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Water Is A Luxury: Complete Water Cut In Kyiv Exposes Fragility of Critical Infrastructure
On the morning of January 31, the city of Kyiv, with its millions of residents, fell into a silence broken only by the howling wind. Not only had the metro and trams stopped, but for the first time since the war began, the pumps supplying the city with water had ceased operating completely. The total shutdown of the water supply in all districts of the Ukrainian capital marked the darkest period of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict thus far, exposing the fragility of the metropolis’s life support systems when critical infrastructure is attacked.
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Iran-Aligned Armed Factions In Iraq Unveils Underground Missile Base In Message To U.S.
Saraya Awliya al-Dam (SAD), one of the most active Iran-aligned armed factions in Iraq, on January 31 released a video showing a missile tunnel, in what appears to be an indirect threat to the United States in response to recent escalation against the Islamic Republic.
The faction didn’t provide any details about the tunnel, dubbed “Awliya Facility,” but it is clear from the video that it is fairly large.
The footage shows several truck-mounted dual missile launchers moving inside the tunnel, which is decorated with a banner reading “Death To America, Death To Israel” in addition to the photos of several living and dead regional leaders of the so-called Axis of Resistance.
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Breakthrough In Pokrovsk Sector: Russian Troops Enter Belytske Amid Ukrainian Collapse
In the Zaporizhzhia sector, Russian units have expanded their zone of control in the Lukyanivske area. Reports also indicate that they have established control over Richne.
In the Pokrovsk sector, the Russian army has advanced towards Belytske and Novyi Donbas. Fighting and counterattacks are ongoing there.
In the Kramatorsk sector, Russian units are advancing, fighting in the Nykyforivka area and on the heights west of Bondarne.
In the Sloviansk sector, the assault on Krasnyi Liman continues with a broad envelopment, as well as fighting in Oleksandrivka and the Yarova area.
In the Sumy and Kharkiv sectors, assault groups are advancing quickly, overcoming resistance and difficult weather conditions.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that Hungary does not take sides in the conflict in Ukraine and only defends its own interests.
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Military Situation In Northern Palestine On January 31, 2026 (Map Update)
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Military Situation In Ukraine On January 31, 2026 (Maps Update)
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The Foreign Legion's Grim Harvest: Bodies Pile Up as Ukraine Trains a Global Security Threat
The number of foreign mercenaries killed in Ukraine continues to steadily grow. Among the foreign contractors fighting alongside the Ukrainian army are those seeking easy money and ideological Nazis.
The disbanding of the "International Legion" in early January 2026 has begun to impact both the mercenaries and the Ukrainian army. According to several media reports, however, the number of foreigners willing to defend Ukraine's independence has noticeably decreased.
The growing number of international scandals has also contributed to the decline. The international community is beginning to realize that legalized mass mercenary activity in Ukraine is a ticking time bomb. The entire country has become a large training ground for mass combat for anyone who wants it. Then, all of these people trained to kill will return home, and statistics show that their chances of starting a peaceful life from scratch are slim.
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Russia’s Latest Sarma MLRS Shipped To Saudi Arabia For Arms Expo (Photos)
Russia’s state tech corporation Rostec will unveil its newest high-mobility multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) Sarma at the World Defense Show 2026 exhibition, which opens its doors in the capital of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, from February 8 to 12.
"The Rostec State Corporation will unveil its latest high-mobility multiple launch rocket system, the Sarma, for the first time. The weapon system’s premiere will take place at the World Defense Show 2026 international defense and security exhibition in Riyadh as part of Rosoboronexport’s display," the company said in a statement posted to Telegram.
The Sarma is based on the KamAZ 63501 armored 8x8 chassis, and boasts six 300 mm launch tubes, in addition to a new automated fire control and guidance suite.
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Zaporizhzhia Front: Russian Troops Broke Into Terhnuvate, Encirclement Of Ukrainian Forces In Orikhiv May Be Close
In the Zaporizhzhia area, Russian forces have advanced to the Konka River line, establishing control over Richne. In the Kostyantynivka area, a southern flank offensive is underway, with Russian forces reportedly controlling Berestok and advancing into Kostiantynivka's center.
In the Kupiansk area, troops are fighting for control of the northern approaches to Kupiansk after crossing the Nyzhnya Dvurechna River. They are now battling for control of Kutkivka's center.
