SYRIA: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the 48-year-old leader of ISIS, killed himself and three children, detonating a suicide vest in a tunnel while being pursued by U.S. special operations forces, according to President Donald Trump. Watch and read the president’s full address from Sunday.

SYRIA: On-the-ground sources report on Thursday that Turkey has breached a cease-fire agreement, as Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army units attacked Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces near Tel Tamer. Powerful explosions are reported in Qamishli and Raqqa.

SYRIA: Turkish forces continue to fire on Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces as they pull out from Ras al-Ain, with reports of at least one SDF soldier wounded on Monday. Violations of the U.S.-orchestrated cease-fire agreement have been continuous. The SDF commander said Sunday that cease-fire violations included “ethnic cleansing.” President Donald Trump has indicated he may bow to Pentagon requests to leave U.S.

SYRIA: Reliable sources inside the country report four ambulances destroyed and five medics killed—shot execution-style by the side of the road—while attempting to evacuate wounded near Ras al-Ain (or in Kurdish, Sere Kaniye). Faith-based aid workers are on the ground assessing the situation and relayed a call by the self-administration zone in northeast Syria to “open a humanitarian corridor” for civilians trapped inside Ras al-Ain.

SYRIA: More than 200,000 civilians have fled Turkey’s invasion of northeast Syria, and at least 40 civilians have died—and Turkey-backed militias appear to be committing war crimes as they advance.

SYRIA: Turkish forces launched a bombing campaign across northeastern Syria on Wednesday, targeting civilian areas and killing Syriac Christians. Turkish bombardments appeared to target Christian sites and neighborhoods, including Mar Gorgios Assyrian Church in Qameshli and the town of Nusaybin, actually in Turkey but containing the oldest church in the region.

IRAN: Yousef Nadarkhani, an Iranian pastor serving a 10-year sentence in Tehran’s Evin Prison, has gone on a hunger strike after officials barred his son from attending school. Fifteen-year-old Youeil has refused to take Islamic education classes.

Nadarkhani is part of a lengthy list of Iranian clergy jailed for their Christian faith.