🇨🇩🇷🇼 - Sources say the DRC has withdrawn its demand for the immediate withdrawal of Rwandan troops from its territory.

🇦🇲 - Armenian opposition says an archbishop should lead the country as pressure mounts on the government.

🇷🇺 - Russian President Vladimir Putin announces plans to reduce military spending starting next year.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸 - US President Donald Trump assures a ceasefire in Gaza is "close", possibly as early as "next week".

🇵🇰 - Suicide bombing kills 13 Pakistani soldiers near the border with Afghanistan.

🇺🇸🇸🇾 - SDF to launch "large-scale" operations against ISIS with US-led coalition and FSA support.

🇦🇿🇷🇺 - Azerbaijan cancels all Russian cultural events in response to the "extrajudicial killings" of ethnic Azerbaijanis by the Russian police.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - US President Donald Trump denies considering a $30 billion civilian nuclear deal with Iran.

🇭🇰 - Hong Kong's last active pro-democracy group says it will disband.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Latest Russian attack claims the life of 32-year-old Ukrainian F-16 pilot Maksym Ustymenko.

🇮🇱🇸🇾 - Israel says the Golan Heights will remain part of its territory in any future peace agreement with Syria.

🇦🇲🇷🇺 - Russia calls the unrest in Armenia an "internal affair" and says it has no intention of interfering.

🇪🇬🇱🇾 - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi calls for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Libya.

🇷🇸🇷🇺 - Russia says it trusts the Serbian leadership to "restore law and order" following anti-government protests.

🇦🇿🇷🇺 - Azerbaijan says it has busted alleged FSB agents operating undercover as Sputnik journalists following a raid.

🇹🇷🇮🇶 - Turkey says the disarmament of the PKK could begin within days.

🇮🇹🇹🇷 - Turkish company Baykar to produce TB2 and Akinci UAVs in Italy after acquiring Piaggio Aerospace.

🇫🇷🇷🇺 - Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron.

🇦🇿🇷🇺 - Russian Foreign Ministry summons Azerbaijani Ambassador Rahman Mustafayev in response to the mutual police raids.

🇦🇲🇦🇿🇷🇺 - Sources say several Russian MiG-29 jets flew from Armenia's Erebuni Airbase over Lake Sevan toward the Azerbaijani border in a show of force.

🇹🇭🇰🇭 - Thai Constitutional Court suspends Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra over a security leak involving Cambodian officials.