Geopolitics Watch

08 January 2026 17:10

🇺🇸🇮🇶 — Iraqi army forces have taken control of Ain al-Asad airbase following the complete withdrawal of US forces.

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08 January 2026 16:47

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — The SDF is destroying civilian infrastructure in Aleppo

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08 January 2026 16:42

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — Al-Jazeera airing live footage of intense combat in Aleppo

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08 January 2026 16:38

🇹🇷🇸🇾❌🇸🇾🇹🇷 — Kurdish demonstrations are currently taking place in Turkey as the clashes between the Syrian government forces and SDF fighters intensify.

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08 January 2026 16:25

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — Videos emerging of SDF members captured as the operation continues.

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08 January 2026 13:46

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — Clashes are intensifying in Aleppo between the Syrian government forces and the SDF.

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08 January 2026 11:57

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — The Syrian army issues evacuation orders for areas in Aleppo.

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08 January 2026 11:23

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — The Syrian Army has imposed a curfew from 1:30 p.m. in the Sheikh Maqsoud, al-Ashrafiyah, and Bani Zeid neighborhoods, warning civilians to stay away from all SDF positions.

➡️ The army will launch targeted operations against SDF sites in these areas starting at the same time.

Geopolitics Watch

07 January 2026 21:52

🇺🇸 — The Department of Homeland Security posted a similarly fictitious statement, alleging the murderous ICE agent acted in self-defense.

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07 January 2026 20:52

‼️🇮🇷 Footage from Mashhad.

@Mena_Live

Geopolitics Watch

07 January 2026 20:20

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — The SDF continued shelling, and there are mass Syrian Army mobilisations taking place, despite both sides claiming nothing is happening.

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07 January 2026 16:45

🇬🇧🇺🇸❌🇷🇺— The UK Ministry of Defence claims it helped the US seize the Bella-1 ship, providing surveillance and other support in the operation.

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07 January 2026 16:41

🇺🇳🇮🇱❌🇵🇸— UNRWA announced the termination of hundreds of contracts for Gaza staff abroad, just days after Israel announces restrictions and bans on UNRWA operations across Palestine.

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07 January 2026 16:11

🇮🇷🔥- Protests continue in Abandan, Iran for a second day, despite security forces incursions.

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07 January 2026 15:58

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇷🇺⚡️ — Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem:

In two predawn operations today, the Coast Guard conducted back-to-back meticulously coordinated boarding of two “ghost fleet” tanker ships— one in the North Atlantic Sea and one in international waters near the Caribbean.

Both vessels —the Motor Tanker Bella I and the Motor Taker Sophia—were either last docked in Venezuela or en route to it.

The world’s criminals are on notice. You can run, but you can’t hide.

This is our country’s greatest fighting force at their best. This is America first at sea.

Geopolitics Watch

08 January 2026 16:47

🇮🇷🌐📉 — Cloudflare Radar indicate that the Iranian government has shut down IPv6 networks in multiple cities following days of nationwide protests.

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08 January 2026 16:46

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — More intense battle footage from Al-Jazeera

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08 January 2026 16:41

🇮🇷🔥— The Nishapur police checkpoint has been destroyed by rebels, reportedly attacked by armed rioters.

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08 January 2026 16:33

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — SDF fighters claim to have destroyed a tank belonging to the Syrian government forces.

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08 January 2026 13:47

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 Under heavy artillery cover, STG government forces have launched their full-scale ground offensive against the SDF-held Kurdish-majority Al-Ashrafiya and Sheikh Masoud Neighbourhoods in northern Aleppo.

The two main epicentres of fighting right now are in the Resafa District and the Syriac Quarter. STG forces attempted to attack the Syriac Quarter from at least two directions, after it was shelled with mortars. One of these attacks has been repelled by the SDF, with the STG suffering casualties.

They are also attacking towards the centre of the Resafa District, where heavy fighting is ongoing.

Additional evacuation orders have been issued for 3 more areas, bringing the total number of evacuation orders to 8.

