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24 August 2026 20:21

🇰🇪🇸🇴⚡- For the second time in just two days, al-Shabaab launched a cross-border attack on a Kenyan military base near the town of Konton, northeast Kenya (the base is located at 2.0361126, 40.9083649).

Kenyan military sources report repelling the attack and pushing al-Shabaab back towards the Somalian border. The number of casualties on either side currently remains unknown.

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24 August 2026 17:18

🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡️- UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham, during his first foreign visit to Ukraine to attend the country's Independence Day parade, announced that Britain has agreed to share Storm Shadow missile technology with Kiev, paving the way for Ukraine to manufacture the long-range cruise missiles domestically.

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24 August 2026 16:06

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡️ — President Trump accused Canada of taking advantage of the U.S. through high tariffs on American agricultural products and said the trade relationship had created a $60 billion deficit.

He announced that from January 1, 2027, U.S. tariffs on Canadian cars, trucks, auto parts, and steel will rise to 50%, while products manufactured in the U.S. will face “ZERO TARIFFS.”

Trump also said the U.S. does not need Canada and that they “will be treated like a State no longer," claiming Canada is far more dependent on trade with the U.S.

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24 August 2026 15:03

🇦🇲⚡- "It's possible for a country to be removed from the CSTO. I would be delighted if the alliance removed Armenia from the collective treaty agreement. It would free us from the dilemma of leaving or not," - Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of Armenia.

Note, the CSTO's collective defense clause closely resembles NATO's Article 5, stipulating that an attack on one member is considered an attack on all. However, the alliance did not support Armenia during the 2020 war or the subsequent border clashes with Azerbaijan between 2021, 2022, and 2023, a failure that has fueled growing frustration in Yerevan. Pashinyan in 2021 and 2022 directly requested support, citing the CSTO mutual defense clause, but fell on deaf ears in Moscow, and has even gone as far as accusing Belarus (a CSTO member) of supporting Azerbaijan (a non-CSTO member) against Armenia.

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24 August 2026 09:01

🇺🇸 - 30 years ago, Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington founded Valve. Their corporation would go on to revolutionize gaming on several occasions. They gave gamers the Source engines and the game series of Half-Life, Portal, Counter-Strike, Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress as well as the Steam platform. They have given countless small developers a chance to create and live off their work, feeding passions for three decades now. Valve stands as a unique giant among gaming corporations, showing us that greed will never replace passion when it comes to quality.

"It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now all you need is a Steam account." - Gabe "GabeN" Newell.

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23 August 2026 21:33

🇷🇺 - Three years ago today, Russia's Putin killed the heads of the Wagner Group, Dmitri Utkin and Yevgeny Prigozhin. Since then, Russia's ability to project influence abroad has spiraled downwards with setbacks across several key theatres, including Syria, the Sahel, and the Caucasus.

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23 August 2026 21:22

🇸🇩🇪🇹⚡- Sudan says it has shot down a drone that entered its airspace from Ethiopia, an incident that comes just one day before the UN Security Council is set to discuss the possible imposition of a no-fly zone over Sudan, a proposal strongly opposed by Port Sudan.

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23 August 2026 21:09

🇸🇴⚡️ BREAKING: Merca, the capital of Somalia's Lower Shabelle province, has fallen to a newly emerged and previously unidentified militia calling itself the 'Rapid Support Forces'.

Local reports state all Somali federal and South West State flags have been removed from government and administrative buildings and replaced with the group's own banners.

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23 August 2026 08:57

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "At first, a few commentators and event hosts who cling to the fringes of their definition as journalists, and a few opposition leaders, said that the strike in Syria [on the military base in the north of the country] was unnecessary and carried out for political considerations.

