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This map shows the various attacks carried out by the Yemeni Armed Forces in defense of the Palestinian people since October 7, 2023. Two additional attacks were carried out today with drone strikes in Ashkelon and Jaffa.

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🟡 URGENT: The armed resistance to Israel has suffered yet another blow as Syria's new de-facto rulers are moving to dismantle armed Palestinian factions in the country.

Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reports that HTS representatives told Palestinian resistance groups in Syria that they will no longer be supplied with weapons and their training camps and military HQs will be shut down.

Islamic Jihad, the second most prominent armed faction in Gaza, is one of the groups with a military presence in Syria.

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The Wall Street Journal has whitewashed plans for an illegal US air assault on Iran as “preventive airstrikes.”

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🇯🇵 NEW: A US Air Force member in Okinawa, Japan, has been sentenced to five years in prison for abducting and raping a local girl under the age of 16 last December. This case is one of several involving US soldiers on the island that have come to light this year.

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On this day 87 years ago, Japanese troops slaughtered up to 300,000 Chinese in a horrific massacre that made even the Nazis tremble. “To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice,” and the “forgotten Holocaust of WWII” truly has been forgotten.

Over a period of six weeks, the Japanese terrorized the Chinese city of Nanjing in what is known as the Nanjing Massacre or the “Rape of Nanjing.” In addition to the mass murder, Japanese troops also committed other war crimes such as mass rape, looting, and arson. Up to 80,000 women were raped, and around a third of the buildings in what was then China’s capital were destroyed. Read on to learn more about this largely forgotten chapter of WW2.

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🟡 Syria Update — Day 16:

🟡 Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken regarding their nations’ roles in Syria’s post-Assad transitional phase. Both officials reportedly reaffirmed their commitment to preventing the resurgence of ISIS in the region. Minister Fidan expressed his country’s dedication to ensuring that groups Turkey considers terrorist organizations do not seize power in Syria.

🟡 Mazen Al-Hamada, a prominent Syrian activist known for his recollection of torture in President Assad’s notorious prison system, was laid to rest in Damascus in a public ceremony. Mazen’s body was found with signs of torture among dozens of others in the Sednaya Prison, known by Syrians as the “Human Slaughterhouse.”

🟡 Famous Al-Jazeera TV host Faisal Al-Qassem recently called for mass beheadings by guillotine of Assad loyalists on social media. Faisal Al-Qassam hosts the program “The Opposite Direction,” which has long been considered highly controversial. Critics allege that Faisal has long been paying lip service to groups such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda, and has at times invited people to his show who held sympathetic views towards the aforementioned groups.

🟡 Around 90,000 Syrians have fled to Lebanon following the Assad government’s collapse, according to Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar. Since Sunday, 7,000 people officially entered Lebanon, but thousands more crossed illegally. Most are minorities from former government-protected areas, reportedly forced out by militant threats and attacks.

🟡 The Kurdish administration in northeast Syria has declared a prisoner amnesty to mark the fall of the al-Assad regime, The Associated Press reports. In Qamishli, families celebrated outside Navkur prison as freed detainees reunited with loved ones. This follows similar actions by rebel forces in areas previously under al-Assad’s control.

🟡 UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed concern over Israel’s repeated airstrikes in Syria, citing violations of the country’s sovereignty and the 1974 ceasefire agreement. Speaking through his spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, Guterres urged an urgent deescalation of violence and emphasized the need to uphold the ceasefire, which he insists remains valid.

🟡 Israeli airstrikes on Syria have continued unabated since the overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad on December 8. So far, the Israeli Air Force has struck more than 500 targets in Syria and dropped an estimated 1,800 bombs, according to reports by Mehr News Agency.

🟡 Massive protests erupted in Manbij after factions from the “Fajr al-Hurriya” operations room, part of the Turkish-backed SNA, seized the city, accusing them of theft, looting, arrests, and killings. The factions captured Manbij after eight years under SDF control, who had taken it from ISIS in 2016.

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