🇦🇫⚡ The current situation near the approaches to Kabul airport…

The map shows the main entrances, exits, and control sites for the forces controlling the airport from all sides, marked in red.

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🇦🇫⚡ Protest in Kabul during Taliban rule. Youth and women participated in the demonstration against economic issues.

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🇦🇫⚡ At least a couple of seemingly whole MD-530F helicopters went to the Taliban at the Shorabak military base (formerly Camp Bastion) in Helmand province.

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WATCH 📹 – 🇦🇫⚡ Taliban forces in Kandahar, posted by Taliban leader.

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🇹🇲 TURKMENISTAN – ⚓ The navy received a Gökdeniz shirt-range air defense system from the Turkish defense comopany ASELSAN.

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China's PLA conducts large-scale military drills in Tibet plateau.

The Chinese army reportedly practised "multidimensional tactics with the goal of target elimination".

At least 10 brigades and regiments took part in the exercise.

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STATE OF THE UNION [Soviet Union 2.0] – The S-400, presumably of the 210th anti-aircraft missile regiment of the Russian Armed Forces, arrived in Grodno of the Republic of Belarus with the aim of forming a joint training center for the Air Force and Air Defense.

The 1st anti-aircraft missile regiment of the Armed Forces of Belarus is already located in Grodno. In addition, Russian Su-30SM fighters are expected to arrive at the Baranovichi airfield on September 3.

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RUSSIA – China's PLA and Iranian soldiers completing a course in the Tactical Shooter competition at the Army International Games 2021.

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CHINA: PLA sniper with a LG5 / QLU-11 sniper grenade launcher.

The declared effective firing range would be 1,000 to 2,000 m.

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🇹🇼 Taiwan scholar reveals extent of US military operations in South China Sea

Military analyst recommends US continue monitoring regional Chinese military activities

The Institute for National Defense and Security Research (INDSR) has released its latest “real-time analysis of national defense security,” which features a piece that examines the strategic significance of the waters southwest of Taiwan and the Bashi Strait.

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🇺🇸⚓ U.S. Navy conducted coordinated strikes on the decommissioned guided-missile frigate Ingraham in the Pacific as part of the US Navy's recent full-scale exercise LSE 2021 with the fast attack submarine USS Chicago (SSN 721).

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📜 HISTORY – On August 30, 1991, the Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopted the Declaration on the Restoration of State Independence of the Republic of Azerbaijan

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Turkish drone attack on a Syrian army tank.

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IRAQ – Turkish Air Force conducted airstrikes against PKK militants in the Mitina region, killing 3 members of the terrorist group.

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