After it was clarified that the IDF recommended the strike based on clear intelligence information, and the political echelon weighed it carefully and made the decision, they [journalists and online influencers] moved to an alternative version:

'The statements by the Prime Minister and the Defense Minister to Erdogan and the warnings that we will not allow Turkey to establish itself in Syria and endanger Israel's security - are unnecessary and dangerous. We must not anger Erdogan, as if we went on some evening stroll with a light breeze in the treetops that has nothing to do with anything - and Erdogan is actually some kind of Zionist enthusiast.'

It's fortunate that they [journalists and online influencers] don't influence anything these days, and we very much hope for Israel's security that they won't reach positions of influence with such stances even in the future," - Israel Katz, Defense Minister of Israel.

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23 August 2026 00:26

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Turkey instead of Iran, the new strategic threat to Israel, and we [Israelis] must wake up.

Erdogan operates in the Iranian way, investing in hostility towards Israel to boost his popularity.

Israel is not a military match for Turkey, but it will not tolerate its interests in Syria and has sent a message by fire to define the limits of the Turkish presence and its role in Syria.

We must change our way of thinking and prepare for a long-term conflict with Turkey," - i24.

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22 August 2026 23:36

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇴🇲 - President Trump recognizes the disputed Strait of Hormuz in the American Gulf as U.S. territory.

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22 August 2026 23:18

🇸🇴 - The identities of the two vessels recently hijacked by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden have now been confirmed.

On August 17, the Turkish military cargo vessel LUTOF was seized while en route to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia's federal government. Turkey remains as one of Somalia's closest security and political partners, having provided extensive support to Mogadishu in its struggle against separatist and breakaway regions in the north, as well as the Jubaland project.

Three days later, on August 20, pirates boarded the Iranian-linked ghost tanker SEAMULL, now operating under the name SIBU-1, as it attempted to transit the Bab el-Mandeb on its way to Port Sudan, Sudan's wartime capital. Iran has been widely accused of discreetly supplying fuel, weapons, and other forms of assistance to the Sudanese government in its war against the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces, RSF.

As Rerum Novarum has previously reported, Somali pirate groups should not be viewed as isolated criminal actors operating independently. Rather, they function as proxies with ties to elements within the Puntland administration, the semi-autonomous breakaway region that has long enjoyed significant political and financial support from the United Arab Emirates.

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22 August 2026 22:39

🇺🇸⚡- Political provocateur Jake Lang was arrested after leading a protest through Minneapolis that quickly turned into a riot. Leftists attempted to attack Lang and his crew, trying to damage his vehicle by slashing his tires and repeatedly climbing into the truck bed to assault Lang and others.

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22 August 2026 15:23

🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡- Iran has approved the passage of several Iraqi oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz after Baghdad made repeated requests via multiple diplomatic channels, IRNA reports.

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22 August 2026 01:08

🇺🇸🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡️ U.S. Special Envoy and Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack has described the Golan region as territory occupied by Israel, stating that the international community recognizes the heights as part of Syria.

Barrack's remarks appear to diverge from official U.S. policy established in 2019, when President Donald Trump formally recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

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24 August 2026 17:30

🇩🇿🇲🇱⚡️- In a significant thaw in relations between Algeria and Mali, Malian Prime Minister Abdoulaye Maiga has arrived in Algiers for high-level talks.

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24 August 2026 16:12

🇸🇩🇪🇹⚡- A second drone in less than 24 hours has been downed by the Sudanese Armed Forces. The drone also originated from Ethiopia.

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24 August 2026 15:10

🇦🇲🇷🇺⚡- "For two hundred years Armenia's relations with Russia were built on the idea that Russia will be the guarantor of security of the Armenian people.

The events of 2020-2023 have shown that Russia, because of its own security problems, had significant limitations in fulfilling its role as guarantor," - Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of Armenia.

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24 August 2026 10:20

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Ansarullah struck a tanker in the Red Sea off the coast of Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.

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24 August 2026 00:52

🇺🇸⚡️- Around 18,700 customers in Gary, Indiana, have been without power for twelve days after a storm knocked out most of the power in the city.

