🇾🇪 YEMEN – Battlefield Report, September 14, 2021

Iranian-backed Houthis shot down another Saudi attack drone Wing Loong 2.

On Tuesday, the joint forces thwarted an infiltration attempt by the Houthi militia on the Hais front in Hodeidah Governorate (western Yemen), and incurred losses.

Houthi militia’s cross-border actions continue to undermine efforts to reach a solution in Yemen, Saudi Arabian Cabinet ministers said, during a meeting chaired by King Salman.

At least 43 Houthi rebels were killed in Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen's Marib province in the past 24 hours.

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UPDATE – Iraq: Violent clashes and the sound of explosions within the approaches of Al-Bazul and Sensil in the Muqdadiya district of Diyala governorate, between security forces on the one hand and ISIS terrorist gangs on the other.

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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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🇺🇸 (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."

“Defense Secretary Austin will be subpoena if he declines to voluntarily testify on the Afghanistan withdrawal”

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🇺🇸 Secretary of State Antony Blinken says; "there’s no indications of Al Qaeda movement to Afghanistan, as the Taliban knows the consequences” but “IS-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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🇹🇼 ROCAF (Taiwan Air Force) 6CW 2503 Grumman E-2K Hawkeye 2000 (G-123) 37th Han Kuang Exercise 2021.

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🇹🇼 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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🇰🇷 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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🇹🇼 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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