Day: July 29, 2026
BREAKING:🇷🇺 Russia says Telegram founder & CEO Pavel Durov is sponsoring terrorism and affiliating it.
An Arrest warrant has been issued against him
— @World_Affairs11 Jul 29, 2026
‼️‼️🇸🇦🇮🇷🇺🇸 Major developments are unfolding in the Middle East – To begin with, Iran rejected the ceasefire proposal presented by Omani mediators and, overnight, violated the ceasefire agreement. Ballistic missiles were launched from central Iran toward the U.S. Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan and American military facilities in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region.
U.S. missile defense systems successfully intercepted and destroyed all incoming Iranian ballistic missiles.
Shortly afterward, U.S. and Saudi Arabian coalition forces carried out large-scale airstrikes against dozens of facilities belonging to Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), the country’s largest pro-Iranian Shiite paramilitary organization, in central Iraq. The strikes reportedly killed numerous fighters and destroyed a significant amount of military equipment.
Saudi Arabia stated that the joint operation was conducted in response to repeated attacks on Saudi territory carried out by proxy forces of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including the Yemeni Houthis and the Iraqi Shiite Resistance factions. As a reminder, over the past several days these groups have launched massive missile and drone attacks against western and eastern Saudi Arabia, heavily damaging several oil refineries and civilian airports.
At this stage, it remains unclear how the United States will respond to Iran’s rejection of negotiations and its violation of the ceasefire through the missile attack on Jordan. However, the joint U.S.-Saudi air campaign in Iraq should be viewed as a preparatory phase, potentially preceding broader coalition strikes against Iran involving the United States and several Gulf Arab states, including Saudi Arabia.
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— @visionergeo Jul 29, 2026
🇷🇺 Russia just put the Telegram founder on an international most-wanted list.
The FSB charged Pavel Durov with aiding terrorism and issued a warrant for his arrest, accusing him of letting Ukrainian intelligence use the app to coordinate attacks inside Russia.
Durov, who lives in Dubai and hasn’t set foot in Russia in years, has been unbothered from the start.
When the charges first landed, he said Moscow was inventing pretexts to choke off free speech and called it the act of a state afraid of its own people.
The charge carries up to 15 years, not that anyone expects him to show up and serve them.
The timing is almost too on the nose, landing right as the Kremlin herds Russians onto MAX, its own state-built app wired straight into FSB surveillance.
An international warrant for a man the Kremlin can’t touch, whose crime was refusing to hand over the keys.
Source: Reuters / Writer: Julie
— @MarioNawfal Jul 29, 2026
President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the White House Tuesday, navigating a growing rift five months after the two launched a war on Iran that has proven far more complex than either imagined. on.wsj.com/3TqpRpf
— @WSJ Jul 29, 2026
⚡️Putin no longer holds upper hand in war, still won’t budge on ceasefire, Zelensky says.
“Now, the initiative is not in the hands of Putin,” Zelensky said in an interview with Fox News following his White House meeting on July 28.
kyivindependent.com/putin-no…— @KyivIndependent Jul 29, 2026
Iran is expected to receive up to 400 Chinese MANPADS, with the first deliveries arriving within weeks – multiple sources to Reuters
The deal includes Chinese-made QW-12 and FN-16 surface to air missiles, supplied through a Hong Kong-based intermediary.
— @Osinttechnical Jul 29, 2026
💥 Russia: Ukraine struck the Wildberries distribution hub in Ryazan. 🍿
— @igorsushko Jul 29, 2026