🇺🇸🇦🇲⚡- US-Armenia to hold joint 'Eagle Partner' military exercises across Armenia from August 12th - 20th.

🇨🇳⚡- Death toll from large-scale floodings in the Beijing region, China, reaches 73.

🇺🇸⚡- "Hegseth’s latest battle: infighting inside the Pentagon. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s string of missteps has spurred infighting inside the Pentagon and raised concerns among some Republicans on Capitol Hill about his ability to run the department.

The problems lie in Hegseth's lack of experience managing organizations comparable in scale to the Pentagon. The dissatisfaction especially began to grow in March due to a leak on the Signal messenger of data about US strikes in Yemen.

Hegseth also fired 3 high-ranking department employees, and his distrust of the country's military leadership has only increased since then, leading to new resignations and internal conflicts.

Trump rejected the idea of a possible resignation of Pentagon Chief Hegseth following the scandal with the Signal leak of data about US military strikes in Yemen," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡- "OPEC+ countries have agreed to increase oil production by 548,000 barrels per day in September. The decision is related to the new US demands for India to stop purchasing Russian oil," - Reuters.

🇺🇦🇹🇷⚡- Turkey's Embassy in Kiev announces that Turkish President Erdogan is planning a visit to Kiev.

🇬🇧🇷🇺⚡- The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, SVR, says that British intelligence are allegedly planning high-profile sabotages against ships transporting Russian oil, aiming to create an international scandal and tighten sanctions pressure.

SVR claims London will cause an 'accident' involving a tanker in one of the sea straits or setting fire to a ship during loading at a port of a Russia-friendly state. It is assumed that such actions would create a precedent for NATO intervention and restrictions on maritime trade of Russian energy resources. SVR believes Ukrainian operatives will be used for the operations.

🇱🇧⚡- Pro-Hezbollah protests have erupted in southern Beirut, ahead of tomorrow's Lebanese cabinet meeting on the disarming of Hezbollah.

🇲🇩🇦🇿⚡- Moldova has reached out to Azerbaijan as the country is interested in gas supplies from Baku, the Moldovan Ministry of Energy reports. The move is aimed to reduce reliance on Russia's Gazprom, which owns 51% of Moldovagaz, with another 13% owned by Pridnestrovie.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli drones enter southern Lebanese airspace.

🇨🇳⚡- Chikungunya virus outbreak in the city of Foshan, Guangdong province, China.

Xinhua reports 2,892 cases in just one week, but claims Foshan's Disease Center has the 'epidemic under control', but the risk of it 'breaking out remains'.

🇸🇾⚡- Front-line Druze sources say Bedouin tribes in Wulgha have violated the ceasefire by firing on Druze separatists in Rimat Hazm - northwest of As Suwaida city.

Note, Wulgha has been under the Damascus government's Public Internal Security forces control, therefore it is complicit in the current attacks on Druze positions.

🇸🇾⚡- Bedouin tribes are heavy artillery shelling Atel, north of As Suwaida city. Druze sources say the shelling also originates from Wulgha.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Missile launches from Yemen by Ansarullah towards central Israel. Interceptors have been launched from Israel to confront the inbound threat.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts in central Israel, west of Jerusalem. Ballistic missile fire from Yemen detected.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Intercepted.

🇸🇾⚡- Violent clashes in Rimat Hazm, northwest of As Suwaida city, between Bedouin tribes and Druze separatists. Both sides are accusing each other of violating the ceasefire.

🇸🇾⚡- Clashes have erupted on a second and third front in As Suwaida. Bedouin tribes are exchanging fire with Druze separatists in Era, Druze-controlled southwest of As Suwaida city, and Ariqa, Druze-controlled northwest of As Suwaida city.

🇸🇾⚡- Scenes from As Suwaida region, southern Syria.

🇯🇵🇦🇺⚡- Japanese shipbuilder Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has won the contract to build the Australian Navy 11 Mogami-class frigates, a deal worth almost $10 billion.

🇪🇺🇨🇳🇮🇳⚡- "Patience is running thin with China and India as the world’s most populous countries continue to fuel the Russian economy/war machine.

The EU is preparing to push for sanctions against India and China over its involvement in supporting Russia’s war on Ukraine. Including China's covert drone engine shipments to Russia disguised as refrigeration units," - Politico.