🇹🇳 — Most of Tunisia’s political parties are either inactive or their leaders are in prison (Reuters)

🇸🇾🇺🇳 - The UN says more than 1,700 people were killed during violence in Syria‘s Suwayda Governorate in 2025.

🇮🇳🇷🇺 — India’s defense ministry says it has approved deals worth $25 billion for aircraft and Russian S-400 systems.

🇦🇿🇷🇺🇮🇷 — Russia’s emergency situations ministry has sent 300 tons of humanitarian aid to Iran via Azerbaijan (APA)

🇪🇺🇲🇪 — The EU’s enlargement chief says Montenegro will be first to join the bloc under new “democratic safeguards.”

🇮🇷 — The Houthis threaten to join the war if attacks against Iran continue.

🇮🇷🇺🇸🇸🇦 — Officials say missiles launched by Iran damaged KC-135 aircraft on Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan Air Base (WSJ)

🇧🇦 — The chairman of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s presidency says the country remains committed to joining NATO.

🇸🇦 — Oil exports from Saudia Arabia’s Yanbu Port on the Red Sea are at a record pace as usual routes are under fire (WSJ)

🇳🇵 — Nepalese police say they have arrested the former prime minister, who was ousted by Gen-Z-led protests in 2025.

🇮🇷🇹🇭 — Thailand’s prime minister says Iran has agreed to grant Thai vessels a safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

🇶🇦🇺🇦 — Qatar’s defense ministry says it has signed a defense cooperation deal with Ukraine to counter missiles and drones.

🇦🇲🇦🇿 — Armenia’s foreign ministry reports “positive developments in further normalisation” with Azerbaijan.

🇴🇲 — A security source reports that two drones targeted Oman’s Salalah Port (ONA)

🇨🇴🇺🇳 — The UN says more than 10,000 Colombians have been recruited to fight in global conflicts over the past decade.

🇵🇭 — ISIS in the Philippines, once a stronghold in Asia in the mid-to-late 2010s, is now effectively defunct (Militant Wire)

🇺🇦🇦🇪 — Ukraine’s president says his country and the UAE have agreed to cooperate on defense.

🇮🇱🇾🇪 — Israel’s military says it intercepted a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis from Yemen.

🇨🇺 — Cuba held a nationwide civilian military exercise involving weapons training and combat drills (France 24)

🇷🇺🇮🇷 — Russia’s Rosatom warns of a deteriorating situation at Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear ‌Power Plant.

🇫🇷🇮🇶 — France’s president says “everything must be done” to prevent Iraq from being drawn into the war in the Middle East.