🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrikes now against al-Zaytoun, Gaza city.

🇦🇺🇵🇸⚡- BREAKING: Australia will recognize the State of Palestine in September.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- BREAKING: M23 have launched its widely anticipated southern offensive in the Bukavu region, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC.

As Rerum Novarum reported early July, major troop movement was observed from either side in the south. Over the weekend, M23 launched several probing attacks, and then last night it began its full-scale offensive.

Kalole, Koshongerwe, Budodo, and the large town of Kaniola have all fallen to M23 control. Violent clashes are ongoing for the major and strategic town of Nzibira, which sits on N2-W Highway. M23 have entered Nzibira from the east and north, with street fights underway.

M23 posed in front of the 'Palacs of Martyrs' building, which Rerum Novarum have geolocated to central Kaniola, at -2.59464, 28.61634.

🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- With the news of the new M23 offensive, a pro-war protest took place in Bukavu, M23-controlled eastern DR Congo, in support of M23. Protestors demand M23 march all the way towards Kinshasa, capital of DR Congo.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi says Tehran and Washington are still in communication through a mediating state (likely Oman).

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi announces Tehran is open to restrictions on its nuclear program, but for a "specified period in exchange for the lifting of American sanctions".

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "We have the full right to demand compensation for the aggression against Iran," - Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Washington must provide guarantees that it will not attack Iran again should negotiations resume," - Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- Heavy Russian reinforcements arrived at Russia's Qamishli Air Base in northeast Syria, SDF-controlled Syria. The military reinforcements arrived from Russia's Latakia Air Base, Damascus-controlled coastal Syria.

For the first time since the fall of the Assad regime, Russian troops patrolled the M4 Highway from Tell Tamr - Tell Baydr, northeast SDF-controlled Syria, along the frontline with SNA. The patrols used to occur daily during the Assad era.

Russian military sources in Syria have not confirmed the reason behind the movements of its military, but they do come after Damascus-backed forces began reinforcing positions along the Euphrates river, and after Turkey's Fidan advised Syria to withdraw from the Paris peace talks.

🇺🇦🇦🇿⚡- "Azerbaijan took offense at Russia for the attacks on the refineries of the Azerbaijani company SOCAR, located on the territory of Ukraine," - Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan's President, in a phone call with Ukraine's Zelensky.

🇺🇦🇦🇿⚡- Azerbaijani DTX-funded outlet Caliber says Azerbaijani authorities are reconsidering the ban on weapon shipments to Kiev if Russia continues targeting Azerbaijani energy infrastructure in Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇦🇲⚡- Russian President Putin called Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

🇷🇺🇦🇲⚡- "Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan provided detailed information about the results of the meeting with US President Donald Trump and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Washington on August 8," - RIA Novosti, Russian outlet, on the Putin-Pashinyan phone call.

🇦🇲🇮🇷🇦🇿⚡- Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi says he has 'raised concerns' with Yerevan and Baku over the US-brokered Zangezur Corridor. Araghchi adds that 'foreign presence' could have serious negative consequences for the Caucasus region.