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Malaysia denounces Israel's E1 settlement expansion in occupied West Bank

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🇮🇷 Iran·Jerusalem Post·3 months ago

Pentagon spokesperson says claims of US munitions shortage amid Iran war 'false' - report

"The US has massive amounts of 'munitions'" Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on August 6, adding that claims of any munitions shortage were fabricated.

🇷🇺 Russia·Ukrainska Pravda·3 months ago

Liev Schreiber visits site of Russian attack in Kyiv where residential building was hit

American actor and screenwriter Liev Schreiber, a UNITED24 ambassador who was in Kyiv during another large-scale Russian attack on the night of 19-20 August, visited the Solomianskyi district, where people were killed after a nine-storey residential building was hit.

🇷🇺 Russia·Ukrinform·3 months ago

Russian attacks on Kyiv on Aug 20 kill 16, injure 42

Sixteen people were killed and 42 others injured in Russian attacks on Kyiv on August 20.

HighBOMBARDMENT

Palestinian killed in knife attack on soldiers during arrest raid in Jenin

The Palestinian killed overnight while attempting to stab soldiers in Jenin is Fathi Hazem, father of Ra'ad Hazem, the terrorist who murdered three Israelis in a 2022 Tel Aviv bar shooting. Paratroopers carrying out an arrest raid returned fire after he attacked them with a knife. No soldiers were hurt. Fathi had praised his son's attack at the time and refused Israeli summons for questioning. @manniefabian

🕌 Middle East·X/@osint613·3 months ago

HighPolitical

Ukraine imposes sanctions on 'Masha and the Bear' producer, former lawmaker Yuriy Ivaniushchenko

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has imposed sanctions on the producer of the cartoon "Masha and the Bear" and on Yuriy Ivaniushchenko, a former lawmaker from the Party of Regions.

🇺🇦 Ukraine·Interfax Ukraine·3 months ago

HighGround

Israel shelling in Syrian Golan Height's sparks fire

Israel shelling in Syrian Golan Height's sparks fire Israeli artillery shelling at an agricultural land south of the village of Jubata al-Khashab in Syria’s Golan Height sparked a fire, Alikhbaria TV reported. The broadcaster indicated that Israeli troops launched artillery shelling and illumination flares over the area, igniting fire in the farmland.

🇮🇷 Iran·Middle East Eye·3 months ago

JD Vance says US economic pressure 'most effective tool' against war on Iran

JD Vance says US economic pressure 'most effective tool' against war on Iran US Vice President JD Vance said that the country has entered a "new phase" in its war on Iran, leading with economic pressure as Washington's "most effective tool". "We're kind of now in a new phase where the most effective tool that we have is the economic pressure that we can apply to them," Vance said during an interview with The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show. “We're going to keep that going," he added. "If we can

🇮🇷 Iran·Jerusalem Post·3 months ago

ICE allegedly accelerated Iranian deportations during US-Iran war, NIAC claims

“These documents expose an operation that demands answers from the highest levels of government,” said NIAC Policy Director Ryan Costello.

HighESCALATION

2 people killed, 2 wounded as result of drones strikes in Lebyazhe of Kharkiv region

🇺🇦 Ukraine·LiveUAMap·3 months ago

🇷🇺 Russia·Ukrinform·3 months ago

Russian forces attack Lebiazhe in Kharkiv region with drones: Two killed, two injured

Russian forces attacked the village of Lebiazhe in the Kharkiv region with drones overnight, killing two people and injuring two others.

HighESCALATION

6 people wounded as result of Russian strike at the residential house in Sumy

🇺🇦 Ukraine·LiveUAMap·3 months ago

CriticalMISSILE_ATTACK

Night raids on Mansouri and bombings in Hadatha and Al-Tiri

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🇱🇧 Lebanon·LiveUAMap·3 months ago

🇮🇱 Israel·Guardian World·3 months ago

Israeli settler attacks shift to heart of territory earmarked for Palestinian state

Report says West Bank violence moving from Israeli-controlled areas to those under direct Palestinian rule Violent Israeli settler attacks in the two areas of the occupied West Bank under direct Palestinian rule have almost doubled since 2025, as settlers pursue a self-proclaimed “great settlement revolution” in the very heart of the territory earmarked for a Palestinian state. According to a report by the Israeli human rights organisation Yesh Din, shared with the Guardian, data shows that almo

🇮🇱 Israel·Jerusalem Post·3 months ago

Diplomacy becomes essential national security tool to combat Turkey's growing strength- editorial

Recent strikes raise an uncomfortable question about the US-supervised “joint fusion mechanism” that Israel, Syria, and the United States agreed on and what it accomplished.

🇸🇾 Syria·Dawn·3 months ago

CDF Munir, Syrian foreign minister discuss defence, security cooperation

Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir met Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan Al-Shaibani, with security and defence cooperation coming under discussion, the military’s media wing said on Friday. In a statement, Inter-Services Public Relations said the meeting took place at the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi. It said that “matters of mutual interest, regional security environment and avenues for enhanced bilateral defence and security cooperati

🇺🇦 Ukraine·Ukrainska Pravda·3 months ago

Battlefield sees almost 240 clashes: Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka fronts remain hottest areas – Ukraine’s General Staff

A total of 238 combat clashes occurred on the battlefield over the past day, most of them on the Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka fronts, where Ukraine's defence forces repelled almost 60 Russian assaults in total.

