🇪🇬🤝🇸🇩 Refurbishment is underway at East Oweinat Airbase in southwestern Egypt, near the Sudanese border, with new runway markings added and work continuing on the main apron

Multiple aircraft were also spotted at the base ahead of airstrikes on RSF convoys in Chad on 21 Aug.

🔗 AfriMEOSINT

🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸 Pro-Iranian Arab media outlets published footage allegedly showing two U.S. UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters being transported on trailers in Jordan, likely from Muwaffaq al-Salti AB or Prince Hassan AB, possibly being moved out ahead of potential Iranian attacks.

The way they're being transported could also indicate serious issues preventing them from flying, possibly damage sustained in previous Iranian attacks.

🔗 @EGYOSINT

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷📝 It's quite stunning really. Only a week ago, Scott Bessent said sanctions would make military action unnecessary.

6 days later, the US bombed Iran again. And now, Axios reveals that all along, the Pentagon was preparing a plan for “periodic” bombings of Iran to prevent it from suppressing traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.

What does this tell us? First, the administration is apparently giving up on solving the issue militarily, economically, or diplomatically. Instead, permanent warfare is needed to manage the problem.

Make no mistake - to periodically bomb a country is to fight a forever war.

In fact, a US official is even quoted by Axios calling it “mow the lawn.” This is the Israeli strategy of never making peace, never winning the war, but just keep bombing the countries surrounding it to ensure they never gain the capacity to deter Israel. It’s what Israel has been doing in Gaza and Lebanon for years.

During previous administrations, Israel tried to sell war with Iran to the US and conceded that military strikes would not knock out Iran’s nuclear program, but would require “periodic” return to kinetic action to keep the program in check.

The US rejected the plan precisely because it didn’t want to be in a permanent state of war with Iran.

Now, Trump’s Secretary of War is pushing for it.

🔗 Trita Parsi

🇺🇸 Prior to his resignation Monday, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll brought his concerns about the future of the Army under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directly to President Trump, during a closed-door meeting last week at the White House, four people familiar with the conversation told The Atlantic.

According to one of the sources, Trump was surprised when Driscoll told him how many generals and other top officers had been fired, pushed out, or passed over for promotion under Hegseth. Driscoll told the president that the Army could not transform itself the way it needs to, because of the departure of so many leaders, before informing him of his intention to resign from the Pentagon.

Driscoll’s spokesperson declined to comment, but a person familiar with his resignation stated that Driscoll had “brought up concerns with the administration surrounding Army transformation and readiness and Hegseth’s blocking those efforts specifically by firing the Generals who were responsible.”

🔗 https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/08/driscoll-hegseth-military-resignation/688479/?gift=URojiRC-naOWGBfsE7oNmpZKQOzdCYlydorG7uazW6s

📎 OSINT Defender

🇺🇸❌🇬🇧 Trump says US could review its position on Falkland Islands sovereignty

US President Donald Trump said on August 31 that Washington could reconsider its position on sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (also known as Islas Malvinas), responding to a question about Argentina’s longstanding territorial claim against Britain, while the Argentine government has adopted what it describes as a cautious approach to the remarks.

Asked by reporters in the Oval Office whether he was considering a change in the US position on the disputed islands, Trump said: “I always review all positions. That is just one of many.”

It was the first time Trump had publicly commented on the sovereignty dispute between Argentina and Britain, according to the report.

The United States has historically maintained a neutral position on the sovereignty question, although Washington has at times shown support for Britain in the dispute. A change in that stance could have broader implications for the strategic balance surrounding the South Atlantic.

The comments came after British newspaper The Telegraph reported that Washington was reviewing its commitments to NATO allies in connection with new defence-spending targets. The report said US officials were concerned that the UK had not yet presented a sufficiently detailed path towards the 5% of gross domestic product defence-spending target promoted by the Trump administration.

A US official said discussions with London remained open and that “no option is off the table” in efforts to achieve greater burden-sharing among allies, The Telegraph reported.

The issue has gained additional relevance for Argentina because of the close political relationship between Trump and President Javier Milei. Buenos Aires continues to claim sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, while Britain insists that they are a British Overseas Territory.

🔗 https://www.intellinews.com/trump-says-us-could-review-its-position-on-falkland-islands-sovereignty-464724/

🇩🇪⚡️ — NEW: Several “homemade rockets” struck Jänschwalde coal-fired power plant in Brandenburg, near the Polish border, according to Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung.

The facility was struck multiple times, but security forces secured and defused the remaining devices.

Dpa reports that explosive devices were also found at the substation in Turnow-Preilack in Brandenburg, not far from the Jänschwalde power plant.

The suspected aim was to cause a large-scale power outage, although the network operator said there was only a “short-term line interruption.” No one was injured, and electricity supplies remained stable.

🇩🇪⚡️ — The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports that a police spokesperson has rejected earlier claims that the Jänschwalde coal-fired power plant in Brandenburg was targeted by rocket attacks.

An attack reportedly took place, just not with rockets apparently.

German media is currently reporting several different stories. We are waiting for more clarification.

🇾🇪⚔️🏴 The Saudi-backed Yemeni government has announced that it killed Abu Hudhayfah al-Ansari, the official spokesman for the ISIS terrorist group, during a security raid in the northern city of Seiyun.

🔹 Early today, as security forces moved in on Seiyun, two explosions rocked Al-Zawiyah square. Locals report that the raid—conducted by the newly formed Force 22 special operations unit, backed by Saudi coalition airstrikes—was directed at an old house in the square believed to be sheltering a high-ranking ISIS operative.

🔹 According to the resigned government's Central Security Organization, the mission was meant to capture Mithaq Thabit Haitham al-Radfani—better known as Abu Hudhayfah al-Ansari, the ISIS spokesperson. He was reportedly wounded in the ensuing firefight and later died en route to the hospital. A second occupant of the house was also killed during the operation.

👉 So far, no independent verification of the resigned government's claim has emerged, and ISIS-affiliated media have yet to confirm or deny the report.

✍️ ISIS continues to operate in some occupied parts of Yemen, though its footprint remains clandestine and largely limited to lone-actor activities. The group is significantly weaker than its primary rival, Al-Qaeda, in the region. In areas once under Sana'a government control—particularly Rada'a and parts of Al-Bayda province—ISIS cells were largely eliminated through security crackdowns conducted by Sana'a forces in recent years.

🔗 IWN

🇺🇸⛽️ August gas prices set a new record: the national average in August was $4.056/gal, beating 2022's august record ot $3.940/gal, costing Americans $1.35 billion more than August 2022, or $10.51 billion more than August 2025

🔗 Patrick de Haan