🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Hamas agrees to release ten Israeli hostages.

🇦🇿🇷🇺 - Sources say Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev declined to meet a Russian envoy sent to ease the bilateral tensions.

🇫🇷🇬🇧 - France and the UK agree to "coordinate" their nuclear deterrents.

🇦🇪🇦🇲🇦🇿 - Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev meet in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

🇧🇦- Al Jazeera Balkans, based in Bosnia, shuts down after 14 years of operation.

🇷🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Serbia offers to host talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says 100,000 Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine.

🇪🇺🇷🇺🇺🇦 - EU to invest €10 billion to rebuild Ukraine.

🇸🇾🇺🇳 - UN report finds no clear evidence of active ties between the Syrian government and Al-Qaeda.

🇹🇷🇮🇶 - PKK begins the symbolic handover of its weapons near Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.

🇨🇳🇹🇭🇰🇭 - China offers to help mediate the border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia.

🇸🇾 - SDF warns of suspicious vehicles impersonating its forces in Syria's coastal villages.

🇫🇷🇳🇨 - Pro- and anti-independence groups sign a historic agreement to create a new status for New Caledonia.

🇦🇿🇮🇱🇸🇾 - Syrian, Israeli officials to meet in Baku, Azerbaijan.

🇷🇺🇮🇷 - Iranian media denies reports of Russia pushing for a non-nuclear Iran.

🇦🇿🇹🇷🇮🇶 - Azerbaijan congratulates Turkey on the start of the PKK disarmament process.

🇺🇳🇬🇷🇱🇾 - Libya files a complaint with the UN against Greece over its maritime claims off the coast of Crete.

🇮🇱🇸🇾 - IDF says it struck Syrian tanks in southern Syria.

🇸🇾 - Fighting between Bedouin tribes and Druze factions results in 90 deaths.

🇸🇾 - Sources say government forces will launch an imminent assault on the Druze city of Suwayda, Syria.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Hamas says Israel is unwilling to reach a ceasefire deal.