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• US: Committed to accelerated and concrete progress on the Manbij  

  Ambassador Jeffrey led a U.S. interagency delegation and joined Turkish counterparts for a High Level Working Group meeting on Syria, the fifth meeting of the HLWG since it was formed last summer. 
• Mass grave with 70 bodies opened in Iraq 

  Efforts to open a mass grave in Iraq’s Samawah province have started. There are 70 bodies in the grave, including women and children.
• Road to and from Maxmur camp still closed 

  After the attack in a restaurant in Hewlêr targeting Turkish consulate employees which left three people dead, the KDP closed all ways in and out to Maxmur Camp.
• Co-mayors of Nusaybin and Bismil taken into custody 

  The Turkish regime continues political genocide operations against the Kurdish people.
• Activists in Freiburg protest Turkish attacks 

  Kurds in Europe have been taking to the streets to protest the Turkish regime's genocidal attacks against the Kurdish people and their lands.
• Turkish government sends Syrian refugees to Afrin 

  On 22 July the Governorate of Istanbul gave a deadline of 20 August for Syrians who did not register in the city to leave Istanbul.
• Curfew declared in 15 villages and hamlets around Bitlis 

  Yet another military operation and curfew in northern Kurdistan.
• Lawyers applied to visit Öcalan 

  Lawyers of the Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to meet with their client.
• Boris Johnson to be appointed UK Prime Minister today 

  Boris Johnson has won a final Tory leadership runoff, defeating his opponent Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt with the support of more than two in three of the Conservative Party membership.
• Yazidi women take over Freedom for Öcalan Vigil  

  The Freedom Vigil organized in Strasbourg to demand freedom for Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, has been taken over by Yazidi women on its 370th week.
• Death toll rises to 70 in Idlib and Aleppo 

  The death toll in the bombings in Idlib and Aleppo has risen to 70.
• Young Saharawi killed by Moroccan police at football celebration 

  Saharawi celebrating Algeria football team victory in the Africa Cup killed and wounded by Moroccan police.
• Citizens in New Zealand hand over weapons to government 

  Thousands of New Zealanders hand over their weapons of war to the police.
• Eight taken into custody in simultaneous raids in Kars 

  Güldane Kılıç, chair of the Human Rights Association Kars branch and 7 HDP executives were taken into custody.
• Wave of jihadist attacks hit Somalia  

  An explosion of a car bomb on the road to the Somali capital airport, Mogadishu, on Sunday was the latests in a wave of jihadist attacks.
• Amed rally: The struggle continues in 4 parts of Kurdistan! 

  Speaking at the rally, DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven said: "We will fight against what is being done in the four parts of Kurdistan. We will continue our resistance."
• The device that allows the MIT to surveil Kurdish politicians 

  Turkish state’s intelligence and police services have been surveilling Kurdish Political Movement members with a device that has an inbuilt memory card and GPS.
• Öcalan’s ideas discussed in Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival 

  Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan’s ideas were discussed in the events held at the Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival.
• After Shengal, mass graves in Samawah to be unearthed 

  Following the unearthing of mass graves in Shengal’s Kocho village, the mass graves in Samawah, Iraq will be unearthed next.
• Kurdish man detained in house raid in Amed tortured 

  Ahmet Yoldaş was detained in a house raid where another citizen was killed. He was hospitalized after being subjected to torture.
• US officials visit Rojava and Turkey 

  US Special Envoy for Syria James Jeffrey is visiting Turkey, while the Commander of US Central Command General Kenneth McKenzie is visiting Rojava.
• Iranian forces kill another kolbar in Çardêran 

  The Iranian regime forces killed yet another kolbar called Mîlad Hisên Zade in Qelengir in the province of Çardêran.
• Ukranian president Zelensky wins elections 

  Preliminary results in Ukraine's parliamentary election hint President Volodymyr Zelensky's Servant of the People party will be big winner as Ukrainians endorse his reform agenda.
• Zurich celebrated 7th anniversary of the Rojava Revolution 

  The 7th anniversary of the Rojava Revolution was celebrated in Zurich.
• Hong Kong in shock after masked men attacked demonstrators 

  Hong Kong is in shock after a night of violence on Sunday. Dozens of masked men stormed a train station and attack pro-democracy protesters and passersby in the district of Yuen Long.