🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrikes against Sajd, al-Rayhan, Mount al-Rafee and Kfar Fila - southern Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli arrivals reported at Deir al-Zahrani and Houmin al-Fawqa, southern Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Another wave of Israeli airstrikes across the south and the Beqaa regions of Lebanon.

🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡- FlyDubai has become the second airline to cancel all flights to Iran.

🇸🇾⚡- Despite a ceasefire, intermittent gunfire is still heard in Sheikh Maqsoud, SDF-controlled northern Aleppo. Buses have arrived to withdraw the Asayish (pro-SDF) from Aleppo to SDF-controlled northeast Syria.

Syrian media reports some of the Asayish fighters refusing to withdraw.

🇹🇷🇮🇷⚡️- MIT (Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization) was tracking PJAK separatists in Iraq and into Iran, and sharing intelligence with the IRGC, which would explain how they were able to quickly neutralize the Kurdish separatists.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇻🇪⚡- BREAKING: The US Coast Guard is currently attempting to seize the Russian shadow tanker OLINA in the Carribbean waters.

The vessel is stateless (falsely flying the Timor Leste flag), giving the USCG rights to board it.

It's currently unknown if the tanker is loaded with stolen American oil from Venezuela. But it marks the third Russian tanker to come under US possession in the past two days.

🇸🇾🇮🇷🇱🇧⚡- "Our stance on Syria is clear, we support its independence and unity and reject any measure to divide it. We oppose any kind of occupation of Syrian territories and Syria's stability is important for the entire region," - Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister, while in Beirut.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇻🇪 - Russia's ghost tanker OLINA is sanctioned by the US, the UK and the EU.

🇺🇸 - The US has seized 5 vessels since the beginning of the blockade of Venezuela to protect American assets from international pirates operating ghost vessels.

That includes 6.15 million barrels of oil, worth over $300 million.

3 tankers were Russian.
1 tanker was Iranian.
1 tanker was Chinese.

🇸🇾⚡- BREAKING: The Syrian government has closed all Euphrates river crossings with the SDF "until further notice."

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇻🇪⚡️- "Once again, our joint interagency forces sent a clear message this morning: “there is no safe haven for criminals.”

In a pre-dawn action, Marines and Sailors from Joint Task Force Southern Spear, in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security, launched from the USS Gerald R. Ford and apprehended Motor/Tanker Olina in the Caribbean Sea without incident.

Apprehensions like this are backed by the full power of the U.S. Navy’s Amphibious Ready Group, including the ready and lethal platforms of the USS Iwo Jima, USS San Antonio, and USS Fort Lauderdale.

The Department of War’s Operation Southern Spear is unwavering in its mission to defend our homeland by ending illicit activity and restoring security in the Western Hemisphere." - U.S. Southern Command

🇸🇾⚡- The Syrian government has issued six evacuation orders for the Sheikh Maqsoud district, SDF-controlled northern Aleppo city.

🇮🇷⚡- Iran's state media IRIB publishes footage of violent armed clashes between Iranian security forces and Kurdish separatists in Kermanshah last night.

🇦🇿🇮🇷⚡- Azerbaijan's AZAL Airlines becomes third airlines to cancel all flights to Iran.

🇮🇷⚡- Iranian outlet Tasnim News Agency reports that multiple security personnel were killed last night during the nationwide 'protests'. They include the public prosecutor of Esfarayen, North Khorasan province, 6 Basij in Hamedan city, and "multiple" officers in Tehran.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- A U.S. State department aircraft has arrived at Caracas International Airport.

🇮🇷⚡- Some domestic internet ('whitelist internet') is back online in Iran. Applications such as Eitaa and Snapp are working, as well as a few selected universities are reconnected.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Early this week, U.S. intelligence assessed that the protests lacked sufficient energy to challenge the stability of the regime. But that view is being reassessed in light of recent events.

"The protests are serious, and we will continue to monitor them," - A senior US official told Axios.