In the Sumy sector, Russian assault units are accelerating their offensive and advancing on Northal subsectors. In the Kharkiv sector, advances have been made in the Vovchansk area and on Northal other fronts, despite challenging terrain and difficult weather conditions.
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Russian Army Advances In Two Directions Increasing Pressure On Ukrainian Logistics In Zaporizhzhia (Videos)
On January 30, the Russian military captured two settlements in different directions in Zaporizhzhia, approaching two of the main supply routes leading to the key city of Orikhiv.
The Vostok [East] Group of Forces advanced to the west of the Haichur River, also known as the Gaychur, and captured Ternovatoye, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, which noted that the attack on the settlement was led by the 29th Combined Arms Army's 36th Motorized Rifle Brigade.
“As a result of active combat operations, servicemen from Transbaikal took control over an important area of enemy defenses on the west bank of the Gaychur River up to 5 kilometers deep and an area of more than 20 square kilometers. More than 580 buildings were mopped up,” the ministry said in a statement.
The ministry added that Kiev forces lost a large number of troops, in addition to 20 vehicles and around 50 drones.
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Military Situation In Ukraine On January 30, 2026 (Maps Update)
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Ukrainian Army Loses Control Over Novyi Donbas: Russian Units Reach Dobropillia
In the Pokrovsk sector, intense fighting continues on the southern outskirts of Hirshyne. The advance of Russian troops is being slowed by well-prepared defensive positions and the extensive use of drones.
In the Krasnolimansk sector, troops have seized control of part of the Kirovsk–Krasnyi Liman highway and begun offensive operations on the eastern outskirts of the city, advancing to Sovetskaya Street.
In the Zaporizhzhia sector, specifically the Orikhiv sub-sector, troops advanced along the former shoreline of the Kakhovka Reservoir.
In Huliaipole, they consolidated positions in the western part of the city. In the Sumy and Kharkiv sectors, assault groups advanced into several subsectors, reaching depths of up to 600 and 400 meters, respectively.
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U.S. Is Still Planning To Attack Iran, Israeli Army Is Read To Act
United States President Donald Trump is continuing to push his aides to devise what he calls “decisive” military options against Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported January 20.
Trump has repeatedly threatened the Islamic Republic over a wave of protests since the beginning of the month, going as far as vowing to punish the government if protesters are killed.
Different sources and monitoring groups estimated the death toll between 4,000-16,000. However, Iranian state TV reported that only 3,117 were killed, including both protesters and security personnel.
Citing US officials, The Wall Street Journal said that Trump has repeatedly employed the word “decisive” when discussing what outcome he would want from a U.S. attack on Iran, leading aides at the White House and Pentagon to draw up an array of options for him — among them actions that would be aimed at toppling the regime.
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U.S. Launches Mission To Move 7,000 ISIS Detainees From Syria To Iraq
The United States military Central Command (CENCOM) announced on January 21 that it had launched a new mission to transfer ISIS detainees from northeastern Syria to Iraq to “help ensure the terrorists remain in secure detention facilities.”
The announcement came amid a large-scale offensive by the Islamist-led Syrian government on the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northeastern region of the country. Government forces captured most of the region in the last few days.
Some prisons hosting ISIS detainees were broken into, and at least dozens managed to escape from one facility in the town of al-Shaddadi in al-Haskah.
Government troops also took over a refugee camp near the town of al-Hawl in the same governorate, which hosts more than 25,000 people, most of whom are relatives of members of the terrorist group. It was allegedly that over a thousand escaped from there.
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U.S. Abandoned Syrian Kurds Because They Refused To Fight Iran’s Allies In Iraq
The United States abandoned the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) because the Kurdish-led group refused a request to fight the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in Iraq, Rami Abdulrahman, the director of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), revealed on January 20.
The SDF was founded more than ten years ago with direct support from the U.S. in order to battle ISIS in Syria, specifically in the northeastern part of the country.
The PMF was formed by Iran-aligned armed factions in Iraq at around the same time, also to fight the terrorist group, and was later recognized by the government.
The U.S., which has been pressuring the Iraqi government to disarm PMF factions, recently stood on the side as the Islamist-led Syrian government launched a large-scale offensive against its Kurdish allies. Within a few days, the group lost most of its territories in the northeast of the country.
