🇸🇾🇹🇷🇸🇦🇵🇰⚡️ — Syria is considering whether to join the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan but has not yet made a decision, Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said in Islamabad.

“Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Türkiye are major countries in the region, and we are naturally reviewing the options available to us,” Shaibani said.

“At this stage, no decision has been made on whether Syria will join the alliance.”

Shaibani also said Israel has "no right" to determine who Syria chooses as its allies or partners, adding that Türkiye is an ally that "stood with the Syrian people for 14 years."

— 🇸🇦/🇾🇪 WATCH: Yemen’s Armed Forces have released a 10-minute compilation of targeting Saudi-backed troops, vehicles, and tanks in Marib and along the Western coast

All of these operations were carried out by munitions dropped from quadcopter drones. The Yemenis are surprisingly very accurate.

— 🇸🇦/🇾🇪 Saudi tank gets hit by a munition dropped from a Yemeni drone, and completely explodes

The Yemenis have clearly received training of some kind; accurate hits from such altitudes are not easy.

❗️🇷🇺🚨— Moscow mayor: 6 drones destroyed as they flew toward the capital.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — The U.S. military has helped roughly 1,300 commercial vessels carry more than 660 million barrels of crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz since early May, according to CNBC, citing CENTCOM.

Shipments have averaged at least 7 million barrels per day over the past three weeks but remain well below the pre-war level of roughly 20 million bpd.

🇷🇺⚡️ — Retired Russian FSB Major General Igor Laptev, whose company supplied communications equipment to Russia’s Defense Ministry and other state agencies, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head in his Moscow apartment on August 20, according to Russian media.

The 83-year-old’s death was reported as a suicide, though Russian authorities have not publicly confirmed the reports and the circumstances remain unclear.

🇮🇷/🇺🇸 NEW: Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy prevents an oil tanker from entering the Persian Gulf.

⚡🇺🇸🇨🇳 — US urges China to join economic pressure campaign against Iran.

The death toll increased to 14, while the injured rose to at least 120.

❗️🇮🇷💥— Explosion heard in Amir Abad, Tehran, likely air defense activity.

A Turkish Bayraktar TB-2 surveillance drone is unusually operating directly inside Syrian airspace, following recent tensions with Israel.

The fact that it is flying over Syria rather than along the border represents a significant shift in posture.

The daily Israel attacks on southern Lebanon are currently underway.

Lebanon

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — IDF flares dropped on Ali al-Taher heights, southern Lebanon.

❗️🇵🇸💥— Violent artillery shelling targets northwest of Rafah city.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — U.S. Central Command has published footage of U.S. Navy F/A-18E and F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jets onboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington in the Arabian Sea preparing to conduct nighttime sorties.