🇫🇷🇬🇪 - Sources say the French Defense Ministry sent a delegation to Georgia to explore potential arms sales.

🇵🇰🇦🇫 - Afghan authorities say nine children and a woman were killed in Pakistani airstrikes.

🇸🇾 - Security forces use gunfire to break up two rival groups of demonstrators in Latakia, Syria.

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

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 - US President Donald Trump says an agreement to end Russia's war in Ukraine is close.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Local media says negotiations have begun on the second phase of US President Donald Trump's plan for Gaza.

🇦🇱 - Albanian police say an ISIS flag was found after they arrested two suspects involved in a 12-hour gunfight.

🇺🇸🇸🇩 - US envoy Massad Boulos says none of the parties involved in the war in Sudan have accepted a truce plan.

🇹🇼 - Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te announces plans to achieve a "high level of combat preparedness" by 2027.

🇬🇼 - Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embaló claims to have been arrested by the military.

🇺🇸🇮🇶 - Iraqi official says the US-led coalition against ISIS has transferred almost all of its forces to the Kurdistan Region.

🇫🇷🇮🇷 - Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot in Paris, France.

🇳🇬 - Nigerian President Bola Tinubu declares a nationwide state of emergency amid ongoing kidnappings.

🇬🇼 - AFP says the military in Guinea-Bissau arrested political figures from the opposition.

🇩🇴🇺🇸🇻🇪 - Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader says the US has been authorized to use the country's airports.

🇮🇶 - Iraqi authorities say a drone struck the Khor Mor gas field, Kurdistan Region.

🇬🇼 - Military in Guinea-Bissau claims to have taken complete control of the country.

🇺🇸🇻🇪 - US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth says more troops and aircrafts will be deployed to tackle drug trafficking.

🇹🇯🇦🇫 - Tajik Foreign Ministry says a cross-border drone attack from Afghanistan killed three people.

🇬🇼 - ECOWAS and the African Union condemn the military coup in Guinea Bissau.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - AFP reports negotiations are underway over the fate of Hamas fighters trapped in tunnels in Gaza.