🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Washington must provide guarantees that it will not attack Iran again should negotiations resume," - Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- Heavy Russian reinforcements arrived at Russia's Qamishli Air Base in northeast Syria, SDF-controlled Syria. The military reinforcements arrived from Russia's Latakia Air Base, Damascus-controlled coastal Syria.

For the first time since the fall of the Assad regime, Russian troops patrolled the M4 Highway from Tell Tamr - Tell Baydr, northeast SDF-controlled Syria, along the frontline with SNA. The patrols used to occur daily during the Assad era.

Russian military sources in Syria have not confirmed the reason behind the movements of its military, but they do come after Damascus-backed forces began reinforcing positions along the Euphrates river, and after Turkey's Fidan advised Syria to withdraw from the Paris peace talks.

🇺🇦🇦🇿⚡- "Azerbaijan took offense at Russia for the attacks on the refineries of the Azerbaijani company SOCAR, located on the territory of Ukraine," - Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan's President, in a phone call with Ukraine's Zelensky.

🇺🇦🇦🇿⚡- Azerbaijani DTX-funded outlet Caliber says Azerbaijani authorities are reconsidering the ban on weapon shipments to Kiev if Russia continues targeting Azerbaijani energy infrastructure in Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇦🇲⚡- Russian President Putin called Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

🇷🇺🇦🇲⚡- "Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan provided detailed information about the results of the meeting with US President Donald Trump and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Washington on August 8," - RIA Novosti, Russian outlet, on the Putin-Pashinyan phone call.

🇦🇲🇮🇷🇦🇿⚡- Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi says he has 'raised concerns' with Yerevan and Baku over the US-brokered Zangezur Corridor. Araghchi adds that 'foreign presence' could have serious negative consequences for the Caucasus region.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇱🇧⚡- "We condemn the American decision against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro," - Hezbollah's Arab and International Relations Department.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Nvidia and AMD will give the US 15% of China chip sales in a highly unique Trump admin deal for export licences. The arrangement brings criticism over security risks and that it could boost China’s AI and military capabilities.

🇹🇷🇦🇲⚡- Turkey's President Erdogan called the Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan to celebrate the signing of the Zangezur Corridor agreement.

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🇺🇸🇵🇰⚡- BREAKING: US designates Baloch separatist group Balochistan Liberation Army as a terrorist organization.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Trump agreed in his recent conversation with Netanyahu on the need to launch an additional military operation in the Gaza Strip," - Israeli Channel 12.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- BREAKING: Russian forces are encircling the city of Pokrovsk, Ukraine, from the north and northeast!

In a shocking maneuver developing over the past 48 hours, the Russian Armed Forces have thrust their infantry and armoured units towards the town of Dobropilia, north of Pokrovsk.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces defending Pokrovsk are concentrated to the south, southeast and east where there are very strong defensive fortifications and active battles. There are virtually no fortifications or Ukrainian forces north of the city.

Some observers of the Ukrainian Conflict are calling this one of the most daring and impressive military feats so far accomplished by Russia, which could endanger Ukraine's defense of Pokrovsk - and the entire Ukrainian defensive network in the Donbass!

🇺🇸⚡- X has suspended Grok.

Update: 30 minutes later, Grok has returned.

🇷🇺🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- The Syrian government has asked Moscow to return the Russian military to its observation posts in the al-Qunaitra countryside, along the Syrian-Israeli border.

Russia withdrew from all outposts in southern Syria after the fall of the Assad regime. Most of the military posts have been destroyed by Israel during its incursions, the remaining are now mostly occupied by the IDF.