In #Pakistan, during clashes in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, security forces eliminated ten militants of the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan. The first incident occurred in the North Waziristan district, where, after receiving information about the whereabouts of the terrorists, the military launched a search operation. Having found the militants, the security forces started a shootout, in which six criminals were neutralized. The second skirmish took place near the border with Afghanistan, through which the terrorists entered Pakistan. During the shootout, four terrorists were eliminated. At the site of the clashes, the military seized weapons and equipment of the militants.
According to intelligence agencies, the liquidated are involved in terrorist attacks against government forces and civilians in the region.
According to intelligence agencies, the liquidated are involved in terrorist attacks against government forces and civilians in the region.
Bastille Day military parade on the Champs-Elysees in #Paris
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LIVE: Bastille Day military parade on the Champs-Elysees in Paris
French President Emmanuel Macron attends Bastille Day military parade on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris.
#BastilleDay #militaryparade #France #Reuters #News #Live
#BastilleDay #militaryparade #France #Reuters #News #Live
The presidents of #Chad and #Niger pledged Wednesday to revive the G5 Sahel military grouping to boost the fight against jihadist insurgents after Mali quit the West African force.
But Niger’s Mohamed Bazoum who held talks in N’Djamena with junta leader Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, skirted round a question on the redeployment of French troops.
After nine years battling jihadists in Mali, France is pulling its troops out and reducing its presence in the wider Sahel following a falling out with the Bamako junta.
“The decision to withdraw from Mali is an episode that will be behind us,” Bazoum told a press conference.
“Soon there will be a meeting” of the remaining four G5 allies — Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania, and Niger — “to make sure the G5 is viable,” he added.
Mali’s junta announced in May it was leaving the G5 alliance which was set up in 2014 and has worked alongside the French Barkhane force against multiple jihadist factions who are nonetheless advancing southwards.
More than 2,000 civilians have been killed in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso since the start of the year.
“We don’t consider that it’s over for the G5 Sahel, we are going to fight,” Bazoum insisted.
General Deby, who took power when his father died more than a year ago on the frontlines after ruling for three decades, said he “regretted” Mali’s departure from the G5.
“Let’s stay optimistic and hope it comes back on the decision,” he said.
France announced the Barkhane withdrawal in February after deploying as many as 5,000 troops in Mali. Only 2,500 French soldiers will remain in the Sahel.
Paris is set to maintain more than 1,000 troops in Niger, backed by three fighter planes, six armed drones, and up to six helicopters as its role changes to supporting rather than replacing local forces.
Bazoum said Niamey was still in talks with partners about the French redeployment.
The two presidents said they had signed a security agreement on Wednesday but gave no further details.
They also made no mention of how their own army deployments would be adjusted to take into account France’s troop reductions.
The reduced French operation that takes over from Barkhane will for now remain based in N’Djamena.
Chad’s army is considered the most powerful in the region and as the mainstay in the fight against jihadists has regularly gone into neighboring states. https://www.thedefensepost.com/2022/07/14/chad-niger-anti-jihadist-force/
But Niger’s Mohamed Bazoum who held talks in N’Djamena with junta leader Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, skirted round a question on the redeployment of French troops.
After nine years battling jihadists in Mali, France is pulling its troops out and reducing its presence in the wider Sahel following a falling out with the Bamako junta.
“The decision to withdraw from Mali is an episode that will be behind us,” Bazoum told a press conference.
“Soon there will be a meeting” of the remaining four G5 allies — Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania, and Niger — “to make sure the G5 is viable,” he added.
Mali’s junta announced in May it was leaving the G5 alliance which was set up in 2014 and has worked alongside the French Barkhane force against multiple jihadist factions who are nonetheless advancing southwards.
More than 2,000 civilians have been killed in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso since the start of the year.
“We don’t consider that it’s over for the G5 Sahel, we are going to fight,” Bazoum insisted.
General Deby, who took power when his father died more than a year ago on the frontlines after ruling for three decades, said he “regretted” Mali’s departure from the G5.
