US News
- The Pentagon is two years behind on implementing efficiency reforms. [Link]
Great Power
- Putin says Russia will carry out reciprocal tests to the US testing a ground-launched intermediate-range cruise missile. [Link]
- The US sent a Navy ship through the Taiwan Strait. [Link]
Myanmar
- Fighting in Myanmar has displaced 2,000 and left 19 dead. [Link]
Iran
- Matthew Petti explains how the UK lost a tanker battle with Iran. [Link]
- The US plans to aggressively enforce sanctions against the Iranian supertanker – formerly the grace 1 – by sanctioning anyone assisting the ship. [Link]
- Iran will negotiate a possible deal with France to save the JCPOA. [Link]
Middle East
- A bomb killed one Israeli in the West Bank. Palestinians are being accused of planting the bomb. [Link]
- Turkey said three soldiers were killed in clashes with Kurdish militants near the Syrian border. [Link]
- Trump threatens to start sending ISIS fighters imprisoned by the Syrian Kurds back to their European homelands. [Link]
- The US now claims Israel bomb a PMF ammo depot in Iraq on July 19th. The PMF militants are backed by the US in the fight against ISIS. [Link]
Congo
- Ebola has spread to a remote militant region of the Congo. While the virus is spreading, a new vaccine is improving survival rates. [Link]
