🇺🇸⚡️- The United States' immigrant population has decreased by 2.2 million between January and July of this year, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, mostly from "self-deportation".

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- BREAKING: Ukrainian forces, led by Azov, have launched a counterattack against the Russian breakthrough in the Pokrovsk direction.

Zolotoy Kolodez, Kucherov Yar and Volnoe have returned to grey-zone.

🇮🇷⚡- Overnight, Iran's IRGC carried out a large-scale military readiness exercise involving the launching of ballistic missiles and fighter jets.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡- "Britain warns the EU including Macron, Merz and Kallas to stop publicly demanding Ukraine’s inclusion in upcoming Trump–Putin Summit, fearing it could alienate Trump and shut Europe out," - The Telegraph.

🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇷⚡- The E3, France, Germany, and the UK, have warned the UN that they will trigger the snapback mechanism and reintroduce sanctions on Iran if Tehran does not resume nuclear talks with the IAEA by the end of August.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- A Chinese J-15 fighter jet intercepts and tails a Philippine Coast Guard aircraft over the disputed Scarborough Shoal, South China Sea. Just days after two Chinese vessels collided in Scarborough after attempting to intercept a Philippine Coast Guard vessel.

🇱🇧🇮🇷⚡- Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, has arrived at the Baabda Palace in Beirut, Lebanon, to meet President Joseph Aoun.

🇨🇳🇨🇿⚡- BREAKING: China has severed all contact with Czech President Petr Pavel over his meeting with Dalai Lama last month.

🇸🇾🇫🇷🇹🇷⚡- Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan visited Damascus to block the Syrian side from meeting the SDF in Paris for peace talks. According to al-Monitor, Ankara fears the Paris meeting will favor Kurdish interests over its own, due to France’s pro-Kurdish position which could influence Syria’s future governance.

🇸🇾🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "What happened in As Suwaida is a fabricated matter by Israel," - Assad al-Shaibani, Syrian Foreign Minister.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- "Ankara will not feel comfortable until its security concerns in Syria are addressed," - Hakan Fidan, Turkey's Foreign Minister.

🇸🇾🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "One of main actors behind the dark picture in As Suwaida has turned out to be Israel," - Hakan Fidan, Turkey's Foreign Minister.

🇸🇾🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The Druze are part of Syrian society, and there is absolutely no intention to exclude them in any way; this is a claim made by Israel," - Assad al-Shaibani, Syrian Foreign Minister.

🇸🇾🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Turkey holds no territorial ambitions in Syria," - Hakan Fidan, Turkey's Foreign Minister.

🇸🇾🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The SDF has no intention of laying down arms in Syria," - Hakan Fidan, Turkey's Foreign Minister.

🇸🇾🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Syria is witnessing developments and events that Turkey cannot tolerate.

The SDF is planning on bringing someone [Israel] from the region to keep its organization going. This will hurt not just the Kurds, but all of Syria.

Turkey will not sit idly," - Hakan Fidan, Turkey's Foreign Minister.

🇸🇾🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "We warn the SDF, the position you are taking is not the right one," - Hakan Fidan, Turkey's Foreign Minister.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- A high-level meeting between Turkey's Hakan Fidan and Syria's Assad al-Shaibani is ongoing in Ankara right now.

Syria's Defense Minister and Intelligence Chief are also meeting their Turkish counterparts in Ankara, Turkey.

🇺🇦🇩🇪⚡- Ukrainian President Zelensky arrives at Berlin, Germany, for a virtual meeting with President Trump.

The meeting will also be attended by the US Vice President, the German Chancellor, French President, UK's Prime Minister, EU and NATO officials.

🇱🇧🇮🇷⚡- "We currently have the best relations with Lebanon. The unity, success, and prosperity of Lebanon are extremely important to us," - Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran.

🇱🇧🇮🇷⚡- "Iran does not interfere in Lebanon's internal affairs. We will stand by Lebanon in any circumstances," - Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran.