🇰🇷 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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🔄 UPDATE – Around 20 Russian warships began large-scale live fire exercises in the Black Sea on Monday, the Interfax news agency cited the Russian navy as saying, as Ukraine conducted joint military drills with the United States.

The joint military drills in western Ukraine this week come days after Belarus and Russia staged large-scale exercises that concerned neighbouring countries.


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🇵🇱⚡Poland is sending 500 more additional troops to the border with Belarus in order to strengthen it against increasing migrant pressure that Warsaw says is orchestrated by Belarus and Russia to destabilise the European Union.

"We will defend Poland's border with full determination," Prime Minister Morawiecki stated after a meeting with the interior minister and the head of the Border Guards.

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Turkey faces gathering storm in Syria

Erdogan’s choices limited as Russian backed Syrian forces increase attacks, weigh final assault on Idlib

Syrian military forces already have intensified attacks on Idlib recently.

Three Turkish soldiers were killed Sept. 11 in a bomb attack in Idlib, the last stronghold of Turkish-backed and Islamist opposition in northwest Syria — and Turkey responded by hitting US-backed Kurdish groups in northeast Syria.

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NIGER – Image: ISIS has released an image allegedly depicting a Grad rocket attack targeting Nigerien army forces in the village of Tchoma Bangou in the Tillaberi region of Niger (near the border with neighboring Mali).

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ISIS has released graphic photos allegedly depicting an ambush by ISIS-affiliated militants targeting a Nigerian army convoy on the road linking the towns of Monguno and Gajiram in Nigeria's northeastern Borno State.

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BREAKING – Cameroonian separatists reportedly killed 15 soldiers in bomb attacks in Bamenda, the capital of the North West region.

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RUSSIA – The Ministry of Defense has decided to create, as part of the Coastal Forces of the Pacific Fleet, 1 new engineer regiment, which has already been trained.

It is planned in the future to similarly equip the fleets of the North, the Baltic and the Black Sea.

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IRAN – Siavash 6 - New 5.56 mm rifle developed by IRGC.

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