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Canada keeps sending LAV6 IFVs (some equipped with 105mm gun) to Saudi Arabia despite tensions

Canada keeps sending LAV6 IFVs to Saudi Arabia. Eight covered LAV6 were loaded on a train headed to St John Harbour, Canada in order to be exported to Saudi Arabia.

A Canadian defence contractor will be selling fewer armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia than originally planned, according to new documents obtained by CBC News.

That could be a mixed blessing in light of the ongoing diplomatic dispute…

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US-led coalition seems to have deployed some kind of (SAM) system, covered with a desert camo net, in Al-Tanf, Syria

US-led coalition seems to have deployed some kind of (SAM) system, covered with a desert camo net, in Al-Tanf, Syria

“The US’s next step is to build a missile defense shield in the region which must be considered as a part of Washington’s long-term plan for chaos in the region,” Former Commander of Syria’s Deir ez-Zor Military Assembly Fayez Esmer told Yeni Safak newspaper on Tuesday.

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Saber Strike: NATO rushes thousands of troops, including air defence systems, to Poland and Baltic states "to boost readiness on its eastern flank"

Saber Strike: NATO rushes thousands of troops, including air defence systems, to Poland and Baltic states “to boost readiness on its eastern flank”

NATO’s Saber Strike 18 exercises involving some 18,000 troops from 19 nations will begin on June 3 in Poland and the Baltic states, as the Western alliance looks to boost readiness on its eastern flank.

The maneuvers will run through June 15 and come as Poland has indicated it is considering a proposal to host a permanent contingent of U.S. troops in the way that Germany and Italy have done since…

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Bulgaria: US moves military assets near Black Sea Coast

Bulgaria: US moves military assets near Black Sea Coast

Lt Gen Evgeny Buzhinsky told Dermot Murnaghan that shooting down American missiles is the least that Russia would do, and that if Russian blood is shed in Syria, then Americans “will shed their blood also”.

“Your Prime Minister Churchill said if you had to choose between war and disgrace and you choose disgrace, then you get both. I don’t think Putin will choose disgrace,” he added.

Asked how…

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US would not seem to leave Syria "very soon" but, conversely, recent satellite imagery (al-Tanf and surrounding areas) reveals Washington increasing its presence in the war-torn country

US would not seem to leave Syria “very soon” but, conversely, recent satellite imagery (al-Tanf and surrounding areas) reveals Washington increasing its presence in the war-torn country

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., agreed with President Trump that American involvement in Syria needs to end, but said Trump’s statement that the U.S. will leave soon is off-base.

Sanders said on CNN’s “State of the Union” the U.S. cannot stay in Syria forever but the idea that American forces can leave “very soon,” as Trump said, isn’t possible.

“It’s not a yes or no,” Sanders said when he was asked…

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Serbia has provoked Pristina by sending several fighter jets (Soko J-22s Orao) over Preševo area, very close to the border with Kosovo "Tense times"

Serbia has provoked Pristina by sending several fighter jets (Soko J-22s Orao) over Preševo area, very close to the border with Kosovo “Tense times”

“Serbian military airplanes reportedly flew at very low altitudes above Preshevë / Preševo – an Albanian majority town in south Serbia bordering #Kosovo. On the same day, Kosovo Serbs in north Mitrovica announce they will unilaterally create ethnic entity/association. Tense times”

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US-led forces establish new military outposts east of Hajin, Deir ez-Zor

US-led forces establish new military outposts east of Hajin, Deir ez-Zor

The battleground in eastern Syria has only grown more complex as the U.S.-led, mostly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces and the Russia-backed Syrian military fought two separate campaigns to destroy ISIS. As the Syrian military, backed by various pro-government militias—many of which were supported by Iran—and Russian warplanes, retook Deir Ezzor city and the border town of Al-Bukamal, they…

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Something is moving in China too. Military hardware spotted north east of Beijing, the city where Kim Jong Un allegedly made a surprise visit today

Something is moving in China too. Military hardware spotted north east of Beijing, the city where Kim Jong Un allegedly made a surprise visit today

Kim Jong Un made a surprise visit to Beijing on his first known trip outside North Korea since taking power in 2011, three people with knowledge of the visit said.

Further details of his trip, including how long Kim would stay and who he would meet, were not immediately available. The people asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the information.

Speculation about a possible…

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Russia deploys at least 3x Bastion-P coastal defence missile system towards Taganrog, Rostov Oblast close to Ukraine border

Russia deploys at least 3x Bastion-P coastal defence missile system towards Taganrog, Rostov Oblast close to Ukraine border

A coastguard ship of the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service has arrested in the Ukrainian waters of the Azov Sea a fishing vessel flying the flag of the Russian Federation, with a crew of ten people on board.

