🇬🇧⚡️- An explosion was reported at Rockstar North's main office in Edinburgh. An accidental fire was likely the cause according to firemen on the site, but no cause has been officially determined yet.

There are no casualties and authorities are currently assessing structural damage.

🏳️⚡- Powerful explosion rocks the Shahr-e-Nav district of Kabul, Afghanistan. Initial reports indicated the explosion occurred at a Chinese restaurant, however it's now alleged it took place at a hotel on Ghulfaroshi Street.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡- "If Syrian government forces continue to advance in the north toward Raqqah [the Syrian government has already captured Raqqah], I will push for reimposing Caesar Act sanctions on steroids.

Apparently no one in Syria is listening to me or other U.S. government officials. If this continues, not only will there be bone-crushing sanctions, it will permanently damage relationships between the U.S. and the new Syrian government. If you think we’re BSing - keep it up.

I’ve tried to be fair to the new government, but apparently it’s falling on deaf ears. If you want a conflict with the U.S. Senate and to do permanent damage to the U.S.-Syria relationship - keep going. If you want to salvage the relationship, stop and turnaround.

I hope you choose wisely," - Senator Lindsey Graham.

🇸🇾⚡- Syrian forces have begun moving towards al-Hasakah, SDF's stronghold in the northeast of Syria.

🇯🇵⚡️- Japan's main opposition forces, the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) and Komeito, joined forces together in a new party last week : the Centrist Reform Alliance.

It will be abbreviated Chūdō.

🇳🇬⚡- Unidentified gunmen abduct 160 Christians from two churches in the Kurmin Wali area of the Kaduna State, northern Nigeria. It's likely the perpetrators were Zamfara bandits.

🇶🇦🇸🇴🇦🇪⚡- Following Mogadishu's cancellation of agreements with the UAE, Somalia and Qatar have signed a defense cooperation agreement. The agreement was signed by the defense ministers of both states.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡- Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa called President Trump to discuss the ongoing developments in Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- "We state with firm resolve that just as our comrades carried out the historic resistance in Kobane [Ayn al-Arab] in 2014 and turned it into a graveyard for ISIS backed by Turkey, today we carry the same determination.

From Derik [al-Malikiyah] to al-Hasakah and Kobane, we will turn our cities into a graveyard for the new bearers of the ISIS mentality directed by the Turkish state.

On this basis, we call on all our youth, women and men of Rojava, Northern, Southern, and Eastern Kurdistan, as well as those in Europe, to unite, tear down the occupiers’ borders, and join the resistance.

Today is the day of dignity, the day of historic responsibility.

Once again, we show that the will of the peoples is stronger than any attack or occupation," - SDF.

🇸🇾⚡- BREAKING: Syrian forces have arrived at the outskirts of southern al-Hasakah, SDF-held northeast Syria.

🇸🇾🇮🇶🇹🇷⚡- Protests in Iraqi Kurdistan and southeast Turkey in support of the SDF in Syria.

🇸🇾🇮🇶⚡- Iranian-backed and Iraqi-based Badr Brigade begins reinforcing the Syria-Iraq border.

🇸🇾⚡- Syrian government forces are currently attacking Sarrin, northern Syria, from two directions.

🇸🇾⚡- Syrian government forces have reached Abyad, the final town before al-Hasakah, northeast Syria.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡- US troops have begun deployment to the al-Sina prison in al-Hasakah, SDF-controlled northeast Syria.

Al-Sina is home to the most ISIS prisoners in the world.

🇺🇸⚡- "AMERICA IS BACK!!!" - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇬🇱⚡- "President Donald Trump conceded in a weekend phone call with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer that he may have been given “bad information” on the announcement of troop deployments from European countries to Greenland.

Several European NATO countries announced last week that they’re deploying small numbers of military personnel to Greenland to participate in joint exercises with Denmark, drawing ire from Trump. Danish diplomats had briefed the US in advance of the public announcements. A Danish official told CNN that the deployment was not just communicated in advance, but pre-coordinated within existing European and US military structures," - CNN.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇬🇱⚡️- This follows a now familiar pattern of the President being misinformed by his staffers on various issues.