🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Omer Tischler, the upcoming Israeli Air Force Commander, who's set to replace current Tomer Bar, will accompany Prime Minister Netanyahu on his visit to the White House.

🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: "Merchants at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar—where the protests first flared up in late December—are calling on shopkeepers nationwide to take to the streets again on February 17-18, days that mark the end of the traditional 40-day mourning period for killings that occurred January 8-9," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇮🇷⚡- "A second wave of popular anger is building in Iran.

Medical students in Shiraz held a sit-in for several days this week, chanting slogans in support of protesters who had been killed and doctors who were arrested for treating the injured. High-school students are also engaging in collective acts of protest. Students at their school are refusing to sing the national anthem in the morning," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇺🇸🇦🇲🇦🇿 - C-17s landing in Armenia or Azerbaijan have nothing to do with the ongoing US military build-up in the region amid the tensions with Iran, but are preparing for the Vice President's visit to the region later this month.

Vice President JD Vance is currently visiting the Winter Olympics in Northern Italy, and will then stop-by in the South Caucasus to see the implementation of the historic US-backed Trump Corridor, TRIPP, deal, signed last year.

🇮🇷🇵🇸🇮🇱 - Israeli Democracy Institute (Israeli-based Think Tank):

- 50% of the Israeli public believe Israel should intervene in a war with Iran, only if Israel is attacked first.

- 44% of the Israeli public support a coordinated attack on Iran with the US from the outset.

- 51% of the Israeli public support Netanyahu's decision to join Trump's Board of Peace for Gaza.

- 51% of the Israeli public believe Trump's Board of Peace will not be capable of solving Gaza's problems and maintaining Israel's security.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- A large squadron of Israeli jets enter southern Syrian airspace, currently over the Daraa region.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israeli jets are likely operating as cover for an ongoing IDF ground incursion near the town of Ma'araya in the Yarmouk Basin, Daraa region, southern Syria.

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡- BREAKING: An armoured battalion from Iraq's 9th Division has entered the Green Zone, Baghdad, and have set-up defensive positions around US installations, including the embassy.

🇸🇾🇮🇱 - Syrian media, 10 minutes after Rerum Novarum, have confirmed the ongoing IDF incursion in the Yarmouk Basin, Daraa region of southern Syria.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- At least 20 Israeli vehicles are currently taking part in the large-scale incursion in the Yarmouk Basin, southern Syria – Syrian sources report.

🇸🇩🇹🇩 - Border skirmishes between the Chadian military and the Rapid Support Forces were reported earlier today along the Chad-Sudan border.

This follows a RSF drone strike on a Chadian military outpost last December, killing two soldiers.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israeli drones over the Daraa region, southern Syria, as IDF ground troops raid houses in the town of Ma'araya in the Yarmouk Basin.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "Israel will not accept a nuclear Iran with ballistic missile capabilities, and Netanyahu is capable of addressing Trump and convincing him." - Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "I confirm that only the nuclear issue is being discussed in the Muscat negotiations." - Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

🇱🇾🇸🇩⚡- Southern Libyan tribes, likely Toubou, intercepted and attacked a convoy of fuel trucks that were passing from Haftar-led Eastern Libya to the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan.

🇸🇴🇮🇱⚡- Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says Israel recognized Somaliland's independence, in exchange the breakaway region would accept the relocation of Palestinians and sign the Abraham Accords.

🇮🇳🇮🇷⚡- The Indian Coast Guard seized three Iranian ghost tankers that were carrying out ship-to-ship transfers of smuggled Iranian oil. The tankers and their crews are being escorted to Mumbai.

The Iranian Navy routinely seizes tankers smuggling Iranian oil out of the country.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "We refused the US request for CENTCOM Commander Brad Cooper to participate in the talks in Oman on Friday, we said we do not accept the presence of a military figure in the negotiation process" - Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

🇿🇦🇷🇼🇨🇩⚡- 700 South African troops have been recalled from the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, after serving 27 years.

The withdrawal comes amid a rise of tensions between the M23 and the DRC, which risks breaking the Trump-mediated ceasefire agreement signed last year.