“The vessel NORD was stopped 15 miles from the Obytichna spit. It was established during the inspection that it was registered in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous…

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PLA Air Force, including H-6K, Su-30, Su-35, J-20 aircraft, patrols South China Sea and Western Pacific calling it "the best preparation for war". It is also visible an F-15 flying close to PLAAF, probably Japanese (confirmed by @TheAviationist)

PLA Air Force, including H-6K, Su-30, Su-35, J-20 aircraft, patrols South China Sea and Western Pacific calling it “the best preparation for war”. It is also visible an F-15 flying close to PLAAF, probably Japanese (confirmed by @TheAviationist)

China’s air force has held another round of drills in the disputed South China Sea and the Western Pacific after passing though Japan’s southern islands, the air force said on Sunday, calling such exercises the best preparation for war.

China is in the midst of an ambitious military modernization program overseen by President Xi Jinping with a heavy focus on its air force and navy, from building…

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US unloads LIBERTY PRIDE Ro-Ro ship in Jordan

US unloads LIBERTY PRIDE Ro-Ro ship in Jordan

Southwest Syria could be the next confrontation zone in Syria’s multiple regional wars. The US-Russian cease-fire agreement is collapsing, except in the buffer zone on the Iraqi-Jordanian border. The Syrian regime and its allies are making their way through to the Nassib border crossing and the Golan Heights. These new dynamics are altering the calculations of Jordan and Israel, while further…

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US looks busy in the east of Al Mayadin, Deir ez-Zor countryside, it is also reported Coalition's intention to develope an advanced military base around al-Omar oilfield (2x Black Hawk)

US looks busy in the east of Al Mayadin, Deir ez-Zor countryside, it is also reported Coalition’s intention to develope an advanced military base around al-Omar oilfield (2x Black Hawk)

Soldiers from the United States are preventing Syrian government troops from moving to the northern part of the country, especially the eastern zone of Deir-Ezzor, Russian Ministry of Defense (MINDEF).

One of the main directions in the work of Syrian authorities is the return to Deir-Ezzor, which is controlled by the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces, which are protected by the United States,…

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"Straight outta Hasakah" US reportedly deploys fresh troops from north-east Syria towards Deir ez-Zor countryside (3x US UH-60 Black Hawk)

“Straight outta Hasakah” US reportedly deploys fresh troops from north-east Syria towards Deir ez-Zor countryside (3x US UH-60 Black Hawk)

US envoy to the UN Nikki Haley has warned that the US will take action in Syria on its own if the UN Security Council fails to do so. The official cited last year’s attack on a Syrian airbase as an example of possible US action. “It is not the path we prefer, but it is a path we have demonstrated we will take, and we are prepared to take again,” Haley told the UN Security Council meeting on…

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Several T-72 tanks, BM-21 Gradmultiple rocket launchers and Msta-S self-propelled howitzer spotted around Ufa, Russia heading west

Several T-72 tanks, BM-21 Gradmultiple rocket launchers and Msta-S self-propelled howitzer spotted around Ufa, Russia heading west

Russia and NATO are escalating a war of words that could quickly devolve into an international arms race.

A day after Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a bellicose speech boasting that his country has weapons that would render international missile defense systems “completely useless,” North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) officials shot back, calling the speech “unacceptable and…

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Iraqi government has recently sent (and keeps sending) hundreds of its troops, backed by Humvees, BMPs and Abrams tanks "to restore security and law" in Basra Province near Kuwait/Iran borders, where Saudi Arabia will re-open its consulate after 28 years

Iraqi government has recently sent (and keeps sending) hundreds of its troops, backed by Humvees, BMPs and Abrams tanks “to restore security and law” in Basra Province near Kuwait/Iran borders, where Saudi Arabia will re-open its consulate after 28 years

The Iraqi government announced that the Saudi Arabian consulate will open in the city of Basra within two weeks.

Under the direction of Saudi leadership, the consulate will be in a temporary location with its staff set to arrive to begin working soon.

The head of the Saudi delegation, Abdulrahman al-Shehri, who visited the Iraqi city on Sunday said that the consulate will open soon in order to…

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Israeli military equipment, including Iron Dome missile defense systems, heading North towards Golan Heights

Israeli military equipment, including Iron Dome missile defense systems, heading North towards Golan Heights

Israel’s cross-border clash with Iranian and Syrian forces on Saturday was a sharp escalation of long-brewing hostilities along its northern frontier — and a bracing alert to those who have focused on other areas of the Syrian civil war, on other aspects of Iran’s strategic assertiveness, or who believed that Israel’s air superiority left it invincible in its own skies.

In the space of several…

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Ukrainian sources report an increment of military activity (T-64, T-72, BMP, MT-LB, 2S3 Akatsiya) around Kyiv by day and by night

The Armed Forces of Ukraine have taken control over the village of Novo-oleksandrivka in Luhansk region, the settlement located in the so-called “grey zone”.

The advance saw no violations of the Minsk agreements, the Ukrainian military say. “[The retaking of Novo-oleksandrivka] took place a few days ago.

Unfortunately, I cannot reveal details of the operation,” press secretary of the ATO…