President Donald Trump said on Aug. 1 that the United States and Israel had agreed to hold off on new strikes on Iran — provided a deal to end the months-long conflict is "rapidly" reached.

Spain on Aug. 1 installed a 500-meter-long (1,600-foot) barrier on the sea border between its North African territory of Ceuta and neighboring Morocco after tens of thousands of migrants breached the frontier earlier in the week.

Turkish and Iraqi state energy companies have signed a one-year agreement covering 750,000 barrels per day of capacity on the Iraq-Türkiye Crude Oil Pipeline, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Aug. 1.

Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş said on Aug. 1 that he expected legislation tied to the “terror-free Türkiye” initiative to reach parliament next week as a joint proposal by political parties.

Turkish police have detained a former military officer wanted over the 2016 attempt to assassinate President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the southwestern resort town of Marmaris, the Interior Ministry announced on Aug. 1.