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17 January 2026 12:23

🇺🇸🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- "US intelligence believes the Syrian government is preparing a large scale offensive into the SDF-controlled northeast Syria, with the backing of Turkey. The offensive would put Syrian and Turkish troops in direct contact against US troops deployed in the region.

The US has cautioned the Damascus government that crossing the Euphrates into the SDF territory would prompt the reactivation of the Caesar Act sanctions. However, according to US intelligence, Turkey has already given Damascus the greenlight, with President al-Sharaa approving an offensive into SDF-controlled northeast Syria.

Vice President JD Vance spoke with al-Sharaa to try to resolve his differences with the SDF diplomatically," - The Wall Street Journal.

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14 January 2026 19:24

🇺🇸🇬🇱 - "Which way, Greenland man?" - The White House.

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13 January 2026 14:33

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇷🇺⚡️- The powerful “mystery weapon” that made Venezuelan soldiers “bleed through their nose” and “vomit blood” used in Operation Absolute Resolve has been linked to a weapon purchased by HSI in 2024 for eight figures.

The device produces pulsed radio waves as well as containing Russian components. The physical impact is also linked to the conundrum known as Havana Syndrome, which garners its name from an incident in 2016 where U.S. diplomats began “reporting symptoms consistent with heao trauma, including vertigo and extreme headaches.”

It is not clear whether investigations into the 2016 incident led HSI and the Pentagon to discover the device or where they purchased it.

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13 January 2026 08:59

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Terrorist cells, supported by Israel, entered Iran from the east [Pakistan], in Zahedan.

The terrorist cells planned assassination and sabotage operations of infrastructure during the riots. They possessed Israeli and American weapons," - Iranian Ministry of Intelligence.

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12 January 2026 22:48

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Effective immediately, any Country doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran will pay a Tariff of 25% on any and all business being done with the United States of America. This Order is final and conclusive. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP." - President Donald Trump in a post on Truth Social.

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11 January 2026 02:23

🇺🇸🇬🇱⚡️- BREAKING: "President Trump has ordered the US military to draft invasion plans for Greenland. However, senior military officials say it would be illegal and lack congressional support. The most aggressive push is coming from the hardline advisers associated with Stephen Miller.

Officials have tried diverting Trump toward less drastic options, while diplomats have war-gamed scenarios ranging from military or political coercion to a compromise in which Denmark grants the US expanded military access to Greenland

The generals think Trump's Greenland plan is crazy and illegal. So they are trying to deflect him with other major military operations elsewhere around the world, and say it's like dealing with a 5 year old," - The Daily Mail.

Credit: TabZ Live.

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10 January 2026 21:48

🇩🇪🇦🇹🇮🇷⚡- Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines become the fourth and fifth airlines to cancel all flights to Iran.

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09 January 2026 10:23

🇮🇷⚡️- The speech has ended.

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08 January 2026 15:04

🇷🇺⚡- BREAKING: Russian ghost tanker ELBUS was struck by a drone just north of Turkey. The fourth such incident in the Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean area.

The tanker has begun making its way to a Turkish port.

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07 January 2026 12:16

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇬🇱⚡️- “Allies including France and Germany are working closely on a plan on how to respond should the United States act on its threat to take over Greenland, as Europe seeks to address U.S. President Donald Trump's ambitions in the region.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said the subject would be raised at a meeting with the foreign ministers of Germany and Poland later in the day.” - Reuters.

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06 January 2026 21:00

🇾🇪⚡- Initial reports, the Houthis are carrying out missile exercises, with the projectiles landing in open waters in the Red Sea.

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06 January 2026 11:11

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Saudi-backed Homeland Shield Forces have reached the borders of the Abyan Governorate in the south.

The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council controls less than 50% of the Shabwah region, including its capital, Ataq.

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05 January 2026 08:56

🇮🇱⚡- "Tick Tock, Tonight.

The repair brings," - Naftali Bennett, former Israeli Prime Minister and current opposition.

Bennett also posted a 12 hour countdown timer, which began at 8:30am, Tel Aviv time.

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04 January 2026 20:57

🇮🇷⚡- Protestors in Ilam, Ilam Province, western Iran, have entered and blocked the access to a hospital in the city.

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03 January 2026 22:05

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- A list of those who attended the Emergency National Defense Council meeting:

VP Delcy Rodríguez led the emergency response, flanked by her brother Jorge Rodríguez, President of the National Assembly. Both are the children of Jorge Antonio Rodríguez, a Marxist guerrilla and founder of the Socialist League, who was killed by the state in 1976.

Gen. Vladimir Padrino López — Defense Minister since October 2014, making him the longest-serving in that role. He currently carries a $15 million U.S. bounty.

Gen. Domingo Hernández Lárez — Commander of CEOFANB (Strategic Operational Command) since 2021, the highest operational military post, overseeing coordination of all armed forces.

