🏳🇵🇰⚡- "The Kabul [Taliban] government is not innocent in this, I am being categorical. Through these people, we are being blackmailed by them," - Khawaja Asif, Pakistan's Defense Minister.

🇦🇺🇵🇬🇨🇳⚡- "China has warned Papua New Guinea not to sign a treaty that could restrict or prevent it from cooperating with another country, days after Australia failed to secure a defense pact with the Pacific nation," - The Guardian.

🇮🇩🇨🇳⚡- Chinese Coast Guard vessel CCG5402 has been operating within Indonesia's EEZ since the start of the week, in the disputed North Natuna waters.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Xi and Trump held a "positive phonecall"

🇺🇸🏳️⚡- The Afghan Taliban government rejects the idea of US military presence at Bagram Air Base.

🇪🇪🇷🇺⚡- Estonia's Foreign Ministry claims NATO jets intercepted 3 Russian MiG-31s inside Estonian airspace.

🇪🇪🇷🇺⚡- BREAKING: Estonia has invoked NATO Article Four, the second this month.

🇪🇪🇷🇺🇸🇪⚡- Sweden reports the three Russian MiG-31s were armed with air-to-air R-73s.

🇵🇱🇷🇺⚡- BREAKING: Two Russian jets performed a low flyby over Poland's Lotos Petrobaltic offshore drilling platform in the Baltic Sea.

🇵🇹🇵🇸⚡- Portugal to officially recognize the State of Palestine at next week's United Nations General Assembly.

🇻🇪🇷🇺⚡- Venezuela's National Assembly in its first hearing has approved the draft bill on the 'Strategic Partnership and Cooperation Agreement' with Russia.

🇷🇺⚡- Russia will close the airspace over the north Astrakhan region from September 22nd to 27th.

The Kapustin Yar Missile Base is located in northern Astrakhan, the home of the Oreshnik missile.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Now-released drone footage shows the moment an American airstrike destroyed a cartel boat originating from Venezuela.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility.

Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Americans. The strike killed 3 male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel, which was in international waters. No U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike.

STOP SELLING FENTANYL, NARCOTICS, AND ILLEGAL DRUGS IN AMERICA, AND COMMITTING VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM AGAINST AMERICANS!!!" - President Donald Trump.

🇸🇩🇷🇺⚡- Pro-Sudanese government outlets, such as the Daily Sudan Post, have reported unusual events in the South Darfur region, along the border with the Central African Republic, CAR.

The Iran-backed Sudanese government has accused the Russian Wagner Group, which operates in CAR, of crossing the border and looting resources, as well as attacking towns, such as Umm Rawq. The area is under the complete control of the Rapid Support Forces, RSF

Wagner withdrew from the Sudan arena in 2021 after supporting the RSF, this was to give Moscow the opportunity to negotiate for a port on the Red Sea with the al-Burhan government - talks which have stalled for over 18 months.

Note, the Wagner attacks do not indicate Russia's return to Sudan yet.

— 🇮🇳🇵🇰 Reports indicate that ceasefire violations have occurred along the Line of Control (LoC) in Leepa Valley, with firing originating from the Pakistan side.

🇸🇾 | @schizosyrian

🇸🇾⚡- Clashes have erupted between Damascus backed forces and the SDF in the Manbij direction, northern Syria.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- 2 Indian soldiers killed, 4+ injured, after they were ambushed by Pakistani-backed Kashmiri separatists in Udhampur, Jammu and Kashmir.

🇸🇾⚡- Syrian sources report that al-Khafsah was subjected to heavy artillery and rocket shelling from the SDF along the Dayr Hafr front, Manbij direction.

🇺🇸🇪🇬🇮🇱⚡- "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked the Trump administration to pressure Egypt into scaling back its military presence in the Sinai Peninsula, citing alleged violations of the 1979 peace treaty.

Israeli officials point to expanded airstrips and possible underground facilities. After bilateral discussions with Cairo failed, Israel appealed to Washington to intervene," - Axios.

🇺🇸🇻🇪 - Reports of Pedro Rafael Suarez Caballero, Venezuelan Armed Forces General, deserting to the US are false.

Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez appeared in a video today with Pedro Caballero at a military ceremony, in which Lopez says "look here, he's [Caballero] alive and well. There's no desertion here, there's life and a fighting spirit here." Lopez calls the reports "fake news" and attempts to "destabilize the military."