CriticalInsurgency

Minister says Imran taken back to Adiala jail after visit to Pims, declared 'medically fit' by doctors

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🇺🇦 Ukraine·LiveUAMap·3 months ago

HighESCALATION

Russian attack damages checkpoint on Moldovan border

🌍 Global·Nikkei Asia·3 months ago

Indonesia seeks expanded joint military exercises with China

CriticalGround

Russia’s war casualty toll in Ukraine up by 1,390 over past day

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🇺🇦 Ukraine·Ukrinform·3 months ago

Ongoing Israeli air strikes, massive blasts reported in south Lebanon

Ongoing Israeli air strikes, massive blasts reported in south Lebanon Israeli attacks targeted a number of areas across southern Lebanon, according to state media. Israeli air strikes and massive explosions were reported in overnight and in the early hours of Friday in the town of Mansouri, with sounds of the blasts reverberating throughout southern Lebanon. Elsewhere, the army launched a series of strikes and artillery shelling on the Ali al-Taher Hill. Israeli forces also carried out bombings

🇮🇷 Iran·NDTV World·3 months ago

Trump Warns Iran Of 'Economic D-Day', But Will It Affect Tehran?

President Donald Trump announced this week that the US would be imposing an "unprecedented" level of economic warfare and isolation on Iran

CriticalESCALATION

#Gaza

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🌍 GLOBAL·@OSINTdefender·3 months ago

HighNuclear/Missile

Russia’s simulated enemy attack around disputed islands angers Japan

Russian fleet launched missile drill near what Moscow calls the Kuril Islands but Japan regards as its Northern Territories Japan has criticised missile tests carried out by Russia’s navy around the disputed islands visited by Vladimir Putin last week amid continuing tensions between the two countries. Russia’s Pacific fleet said on Thursday that it had fired Bastion surface-to-ship missiles from Etorofu, the largest island in the disputed archipelago, simulating an attack on enemy vessels, hitt

🇷🇺 Russia·Guardian World·3 months ago

🇸🇩 Sudan·AllAfrica·3 months ago

South Sudan: As Elections Near, South Sudan Risks New Atrocity Crimes, Warns Rights Probe

[UN News] The under-reported humanitarian crisis in South Sudan risks deepening with the real possibility of further atrocity crimes unless renewed fighting stops, a UN-backed probe said on Thursday.

CriticalGround

Israeli forces kill Palestinian man during raid in Jenin

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CriticalAerial

CDF Munir says foreign-sponsored proxies being used by hostile elements to destabilise Balochistan

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🌍 GLOBAL·@OSINTdefender·3 months ago

CriticalESCALATION

#USA #Iran

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CriticalInsurgency

Minister says Imran taken back to Adiala jail after hospital visit, declared 'medically fit' by doctors

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🇷🇺 Russia·Ukrainska Pravda·3 months ago

Russian drones attack Lebiazhe in Kharkiv Oblast overnight: four killed, houses destroyed – photos

Four people have been killed and others injured after six Russian drones struck Lebiazhe in the Chuhuiv district, sparking fires and damaging dozens of houses.

HighCyber

Anxiety over war, wildfires and cyber-attacks leads to growth in cash stocks in EU

Value of banknotes in circulation rises from €1bn in 2016 to €1.6bn in 2026 as people advised to keep stash of cash The number of banknotes in circulation in the EU is increasing despite widespread smartphone payments, new data shows, with wildfires ripping through parts of Europe fuelling demand for an emergency stash of cash. While cash plays second fiddle to contactless payments in many cities across Europe, the amount in circulation is actually going up, Philip Lane, the chief economist of t

🌍 Global·Guardian World·3 months ago

🌍 Global·France 24·3 months ago

Hong Kong convicts two Tiananmen vigil activists of inciting subversion

Two pro-democracy activists who organised annual vigils to mark Beijing's 1989 deadly Tiananmen crackdown were on Friday convicted of inciting subversion by a Hong Kong court. Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung were leaders of the now-defunct Hong Kong Alliance and their case was viewed as a bellwether for freedom of expression in the Chinese city.

HighGround

Hamas told to be 'sensitive' to Netanyahu ahead of Israeli elections amid ongoing Israeli attacks

Hamas told to be 'sensitive' to Netanyahu ahead of Israeli elections amid ongoing Israeli attacks Senior Hamas official Bassem Naim told CNN that the movement remains committed to a peace roadmap for Gaza. "We are still ready to continue this way to give our people on the ground the chance to revive their life, and to reach the minimum of calm, stability and peace," he said during his interview. The Hamas official indicated that Board of Peace mediators and US adviser Jared Kushner had asked t

🇺🇦 Ukraine·Ukrainska Pravda·3 months ago

Russia loses 1,390 soldiers over past day

Ukraine's General Staff has updated data on Russian losses: Russia lost 1,390 soldiers killed and wounded over the past day.

CriticalNaval

Curing the cause

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🇮🇷 Iran·TASS·3 months ago

Some US allies in Mideast took ‘semi-neutral’ stance on Iran

The Iranian authorities said on many occasions that Tehran had not attacked any country in the region, targeting only US military bases

Escaping the past

PAKISTAN’S history is not without genuine ‘structural reforms’. But the term has become a cliché; it earns its meaning against one parameter — ‘productivity’. At different moments, under governments of every complexion, the state has built its productive capacity, given itself a constitutional architecture that endures, and rebuilt entire sectors to a standard the region envies. The achievements have been real; but almost none proved permanent. The useful question is not who reformed but why ref