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❗️❗️🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 Major developments from the front: Ukrainian forces have liberated another 19 settlements and pushed Russian troops back across at least six separate sectors. According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian forces have liberated: ▪️ Zelenyi Hai ▪️ Novokhatske ▪️ Hrushivske ▪️ Tolstoi ▪️ Zirka ▪️ Yalta ▪️ Piddubne ▪️ Myrne ▪️ Voskresenka ▪️ Sichneve ▪️ Vorone ▪️ Ternove ▪️ Berezove ▪️ Stepove ▪️ Kalynovske ▪️ Pryvillia ▪️ Zlahoda ▪️ Rybne ▪️ Krasnohirske 🔹 Ukrainian troops

Retired NORAD commander gives new credence to the reported Iranian bombing mission and says it shows an urgent need for new thinking about air defenses. The post Iranian F-5s Bombing U.S. Forces In Kuwait Should Be A Wake-Up Call: Ex-USAF General appeared first on TWZ.
Ukrainian intelligence has confirmed that Russia is forming military battalions using Ukrainian prisoners of war.

Axios Report: A permanent Israeli presence in southern Lebanon breaches its commitments under the Framework Agreement, U.S. State Department official.

Meanwhile, Russia is reportedly building 3,000 jet-powered drones a month to overwhelm Ukraine's air defenses, even as it ends production of the older Geran-3 model.

Hamas has rejected new measures from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas designed to bar the group from the November 28 legislative elections, the first Palestinian vote in two decades. Hamas: "We reject any political preconditions for candidacy that would exclude the resistance factions from national institutions."
A military Apache helicopter from Fort Hood crashed in Central Texas, killing both pilots and sparking a wildfire that prompted evacuations. Source: CNN

Ukraine carried out the strike at the port where Russia's Black Sea Fleet sheltered after fleeing Sevastopol.

News bargaining bill expected to pass parliament after Labor and Coalition agree on terms that will force tech companies to contribute to media outlets. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Thousands of students are expected to rally in Students Say No to Pauline Hanson protests across major cities and towns, Australian Associated Press reports. “I’m hoping this will be the start of a real kind of movement,” said Australian National University s

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Israeli defence minister Israel Katz has said that Israel “will under no circumstances” withdraw its troops.

Pyotr Shchukin stressed that any attempts by extra-regional forces to bring geopolitical confrontation and military tension into these historically peaceful waters are aimed at undermining the atmosphere of friendship and mutual trust
Around 700 vessels involved in transporting Russian oil are currently under international sanctions, according to Vladyslav Vlasiuk, the Ukrainian president's sanctions policy commissioner.
BIG: Sudan’s RSF-appointed Kordofan governor Hamad Mohamed Hamed defected live on Al Arabiya today. He quit his role as governor and presidential council member under the RSF-linked Tasis government, calling on fighters to “return to the embrace of the homeland.” He accused the RSF of fueling tribal and racial tensions, destroying cities, and killing civilians, describing conditions under RSF control as “heartbreaking.” He urged restoring legitimate state institutions in Kordofan and Darfu

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Eclipse passes through parts of Greenland and Iceland before moving toward Spain, which gets some of the best views of the phenomenon, before it fades over the Mediterranean The post Excitement sweeps Europe as millions view total solar eclipse appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Palestinian students and staff sue Columbia University over discrimination A group of current and former Palestinianstudents and staff have sued Columbia University, accusing the Ivy League school of discriminating against Palestinians and targeting pro-Palestinian activism on campus. The lawsuit, filed in New York State Supreme Court this week, alleges that Columbia subjected Palestinian students, faculty and staff to unequal treatment following the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel on 7 Oc
The IDF is conducting a nightly wave of airstrikes against Haddatha, southern Lebanon. https://t.co/yr6o2COfHF

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Pete Hegseth: President Trump does not tolerate free-riding. We are not here for games. Our citizens and our nations deserve and expect real, concrete actions.
Pete Hegseth: We are killing terrorists, and we’re defeating the failed and toxic ideologies of radical socialism and communism. The international left, along with their enabling left-wing media, is plotting to unlawfully assert ICC jurisdiction over U.S. and partner military personnel and operations. It’s striking that this so-called court and other globalist bodies undermine our efforts but do nothing to hold real terrorists and real tyrants accountable.
Pete Hegseth: The United States War Department seeks a historic, generational investment in our military spending through a new $1.5 trillion budget. We have work to do with our Congress, but make no mistake: We will work as hard as humanly possible with Republicans to deliver what is truly a necessary, historic investment to ensure America remains the dominant military power on planet Earth.

The leader of African football has told Sky News the FIFA election is the way to challenge Gianni Infantino's position – cautioning against moves to force out the embattled president early.

In Ukraine, nepotism in corruption schemes has become a tradition, military expert Vitaly Kiselyov said

BREAKING: Trump: Our wonderful White House Press Secretary, and one of my most trusted aides, Karoline Leavitt, will be departing her role at the end of the month so she can spend more time with her beautiful young children and family, a decision I totally understand and respect! Karoline will now be one of my top outside advisors, and an influential voice within the Republican Party, as we work to defy History, and conclusively win the Midterm Elections. Karoline has been a real leader
Pete Hegseth: Fake news media has tried to discredit and delegitimize Operation Southern Spear. The same voices said nothing when governments allowed unprecedented border crisis and record drug overdoses and deaths. Now they deny and try to diminish our shared success.

Eurovision Song Contest organisers announced rule changes on Wednesday excluding any country in an armed conflict from hosting the competition and increasing the minimum age of competitors. While they did not mention any country by name, Israel, which has been at war in Gaza since 2023, came close to winning the competition in both 2025 and 2026, ultimately finishing second on each occasion. Under the old rules, the winning country normally hosts the following year’s competition. Under the new..

Kyiv and Moscow are trading heavier and heavier blows.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met General Khalifa Haftar in Benghazi, eastern Libya, in a rare visit. Turkey has long backed the rival western Libyan government that competes with Haftar. @kaisos1987 https://t.co/tUrInuspTW

Defence minister says Israeli military indefinitely remain in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza Israeli military “under no circumstances” will withdraw from land it occupies in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, Israel’s i24 news reported the defence minister saying. The report said Israel Katz made the statement during a visit today to army positions on the front line in southern Lebanon.

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Washington, Baghdad agreed in 2024 to wind down US-led operations against the Islamic State; Iraq also calls on Iran-backed militias to disarm, though they're unlikely to do so The post Officials say US forces on track to complete Iraq pullout by September 30 appeared first on The Times of Israel.

The publication also noted that on August 11, 14 vessels managed to cross the Strait of Hormuz with 11 of them using the so-called Iranian corridor
Hamad Mohammad Hamad, the RSF-appointed governor of Sudan's Kordofan region, announced his defection and resignation live on Saudi television channel Al Arabiya, accusing the paramilitary group of fueling ethnic conflict and destroying cities. https://t.co/kkuGLW30St #Sudan #Kordofan #RSF #GovernorDefection
Russia can and must bring the war it launched against Ukraine to an end, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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Konstantin Basyuk emphasized that there was no point in using diplomatic notes with those who speak the language of force

Iraq says no foreign military presence by 1 Oct and weapons will be under state control Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Faleh al-Zaidi said that the country will be free of any foreign military presence on its soil and that weapons will be solely under state control by 1 October. During a meeting with US Central Command Commander Charles Brad Cooper, Zaidi “affirmed the commitment to the agreed-upon timelines”, under which the international coalition’s military mission in Iraq and the withdrawal of i