“Let’s stay optimistic and hope it comes back on the decision,” he said.
France announced the Barkhane withdrawal in February after deploying as many as 5,000 troops in Mali. Only 2,500 French soldiers will remain in the Sahel.
Paris is set to maintain more than 1,000 troops in Niger, backed by three fighter planes, six armed drones, and up to six helicopters as its role changes to supporting rather than replacing local forces.
Bazoum said Niamey was still in talks with partners about the French redeployment.
The two presidents said they had signed a security agreement on Wednesday but gave no further details.
They also made no mention of how their own army deployments would be adjusted to take into account France’s troop reductions.
The reduced French operation that takes over from Barkhane will for now remain based in N’Djamena.
Chad’s army is considered the most powerful in the region and as the mainstay in the fight against jihadists has regularly gone into neighboring states. https://www.thedefensepost.com/2022/07/14/chad-niger-anti-jihadist-force/
The Defense Post
Chad and Niger Vow to Revive West Africa's Anti-Jihadist Force
The presidents of Chad and Niger pledged to revive the G5 Sahel military grouping to boost the fight against jihadist insurgents.
Suspected rebels have killed at least nine people in twin attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of #Congo, officials said Wednesday, in the latest violence to hit the turbulent region.
Fighters from the feared Armed Democratic Forces (ADF) group killed six civilians in an attack on the town of Beni in North Kivu province on Tuesday night, according to local civil-society leader Pepin Paluku Kavota.
He told reporters on Wednesday the militants targeted a district just a kilometer from army headquarters in the city of 400,000.
The dead included a 15-year-old boy and a 90-year-old woman, said Kavota, who urged security forces “to redouble their efforts.”
The same night, militants also killed at least three people in an attack on a village in neighboring Ituri province.
“This is a provisional number,” local civil-society figure Gaston Kandole told AFP.
The village also lies near a Congolese military base.
The ADF — which the Islamic State group claims as its Central African offshoot — is active in both North Kivu and Ituri.
The group is among the most violent of the more than 120 militias that roam eastern Congo, and has been accused of massacring Congolese civilians and carrying out terrorist attacks in neighboring Uganda. https://www.thedefensepost.com/2022/07/14/rebels-kill-dr-congo/
Fighters from the feared Armed Democratic Forces (ADF) group killed six civilians in an attack on the town of Beni in North Kivu province on Tuesday night, according to local civil-society leader Pepin Paluku Kavota.
He told reporters on Wednesday the militants targeted a district just a kilometer from army headquarters in the city of 400,000.
The dead included a 15-year-old boy and a 90-year-old woman, said Kavota, who urged security forces “to redouble their efforts.”
The same night, militants also killed at least three people in an attack on a village in neighboring Ituri province.
“This is a provisional number,” local civil-society figure Gaston Kandole told AFP.
The village also lies near a Congolese military base.
The ADF — which the Islamic State group claims as its Central African offshoot — is active in both North Kivu and Ituri.
The group is among the most violent of the more than 120 militias that roam eastern Congo, and has been accused of massacring Congolese civilians and carrying out terrorist attacks in neighboring Uganda. https://www.thedefensepost.com/2022/07/14/rebels-kill-dr-congo/
The Defense Post
Rebels Kill Nine in Eastern DR Congo
Suspected rebels have killed at least nine people in twin attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said.
The 12th Brigade of Al-Hashd al-Shaabi, consisting of fighters of the Nujaba Resistance Movement, in the framework of the security plans created to prevent the infiltration of ISIS elements into the northern areas of Baghdad, deployed its forces in the "Tarmiyeh" area in cooperation with the Iraqi army.
The purpose of this operation is to increase the concentration of forces in areas far from cities and villages to prevent the infiltration of ISIS terrorist elements into safe areas and areas north of Baghdad.
The purpose of this operation is to increase the concentration of forces in areas far from cities and villages to prevent the infiltration of ISIS terrorist elements into safe areas and areas north of Baghdad.
