INTEL ARCHIVE

🕌 Middle East·X/@osint613·5 days ago

Iran FM: Strait of Hormuz closure conditional on US accepting Iran demands

Iran FM: The Strait of Hormuz will NOT be reopened until the United States accepts ALL of our conditions. (Good luck)

Taiwan plans to increase defence spending by 16% in 2027 to over $31 billion, exceeding 3% of GDP.

Taiwan plans to increase defence spending by 16% in 2027 to over $31 billion, exceeding 3% of GDP. The move comes as Taiwan strengthens its military amid growing pressure from China and calls from the U.S. to spend more on defence. Source: Reuters

CRITICALInsurgency

Security forces kill 15 terrorists in Balochistan IBOs: state media

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🕌 Middle East·X/@osint613·5 days ago

MEDIUMESCALATION

Iran FM: No direct US talks, only intermediaries. Demands compensation for MOU violations.

Iran’s Foreign Minister: There are no direct talks with the United States. The only communication is through intermediaries. Iran says negotiations cannot resume unless the U.S. stops violating the memorandum of understanding and compensates Tehran for those violations. https://t.co/Y331vjfffi

HIGHInsurgency

15 terrorists killed in IBOs across Balochistan: state media

Fifteen terrorists were killed in multiple intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in a number of areas of Balochistan, state media reported on Sunday. According to the state media sources, IBOs were carried out in Mastung, Bolan, Washuk, Awaran, Sibi, Khuzdar, Harnai, and Nushki. A large quantity of weapons and ammunition was also recovered, according to Pakistan TV. More to follow

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🇷🇺 Russia·Ukrainska Pravda·5 days ago

Number injured in Kharkiv strike rises to 23 as rescue workers search rubble for survivors

The number of people injured in a Russian strike on a high-rise building in Kharkiv's Saltivskyi district has risen to 23. Two men were killed.

CRITICALGeneral

25 years ago today, the Sbarro bombing opened a wound in Israel that still hasn’t healed

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🇮🇱 Israel·Times of Israel·5 days ago

CRITICALESCALATION

North Korea deploying 35K-50K troops to Russia for Ukraine war effort

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🌍 Global·X/@warmonitor3·5 days ago

Yemen’s Houthis say they targeted the Aramco refinery in Jizan, Saudi Arabia, with a drone.

Yemen’s Houthis say they targeted the Aramco refinery in Jizan, Saudi Arabia, with a drone. They said the attack came in response to Saudi drone incursions into the airspace of the Saada and Hajjah governorates.

🌍 GLOBAL·@OSINTdefender·5 days ago

CRITICALESCALATION

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🇾🇪 Yemen·Deutsche Welle·5 days ago

Iran war: Houthis claim attack on Saudi oil facility

The Iran-backed Yemeni rebels said their strike was in response to Saudi drones breaching Yemeni airspace. Follow DW for more.

🇷🇺 Russia·Ukrinform·5 days ago

In Odesa region, traffic to border crossing points with Moldova temporarily restricted due to Russian attack

As a result of Russian strikes, traffic has been restricted on a section of the Odesa–Reni highway, making it impossible to reach certain border crossings with Moldova and travel toward Odesa.

HIGHNuclear/Missile

Team Trump Pushes Defence Companies To Boost Weapons Production Amid Shortage

Fighting with Iran has used up more of the US military's already diminished stockpiles of advanced missile interceptors.

🇮🇷 Iran·NDTV World·5 days ago

🇮🇱 Israel·South China Morning Post·5 days ago

How Saudi Arabia-Turkey-Pakistan defence pact acts as ‘insurance’ over US disengagement

A defence pact among Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan appears to be aimed at deterring Iran and Israel from tearing up the Middle East with their conflict amid Washington’s inability to guarantee regional security, observers say. Under the terms of the deal signed on Friday in Mecca by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, an armed attack against any one of the three states “shall be regarded as an attack...

CRITICALNuclear/Missile

Nagasaki mayor says ‘humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist’

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🌍 Global·Al Jazeera·5 days ago

HIGHInsurgency

On-duty cop martyred, another injured in Lakki Marwat attack

LAKKI MARWAT: A constable was martyred and another sustained bullet wounds while on duty in an attack in the Saeedkhel area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat district on Sunday, police said. District police officer’s spokesperson Qudratullah Khan told Dawn that the cops were attacked near the Saeedkhel graveyard, in the limits of the City Police Station. “The terrorists opened fire on the rider squad personnel while they were patrolling the area,” he said, adding that Constable Sajidullah los

🇷🇺 Russia·TASS·5 days ago

Russian forces strike Ukrainian UAV command posts, brigade base in DPR, Kherson Region

Russian forces carried out airstrikes with FAB-3000 and FAB-500 bombs

🌍 Global·Jerusalem Post·5 days ago

Hezbollah launched a drone at IDF soldiers, the military chose not to tell the public - report

There were no casualties, and the drone caused no damage, according to media reports.

Türkiye Restricts Black Sea Shipping Following Surge in Vessel Attacks

Türkiye Restricts Black Sea Shipping Following Surge in Vessel Attacks Türkiye began restricting commercial vessels from transiting the Dardanelles Strait into the Black Sea, targeting ships bound for Russia and Ukraine amid a surge in drone attacks. READ MORE

🇷🇺 Russia·Ukrinform·5 days ago

HIGHGround

War update: 231 clashes between Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops reported on front lines

Over the past 24 hours, on August 8, 231 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were reported on the front lines.

