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🇺🇸🇹🇼❌🇨🇳 - U.S. Military’s Annual Exercise - "Operation Pathways" is designed to prepare for a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan. ✍️The exercise operates 53 times a year but peaks during two specific periods: May–June and September–October. General Clark noted these are the exact periods when sea conditions are calmest and most favorable for China to launch a cross sea assault. 🇯🇵🇰🇷🇵🇭🇦🇺 The U.S. military has permanently stationed ammunition, heavy armored vehicles and combat supplies across the region - South Korea, Japan, the Philippines and Australia. In a crisis, the U.S. only needs to fly in personnel to immediately link up with this gear and engage in combat.

🇦🇫🚶🇵🇰 Afghanistan Summons Pakistan Chargé d’Affaires in Kabul and lodged protest over violation of Afghanistan’s airspace and airstrikes targeting civilian residences in Kunar, Paktia, and Paktika provinces.

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🇵🇰👶 Two Key Theoretical Reason Why Pakistan Target Afghani Children 1. Strategy of "Collective Punishment" - In counter insurgency, when a country cannot directly pin down the militant group like the TTP, it often resorts to punishing the ecosystem around them. By striking tribal villages and families, the psychological goal is to break the local population's willingness to harbor or support the militants. 2. "Force Projection" - Following highly embarrassing security failures inside Pakistan (like the recent major militant assault in Karachi), the military faces intense domestic pressure to react aggressively. In these moments, precision takes a backseat to force projection regardless of international laws on civilian protection.

🇮🇳💳🇧🇩 Unprecedented Numbers - 1,13,039 people applied for Indian visas in Bangladesh within 7 hours.

🇵🇰⚔️🇦🇫 Speaking with Aamaj News - Afghanistan Taliban Spokesperson says - " If We Fail in the Air, We Will Take Revenge on Pakistan by Land".

🇮🇳⚰️🇮🇷 Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain - Bihar Governor & MoS Pabitra Margherita to attend Khamenei Funeral in Iran 🤲The official state funeral for Iran’s late Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, is set to begin in Tehran on July 4, concluding with his final burial in his hometown of Mashhad on July 9. Funeral is taking place an unprecedented 140 days after his death.

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🇩🇪🕵️‍♂️Male suspect has been detained following five people dead after a shooting in the northern German city of Stade

✍️🇵🇰 Pakistan aggressively slams Israel for their actions in Gaza, yet its own military operations in Afghanistan have claimed the lives of innocent civilians and children.

🇦🇫👶🇵🇰 Over the last three years (since the 2021 US withdrawal), the verified toll of Afghan children killed directly by Pakistani airstrikes and cross border shelling is at least 175 to 200+ children, with hundreds more severely injured.

🇨🇳🇮🇳 Alleged PLA Encroachment in Arunachal Pradesh. ✍️The local report from the Arunachal Observer details a deeply concerning community escalation regarding China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) ✍️Read more : https://arunachalobserver.org/2026/06/29/pla-set-up-camps-allegedly-inside-taksing-area-terming-encroachment-nws-seeks-goap-goi-intervention/

👳‍♂️The Tribal Alliances - eg., Hadhramaut Alliance ✍️Who Are They - Highly armed, localized native tribal coalitions situated in the resource rich eastern desert provinces like Hadhramaut and Al-Mahrah. 🕵️‍♂️🇸🇦They are anti Houthi and work closely with Saudi Arabia. 2/2

🇾🇪👨‍💻Yemen Civil War: Basic Guide ✍️To understand Yemeni civil war, you just need to know that the country is fundamentally split between two completely different governments, with localized tribal coalitions holding the balance of power in between. ⬆️The North: The Houthis (Ansar Allah) ✍️Who Are They - A Zaydi Shia revivalist militant movement from northern Yemen. 🕵️‍♂️They captured the capital city of Sana’a back in 2014 and currently control most of western and northern Yemen, where the majority of the population lives. 🇮🇷 The Backer For Houthis - "IRAN" ⬇️↗️The South & East - The Government (PLC) ✍️Who Are They - The Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) is the internationally recognized, UN backed government of Yemen. 🕵️‍♂️After losing the capital to the Houthis, they set up their temporary base in the southern port city of Aden. They control the vast, energy rich, but less populated eastern and southern regions. 🇸🇦The Backer For PLC - "Saudi Arabia" 1/2

🇮🇱👊🇵🇸 SBR MONTHLY UPDATE | JUNE 2026

🤹The Art of the Deal: Trump Complains For $2 Billion To Run Hormuz ​✍️Trump breaks a perfectly open Strait of Hormuz by picking a fight with Iran, slaps a blockade on it, that ruins millions of ordinary lives worldwide and now complains he needs a cool $2 billion a day to fix the mess he created. 🧯Setting the house on fire and then charging the world a premium for the fire extinguisher

🇮🇱🗳️ Netanyahu climbs to 23 seats, grabs position as the largest single party ✍️🔵 The Netanyahu Coalition - 53 Seats Likud Party: Benjamin Netanyahu - 23 Shas Party: Aryeh Deri - 9 Otzma Yehudit Party: Itamar Ben-Gvir - 9 United Torah Judaism Party: Yitzhak Goldknopf - 7 Religious Zionism Party: Bezalel Smotrich - 5 ✍️🔴 The Mainstream Opposition: 57 Seats Yashar! Party: Gadi Eisenkot - 21 Together / Beyachad Party: Naftali Bennett - 16 The Democrats Party: Yair Golan - 10 Yisrael Beytenu Party: Avigdor Lieberman - 10

🇸🇦🇮🇷🇾🇪 - If you guys need a basic understanding about the internal conflict in Yemen, drop a 👍

🇸🇦⚔️🇮🇷 Pro-Saudi Hadhramaut Tribal Alliance (HTA) is creating a massive military mobilization to confront Iran-Backed Houthis