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US sinks drug boat, EU eyes Israel sanctions, Gaza toll tops 65K, Pak-Saudi sign pact. Here’s what’s making headlines this Wednesday evening.
Retired Adm. Robert P. Burke’s fall from the Navy’s upper deck to a prison cell shows how the revolving door between four stars and six-figure “leadership training” gigs can turn honor into collateral.
Midshipman’s threat sparks Naval Academy lockdown, leads to federal charge. It’s Wednesday, September 17, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.
Fade may be stitched back together by science and sheer stubbornness, but every move he makes reminds you the real fight isn’t in the muscles — it’s in the will to keep pushing forward.
From Capitol Hill’s grilling of FBI Director Kash Patel over Charlie Kirk’s assassination, to U.S. officers quietly observing Russia-Belarus war games, and Donald Trump’s reversal on TikTok, the week showed Washington balancing political firestorms, military brinkmanship, and digital-age dealmaking all at once. Here is your Tuesday evening SOFREP News Brief for September 16th, 2025.
A state judge may have stripped the terrorism label from Luigi Mangione’s indictment, but with murder charges intact in New York and a federal death-penalty case looming, his legal storm is only beginning.
Medal of Honor recipient Navy SEAL Michael Murphy surprises his parents with one last moving phone call.
From a confessed assassin on Discord to Gaza’s burning streets and U.S. warships hunting cartel boats, September 2025 is shaping up as a month where private messages, urban battlefields, and international waters all became frontlines. It’s Tuesday, September 16, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.
From NATO’s eastern flank where Poland is demanding a no-fly zone, to JD Vance framing Charlie Kirk’s assassination as proof of rising left-wing extremism, to Marco Rubio clasping hands with Netanyahu after Israel’s strike in Doha, the world feels like it’s bracing for the next flashpoint instead of avoiding it. It’s Monday, September 15th, 2025. This is your SOFREP Evening Brief.
Today in SOFREP’s Team Room, Rad delves into the gritty realities of being a Navy SEAL sniper, probing the deep and often unspoken memories of warfare that define the lives and legacies of Brandon Webb and Charlie Melton.
When the courtyard turned into a killing ground at Baghdad Airport, Paul R. Smith climbed into the turret, took the fight on his shoulders, and made damn sure his men walked away alive.
From hypersonic launches in the Arctic and drone incursions over NATO skies to Qatar’s fury at an airstrike on its soil and Beijing branding Trump’s tariffs as economic blackmail, the world is staring down a storm of flashpoints that prove great powers are testing every boundary at once. Welcome to Monday, September 15th, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.