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28 Mar 2025 09:12

Thousands are believed to be trapped beneath collapsed homes and other buildings in Myanmar’s second largest city, Mandalay, which was heavily impacted by today’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake as well as its aftershocks.

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28 Mar 2025 08:39

Damage seen inside Mandalay International Airport in Myanmar, caused by today’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake near the border between Thailand and Myanmar.

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28 Mar 2025 08:23

Devastation across the city of Mandalay in Myanmar, as a result of today’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake, with dozens of buildings having collapsed as well as the Ava Bridge over the Irrawaddy River.

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28 Mar 2025 08:09

High-rise buildings shake and under construction skyscrapers collapse in the Thai capital of Bangkok, following a massive 7.7 magnitude earthquake earlier which struck the border between Myanmar and Thailand. There is no word yet on casualties or further damage to countries in Southeast Asia, though the threat of a tsunami is determined to be low.

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28 Mar 2025 06:10

Sirens sounded moments ago near the city of Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel, following the launch of two rockets from Lebanon, one being intercepted by the “Iron Dome” and the other landing near the border area, resulting in no damage or casualties.

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28 Mar 2025 02:32

The U.S. Navy and Air Force has launched what appears to be the largest series of strikes tonight against Houthi targets in Yemen, since the strike operation began roughly two weeks ago. Close to 100 precision-strikes are reported to have been launched by both aircraft and naval vessels in the Red Sea, targeting well over 80 military and infrastructure sites, as well as other targets, in the Al-Jawf, Amran, Hodeidah, Saada, Sanaa and other Governorates.

According to U.S. defense officials, Houthi command-and-control centers, air-defense systems, ballistic and cruise missile launchers, drone launch sites, weapons manufacturing facilities, underground weapons storage sites and high-value officials, were targeted during tonight’s wave of strikes; with daily strikes against the Iranian-backed Houthis set to continue until attacks on Israel and international shipping stop, and deterrence in restored in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

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27 Mar 2025 23:20

Despite over 12 days of continuous strikes by the U.S. Navy and Air Force on the Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist group in western Yemen, the Houthis currently still maintain their capability to launch ballistic missiles at Israel, launching two missiles earlier today at Tel-Aviv which were downed by Israeli “Arrow-3” exoatmospheric anti-ballistic missile interceptors over Jordan.

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27 Mar 2025 06:28

In an event earlier this week at Pyongyang International Airport, attended by Supreme-Leader Kim Jong Un, North Korea unveil its first ever airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft, which appears to be based off the Russian A-50 “Mainstay” and Chinese KJ-2000 “Mainring” both of which utilize a modified version of Russia’s Ilyushin Il-76, the same as the North Korean AEW&C. The aircraft, which still has not received an officials name by North Korea, has been seen via satellite imagery being worked on at a maintenance hanger located at Pyongyang International since 2023; though it is based off an aircraft utilized by both Russia and China, it is not known how much help the two countries played in the development and construction of the North Korean AEW&C.

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27 Mar 2025 03:19

Photos released by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), showing daytime flight operations by F/A-18E/F “Super Hornets” and EA-18G “Growlers” attached to Carrier Air Wing One (CVW-1), aboard the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) in the Red Sea, as strikes continue against the Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist group in Yemen.

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26 Mar 2025 23:22

U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced earlier from the Oval Office, that the United States would be imposing a 25% tariff on all foreign-produced cars and other automobiles beginning April 2nd, stating that the tariffs will remain in place throughout his 4-year term as President.

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26 Mar 2025 19:33

The full-interview released today with a F-16 fighter pilot of the Ukrainian Air Force, where strikes against Russian targets along the frontline in eastern Ukraine are discussed as well as other missions, including combat air patrols and electronic interference & surveillance.

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26 Mar 2025 18:37

U.S. President Donald J. Trump will hold a press conference from the Oval Office at 4:00pm, where he will announce new tariffs on the international automotive industry.

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26 Mar 2025 16:30

4 U.S. Soldiers with the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team (1ABCT), 3rd Infantry Division from Fort Stewart, Georgia have been found dead at a training ground in Eastern Lithuania, near the border with Belarus, with it believed that their M88A2 Armored-Recovery Vehicle (ARV) sunk into a swamp during an exercise on Tuesday near Pabradė, Lithuania.

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26 Mar 2025 16:10

A major search-and-rescue operation is reportedly underway in and around Pabradė, Lithuania after 4 U.S. Servicemembers and their tracked-armored vehicle went missing during a exercise yesterday, at a training ground located less than 5 miles from the border with Belarus.

