🇺🇸 — Tonight, international coalition forces, supported by helicopter air support, carried out a raid in the city of Al-Shuhail

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾‼️ — Clashes with machine gun fire and projectiles between the SAA and the SDF in the towns of Mahkan and Al-Kashmah east of Deir ez-Zor.

🇸🇾‼️🇸🇾 — SDF reinforcements are currently being brought from the al-Omar oilfield towards the Latwa neighborhood in Dhiban.

Meanwhile, the 66th division of the SAA sent a military convoy to the town of Mahkan.

🇸🇾‼️ — Clashes between the SDF and an unknown group in the village of Al-Sharima, south of the town of Deir Hafer in the eastern countryside of Aleppo.

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾‼️ — Reports of gunfire directed at targets within the town of Hasrat, from their points in the Al-Kashmah area in the town of Al-Shahfa.

🇸🇾 — SDF statement on the clashes tonight:

Unknown armed elements operating from positions on the western bank of the Euphrates River fired an RPG round this evening at one of our positions in the village of Abu Hammam, east of Deir ez-Zor. The attack resulted in no casualties.

Our forces responded appropriately, accurately targeting the source of the fire.

Calm currently prevails in the area, while our security units continue investigation and follow-up operations to identify the perpetrators.

Our forces remain on high alert to protect local residents and ensure stability in the region.

🇸🇾 — SyriacPress: Internal Security Forces in North and East Syria announce general amnesty for desertion and absence from service

🇮🇶✝️ — AssyriaPost: The secret lobbying that led to the return of the NPU force

Assyrian bishop Mar Benedict Younan Hanno, Archbishop of Mosul and its environs for the Syriac Catholic Church, was the driving force behind this development.

Archbishop Hanno is said to have met with the leadership of the PMF shortly after the wedding fire, demanding the removal of the Babylon Brigades from the region. He reportedly repeated these demands to several power brokers who made promises but took no action. A recent meeting between the Archbishop and Falih al-Fayyadh, head of the PMF, is said to have been decisive, as the PMF leadership finally agreed to heed the demands of the local population.

While the wedding fire was the catalyst, it was not the only reason for the Church’s change of heart. Continuous harassment, intimidation, and extortion of local businesses by members of the Babylon Brigades had made life increasingly untenable for Assyrians in the region, the sources added.

What made the return of the NPU possible is the fact that the force had remained largely intact despite being absorbed into Brigade 50. Rather than dissolving the NPU completely, the Babylon Brigades dismissed only its top four leaders while keeping most of its fighters as a sub-unit – a decision that has now proved costly for the Shiite militia.

To enforce the decision, PMF leadership and the Iraqi Army are said to have dispatched special forces to the Nineveh Plain, effectively forcing the Babylon Brigades out of the area through a show of strength but without armed confrontation.

🇮🇶❌🇸🇾 — PMF arrests four Druze men on charges of spying for Israel. Their names:

Ghadi Ayman Bouhassas
Bilal Jihad Nasr
Kumi Rashid
Milad Abu Fakher

🇮🇶📞🇺🇸🇸🇾 — Iraqi Defence Minister Thabit al-Abbasi revealed that he received a phone call from the U.S. Secretary of Defence ten days ago, informing him of forthcoming military operations in the region.

According to al-Abbasi, the U.S. official stated that the action would take place on Syrian territory and cautioned Iraqi factions against interference, warning that Washington would respond decisively to any attempt to obstruct the operation.

This intervention likely refers to a joint Turkey-SNA operation against the SDF.

🇸🇾 ☦️ ✝️ — Church schools in North and East Syria reopen after agreement with Democratic Autonomous Administration.