🇹🇷🇮🇶 - PKK says talks with Turkey cannot move forward unless its leader Abdullah Öcalan is freed.

🇦🇿 - Officials from the main opposition party in Azerbaijan report the arrest of their leader.

🇺🇸🇷🇴 - Bloomberg says a NATO wargame in Romania showed European forces operating with limited US support.

🇺🇸🇩🇿 - Observers say Algeria is moving closer to the US while managing its regional isolation and historical alliances.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 - US President Donald Trump says there is a "good chance" Russia and Ukraine will reach an agreement.

🇺🇸🇸🇾 - US military says 15 ISIS weapons caches were destroyed during a joint operation with the Syrian Interior Ministry.

🇱🇹🇧🇾 - Belarusian Interior Ministry accuses Lithuania of using a drone to spy on it and drop "extremist material."

🇰🇬 - OSCE election observers say the recent parliamentary election in Kyrgyzstan took place in a context of limited freedoms.

🇮🇶🇸🇾 - PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan urges the SDF to integrate into the Syrian military.

🇺🇸🇸🇾 - US President Donald Trump expresses his satisfaction with the progress made by the Syrian leadership.

🇮🇶 - Reports indicate renewed clashes between the Harki tribe and government-backed Peshmerga in the Kurdistan Region.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇸🇾 - US President Donald Trump calls for Israel to "maintain a strong and true dialogue" with Syria.

🇧🇾🇪🇺 - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the EU is preparing sanctions against Belarus.

🇺🇸🇻🇪 - White House says US President Donald Trump will convene his National Security Council to discuss Venezuela.

🇳🇬 - Nigerian Defense Minister Mohammed Badaru Abubakar resigns.

🇷🇺🇸🇩 - WSJ says Sudan's military government offered Russia a 25-year deal for a naval base on the Red Sea.

🇺🇦 - NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says there is no consensus on Ukraine's membership.

🇷🇺🇹🇯🇦🇫 - Security sources report Tajikistan is in talks with Russia about helping to guard its border with Afghanistan.

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

🇷🇺 - Russian President Vladimir Putin warns European powers will be defeated if they seek war.

🇬🇼 - Guinea-Bissau's electoral commission says the presidential election process cannot be completed.