🇺🇸⚡- "There are more US troops in Los Angeles than in Iraq and Syria combined. There are 4,800 National Guards and Marines in LA, while 2,500 in Iraq and 1,500 in Syria," - ABC7.

🇺🇸🇨🇳 - The current situation in the Indo-Pacific, a stand-off between the US and China.

There are currently four US carrier groups active in the region. While China has two active carrier groups, as well as a warship group. An unprecedented 21 Chinese Coast Guard Vessels are currently out at sea (represented by red dots on the map), with 9 in the South China Sea, 5 in the Taiwan Strait, and 7 in the Yellow Sea.

🇮🇷⚡- Three dead, several others injured, after a methanol reservoir caught a large fire in the Port of Bushehr, southwest Iran.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- Kremlin Spokesman Dmitri Peskov says that "Russia is ready" to receive and provide services for the "removal of excess nuclear material" from Iran, in an effort to help the US-Iran talks reach a conclusion. The comments will not go down well with Tehran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: "I did think so, but now I'm getting more and more less confident about reaching a deal with Iran. They seem to be delaying, and I think that's a shame.

I'm less confident now than I was a couple of months ago. Something happened to Iran. But I am much less confident of a deal being made," - President Trump tells The New York Post.

🇮🇱⚡- Nine prominent Rabbis in the ultra-Orthodox community have penned a letter to the Yahadut HaTora Party, and other ultra-Orthodox parties within the Likud-bloc, to not vote in favor of dissolving the government.

"There is no forgiveness for overthrowing a government in the middle of a war," the letter reads. The Rabbis call on Edelstein to reach an understanding with the ultra-Orthodox community.

🇷🇸🇺🇦 - Serbian President Vucic to visit Ukrainian city of Odessa where he will meet the nation's President Zelensky.

🇬🇧🇬🇮🇪🇺⚡- "Britain and Gibraltar have agreed a deal that would hand control of the territory’s border to the EU," - The Telegraph, British outlet.

🇱🇾🇸🇩⚡- The Tobruk-based Libyan National Army have denied Sudan's accusations of supporting the Rapid Support Forces, RSF.

Sudan accused east Libya of supporting RSF after clashes broke out late last week between the Sudanese government and the Libyan National Army at the Sudan-Libya-Egypt border point. Both sides accused each other of violating sovereignty.

🇮🇱⚡- Aryeh Deri, Head of the Shas Party (and part of the Orthodox faction of the Likud-bloc), is urging the ultra-Orthodox parties to postpone the vote on dissolving the Knesset for a week.

🇸🇩🇱🇾⚡- BREAKING: Large-scale Sudanese airstrikes against areas in the northwest of the country, along the Sudan-Libya-Egypt border.

Sudan claims the areas are under Rapid Support Forces and Libyan National Army proxies control.

🇸🇴⚡- Puntland's regional government rejects a meeting with Mogadishu, Somalia, citing "constitutional breaches" by the Federal Government, FGS.

🇸🇩🇱🇾⚡- The Sudanese military have begun evacuating local populations from the Sudan-Libya-Egypt border point, fearing a potential military retaliation carried out by the Rapid Support Forces and the Libyan National Army proxies.

🇸🇩🇱🇾⚡- While the Libyan National Army denies the accusations of supporting the Rapid Support Forces, the RSF openly publish videos of themselves on southeast Libyan / northwest Sudanese territory.

In this footage, a RSF unit commander is radioing after his unit 'accidentally' entered Egypt.

🇸🇩🇱🇾 - The situation on the Sudan-Libya-Egypt border:

Rapid Support Forces are in control over the border point, which on the Libyan side is dominated by tribal forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army.

Heavy UAE aircraft traffic is observed at two airports, one in Chad (Merechal Airport), the other in Libya (al-Kufra Airport). The UAE are widely recognized to be backing the Rapid Support Forces, with the supply routes from the two airports to the RSF shown in purple on the map.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Civilians in Olekseevka, Komar direction, continue to farm and plant potatoes, while a war rages on nearby streets.

Note the large-scale destruction of infrastructure around them.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Novonikolaevka, Pokrovsk direction.

🇺🇸🇵🇰⚡- "Pakistan has been a phenomenal partner in the counter-terrorism world," - Michael Kurilla, CENTCOM Commander.