🇾🇪⚡ YEMEN – Iranian-backed Houthi militants claim that his air defenses shot down 1 Wing Loong 2 drone of the Saudi-led coalition in the region of Kitaf wa al Boqe'e, Sa'dah governorate.

The UAV was shot down with an "appropriate weapon" today.

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BREAKING – Iraq: Turkish T129 helicopters bombing Kurdish PKK positions in the Dohuk Governorate, Mitnia region.

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🇰🇿 KAZAKHSTAN – At the Aisha Bibi training ground, joint Kazakh-Indian exercise KazInd-2021 has ended.

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⚠️ URGENT – 🇵🇸 Palestine: A large crowd of Palestinians has gathered in Jenin after a false rumor spread that the health condition of Zakaria Zubeidi, the rearrested security prisoner from Gilboa Prison, deteriorated.

In addition: ⚡Fearing more attacks in Jerusalem, police to bolster forces with an additional 2,000 policemen and Border Police soldiers during Yom Kippur, Kan 11 reports.

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⚠️❗RUSSIAN ⚔ ZAPAD-2021 EXERCISES – UPDATE

Putin, Gerasimov, Shoigu, Bulgakov, and Krivoruchko watching the main stage of Zapad 2021 in Mulino.

The exercise involved a helicopter air assault operation, the new BMP B-19 IFV (BMP-3 chassis) with an Epocha turret and 57mm cannon, and Uran-9 UGVs.

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China Threatens Drastic Action If Taiwan Changes Name Of D.C. Office: 'We'll Fly #PLA Jets Directly Over Island'

The US is "seriously considering" allowing Taiwan's govt to rename its representative office in Washington to include the word "Taiwan"

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🇺🇸⚡An official US report released on Sunday indicated that a flotilla of PLA warships recently sailed in international waters near Alaska.

⚠️ The report was suppressed for unknown reasons on Monday.

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ADDITIONALLY – 4 Chinese PLA Navy vessels have conducted a so-called "FONOP" operations in international waters (*within the exclusive economic zone of the United States*) off the Aleutian Islands, under the surveillance of the US Coast Guard American USCGC Bertholf (WMSL-750).

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RUSSIA – ZAPAD-2021 EXERCISES: UPDATE

A camouflaged Iskander-M system as part of Zapad 2021.

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JUST IN – Taliban movement at this time is stronger than it was in 2001, U.S. Secretary of State Blinken

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🇺🇸⚡Obama's Defense Secretary Leon Panetta Says: Joe Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal created a “national security threat”.

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🇾🇪 YEMEN – Battlefield Report, September 14, 2021

Iranian-backed Houthis shot down another Saudi attack drone Wing Loong 2.

On Tuesday, the joint forces thwarted an infiltration attempt by the Houthi militia on the Hais front in Hodeidah Governorate (western Yemen), and incurred losses.

Houthi militia’s cross-border actions continue to undermine efforts to reach a solution in Yemen, Saudi Arabian Cabinet ministers said, during a meeting chaired by King Salman.

At least 43 Houthi rebels were killed in Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen's Marib province in the past 24 hours.

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UPDATE – Iraq: Violent clashes and the sound of explosions within the approaches of Al-Bazul and Sensil in the Muqdadiya district of Diyala governorate, between security forces on the one hand and ISIS terrorist gangs on the other.

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