🇮🇶⚡- BREAKING: A one-way drone was shot down by Pashmerga forces near Sulaymaniyah, Kurdish-controlled Iraq.

🇷🇺🇨🇳⚡️- Chinese container ships from NewNew Shipping got permits to sail Russia’s Arctic Northern Sea Route this summer, allowing larger, non-ice-class vessels to use the shortcut between Asia and Europe.

🇸🇾⚡- SDF-Damascus talks failed, the two sides were not able to reach an agreement.

🇸🇾⚡- Light clashes between forces loyal to the Syrian government, likely former SNA groups, and the SDF in the Deir Hafr countryside, Manbij direction.

🇮🇶⚡- Large-scale mobilization on both sides, the Free Kurdish Tribes and the Barzani-led Pashmerga forces.

🇮🇶⚡- BREAKING: Clashes have erupted between the Koran clan and Barzani-led Pashmerga forces in Dohuk region, Kurdish-controlled Iraq.

🇺🇸⚡️- US Border Patrol Commissioner Rodney Scott announces that 10 children were found at the weed farm that was raided earlier today in California, 8 of them unaccompanied. The farm is now under investigation for child labor violations.

Videos of Federal agents combatting protestors during the raid went viral on social media with California Governor Newsom denouncing them calling President Trump "scum".

🇨🇳🇪🇬⚡- Egypt has officially confirmed the acquisition of Chinese HQ-9B long-range air defence systems.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇲🇾⚡- Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur.

🇬🇪🇦🇿⚡- Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev received Georgia's Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development Georgia Kvriashvili in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The meeting comes after Ilham Aliyev and Georgia's Prime Minister Kobakhidze met in April and agreed to integrate the two economies.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has arrived back in Tel Aviv.

🇮🇳🇨🇳⚡- "There is a possible convergence of interests between China, Pakistan and Bangladesh that may impact India’s stability and security dynamics," - Anil Chauhan, India's Chief of Defense Staff.

🇷🇺🇦🇲⚡- A Russian Il-76 military transport aircraft has landed in Armenia moments ago, making it the third this week.

🇮🇳🇵🇰 - The above image which was widely circulated by almost every media and channel (except us) has proven to be a fake.

The image was circulated claiming evidence for a shot down Rafale fighter jet during the India-Pakistan War, however, the image is a still from a Chinese war animated video.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- President Donald Trump says he is going to make a major statement on Russia on Monday.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- As Taiwan holds its largest ever Han Kuang military exercises, with this year's focus on fighting a land invasion, China has begun holding military drills in Fujian.

The Chinese exercises, located just across the Taiwan Strait, are focused on crossing the narrow strait.

🇷🇺⚡- Russia's only aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, which has been inoperable for a while and has undergone numerous repairs, may soon be scrapped, Defense Blog reports.

It will turn the Russian Navy into an aircraft carrier less force, widening the gap between itself and competitors, such as the US, China, India and other European countries.

🇯🇵🇨🇳⚡- Japan has called on China to cease flying fighter jets in close proximity to its military aircraft.

🇮🇳⚡- "Elon Musk's Starlink gets approval to operate internet satellites all over India," - India Today.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- 9 Chinese vessels, including a Coast Guard vessel, are currently operating in the disputed Sabina Shoal, South China Sea.

🇯🇵🇨🇳⚡- Japan's Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya met with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. The meeting, which took place at the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, was reportedly tense and heated.