Somalia: After airstrikes and clashes in western Cal Miskaad, IS-Somalia leaders in Balaade Valley were given a 72-hour ultimatum to surrender.

Burkina Faso and Mali boycotted the Nigeria-hosted military summit, with only Niger represented among the AES states through its defense attaché in Abuja.

Somalia: Reports said Al Shabaab advanced in Hiran and captured the village of Qowl west of Maxaas.

Trump:

China has some cards, we have incredible cards. If I played those cards, that would destroy China. I am not going to play those cards.

US Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack to Axios:

Israel and Syria are both discussing in good faith a potential security agreement, but are not close to finalizing it.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

You are the chosen people, given a chosen place, for a chosen purpose.

If someone is angry at God, he'll be angry at the people who represent him.

Israeli Druze leader in Israel Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif told Syria’s Hikmat al-Hijri that opening a humanitarian corridor from Israel to Sweida is not possible.

Source: Sky News

Trump on the war in Ukraine:

This is the biggest thing that has happened in terms of warfare.

It is a drone war, a drone war never existed before. We are studying it.

Reporter: It requires an act of Congress to rename the Defense Department.

Trump: We’re just going to do it. I’m sure Congress will go along.

Germany just locked in €9 billion a year for Ukraine.

German Finance Minister & Vice-Chancellor Lars Klingbeil told Zelensky in Kyiv:

“We will provide Ukraine with €9 billion in annual support over the coming years.

Germany charged a U.S. defense contractor with spying for China.

Prosecutors say Martin D. offered Beijing U.S. military secrets while working at a base in Germany.

Facing trial now for “particularly serious” espionage.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker to Trump:

If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me. Not time or political circumstance from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker to Trump:

Do not come. You are neither wanted nor needed here in Illinois.

Elon Musk:

Any government driving destruction of its own people is not legitimate

Israel downgraded diplomatic ties with Brazil and declared President Lula persona non grata after Brasilia rejected Israel’s new ambassador.

The US is sending more warships, including a missile cruiser and a submarine, to the southern Caribbean to target drug cartels. This follows last week’s deployment of three amphibious ships with 4,500 troops.

Source: Reuters

Canadian photojournalist Valerie Zink announced she’s leaving Reuters after eight years, saying she can’t work for an outlet that justified Israel’s actions and failed to defend journalists like Anas al-Sharif.

"I can’t in good conscience continue to work for Reuters given their betrayal of journalists in Gaza and culpability in the assassination of 245 our colleagues."

On this day in 1922, the Turkish Army launched the Great Offensive (Büyük Taarruz) under Mustafa Kemal Pasha, beginning at Kocatepe.

Within days, Turkish forces drove back the occupying Greek forces and liberated vast areas of Anatolia, culminating in the victory at Dumlupınar on August 30.