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

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🇦🇫⚡ AFGHANISTAN – 2021 Weapons and other equipment destroyed by CIA-backed NDS 01 Unit before evacuation.

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NEW – 🇦🇫⚡ Afghanistan: Pro Taliban sources suggest that Taliban fighters have arrived in the gates of Panjshir to prepare for an offensive.

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JUST IN – 🇱🇧 Lebanon: IAF patrolling the Lebanese sky

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Taiwan to hold air raid drill alongside mega war games as test of ‘overall alertness’ against Chinese PLA attack

Taiwan will stage a large-scale air raid drill – simulating missile and warplane attacks by Beijing – alongside its annual live-fire military exercise in September, as tensions mount in the Taiwan Strait.

The annual air raid drill, dubbed the “Wan An exercise”, will be carried out on September 15 across Taiwan, including its frontline islands of Kinmen (Quemoy) and Matsu, which lie at the doorstep of the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian.

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🇦🇫 AFGHANISTAN – Taliban have so many new US Army’s vehicles

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🇦🇫 AFGHANISTAN – Taliban Spox Zabihullah talks to media at Kabul Airport after the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.

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RUSSIA – The Pacific Fleet's Sovershenny and Gromky Project 20380 corvettes shot down Malakhit target missiles (as mock cruise missiles) with their Redut air defense systems during an exercise in the Sea of Japan.

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🇱🇾 Russian Pantsir air-defense system has been spotted in Alrujban, Libya.

Video from couple of days ago

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⚠️ URGENT – 🇹🇼 Taiwan: An F-16V fighter jet of the ROC Air Force, based in Hualien, rolled off the runway on landing. The pilot was not injured.

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CHINA – A PLZ-07 Self-Propelled Howitzers and PHZ-11 122mm Multiple Rocket Launcher Systems (MLRS) of the PLA 81st Army Group.

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RUSSIA – Video that shows the participants of the Aviadarts 2021 international military aviation competition training on a target field in the Ryazan region.

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🇹🇼 Taiwan to equip 6 Kang Ding-class frigates with new missiles

The Navy will upgrade its six Kang Ding-class frigates to improve their air and missile defenses by installing new missile systems.

The program, costing a total of NT$43.15 billion (US$1.55 billion), was described in a 2022 budget document filed by the Ministry of National Defense at the Legislative Yuan Tuesday, CNA reported.

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🇺🇸⚓ U.S. Navy: various forces of the United States conducting forward expeditionary base operations in the Hawaiian Islands during full-scale exercise 2021.

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🌘🛰 SPACE – Timelapse video of Russian Roscosmos by cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky which shows the flyover of the International Space Station above the Earth during the day.

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BELARUS – Lukashenko: "By building a unionist state with Russia, we will avoid the shortcomings of the USSR and the EU." 🤦‍♂️

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A F-16, CN-235, E7-T AWACS and KC-135R aircraft from the Turkish Air Force Command and Eurofighter aircraft from the British Royal Air Force conducted the training flight over the Romanian airspace.

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HISTORY REPEATS ⁉️ 🇺🇸 Damaged USS Liberty by Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and Israeli Navy motor torpedo boats, on 8 June 1967.

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🇦🇫 AFGHANISTAN – The Northern Resistance Front successfully thwarted all Taliban attacks on the Panjshir Valley.

Salang district is now under control of Ahmad Massoud's troops.

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🇦🇫⚡ Partisan war started in Kapisa & Parvan provinces, talibs getting casualties in different areas.

NRF - monitoring and commanding theirs guerrilla fighters.

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