In the afternoon of 6 August, opposition forces attacking from the South-west managed to break through the blockade of the city and established contact with eastern districts, which were under siege by the government forces since mid-July. This is a major achievement of a week-long offensive and will enable the opening of a supply route to rebel-controlled parts of the city. The rebel takeover of Ramouseh districts also threatens the supply to government-help Western Aleppo and can thus turn the tide of the battle for the city.

On Thursday, August 4, Chancellor of Austria - Christian Kern commented the launched discussions of European leaders on the withdrawal from further negotiations with Turkey. During the interview with Austrian television ORF, Kern drew his beliefs on Turkey and said: "We should all press the “reset" in relations with Turkey." The Chancellor also announced that it would propose a debate on the issue of breaking the accession negotiations with Turkey and present the issue at the top – at the level of European Council on 16 September.

According to IRNA, around 20 Sunni Kurds in Iran were executed. They were accused of terrorism and were members of “Tawhid and Jihad” Takfiri terroristic group. Extremists were suspected of security forces. As lawyers said, accused people were forced to write the confession. State agency IRNA told, that terrorists were executed on Tuesday, but did not mention the amount of executed. Rights groups estimations told about 10 to 30 people were executed.

A chance to revive a wrecked peace process with Kurdish rebels has been missed as Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan taps nationalist sentiment to consolidate his support after a failed military coup, the head of the pro-Kurdish opposition has said. Decrees during a state of emergency, including purges of tens of thousands of suspected coup plotters, may threaten the wider opposition, Selahattin Demirtas, co-chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), also said in an interview.

Since the begging of the Syrian civil war, both sides of the conflict are accusing each other for using the chemical weapons. In the recent event, on August 1st, a spokesman for Syria Civil Defense told Reuters that two barrels of the bomb dropped on the city of Saraqeb, which they are suspected to be choleric gas bombs. The group, which describes itself as a neutral band of search and rescue volunteers, posted a video on YouTube purportedly showing a number of men struggling to breathe after being given an oxygen mask by people in civil defense uniforms. They also claimed that up to 33 people are injured by the gas attack and most of them are woman and children.

On Wednesday, August 3, the president of Tunisia, Beji Caid Essebsi, has named Youssef Chaded as the new PM. Chaded, 41, is an agricultural engineer with an academic background and had been serving as the minister for local affairs before the nomination. He now has 30 days to form the cabinet and get it approved by a parliamentary vote. Commentators expect him to secure the necessary votes easily despite opposition parties accusing him of inappropriate family ties with the president. The previous PM, Habib Essid, received a vote of no-confidence over claims of mismanagement of economic reforms and security, forcing the appointment of a replacement. Both Chaded, his predecessor, and president Essebsi are members of the secular Nidaa Tounes (Tunisia’s Call) party, which has 86 of 217 MPs in the Tunisian Parliament