🇲🇱 - AFP reports that several drivers who ignored JNIM's blockade orders for Bamako were killed on Tuesday on the Bamako-Sikkaso road

JNIM seemingly does possess the ability to enforce their blockade in parts and it's not just a fully fear based blockade

🇲🇱🇧🇫⚡️- The JNIM also had attacked the Ouahigouya location alongside the outpost in Passoré. They claimed to have seized dozens of automatic rifles and killed 8 Burkinabé soldiers and 6 militiamen.

🇹🇷⚡️- Over 400 arrests have been made, per the AFP quoting the lawyers of arrested protesters.

🇺🇸⚡️- Chevron and ExxonMobil have defied multiple interventions from the White House in a call to increase their oil production amidst the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, according to the Financial Times.

🇾🇪⚡- "UKMTO has received a report of an incident southwest of al-Mukalla, southeast Yemen.

A bulk carrier has reported being approached by a skiff with a black hull carrying seven armed persons," - UKMTO.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- BREAKING: Pakistan has asked Trump to suspend making any potential military decision at this stage. - Al Jazeera.

🇲🇱⚡- The three Malian + Russian military bases southwest of Gourma Rharous, Timbactou direction, south of River Niger, have fallen to the FLA and JNIM alliance.

Note, the first defensive position, a town, checkpoint or military base, along the south bank of Niger River of the Malian military is now 55 miles west - Bori, directly southeast of Timbactou.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: President Trump has informed Congress that the war in Iran is over.

If hostilities were to resume, the 60-day clock required by the War Powers Resolution would restart.

🇺🇸⚡️- The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has temporarily blocked mail-order abortions with mifepristone.

The appeals court stands with Louisiana in its argument against the FDA on the in-person screening requirements for the abortion pill.

🇺🇸🇩🇪⚡️- BREAKING: The United States is withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany, according to the Pentagon.

🇮🇱⚡- The Daily Wire laid off copious amounts of their staff today, amidst low viewer counts and poor audience retention.

🇲🇱⚡️- Situation update in Mali:

- Arrests are still being made in Bamako and other junta-controlled urban centers.
- An investigation was opened in Kati as the junta believes pro-JNIM elements may have infiltrated the administration.
- A massive sum of money was found in Kidal by the FLA+JNIM. No further infos on why it was left there by the junta.
- At least two of the six roads leading to Bamako are fully cut off, another two access points are partially controlled by the JNIM only.
- Modibo Koné, head of the Malian Intelligence services, is confirmed to have been wounded and is incapacitated at home.
- The Russians are preparing to retreat all their leftover forces from the Kidal region.

🇺🇸🇶🇦⚡️- The U.S. approves a 4B$ sale of Patriot missiles to Qatar.

🇺🇸 - On this day, 15 years ago, US Navy SEALs launched Operation Neptune Spear, which resulted in the successful liquidation of Osama Bin Laden, the Emir of Al Qaeda.

He was tracked down to a private compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan in a manhunt that spanned over a decade.

Image posted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in commemoration of the successful operation.