Overview
- Syria’s army announced it halted operations in Aleppo’s Sheikh Maqsoud and would transfer SDF fighters from Yassin Hospital to Tabqa, a claim the SDF rejected as street fighting and displacement continued.
- United Nations reporting cited at least 30,000 families fleeing the Aleppo clashes, while a local official later put the figure at 155,000 people, underscoring the scale of the humanitarian fallout.
- U.S. special envoy Tom Brach urged a peaceful SDF withdrawal and immediate implementation of the March 10, 2025 integration deal after meetings with Jordan’s foreign minister and Syria’s leadership, calling for restraint and renewed dialogue.
- Vatican-mediated efforts to secure Nicolás Maduro’s safe exit failed, and The Washington Post reporting—cited in regional coverage—described a subsequent U.S. operation that captured him and moved him to New York on drug charges, a significant but not broadly corroborated account.
- The White House revived options to gain control or expanded leverage over Greenland, with reports describing purchase-focused planning and even force as a discussed scenario, as Denmark and Greenland reiterated the island is not for sale; separately, U.S. protests grew after a Minneapolis ICE shooting under a federally led probe, and Sudan’s war reached 1,000 days with mass displacement and heavy casualties.