Greece opened fire at a civilian boat carrying two Turkish nationals and one Syrian inside Greek territorial waters on Monday night, the Turkish Coast Guard said in a statement on Tuesday

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias warned on Tuesday that Greece was ready to defend its sovereignty amid the maritime feud with Turkey and called on Ankara to immediately withdraw from the Greek continental shelf

The proceedings of the Syrian Constitutional Committee (SCC), which is scheduled to convene later in August, should be moved from the Swiss city of Geneva to Damascus, Qadri Jamil, the leader of the Syrian opposition's Popular Front for Change and Liberation and head of the Moscow Platform, said at an online press conference on Tuesday