Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- Iranian projectiles struck a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz causing a fire.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- BREAKING: In retaliation, Eritrea has severed all diplomatic relations with Ethiopia.

🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- Saudi Arabia has transferred the Omani copilot from yesterday's FlyDubai aircraft to Abu Dhabi, the UAE.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Iran’s Foreign Minister offered to restore IAEA nuclear inspectors access to all damaged facilities in exchange for sanctions relief," - Bloomberg.

🇸🇦🇦🇪🇮🇱⚡- A Saudi official tells NBC News that yesterday’s FlyDubai incident increasingly appears to have been an attempted terrorist attack.

🇮🇱🇦🇪🇮🇷⚡️ — Israel currently has no clear evidence linking the Omani pilot to Iran, despite President Trump’s earlier comments, according to Channel 16. Iranian involvement has neither been confirmed nor ruled out.

🇬🇧🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: The U.K. has arrested a British-Iranian dual national in connection with the RAF Fairford plot. They believe he planned the operation, British intelligence is investigating potential foreign state involvement.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡️- BREAKING: President Trump says the attempted hijacking of the FlyDubai flight is linked to Iran. Trump says that if confirmed, Iran will be “hit very hard.”

🇸🇾🇱🇧⚡- Syria denies the Reuters reports that Damascus held direct talks with Hezbollah.

🇪🇹🇪🇷⚡- Ethiopia has closed its embassy in Eritrea and has demanded 10 Eritrean officials to leave Addis Ababa within 48 hours.

🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah have launched a new large-scale offensive to capture the city of Ta'izz, southern Yemen. Rerum Novarum's map shows the current situation in the Ta'izz - Aden direction.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: The United States is sending the USS Theodore Roosevelt to the Middle East, making it the third aircraft carrier in the region.

🇱🇧🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡️- Hezbollah and the Syrian government have held face-to-face talks in Turkey aimed at easing tensions between the two sides, sources told Reuters.

🇫🇷 - The French government very rarely openly accuses opposition parties of being behind violent protests. Not even during the height of the Yellow Vests' violences had this happened.

🇫🇷⚡️- BREAKING: LFI and other ultra-left proxies are confirmed to be behind the urban violences across France according to the French prime minister's office. The statement is based on the internal intelligence service's reports.

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡️- The Popular Mobilization Forces paraded through the streets of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, to celebrate the total withdrawal of American forces from Iraq.

🇮🇷🇱🇷⚡️- "Three Liberian-flagged oil tankers were struck by unknown projectiles when ​transiting the Strait of Hormuz on ‌Tuesday." - Reuters, citing the shipping intelligence service Marisks.

🇪🇹⚡- Complete collapse of Tigray Defense Forces positions in the southwest Tigray region. Ethiopian troops, ENDF, have advanced north of Alamata, capturing the strategic height of Grat Kahsu. The fate of the city of Korem remains unknown, as unconfirmed reports circulate it has fallen to ENDF control. ENDF have advanced along the Alamata Road northeast, capturing Tao and Kukufto. Meanwhile, ENDF-allied Tigray Peace Forces have seized almost the entire Tigray southeastern countryside. Ethiopian forces have also recaptured Erebti in the Afar region from the Uguugumo. Map key: - Purple: Ethiopian military forces, - Red: Tigray Defense Forces, - Orange: Uguugumo, - Yellow: Fano areas of operations.

🇲🇲🇨🇳⚡- "China’s security forces fired warning shots to defend the country’s airspace from Myanmar junta warplanes circling over the headquarters of the anti-junta Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in Laiza on the Chinese border in Kachin State, according to residents and the ethnic army," - The Irrawaddy. Note, the Myanmar junta's jets did not violate Chinese airspace but were still fired upon with warning shots.

🇨🇳⚡- China has suspended all oil exports except to Hong Kong and Macau. PetroChina has cancelled most gasoline and jet shipments abroad.