🇵🇰🇦🇫 - Afghanistan's Taliban-led government accuses the Pakistani military of carrying out deadly drone strikes.

🇹🇷⚡- Turkish authorities detain Emin Oner, owner of Turkish defense giant Assan Group, and the company's general manager Gurcan Okumus.

They have been accused of affiliation with the Gulen Movement.

🇱🇧🇺🇳⚡- Lebanon's Prime Minister Nawaf Salam welcomes the UN Security Council's decision to extend UNIFIL's mandate until December 31, 2026. In 2027, UNIFIL will begin a year-long gradual withdrawal from the country.

🇮🇷⚡- Reuters reports Iran has begun destroying evidence of nuclear weapons development.

"Iran has started an urgent operation to clear a site in northern Tehran linked to its nuclear program that was damaged by Israeli airstrikes," - Reuters.

🇮🇷⚡- "Satellite images show significant efforts by Iran to quickly demolish damaged or destroyed buildings, likely to eliminate any compromising nuclear weapons research and development," - Institute for Science and International Security, US-based Think Tank.

🇺🇸🇺🇳⚡️- The White House announces that President Trump will address the United Nations General Assembly meeting on September 23rd, 2025.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- White House officially walks back policy to bring in 600,000 more Chinese students. No word however on existing foreign student numbers.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡- "In Syria, there’s PKK and YPG. Right now all three-letter groups hate me, so I stay away from them," - Tom Barrack, US Envoy to Syria.

🇺🇸⚡- "Why should America be in the middle of any of this?

After WWII, we tried to be the security guarantor of the world. There's a different model today, saying we're no longer the security guarantor of the world. Everybody has to stand up for themselves," - Tom Barrack, US Envoy to Syria.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡- "There's no plan B for Syria. We have to support Ahmed al-Sharaa," - Tom Barrack, US Envoy to Syria.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡- "I believe and trust him [Ahmed al-Sharaa]," - Tom Barrack, US Envoy to Syria.

🇺🇸🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "Ahmed al-Sharaa doesn't trust Israel's intentions. Nobody trusts Israel's intentions," - Tom Barrack, US Envoy to Syria.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "What's going on in Gaza makes the rest of the Arab world totally freaked out," - Tom Barrack, US Envoy to Syria.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- "After October 7th the world for Israel has changed.

Their notion of what their mandate is, and what their borders, boundaries and lines have changed. In Israel's mind, these lines that were created by Sykes-Picot are meaningless.

They will go where they want, when they want, and do what they want to protect the Israelis and their borders," - Tom Barrack, US Envoy to Syria.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- "I spent two hours with Netanyahu, having a personal argument," - Tom Barrack, US Envoy to Syria.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "I told Netanyahu something that will do him well and Jews all over the world well, give Lebanon a break," - Tom Barrack, US Envoy to Syria.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Israel can't be so brutal on everybody, of going anywhere and doing whatever you want, without rationale. It's going to backfire eventually," - Tom Barrack, US Envoy to Syria.

🇺🇸⚡️- "These [border] lines... You're talking about sometimes just 2km or 4km. People are losing lives over this," - Tom Barrack, US Envoy to Syria.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡️- Anti-aircraft at work over Tartus, western Syria. Explosions are heard in the sky- drones are likely being targeted.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "The US and Israel have put Iran on their back foot, they've never been weaker," - Tom Barrack, US Envoy to Syria.