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A single RPG hit turned a routine mission into a desperate fight for survival, and Chief Warrant Officer Michael Durant lived to tell the harrowing tale of Super Six Four.
For the first time, the US Army deployed its Avenger air defense system to Africa, showcasing mobile firepower in hostile terrain.
US freezes Haiti mission funding as gang violence surges, while El Salvador sends troops to support a struggling UN operation.
The blood-soaked streets of Goma tell a grim tale of war, betrayal, and a world that seems content to watch the Democratic Republic of Congo burn.
When you hide in a cave and plot against the United States, don’t be surprised when an airstrike turns your hideout into a smoking crater.
The brazen attack on Chad’s presidential palace reminds us of the region’s precarious stability, where seemingly disorganized and intoxicated assailants can momentarily disrupt a nation’s seat of power.
The precision airstrike that took out Mohamed Mire delivered a crippling blow to al-Shabaab’s leadership, proving once again that collaboration between U.S. forces and Somali partners can strike fear into the heart of terror networks.
French-made tech in UAE armored vehicles is fueling Sudan’s conflict, breaking a UN arms embargo—will the global community step up?
Already bogged down in a perpetual ten-year war that has not yet captured a fully occupied oblast or reached any military objective, the Neo Russian Empire Putin envisioned he would have, akin to Peter the Great, is now rapidly taking heavy losses simultaneously in various regions akin to the last Tsar, Nicholas II. Time will tell if Vladimir Putin’s disastrous imperial ambitions will leave him in the same fate as Nicholas II.
Facing communist threats in Africa, a visionary officer in 1967 trained his team for a new era, forming South Africa’s future elite Recces.
US troops will complete their withdrawal from Niger by early August amid rising Sahel security threats and shifting diplomatic relations.
I awoke in my drab dormitory, missing the fez I had once swapped for a cab fare, only to be plunged into a surreal adventure through the labyrinthine Medina of Fez, guided by an ever-shifting cast of characters who seemed as lost as I was in a seething cauldron of chaos.
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