🇸🇾⚡- The Syrian government has imposed a complete siege on the SDF-held areas of Aleppo, closing all entries and exits.

Rerum Novarum's map shows the situation in Aleppo, with all key locations in the area included.

Map key:
Yellow - SDF-controlled,
Green - Damascus-controlled.

🇺🇸⚡- "Trump is blaming me for a bill he eventually signed, while defending his banker friends, Bill Clinton, and “innocent” visitors to rape island. Meanwhile Bondi is working fervently to redact, omit, and delete Epstein files she is legally required to release under our bill," - Thomas Massie.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Lebanon has announced the death of a Lebanese soldier, Ali Abdallah, in an Israeli airstrike yesterday.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇷🇺⚡- "Moscow conveyed to Washington its concerns about US actions towards Venezuela," - Andrey Rydenko, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇴🇲⚡- Saudi-backed Yemen and the Houthis have reached a major prisoner exchange deal. Thousands of Saudi, Yemeni and Sudanese forces will be released in exchange for a similar number of Ansarullah members.

The deal was mediated by Oman.

🇺🇸🇳🇬🇬🇭⚡- "The US is conducting daily reconnaissance flights over Nigeria. The aircraft usually take off from Ghana, cross the airspace of Nigeria and then returns to Accra.

The missions are related to monitoring the activities of armed groups and searching for an American pilot who was kidnapped in neighbouring Niger," - African Initiative, Russian Think Tank.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "We estimate that the Israeli general elections are no longer as imminent as we previously thought, and they may take place in September 2026.

Netanyahu believes that the polls are not in his favor, so he apparently plans to strike Iran again in order to improve his standing in Israeli public opinion," - Ahmed Tibi, leader of the opposition Ta'al Party in the Israeli Knesset.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister paused his trial testimony for 11 and a half minutes to participate in a "phone security consultation about Iranian missile exercises," Israeli Channel 12 reports.

🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Essentially confirming Iranian missile exercises did / are taking place, despite the spread of intentional misinformation.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Tehran has begun to rebuild its missile system since the first moment of the end of the historic confrontation with Israel in the summer.

Israeli security sources indicate that Iran is still not interested in responding to Israel until it improves its capabilities, benefits from the military lessons resulting from the recent battle, and strengthens its intelligence capabilities," - Yediot Ahronoth.

🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Israeli Channel 13 has also confirmed the report: Netanyahu was given up to 30 minutes during his testimonial hearing to discuss the Iranian missile exercises in a phone call with his security advisors.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu's upcoming visit to the United States shifts attention away from the Gaza and Lebanon fronts, which have long dominated the Israeli political-security agenda, to the Iranian threat, which has temporarily receded into the background.

This comes amid reports of the rapid pace at which Iran is arming itself with ballistic missiles and its efforts to close the loopholes that enabled the Israeli attack on it in June," - Israel Hayom.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Despite the build-up of Hezbollah and the Hamas disarmament question; Netanyahu will need to convince President Trump of excluding the possibility of a settlement in these arenas from the agenda, in order to focus purely on the Iranian challenge," - Israel Hayom.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israel must also prevent armament efforts in the Hezbollah and Hamas arenas, including targeting the leaders involved in these efforts, even if the price is renewed escalation," - Israel Hayom.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "When Prime Minister Netanyahu visits Florida, he will need to ensure that President Trump's quest to stabilize the ceasefire and achieve regional peace does not come at the expense of these important Israeli objectives," - Israel Hayom.

🇵🇱 🇮🇶 President Karol Nawrocki signed a decision to extend the operation of the Polish Military Contingent in Iraq.

🇵🇰⚡- Five Pakistani police officers were killed when gunmen opened fire on a police patrol vehicle in the Karak district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa region, western Pakistan.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Israel confirms to The Washington Post that they fund 3,000 Syrian Druze monthly $100-$200 salaries.

Israel also admitted it has sent shipments of rifles and other military gear to the Druze separatists in As Suwaida, southern Syria.