BREAKING – The speaker of Iran’s parliament says Tehran will never hand over images from inside of some Iranian nuclear sites to the UN nuclear watchdog as a monitoring agreement with the agency had expired, Iranian state media reports.

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🇸🇾 SYRIA – Dead and wounded in Al Bab this morning after an IED went off in a vehicle belonging to one of the Turkish-backed TFSA factions in the city.

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🔄 UPDATE – 🇸🇾 Syria: Pickup is totally destroyed. A child nearby was also reportedly wounded by shrapnel after a IED attack in Al Bab this morning.

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CHINA – Launch of the DF-17 missile with its hypersonic glider, pictured at a Chinese Rocket Force base

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CHINA – Unit 5 of the Hongyanhe nuclear power plant in China's Liaoning province - a 1080 MWe domestically-designed ACPR1000 pressurised water reactor - has yesterday been connected to the electricity grid, the China Nuclear Energy Association announced.

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🇸🇾 SYRIA – At least 3 dead, including a child, following the explosion of an IED attack in downtown Afrin north of Aleppo this morning.

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🇻🇪 Venezuela unveiled a new drone in its arsenal ... which turned out to be the Foxtech Rex 340 commercial UAV.

It can be freely purchased on AliExpress for $ 35,000.

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⚓🇺🇸 US Navy P8 Poseidon AE6878 patrolling off the coast of Crimea this morning

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Turkish T-155 artillery shells Kurdish PKK targets. This vehicle is a joint Turkish-South Korean development and is based on the South Korean K9 Thunder self-propelled guns, and has a maximum firing range of up to 40 km. using active rockets.

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BREAKING – Egyptian President A-Sisi arrived a short time ago in Baghdad for trilateral summit between Egypt, Iraq, Jordan.

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SERBIA – The largest exercises "Lightning Strike 2021" took place in the mountains in southwestern Serbia with the key participation of military equipment previously acquired in the Russian Federation, or received under an agreement on military cooperation between Moscow and Belgrade.

Military maneuvers "Lightning Strike" with live firing on Sunday in the Peshter plateau in the south-west of the country, according to the Serbian Ministry of Defense, became the largest in the past few decades. They were preceded by a readiness check of more than 15,000 Serbian troops in June and tactical exercises at eight different training grounds.

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SERBIA – The final stage of the 13 joint tactical (live fire) drills Lightning Strike 2021 at Pešter drilling ground near Sjenica.

More than 2.3 thousand servicemen of the Second Brigade of the Ground Forces of Serbia, the 72nd Special Operations Brigade, the 63rd Airborne Brigade, crews and crews of the Air Force and Air Defense of Serbia are taking part in the maneuvers in the presence of President Aleksandar Vucic and members of the government and command on Sunday.

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