⚡️🇹🇷🇸🇾 Turkey is taking active steps to integrate Syria into its sphere of influence

According to the Turkish pro-government newspaper Hürriyet, Ankara and Damascus are considering a joint military operation in Syria against Kurdish forces if they refuse to lay down their arms and do not join the Syrian army.

According to Turkish sources, Erdogan plans to visit Damascus on 27 December and perform Friday prayer at the Umayyad Mosque, a symbolic event that will make Turkish leader feel like Ottoman again. The Turkish leader reasoned as if he had become the head of a neighbouring state, speaking of the need to lift sanctions on Syria as soon as possible and bring it back into the global community. Erdogan emphasised that Turkey is in close contact with the new Syrian authorities and will give them full support.

Turkey intends to help Hayat Tahrir al-Sham leader Ahmed al-Sharaa to create a regular army of 300,000 people, which will be formed with the participation of Turkish military advisers and specialists.

According to the Türkiye newspaper, the Turkish military contingent will be deployed in five vitally important areas in Syria, which indicates Turkey's intention to make Syria a springboard for resolving its geopolitical interests in other regions of the Middle East.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "Israel is imposing new conditions that are keeping us away from a deal." - Hamas affiliated media.

There is a new ongoing round of negotiations for a ceasefire and prisoner release, which - according to this statement from Hamas - indicate they aren't going so well.

Local Syrian outlets report that Alawites and Christians in Syria have decided to launch protests and demonstrations in their areas in response to the ongoing sectarian killings carried out against them by Al-Jolani’s terrorist gangs.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "Ceasefire and prisoner exchange negotiations are progressing seriously," - Hamas.

🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Israel has closed its embassy in Ireland. The Irish government now reportedly plans to open a "Palestine museum" in the building that formerly housed the Israeli embassy.

🇾🇪⚡- Violent artillery exchanges between the Southern Transitional Council and Ansarullah east of Musaimir, Lahij direction, Yemen.

This comes after over 24 hours of relative peace along the front line since the fighting around the Jabal Sabr mountains, Taizz direction.

🇸🇾⚡- SNA brings in new reinforcements to try to recapture lost settlements west of the Tishrin Dam, SDF-controlled Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- Syrian Arab Army resistance cell ambushes a Hayat Tahrir al-Sham convoy in Tartus, Syria. High HTS casualties reported.

🇦🇿🇰🇿⚡- Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashes in Aktau, western Kazakhstan, while en route to Grozny, Russia.

72 people were on board, with 10 confirmed to have been killed. Death toll expected to rise to at least 40+.

🇷🇺🇦🇿⚡- Azerbaijan Airlines suspends flights to Russian cities, Grozny and Makhachkala.

🇸🇾⚡- Violent clashes inside Homs city, Syria, between SAA resistance cells and HTS.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- Pakistan strikes Afghanistan in retaliation for cross border raids by the Taliban. 15 killed, Afghanistan claim most were civilians.

🇾🇪⚡- The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council in Yemen raises its "combat readiness and combat preparedness to confront the military escalation launched by the Iranian militia [Ansarullah]".

🇾🇪⚡- "The militia [Ansarullah] sends reinforcements to the border with the Musaimir, Lahij direction, Yemen" - Taiz Times, STC outlet.

🇺🇸🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡- Ansarullah said it thwarted US and Israeli intelligence activities in areas of Yemen under its control, arresting a number of spies.

🇦🇿🇰🇿⚡- Death toll rises to 38 from the Azerbaijan plane crash in western Kazakhstan.