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Trump’s “Consolidation” Grand Strategy Colliding With Big Tech, Deep State And Israeli Interests
As the US confronts multipolarity and internal fracture, Trump’s foreign policy oscillates between restraint and escalation. Expert A. Wess Mitchell’s argues the concept of consolidation is Trump’s grand strategy, however delegating European defense and deprioritizing the Middle East may be far harder in practice. Greenland, Iran, and NATO emerge as the major contradictions.
Trump’s Washington is pursuing so many different things at once that understanding US foreign policy today has become a difficult exercise even for seasoned observers. Trade wars and peace talks, threats and gestures of conciliation, withdrawals and escalations all coexist uneasily in Washington’s messaging.
Into this confusion steps A. Wess Mitchell’s recent article, “The Grand Strategy Behind Trump’s Foreign Policy”. Mitchell, a former assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia, argues that there is a coherent logic behind the Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy (NSS). According to Mitchell, that logic is “consolidation”: a historically grounded “grand strategy” whereby an overstretched great power accepts short-term “tradeoffs” to rebuild its underlying strength for long-term competition.
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Afghanistan–Pakistan Standoff Becoming South Asia’s Most Dangerous Crisis, Eclipsing Kashmir
South Asia’s next potential pressure point may lie not along the Line of Control in Kashmir, but westward, along the volatile Afghanistan–Pakistan border. This frontier is quickly emerging as a central driver of regional instability.
As expert Michael Kugelman recently noted, an underreported conflict is gaining momentum between Pakistan authorities in Islamabad and the Taliban government in Kabul. It is centered on Pakistan’s claims that Kabul tolerates, if not outright supports, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants operating against Islamabad. This confrontation now risks even eclipsing the traditional India–Pakistan rivalry as the region’s most explosive security dilemma.
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Engineering Vehicles Hit: Summary Of Russian Combat Footage From January 31, 2026
On January 31, several videos documenting some of the Russian military’s recent operations against Kiev forces surfaced online.
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Russian Army Deals Double Blow To Ukraine, Seizing Settlements In Zaporozhye And Donetsk (Videos)
In Zaporozhye, the Vostok [East] Group of Forces captured Petrovka, located to the northwest of the key city of Huliaipole, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, which said that the attack on the settlement was led by the 5th Combined Arms Army's 127th Division.
In Donetsk, another settlement, Toretskoye, was captured by the Tsentr [Center] Group of Forces, according to the ministry.
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Series Of Mysterious Blasts Rock Iran Amid Tensions With U.S. (Videos)
A series of mysterious blasts rocked major cities across Iran on January 31, amid rising tensions with the United States and Israel.
Since the start of the month, U.S. President Trump has repeatedly threatened military action if Iran killed protesters or carried out mass executions of prisoners. Recent days saw the U.S. deploying additional military assets to the Middle East, including the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and its strike group.
The most serious incident occurred in the province of Hormozgan, where an explosion hit an eight-story building in the port city of Bandar Abbas.
Following the blast, claims emerged that the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy had been targeted.
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Syrian Army Jihadists Unit Shares Dramatic Footage Of Attacks On Kurdish Forces
Twaq, a military media group affiliated with the Syrian military's 82nd Special Forces Division, on January 31 released a video documenting some of its recent operations during the government offensive against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northeastern region of the country earlier this month.
The four-minute video, titled "Moment of Separation,” shows fighters from the group and other formations of the division ambushing SDF fighters, storming a fortified position of the group, and blowing up some of its tunnels.
The 82nd Special Forces Division is mainly made up of fighters and commanders, including foreigners, from the al-Qaeda-affiliated Ansar al-Tawhid. The division was in fact one of several established after the fall of the regime of former president Bashar al-Assad to integrate radical jihadist groups into the new Syrian military.
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Saudi Arabia Shifts To Support War On Iran As It Secures $9 Billion Patriot Deal
Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman warned in private briefings in Washington that if United States President Donald Trump does not follow through on his threats against Iran, Tehran’s leadership would emerge stronger, Axios reported on January 30, citing multiple sources.
The American news website said that Khalid bin Salman, a close confidant of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, made the remarks amid rising regional tensions and growing speculation about possible U.S. military action against Iran.
Since the start of the month, Trump has repeatedly threatened military action if Iran killed protesters or carried out mass executions of prisoners.
Khalid bin Salman’s comments marked a shift from Saudi Arabia’s public stance, which has emphasized restraint and warned against escalation.