Caryslia Rodríguez — President of the Supreme Court (TSJ) since January 2024. A former PSUV municipal politician and interim mayor of Caracas, she validated Maduro’s 2024 election victory on August 22 when majority believed it was stolen from Machado.

All of them have remained loyal to Nicolás Maduro throughout his tenure, and most—if not all—are ideologically aligned with Chavismo, also known as 21st-century socialism, some are considered to be more extreme than Maduro had been.

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14 January 2026 22:11

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "American action in Iran - in the immediate term," - A British official tells ITV.

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14 January 2026 00:19

🇮🇷⚡- "My compatriots, the world has not just seen and heard your courage, it is now responding. By now you have probably heard the message from the US President: Help is on the way.

Continue the fight as you have done so far. Do not allow the regime to create the illusion that life is normal. After all the massacres, there is a sea of blood between us and this regime. Save the names of all these criminals. They will be prosecuted for what they have done.

I also have a special message for the members of the army: You are the national army of Iran, not the military of the Islamic Republic. You have a duty to protect the lives of your compatriots. You do not have much time. Join them [protestors] as soon as possible," - Reza Pahlavi.

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13 January 2026 11:21

🇦🇺⚡️- Australia's Labor Party will introduce the "Combating Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill" by the end of the month in the Australian Parliament.

The law aims to severely punish hate speech following the Bondi terror attack. Numerous opposition MPs and public figures have called it a "threat to legitimate dissent" (MS Now article on Jan 11th).

Per The Guardian, it will be illegal to publicly promote or incite hatred, or disseminate ideas of superiority or hatred towards another person or group of people based on their race, color, or national or ethnic origin.
The Bill also includes visa cancellations alongside serious offences for hate preachers, increased penalties for hate crimes, a new "racial vilification offence", introduction of a new listing for prohibited hate groups, at a lower threshold than the terror group listing, as well as introduced provisions to establish the biggest gun buyback program since the Port Arthur massacre.

The "Combating Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill" is largely expected to pass.

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12 January 2026 23:25

🇸🇾🇮🇶⚡- Syrian media reports the SDF received military shipments from Iraqi Kurdistan.

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12 January 2026 18:36

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- President Trump and Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado will meet at the White House on Thursday.

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11 January 2026 00:23

🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: An Iranian commander of a missile unit in the Kashan County, Isfahan Province of central Iran, has been assassinated in a drone strike.

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09 January 2026 19:58

⚡️🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 Kan News reports that Intelligence communities in Israel and other nations are monitoring protests in Iran to assess if they are approaching a critical point that could threaten the government's stability.

The assessment notes it remains unclear whether the demonstrations will succeed in mobilising masses large enough to destabilise a government employing severe measures, including death penalty threats.

Analysts in Israel and the US have not declared how the situation will resolve, acknowledging the complexity of predicting popular uprisings.

The report references past intelligence miscalculations, such as the failure to predict the fall of Hosni Mubarak in 2011 and the sudden collapse of the Assad government in Syria.

@wfwitness

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09 January 2026 01:41

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: Two people have been shot by CBP border patrol agents in Portland, Oregon.

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07 January 2026 15:43

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- BREAKING: The ultra-conservative and right-wing Giant Brigades, which currently control Aden, have defected to the Saudi-backed Coalition Forces side.

The Southern Transitional Council has therefore collapsed. Saudi-backed troops are currently in Shabwah, heading towards Abyan and Aden.

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07 January 2026 12:12

🇮🇷⚡- 'Protestors' attack a Basij member in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, Iran.

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06 January 2026 16:16

🇮🇷⚡- Protests ongoing in Asadabad, Hamedan Province, western Iran.

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05 January 2026 21:44

🇸🇦⚡- "Saudi Arabia may be turning its back on the moderate Arab world, and cozying up to radical Islamist forces.

Saudi Arabia’s recent airstrike on Emirati military assets in Yemen signals a deeper shift: a quiet pivot away from Gulf unity and towards Turkey, Qatar, and the Muslim Brotherhood — including Hamas.

This isn’t just regional drama. This is a major threat to Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and the UAE - all of whom view the Muslim Brotherhood as an existential danger.

If Saudi Arabia joins this pro-Islamist axis, it will tilt the region toward extremism, politically, militarily, and ideologically," - The Jerusalem Post.

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05 January 2026 00:03

🇮🇱 - Note, Aryeh Deri, Head of the Shas Party, who withdrew from the government (but remain part of the Likud-bloc coalition), also participated in the small cabinet.

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04 January 2026 02:47

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Nicholas Maduro as he's being walked into the DEA office in NYC.

"Good night, happy New Year."

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03 January 2026 21:11

🇺🇸🇻🇪- A video posted by President Trump to Truth Social.