🇺🇸⚡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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A Sniper whose name was among the 700 namelist to be evacuated,was executed by the Taliban last night.

The Afghan Sniper has worked alongside British special forces in an elite unit that was mentored by UK troops and went on to fight on the front line - The Times.

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🇺🇸 (Bob Menendez, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to Secretary of State Antony Blinken: "The execution of the US withdrawal was clearly and fatally flawed."

“Defense Secretary Austin will be subpoena if he declines to voluntarily testify on the Afghanistan withdrawal”

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🇺🇸 Secretary of State Antony Blinken says; "there’s no indications of Al Qaeda movement to Afghanistan, as the Taliban knows the consequences” but “IS-K is different," he added.

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CHINA/PLA – An interesting picture of Chinese launch vehicles of the new generation of the Changzheng / Long March family.

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SYRIA – The Turkish Army and its proxies attacked the Kurdish village of Arab Hassan, north of Manbij, with mortar shells.

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SYRIA – Russian Aerospace Forces conducted airstrikes against ISIS positions in the Homs desert.

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