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US President Joe Biden on Monday at a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadimi said that the American combat mission on Iraqi territory will be completed by the end of 2021, reports CBS News Radio.

Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak announced Warsaw's plans to deploy American tanks on the borders of Russia and Belarus and did not even hide why they are needed there.

The French Foreign Ministry said on Monday that Iran, by not returning to negotiations on a nuclear deal, threatens the conclusion of an agreement on the revival of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Western media reported.

The negotiations between Ankara and Kiev on the supply of weapons to Ukraine should not affect Turkey's relations with Russia. This was stated on July 27 by professor of the Turkish University of Maltepe Hassan Unal.

The issue of the return of Russian border guards to the Tajik-Afghan border is not on the agenda, Tajik Foreign Minister Sirodjiddin Mukhriddin said at a press conference in Dushanbe on Tuesday.

An Israeli AH-64 Apache combat helicopter made an emergency landing in the West Bank of the Jordan River.

According to a number of sources, during the flight, all control systems of the Israeli combat vehicle suddenly failed.

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon discussed the situation in Afghanistan with Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe in Dushanbe on Tuesday, the press service of the Tajik leader reported.

The American magazine The National Interest has recognized the new Russian submarine K-329 Belgorod, equipped with Poseidon unmanned vehicles, as the most advanced submarine of the Russian Navy.

Forecasts about how the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq will affect the situation in the region are still premature, but the Kremlin would not like this country to join the list of unstable territories, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

Russia cannot ignore the supply of Turkish Bayraktar attack UAVs to Ukraine, since even a few dozen of such machines pose a direct threat to the residents of Donbass, many of whom are citizens of the Russian Federation.

About 1 thousand Russian servicemen will take part in a trilateral exercise in Tajikistan near the border with Afghanistan, the Central Military District (CVO) reports.

The Lithuanian army is ready to set up checkpoints with armored vehicles at the camps of illegal migrants who arrived in the republic from the territory of Belarus. This was announced on Tuesday, July 27, by the head of the country's Defense Ministry Arvydas Anushauskas.

The BRDM-2M and two versions of the T-62 tanks were demonstrated at a recent military parade in Tajikistan. Due to the serious aggravation of the situation in neighboring Afghanistan, an inspection of the armed forces of the republic was carried out, which ended with a solemn march of the units involved in the large-scale event.

The Syrian army continues to operate the Kvadrat anti-aircraft missile systems (NATO designation SA-6 Gainful), which are an export version of the Kub systems. The army of a friendly country began to receive them from the Soviet Union in the early 70s, almost immediately after the appearance of this modification.

On Tuesday, July 27, Russia submitted to the UN a draft convention on countering the use of information and communication technologies for criminal purposes.

Russian radars located in the Rostov region near the border with Ukraine "distorted" the images taken by the European Sentinel-1 satellite, writes Defense Blog.

The deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria, Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, said that President Assad's troops successfully repelled an attack by Israeli aircraft with the help of Russian-made air defense systems early on Sunday.

Israeli Air Force fighter jets attacked a military base that housed a number of buildings used by Hamas members, the Israel Defense Forces said.

The Soviet medium-range mobile missile systems RSD-10 "Pioneer", also known as SS-20, were called the"Thunderstorm of Europe". And for good reason. They could hit targets with warheads with a capacity of 150 kilotons at a distance of up to 5000 km.

Russian radar stations (radars) over the past week escorted 47 foreign vehicles near the borders of the country, follows from the data of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, published on Monday, July 26, on the website of the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda".