— 🇺🇸/🇸🇾/🇮🇶 NEW: Reports that the explosion sounds are a result of American occupation forces shooting down several suicide drones on the border near Al-Tanf

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Btw, do not consider the bias. I have always said I am not unbiased, and no media is.

And as you know, I always keep every emoji reaction open. You are free to show your like or dislikes.

I don't like it when channels only allow reactions that suits them.

🇺🇸 🌍 🇮🇱 The war in Gaza may widen. The Biden admin is getting ready for it.

🔶️ Biden administration officials are drawing up plans for the U.S. to respond to what they’re increasingly concerned could expand from a war in Gaza to a wider, protracted regional conflict.

🔶️ Four officials familiar with the matter, including a senior administration official, described internal conversations about scenarios that could potentially draw the U.S. into another Middle East war. All were granted anonymity to speak about sensitive, ongoing national security discussions.

🔶️ The military is drafting plans to hit back at Iran-backed Houthi militants who have been attacking commercial shipping in the Red Sea, according to three U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the discussions. That includes striking Houthi targets in Yemen, according to one of the officials, an option the military has previously presented.

🔶️ Intelligence officials, meanwhile, are coming up with ways to anticipate and fend off possible attacks on the U.S. by Iranian-backed forces in Iraq and Syria, according to one of the officials. They are also working to determine where the Houthi militants may strike next.

🔶️ “Although the U.S. has been trying to avoid having the war in Gaza from turning into a regional one, ultimately that decision is not entirely up to us,” said Mick Mulroy, a former Marine, CIA officer and Pentagon official under Trump. “The signs are blinking red for this to erupt into a regional war.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/04/war-gaza-widen-biden-getting-ready-00133949

— 🇰🇵/🇰🇷 NEW: North Korea shelled South Korea's Yeonpyeong and Baengnyeongdo islands on the north-western border

Citizens of three islands have been told to head to shelters. South Korea is responding with live artillery.

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: The red flag with 'Oh the vengeance of Hussain' has been raised upon Jamkaran mosque in Qom

The last time this happened was in 2020, after the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, days before Iran's retaliation.

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⚡️Sayyed Nasrallah: “We renew our condolences to the martyrs in Kerman, to Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei, to the Iranian people, and to the families of the martyrs, and we ask the martyrs to raise their ranks and the wounded to recover quickly.”

⚡️#BREAKING Sayyed Nasrallah: Hezbollah conducted around 670 military operations on Lebanses Palestinian order since oct. 8

⚡️Sayyed Nasrallah: “The average rate being 6 to 7 operations per day. The border sites that were targeted were 48 sites, and several times the border points where the Zionist soldiers took refuge were 50 points targeted more than once, and 17 settlements were targeted.”