🇹🇭🇰🇭⚡- Thai artillery shelling of a casino in O Smach, northern Cambodia. Thailand has accused Cambodia of using the infrastructure for military purposes.

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇧🇮⚡- M23 have captured Kiliba, Uvira direction, eastern DR Congo.

M23 are now just 10 km from Uvira.

🇸🇾⚡- BREAKING: Explosions heard at al-Mezzeh Airport, Damascus.

🇸🇾⚡- Six artillery shells of unknown origin targeted the al-Mezzeh Airport in Damascus, Syria.

🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡️- "It is with deep regret that we must announce that a member of the UK Armed Forces died in Ukraine this morning, Tuesday 9 December.
He was injured in a tragic accident whilst observing Ukrainian forces test a new defensive capability, away from the front lines.
The family has been notified and our thoughts are with them at this sad and difficult time."
- UK Ministry of Defence

🇸🇾🇱🇧🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: "[Former Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad had a hand in the assassination of major IRGC and Hezbollah leaders," - Hezbollah outlet al-Mayadeen correspondent Reza al-Basha.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Two U.S. Navy F18 Super hornets are operating just off the coast of Venezuela.

🇺🇸🇨🇴🇦🇪⚡- The US has sanctioned four firms involved in the recruitment of Colombians as mercenaries for the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan.

Colombian-based firm A4SI, led by Alvaro Becerra who lives in the UAE, is one of the four sanctioned entities. A4SI has been involved in mercenary recruitment for the UAE proxies across the Middle East and Africa.

🇸🇦🇾🇪⚡- Two killed, and a third seriously injured, after Saudi border artillery struck Sa'dah, Ansarullah-controlled northern Yemen.

🇸🇩 - The moment a Sudanese drone struck a gathering of Rapid Support Forces in Katila, Darfur region, earlier today.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇮🇷⚡- The Presidents of Venezuela and Iran held a telephone conversation in which they reaffirmed their "strategic cooperation and solidarity" in the face of "threats" from the USA.

🇺🇦🇸🇾⚡- Ukrainian President Zelensky says that Kiev was "there right away, lending a helpful hand" to the Syrian opposition in toppling Bashar al-Assad last year.

Zelensky also promises al-Sharaa of continued Ukrainian support.

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇧🇮⚡- BREAKING: M23 have entered the city of Uvira, South Kivu region, eastern DR Congo.

M23 have captured the towns of Kawezi and Tema, and have begun entering Uvira from the north. The Congolese and Burundian militaries have begun fleeing the city.

Burundi no longer has a land border with the DRC.

🇹🇭🇰🇭⚡- Scenes from the O Smach direction, Thai-Cambodian border.

Violent clashes are ongoing, with Thai flares illuminating the sky.

🇺🇳⚡- The United Nations resolution for the establishment of an international day of opposing colonialism in all its forms, past and present, has passed.

The resolution, which was co-authored by Russia (a colonizer of large areas of Asia and Europe itself) and 22 other African nations, calls on European nations to apologize for gifting the world civilization.

Europe did not turn up for the vote. The US voted against.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- In May 2017, the CIA extracted one of its top spies in Moscow after fears emerged that President Trump was incapable of withholding highly classified secrets.

The extraction followed an incident in which President Trump told Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov highly classified intelligence about ISIS in Syria. This raised serious concerns within the agency about the president’s ability to safeguard sensitive intelligence. The report comes from sources within the Trump administration who spoke to CNN.

🇻🇪⚡- "The Supreme Court and the Assembly of Venezuela in exile will swear in Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as the legitimate President of Venezuela and Maria Corina Machado as Vice President in Oslo," - La Libertard Media.

🇹🇭🇰🇭⚡️- Royal Thai Air Force F-16 fighter jets are airborne.