Large numbers of U.S. and Syrian Forces are beginning to arrive in and around the Central Syrian city of Palmyra, where an ISIS attacker ambushed and killed three Americans earlier today, with reports of an imminent counter-terrorism operation against sites affiliated with the Islamic State in the Homs Governorate. In addition to ground forces, heavy activity by fighter jets and other military aircraft is also being reported over Palmyra.

Reports of an active shooter with multiple people down at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Initial reports by first responders on-scene of at least 20 injuries in the shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, with several possible fatalities. The shooter possibly fled the area, with it not known if shots are still being fired at this time.

The shooter is reported to be down and in custody at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

UPDATE: Brown University is now denying reports earlier from police that the shooter at the campus in Providence is down and in custody, urging students and facility to remain sheltering in place, with multiple law enforcement agencies on-scene, including the Rhode Island State Police.

Two are dead and at least twenty injured in tonight’s mass shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, though it is not believed all of the injuries are the result of gunfire, with it still not clear if the suspect is in custody or still at large, according to NBC News.

Brown University confirms that two people were killed in tonight’s mass shooting on its campus in Providence, Rhode Island, while eight others were shot and are in critical, but stable, condition at local hospitals, with the shooter still at large and not in custody as a manhunt is now underway led by the FBI.

President Donald J. Trump has issued a correction to his post earlier stating that the shooter at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, was in custody, saying that the suspect is in fact “NOT in custody.”

Police in Providence, Rhode Island have released what they claim to be the best footage they have of the suspect in today’s mass shooting at Brown University, with anyone who may know the identity of the suspect or who may have a tip that could lead to an arrest asked to contact the Providence Police or FBI Field Office.

Upwards of ten people have been killed in a terrorist attack tonight against a free event celebrating the first night of Hanukah at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, with a pair of Islamic terrorists opening fire on the event with rifles before being disarmed and arrested by New South Wales Police.

Insane footage shows a bystander attacking and disarming one of the terrorists, who appears to have been armed with a long rifle, during today’s shooting attack on an event celebrating Hanukkah at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.

The New South Wales Police Force states that the death toll from last night’s terrorist attack targeting an event celebrating the first night of Hanukkah at Bondi Beach in Sydney has risen to 16, including one of the shooters, while 40 others remain hospitalized at medical centers across Southeastern Australia. The second shooter also remains hospitalized in critical condition, as police investigate possible links between the two gunmen and several Islamic terror groups, including ISIS.

Providence Police announce they have detained a “person of interest” in connection with last night’s deadly shooting, which killed two, at Brown University in Rhode Island, with the potential suspect being traced by his cellphone to a hotel in Coventry where a revolver and semi-automatic handgun were discovered. Police believe that the suspect traveled from Wisconsin to carry out the shooting, though a motive is still unknown, with assistance being provided by both the FBI and ATF.

New South Wales Police have announced that the gunmen who attacked last night’s event celebrating Hanukkah at Bondi Beach in Sydney, killing fifteen and injuring dozens of others, were a 50-year-old father and 24-year-old son, adding that they are not currently searching for any further suspects.

Three HH-60W “Jolly Green II” Combat Rescue Helicopters, likely with the U.S. Air Force’s 33rd Rescue Squadron based out of Kadena Air Base in Japan, seen on the tarmac at Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Eastern Puerto Rico. The 33rd Rescue Squadron and its HH-60Ws are specially tasked with the rescue of downed pilots and other personnel from combat zones, with their arrival suggesting future strike operations against targets in a potentially contested airspace, such as Venezuela.

Photo credit: Reuters/Ricardo Arduengo

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offered to drop Ukraine’s aspirations of joining NATO as part of a peace agreement to end the ongoing invasion by Russia, during talks today’s in Berlin with U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, according to sources who spoke to Reuters.