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26 Mar 2025 15:25

Following continued downplaying of the incident by officials with the Trump Administration, who continue to claim that what was talked about in the recent Signal group-chat regarding strikes against the Houthis in Yemen was not considered “war planning” and was not classified; Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief for The Atlantic, has now released what appears to be the full chat-log for the group in Signal, as well as the identity of every person included in the chat. The log proves that National Security Advisor Mike Waltz was the one to add Goldberg to the group, as well as claims by Goldberg that information about strike timing, weapons systems, and targets were posted in the chat by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hours before the start of the strike operation in Yemen.

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28 Mar 2025 08:55

The first photos from the site of the collapsed high-rise building which was under construction in the Thai capital of Bangkok, where at least 43 construction workers are missing and feared dead beneath the rubble.

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28 Mar 2025 08:33

Over 40 construction workers are reported missing, following the collapse of an under construction high-rise building in the Thai capital of Bangkok, as a result of today’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar.

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28 Mar 2025 08:15

Additional footage showing the collapse of an under construction skyscraper in Bangkok, during today’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake on the border between Thailand and Myanmar.

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28 Mar 2025 07:11

Footage showing the interception of a rocket fired from Lebanon earlier over Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel.

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28 Mar 2025 04:06

According to a U.S. official who spoke to Axios, the recent deployment of between 5 and 7 B-2 “Spirit” Long-Range Strategic Stealth Bombers from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, a little more than 2,000 miles from Iran, is “not disconnected” from the recent two-month deadline given by U.S. President Trump to Iranian Supreme-Leader Ali Khamenei.

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27 Mar 2025 23:46

Wild footage filmed during recent joint-naval exercises between the United States, Japan and South Korea in the East China Sea, showing an Ilyushin Il-38N “Dolphin” Maritime Patrol and Surveillance Aircraft of the Russian Navy, conducting a low-level intimidation pass alongside the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), while being escorted by a F/A-18F from Strike Fighter Squadron 2 (VFA-2) and an F-35C with Strike Fighter Squadron 97 (VFA-97).

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27 Mar 2025 07:17

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced today that the successful drone attack on March 20th against Russia’s “Engels-2” Airbase in the Saratov Oblast, which according to satellite imagery resulted in the total destruction of a munitions depot at the base, destroyed at least 96 air-launched cruise missiles that the Russian Air Force was planning to use in several attacks on Ukraine in March and April.

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27 Mar 2025 05:28

The Spokesman for Hamas’ Political Wing in the Gaza Strip, Abdul Latif al-Qanouis is reported to have been killed last night in an Israeli precision-airstrike on Jabalia in North Gaza. Israel has yet to comment on the strike or the elimination of Qanouis.

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27 Mar 2025 00:38

In his statement yesterday to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Strategic Forces, General Anthony J. Cotton, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), stated that Iran is continuing to expand its nuclear program by increasing its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, adding that Tehran had now reduced the time required to produce weapons-grade uranium for a nuclear warhead, from 10-15 days, to less than one week. Additionally General Cotton states that Iran’s work on space-based launch vehicles has also shortened its timeline to produce an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which could have a range of 2,400 miles with a 2,200lb payload.

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26 Mar 2025 21:05

Satellite imagery from @IndoPacWatch shows 3 B-2 “Spirit” Long-Range Strategic Stealth Bombers on the tarmac today at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, as well as possibly 4 others under hardened aircraft shelters, bringing the total B-2s that could be at the base to 7. In addition to the B-2s, at least 7 KC-135 “Stratotanker” Aerial-Refueling Tankers can also be seen at the base, likely to be used for whatever future missions the bombers get tasked with.

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26 Mar 2025 19:19

Several screenshots from a recent interview with a F-16 pilot of the Ukrainian Air Force, showing a flight of 3 F-16AM “Fighting Falcons” armed with AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) and AIM-9 “Sidewinder” Air-to-Air Missiles.

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26 Mar 2025 17:16

NBC News reports that Republican Senator Roger Wicker and Democratic Senator Jack Reed, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, have agreed to ask the Trump Administration for an independent report by the Inspector General, on the recent Signal group-chat which disclosed certain information related to strikes against the Houthis in Yemen.

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26 Mar 2025 16:16

UPDATE: Media in Lithuania is now reporting that the 4 U.S. Soldiers and their M88A2 Armored-Recovery Vehicle (ARV), which went missing yesterday during a training exercise near the border with Belarus, have now been found dead near a training ground in Eastern Lithuania.

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26 Mar 2025 15:45

According to both U.S. defense and intelligence officials, at the time the information regarding timing, targets and weapons systems, as well as other details about the strikes against the Houthis in Yemen, was posted in the group-chat on Signal by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the information was being classified during briefings as (TOP SECRET//NOFORN).

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26 Mar 2025 06:34

For the second night in a row, several U.S. Air Force KC-135R Aerial-Refueling Tankers have taken off from RAAF Base Amberley in Eastern Australia and are currently passing over Queensland, likely to refuel the second flight of B-2 “Spirit” Long-Range Strategic Stealth Bombers which crossed the Pacific today from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, inbound to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.