Trump:

Today, I concluded a deal to substantially lower the price of ground beef for working American families. As everyone knows, under President Biden, beef prices soared at their fastest rate and the American beef herd fell to its smallest size in modern history.

As we work to rebuild this herd and help our ranchers, for the next 90 days, the United States will allow up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef to be imported with no out of quota tariff.

We have a commitment that this beef will be sold at 25 percent below current market prices. This deal will reduce prices for Americans while giving space for our Great American Beef Herd to grow again.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

It is better to end the war today, while we are in a position of strength and dignity.

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U.S. forces destroyed a $23 million MQ-9A Reaper on the ground after it made a hard landing during a 19-hour Middle East mission to prevent its sensitive equipment from falling into enemy hands.

Newly released details show the drone had lost engine power after a damaged wire shut down its fuel system, and its crew kept it airborne for nearly 10 minutes before the forced landing.

An Air Force investigation found no evidence that the recent engine replacement or maintenance caused the failure.

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BREAKING: Türkiye has sought Interpol red notices for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Afek Moskovitch over crimes against Global Sumud Flotilla activists, including genocide and crimes against humanity.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Iran:

These are people that really do want to kill us. And if we don't believe that, we're playing a fool's game.

If there's terror going on in the world, it typically can be traced back to Tehran.

83% of American doctors who treated children in Gaza emergency rooms reported seeing pre-teen patients shot in the head or chest.

The figure comes from a survey by trauma surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, featured in the new documentary "American Doctor."

An open letter signed by 99 US medical volunteers stated they treated such cases "on a regular or even a daily basis."

They called it impossible to dismiss as accidental.

One surgeon documented 13 children with single gunshot wounds to the head in just two weeks.

The documentary also shows the aftermath at hospitals where incubators failed under siege.

At Al-Nasr Children's Hospital, five premature babies were found decomposing in incubators after staff were forced to evacuate.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

Israel is great at fighting kinetic wars. I would say they could do better fighting the message war, telling their story.

But they’re up against a huge monolithic media that is out to get them.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

If you remember the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and when the knight comes and he slices off both arms and legs of the Black Knight, and the Black Knight continues to say, "Tis but a scratch."

That scene reminds me of Iran. No matter how many ways they get beaten to a pulp, they pretend they’re okay.

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Israeli strikes in Syria:

I don’t think it was intentional. If you look at what actually was done, there were some munitions that were put down on an airfield. No casualties.

It was, I would say, a shot across the bow more than it was an attempt to try to start something.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Israeli strikes in Syria:

I don’t know that the U.S. has taken a position one way or the other, certainly not publicly. We’d love to see calm in the region.

We want to see Syria succeed. We want to see Syria come to a security agreement with Israel. I think that’s very possible, but let’s hope it happens sooner rather than later.

But it won’t be helped if it appears that Türkiye is trying to establish a firm foothold in Syria.

Iran's Parliament Speaker Qalibaf:

No matter how much military power we have, if the people are hungry and we have no financial circulation, economic growth, and national production, we will not endure.

As combatants, we appreciate the value of peace more than those who merely talk about it.

Someone who has fought knows the value of peace.

Yemen's Houthis released drone strike footage showing attacks on Saudi military gatherings and vehicles in Marib and along Yemen's western coast.

The video shows loitering munition strikes hitting personnel groups, military vehicles, and equipment.

BIG: North Korea deployed 8,500 new troops to Russia including 400 drone operators, according to Ukrainian intelligence chief Skibitskiy in a CNN interview.

The drone unit is expected to conduct reconnaissance and strikes against targets inside Ukraine from Russian territory.

The remaining personnel include 1,000 engineers and sappers reinforcing rear positions in Russia's Kursk region.

Approximately 25,000 North Koreans have rotated through Russia since October 2024.

Ukrainian intelligence expects Putin to request up to 50,000 additional troops when he meets Kim Jong Un in September.

North Korea's Kim Yo Jong dismissed such claims as "groundless."

NATO massed roughly 25 aircraft near Russia's Kaliningrad exclave on August 18, including US and Norwegian fighters, an AWACS, the rare EA-37B Compass Call electronic warfare aircraft, and Apache attack helicopters.

The package flew orbits over northeastern Poland focused on the electromagnetic environment around Kaliningrad.

NATO framed it as planned training for interoperability and deterrence, not a response to any specific Russian action.

The operation continued over subsequent days and was first flagged by OSINT flight trackers before official confirmation.

Polish tourist says she didn’t believe the propaganda and decided to visit Syria.

She says, “Syria is nothing like Afghanistan. The girls here can walk and do anything,” and adds that she feels safer there than in India.

BIG: German authorities discovered a hidden weapons cache linked to Russian intelligence in a forest on the Berlin-Brandenburg border, containing two operational handguns and ammunition in a professionally built underground dead drop.

The weapons were disabled and the site placed under surveillance, but no one came to collect them.

A suspect was later arrested in Romania.

Germany's Interior Minister confirmed the find, saying the weapons were "certainly" intended for attack planning.

Security sources told German media the cache was prepared for Russian agents to conduct assassinations or attacks inside Germany, potentially targeting defense executives, Russian opposition figures, or Ukraine supporters.

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud praised Türkiye for helping Somalia build lasting capacity rather than relying on short-term aid.

“Türkiye’s support for Somalia was not about giving us fish, but teaching us how to fish,” he said.

Mohamud credited Türkiye with supporting schools, hospitals, education, security and energy development, while also strengthening Somalia’s fight against al-Shabaab.

“Türkiye both trains our soldiers and provides the equipment they need. This has changed many things both for our security and for our fight against the terrorist organization al-Shabaab,” he said.

He said direct financial aid alone would have brought only temporary benefits.

“They could have given us the money and we would have spent it, and tomorrow we would need help again,” Mohamud said.

“Our relations are growing day by day,” he added. “Tomorrow it will be an even stronger partnership.”