The United States has pressed its allies and China to cut their remaining economic ties with Iran as the Trump administration prepares what it says will be its toughest campaign yet to isolate Tehran.

More than 170 microearthquakes have been detected around the Princes’ Islands fault in the Marmara Sea since Aug. 18, but experts said the cluster alone was not evidence of an imminent major earthquake.

Israel’s latest strike on a Syrian airbase near Türkiye has drawn renewed attention to defense cooperation between Ankara and Damascus, which includes training and support for the restructuring of Syria’s armed forces.

The leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands and Norway have urged Israel to withdraw a tender for 1,234 homes in the E1 settlement project, calling the decision “unacceptable.”

Both consumer and business confidence indicators in Türkiye have risen in August, separate data showed on Aug. 21.