🇸🇾🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Mossad Director Roman Gofman held a phone call with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani last week, just days before the Israeli bombing of a Syrian airbase, according to Reuters. The call focused on Israeli concerns over a Turkish military buildup at the airbase.

The call marked one of the highest-level contacts between the two countries under Syrian President al-Sharaa.

🇺🇸🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡️- In a statement to Axios' Barak Ravid, Syrian Foreign Minister al-Shaibani said he made it clear to Israel that there was no Turkish buildup, but Israel attacked the site anyway. He wrote, "There was no intention to establish a Turkish base there, nor to establish a permanent Turkish military presence or deploy Turkish forces at the site."

President Trump also spoke to Ravid and refused to criticize the strike. "I can't talk about it," Trump said.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- President Trump announces the "MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY!" and "ECONOMIC D-DAY" will begin against Iran. Trump also says they will target countries which assist Iran.

"No one has given the Islamic Republic of Iran a greater opportunity to make a Deal than me. TRAGICALLY, for them, they have failed to take it. Therefore, today, I am announcing the MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY! This will be Economic Warfare and Isolation on an unprecedented scale. Their navy is gone, their air force is destroyed, their military factories are now rubble, their currency is worthless, and their country is hanging by a thread. Today, I am also announcing that ANY country that allows its financial institutions, businesses, airports, or government entities to provide any type of lifeline to Iran will itself face TREMENDOUS Economic Consequences. Oil smuggling, swap lines, cash transfers, exchange houses, ship registries, front companies — It all needs to stop NOW. You know who you are. This will be an ECONOMIC D-DAY, and we need all of our Allies to stand with the United States of America to isolate, and defeat, the Iran threat. These maniacs are on the ropes, and these HISTORIC MEASURES will cripple them and their ability to project terror worldwide. IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER. President DONALD J. TRUMP" - President Trump via Truth Social.

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🇹🇷🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "Erdogan is dragging Turkey into dangerous adventures in Syria.

Israel will not allow anyone to threaten its security.

It would be better for Erdogan to continue making empty, fantasy-mongering speeches against Israel in the Turkish parliament and not test Israel's resolve to defend itself," - Israel Katz, Defense Minister of Israel.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The Israeli security establishment is following with great concern the growing presence and activity of the Turkish naval fleet in the Eastern Mediterranean basin, after several recent incidents in international waters where Turkish war vessels moved close to Israeli military ships passing through the area.

According to Israeli security officials, the Turkish ships attempted to demonstrate presence and power, and approached Israeli ships in several different instances in the waters surrounding Israel," - Israeli Channel 12.

🇰🇵🇰🇷⚡️- North Korea has between 80 and 120 nuclear weapons according to the South Korean Defense Ministry.

🇰🇵🇰🇷⚡️- North Korea fired 10 short-range missiles towards the eastern waters today according to South Korean officials.

🇫🇷⚡️- A sixth major hack occured today in France. Alaxione, a medical platform, had all its 6.8M files stolen and exposed online. The files contain the identities of citizens alongside insurance informations and medical conditions.

At this point, almost every single French citizen's personal informations are available online.

🇾🇪⚡️- "UKMTO have received confirmation that the tanker has been boarded by six armed persons who are now in control of the vessel and redirecting to Somalia." - United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO).

🇫🇷⚡️- According to French medias, hackers on Breachforums have entered an "arms race" for "bragging rights" to see who can hack the largest amount of data from French public services and institutions.

🇷🇴🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- "On Thursday, August 20, two Romanian Air Force F-16 aircraft scrambled towards the location where a small maritime drone was spotted in Romania's Exclusive Economic Zone, near the Neptun Alpha platform, approximately 80 nautical miles east of Constanța. One of the aircraft engaged the target and fired its onboard cannon at it, successfully hitting the target." - Romanian Ministry of National Defence.

🇮🇱⚡️- Israel's Civil Aviation Authority, responsible for managing all civilian flights to and from Israel, has announced that all flights to and from Ben Gurion International Airport will be suspended beginning at 1400 local time.

The reason for the suspension of traffic is due to a worker's strike, which Israel's transportation minister has labeled "violent and illegal."

🇮🇱⚡️- Scenes from Ben Gurion International Airport, where check-in staff are currently striking and refusing to process passengers.

The strike is taking place on one of Israel's busiest travel days, when approximately 100,000 passengers and upwards of 600 flights were expected.

🇮🇱⚡️- Clowns have been brought to Ben Gurion International Airport to entertain stranded passengers affected by the strike.

🇮🇱⚡️- "It is inconceivable that thuggish communist labor unions hold Israeli citizens hostage and take them captive.

It began with interference in the judicial reform, continued with opposition to the milk reform, passed through blocking any structural change to the education system, and now with the false abuse of Israeli citizens during summer vacation.

The days are over where a gang of operators succeeds in paralyzing an entire country. The Religious Zionist [Tkuma] party proved in the last term that it is the only party that dares to fight this thuggery.

The time has come to dismantle these anarchist organizations!" - Bezalel Smotrich, Israeli Minister of Finance.

🇮🇱⚡️- "Estimates suggest Ben Gurion airport will be closed for six hours." - Israel Hayoum, center-right pro-Likud outlet.

🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli media now report that the strike at Ben Gurion International Airport will end in 30 minutes, at 1500.

🇷🇴⚡️- Scenes from the F-16 cannon interception of the unmanned surface vehicle off the coast of Romania.

In June, Romania had an incident involving a Ukrainian drone which entered a port, since then Romania has deployed offshore sensors to try and detect these threats earlier.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Ansarullah announce targeting Saudi Arabia's Abha Airport and the ARAMCO oil facility in the Aseer region, southern Saudi Arabia.

🇸🇾⚡- BREAKING: Syrian Democratic Forces, SDF, Commander-in-Chief Mazloum Abdi has declared the SDF have completed full integration into the Syrian military command.