Month: July 2026

#OSINT A Turkish Air Force A400M Atlas (TUAF758, 16-0055) flew from Tekirdağ, Turkey 🇹🇷 to a airfield in Mali 🇲🇱.
>Tekirdağ is a hub for Baykar Technology.
>Baykar is the manufacturer of  Bayraktar TB2 & Akıncı UAV.
>Mali (AES) operates TB2 combat drones to aid antiterrorism ops.

A 19-year-old man was struck in the head with a machete during a violent clash involving up to 10 migrants on Frankfurt’s busy Zeil shopping street.
A 20-year-old suspect attacked the victim with a machete, causing head injuries.

In total, four people were arrested.
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NEW: Taiwanese LY Speaker Han Kuo-yu led a multipartisan Taiwanese delegation to the United States, to meet with bipartisan groups of US  Congresspeople. This visit was likely a way for Han to stabilize  US-Taiwan relations and present a united Taiwanese front to the United  States amid Taiwanese partisan disputes and delays to a US arms sale package to Taiwan.

Other Key Takeaways:
Taiwan conducted a tabletop exercise on June 25 to simulate its response to a PRC maritime “quarantine,” based on PRC coercive maritime activity around Taiwan. The William Lai Ching-te administration has taken concrete steps to prepare government and military bodies to respond to PRC maritime coercion.

CCP  General Secretary Xi Jinping purged six PLA officers and nine other NPC  delegates from across the PLA system, indicating that anti-corruption campaign may be widening beyond its previous areas of focus. The PLA ran an ideological camp from April 8 to June 12 that was personally launched by Xi, indicating that Xi may believe further ideological work must be completed within the PLA.