🇦🇷🇨🇴 - Communists rioted yesterday in Argentina following the death of a member of FARC (a Colombian Marxist organization) at a protest.

Trump just flew his plane over a pitiful DeSantis rally 😅

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Ukrainian forces claim that Urozhaine, Donetsk Oblast has been captured by the AFU.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡️- Conico oil field in Deir-ez-Zor, held by the United States, has been struck by rockets.

🇵🇱🇷🇺⚡️- Polish police have launched an investigation into the placement of PMC Wagner recruitment advertisements across Poland, specifically in Warsaw and Krakow.

🇮🇱🇸🇾⚡️- Israeli airstrikes against Damascus.

🇨🇳🇵🇰⚡️- A large group of Chinese civil engineers were attacked in Gwadar, Pakistan by a militant group, which has as of yet not been identified.

🇨🇳🇵🇰 - Balochistani separatists claimed the attack. Meanwhile, Chinese diplomats in Pakistan "demand" that Islamabad "severely punish the culprits".

🇮🇷⚡️- The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for multiple attacks in Iran, targeting specifically the Shahcheragh shrine in Shiraz. ISIS Khorasan Province members are currently in custody.

🇳🇪⚡️- Al Arabiya reports that ISIS militants attacked Nigerien barracks outside Niamey.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The United States, along with multiple other Western nations, have warned against all maritime travel near Iranian waters

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- The recent strikes against the Conico field in Syria, currently occupied by US Forces, was orchestrated by Russian sea-based missile launches

- 🇮🇷🏴 JUST IN: Video footage of the the terrorist entering Shahcheragh shrine

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇩🇪 Germany is debating whether to ban the far-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as the party surges to 21 per cent in the polls, amid warnings from intelligence officials that its members are becoming increasingly extreme

In a rare move, the respected Der Spiegel news magazine weighed into the debate with a leader titled: “Ban the enemies of the constitution!” 
It warned that “the AfD has become more and more radicalised. It’s time to defend democracy with better weapons”.

The co-leader of Olaf Scholz’s ruling Social Democrats also said a ban should be considered if the AfD is categorised as a group of “proven Right-wing extremists” by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/13/afd-party-ban-germany-far-right-extremists

🇨🇻🇳🇪⚡️ - Cape Verde speaks out against ECOWAS intervention in Niger.

🇲🇱 - Clashes in Northern Mali between Azawad separatists and the Malian government.

🏳️‍🌈 - A recent study found that puberty blockers lowered the IQ of a boy dosed with them by nine points.

🇦🇷 - In yesterday's Argentinian elections, the right-wing Freedom Advances party secured 31.5% of all votes, topping the polls.
The party, led by Javier Milei, is officially a libertarian movement. Nonetheless, Milei has been described as a paleolibertarian and his party's vice-presidential candidate is the daughter of a carapintada (member of a Catholic nationalist group in Argentina's military which attempted to stage several coups in the late 1980s).

🇦🇷 - The center-right Together for Change obtained 29.7% of the vote, while Union for the Fatherland, a center-left group claiming the legacy of former President Juan Perón, secured 28.7%.

These elections do not decide who will be in the Casa Rosada in November - they are a form of open primary, similar to the "jungle primary" in Louisiana.

🇬🇧 - Are the Brits okay?

🇪🇬🇯🇴🇵🇸 - The leaders of Egypt, Jordan and Palestine held a summit, calling for the "end of Israeli occupation and settler terrorism".