Despite threats otherwise, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said Thursday morning that President Donald Trump would not be sending federal troops to The City.

Estonian officials say Moscow is intensifying its provocations after an unusual movement by Russian troops near the border forced Tallinn to shut down a transit easement on Oct. 10. The Saatse Boot — located near the small boot-shaped section of Russian territory that juts into southeastern Estonia — was closed after border guards reported seeing seven armed men in unmarked uniforms briefly appear on the road.

About 120 soldiers from the Michigan Army National Guard will be deployed Friday to the U.S. southern border to assist federal law enforcement. The Michigan Department of Military and Veterans Affairs announced the move Thursday, Oct. 16, saying the soldiers are anticipated to be deployed for up to a year.

A major warning has been issued by experts after Russian troops were spotted near a significant NATO border. On October 10, Estonian officials temporarily shut down a section of road passing through Russian territory near the border after spotting a small group of individuals believed to be part of Vladimir Putin's military personnel,

Alameda County’s sheriff indicated that Trump’s withdrawal from San Francisco extends to the rest of the Bay Area.

A senior Border Patrol official is due in court Wednesday for the first of his daily mandated check-ins about the Chicago area immigration enforcement operation.

The Taliban government has confirmed that it attacked Pakistani troops in multiple mountainous locations on the northern border. A Taliban spokesman said 58 Pakistani military personnel had been killed in what it called "an act of retaliation". It claimed Pakistan had violated Afghan airspace and bombed a market inside its border on Thursday.

The service declined to say how many troops or boats are now patrolling the river in a mission dubbed Operation River Wall.

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a designated terrorist group, has begun withdrawing all its forces from the Turkish border to Northern Iraq as part of a disarmament process agreed upon by both sides earlier this year.