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• Iraqi election results approved 

  Iraqi Federal Court has approved the results of 12 May’s parliamentary elections.
• Turkish intelligence service’s plans against PJAK 

  Photographs of PJAK and KODAR executives were published on social media with the allegation that a price was put on their head. The plan is reported to be of MİT.
• HDP's Beştaş: We are ready for local elections 

  HDP deputy, Meral Danış Beştaş told at the party congress in Siirt that they are ready for the local elections to be held in 2019.
• Peace vigil at Ireland' Shannon Airport 

  Sinn Fein Senator Paul Gavan said dead war planes directed to Yemen are stopping in Ireland in violation of the country's neutrality
• French Communist Party condemns Turkish attack against Shengal 

  French Communist Party protested the Turkish state attack against Shengal and said the Erdoğan dictatorship aims to end the Kurdish people.
• Many European cities protest against Turkish attack in Shengal 

  Actions across Europe to condemn Turkish state attack on Shengal.
• German citizens in Turkish jail but minister says “Visit Turkey”  

  The day a German citizen was arrested in Turkey during their summer vacation, Germany’s Minister of Tourism Thomas Bareiss called on Germans to “Visit Turkey on vacation”.  
• Protests for Shengal in dozens of European cities 

  Protests have taken place in dozens of European cities against the Turkish attack on Shengal, killing KCK Executive Council Member Zekî Şengalî (Ismail Özden).
• Trump: Turkey has taken advantage of the U.S. for many years 

  On Twitter the U.S. President said: "We will pay nothing for the release of an innocent man, but we are cutting back on Turkey!”
• Saudi Arabia to contribute $ 100 million to Syria! 

  The Saudi Arabia Embassy in Washington said the money will fund service projects
• Illuminating Raqqa with solar energy 

  The environment is one the pillars of the Democratic Autonomy.
• A boulevard to honour martyrs on the Deir ez-Zor-Raqqa road 

  The statue and boulevard, made by the Karama People’s Municipality, will be ready by the end of August.
• Turkish airstrikes on Shengal condemned in Toronto and Stockholm 

  Actions were held in the Sweden's capital Stockholm and in Toronto, Canada against Turkish airstrikes on Shengal.
• HDP condemns Turkish airstrikes on Shengal 

  The HDP underlined that the AKP is trying to hide the real causes of the crisis by carrying out war policies.
• Turkish army suffers casualties in clash in Adıyaman countryside 

  At least 4 soldiers died during a clash in Adıyaman countryside.
• KCDK-E calls on Kurds in Europe to stand up for Shengal 

  After the new Turkish airstrikes on Shengal, Kurds in Europe are mobilising.
• German police take down posters of Öcalan in Freiburg 

  An information stand was set up in Freiburg, Germany for the freedom and health of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan. The stand will remain open until Friday.
• HDP to apply for a visit to Kurdish People's Leader Öcalan 

  No HDP delegation has been allowed to visit Öcalan since April 2015.
• Spirit of 15 August commemorated in Armenia 

  An event was promoted in Yerevan by the Armenian Kurdistan Committee
• HDP's Sarıyıldız: Kurdish question at the heart of Turkish crisis 

  "This crisis began with Erdogan's war against the Kurdish people," said former HDP deputy, Faysal Sarıyıldız.
• SDF prepares for Hajin operation 

  After the Cizire area from Heseke to Deir ez-Zor was liberated by SDF forces, it is a matter of time before the announcement that ISIS gangs have completely been eradicated from the region. The SDF is preparing for new strategic operations.
• Bavarian police still have a YPG- and Öcalan-phobia 

  Germany’s Bavarian state police knows no bounds in intolerance against YPG and YPJ flags, and have now raided the homes of two Kurdish activists for carrying YPG flags and Öcalan posters in a demonstration.
• People detained in Istanbul, Cizre and Mersin - UPDATE 

  A number of people have been detained in Cizre and Istanbul.
• SDF rescues another Yazidi family from ISIS 

  Special units of the SDF have rescued a Yazidi woman and her two children from ISIS during their operations in Deir ez-Zor countryside.
• Thousands of DAESH members in Syria and Iraq, says UN 

  A UN report confirmed that there are some 30,000 Islamic State members distributed between Syria and Iraq