⚠️ URGENT – Syria: Cross-river clashes tonight with machine guns between US-backed SDF and SAA on the Abu Hammam - al Duwayr axis.

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🇦🇿 AZERBAIJAN – Video showing joint tactical exercises of the armed forces of the National Border Service of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea to combat terrorism and sabotage.

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🇹🇼 Taiwan has proposed additional defense spending of $ 8.69 billion over the next 5 years, including on new missiles to modernize its weapons in the face of a "serious threat" from its giant neighbor, China.

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EU views of the Indo-Pacific; France, Germany and the Netherlands will meet Today to determine EU’s Indo-Pacific own strategy.

ECFR shows that despite the Indo-Pacific’s growing economic & political importance, many EU member states are still largely not interested in events there.

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SYRIA – Russian airstrikes against Turkish-backed militants hit the outskirts of the village of al-Hamama in rural Jisr al-Shughour, western rural Idlib.

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🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 Roughly 300 U.S. soldiers will join approximately 6,000 troops from 12 nations participating in an annual multinational training exercise in Ukraine later this month.

Rapid Trident 21 will take place from Sept. 20 through Oct. 1 and will prepare personnel from allied and partner nations for crisis response, according to a news release from U.S. Army Europe and Africa command.

The exercise is the final phase of a longer annual training exercise, which seeks to better prepare Ukrainian land forces for real-world defense challenges.

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🇯🇵🤝🇺🇸 USNS Brunswick (T-EPF-6) Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport docked in Okinawa, Japan - September 16, 2021

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🇺🇸 The U.S. State Department has approved a potential deal covering up to $ 500 million in military support services for Saudi Arabia, and sent the deal to Congress for review, the Pentagon said Thursday.

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