🇮🇶⚡- Clashes have erupted in Kurdish-controlled Iraq between the Herki clan and the Barzani-led Peshmerga forces.

Fighting began after the Herki clan stood in solidarity with local protests against the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party, KDP.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- President Trump is currently on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

🇾🇪 - Current situation in the Hadhramaut Governorate, eastern Yemen.

The Saudi-backed Hadhramaut Tribal Alliance, HTA, affiliated with the Yemeni Presidential Council, have accused the Hadhrami Elite Forces, HEF, of preparing to launch attacks against the region's oil fields.

HEF, affiliated with the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, clashed lightly with HTA over the past two nights.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Trump invited Netanyahu to a meeting at the White House in the near future," - Netanyahu's Press Office.

🇸🇩⚡- Rapid Support Forces have reached the entrance to the city of Babanusa, Kordofan region, Sudan.

🇱🇧🇮🇶🇮🇱⚡- "US Envoy Tom Barrack warned Baghdad not to involve itself in Israel’s war against Hezbollah, telling Iraqi officials the country may face Israeli strikes if they or Iran-backed groups in Iraq intervened," - al-Hadath, Saudi outlet.

🇺🇸⚡- USS Gerald R. Ford makes her first port call since arriving in the Carribbean.

Image shows the aircraft carrier arriving at St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands.

🇺🇸⚡️- West Virginia Guardsman Andrew Wolfe is now awake and responding to hospital staff after a slow recovery from the DC shooting last week.

🇺🇸🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- During the Trump-Netanyahu phone call, President Trump has agreed to a limited Israeli military operation in southern Syria in exchange for Tel-Aviv postponing escalation with Lebanon.

The decision to launch an Israeli operation in Syria came after an IDF unit was ambushed by a heavily armed unit in Beit Jinn, Damascus countryside, two days ago. Israel initially accused Jamaa Islamiya, a Sunni-Arab Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood group – the group denied responsibility. Israel has since blamed Bedouin tribes, affiliated with the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham led Public Internal Security forces, to have been behind the attack.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- An IDF unit is moving to the al-Sanafour area in the Tuffah District of Gaza City, beyond the Yellow Line. Palestinian civilians have fled the area, as the IDF unit uses heavy artillery and helicopter gunfire as cover.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Riyadh has reached out to Abu Dhabi to discuss a possible power sharing agreement over Hadhramaut region's oil fields, Yemeni outlet al-Mahriah reports.

Al-Mahriah writes Saudi Arabia opposes a military clash with UAE-backed forces over the eastern Yemeni resource-rich region.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "We are preparing to defend our land, sovereignty and dignity and to ensure that future generations will enjoy a free homeland," - Nicolas Maduro, President of Venezuela.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "We do not interfere in anyone's affairs in this world, so they should refrain from interfering in Venezuela's affairs," - Nicolas Maduro, President of Venezuela.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrikes against Khan Yunis and Gaza City.

🇺🇸🇻🇪 - Nicolas Maduro at the end of his speech.

🇺🇸🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "The US administration is displeased with Israel’s policies in Syria, and US sources say that Israel did not inform the Syrian authorities through the usual channels about the incursion into Beit Jinn, which resulted in the killing of 13 Syrians and disrupted negotiations on a security agreement between the two countries," - Israeli Channel 12.