🇨🇳CSIS: To enable its growing space and counterspace capabilities, China operates four spaceports and a family of Long March launch vehicles with a range of sizes and capabilities. In 2021, China conducted 52 successful space launches suffered three space launch failures, and reportedly conducted a non-space test launch of a hypersonic glide vehicle.
🇷🇺🇺🇦Bloomberg: The Pentagon plans to order and send to Ukraine 10 of the newest model Switchblade drones armed with tank-busting warheads in addition to previously announced deliveries of a less powerful version, according to two people familiar with the decision.
The new Switchblade-600 weapons are part of $300 million in lethal military assistance announced by the Pentagon Friday night that will be contracted directly from industry instead of drawn from existing stocks, according to the people, who asked not to identified discussing the plan.
The new Switchblade-600 weapons are part of $300 million in lethal military assistance announced by the Pentagon Friday night that will be contracted directly from industry instead of drawn from existing stocks, according to the people, who asked not to identified discussing the plan.
🇷🇺🇺🇦AFP’s Sergei Supinsky photographs destroyed buildings in the town of Borodianka, northwest of Kyiv on April 4.
🇷🇺🇺🇦The Economist: If negotiations failed, Russia could garrison troops in Donbas for years. Yet if Russia held the territory without a deal, it would find itself locked in a protracted struggle
🇷🇺🇺🇦WSJ: The Czech Republic has been sending old Soviet-era tanks into Ukraine, marking the first time a foreign country has provided tanks to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion began
🇦🇫🇵🇰🇮🇳🇧🇩 New Al-Qaeda Central 8:44 video is out published by as-Sahab Media, and Zawahiri is speaking of the episode of February this year which saw the Muslim girl Muskan Khan being harassed by a Hindu mob in Karnataka. So this means Zawahiri is definitely alive and well. Video is titled "The noble woman of India".
Zawahiri criticises countries that banned hijab. The video is an attack against India and "Hindu democracy", calling on Indian Muslims to react. It also criticises Pakistan and Bangladesh as allies of the West. Previously, AQIS had already talked about the incident in its latest issue of Nawai Ghazwa-e Hind.
https://twitter.com/Valle_Riccardo_/status/1511368455089500171?t=N20w65FSdWZRJ7vajQe2yQ&s=19
Zawahiri criticises countries that banned hijab. The video is an attack against India and "Hindu democracy", calling on Indian Muslims to react. It also criticises Pakistan and Bangladesh as allies of the West. Previously, AQIS had already talked about the incident in its latest issue of Nawai Ghazwa-e Hind.
https://twitter.com/Valle_Riccardo_/status/1511368455089500171?t=N20w65FSdWZRJ7vajQe2yQ&s=19
🇸🇾 MW researcher Daniele Garofalo:
Ansar al-Islam (#AAI) released an approximately 2-minute video showing some of its latest attacks against the government army and the russian military in #Syria.
https://twitter.com/g88daniele/status/1511425654474035201?s=21&t=XE1EJn3XOywqzHHmNqnI0A
Ansar al-Islam (#AAI) released an approximately 2-minute video showing some of its latest attacks against the government army and the russian military in #Syria.
https://twitter.com/g88daniele/status/1511425654474035201?s=21&t=XE1EJn3XOywqzHHmNqnI0A
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Daniele Garofalo
Ansar al-Islam (#AAI) released an approximately 2-minute video showing some of its latest attacks against the government army and the russian military in #Syria.
🇩🇪AP: German prosecutors on Monday arrested a right-wing extremist over an arson attack on a home for asylum-seekers more than 30 years ago in which a Ghanaian man was killed.
🇷🇺🇺🇦AFP: Explosions heard in Lviv region in west Ukraine, according to local officials