The trilateral ties among Japan, the Republic of Korea and the United States will make the world safer and the three countries stronger, President Biden said at the conclusion of talks at Camp David, Maryland.

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Watch Adm. Daryl Caudle, commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, give a quick update on the importance of training and the recently completed Large Scale Exercise 2023, which reinforced a culture of learning and increased our warfighting readiness.

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NEW – Taiwan is set to receive the first batch of M1A2T Abrams next year, President Tsai Ing-wen announced during a government budget briefing on Monday (Aug. 21).

Thirty-eight tanks will arrive in 2024, 42 tanks in 2025, and 28 tanks in 2026, according to the Ministry of National Defense. The U.S. approved the sale of 108 Abrams in 2019 for US$ 2.2 billion (NT$70.3 billion).

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NEW – USAF Boeing KC-135T Stratotanker airborne on a mission in Lithuania.

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Australia will buy more than 200 Tomahawk cruise missiles from the U.S. for a total amount of $830 million.

This move aims to address China's growing military power in the region.

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BREAKING – Iran: The IRGC/GF began with the mass production of the "Khorramshahr" medium-range ballistic missile, and the "Haj Qasim" ballistic missile.

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TAIWAN – 15 Chinese PLA aircraft and 10 PLAN vessels around Taiwan were detected by 6 a.m.(UTC+8)

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Iran unveiled its latest drone update, the "Mohajer 10" claiming to have an operational range of 2,000 km. The text in Hebrew in the video reads: "Prepare your bunkers". The IRGC also began delivering the “Khorramshahr" & "Haj Qasim" missiles to its forces.

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USNS Howard O. Lorenzen (T-AGM-25) Missile Range Instrumentation Ship leaving Yokohama, Japan - August 22, 2023

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NATO – The Baltic airspace is now protected from Russian threat's by eight Eurofighter Typhoon fighters of the Spanish Air Force, located at the air base Ämari, Estonia, and four of the same aircraft, from the Italian Air Force, located at the air base Šiauliai, Lithuania.

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NEW – "Russian tactical nuclear weapons will be transferred to the territory of Belarus. Indeed, this process is underway, we see it," the President of Poland said.

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Ukraine released footage from the tests of its new unmanned underwater vehicle, called "Marichka" ("Марічка").

According to available information, this UUV has the range of over 1,000km. It can perform strike, transport or reconnaissance missions.

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TAIWAN – 6 Chinese PLA aircraft and 8 PLAN vessels around Taiwan were
detected by 6 a.m.(UTC+8)

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SYRIA – The head of the U.S. Army Central Command, General Eric Kurilla, visited the Al-Hul and Al-Roj camps, where thousands of women and children of IS fighters are being held in captivity due to security reasons.

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