Geopolitics Watch

09 January 2026 22:57

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — Interesting photos of SDF vehicles being captured that bear old Syrian regime symbols found in Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood today.

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09 January 2026 22:52

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — Footage from Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood tonight

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09 January 2026 22:28

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — Syrian Arab Army soldier claims to have reached the center of Sheikh Maqsoud, SDF-controlled Aleppo, Syria.

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09 January 2026 21:29

⚡️🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 - Rocket artillery fire reported on "Sheikh Maqsood" by the SAA.

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09 January 2026 21:22

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — HTS-affiliated Tawwaq Media posted slickly edited clips of FPV drones targeting SDF positions.

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09 January 2026 20:33

🇮🇷🔥— Za'faraniyeh residents are on the streets now, rioting despite the internet cuts.

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09 January 2026 20:30

🇮🇷❌🇮🇷 🔥 — Iranian rioters flying Kingdom flags, in support of the deposed Shah

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09 January 2026 20:23

🇮🇷 — Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps uses stun grenades and live rounds to suppress demonstrations in Ashrafi Esfahani, Tehran, Iran.

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09 January 2026 20:16

🇺🇸 — US Air Force C-17 "Globemaster" military transport aircraft flying from Germany towards the Middle East.

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09 January 2026 19:58

🇮🇷 — Crowd of demonstrators in Mashhad, Iran.

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09 January 2026 19:54

🇮🇷🔥 — Protests in Tehran, Iran.

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09 January 2026 19:34

🇻🇪🤝🇺🇸 — Venezuela announces its intent to begin a process to restore joint diplomatic missions between Venezuela and the United States to resolve the abduction of Nicolas Maduro in a diplomatic manner, and announces that diplomats from both states will be traveling to each other:

The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela reiterates its denunciation at the international level that it has been the victim of a criminal, illegitimate, and illegal aggression against its territory and its people—an action that has left more than one hundred civilian and military deaths, who, in defense of the Homeland, were killed in flagrant violation of international law. As is well known, within the framework of this aggression, the illegal kidnapping of the Constitutional President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro Moros, and the First Lady, Cilia Flores, took place—an act that constitutes a serious violation of the personal immunity of heads of state and of the fundamental principles of the international legal order.

For the purpose of addressing this situation within the framework of international law, and in strict adherence to the principles of national sovereignty and the Bolivarian Diplomacy of Peace, the Bolivarian Government of Venezuela has decided to initiate an exploratory diplomatic process with the Government of the United States of America, aimed at restoring diplomatic missions in both countries, with the objective of addressing the consequences arising from the aggression and the kidnapping of the President of the Republic and the First Lady, as well as addressing a work agenda of mutual interest.

In this context, a delegation of diplomatic officials from the United States Department of State will arrive in the country to carry out technical and logistical evaluations inherent to diplomatic functions. Likewise, a delegation of Venezuelan diplomats will be sent to the United States to carry out the corresponding tasks.

As reiterated by the Acting President, Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela will confront this aggression through diplomatic means, convinced that the Bolivarian Diplomacy of Peace is the legitimate path for the defense of sovereignty, the restoration of international law, and the preservation of peace.

Geopolitics Watch

09 January 2026 18:16

🇮🇷🔥- Iranian security forces killed a number of rioters and rebels, some of which are reported to have been firing at Iranian security forces.

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09 January 2026 16:36

🇮🇱🇮🇷❌🇮🇷 — Footage broadcasted by Iranian television shows a group of rioters firing at Iranian security forces in Kermanshah.

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09 January 2026 15:55

🇸🇾📞🇹🇷 — Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa discussed the latest developments in Syria and the region on a phone call with Masoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Democratic party.

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09 January 2026 22:56

🇵🇸❌🇮🇱📞🇬🇧 — Netanyahu denies that Israel carpet bombed Gaza.

If Britain were invaded, and in one day, about 8,000 Britons were killed, maimed, raped, and kidnapped near London, what would you do?

We know what Britain did in the Second World War. I don't hold Churchill, the British government, or the British people responsible.

You bombed German and French cities that were in your way. We didn't do that. We entered with ground forces. We didn't bomb Gaza with bombs.

Geopolitics Watch

09 January 2026 22:32

❌🤝🇮🇷❌🇮🇷 — X has replaced the flag of the internationally recognised Islamic Republic of Iran with the flag of the old deposed Iranian monarchist regime flown by supporters of Reza Pahlavi.

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09 January 2026 22:24

🇮🇷 — A motorcycle rally in support of the Islamic Republic of Iran is ongoing in Tehran.

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09 January 2026 21:28

⚡️🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 - The Syrian Arab Army has officially begun clearing operations in the "Sheikh Maqsood" neighborhood of Aleppo.

Published statement:

After the expiration of all the deadlines granted by the army to the SDF organization within the Sheikh Maqsood neighborhood, we announce the start of an operation to clear the neighborhood of the presence of this criminal organization.

Once the sweeping operations are completed, the neighborhood will be handed over to the security forces and state institutions to begin their work directly.

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09 January 2026 21:15

⚡️🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 - Yesterday, the IDF were able to locate 2 rocket artillery launchers, which include what seem to be a "S40" and "Q20" rockets, within the expanded yellow line of northern Gaza's Jabalia.

📝 Image attached [1] displays the likely area.

📝 Attached [2 & 3] are images of the captures.

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09 January 2026 20:33

🇺🇸🇻🇪🛢️ — President Trump announces the largest oil companies globally will visit the White House at 2:30 this afternoon to discuss Venezuelan oil, with Venezuela's "security and people" seemingly being an afterthought.

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09 January 2026 20:29

🇺🇸🇻🇪 — A convoy of vehicles, likely carrying American diplomatic personnel, approaches the US Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela amidst efforts between Venezuela and the United States to re-establish diplomatic ties.

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09 January 2026 20:18

🇺🇸 — US Air Force KC-135 "Stratotanker" refueling plane flew from Al Udeid Air Base through the Persian Gulf and Iraq for an unknown mission.

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09 January 2026 20:08

🏴❌🇨🇩 — 15 Congolese soldiers killed and injured in a massive ambush conducted by ISCAP yesterday while they were attempting to reach the two bases that were attacked a few days ago in the Mambasa area in northeast Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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09 January 2026 19:55

🇮🇷 — Reports coming in from various pro-Iran medias indicate that, much like last night, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps security forces are using live ammunition to suppress demonstrations in various cities throughout Iran.

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09 January 2026 19:53

🇺🇸🤝🇮🇷❌🇮🇷 — Reza Pahlavi demanded Trump to intervene militarily to strike Iran, citing the killing of protesters as a pretext.

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09 January 2026 19:27

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — SDF elements have rigged bombs to the Qur'an, attempting to trap the religious members of the Syrian Army who would lift it from the floor.

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09 January 2026 16:52

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 - The Syrian Army are fighting the last remaining positions of the SDF in Sheikh Maqsoud.

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09 January 2026 16:32

🇸🇦🇵🇰🇹🇷 — According to Bloomberg, Turkey is seeking to join a defense alliance between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

➡️The agreement, which was originally signed in September 2025, obliges members to treat any aggression against one of them as an attack on all, closely mirroring the principle of collective defense of NATO's Article 5.

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09 January 2026 15:17

🇮🇷🔥— The Malayer police station was set on fire during riots last night, with 3 officers killed.