Drone video shows pro-government forces using Afghan villagers as human shields and forcing them to defuse landmines in Khost Province today.

🔗 WorldOnAlert (@worldonalert)

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JUST IN – Russia: The Russian Defense Ministry has conducted a series of tests of the newest S-500 Prometheus anti-aircraft missile system with combat launches of anti-aircraft missiles.

The tests were found to be successful.

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Two Tu-22M3 bombers of the Russian Air Force escorted by Su-30M2 fighter jets conducted a five-hour flight over the Black Sea waters today.

https://tvzvezda.ru/news/2021771434-cZoBf.html

🔗 Status-6 (@Archer83Able)

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Almost to the weekend!

Keep on pulling like the @USArmy, @RoyalAirForce & #Romanian Air Force troops who competed on June 29 at MK Air Base, 🇷🇴.

Each team pulled a 128-ton firetruck as far as they could in sixty seconds.

#StrongerTogether

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Typhoon jets based at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus conduct air defence exercises with @HMSQNLZ and @HMSDiamond in the Mediterranean (24/6/21)

#CSG21

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Lithuanian and Spanish PM’s briefing at Siauliai Air Base interrupted by Spanish Eurofighter Baltic Air Policing's scramble.

https://t.co/TTS6xOWrfY

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From the #BlackSea, @CBSEveningNews @HollyMAWilliams reports aboard #USSRoss while it participates in #ExerciseSeaBreeze2021.

"...international airspace and waters are for everybody, it doesn't belong to one country." Cdr. John D. John, USS Ross, CO.

Video from CBS News ⬇️

🔗 U.S. Navy (@USNavy)

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🇦🇫🇹🇷 Turkey would be the only country that would keep its 600 Resolute Support Mission troops in Afghanistan.

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🇷🇺The FSB of Russia publishes footage of operational video footage of the arrest of a terrorist who was preparing an attack on one of the objects of law enforcement agencies in the region.
#Russia

🔗 The RAGEX (@theragex)

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🗺🧭🔎 JULY 9TH 2021 | RECONNAISSANCE MISSION

🇺🇦Bayraktar TB2
🇺🇸Bombardier Challenger 650 "ARTEMIS"
🇺🇸Boeing RC-135V Rivet Joint CONK51

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#BREAKING
⚠️❗Five largest cities in Afghanistan:

• Kabul - under government control
• Kandahar (video from social networks) - battles are underway, the Taliban have retreated
• Herat - there are battles, the threat of capture
🇦🇫⚪. #Afghanistan

- RIA

🔗 Fra 🇮🇹🗣️ (@FrancescComito)

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Afghan border guards and custom officials who fled to Turkmenistan following the Taliban assault, returned back to Afghanistan after the Taliban promises them safe passage. In return, they handed over their Humvees and equipments to the Taliban.

#Afghanistan

🔗 Zoya 🚨 (@Zoya\_nafidi)

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🔴 The warning sirens being sounded at the #US Consulate General in #Erbil without knowing reason, possibly a drill.
#Kurdistan #Iraq #TwitterKurds
Video: Rudaw Media Network

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🚨BREAKING – 🇬🇳⚡🇫🇷 France to start closing military bases in Mali by the end of the year, President Macron announced.

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