🇸🇾⚡- BREAKING: Mazloum Abdi, Commander-in-Chief of the SDF, announces a full withdrawal from the Aleppo region west of the Euphrates (marked as red on the map).

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iran executed four people on January 14, the same day President Trump said all executions had been stopped – HRANA.

🇮🇷 - HRANA writes that since the start of the Iranian protests:

- 2,677 confirmed total deaths (could rise to 4,370, as 1,693 cases are under review),
- 163 security officers killed,
- 2,677 severe injuries,
- and 19,097 people detained.

🇪🇺🇮🇷⚡- The European Union advises all European airlines to avoid using Iranian airspace.

🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡- The White House has announced the members of the Board of Peace:
Donald Trump (chairman), Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, Tony Blair, Marc Rowan, Ajay Banga, and Robert Gabriel.

A separate Gaza Executive Board has been established with the following members:
Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, Hakan Fidan, Ali al-Thawadi, Hassan Rashad, Tony Blair, Marc Rowan, Reem Al-Hashimy, Nickolay Mladenov, Yakir Gabay, and Sigrid Kaag.

The purpose of the Gaza Executive Board is to help assist the Palestinian National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, NCAG, which will oversee the Gaza Strip. NCAG is a 15-member Palestinian committee chaired by Ali Sha'ath.

🇺🇸🇩🇰🇬🇱⚡️- A bipartisan U.S. delegation met with Danish and Greenlandic officials in Copenhagen today to discuss a “lowering of the temperature” and address President Trump’s vocal support for American control over the island.

Furthermore, statements from the Danish Joint Arctic Command announced that the U.S. was invited to NATO exercises in Greenland and reiterated that Russia is the primary threat in the region.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "CIA Chief John Ratcliffe met Venezuela's Interim President Delcy Rodriguez in Caracas "at President Trump's direction."

The two-hour meeting was aimed at building trust and communication following US Operation Absolute Resolve in which Venezuela's former President Nicolas Maduro was captured almost two weeks ago," - BBC.

🇮🇷⚡️- Reports of internet connection being restored in Iran.

🇪🇺🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar “spoke with European Union officials to discuss the designation of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization on Friday,” - JP.

🇸🇾⚡- BREAKING: The Syrian government has declared the entire Western Euphrates a 'closed military zone', and has ordered the evacuation of civilians from the area.

The area includes the last remaining SDF strongholds west of the Euphrates river, including al-Tabqah, al-Mansurah, Resafa, Ghanem Ali, As Sabkhah, and Ratlah. If captured by the Syrian government, it will put forces loyal to Damascus directly opposite the major city of Raqqah.

The declaration was made after the Syrian government captured Dayr Hafr, Maskanah and everything up to Dibsih Afnan. Syrian sources claim the SDF missed the withdrawal timeline, with some SDF factions remaining in Maskanah which led to small scale clashes.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡- US jets are airborne over the Raqqah region, SDF-controlled northeast Syria.

🇺🇸🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- "US intelligence believes the Syrian government is preparing a large scale offensive into the SDF-controlled northeast Syria, with the backing of Turkey. The offensive would put Syrian and Turkish troops in direct contact against US troops deployed in the region.

The US has cautioned the Damascus government that crossing the Euphrates into the SDF territory would prompt the reactivation of the Caesar Act sanctions. However, according to US intelligence, Turkey has already given Damascus the greenlight, with President al-Sharaa approving an offensive into SDF-controlled northeast Syria.

Vice President JD Vance spoke with al-Sharaa to try to resolve his differences with the SDF diplomatically," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇸🇾⚡- BREAKING: The Syrian army has launched a military operation in the eastern Raqqah region, eastern Syria, along route 4, attacking SDF-held Ghanem Ali.

🇸🇾⚡- A large number of SDF forces are fleeing from al-Tabqah, Raqqah region, leaving behind their uniform.