🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡- US forces withdraw from al-Tanf base, eastern Syria, ending an almost 12 year deployment to the site.

🇺🇸🇮🇱 - President Trump is joined by Secretary of State Rubio, Secretary of War Hegseth, and Envoys Witkoff and Kushner, while meeting Israel's Netanyahu.

🇺🇸⚡️- Congressman Thomas Massie and Attorney General Pam Bondi get into a heated exchange over the Epstein files, with Massie accusing Bondi of conducting a massive cover-up.

🇹🇯⚡- Emomali Rakhmon, who's been President of Tajikistan for over 31 years, hasn't appeared in public for over two weeks.

🇺🇸🇮🇱 - The Trump-Netanyahu meeting was planned to last 60 minutes, but it has now been ongoing for over 250 minutes.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The meeting has ended after 3 hours.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "I have just finished meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu, of Israel, and various of his Representatives. It was a very good meeting, the tremendous relationship between our two Countries continues. There was nothing definitive reached other than I insisted that negotiations with Iran continue to see whether or not a Deal can be consummated. If it can, I let the Prime Minister know that will be a preference. If it cannot, we will just have to see what the outcome will be. Last time Iran decided that they were better off not making a Deal, and they were hit with Midnight Hammer — That did not work well for them. Hopefully this time they will be more reasonable and responsible. Additionally, we discussed the tremendous progress being made in Gaza, and the Region in general. There is truly PEACE in the Middle East. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
 
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP." - Trump on TruthSocial.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇵🇪⚡- "Concerned about latest reports that Peru could be powerless to oversee Chancay, one of its largest ports, which is under the jurisdiction of predatory Chinese owners.

We support Peru’s sovereign right to oversee critical infrastructure in its own territory.

Let this be a cautionary tale for the region and the world: cheap Chinese money costs sovereignty," - Department of State's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.

🇸🇴 - Clashes erupted earlier today between the Issa Clan and the Isaaq Clan dominated Somaliland government in the Salal province of northern Somaliland.

🇺🇸🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- "The UAE tried to ally with pro-Israel US lobbying groups in its spat with Saudi Arabia.

The American Jewish Committee (AJC), came under pressure from UAE to make a statement raising concerns about alleged antisemitism in Saudi Arabia," - Middle East Eye.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "The United States and Iran are showing flexibility on a nuclear deal, with Washington willing to tolerate some nuclear enrichment." - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told the Financial Times.

‼️🇲🇦🇩🇿 BREAKING:
Algerian troops crossed the demarcation line and penetrated into Moroccan territory by several hunderd meters. After two hours the soldiers left the area back to Algeria.

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🇸🇦🇪🇬🇦🇪⚡- "To prevent further escalation between Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Egypt has begun mediating between the two," - Israeli Channel 11.

🇦🇲🇮🇷⚡- Iran's Ambassador to Armenia said Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan will visit Tehran later this year to sign a strategic partnership charter.

The charter will likely be similar to India's 'energy corridor' from Uzbekistan and through Iran's port of Chabahar, signed last year.

The deal will be Tehran's response to the US-Yerevan-Baku's TRIPP Corridor and the acquisition of American drones by the Southern Caucasus country, which Iran has made it publicly clear they are upset over.

🇮🇳🇫🇷⚡️- India has approved a 30B€ contract with France to acquire 114 Rafale jet fighters.