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Baltic States

British journalist Graham Phillips was arrested in Latvia. Was filming SS veterans march . March video, with Phillips seen at 8:36 and later--Resup (talk) 11:28, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

North Korea

I think it's clear that the best will be for NK to abandon nuclear program in exchange for unbreakable security guarantees (how? like unarmed peacekeepers? Rus/Chi?), + lifting sanctions and normalization of relations overall. But, US diplomacy was not successful and there is no indication that there is something which may change that, standalone. That could be a (much stronger) push by Russia - but state of relations stay bad, and poisoned -or China, which is already at the end of what it is likely to do. That leaves a choice between letting it be or going ahead, and it is a hard choice, but going ahead is not excluded, and it is not excluded from public pronouncements-actually aimed to find a peaceful solution. --10:06, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

Russia tries to convince South, North Korea to start talks — upper house speaker -TASS, October 13, 16:20 UTC+3 (=13:20 UTC)

Kim Jong Un rumours

According to the Cassad page Resup linked the 'fresh footage' is of him visiting Samjiyon in the north. Whilst 'South Korean sources' have him staying at Wonsan in the south. --Diagonal (talk) 15:05, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Afghanistan

According to Murad Gazdiev (Twitter) the warnings of an attack at Kabul airport were passed to NATO from the Taliban. --Diagonal (talk) 18:06, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

ISKP (Khorasan Province/Vilayat) claims responsibility --Resup (talk) 19:50, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

istishhadi who carried out attack at Kabul airport was named Abdul Rahman al-Lugawi

What we know so far – IS claims responsibility for attack - The Guardian, 23:23 on 26 Aug, 2021

The Associated Press reports that the statement carried a photo of what the militant group said was the bomber who carried out the attack. The image shows the alleged attacker standing with the explosive belt in front of the black IS flag with a black cloth covering his face, only his eyes showing.
An IS official Amaq news agency said on its Telegram channel that the member was named Abdul Rahman al-Logari. The name suggests the the killer was Afghan.
IS also said the bomber managed to get past Taliban security checkpoints to come within 5 meters (yards) of a gathering of US soldiers, translators and collaborators before detonating his explosives. It said Taliban were also among the casualties.
The statement also said the bomber got around US security measures and that the camp that was targeted was where US forces were gathering paperwork for those who’ve worked with the military, AP reports.
It is important to note that these claims have not been verified independently – they are Islamic State’s version of what occurred

Social media: A US drone has struck a house in eastern Nangarhar province Qala-e-Naghrak 7th District, last night 12:00AM. The U.S. military says a key IS member who was mastermind of the Kabul airport attack is killed in an airstrike (some photos)

Centcom: U.S. military forces conducted an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation today against an ISIS-K planner. The unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan. Initial indications are that we killed the target. We know of no civilian casualties.- Capt. Bill Urban, USN, U.S. Central Command Spokesman

--Resup (talk) 12:19, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

Pentagon update says that 2 high profile IS killed and 1 wounded (maj. gen. William Taylor on video).

Taliban's defense minister Abdul Qayyum Zakir was a Guantanamo Bay prisoner, later released.