War Monitor

A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck Japan, prompting a tsunami warning. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the epicenter was located east of Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan, with tremors reportedly felt as far away as Tokyo. A tsunami warning of up to three meters was issued for the eastern and northeastern coasts, and residents in coastal areas were urged to evacuate immediately.

The Royal Thai Army conducted a strike early this morning near the Preah Vihear Temple in the Choam Khsant District, destroying the headquarters of the Cambodian Army’s 1st Company.

The IDF carried out a strike in Deir al-Balah targeting a Hamas operative who was allegedly planning an imminent attack on Israeli forces. Palestinian media is reporting multiple casualties. https://blossom.primal.net/9923d6604a692259866ab147f488e1f15c8f58efc16caee9d859e3e5f3c21626.mp4

Ahmad al-Sharaa, the current president of Syria, said that in November 2024, when he began advancing on the positions of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, he received a message from Putin telling him to stop in Aleppo and go no further, or else “the situation would worsen.” Al-Sharaa ignored the warning, advanced, overthrew Assad, and now governs Syria. Putin still maintains control over the two bases Russia holds in the country, but Russian soldiers are not allowed to leave the perimeter of those bases “for security reasons.” https://blossom.primal.net/15834d28fc148413bb88c16ea2075b33a5e85bb3ffcaafad4de8e57ac5f78397.mp4

Syria is marking the first anniversary of the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the end of the Ba’ath Party’s 61-year rule. Hundreds of people and flag-bearing cars filled Damascus’ main square in celebration.

🚨Venezuela 🇻🇪: Nicolás Maduro is recruiting an army of “socialist fighters” to confront the American threat. https://blossom.primal.net/05d96ab6ee4f1a9bf0fbb84ba54ac7b7ae6ba6fa46e9e0abe09fd9056482841c.mp4

Soldiers from the Royal Thai Army’s First Army Area used an anti-materiel rifle to destroy the Golden Horse Monument — a symbol honoring the Royal Cambodian Army’s 3rd Support Division — located in Phlan Hin Paet Kon along the Thailand–Cambodia border. https://blossom.primal.net/e517afb4b014c147124a02cb0ae70d7e9f794ea4954e1a0d06029a47f453fa62.mp4

Security cameras in the Cambodian border town of Phum Prey Chan captured Royal Thai Army M113A3 armored personnel carriers and troops from the First Army Area’s Burapha Task Force crossing the Thai-Cambodian border this morning into Thailand’s Sa Kaeo Province.

In the Lyman direction, FPV drones from the Third Army Corps destroyed a self-propelled gun, a mortar, a motorcycle, an antenna, and several Russian shelters. Footage of the operation was released by the “FATUM” unit of the 60th Mechanized Brigade. https://blossom.primal.net/be8946309d9c6f4dbc45388d99c98b49887d4041cbbc045c281982b422ce8874.mp4

Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has announced that the peace treaty with Cambodia — signed about two months ago and guaranteed by both Malaysia and the United States — is now void. He has also ordered the shutdown of all remaining negotiation channels with Cambodia, declaring that the matter is solely between Thailand and its “adversary.”

The United States is expected to unveil a long-awaited farm aid package on Monday, providing $12 billion in assistance to farmers affected by low crop prices and recent tariff policies, Bloomberg News reported Sunday, citing a White House official.

Royal Thai Air Force F-16A Fighting Falcons have conducted multiple strikes on the Chong Arn Ma Casino, located across from Nam Yuen District in Thailand’s Ubon Ratchathani Province. The abandoned casino, situated near the Thai–Cambodian border, has reportedly been repurposed by the Cambodian Army as a command-and-control center and munitions depot. The Chong Arn Ma Casino — along with several other deserted resorts along the frontier — was also heavily targeted during the previous round of clashes between the two countries in July. https://blossom.primal.net/d307066ef5f6929bece34f97dc884243e747482e1e2eab7bf14c67c06f17cda5.mp4

According to the Royal Thai Army, the casualty count from today’s renewed clashes along the border between Thailand and Cambodia has risen to two killed and four injured, most if not all as a result of artillery and rocket attacks by the Cambodian Army.

After earlier reports from the Royal Thai Army of a Cambodian rocket artillery buildup along the border, Thailand’s Second Army Area now says that at 8:30 a.m., the Royal Cambodian Army fired multiple BM-21 rocket rounds into Thailand. The strikes hit civilian areas in Ban Sai Tho Kao, located in the Ban Kruat District of Buri Ram Province.

In her first full interview since announcing her resignation from Congress following a series of public attacks from President Donald J. Trump, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told *60 Minutes* that Trump’s remarks “directly fueled” death threats against her and her family. She said she raised the issue with the White House but received an “extremely unkind” response from the president. Greene also claimed that many Republicans are afraid to “step out of line” with Trump, saying that behind closed doors they have mocked him — and her — but that since 2024 they have all begun “kissing his ass.” https://blossom.primal.net/e64789a51b1649d9d3332577ad19cfa5ed7d8270e75349393a8ca062c7ffa520.mp4

The Nigerian Air Force has confirmed to AFP that it is conducting operations to “contain a coup” in the West African nation of Benin. Fighter jets — likely JF-17s — are carrying out targeted strikes against military leaders and soldiers backing the coup, in accordance with the “mandate and protocols” of ECOWAS and the ECOWAS Standby Force (ESF).

Japan has filed a formal diplomatic protest with China after two incidents on Saturday in which J-15 carrier-based multirole fighters from the Chinese aircraft carrier *Liaoning* locked their fire-control radars onto Japanese F-15Js. The F-15Js had been scrambled in response to potential Chinese airspace incursions near Okinawa in southern Japan.

On Friday, the German Parliament voted 323–272 to approve a bill that would expand the Bundeswehr from its current force of 180,000 service members to 260,000 by 2035, supported by an additional 200,000 reservists. While the bill stops short of reintroducing mandatory conscription, it offers incentives to encourage voluntary enlistment, including raising the monthly starting salary to €2,600 — an increase of €450. However, the government would retain the authority to introduce needs-based conscription, known as Bedarfswehrpflicht, if recruitment targets are not met.

Reports out of Belgorod this evening describe an incident involving the Russian Air Force in which a FAB-1000, a 1,000-lb aerial bomb, is believed to have been accidentally dropped near a residential area and an electrical substation. The site has since been cordoned off by security personnel and Air Force bomb-disposal teams. https://video.nostr.build/b95790eb74676850014133445be399a8e9eaed807ebd723194b093bc814d3d70.mp4

When asked today at the 2025 Reagan National Defense Forum about releasing the full video of the September 2 strikes on a suspected narco-trafficking vessel in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not give a direct answer, saying only, “We are reviewing it.” https://video.nostr.build/20e5bd86995d537f57c0b4b018367c1edc305dd5271404678d59fead3a17ca35.mp4