Category: Asia

Ukraine records localized gains in Zaporizhzhia amid Russian defensive strain, while Obama clarifies podcast comments about aliens and UAPs.

Ukraine detains ex-minister in graft probe; UN details Darfur massacre; Mexico mine workers found in graves; US boards Venezuela-linked tanker.

Trump signals possible Iran deal as Tehran fortifies nuclear sites, CIA targets Chinese military personnel, and Ukraine disrupts Russian Starlink.

Xi’s sweeping purge of his own generals exposes a deeper truth: behind the parades and new hardware, China’s military remains politically shackled, combat-untested, and far less ready for a real war than its leadership wants the world to believe.

The Super Bowl’s Bad Bunny halftime show is less a culture-war flashpoint than a reminder that shared moments in football and music can still pause the noise and bring Americans together, if only for a night.

President Trump’s tough-love approach is forcing allies to grow up, adversaries to move faster, and the United States to confront the real costs of pressure as NATO strains, China postures, and America quietly expands its footprint in places like Nigeria.

Russia intensified missile and drone strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid as Vietnam recalibrated its defense posture and Libya closed a final chapter of the Gaddafi era.

The Great Chinese Famine reveals how an authoritarian state, driven by ideology and falsified data, inflicted more damage on its own people than many wars ever could.

A declassified look at how U.S. airmen turned ordinary cargo aircraft into deadly gunships, reshaping modern airpower through wartime improvisation.

Walz readies the Minnesota Guard amid ICE violence in Minneapolis, Trump threatens 100% tariffs on Canada, Nigeria’s military assures farmers amid ongoing chaos, and skate programs in Gaza, Uganda, and Nigeria offer youth a rare lifeline of safety and hope.

Project 100,000 lowered enlistment standards during Vietnam, pulling in vulnerable recruits and sending many into high-risk jobs where the human cost showed up in higher deaths and worse outcomes after the war.

Five Years to Freedom is a compact, must-read POW memoir that shows how Nick Rowe endured five years of Viet Cong captivity through discipline and mental control, influenced the modern SERE program, and belongs alongside Frankl and Solzhenitsyn as a study of inner freedom under coercion.