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The Turkish Gendarmerie received another two combat helicopters T129 ATAK J-1231 Ertuğrul and J-1538 Barbaros. In total, the gendarmerie received 13 such #helicopters #Turkey
⚡️#Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine 07/14/2022
▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine. The enemy suffers significant losses.
💥High-precision strikes near Bereznegovatoye, Nikolaev Region, Konstantinovka and Kramatorsk, Donetsk People's Republic, hit temporary deployment points of units of 35th Marine Brigade, 54th Mechanized Brigade, 81st Airmobile Brigade and 109th Territorial Defence Brigade. As a result of strikes, the total losses of these formations amounted up to 1,000 personnel and more than 100 pieces of military equipment.
💥High-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit temporary deployment point of 14th Mechanized Brigade battalion manned by nationalists and foreign mercenaries near Chasov Yar, Donetsk People's Republic. The attacks have resulted in the destruction of 43 militants and about 170 injured.
🚁💥Russian army aviation hit temporary deployment point of 97th Battalion of 60th Mechanized Brigade of AFU near Malaya Tokmachka, Zaporozhye Region, with high-precision missiles. The attacks have resulted in the destruction of 30 militants and about 37 injured.
▫️Conflicts and clashes with the use of weapons have increased among nationalist fighters. On July 13, more than 200 fighters of the 226th Kraken nationalist formation refused to follow the command's order to move to the Kramatorsk area and claimed a "transfer" to the Kharkov city' territorial defence. During the ensuing fight with the commanders and the ensuing gunfight, 6 militants were killed.
▫️Russian Armed Forces continue strikes against military facilities in Ukraine.
💥High-precision sea-based Kalibr missiles destroyed multiple rocket launcher vehicles of 45th Artillery Brigade of AFU hidden in hangars at the high voltage equipment plant in Zaporozhye city.
💥In addition, high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed 4 command posts, including those of 61st Infantry Jaeger Brigade of AFU near Bereznegovatoye in Nikolaev Region and 80th Airborne Assault Brigade near Kramatorsk, 3 ammunition depots near Soledar, Tat'yanovka in Donetsk People's Republic and Nikolaev, 1 fuel storage facility for military equipment near Kharkov, and 21 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration.
💥As part of the counter-battery fighting, 1 battery of multiple rocket launchers near Slavyansk, 1 platoon of MLRS near Nikolaevka in Donetsk People's Republic, and 1 artillery platoon of US-made M-777 howitzers at firing positions in Pervomaiskyi in Kharkov Region were destroyed.
💥Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery hit 19 command posts, 78 areas of artillery units in firing positions and 232 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration.
✈️💥Russian Aerospace Forces fighters have shot down 2 aircraft of Ukrainian air force in the air: 1 Su-24 near Slavyansk and 1 MiG-29 near Troitskoye, Donetsk People's Republic.
💥Russian air defence means destroyed 12 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Balakleya, Izyum, Lozovaya, Shchurovka in Kharkov Region, Snegirevka, Novaya Kakhovka in Kherson Region, Belogorovka, Karmazinovka, Slavyanoserbsk, Mikhailovka in Lugansk People's Republic and Derilovo in Donetsk People's Republic.
💥In addition, 2 Tochka-U ballistic missiles and 6 rockets of Uragan multiple-launch rocket system were intercepted near Novaya Kakhovka in Nikolaev Region.
📊In total, 249 Ukrainian airplanes and 137 helicopters, 1,534 unmanned aerial vehicles, 354 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,050 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 744 multiple launch rocket systems, 3,145 field artillery and mortars, as well as 4,292 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation.
#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #report
▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine. The enemy suffers significant losses.
💥High-precision strikes near Bereznegovatoye, Nikolaev Region, Konstantinovka and Kramatorsk, Donetsk People's Republic, hit temporary deployment points of units of 35th Marine Brigade, 54th Mechanized Brigade, 81st Airmobile Brigade and 109th Territorial Defence Brigade. As a result of strikes, the total losses of these formations amounted up to 1,000 personnel and more than 100 pieces of military equipment.
