Overview
- Syrian army officials announced a halt to operations in Aleppo’s Sheikh Maqsoud and plans to bus Kurdish fighters out, while the SDF denied any deal and said street fighting continued as thousands fled.
- Local authorities accused the SDF of a drone strike on the Aleppo governorate building during a press event; the SDF rejected the claim as both sides also traded accusations over using or striking hospitals.
- U.S. envoy Tom Brack met Jordan’s foreign minister and later Syrian leaders, urging an immediate cease-fire, a peaceful SDF withdrawal from Aleppo, and a return to the 2025 integration framework for Kurdish institutions.
- Protests spread after ICE agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, with a federal probe labeling the shooting self‑defense while city officials and demonstrators dispute that account and call for transparency.
- Trump’s renewed drive for control of Greenland advanced with U.S.–Denmark–Greenland talks as reporting said options under review include purchase and even potential force, which Denmark and Greenland reject; separate reporting marked 1,000 days of Sudan’s war with mass displacement and famine warnings, and U.S. media described failed Vatican‑backed efforts to extract Nicolás Maduro before a reported U.S. capture and transfer to New York on drug charges.