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A joint United States-Kurdish (Syrian Democratic Forces) anti-ISIS patrol came under fire soon after passing through a Syrian military checkpoint. No U.S. casualties were reported. After receiving fire from the checkpoint, the American-led coalition troops returned fire, killing one Syrian soldier and wounding two others according to statements from U.S. military officials and Syrian state-run […]
Terrorism, acute food shortages, the coronavirus pandemic, and climate change have all taken a toll on the security and humanitarian situation in the Sahel making security in the region tenuous. The security situation in the G5 Sahel has continued to worsen, despite some successes on the ground. Boko Haram terrorists continue to operate with near […]
Belarus is reeling from protests. Close to 200,000 people took to the streets of Minsk on Sunday to call for the ousting of President Alexander Lukashenko. Protesters say the recent presidential election of Sunday 9, which saw Lukashenko — who has been in power since 1994 — win with a reported 80 percent of the […]
August 16 is National Airborne Day and paratroopers all over the country are remembering their own experiences and sharing some of them via social media. President George Bush created National Airborne Day in 2002. It was designated by Congress to honor America’s paratroopers. “Airborne combat continues to be driven by the bravery and daring spirit […]
Somali commandos of the Danab “Lightning” Brigade, backed by Ugandan African Union (AU) forces, have taken the strategic town of Kuntuwaarey in the Lower Shabelle region from the al-Shabaab terrorist group, freeing at least 33 children in the process, officials said. The town of Kuntuwaarey, in the southwest of Somalia, located about 200 kilometers from […]
Robert Trump, the president’s younger brother, died in New York City at the age of 71. He was reportedly sick for several months and was hospitalized at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan. Robert Trump was an Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization and a real estate developer. Part of his duties […]
The United States Justice Department announced that federal agents have seized millions of dollars worth of fuel that Iranians were sending to Venezuela in an attempt to avoid U.S. economic sanctions. The seizure was characterized as the largest ever of its kind. The petroleum was loaded in four tankers. They were stopped and their cargo […]
Although the tenuous ceasefire continues to hold in Syria’s Idlib province, the joint patrols that have been conducted by Russian and Turkish troops have been halted, due to militant attacks. The two sides had agreed back in March to conduct joint patrols along the strategic M4 highway. The agreement ended weeks of increased tension in […]
‘A Warrior’s Warrior’ in MACV-SOG During America’s long war in Vietnam, many of the Green Berets who fought there became legends within the Special Forces Regiment. And among those warriors were the men of MACVSOG (Military Assistance Command Vietnam, Studies and Observations Group); the SOG warriors were among the finest the country has ever produced. […]
Israel has reached a third peace treaty with the Arab world, and the first with a Gulf Arab state. The United Arab Emirates and Israel have agreed to establish full diplomatic ties in exchange for the Israelis suspending their planned annexation of West Bank territory in Judea and Samaria. The two sides agreed to the […]
The reply to them was“Nuts!” Unaware of American slang, the German officer was confused. “Is that reply negative or affirmative?”
Several members of the United States Congress, on both sides of the aisle, have been quietly blocking U.S. arms sales to Turkey for the past two years. This bipartisan move has been in response to Turkey’s decision to buy Russian made S-400 antiaircraft missiles and to Turkey’s increasingly close relationship to Russia and President Vladimir […]