🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- 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.

🇱🇧🇮🇷⚡- "Iran is ready to assist Lebanon if the Lebanese government requests," - Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran.

🇱🇧🇮🇷⚡- "We do not see our friends as tools. The Lebanese people are noble and brave and can make decisions for themselves," - Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷⚡- "We did not come with a plan, but the Americans are the ones who came with their paper to you," - Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran.

🇱🇧🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "They want through the false media to change between enemy and friend, so your enemy is Israel which attacked Lebanon," - Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran.

🇱🇧🇮🇷⚡- "During my meeting with President Aoun, he announced that he knows Iran is a friendly country to Lebanon," - Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran.