🇸🇦🇹🇷🇪🇬⚡- Saudi's bin Farhan, Turkey's Fidan, and Egypt's Abdelatty met in El Alamein, Egypt.

Egyptian sources close to the Foreign Ministry report the talks focused on resolving outstanding differences between Cairo and Riyadh, with Turkey acting as a mediator.

Meanwhile, the New Arab, citing its own sources, states Cairo is now 'seriously considering' joining the Mecca Agreement after key differences with Riyadh were resolved.

🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah missile and drone attack on Mocha, southwest Presidential Leadership Council controlled Yemen.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Ansarullah drone strikes against ARAMCO's oil facility in Najran, southern Saudi Arabia.

🇺🇸🇸🇴⚡️- A federal judge is allowing the Trump administration to end TPS (Temporary Protected Status) for Somalia after it was previously blocked.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "After finishing defeating Iran, I will declare the Strait of Hormuz a territory of the United States," - President Trump.

Persian Gulf? Arabian Gulf? The American Gulf.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- With the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran set to expire on Monday, one senior White House official talking to Politico described the situation between the two countries as "static."

The official added, "It doesn’t matter how close or how far we are. What matters is if Iran wants to come to the table and agree to a deal. Right now, they haven’t done that."

🇾🇪 - Clashes erupted between Ansarullah and forces aligned with the Presidential Leadership Council, PLC, along the al-Barah axis, Hays direction, southwest Yemen.

Ansarullah launched multiple assaults across the al-Barah-Shar'ab highlands area for the second consecutive night, with fighting lasting five hours. All attempted advances by Ansarullah were repelled, with the pro al-Houthi forces sustaining significant casualties.

🇨🇩⚡️- The Ebola outbreak in the DRC is "out of control" according to local health officials as the worst projections are becoming reality.

WHO officials estimate at least one death occurs every 30 minutes because of the virus in the DRC.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Department of Homeland Security has terminated Temporary Protected Status for the following countries; Haiti, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Cameroon, Nepal, Honduras, Nicaragua, Venezuela, South Sudan, Burma, Somalia and Ethiopia.

Temporary Protected Status allows eligible people from those countries to stay and work legally in the United states while it is "unsafe" to return home.

🇻🇦✝️ - "Since our Redeemer is the Son of Mary, he could not do otherwise, as the perfect observer of God's law, than to honor, not only his eternal Father, but also his most beloved Mother." - Pope Pius XII

Today, August 15th, we celebrate the Feast of the Assumption.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- A recent poll from Wedgewood Polling suggests Amy Acton is one point ahead of Vivek Ramaswamy in the Ohio Gubernatorial race.

Acton: 47%
Ramaswamy: 46%
Undecided: 7%

🇫🇷 - Today is the 257th birthday of the Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte.

Bonaparte is among the greatest of the European race, as under his rule, he propelled the French Empire to conquer Europe and usher in the Napoleonic era, which dominated Europe physically and spiritually for decades.

A description of Napoleon by German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: “I saw the Emperor – this world-soul – riding out of the city on reconnaissance. It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrated here at a single point, astride a horse, reaches out over the world and masters it.”

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️- Russia lost 42,860 men on the battlefield last month, which includes soldiers killed and wounded, the most since January 2025 — and the fourth bloodiest month since the start of the war in 2022. - NYP.