🇹🇷 — Turkey defence and security budget surges to record $47bn

🔸 Ankara plans to increase total spending in 2025 by 17.5 percent amid regional escalation in the Middle East

🔸 Turkish Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek earlier this week said the government had ordered the defence industry to focus on building a “Steel Dome” to protect the country against possible aerial threats, including missiles and drones.

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⚡️🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 - IDF Air-Strikes on "Dahiye", Beirut.

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 - Zelensky wears shirt with a picture of the Grand Duchy of Muscovy captioned "Make Russia Small Again."

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— 🇱🇧/🇮🇱 NEW: In its most recent war crime, the Israeli military has blown up another mosque in Southern Lebanon.

According to several estimates, since October 7th, Israel has destroyed more than 600 mosques, eight cemeteries, and three churches, most of which were in Gaza.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- The United States will deploy a second anti-ballistic missile THAAD system to Israel on Sunday.

⚡️🇱🇧❌🇮🇱 - Hezbollah has published scenes of an operation targeting a "Merkava IV(B)" Tank in the "Zarit" settlement, near the Lebanese Border.

The tank was targeted with an "ALMAS" ATGM, the projectile was aimed towards the upper-layer of the rear-hull, targeting the tank's Ammo Depot.

The attack took place on 19th of October, 6 days ago today. The Trophy APS failed to detect and intercept the projectile.

⚡️🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 - The Saraya AlQuds Brigades (PIJ) announce sniping an IDF Infantry soldier in the vicinity of the "Civil Administration", Eastern Jabalia, Northern Gaza.