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F-16 Hit: Summary Of Russian Combat Footage From January 30, 2026
On January 30, several videos documenting some of the Russian military’s recent operations against Kiev forces surfaced online.
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A BRIEF HALT IN STRIKES CAN'T SAVE KYIV'S GRID OR STOP RUSSIA'S NORTHERN PUSH
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Fresh Satellite Images Provide Detailed Looks At U.S. Military Buildup In Qatar's Al Udeid
China’s MizarVision on January 30 released fresh satellite images from Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, providing a detailed look at the ongoing United States military buildup there amid rising tensions with Iran.
With over 10,000 American troops, Al Udeid is considered one of the U.S. Central Command’s largest facilities in the Middle East.
Iran fired 14 ballistic missiles at the air base towards the end of the June war with Israel, after the U.S. attacked three of its nuclear facilities. Only one of the missiles impacted, destroying an advanced communication terminal. While all other missiles were intercepted, the strike still highlighted the vulnerability of the base.
An image released by MizarVision earlier this week revealed the deployment of an additional MIM-104 Patriot long-range air defense system at Al Udeid.
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Israeli Planes Are Spraying Syrian Farms Near The Front With Mysterious Chemicals (Videos)
An Israeli agricultural aircraft sprayed multiple farms in the southern Syrian governorate of al-Qunitra with unknown chemicals on January 30, in the third such incident in recent days.
The state-run SANA news agency reported that the Israeli aircraft sprayed a wide area from the town of Jabata al-Khashab to the town of al-Hamidiyah, passing through the town of al-Hurriya in the northern countryside of al-Quneitra. Videos of the incident later surfaced online.
On January 27, a similar substance was sprayed by Israeli aircraft over farms west of the town of Mazrat Abu Madhra and the town of al-Hanout in the southern Quneitra countryside. Two days prior, the forested areas, farms, and pastures in the towns of al-Ashah, Koudna, al-Asbah, and al-Rafid, also in the governorate southern countryside, were sprayed.
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A TACTIC OF DARKNESS: HOW RUSSIA IS STRANGLING UKRAINE'S NUCLEAR ENERGY LIFELINE
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Trump’s “Board of Peace”: A Pay-to-Play UN – New Colonialism, Rebranded
Tomorrow in Davos, Switzerland – on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum – Donald Trump’s administration is set to stage a signing ceremony for the charter of a so-called “Board of Peace,” an initiative marketed as a mechanism to rebuild Gaza but increasingly resembling an overt attempt to construct a parallel U.N. architecture under direct U.S. control.
The international response has been anything but unified. France has flatly refused to participate; Russia is demanding clarifications and guarantees of equal status; China has reiterated its commitment to a U.N.-centered order; and most European capitals are hedging, waiting to see which way the wind blows.
Draft charter language obtained by major media outlets points to an unprecedented concentration of authority in Trump’s hands. The U.S. president is named the “first chairman of the Board of Peace” with sweeping powers:
He decides unilaterally which states may join.
He holds veto power over any decision.
He appoints his successor.
He remains chairman even after leaving office as U.S. president.
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Military Situation In Ukraine On January 21, 2026 (Maps Update)
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Government Forces Slaughtered Kurds, Took Their Eyes And Tongues Out In Northeast Syria (18+ Videos)
The forces of the Islamist-led Syrian Transitional Government (STG) have committed a series of atrocities during their offensive against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northeast of the country, against both fighters of the group and civilians.
The large-scale offensive which began from the eastern countryside of the Aleppo governorate on January 13, continued even after the SDF accepted a merger agreement on January 18, with government forces and allied Arab tribes taking over most of the governorates of Raqqa, Deir Ezzor and even al-Hasakah, where Kurds are the majority.
Reports of violations, including possible war crimes, by government forces and tribal fighters began to surface from the very first day.
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U.S. F-15s Land In Middle East Amid Tensions With Iran
The United States military’s Central Command (CENCOM) announced on January 20 that it has boosted its capabilities in the Middle East with the arrival of an F-15 fighter jet squadron, amid the ongoing tensions with Iran.
CENTCOM published on X a photo of an F-15E from the 494th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron landing at an undisclosed base in the Middle East earlier this week. The command said that the presence of the F-15s in the region “enhances combat readiness and promotes regional security and stability.”
The air base in question is reported to be Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. The same squadron was deployed to the air base in April 2024 to counter Iran’s drone and missile barrage on Israel.
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