🇸🇾🇸🇦🇯🇴⚡- Jordanian King, Abdullah II, receives Saudi Defense Minister, to discuss regional developments.

🇸🇾⚡- Rebels capture Talal Makhlouf, Bashar al-Assad's cousin and Commander of the 105th Brigade.

Yet another prominent military figure abandoned by Assad in Syria after he fled without notice.

🇮🇪🇮🇱⚡- Israel will close its embassy in Ireland, citing Ireland's "anti-Semitic rhetoric".

🇦🇪🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "Syria will experience another counter-revolution to restore its true rebellious aim: establishing a democratic and liberal nation, not one governed by Islamists or former members of ISIS and Al-Qaeda. Turkey's and Qatar's efforts will fail, as they did in Libya and Egypt. Syria will resist the Muslim Brotherhood's influence, just as Egypt did. This is a promise," - Amjad Taha, UAE-state funded journalist.

🇬🇪⚡- Protests on Rustaveli Avenue, Tbilisi, Georgia.

🇮🇱⚡- "I said we would change the Middle East, and we are indeed changing it. I spoke with Trump about the need to complete the victory," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇮🇱⚡- "A year ago I said a simple thing: We will change the Middle East, and we are indeed changing it. Syria is not the same Syria, Lebanon is not the same Lebanon, Gaza is not the same Gaza, and the head of the axis - Iran - is not the same Iran. It also felt the comfort of our arm," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇮🇱⚡- "We are acting with strength and discretion, to bring security to all the countries in the region," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "There are more challenges ahead of us, both against Iran, its bloody proxies, and the other potential threats," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "So I want to say something about Syria - we have no interest in confronting Syria," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "I recall that for decades Syria has been an active enemy state of Israel. It has attacked us again and again, it has allowed others to attack us from its territory, it has allowed Iran to arm Hezbollah through its territory," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "To ensure that what was, will not be again, we have taken a series of intense actions in recent days," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "Together with Defense Minister Katz, I have directed the IDF to thwart potential threats from Syria, and to prevent terrorist elements from taking over near our border," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇱🇧🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem said it bluntly yesterday: 'Hezbollah has lost its military supply route through Syria.' These words are, of course, further evidence of the severe damage we have inflicted on the entire Iranian axis," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "I would like to both clarify and warn: We are committed to preventing Hezbollah from rearming," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "I say to Iran in no uncertain terms - to prevent you from harming us, we will continue to act against you as necessary, in every arena and at all times," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- "I discussed all of this again last night with my friend, US President-elect Donald Trump. We talked about the need to complete Israel's victory," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrikes against Deir-ez-Zur airport, east Syria.

🇺🇸✡️⚡️- Jewish NGO and non-profit "StopAntisemitism" has named Candace Owens as the "2024 antisemite of the year."

🇮🇷🇸🇾⚡️- "Hayat Tahrir al-Sham is securing our embassy and has promised to resume our consular operations in Damascus." - Iranian Ambassador to Syria.