⚠️❗Myanmar anti-coup group bombs military convoy near Yangon, leaving at least 2 dead

Myanmar anti-junta dissidents have carried out a bomb attack on security forces near Yangon, with several killed in an ensuing firefight, the military and media said.

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🌍 Map of the situation of armed conflicts in 2021.

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BREAKING – 🇺🇦 Occupied Ukraine: More than 315 thousand residents of the occupied territories received passports from the Russian Federation.

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🇮🇳 IAF Mil Mi-26 take off in the Himalayas

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🇮🇳 INDIA – Superb Footage of Indian Army Aviation Corps HAL ALH Rudra

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🇮🇳 INDIA – ⚓ Indian Coast Guard and Gujarat ATS have apprehended an Iranian boat in Indian waters with seven crew carrying drugs. The boat has been brought to the nearest port for further rummaging & investigations: PRO Defence- Gujarat

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BREAKING – France cancels meeting between French & British defense ministers scheduled for this week, more fallout over its loss of Australian sub contract.

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ISIS has claimed responsibility for a series of 7 bombings targeting rival Taliban militants in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad over the past 48 hours, allegedly killing a total of 15 and wounding 25 others.

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🇯🇵⚡Japan on Wednesday began a large-scale military exercise in three decades with the participation of at least 100,000 personnel, 20,000 vehicles, and 120 aircraft. Drill participate of personnel from Japan's Maritime and Air Self-Defense Forces as well as a US Army landing ship.

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CHINESE ⚓ PLA NAVY – Type 003 carrier Image from "Naval & Merchant ships magazine" which is the most authoritative military magazine in China.

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🇰🇷 SOUTH KOREA plans to put into operations a newly unveiled homegrown submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) at sea around the second half of next year, sources said Monday.

Last week, the country unveiled its first homegrown SLBM by announcing the successful test-launch from the 3,000-ton-class Dosan Ahn Chang-ho submarine. South Korea became the world's seventh nation to have proven field operation capabilities of the system.

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🇪🇺 European Union Border Security Agency Frontex Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri visited Bulgaria and Romania this week to meet with the national authorities, talk to our standing corps officers on the ground and visit the ongoing multipurpose maritime operation (MMO) in the Black Sea.

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About 20 Russian Navy ships to hold missile firings in Black Sea drills

About 20 surface ships and support vessels of the Black Sea Fleet have deployed to the sea from their naval bases in Sevastopol and Novorossiysk to hold joint drills with missile and artillery firings. The warships have deployed to naval training ranges in accordance with a plan of the Black Sea Fleet’s combat training measures for the 2021 training year.

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Iran says they are forming a military coalition through the SCO (Something like NATO) between China, Russia, Iran and central Asia.

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🇰🇵⚡Satellite imagery of North Korea appears to show the country is expanding one of its main nuclear facilities.

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🚨 BREAKING – ⚡ Ottoman Erdogan: "Historical borders must be restored."

This means he will establish the failed Ottoman empire again.

💣 His Presidential adviser said, Turkey will attack soon US Army in Syria (because of supporting Kurdish SDF - Admin note). 💥💥

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BREAKING – Yemen/KSA: The Saudi-led Coalition has destroyed two booby-trapped boats belonging to the Iran-backed Houthis near the coastal area of As-Salif, thwarting an imminent attack, according to a state television report.

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🇺🇦🤝🇺🇸Ukrainian-American exercise 'Rapid Trident - 2021' starts at Yavoriv military training center in the Lviv Oblast of Ukraine today.

The exercise will run from September 20 to October 1. About 6,000 troops are set to participate in them.

The exercise will also involve servicemen from Bulgaria, Canada, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Lithuania, Moldova, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Turkey and UK.

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RUSSIA – Units of the Rocket Forces and Artillery of the Eastern Military District for a month conducted large-scale exercises in the Amur Region, the Jewish Autonomy and the Khabarovsk Territory, near the Chinese, North Korean border.

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SYRIA – A joint patrol of the Russian military police and Turkish military personnel took today place in the northern part of the country.

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