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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‘πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Ukrainian Paratroopers are currently taking part in "The Saber Junction" - a Multinational Tactical Exercise taking place in Germany.

Several thousand troops from more than twenty NATO member states and other countries are participating.

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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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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ (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."

β€œDefense Secretary Austin will be subpoena if he declines to voluntarily testify on the Afghanistan withdrawal”

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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Secretary of State Antony Blinken says; "there’s no indications of Al Qaeda movement to Afghanistan, as the Taliban knows the consequences” but β€œIS-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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BREAKING – Yemen: Worst tensions tonight in the city of Aden were rioters spreading violence.

There are reports of shootings in one of the districts in the city.

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πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ό ROCAF (Taiwan Air Force) 6CW 2503 Grumman E-2K Hawkeye 2000 (G-123) 37th Han Kuang Exercise 2021.

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πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ό Fighter jets landed on a provincial highway in Taiwan on day 3 of the annual Han Kuang live-fire war games.

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πŸ‡°πŸ‡· S. Korea succeeds in testing ballistic missile launch from submarine

South Korea has become the world's seventh country with an indigenous submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), as it succeeded in an underwater test-launch from a submarine, Cheong Wa Dae announced Wednesday.

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Chinese mouthpiece warns of 'severe military measures' if US changes name of Taiwan office

Global Times threatens 'showdown' with US if Biden allows Taiwan's de facto embassy to change its name

Chinese state-run media on Sunday (Sept. 12) threatened that China would respond with "severe military measures" if the Biden administration allows Taiwanese officials to include "Taiwan" in the name of its de facto embassy in the U.S. capital.

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πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ό Taiwan Is Arming Itself To Beat A Chinese Invasion. Some New Weapons Are Better Than Others

A war over Taiwan could be won or lost at the beachhead, as a Chinese invasion force fights its way through a swarm of air & surface-launched anti-ship missiles.

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⚑ LIBYA – Turkish military transport planes, Airbus A400, has last night evacuated Syrian mercenaries from Libya's al-Watiya airbase, as part of a Turkish-Egyptian agreement.

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πŸ‡¬πŸ‡· GREECE – Chief of Staff, Konstantinos Floros, announced that his country is sending MIM-104 Patriot air-defense systems to Saudi Arabia, coinciding with US withdrawal of hardware.

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πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ GERMANY – From August 26 to September 29, the exercises of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment of the US Army Saber Junction 21 are taking place.

The maneuvers involved the Grafenvoor and Hohenfels polygons.

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