🇷🇺🇦🇿⚡- "Sputnik-Azerbaijan is nothing more than a branch of the Russian FSB," - Azerbaijani Press Council.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "I am not Putin. I will not be president for 30 or 35 years," - Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine.

🇮🇷⚡- Explosion near Mehrabad International Airport, Tehran. Airport continues to operate and remains unaffected.

🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: Russia wants nuclear enrichment banned on Iranian soil.

🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- Russian President Putin has pressured Tehran into accepting a zero enrichment deal, Axios reports.

🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- "Russian President Vladimir Putin has told Trump, Macron, and Iranian officials he supports a nuclear deal banning uranium enrichment in Iran, despite publicly supporting Tehran's enrichment rights," - Axios.

🇷🇺🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Russian President Putin has told Israeli officials he supports a complete ban on Iran's nuclear enrichment program, Axios reports.

🇷🇺🇰🇵⚡- "Russia and the DPRK firmly uphold the strategic partnership agreement, and it will continue to be so," - Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov tells North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un during the meeting between the two.

🇸🇾🇦🇿🇮🇱⚡- Syrian-Israeli officials to meet in Baku, Azerbaijan, to discuss territorial control.

Syria's President al-Sharaa, who's also in Baku, will not participate in meeting.

🇸🇾🇦🇿⚡- Azerbaijani energy giant SOCAR signs an agreement with Syria's Ministry of Energy to begin cooperation in the field of energy between the two nations.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The Israeli army has begun a major operation in Beit Hanoun following the killing of 5 soldiers," - Israeli Channel 11.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian President Zelensky hints at the possibility of demoting Rustem Umerov as Defense Minister to the role of Ukraine's Ambassador to the US.

Zelensky had previously done similar with former Commander in Chief Valery Zaluzhny, who now serves as Ukraine's Ambassador to the UK.

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇲🇽⚡- The US imposes 30% tariffs on the EU and Mexico.

🇮🇷⚡- Iran announces the death of Ali Taeb, a close associate of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and a member of the IRGC's most important domestic command centers, the Sarallah Headquarters.

His announcement came just a day after the Chitgar apartment explosion. Chitgar is home to numerous IRGC officials. According to state media, the cause of the explosion on 10 July was a 'gas leak'. Iranian media have not disclosed Taeb's cause of death, which raises suspicion.

🇸🇾⚡- Violent clashes have broken out between the SDF and government-backed groups in the Deir ez-Zur countryside, eastern Syria.

🇫🇷🇦🇲⚡- Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Alen Simonyan travelled to Paris, France, to meet Gerard Larcher, President of the French Senate.

The two agreed on deepening EU-Armenia relations, and discussed regional issues including peace with Azerbaijan.

🇸🇾⚡- Fighting is significantly escalating and expanding to other areas, with SNA shelling SDF positions in the Manbij direction, around the Tishrim Dam, northern Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- Bedouin tribes, as part of the Arab Tribal Army, ATA, are moving large reinforcements into the Deir ez-Zur direction.

Majority of the ATA tribes are pro-Damascus government, and have historically been very anti-Kurdish.