🏳️🇵🇰⚡- "Very important! Pakistan is likely to strike deep inside Afghanistan now after today's attack in Bannu, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, in which two senior Pakistani soldiers were killed.

The Pakistani military says that the Afghan Taliban have yet again failed to stop Tahreek-e-Taliban from using Afghan soil for 'terrorist activities' inside Pakistan.

Pakistan will not exercise any restraint, and operations will continue against the perpetrators of this heinous act," - Wajahat Kazmi, former Pakistani CNN correspondent.

🏳️🇵🇰 - So far 8 Pakistani airstrikes have been reported across Paktika, Paktia, Khost, and Nangarhar in Afghanistan.

🇸🇩⚡- Sudanese airstrikes against Nyala, capital of the Rapid Support Forces controlled Sudan.

🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡️- The IRGC has begun a massive movement of troops and heavy military equipment toward the Iraqi border. - Israeli Channel 12.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israel was prepared for a US attack on Iran this weekend, but the operation was postponed.

The US strategy is shifting from a short and decisive strike to a long-term attritional campaign aimed at systematically weakening Iran's nuclear facilities, missile systems, and the infrastructure of the IRGC," - Ynet.

🇺🇸🇬🇱🇩🇰⚡️- "Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there. It’s on the way!!!" - President Trump via Truth Social.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff says that President Trump is curious and frustrated as to why Iran has not yet capitulated to the demands under U.S. military pressure.

🇮🇷⚡️- "According to the six senior officials and the Guards members, Mr. Khamenei has issued a series of directives. He has named four layers of succession for each of the military command and government roles that he personally appoints.

He has also told everyone in leadership roles to name up to four replacements and has delegated responsibilities to a tight circle of confidants to make decisions in case communications with him are disrupted or he is killed." - NYT.

🇮🇷⚡️- "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, turned to a trusted and loyal lieutenant to steer the country: Ali Larijani, the country’s top national security official. Since then, Mr. Larijani, a 67-year-old veteran politician, a former commander in the Revolutionary Guards Corps and current head of the Supreme National Security Council, has effectively been running the country.

Mr. Khamenei named three candidates who could succeed him. They have never been publicly identified, but Mr. Larijani is almost certainly not among them because he is not a senior Shiite cleric — a fundamental qualification for any successor." - NYT.

🇺🇸🇸🇴⚡- "Somaliland is willing to give the US access to its rare earth minerals and a military base," - AFP.

🇫🇷🇺🇸⚡️- France summoned the American ambassador following comments of the American Embassy in France on Twitter regarding the killing of Quentin Deranque by antifas, per the AFP.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- The Afghan Ministry of Defense has vowed to respond to yesterday's attacks by Pakistan. Meanwhile, the Afghan Foreign Ministry has summoned the Pakistani ambassador to Kabul.

🇮🇳🇮🇱⚡- "On Wednesday, the Prime Minister of India, my friend Narendra Modi, will arrive in Israel.

In my vision, we will create a whole system of alliances around or within the Middle East, involving India, Arab countries, and Mediterranean nations such as Greece and Cyprus," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇮🇱⚡- "We will work to form a new axis against the collapsing Shia axis and the emerging Sunni axis," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.