Iraq is reportedly trucking large volumes of fuel through Syria to reroute exports away from the Strait of Hormuz, rapidly turning Syria into a major regional export hub. Within months Syria has gone from supplying no fuel to providing more than 25% of Middle East fuel flows. Shipments move on thousands of trucks and take about four days to reach Syrian Mediterranean ports. The shift underscores how the Iran war is reshaping regional energy flows.

ILNA: Lebanese parliament speaker said the immediate priority is a full Israeli troop withdrawal from Lebanese territory and an end to the occupation.

SASAC deputy director Pang Xiaogang said at WAIC 2026 central state‑owned enterprises must accelerate R&D on foundational models and algorithms, physical AI, intelligent‑computing chips and quantum communications, and insist on a 'national model, national chip, national deployment' to build an autonomous software‑and‑hardware stack. SASAC said it has deepened an AI+ campaign with targeted support policies and three years of tiered talent training, pushed SOEs to develop more than 1,200 open industry scenarios, adapted systems to a full range of domestic chips and brought five 10,000‑accelerator‑card compute clusters into production. It called for increased investment to expand self‑built and managed compute capacity, improve cross‑domain heterogeneous scheduling, accelerate compute collaboration and green‑power direct connections, and supply inclusive compute services externally.