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The triumphant victory of the Taliban only seems final. Right now, several military and political leaders of Afghanistan are gathering their forces to fight the Taliban. Who are these people, what regions and resources are behind them – and do they have a chance to defeat the religious fanatics who entered Kabul so easily?

On Tuesday, August 17, a group of inspectors from Russia visited one of the military facilities in Lithuania. The head of the Russian National Center for Reducing Nuclear Danger, Sergey Ryzhkov, explained that such business trips are organized to check information about the military forces and plans for the deployment of major weapons systems and military equipment. Such international control is provided for in the Vienna Document of 2011 on Confidence-and Security-building Measures.

Russia poses the main military threat to the United States, this opinion was expressed on Tuesday, August 17, by the head of the Northern Command of the United States Armed Forces, General Glen Vanherk.

Russian modernized tanks have advantages over the outdated Polish T-72 and PT-91 Twardy, director of the Institute of Military Strategy of the Academy of Martial Arts, Lieutenant General Bohuslav Samol, who headed the command of the NATO multinational corps "North-East"in 2012-2015, admitted in an interview with Defence24.

The United States and Canada have agreed on concrete steps to modernize the Joint Aerospace Defense Command of North America (NORAD). This is stated in a joint statement of the defense ministers of the two countries.

Lieutenant General of the Polish Armed Forces Bohuslav Samol compared NATO and Russian tanks

The Defence24 edition interviewed the Polish Lieutenant General Bohuslav Samol. The reason for the conversation was Poland's plans to purchase a large batch of Abrams tanks.

The mankind is moving towards destruction by leaps and bounds, as it does not rationally consume goods and resources, according to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, President of the Russian Geographical Society Sergei Shoigu.

On August 15, 22 military aircraft and 24 military helicopters of Afghanistan illegally crossed the airspace of Uzbekistan, carrying 585 armed servicemen of the neighboring country. The aircraft were forcibly landed at the international airport of Termez, the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office of Uzbekistan reported on Monday.

US allies using the fifth-generation multi-role fighter F-35 Lightning II will not have access to complete information about the aircraft.

The American UH-60 Black Hawk multi-purpose helicopter has been in service for more than 40 years. It is operated by the military of almost three dozen countries. During this time, a large number of different modifications have been created that can perform combat, search and rescue, sanitary, anti-submarine and other tasks.

The IAEA is sounding the alarm because of the rapid acceleration of Iran's uranium enrichment process. After reports emerged in April that Iran had raised its enrichment level to 60%, new data from the Natanz plant suggests that Tehran is on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon.

US NATO allies could not stay in Afghanistan after Washington decided to withdraw its contingent from this country, Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told CNN.

Artillery units of the armed forces of the Government of National Accord of Libya have adopted a wheeled self-propelled installation based on the Ural-4320 car. Such an ACS, armed with a D-30 howitzer, was recently lit up for the first time in one of the training centers during a visit to this facility by the leadership of the PNS.

US President Joe Biden said that he does not consider it right to send the American army to participate in long civil wars in other countries.

US President Joe Biden said on Monday that Washington had provided comprehensive support to the Afghan forces so that they could fight against the Taliban (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation).

Looking at the weapons available to the United States, their opponents should, when talking about a possible attack on the country, say to themselves: "Not today." The main goal of the Pentagon was named by the deputy chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces of the United States, General John Hyten. This is reported by The National Interest.

Representatives of the European Parliament (EP) issued a statement on Monday expressing concern that Russia and China may take advantage of the events in Afghanistan.

Within the framework of the competition, participants will have three stages: "Obstacle course", "Survival Trail" and "Relay race"

Marines from China, Iran, Venezuela, Abkhazia and South Ossetia arrived in Vladivostok to take part in the final stage of the competition of the Army International Games ("ArMI-2021") "Marine landing". This was reported on Tuesday by the press service of the Pacific Fleet (TOPF).

The use of long-range Tu-22M3 bombers as a "long arm" will be Russia's response to the possible aggression of the Taliban against the CSTO countries, former Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Army General Yuri Baluyevsky, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The Minister of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan, Colonel-General of the Militia Ramazona Rahimzoda, met with representatives of the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China under the leadership of Liu Yunfeng, the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan reports.