🇸🇾 - Syrian Interior Ministry says several anti-ISIS operations have been launched and will continue for several days.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Ukrainian Foreign Ministry says more than 1,400 citizens from three dozen African countries are fighting for Russia.

🇺🇸🇰🇿🇮🇱 - US President Donald Trump says Kazakhstan will join the Abraham Accords.

🇰🇷🇰🇵 - North Korean Defense Minister No Kwang-chol threatens to take "more offensive action" against South Korea.

🇩🇪🇸🇾 - German authorities say the number of Syrian nationals arriving in the country has fallen by about 46% this year.

🇺🇸🇮🇶 - US special envoy Mark Savaya says Iraq is moving forward "free from foreign-backed militias."

🇱🇾 - LNA commander Khalifa Haftar calls for a "radical change" in Libya's political landscape.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Hamas hands over the body of an Israeli hostage to the Red Cross in Gaza.

🇯🇵🇨🇳🇹🇼 - Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi says a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be a "survival-threatening situation."

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Sources say the US fully backs the EU using frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine and end the war.

🇷🇺🇪🇺 - EU confirms tougher visa rules for Russian citizens to help put an end to "sabotage attempts."

🇹🇭🇰🇭 - Thai government announces the suspension of the ceasefire with Cambodia following a landmine explosion.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Israeli authorities confirm they have identified the dead hostage returned by Hamas on Sunday.

🇲🇱 - African Union calls for an urgent international response, including intelligence-sharing, to address the situation in Mali.

🇺🇸🇸🇾 - Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa meets with US President Donald Trump at the White House.

🇮🇳 - Car bombing kills at least eight people in New Dehli, India.

🇵🇰 - Pakistani lawmakers prepare to grant Field Marshal Asim Munir an "expanded role" in the military's overall command.

🇮🇱 - Israeli lawmakers pass a law introducing the death penalty for terrorists.

🇺🇸🇸🇾 - Syrian Information Ministry says a political cooperation deal was signed with the US-led coalition against ISIS.

🇬🇪🇹🇷🇦🇿 - Turkish Defense Ministry says a C-130 military cargo plane crashed in Georgia after taking off from Ganja, Azerbaijan.

🇮🇳 - Indian authorities say the car bombing in New Delhi is being treated as a "terrorist attack."