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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, […]

The Iraqi government is putting the ISIS-controlled city of Fallujah as next on its target list. That’s not because of increasingly dire reports that the citizens of Fallujah are suffering from starvation and torture under ISIS’s cruel grip. Nor do Iraqi officials see the city as key to dislodging ISIS from its Iraqi stronghold, Mosul. Rather, Iraqi […]

“With Samruk International, we took no shit. We got right down in the mud with the nastiest people out there and gave them the business.”

We must demand that the secretary of defense immediately end this case by publicly announcing the Marine Raiders of Fox Company are innocent.

Following in the wake of the death of Seaman James D. Lovelace during the First Phase of Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training on May 6th, an instructor at the Naval Special Warfare Center (NSWC) has been temporarily relieved of his training duties, and a Washington Post article has called into question how BUD/S handles the students […]

ISIS has taken advantage of technology in many ways, from spreading its message on Twitter to using encrypted messaging apps like Telegram. And one place the internet has been of particular help to ISIS is in recruitment, allowing the organization to scour for new supporters in all corners of the globe. This recruitment has even […]

By day, they faced torture and the constant threat of execution at the hands of their ISIS captors. At night, they used a stolen piece of jagged metal to scrape the crumbling wall of their prison until last week, when they had fashioned a hole big enough to squeeze through. A 30-year-old man who was […]

Well, being a Marine, I wasn’t about to give up. This was probably stupid, but I’m all about mission accomplishment, I guess.

Many people enter negotiations with the goal of securing a “yes,” but the FBI’s former lead international hostage negotiator says eliciting a “no” can be just as powerful — if not more. “‘Yes’ is a horrible word. It scares people. They wonder what they’ve committed themselves to. They become nervous. They become distracted, and when […]

When Gen. Mark A. Milley, the Army chief of staff, stepped off his jet into the sunshine here on Sunday, it was the first time the Obama administration had sent its top Army officer to Africa for a high-level meeting to get the continent’s fledgling militaries in shape to deal with growing terrorist threats. As General Milley […]

“Do you really want to tarnish the Band of Brothers image?” He was told not to go public with the attacks because it might hurt his unit’s reputation.