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The Israeli Air Force conducted a heavy airstrike on a Syrian military airport outside of Damascus, before dawn on Monday, hitting several positions that base Iranian troops. Early reports from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) stated that seven people were killed, four Iranian troops and three civilians, while four other people were wounded, […]
The Nigerian military conducted a large anti-terrorist raid on Friday. During the raid it killed 89 suspected gunmen and cattle rustlers, while recovering large amounts of arms and ammunition, the Nigerian military said in a statement. Major General John Enenche, the spokesman for the Nigerian military, added that five hostages, including three women and two […]
In the spring of 1865, the American Civil War was reaching its conclusion. The blood continued to flow but the outcome was no longer in doubt. The Confederacy was crumbling, its army starving, and the Union troops far outnumbered them in the field. On April 11, General Joseph E. Johnston, commander of the Army of […]
The commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has ordered his Navy to destroy any American terrorist force that threatens Iranian ships in the Persian Gulf. This latest bellicose statement emanated from Major General Hossein Salami on state television. It came a day after President Trump warned the Iranians via Twitter that he has “instructed […]
The Russian investigative newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, has identified a Russian Wagner Group contractor as the man responsible for the torture and beheading of a Syrian national back in 2017. The newspaper named the alleged torturer as Stanislav Yevgenyevich Dychko. He had been hired as a reconnaissance gunner by the Russian government-linked Wagner mercenary company. However, […]
The Russian military is getting to put its newest battle tank through extensive testing in a dry, desert-like, environment, with a backdrop of a bloody civil war, in Syria. The purpose is to iron out any potential issues with it before it is fielded widely to its own forces in 2021. The head of Russia’s […]
A Russian-made Su-25, belonging to the Chadian Air Force accidentally fired a missile that veered into a senior Chadian commander’s home, killing five people including three children. The video footage captures the firing of the missile at the Adji Kossei airbase as the aircraft was preparing to take off. The missile clips an empty fuel […]
The Chinese have long been using “debt diplomacy” to build their influence across the globe. And with the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic severely impacting economies everywhere to the greatest extent since the Great Depression, this is a dangerous time for underdeveloped nations to engage in large borrowing deals with the Chinese. The leaders of the G20 […]
The Army is serious about placing more emphasis on cold-weather warfare as competition with “near-peers” Russia and China in the Arctic intensifies. So, the Army has redesigned the rectangular “Arctic” tab that denoted that a soldier had graduated the Northern Warfare Cold Weather Leader’s Course (CWLC). They have now made the tab into an arced-shaped […]
In April of 1775, the opening shots of the American Revolutionary War were fired at the village green of Lexington. Although the Declaration of Independence was still 15 months away, open conflict had started and it lit a powderkeg that would engulf all of the 13 colonies. As a result of the incidents in the […]
Season 3 of the Netflix Israeli action series “Fauda” hit the U.S. on Thursday and it didn’t disappoint. We wrote about the first two seasons a couple of years ago here and since then we have been anxiously waiting for Season 3. Fauda, which means chaos in Arabic, was developed by Lior Raz and Avi […]
Russia’s Wagner Group is having an increasingly difficult time in Africa. About a year ago, Moscow was crowing about beating the West and China in securing private military contracts, underbidding several western countries’ bids by touting their “Syrian Model” of success. As a result, they ended landing upwards of 20 private military contracts in Africa. […]