🔗 AMK Mapping

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08 January 2026 12:04

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — Channel 14 reporter Yaakov Bardugo, often described as Netanyahu's mouthpiece:

I believe we are very close to days of fighting, a military strike, and everyone can interpret it as they wish, against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

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08 January 2026 11:30

🇮🇷🔥— Iran riots update:

➡️Riots intensified last night, with videos of Basij being chased down and disarmed, (Media 1 and 6)

➡️Qassem Soleimani statues were lit on fire and toppled (Media 4 and 7) and photos of Khamenei ripped down (Media 3)

➡️Rioters burnt a mosque down (Media 2), showing their anti-islamic beliefs.

➡️Among all of this, some rioters were killed by live fire, emboldening the anger shared by the rioters.

Geopolitics Watch

07 January 2026 21:54

🇺🇸 — Photos of the masked ICE agent that murdered an American citizen today.

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07 January 2026 21:48

🇺🇸— President Trump blames the unarmed woman who was shot dead in her car of "viciously" running over an ICE officer, despite clips showing this not happening.

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07 January 2026 20:49

🇮🇷🔥— Footage coming out of Tehran tonight showing intense protests and clashes.

➡️ In Iranshahr, a commander was assassinated by rebels, alongside a shotgun attack on security forces in another city.

➡️ Claims that rebels have taken control of 2 cities continue to spread, however there isn't enough evidence to confirm this as of yet.

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07 January 2026 19:06

🇺🇸🏡 — President Trump announces steps will be taken to ban large institutional investors from owning single-family homes to help combat housing inaffordability, and will be discussing further housing proposals at his speech at Davos in two weeks.

Geopolitics Watch

07 January 2026 16:44

🇸🇾✔️🇸🇾 — The Syrian Army announces it never launched an offensive on the neighbourhoods.

Ignore everything that just happened, it didn't.

Geopolitics Watch

07 January 2026 16:30

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — The Syrian Defence Ministry announces that the SDF have booby-trapped many residential buildings and their own buildings too as they retreat. This makes it deliberately hard for residents to leave or enter.

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07 January 2026 16:02

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — SDF now announce that they had already retreated from the neighbourhoods in Aleppo, and that the Syrian government is only targeting civilians.

Statement issued by the General Command of the Syrian Democratic Forces:

The General Command of the Syrian Democratic Forces confirms that the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighborhoods have been completely besieged by Damascus government forces for more than six months. These neighborhoods pose no military threat whatsoever and cannot serve as a launching point for any attack on the city of Aleppo. The claims propagated by bloodthirsty elements within the Damascus factions regarding any intention or military action by our forces originating from these two neighborhoods are false and fabricated, used as a pretext to justify the siege, bombardment, and massacres perpetrated against civilians.

We categorically affirm that the Syrian Democratic Forces have no military presence in the city of Aleppo. Their withdrawal was public and documented in front of the media, in accordance with a clear agreement, and security responsibilities were handed over to the Internal Security Forces. The reemergence of these baseless arguments serves only to provide political and military cover for the ongoing brutal assault on safe residential areas. We call upon the guarantor states, as well as the responsible parties within the Syrian government who claim to uphold national unity, to assume their immediate responsibilities and work to immediately halt the siege, bombardment, and military offensive targeting innocent civilians in the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighborhoods without any justification.

We warn that the continuation of this aggression against civilians will lead to serious repercussions that will not be limited to the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighborhoods or to the city of Aleppo alone, but will return all of Syria to an open battlefield. Full responsibility for this will fall on those who insist on using force against civilians.

The General Command of the Syrian Democratic Forces is closely monitoring the situation with utmost sensitivity, in coordination with all parties concerned with the safety and security of our people in the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighborhoods. It affirms that the siege, the threat of force, the targeting of civilians, and their use as bargaining chips or human shields constitute crimes that are unacceptable and condemned by all legal and humanitarian standards.

General Command of the Syrian Democratic Forces
January 7, 2026

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07 January 2026 15:35

🇾🇪🇸🇦❌🇾🇪🇦🇪 - Map showing the total collapse of South Arabia in only a few days since it's frantic declaration and abandonment by the UAE.

This doesn't mean the end of the STC, their battles may continue in order to preserve themselves, however they have lost all their cities.