🇺🇦 Ukraine·Guardian World·5 days ago

Russian family denied asylum in Finland fear reprisals for pro-Ukraine activism

Nikita and Olga Belov say they will be persecuted on return to Moscow but are yet to convince Finnish authorities A Russian family faces deportation from Finland after repeatedly being denied asylum – despite the threat of arrest, imprisonment and potential torture for their pro-Ukrainian activism. Nikita and Olga Belov fled their homeland in 2022 after attracting the attention of Russian authorities – including military summons, threatening messages and attempts to locate them – after expressin

🇮🇱 Israel·Guardian World·5 days ago

Costa Rican diplomat emerges as strong contender to be first female head of UN

Rebeca Grynspan seen as continuity candidate with tacit support from current secretary general, António Guterres A Costa Rican diplomat and former vice-president whose parents were refugees from the Holocaust has become the surprise frontrunner to lead the United Nations as its first female secretary general. Rebeca Grynspan, whose parents emigrated to Central America from Poland – and whose maternal grandparents were killed by the Nazis – is the current head of the UN conference on trade and de

🇮🇱 Israel·Al Jazeera·5 days ago

Israel announces tender for 627 settler units in occupied West Bank

New settlement tender in West Bank deepens Israeli efforts to sever Palestinian ties to Jerusalem, officials warn.

CRITICALMISSILE_ATTACK

Prolonged Iran War Weakens US Deterrence

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🇷🇺 Russia·TASS·5 days ago

Russian forces strike fuel, military equipment depots at Chernomorsk port

CRITICALAerial

Morning recap

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🇮🇱 Israel·Middle East Eye·5 days ago

HIGHGround

Russians kill three civilians and injure six others in Donetsk region

In the Donetsk region, Russian troops killed three residents of the region over the past day.

🇷🇺 Russia·Ukrinform·5 days ago

CRITICALGeneral

Egypt could join Pak-Saudi-Turkiye defence pact once technical issues resolved, says Turkish foreign minister

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🇮🇷 Iran·Dawn·5 days ago

🇮🇱 Israel·Times of Israel·5 days ago

Pentagon said to ask US arms firms to speed up output as Iran war exhausts supply

US Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg tells contractors 'years-long development cycles are not acceptable,' but funding to boost production currently stuck in Congress The post Pentagon said to ask US arms firms to speed up output as Iran war exhausts supply appeared first on The Times of Israel.

🇮🇱 Israel·Middle East Eye·5 days ago

Israeli media says Netanyahu okayed reconstruction in southern Gaza

Israeli media says Netanyahu okayed reconstruction in southern Gaza Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister Israel Katz quietly authorised rehabilitation work in southern Gaza two weeks ago, Israeli Army Radio has reported. Netanyahu’s green flag to the work, which involves laying infrastructure for future residential housing, comes despite his repeated vows that reconstruction would not begin until Hamas is disarmed. The report said the work is under way in eastern Rafah

HIGHGround

Russian troops strike Ukrainian UAV, radio-electronic equipment depots in Kharkov Region

Geran attack UAVs striking Ukrainian depots containing various types of unmanned aerial vehicles, their components and radio-electronic equipment

🇷🇺 Russia·TASS·5 days ago

SMOKERS’ CORNER: THE OUTRAGE MACHINE

A short video recently circulating on social media shows Adolf Hitler drinking from a can of Fanta while angrily proclaiming, “I hate juice.” Though millions mistook it for an authentic commercial, sparking fierce online debate, it is actually an AI-generated meme. Its artificial nature is fairly obvious, given that the colour, fonts and logo on the can look nothing like actual Fanta packaging. So why did so many people fall for it? The answer lies in our current media topography, where “shockve

🇺🇦 Ukraine·Ukrinform·5 days ago

Infantino denies allegations of affair, favouritism while at UEFA

PARIS: FIFA president Gianni Infantino, who has endured a week of scathing criticism revolving around the now shelved private investment plan, has been accused by a British newspaper of paying off an alleged lover while at UEFA. According to The Telegraph, the Italian-Swiss lawyer, who served as secretary general of European football’s governing body from 2009 to 2016, also previously used his influence to secure a promotion for the same UEFA employee with whom he was in an intimate relationship

🌍 Global·Dawn·5 days ago

CRITICALGround

Russian army loses 1,130 troops in war against Ukraine over past day

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🌍 Global·France 24·5 days ago

China cancels flights, issues evacuation orders as Typhoon Dolphin looms

China's National Meteorological Centre on Sunday issued a red typhoon alert, its most severe warning, as Typhoon Dolphin barrelled towards the country's densely populated eastern coast. Flights in and out of the region were cancelled and nearly 100,000 people were relocated to less risky areas, according to authorities. Typhoon Dolphin is expected to make landfall late Sunday or early Monday.

🇸🇾 Syria·Middle East Eye·5 days ago

Former Syrian army general arrested in Lebanon

Former Syrian army general arrested in Lebanon Lebanon’s Central Criminal Investigations Bureau has arrested former Syrian army officer Major General Adel Issa, who is wanted by Syria for “crimes against humanity”. An arrest warrant in absentia had been issued by the Syrian judiciary against Issa, who served as commander of the 17th Division of the Syrian Army during Bashar Al-Assad’s rule, Lebanon’s National News Agency said. Lebanese judge Ahmad Rami Al-Hajj has notified the Syrian Public Pro

🇮🇱 Israel·NDTV World·5 days ago

Iran Releases Undated Video Of Mojtaba Khamenei Amid Health Rumours

Mojtaba Khamenei reportedly suffered severe facial and leg injuries in the February 28 US-Israeli attack that killed his father, Ali Khamenei.

🇮🇱 Israel·Times of Israel·5 days ago

Canada wildfires force 20,000 to flee as British Columbia declares state of emergency

Aircraft rescue more 50 people as more than 100 fires burn, half not under control; homes destroyed as officials warn 'explosive' conditions could threaten more communities The post Canada wildfires force 20,000 to flee as British Columbia declares state of emergency appeared first on The Times of Israel.