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As Afghanistan struggles to build up its aerial attack capability, it seems like less is more for the embattled country’s air arm. Case in point: their MD530F Cayuse Warrior (AKA Little Bird in the American spec-ops world) light air support helicopters. The type’s origins can be traced back to the Vietnam era OH-6 “Loach” scout helicopter. […]
Women in Iran are cutting their hair short and dressing as men in a bid to bypass state ‘morality’ police who rigorously enforce penalties for not wearing a hijab. A number of women have shared photos of themselves in public with their hair uncovered on Instagram and other social media. The women have cut their hair […]
Sadly, my absurd San Diego beach rent requires me to go work a little bit, and I’m on the road this week…The amount landlords charge for a one-bedroom apartment out here is CRIMINAL. Enjoy the rare rant-free News Roundup. We get back to it hard next week with the best of military and law enforcement news […]
Every Friday, just yards from a statue of Bill Clinton with arm aloft in a cheery wave, hundreds of young bearded men make a show of kneeling to pray on the sidewalk outside an improvised mosque in a former furniture store. The mosque is one of scores built here with Saudi government money and blamed […]
So the big question: If it was a bomb that brought the EgyptAir jet down, why has no one claimed responsibility yet?
On a dusty Baghdad avenue, less than a day before the Gulf War kicked off in 1990, hundreds of Iraqi soldiers marched in sync with Star Wars–themed music — a show of defiance against the American troops who would soon start bombing the country. The Iraqi soldiers passed under the city’s Victory Arch, a giant pair […]
The sergeant major was pointing to the door. Even though he couldn’t hear him, the message was clear to Jake. They were the last line of defense.
Check out this book excerpt from “By Honor Bound.” Part one recalls the heroic and courageous acts of Tom Norris as he saved downed airmen.
I’ve always loved aviation, I think it started when I was a kid. Star Wars X-wing fighters, then the space ships of Buck Rogers, and of course, Battlestar Galactica (the original). I couldn’t get enough. As a kid I wanted to go to one of the service academies but, having left home at sixteen with […]
A senior Iranian official has accused the purported second, secret spouse of Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif of “spying for the West.” The head of Iran the Revolutionary Guards-affiliated Center for Electronic Resistance, Mohammad Hossein Rostami, posted on Facebook Sunday that he was about to unveil information that would “cause a political earthquake.” “Afrin […]
Most Americans are unaware that female genital mutilation is alive and well within this country, as most associate it with only Africa or the Middle East.
When Nicolás was 17 he was forced to kill eight of his friends. “It hurt to kill them, obviously,” Nicolás said, bowing his head as his voice started to tremble. “But an order is an order. I couldn’t think about that.” Nicolás had been with Colombia’s largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, […]
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