Free Republic

#BREAKING Explosions at the headquarters of the Iranian Defense Forces in Ashrat Abad, the capital of Iran, Tehran. pic.twitter.com/KWt5uqCsG1— Intelligence FRONT (@Intelligencefnt) October 21, 2023

Ukraine has ordered 100 Rosomak multi-purpose armoured vehicles, which are made in Poland under a Finnish license, Poland's prime minister said on Saturday. "I bring an order placed yesterday by (Ukrainian) Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal for 100 Rosomaks that will be fabricated here," Mateusz Morawiecki said during a visit to the Rosomak manufacturing site in the southern Polish town of Siemianowice Slaskie. The order will be financed through funds that Poland has received from the European Union and US funds that Ukraine has received, he said, without providing details or the overall cost of the contract.

The government of Russia dismissed the potential on Tuesday of a shipment of dozens of American tanks, promised by left-wing President Joe Biden, to change the momentum of its invasion of Ukraine, suggesting they would “burn just like all the others.” Top Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday, following Biden’s announcement, that the plan to equip Ukraine with tanks in anticipation of the ground in the country thawing in spring was “disastrous.” “I am certain that many experts understand the absurdity of this idea. The plan is disastrous in terms of technology,” Peskov said during his daily press...

A suspected World War Two bomb has exploded in a Bangkok scrap yard, killing at least seven people and injuring 19. Workers were using a blow-torch to take the bomb apart and detonated it in the process, officials say.

"Two teens were smoking as they jumped atop an oil tank in Routt National Forest just before it exploded, the Rio Blanco County undersheriff said Tuesday." ""Some poor judgments were made," Joos said. "They (went) to an area they shouldn't have been at to jump up and down on an oil tank."" "But assigning a cause to the freak accident is of little consolation to residents of the small south Routt County towns where residents are grieving the deaths of Samuel Hedemark, 17, and Christopher Fuller, 19. "A release valve on the top of the tank prevents vapors from building...

SIX suspected Taliban militants were killed when a landmine they were planting on a road exploded in Afghanistan's insurgency-hit southern province of Kandahar, officials said today. The incident occurred last night in Maywand district, Kandahar police chief Abdul Malik Wahidi said. Maywand administration chief Mohammad Nabi Idari said the men were planting the landmine on a road used by Afghan and US forces on patrol. The dead were believed to be Taliban, whose regime was ousted by a US-led military campaign in late 2001 for sheltering terror mastermind Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda network. Separately police said they had...