When the state utility company NIPSCO was sent out to make repairs on Aug. 15th, unknown residents of the 76% Black city fired upon the marked company vehicle.

The Gary PD is now acting as a security force for the NIPSCO workers as they attempt to repair the electrical infrastructure.

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23 August 2026 21:28

🇸🇴🇹🇷🇦🇪 - Prominent independent Somali journalist Bashir Hashi Yussuf has claimed that the recent strikes off the coast of Puntland were carried out by the United Arab Emirates, not Turkey, and are intended to create the impression that Ankara is responsible for the deaths of civilians fishermen (as per the authorities in Somaliland).

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23 August 2026 21:19

🇹🇷🇸🇴⚡- Following the Turkish airstrike on Eyl yesterday, Turkey's air force attacked the coast of Jiifle, Nugaal province in Puntland, today, killing nine.

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23 August 2026 21:01

🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡- "Russia has launched a fresh wave of attacks on European armaments factories under the guise of plausible deniability.

The Kremlin is recruiting local gang members to sabotage defence manufacturers to test NATO's resolve.

The attacks appear carefully calculated to fall just short of triggering Article 5, Nato’s mutual defence clause," - Western intelligence sources tell The Telegraph.

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23 August 2026 05:44

🇮🇷⚡️ — Mehdi Rahimi, Head of Iran's Parliament's official news agency Khaneh Mellat, claims in an interview with Al-Mayadeen that Iran has received an invitation to join the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Türkiye.

Rahimi also praised perceived efforts by states in West Asia to create a regional security umbrella, adding that Iran has long sought such an initiative.

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23 August 2026 00:22

🇸🇩🇹🇩⚡- Chad confirms Sudanese drones and jets launched several airstrikes well inside Chadian territory.

Chad's military "denounced the new violation."

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22 August 2026 23:26

🇹🇷🇸🇴⚡- Turkey carried out an airstrike off the coast of Eyl in Puntland's Nugaal region, northern Somalia, killing four people.

The strike came in response to the recent hijacking of the Turkish military cargo vessel LUTOF by Puntland-based pirate groups. Turkey used aircraft based at Mogadishu's airport to carry out the attack. Ironically, authorities in the breakaway region of Somaliland condemned the operation, claiming the victims were four civilian fishermen rather than pirates.

Note, Eyl has long been regarded as one of Somalia's most notorious piracy hubs and is widely associated with forces loyal to Farah Hirsi Kulan (Booyah). Kulan previously held several positions within the Somali government, while Booyah-loyalists continue holding influence within Puntland's governing structures.

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22 August 2026 23:08

🇰🇪🇸🇴⚡- Al-Shabaab launched a cross-border attack on a Kenyan military base in Mangai, northeast Kenya, at -1.7477909, 41.1778682.

The attack was repelled but left two Kenyan soldiers dead. Al-Shabaab continues to operate almost entirely freely in the Boni forest region.

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22 August 2026 21:40

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israel must stop Erdogan’s military expansion before Turkey reaches its borders.

Unless Israel draws concrete red lines in Syria and the eastern Mediterranean, the Turkish army and navy will further encroach upon Israel’s northern and maritime borders.

Israel could find itself facing Turkish tanks on the Golan Heights and Turkish frigates off the coast of Caesarea," - A very senior Israeli intelligence official tells The Jerusalem Post.

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22 August 2026 12:18

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: An Israeli drone strike struck a vehicle near Beit Jinn, Damascus countryside, southern Syria, killing one, injuring two others.

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22 August 2026 00:13

🇸🇩🇹🇩⚡- In what could prove to be one of the most significant escalations of the Sudanese civil war to date, initial reports suggest the Sudanese Armed Forces, SAF, may have carried out airstrikes well inside Chadian territory, targeting Rapid Support Forces, RSF, supply routes.

The supply corridor targeted appears to be the Merechal-Darfur line, a key logistical route first highlighted by Rerum Novarum in June 2025.