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The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has announced the beginning of Operation True Promise 4 is underway against the U.S. and Israel following the attack this morning. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Video from northern Israel showing what appears to be Israeli air defense working to intercept incoming Iranian missiles. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Additional footage from downtown Tehran after Israeli preemptive strikes against Iran. No confirmation on whether or not this was a unilateral Israeli action or a joint U.S.-Israeli one. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Israel is confirmed to have launched “preemptive strikes” this morning against Iran. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

After seen departing yesterday from Crete Naval Base in Souda Bay, Greece, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) and several of her escorts reportedly arrived this morning off the coast of Haifa in Northern Israel, which is likely to be her final position to assist with the Defense of [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro performs a “perp walk” after deplaning earlier tonight at New York Stewart International Airport. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth spoke about Iran and Venezuela during today’s Cabinet Meeting alongside President Donald J. Trump and other senior members of the Trump Administration: “Same thing with Iran right now, ensuring that they have all the options to make a [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Heavy gunfire and explosions reported within the last hour around Diori Hamani International Airport in Niamey, the capital of Niger. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

The Chinese Ministry of National Defense announces that an investigation has been launched into Gen. Zhang Youxia, the Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Gen. Liu Zhenli, the Chief of Staff of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission and [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

The Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome H. Powell, has released a statement confirming that the Justice Department under President Trump has launched an investigation into his testimony in front of the Senate Banking Committee, stating, “This new threat of criminal charges is [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

“Iran wants to negotiate, yes. We may meet with them - I mean a meeting is being set up - but we may have to act, because of what’s happening, before the meeting. But a meeting is being set up, Iran called they want to negotiate.” [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

The Syrian Army, supported by tanks and armored vehicles, has launched a major operation tonight against Kurdish-controlled neighborhoods in Aleppo, reportedly clearing a majority of paramilitary forces supported by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Footage of Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro entering the DEA Building earlier in New York City, telling bystanders “Goodnight” and wishing them a “Happy New Year.” [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Footage from a vantage point over the city, showing multiple explosions across the Venezuelan capital of Caracas. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Footage showing a massive explosion earlier at Higuerote Airport in the State of Miranda, Northern Venezuela, with the secondary explosions and fire suggesting a strike against a surface-to-air missile launcher with the Venezuelan Air Force. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Footage which appears to show U.S. Army CH-47G “Chinook” Special Operations Helicopters, likely with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR), over the Venezuelan capital of Caracas. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Multiple secondary explosions seen, while flames and smoke emanate from the Port of Caracas in Venezuela. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Multiple fires are currently burning at the Tuapse Oil Refinery in the Southwestern Russian city of Tuapse in Krasnodar Krai near the coast of the Black Sea, following several drone strikes in the past hour by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Russian channels are reporting that large portions of Moscow are currently without power, amidst a large-scale drone attack currently underway against the Russian capital by Ukraine. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Insane footage shows a bystander attacking and disarming one of the terrorists, who appears to have been armed with a long rifle, during today’s shooting attack on an event celebrating Hanukkah at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Thai Soldiers with the 112th Mechanized Infantry Brigade advance through the fog alongside M1126 “Stryker” Infantry Fighting Vehicles near the border with Cambodia. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Forces of the Royal Thai Army, supported by M1126 “Stryker” Infantry Fighting Vehicles, advance into a residential area near the border in Northern Cambodia as fighting escalates between the two countries, with a soldier seen laying down suppressing fire using an M2 Browning [ 网页链接 ↗ ]