Political Pulse Path

More than 528,500 people have been killed in the conflict in Syria since 2011, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported yesterday.

According to the rights group, the death of thousands of people was confirmed after the regime was ousted and detention centres, prisons and mass graves were discovered and opened.

More than 6,700 people, more than half of them civilians, were killed in Syria in 2024 alone, according to SOHR. Of the 3,598 civilians killed, 240 were women and 337 were children.

Since 2011, the group has documented more than 64,000 deaths in regime detention centres “under torture, medical neglect and poor living conditions”.

In 2023, SOHR reported the deaths of more than 4,360 people, including about 1,900 civilians.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250102-528500-people-killed-in-syria-since-2011/

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ Two Majors for the Morning of 3 Jan 2025; 06:54 (GMT+3)⚡️

🛡 4 Enemy UAVs were destroyed in the region in the Kamensky and regions during the night. Earlier in the evening - three UAVs in the Millerovsky and Tarasovsky districts, two more drones were destroyed in the Taganrog region. 10 drones were shot down over the Bryansk region. 4 UAVs were shot down in the sky of the Oryol region. They reported that a missile and a drone were shot down over the Kursk region.

🔹 In Region, the 'North Troops Grouping' continues to wage stubborn battles in the forest belts of the Sudzhansky district, as well as in the vicinity of , and . The enemy does not intend to retreat, carries out counterattacks and transfers reinforcements to the area. The AFU are launching missile strikes. The attacks took place in the village of in Rylsky district.

🔹 50 KM west of the and Direction Lines, the enemy begins preparations for the all-round defense of and in region. Apparently, the enemy took into account the tactics of the RFAF to deprive enemy garrisons in cities of logistics routes and plans in the future to restrain our advance in the urban development of these areas.

🔹 In , viscous heavy fighting continues. Our troops are advancing north of the Central Market and attacking in the direction of the waste heaps of Mine No. 10 and the Toretskaya Mine. To the north of a block of multi-storey buildings, Russian troops occupied the college building.

🔹 In Direction, our troops are attacking in the area of (southwest of ). To the south of the city, the RFAF are leveling the front near the village of . To the east, they report the advance of Russian units near , where about 4 km remains to the important logistics junction of the - Motorway.

🔹 In Direction, northwest of , the RFAF are attacking in the area of . South of the city, Russian troops are moving west from . AFU units are gradually withdrawing from the Kurakhovo Industrial Zone. Ours are approaching the Pipe Plant.

🔹 On the front, it became known about the actions of our forward units in the western part of the . village in Pologovsky district.🗺

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US approves sale of missiles to Japan for $3.64bln - Pentagon

The US State Department has approved a possible sale of advanced AIM-120D-3 and AIM-120C-8 air-to-air missiles and related equipment to Japan for $3.64 billion, the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency said.

Japan has requested the purchase of 1,200 AIM-120 missiles, the statement noted.

Militarization of the Asia-Pacific has been unfolding, Brian Berletic, a geopolitical analyst and former US Marine earlier told Sputnik, referring to the creation of the Quad group, which took place under Trump. “Under the Biden administration, it was expanded along with the creation of AUKUS. Both groupings represent efforts toward what could be characterized as a ‘Pacific NATO’," as per the analyst.

🇰🇷⚡- Scenes outside the Presidential Palace.

🇰🇷⚡- Armored vehicle belonging to the 55th Guard Corps at the Presidential Palace.

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts:
🇰🇷⚡- "Illegal and invalid warrant ex*****on is not lawful, we will take action," - President Yoon's team.

🇰🇷⚡- An officer and a soldier of the defense unit (allegedly the 55th Guard Corps) got into a physical fight.

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts:
🇰🇷⚡- The Public Prosecutor's Office confirms they're unable to enter the building.

🇰🇷⚡- "The Public Prosecutor's Officers enter the Presidential Palace," - Yonhap.

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts:
🇰🇷⚡- The Presidential Security Services have blocked the entrance to the Presidential Palace.

🇰🇷⚡️- Yoon's security detail is preventing the entry of police into the presidential palace.

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts:
🇰🇷⚡- Public Prosecutor's Office vehicles are at the entrance to the Presidential Palace.

🇰🇷⚡- 3,000 riot police are deployed at the scene.

🇺🇸 🇱🇧 Reuters: Former US soldier indicted for attempting to join Hezbollah.

⚡️🏴‍☠️🔹Breaking :

Israel plans to establish at least 12 permanent military outposts in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah affiliated journalists have said if Israel doesn’t withdraw from Lebanon by the end of the 60 day ceasefire agreement, war will resume.