🇨🇿🇺🇦⚡️ — The Czech Republic has met its pledge to deliver 1.8 million rounds of large-caliber ammunition to Ukraine by the end of the year.

🇹🇷🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Turkish President Erdoğan says he also hopes to discuss a peace plan with Trump, adding, "Peace is not far away, we can see it."

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are expected to meet Monday in Berlin with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the leaders of Germany, France, and the U.K., according to Axios.

➡️ The Trump administration is proposing a legally binding U.S. security guarantee for Ukraine, modeled on NATO’s Article 5 and requiring congressional approval, as part of its peace plan.

➡️ The guarantee would be linked to separate peace and reconstruction agreements, aiming to provide long-term protection without an open-ended U.S. military commitment.

🇱🇧📞🇱🇧 — Hezbollah told Prime Minister Nawaf Salam it is open to a phased approach to reconstruction rather than completing it all at once, citing financial and political constraints, according to Al-Akhbar.

➡️ The issue is part of ongoing government discussions over priorities, funding, and timelines, with reconstruction linked to wider political negotiations, economic conditions, and coordination with international donors.

🇲🇱🇷🇺🇷🇺 — An Africa Corps MRAP hoisting a Russian flag was spotted in Bamako, Mali, recently.

📊 — Global income and wealth are highly unequal: the richest 10% earn more than the rest of the population combined and control about 75% of global wealth, while the poorest half owns just 2%.

➡️ Significant gender difference persists as women earn, on average, 61% of what men do.

🇺🇸🇧🇾⚡️ — The U.S. is lifting sanctions on Belarusian potash following talks in Minsk between President Alexander Lukashenko and Trump envoy John Coale.

➡️ Coale called the move beneficial for Belarus but did not disclose what concessions, if any, were agreed to in return.

🏴❌🇸🇾🇺🇸 — BREAKING: A joint delegation from the international coalition and Syrian security forces came under gunfire in the Palmyra area in central Syria while reviewing plans to fight the Islamic State.

➡️ Several members of U.S. forces and Syrian General Security were wounded, and American helicopters evacuated the injured to the Al-Tanf base.

🇸🇾🇺🇸❌🏴 — U.S. fighter jets flying at low altitude over the city of Palmyra following the shooting that targeted American soldiers who were accompanied by Syrian public security forces.

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — The IDF has issued an evacuation order to residents of Yanouh in southern Lebanon ahead of airstrikes against "Hezbollah infrastructure."

🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — NEW: An Israeli drone strike targeted a car in western Gaza City, resulting in the deaths of at least four Palestinians.

➡️ An Israeli official says the strike targeted a "prominent Hamas figure."

🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — The target was the deputy commander of the Al-Qassam Brigades, Ra'ad Sa'ad, according to Axios.

📝The IDF carried out a major airstrike targeting him at the Al-Shati camp in Gaza City in June 2024, though it was never confirmed whether the operation was successful.

🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — The IDF targeted Ra'ad Sa'ad, and over the past two weeks there were two separate chances to strike him, both of which were called off at the last moment, according to the Israeli Army Radio.

🇧🇾🇺🇸⚡️ — Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has granted pardons to 123 foreign and domestic prisoners convicted on charges including espionage, terrorism, and extremism, among them prominent opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova.

➡️ These pardons were made possible due to the diplomatic efforts of the U.S.

🇸🇾🇺🇸⚡️ — AFP reports that one American soldier has been injured in the shooting attack on an American delegation in Palmyra, central Syria.