💥High-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit temporary deployment point of 14th Mechanized Brigade battalion manned by nationalists and foreign mercenaries near Chasov Yar, Donetsk People's Republic. The attacks have resulted in the destruction of 43 militants and about 170 injured.
🚁💥Russian army aviation hit temporary deployment point of 97th Battalion of 60th Mechanized Brigade of AFU near Malaya Tokmachka, Zaporozhye Region, with high-precision missiles. The attacks have resulted in the destruction of 30 militants and about 37 injured.
▫️Conflicts and clashes with the use of weapons have increased among nationalist fighters. On July 13, more than 200 fighters of the 226th Kraken nationalist formation refused to follow the command's order to move to the Kramatorsk area and claimed a "transfer" to the Kharkov city' territorial defence. During the ensuing fight with the commanders and the ensuing gunfight, 6 militants were killed.
▫️Russian Armed Forces continue strikes against military facilities in Ukraine.
💥High-precision sea-based Kalibr missiles destroyed multiple rocket launcher vehicles of 45th Artillery Brigade of AFU hidden in hangars at the high voltage equipment plant in Zaporozhye city.
💥In addition, high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed 4 command posts, including those of 61st Infantry Jaeger Brigade of AFU near Bereznegovatoye in Nikolaev Region and 80th Airborne Assault Brigade near Kramatorsk, 3 ammunition depots near Soledar, Tat'yanovka in Donetsk People's Republic and Nikolaev, 1 fuel storage facility for military equipment near Kharkov, and 21 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration.
💥As part of the counter-battery fighting, 1 battery of multiple rocket launchers near Slavyansk, 1 platoon of MLRS near Nikolaevka in Donetsk People's Republic, and 1 artillery platoon of US-made M-777 howitzers at firing positions in Pervomaiskyi in Kharkov Region were destroyed.
💥Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery hit 19 command posts, 78 areas of artillery units in firing positions and 232 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration.
✈️💥Russian Aerospace Forces fighters have shot down 2 aircraft of Ukrainian air force in the air: 1 Su-24 near Slavyansk and 1 MiG-29 near Troitskoye, Donetsk People's Republic.
💥Russian air defence means destroyed 12 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Balakleya, Izyum, Lozovaya, Shchurovka in Kharkov Region, Snegirevka, Novaya Kakhovka in Kherson Region, Belogorovka, Karmazinovka, Slavyanoserbsk, Mikhailovka in Lugansk People's Republic and Derilovo in Donetsk People's Republic.
💥In addition, 2 Tochka-U ballistic missiles and 6 rockets of Uragan multiple-launch rocket system were intercepted near Novaya Kakhovka in Nikolaev Region.
📊In total, 249 Ukrainian airplanes and 137 helicopters, 1,534 unmanned aerial vehicles, 354 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,050 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 744 multiple launch rocket systems, 3,145 field artillery and mortars, as well as 4,292 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation.
#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #report
#Israel is one of the world’s worst violators of children’s rights, according to António Guterres.
But the UN secretary-general has once again left Israel off an annual list naming the world’s worst abusers. By doing so he’s sending a clear message to Tel Aviv that it can continue killing Palestinian children with impunity.
This isn’t the first time the UN chief has singled Israel out for special treatment. But it once again highlights the complicity of international bodies in crimes that they are supposed to work to prevent.
Guterres “reported that Israeli security forces killed 78 Palestinian children and injured 982 in 2021, more casualties [than] caused by any other armed force or group in the 21 conflict countries covered in his review,” Human Rights Watch observed Tuesday.
“Despite this, Guterres failed to include Israeli forces in his annual ‘list of shame’ for violations against children in armed conflict,” the group added.
“For years, Guterres has employed a double standard by listing some parties on his ‘list of shame’ while omitting others that have often committed far more violations,” Human Rights Watch said.
