Hadi al-Amiri, leader of Iraq’s Badr Organization and a senior commander in the Iran-aligned Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), has urged Iraqi armed factions to postpone retaliation for U.S.-Saudi strikes on militia sites.

The July 29 strikes hit seven locations across Iraq, including Baghdad, Basra, Wasit, Nineveh, Kirkuk, Karbala and Diyala, targeting militia facilities and weapons sites.

The PMF said 20 fighters were killed and 32 wounded.

The factions later delayed their planned response following appeals from al-Amiri and other Iraqi officials.

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Spokesperson for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard:

Reopening the Strait of Hormuz is conditional on the United States accepting Iran's conditions;

- Releasing Iran’s Frozen Funds

- Removal of Sanctions related to the export of Oil

- An Iranian toll in the Strait

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Today, 38 years ago, Iraq declared victory in their eight year war against Iran

📌The war's final months were marked with the second battle of fow and the tawaklna ala allah operations which saw the destruction of dozens of iranian brigades with hundreds of thousands of casualties and thousands of armored fighting vehicles destroyed aswell as the explusion of the Iranian military from Iraqi territory.

📌The war ended with the systematic weakening of the Iranian military and their stockpile of pre-revolutionary arms, a conventional capability that they had announced publicly to aim using against the Iraqi and Gulf governments.

📌For the last 38 years, Iran has been unable to rebuild their conventional capacities and have been forced to redirect their ressources to build missiles and drones.

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Sisi’s Egypt is considering the possibility of joining the defense alliance between Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan.

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Hunter Biden, son of former U.S. President Joe Biden: His condition is not good; cancer has spread to his bones.

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Since early 2025 through August 2026, approximately 3,200+ mid-sized investors have flocked to the Damascus and Aleppo regions alone, bringing an estimated $50,000 to $5 million in private capital per project.

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Spokesperson for the Iranian Army:

Our presence in the Strait of Hormuz is irreversible.

The United States has no choice but to accept the current situation in the Strait, or it will suffer greater losses.

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The 45-day congressional review period for removing Syria from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list ends on August 22, 2026, in two weeks.

If Congress does not block the move by August 22, 2026, the designation is automatically lifted.

U.S. restrictions on foreign assistance and defense exports drop.

Dual-use technology bans and strict financial penalties disappear.

International banks can process Syrian transactions without fearing U.S. fines.

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Syria will also be able to buy Chinese Defense Systems and equipment.

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For the first time in decades, Morocco is turning green after 2 years of increase in rainfall.

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Morocco’s government, alongside private conservation groups that have wanted this for years, plans to restore extinct wildlife, including the Atlas lion, which disappeared from the wild in Morocco around the 1940s, and other native species.

These goals were limited by extreme drought, deforestation, and the loss of rivers and habitats. Since 2020, large-scale reforestation projects have accelerated, and increased rainfall will now make broader wildlife restoration more feasible.

Kazakhstan has already begun a similar rewilding effort, releasing the first Turan tigers into restored habitat.

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Senior U.S. Republican Representative on the Saudi-Pakistan-Turkey Defense Pact.

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Head of the Iraqi Border Ports Authority:

The Prime Minister wants the Rabia border crossing (located in the Al-Yaari area, in the countryside of Hasakah, on the Syrian side) to be the most important border crossing in Iraq, as it represents a vital transit point between Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.

The crossing is experiencing a higher volume of trade and oil tankers compared to other crossings, despite only being open for a few months.

We emphasize the need to increase transit traffic to 300 vehicles and over 1000 oil tankers per day.

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Morocco’s Foreign Ministry:

Colombia announces a change in its position and acknowledges Morocco’s sovereignty over its Sahara.

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Syria received more than 4.09 million visitors in 2025, according to the country’s tourism ministry. Arab arrivals increased by 99 per cent and international arrivals by 126 per cent.

Preliminary figures for the first half of 2026 show total arrivals, including Syrians, Arab visitors and international tourists, rising 111 per cent from a year earlier. International arrivals increased by 448 per cent.

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