Luke Ryan

Protests have been erupting in Bangladesh since July 29 — it all started when two high-school students were killed in Dhaka, after being hit by a bus. This was the latest in a long line of road-related deaths, and many throughout the country feel that the government is doing little to prevent further loss of […]

Law enforcement officials have potentially uncovered a sex trafficking ring involving approximately 80 women, which has been operational for around 15 years. Ronald Hellman, 50, is set to go on trial, and his bond is set at $100,000. Hellman reportedly was planning on skipping town, upon discovering that his cohort Charles Krusak, 77, had been arrested […]

The headlines have been flooded with the Rohingya and their expulsion from their home country of Myanmar/Burma over the last year. Sources say approximately 90% of the population of Muslim Rohingya were driven from their homes, and into the neighboring country of Bangladesh — that’s around 700,000 people. Many civilians were killed in the attacks […]

Three Czech soldiers were killed on Sunday, Aug. 5, by a suicide bomber in Charikar, Afghanistan, and their names were Staff. Sgt. Martin Marcin, Cpl. Kamil Benes and Cpl. Patrik Stepanek. They were conducting a foot patrol when the bomber struck, and a U.S. soldier and two Afghan soldiers were also wounded in the attack. […]

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently met with Myanmar/Burma’s Foreign Minister, U Kyaw Tin, at the 51st ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting, located in Singapore. Pompeo urged the release of two Reuters journalists who are being held and charged with breaking a colonial-era “Official Secrets Act.” Pompeo later tweeted: Today at @ASEAN ministerials, I spoke […]

Chanting crowds. Bloody faces. Rubber bullets and metal pipes. Teenagers and police officers. These are the elements flooding the streets of Bangladesh right now. The government is rapidly trying to shut down internet access to protesters and prevent any images or video from being released that might shed light on what’s going on — so, […]

A Shiite mosque was attacked on Friday, and so far 29 people have been reported killed. Over 80 people have been estimated to have been wounded in the attacks. Gunmen dressed in burqas were able to reach the mosque and then open fire. They then detonated explosives strapped to their persons, ending the assault with […]

As the Myanmar/Burma government has begun to ease on the violence against the Muslim Rohingya — as the mass majority of them have fled into Bangladesh — the spotlight has begun to shift. The government has more recently started to target the mostly Christian Kachin in the northern parts of the country, and violence has […]

Three men were kidnapped and shot dead in a car on Thursday, in Kabul, Afghanistan. They were Indian, Macedonian and Malaysian, and Afghan authorities have stated that they worked for Sodexo, a French food services and facilities management company — one of the largest multinational corporations in the world. The men were en route to […]

Caskets draped in American flags arrived onto U.S. soil on Wednesday, the remains of those who fell during the Korean War and have been lost ever since — until now. North Korea and the United States have worked together to transport the fallen service members home for the first time since they departed for the […]

Reports have been coming in of in-person discussions between U.S. officials and the Taliban. These talks have been in the works for a while now — the Taliban has historically said they would not talk peace with anyone but the United States. They see the Afghan government as a “puppet” government, and therefore not worth […]

Kuwait, 1990 — Four divisions of the Iraqi Republican Guard and Iraqi Army SF units flood into Kuwait. Airports are seized, fighters are screaming overhead, and Kuwait forces are quickly overwhelmed. Kuwait aircraft are shot from the sky, and almost their entire Navy is sunk. Some Kuwaiti forces have more success than others in delaying […]