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🇯🇵🇹🇷🪖🛬 — Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi poses for a photo with Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Defense Attaché to Turkey "Mr. Saito" after arriving in Ankara for the NATO summit

⚡️🇸🇾 Explosions heard in Damascus, cause currently unknown.

⚡️🇸🇾🇫🇷 Note: French President Emmanuel Macron is currently on a visit to Damascus.

⚡️🇸🇾 Al Araby: Two explosions were heard in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

⚡️🇸🇾🇫🇷 Reuters: Multiple explosions occurred near hotel where Macron is staying in Damascus.

⚡️🇸🇾🇫🇷 Footage showing the aftermath of the explosion in Damascus, Syria.

Meanwhile, Macron is welcomed by Syria's Ahmed al-Sharaa at the People's Palace in Damascus.

The Élysée says French President Macron did not hear any explosions while en route to meet the Syrian President at the People's Palace in Damascus.

🏴[/I]📢[/I] ISIS cells near Tadmur in Syria 🇸🇾 stated over (radio) communications that they may not be moving around Homs Governorate (where Tadmur is based in) from 3rd July to 13th July[/I].

Radio traffic reveals they are/were at
[/I]📍[/I] 35.086203, 38.232250.

...They also likely tested explosives.

🇹🇷🛠❌🪖 — Anti-NATO protesters, mostly from banned Turkish communist parties, clashed with Turkish police in Ankara as leaders arrived for the summit, with authorities banning demonstrations and tightening security across large parts of the city.

🇮🇷🛫 — Observers report that a Iran's Meraj Airlines plane departed from Mehrabad airport, Tehran, likely carrying Iranian President Pezeshkian

🇺🇸🇹🇷🛬 — US President Trump has arrived in Ankara, Turkey for the NATO Summit, where he was welcomed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with a mixed ceremonial motorcade.

🇺🇸📞🇹🇷 — Reporter asks Trump if he will sell F-35s to Turkey:

Trump:
We're going to make a decision. I would think that many people — I can tell, many people sitting right here — would say, why wouldn't we do that?

We have a better relationship with Turkey, and Turkey has been in many ways much more loyal than other countries that we think would be loyal.

And certainly something we will consider — yeah.

🇺🇸🤝🇹🇷 — US President Trump says he'll be removing CAATSA sanctions on Turkey, that were placed after the Anatolian nation bought Russia's S-400 systems:

🇺🇸🤝🇹🇷 — Erdogan's reaction to Trump's announcement that the U.S. will lift the CAATSA sanctions on Turkey.

The sanctions followed Ankara's purchase of the Russian S-400 air defense system, and led to Turkey's removal from the F-35 program.

🇦🇷🇪🇬🇸🇾 — On Egypt-Argentina match, in which so far Egypt is winning over the last World Champion Argentina by 2 x 0, a Druze flag was spotted at the crowds

🇦🇷🇪🇬⚽️ — In one of the biggest and most controversial turnarounds of this FIFA World Cup, Argentina narrowly eliminated Egypt, sending the North African team home in what would become one of the tournament's historic matches.

🇵🇰🇦🇪🛫❗️ — Over the past hour, it has been reported that a Boeing 737-400 freighter operating for Pakistan K2 Airways Cargo has disappeared from radar on the coast of Karachi, Pakistan

📞 The pilots had reported problems with the aircraft's navigation system to the control tower moments earlier.

⚠️ According to the FlightRadar24 platform, tracking data suggests that flight KTA1732 may have crashed into the sea.

➡️ The aircraft was operated by K2 Airways and was en route from after departing from the Emirate of Sharjah United Arab Emirates to Karachi, Southern Pakistan

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷❗️ — The Trump administration is revoking Iran’s sanctions waiver for oil production and sales following attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz