Parliament’s Justice Commission will begin deliberations on Aug. 7 on a 12-article bill setting out the legal framework for the government’s “terror-free Türkiye” initiative.

Iran said on Wednesday that it and Oman had agreed on the coordinates of a shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz and were finalizing a joint statement, but cautioned that the arrangement alone would not reopen the waterway.

Israel said on Aug. 6 that two reservists were killed in combat in southern Lebanon a day earlier, its first military fatalities there since June 28, while U.S.-backed negotiations with Lebanon continued in Rome.

Türkiye and other Arab and Muslim countries agreed on Aug. 5 to establish a permanent mechanism to document what they described as Israeli violations in occupied East Jerusalem and at its Islamic and Christian holy sites.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said he was consulting allies on how to continue providing Ukraine with urgently needed air defense systems after a Russian missile and drone barrage killed 17 people in Kiev and the surrounding region.