🇲🇱⚡️- 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.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: U.S. gas prices have reached a national average of $4.45, according to GasBuddy.

🇺🇦🇹🇷⚡- Ukrainian President Zelensky is preparing to move away from US-led peace talks, seeking alternatives, such as Turkey as a venue for negotiations with Russia without US involvement, Politico reports.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇷⚡- "In just two months, Ukraine shifted from being the first country to back US military operations in Iran to openly criticizing Washington's foreign policy," - The Kyiv Independent.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "The US has warned shipping companies of possible sanctions if they pay Iran for passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

The US has emphasized that even disguised schemes—including charity or indirect payments—are unacceptable," - Reuters.

🇲🇱⚡️- Arrests are still being reported in Bamako, Kati and other cities in Mali.

🇺🇸⚡️- Tucker Carlson in the New York Times admits defeat and regrets his interview with Nick Fuentes. Compares the interview with others he did with Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz, where he was able to successfully embarrass both of them, as good interviews compared to the one with Fuentes.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Ongoing Israeli artillery shelling of the Yarmouk Basin and the al-Qunaitra countryside in southern Syria for the past two hours.

🇸🇾🇯🇴🇮🇱 - Reports of Israeli airstrikes on Syria are false. Only Jordanian jets have operated in southern Syria in the past hour.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Iran has responded to the United States' 9-point proposal with its own 14-point proposal. The United States offered a two-month ceasefire to work out the details, but Iran rejected it and instead listed the following requirements, according to Tasnim News Agency:

- Ensuring non-aggression.

- Withdrawing U.S. military forces from Iran's periphery.

- Lifting the naval blockade.

- Releasing Iran's blocked assets.

- Paying compensation.

- Lifting sanctions.

- Ending the war on all fronts, including Lebanon.

- Establishing a new mechanism for the Strait of Hormuz.

🇮🇷🇵🇰 - Scenes from the Iran-Pakistan border, showing a vast Iranian fuel smuggling convoy returning / heading to Pakistan.

Fuel smuggling from Iran was a normal occurrence, something the IRGC tackled frequently. With the US blockade, the smuggling now seems to be tolerated by Tehran to a certain extent to prevent Iran's oil storages across the country from reaching maximum capacities.

Video recorded somewhere east of the border town Pirkor, Parud District, Sistan and Balochistan Province - approximately 26.3656246, 62.2371542.

🇸🇾🇯🇴⚡- Jordanian airstrike against the outskirts of Shahbah, Druze separatist controlled As Suwaida region, southern Syria. The airstrike struck a Druze captagon facility.