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• Pentagon Says Handover Of Bagram Airfield Was 'Key Milestone' In U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan RFE/RL Gandhara 03 Jul 2021 -- The Pentagon says the turnover of Bagram Airfield to Afghan security forces was a "key milestone" in the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, but insisted the U.S. military still has the authority to protect Afghan forces.
• Hundreds Of Afghan Soldiers Flee Into Tajikistan As Taliban Makes More Gains RFE/RL Gandhara 03 Jul 2021 -- More than 300 Afghan soldiers have crossed into Tajikistan as the Taliban captured more territory in northern Afghanistan, the Tajik Border Service said on July 3.
• US Military Vehicles Falling Into Taliban Hands at Alarming Rate, Report Finds Sputnik 03 Jul 2021 -- The United States and its allies began their withdrawal from Afghanistan in May after over 19 years of war against the Taliban. Washington has promised to complete the pullout by the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks – which served as the formal pretext for the invasion of Afghanistan and the start of a global "war on terror."
• US Intensifies Planning for Emergency Evacuation of Embassy in Afghanistan, Reports Say Sputnik 03 Jul 2021 -- The United States ramped up planning for an emergency evacuation of its embassy in Kabul, as the US troops continue their withdrawal from Afghanistan and concerns linger over the security in the conflict-torn country after their departure, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing US officials.
• Taliban Capture at Least a Dozen Districts as Afghan Fighting Rages VOA 03 Jul 2021 -- Taliban insurgents have continued to make rapid territorial gains in Afghanistan as the United States said its last remaining troops are expected to withdraw from the conflict-torn country by the end of August.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Biden Nominates National Security Council Lawyer To Arms Control Post RFE/RL 03 Jul 2021 -- President Joe Biden said on July 2 that he planned to nominate Mallory Stewart to be assistant secretary of state for arms control, a position that in the past has played a central role in negotiating treaties such as New START.
• Rafale Deal With India Being Scrutinised in France, Judicial Probe Launched: Reports Sputnik 03 Jul 2021 -- A report published by French investigative website Mediapart revealed that a newly-appointed judge has begun a fresh investigation into a "highly sensitive" case of alleged "corruption and favouritism" in the 2016 $9.3 billion Rafale contract of 2016 with India.

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• Saudi-Led Coalition Destroys Two Bomb-Laden Boats Near Yemeni Shores Sputnik 03 Jul 2021 -- The Saudi-led Arab coalition said on 3 July that its forces had destroyed two boats laden with explosives near the shores of the Yemeni province of Al Hudaydah on the Red Sea.
• Azerbaijan Hands Over Armenian Soldiers In Swap For Land Mine Maps RFE/RL 03 Jul 2021 -- Azerbaijan handed over 15 captured Armenian soldiers in exchange for land mine maps, the two countries' foreign ministries said on July 3.
• Turkey to Continue Drilling for Oil, Gas in 'Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus, and All Those Seas' Sputnik 03 Jul 2021 -- In March the EU offered a string of incentives to convince President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to make good on pledges to mend fraught relations amid Turkish drilling operations near the divided island of Cyprus, the search for natural gas in disputed eastern Mediterranean waters, and the migrant issue.
• Powers of New High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina Lie in Board's Hands VOA 03 Jul 2021 -- German politician Christian Schmidt will become the new international High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Aug. 1, succeeding Valentin Inzko, an Austrian official who held the position for 12 years. The Office of the High Representative (OHR) is an international entity that oversees implementation of the Dayton Accords, which ended the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1995.

News Reports

• Ransomware Attack By Suspected Russian Gang May Impact Thousands Of Businesses RFE/RL 03 Jul 2021 -- Businesses scrambled on July 3 to respond to a ransomware attack on an American IT provider that cybersecurity experts believe was carried out by Russian criminal hackers.
• Xi's article on learning Party history published People's Daily 03 Jul 2021 -- An article by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on learning the CPC history has been published.
• China 'Won't Tolerate' Foreign Meddling, is 'No Longer Country it Was 100 Years Ago,' Beijing Warns Sputnik 03 Jul 2021 -- The People's Republic marked the 100th anniversary of the founding of its ruling Communist Party on Thursday, with President Xi Jinping delivering a speech during he said that Beijing had "never bullied, oppressed, or subjugated the people of any other country," and cautioned foreign powers against trying to "bully, oppress, or subjugate" China.
• Lone-wolf terrorist attacks 'unlikely' to become popular in HK but external inciting won't stop: experts Global Times 03 Jul 2021 -- Hong Kong Secretary of Security Chris Tang Ping-keung on Saturday strongly slammed those mourning the suspect who stabbed a police officer before killing himself on Thursday night, saying it is glorifying and encouraging violence and terrorism.
• Envoy: IAEA official's trip to Iran within safeguards framework IRNA 03 Jul 2021 -- Iran's Ambassador to the Vienna-based international organizations Kazem Gharibabadi said on Saturday that the IAEA Deputy Director-General for Safeguards Massimo Aparo is traveling to Iran in the coming days.
• U.S. Drops Sanctions On Three Iranians, Says Move Not Linked To Talks To Revive Nuclear Deal RFE/RL 03 Jul 2021 -- The United States has removed sanctions on three Iranians but said the move had nothing to do with talks on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
• Iran's Bushehr Power Plant Resumes Operation Two Weeks After Blackout, Official Says Sputnik 03 Jul 2021 -- The Bushehr nuclear power station in Iran's south has resumed its work two weeks after the emergency outage of electricity, Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi, a spokesman for the electricity industry, said on Saturday.