🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Witkoff is in contact with the Iranians, and they want to talk to us. We don't want to hurt them. The Iranians have been hurt and are very exhausted," - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Trump intends to announce a ceasefire agreement in Gaza on Monday," - Yediot Ahronot.

🇺🇸🇸🇦🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman 'secretly' met with President Trump in the White House yesterday to discuss the possibility of normalization with Israel.

Fox News says bin Salman also raised the Iranian and Palestinian issues during the meeting.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Large fires and smoke cover Kiev, Ukraine after 3.5 hours of sustained Russian drone and missile strikes. Reportedly, 18 ballistic missiles and 50+ drones hit the city.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Kiev this morning.

16 Iskander ballistic missiles, 2 Kinzhal hypersonics, and 50+ drones were used by Russia against the city overnight.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israel is preparing to formulate air and military enforcement against Iranian attempts to restore its nuclear and missile programs," - Israel Katz, Defense Minister of Israel.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "If we did not act against Iran, we would pay an incomparably heavy price in the future," - Eyal Zamir, Israeli Chief of Staff.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The first operation in Iran is over - but the campaign is not over yet," - Eyal Zamir, Israeli Chief of Staff.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Israeli forces carried out a military operation in Yafour, just 10km from the Syrian capital Damascus.

Israeli special forces conducted aerial operations, as well as landing a team on the ground. This is the closest Israeli troops have come to Damascus.

🇷🇺⚡- Andrei Badalov, Vice President of Transneft, has died after falling from the window of his luxury apartment in central Moscow.

🇦🇿🇮🇷⚡- Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian arrives at the 17th Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization, ECO, where he is warmly greeted by Azerbaijan's Ilham Aliyev.

The Iranian President has drawn criticism from Iran's right wing media, not only for his gesture towards Aliyev, but for the ECO Summit itself, which is held in Khankendi.

Khankendi, formerly known as Stepanakert, is the capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh region (formerly Artsakh), which Azerbaijan captured in 2023.

🇺🇳🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: IAEA asks all of its inspectors to leave Iran immediately, citing the concern for their safety.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Hamas has responded to the US brokered hostage-ceasefire deal with Israel. The response is positive, Reuters reports.

🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Channel 13 says Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's stance on a hostage-ceasefire deal has changed suddenly, with him now strongly supporting such a proposal even at the cost of Smotrich and Ben-Gvir.

This comes as Netanyahu's approval ratings hit a record high after the major victories against Iran and Hezbollah. Likud now believes that not only will they win a snap election, but do so without forming a coalition government like it currently has.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- President Trump and Ukraine's President Zelensky spoke over the phone for 90 minutes.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "We discussed air defense options and agreed that we will work on increasing the protection of the sky. We agreed on a corresponding meeting of our teams," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "Trump told Zelensky during their phone call that he wants to help with Ukraine's air defense and that he will check what was put on hold if anything," - Axios.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "Trump also said told Zelensky over the phone that he was aware of the recent Russia escalation, including both air strikes on Ukrainian cities and on the frontline," - Axios.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has asked his war cabinet to prepare an "evacuation plan" of the Palestinian population from the north of the Gaza Strip to Rafah, the very south of the strip.

Netanyahu expects a plan to be prepared by the time he returns from his visit to the White House.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Likud Ministers are urging Prime Minister Netanyahu to annex the West Bank as the time is just "ripe" following Israel's victories abroad, according to Israeli Channel 12's Amit Segal.