🔄 UPDATE – 🇮🇶 Iraq: 📢 The U.S. Army held today a C-RAM exercise with 8 additional bursts in the diplomatic Green zone in Baghdad.

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NEW – China is a "main partner" of the Taliban in the international community, Taliban spokesman Zabihula Mujahid declared.

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🇾🇪⚡ YEMEN – Iranian-backed Houthi militants are now only three kilometers from Ma'rib

The Yemeni fighters are stationed around Ma'rib with a large number of military vehicles and will soon reach the first military base of the resigned government at the entrance of the city.

They are not more than three kilometers from this headquarters.

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🗺 MAP 🔄 UPDATE FROM 🇾🇪YEMEN

⚠️ Iranian-backed Houthi militants are now only three kilometers from Ma'rib.

RED: Government held
Green: Houthi militants

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BREAKING – The 🇺🇸⚓ US Navy now says they’ve declared the 5 missing crew members deceased and are switching to a recovery effort after an MH-60S helicopter crashed off the USS Abraham Lincoln.

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🇵🇭⚡Mystery Flying Wing Aircraft Photographef Over The Philippines

The aircraft resembles the one seen in an image taken in California a year ago that is thought to be of the elusive RQ-180 stealth spy aircraft. 

Philippines sits between the South China Sea and the Philippine Sea, two contentious and highly surveilled bodies of water that regularly see large amounts of military activity, especially Chinese and American. All types of military aircraft constantly frequent the skies above both seas, from bombers to drones, but on September 2nd, at around 6:15 AM local time, landscape photographer Michael Fugnit captured something very unique in his lens—what appears to be a stealthy flying wing aircraft with a diamond-shaped fuselage and slender wings, a centralized exhaust, potentially featuring twin engines, and a ventral fuselage bulge. 

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🇺🇸⚓ U.S. Navy: Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) arrived today in Tallinn, Estonia for a scheduled port visit.

THIS IS RARE!

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Lukashenko says he and Putin will observe the Zapad-2021 exercises, each at their own training grounds.

The elements of Russia's 810th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade and other Black Sea Fleet army corps' units will conduct live-fire exercises with the coast's landings in Crimea, starting September 7.

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Upcoming Russian large scale military exercise Zapad-2021:

Military contingents from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, India, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Serbia and Sri Lanka have been invited to participate in the ZAPAD-2021 exercises, which will be held in Russia.

In addition, the armed forces of China, Vietnam, Myanmar, Pakistan and Uzbekistan will be represented by military observers.

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⚠️ FACT – In 2019 alone, China fired more ballistic missiles 🚀 than the rest of the world combined.

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IRAN – Raisi says Iran ready for talks but not with Western 'pressure'

Last month, France, Germany and Britain voiced concern about reports from the U.N. nuclear watchdog confirming Iran has produced uranium metal enriched up to 20% fissile purity for the first time and lifted production capacity of uranium enriched to 60%.

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CHINA – A clear image of the PLAAF Y-20U tanker with both underwing hose-and-drogues in action.

In fact it is an operational aircraft with its serial number erased.

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