🇵🇰🇸🇦🇹🇷⚡️ — Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are exploring ways to assist Riyadh during an urgent meeting of their military chiefs, according to Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry, Reuters reports.

🇨🇳🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — NEW: U.S. intelligence assessments say imagery and geospatial data from Chinese groups have improved Iran’s targeting of American ships and bases in the Middle East, CNN reports.

The data reportedly helped Iran carry out a precise July strike on a U.S. base in Jordan that killed three service members. It has also helped Iran track shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡️ — Erdogan said Turkey bears no hostility toward the Israeli people or any other community.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇮🇷⚡️ — Trump told Xi that Beijing’s support for Tehran would be completely unacceptable, the U.S. ambassador to China said, according to CNBC.

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇮🇶 — Iranian MP Mahmoud Nabavian called Iraq’s government a U.S. “puppet” after Iranian flights to Baghdad, Najaf, Erbil and Sulaymaniyah were suspended.

Nabavian predicted a response from the Iraqi people and demanded that the Coordination Framework take responsibility for choosing a prime minister he described as a U.S. “puppet.”

🇺🇸🇮🇶❌🇮🇷 — Iraq suspends Iranian flights to Najaf under U.S. sanctions

Iraq’s Najaf airport has suspended all Iranian flights after a directive from the prime minister’s office, airport director Hussein Muhanna told AFP.

Najaf is a major destination for Shiite pilgrims and a key route between Iraq and Iran. The flights also serve Iraqi students and patients seeking medical treatment.

The move comes after the U.S. threatened countries that do not comply with sanctions on Iranian airlines with expulsion from the U.S. dollar system.

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — McDonald’s warehouses and data centers were hit in Ukraine, Russian war correspondents reported.

The strike smashed into the Inkom business center, which housed the Datagroup internet provider, with disruptions now expected in Kiev. McDonald’s warehouses in the Brovary district were also hit, sparking a major fire at the site.

Traffic has been shut down in several areas as emergency crews deal with the aftermath of the attack and fires.

🇺🇦🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️ — Ukraine and U.S. agree on 10-day timeline after Trump meeting

Zelensky said Ukraine and the U.S. agreed on a 10-day timeline after his meeting with Trump.

Under the plan, Ukraine will consult Europe, while the U.S. will talk to Russia. In 10 days, the sides will return “with either a perspective or a result.”

Zelensky also said the U.S. proposed preparing for a possible Ukraine-U.S.-Russia meeting at a technical level. Kyiv is waiting for a date, with the UAE suggested as a venue.

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — U.S. commander rejected safer relocation before deadly Iranian drone strike, CBS News reports

A U.S. commander rejected plans to move troops in Kuwait farther from Iran before an Iranian drone strike killed six American service members and wounded more than 20.

Most U.S. troops in Kuwait had already been moved to Jordan and Saudi Arabia before Operation Epic Fury. But Brig. Gen. Clint Barnes chose Kuwait’s Port of Shuaiba, about 65 miles from Iran, despite intelligence warnings that the site could be targeted.

Survivors and families say the unit had weak defenses and poor medical support. More than 20 congressional Democrats are now demanding public hearings into the failures around the attack.

🇾🇪🇪🇺🇺🇸🇸🇦⚡️ — The Houthis have assured the EU they will not strike European vessels in the Red Sea, the Financial Times reports.

Similar assurances were given to Washington. The group says its activity near the Bab al-Mandeb Strait is not meant to disrupt international shipping, while its focus appears to be shifting toward Saudi Arabian interests.

🇷🇺❌🇩🇪 — German investigators attribute the September 3 arson attack outside the Munich headquarters of defense firm Rohde & Schwarz to Russia’s GRU, according to FAZ.

Two Bulgarian nationals were arrested nearby and are suspected of belonging to a GRU team operating from Slovakia. BR24 reported that incendiary devices were thrown from a car at the construction site overnight.

🇸🇦🇵🇰🇹🇷❌🇾🇪🇾🇪 — Pakistani Foreign Ministry:

Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey are planning an urgent meeting of military leaders.

Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey will discuss the issue of providing support to Riyadh under the joint defense agreement.

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🇫🇷🇷🇺⚡️— Marine Le Pen warns against direct conflict with nuclear-armed Russia, saying she knows a thousand ways to draw the Russian bear out of its den but none to force it back in.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Russian Geran-4 loitering munitions equipped with electro-optical (EO) seekers struck five dry cargo vessels in the Black Sea and at the port of Odesa.

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