“Israel has never appeared on the list, even though the UN has found its forces responsible for killing or injuring more than 7,000 Palestinian children since 2015.”
In his 2022 report to the Security Council on children and armed conflict, Guterres states that “the highest numbers of grave violations were verified in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, Somalia, the Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen.”
State and non-state actors in each and every one of those countries, along with many others, are on Guterres’ list, but none from Israel.
The 15 countries from which state and non-state actors are named in the “list of shame” are all in the global south, eight of them in Africa.
In Yemen, Guterres lists only the Houthi rebel movement, once again omitting Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and their American and European allies, whose devastating seven-year war on that country has caused the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with particularly severe harm to children.
Similarly, in Afghanistan, the UN omits mention of US and allied forces, whose invasion and 20-year occupation of the country cost the lives of tens of thousands of children.
Even as American occupation forces withdrew chaotically from Afghanistan last summer, leaving behind a devastated country on the brink of famine, the US carried out a drone strike that killed seven children. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/un-chief-greenlights-israels-killing-palestinian-kids
But the UN secretary-general has once again left Israel off an annual list naming the world’s worst abusers. By doing so he’s sending a clear message to Tel Aviv that it can continue killing Palestinian children with impunity.
This isn’t the first time the UN chief has singled Israel out for special treatment. But it once again highlights the complicity of international bodies in crimes that they are supposed to work to prevent.
Guterres “reported that Israeli security forces killed 78 Palestinian children and injured 982 in 2021, more casualties [than] caused by any other armed force or group in the 21 conflict countries covered in his review,” Human Rights Watch observed Tuesday.
“Despite this, Guterres failed to include Israeli forces in his annual ‘list of shame’ for violations against children in armed conflict,” the group added.
“For years, Guterres has employed a double standard by listing some parties on his ‘list of shame’ while omitting others that have often committed far more violations,” Human Rights Watch said.
“Israel has never appeared on the list, even though the UN has found its forces responsible for killing or injuring more than 7,000 Palestinian children since 2015.”
In his 2022 report to the Security Council on children and armed conflict, Guterres states that “the highest numbers of grave violations were verified in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, Somalia, the Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen.”
State and non-state actors in each and every one of those countries, along with many others, are on Guterres’ list, but none from Israel.
The 15 countries from which state and non-state actors are named in the “list of shame” are all in the global south, eight of them in Africa.
In Yemen, Guterres lists only the Houthi rebel movement, once again omitting Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and their American and European allies, whose devastating seven-year war on that country has caused the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with particularly severe harm to children.
Similarly, in Afghanistan, the UN omits mention of US and allied forces, whose invasion and 20-year occupation of the country cost the lives of tens of thousands of children.
Even as American occupation forces withdrew chaotically from Afghanistan last summer, leaving behind a devastated country on the brink of famine, the US carried out a drone strike that killed seven children. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/un-chief-greenlights-israels-killing-palestinian-kids
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UN chief greenlights Israel's killing of Palestinian kids
António Guterres again lets Israel off the hook for horrifying crimes.
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U.S. Army National Guard on African Lion 22 #Morocco
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#Donbass, armored vehicle in civil area, and its consequences (18+)
General Dynamics Land Systems Awarded up to $280,112,700 for Trophy Active Protection System Kits for Abrams #Tanks https://www.gd.com/Articles/2022/07/13/gdls-awarded-up-to-280-million-for-trophy-aps-kits
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General Dynamics Land Systems Awarded up to $280 Million for Trophy Active Protection System Kits for Abrams Tanks | General Dynamics
General Dynamics Land Systems was awarded a competitive award worth up to $280,112,700 to procure Trophy Ready Kits as an Active Protection System (APS) for Abrams main battle tanks.
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Footage of an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter falling into the water.
According to unconfirmed reports, the combat vehicle belonged to the Greek Air Force.
#Europe
According to unconfirmed reports, the combat vehicle belonged to the Greek Air Force.
#Europe
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