🇺🇸⚡️- The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) reports that two unidentified aircraft were intercepted while violating the restricted airspace of Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

F-16C/D Fighting Falcons from the 1st Numbered Air Force were part of the mission.

🇾🇪⚡- Large-scale Ansarullah drone attack on the port city of Mocha, Saudi-backed Yemeni National Resistance Forces controlled southwest Yemen.

The attack has been ongoing for 3+ hours.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- BREAKING: A vessel is engulfed in flames off the coast of Oman in the Strait of Hormuz.

🇮🇷⚡- Iran downs a hostile drone over the south of its country. There are unconfirmed reports of a second drone also being shot down.

🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Officials from one Middle Eastern country privately advised another regional state to pursue an agreement with Israel as a tactical measure rather than a genuine peace arrangement. The rationale was to secure a 'peace' deal with Tel Aviv, lower Israel’s guard, and gain time to prepare for a much broader future confrontation before potentially abandoning the agreement.

Israel has imposed a military censorship on the identities of the two countries, Israeli Channel 11 reports. The report states all future normalization efforts from now on will be far more complex than it will publicly be acknowledged.

Unofficial Israeli media are circulating claims that the country allegedly encouraged to pursue a tactical "peace" agreement with Israel is Saudi Arabia, and the state advocating the approach: Turkey.

Note, Turkey and Israel are increasingly at odds across multiple theaters, including the Middle East, the Eastern Mediterranean, and parts of Africa. The reports also come as Saudi Arabia continues discussions with the United States over a civilian nuclear program, with normalization with Israel often cited as a key requirement. Meanwhile, Turkey and Saudi Arabia have recently moved closer on the security front through the signing of the trilateral Mecca Agreement defense pact.

🇲🇾🇮🇱⚡- Malaysian Coast Guard, MCG, has seized a cargo vessel with goods that were bound for Israel.

The vessel was boarded by the MCG in the Strait of Malacca. The identity of the vessel and the origin of its cargo remains unknown.

The vessel had recently called at Malaysia's Port of Tanjung Pelepas as a temporary transit stop. Malaysia's Border Control and Protection Agency said that preliminary checks indicate the shipment violates Malaysian laws prohibiting direct or indirect exports to Israel.

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- The White House says it's not bothered that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu rejects the Trump-mediated 15-point Hamas-Israel ceasefire deal.

🇾🇪⚡- Aden-based Yemeni Armed Forces are currently attacking Ansarullah positions along the Ma'rib, Ta'izz and the Ad Dali fronts, central and southern Yemen.

🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has released his first single 'Israel Katz BOOM' as part of his election campaign within the Likud Party.

🇾🇪⚡- Ansarullah shelling of Bayhan al-Qisab, Ma'rib direction, pro-Aden Shabwah Emergency Forces controlled central Yemen.

🇾🇪⚡- Large Ansarullah convoys from Mawiyah are moving towards the frontline positions in al-Husha, al-Baher and al-Musaymir - Ad Dali direction, Southern Transitional Council controlled southern Yemen.

🇪🇹⚡- Ethiopian Armed Forces, ENDF, launched three drone strikes on Tigray Defense Forces, TDF, positions in the Merewa direction, southern Tigray region.

Ethiopian media reports the strikes targeted positions near Amhara regional border, indicating possible cooperation between Fano militias and the TDF (these claims have not been independently verified).

Map key:
- Orange: Tigray Interim Administration (including the Tigray Peace Forces).
- Purple: Tigray Defense Forces areas of influence (they do not represent TDF control).

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian forces continue localized counter attacks in the Limen direction, with Russian troops now at serious risk of encirclement.

"Russian incompetence is showing immensely in this area, as Russia is seemingly pouring more troops into Yarova, deep into the pocket, rather than to relieve the chokehold near Kolodyazi and Shandryholove," - Hudson War Map.

Note, Russia suffered a disastrous encirclement in Limen once before, during the Ukrainian Kharkov counteroffensive of 2022.

Map by: Hudson War Map.

🇸🇴🇪🇹⚡- Ethiopia's Armed Forces, ENDF, withdraw from one of the largest forward operating bases actively used to combat al-Shabaab in Somalia - Buur Hakaba.

Buur Hakaba's ENDF base will be handed over to the Somalian military, ending Ethiopia's 12-year control over the vital military installation. The withdrawal comes amid intensified al-Shabaab military operations in the region, however Addis Ababa claims African Union's Mission to Somalia (AUSSOM) funding strains.

Note, relations between Addis Ababa and Mogadishu in the past 12 months have seriously deteriorated.

🇨🇴⚡️- A 7.4 magnitude earthquake has struck the western side of Colombia.

Injuries and severe damage have been reported in the city of Quibdo.

🇸🇦⚡- Saudi ARAMCO has pushed back the restart of its 400,000-bpd Jizan refinery until August 30 after the second Ansarullah attack on the facility on August 8.

The facility has remained shut since the initial Ansarullah attack on July 26.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- President of the Aden-based Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council, Rashad al-Alimi, has travelled to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to meet with senior Saudi Royal officials.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- "The stage of aggression without cost has ended, and the international community must support the government to end the threat posed by the Houthi militia.

The Houthi attack on Al-Mokha and its port targeted commercial ships and caused damage to the Saudi Hospital and service facilities.

We will not allow the Houthis to monopolize the decision to start a confrontation, nor its timing, location, scope, or termination.

You [to the Gulf Cooperation Council] asked us to give peace a chance, and today we ask you to give the [Aden-based Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council, PLC] state a chance as well," - Rashad al-Alimi, President of the PLC.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "I see that Representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran are asking for compensation for the damage done to them during the last five month Military Conflict (started because, THEY WILL NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON), even though it was never mentioned in any of our negotiations or meetings! But it is an interesting idea because now I am likewise demanding compensation from Iran, for all of the people that they have killed and gravely wounded with their roadside bombs and many conflicts, for which they are famous, as led initially by General Soleimani, including the families of those killed on the USS Cole, and thousands of others killed in combat. Additionally, compensation should be paid to the families of the hundreds of thousands of innocent protestors that Iran has killed over the last 50 years, not to mention the 52,000 that have been killed in the last five months. I have instructed my representatives to put this firmly into any, and all, future negotiations. Thank you for your attention to this matter," - President Trump on Truth Social.