Kickstart your day with the SOFREP Morning Brief: Your intel on defense and global affairs for Sunday, April 13, 2025.
Chinese Stocks Plunge The market turmoil in China spread around the world on Thursday, as global investors grew more anxious about the country’s currency and the health of its economy. Major market indexes in the United States ended the day down more than 2 percent. Earlier, Chinese stocks plunged by more than 7 percent, forcing […]
ISIS Weapons Lab Terror group Islamic State is employing scientists and weapons experts to train jihadists to carry out sophisticated “spectacular” attacks in Europe, while also modifying weapons systems capable of targeting passenger jets and military aircraft. From a “jihadi university” in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the scientists have stunned western weapons experts by […]
The World According to Russia Vladimir Putin demanded at the United Nations in September. The question was a rebuke to the American-led bloc of countries that initially viewed with optimism the Arab Spring, which began five years ago this month, but has since given way to chaos and Islamist violence across once-stable parts of the […]
Saudi Arabia Cuts Diplomatic Relations with Iran Saudi Arabia has announced it is severing diplomatic ties with Iran following Saturday’s attack on its embassy in Tehran during protests against executions in the kingdom. Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi foreign minister, made the announcement on Sunday while the foreign ministry said it was asking Iranian diplomatic mission […]
Central Asia Crossroads Central Asia is once again emerging as an important crossroads in a geopolitical competition between great and rising powers, notably China, Russia and the United States. In the years following the US military invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, the states of Central Asia have moved from being tangential and ancillary pieces […]
China Has Made Obedience to the State an Online Game With a concept straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia, China has gamified obedience to the State. China has created a social tool named Sesame Credit which gives people a score for how good a citizen they are. The system measures how obediently citizens follow the […]
Woman Gets 7th Chance to Take NY City Fire Department’s Physical Test A female firefighter who has repeatedly failed the fitness test is being given an unprecedented seventh try. Wendy Tapia, 34, was allowed to conditionally graduate from the FDNY’s Randall’s Island training academy in May 2013 – despite failing the required running test. Typically […]
The ISIS Munition Trail As a known arms dealer for rebels fighting Isis in his east Syrian home town, Abu Ali was sure his days were numbered when, a year ago, two jihadi commanders stepped out of their pickup truck and walked towards him. He was baffled when they handed him a printed paper. “It […]
Bulgarian Arms Fueling Conflict in the Middle East In October last year, plane spotters noted with some excitement that Boeing 747 jumbo jets marked Saudi Arabian Cargo had begun landing at the airport of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia. “A Saudi cargo plane had never come here… for the past 20 years,” explained Stephan Gagov, a […]
15 Jihadi Group Waiting to Take over After ISIS Is Defeated A total of 15 jihadi groups are waiting in the wings to replace ISIS in Syria a think tank backed by former prime minister Tony Blair will report tomorrow. The jihadi groups have a total of 65,000 fighters in Syria that are poised to […]
Jedi Knights Needed to Fight ISIS The Islamic State group has presented the United States with an enemy unlike any other in its history. Its sophisticated propaganda would impress Hitler’s favorite propagandists, Joseph Goebbels and Leni Riefenstahl. Fueled by religious zealotry, its message is being spread worldwide through social media to recruit and motivate its […]
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