🇺🇸🇾🇪⚡️- The Houthis claim they carried out an attack against an American commercial vessel in the Red Sea.

🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡️- The United States is allegedly considering recognizing Palestine as an independent country.

🇮🇷🇸🇾⚡️- Sudden evacuation of IRGC-linked militia groups from Deir Ez-Zor in eastern Syria, potentially avoiding upcoming US airstrikes.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- IDF troops withdrew from the north and northwestern sectors of Gaza City.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡️- Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stated that the United States is not considering a withdrawal from Syria.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Biden has issued sanctions against Israeli settlers in the West Bank, specifically financial sanctions and visa restrictions.

🇺🇸🇮🇱 - This is big. This is the first time an American president has taken direct action against West Bank settlers, aside from the usual pleas to the Israeli Prime Minister to stop the settlements.

🇺🇸🇮🇶🇸🇾⚡️- Reports indicate that the United States has prepared and is planning to authorize multi-day strikes in Iraq and Syria against pro-Iranian proxy forces, possibly IRGC personnel and facilities.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: The U.S. bombing campaign against Iranian targets across Syria and Iraq is expected to begin within 48 hours – WSJ quoting Pentagon Officials

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🇷🇺⚡️- President Putin claims Russia has created 520,000 new defense jobs.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has vowed to respond to any American strikes.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Sky News Arabia, quoting US defense officials, states that American B-1 bomber aircraft are airborne and headed towards the Middle East on a mission.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Washington is attempting to coerce Iran into “curbing armed groups” through secret diplomatic channels, according to the Washington Post