Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei gives green light to President Pezeshkian for negotiations and a deal with Trump.

“Once you understand your counterpart, you may negotiate—but you must know what to do.”

M23 rebels have captured Goma, the provincial capital in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Between November 2024 and January 2025, M23 carried out 169 armed attacks against Congolese and coalition forces.

Israel’s newly appointed ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter:

Israel is closer than ever to normalization with Saudi Arabia.

The fall of Assad and the weakening of Iran’s influence have brought us to a moment of opportunity.

There are few countries in the world, aside from Israel, that want to see Hamas degraded more than Saudi Arabia.

Source: Jerusalem Post

North Korean soldiers have temporarily withdrawn from the frontlines in Kursk region after heavy losses.

Source: Sky News

The EU is planning a ban on video game equipment sales to Russia to stop the Russian armed forces using them to control drones sent to Ukraine.

The sanctions will include consoles such as Sony’s PlayStation and Microsoft’s Xbox.

Source: Financial Times

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen:

There is no reason to believe there is any military threat to Greenland or Denmark.

Putin:

Moscow and Kyiv negotiations will be illegitimate if they are conducted now, a way must be found to cancel the previously signed decree.

Negotiations can be conducted with anyone, but due to his illegitimacy , Zelensky has no right to sign anything.

The White House has announced that they are looking into the "national security implications" of China's DeepSeek.

Russian oil trade with China and India have stalled due to sanctions rising the transportation costs.

Source: Reuters

US calls on its citizens to leave DRC after protesters' attacks on embassies.

The US is sending dozens of Patriot missiles from Israel to Ukraine.

The US transferred around 90 Patriot air defense interceptors from storage in Israel to Poland this week in order to deliver them to Ukraine.

Source: Axios

BIG: Trump has informed Israeli officials that he intends to withdraw thousands of US troops stationed in Syria.

Source: KAN News

US President Trump officially invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House next week.

Netanyahu will be the first foreign leader to visit the White House during Trump's second term.

USAF F-35A fighter jet crashed at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska.

The pilot ejected safely, was not injured.

The cause of the crash is still under investigation.

OpenAI claims Chinese AI startup DeepSeek used its proprietary models to train its own open-source AI, raising intellectual property concerns.

“China-based companies—and others—are constantly trying to distill US AI models,” OpenAI stated.

DeepSeek reportedly used “distillation”, a method where smaller AI models learn from larger ones, drastically cutting training costs. OpenAI claims to have evidence of this practice.

White House AI advisor David Sacks suggested DeepSeek may have “sucked the knowledge out” of OpenAI’s models.

Source: FT

Russia and Syria will hold further talks over Russian military bases in Syria, Russia's news agencies reported, citing Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov after his talks with Syrian officials.

"This issue requires additional negotiations," TASS news agency cited Bogdanov as telling journalists. Bogdanov is heading Russia's delegation to Damascus for the first time since Moscow's ally President Bashar al-Assad was toppled.

He added that so far there have been no changes to the presence of Russian military bases in the country.