Category: Featured

A new video of British journalist John Cantlie, captured by ISIS in November of 2012, has surfaced this past week. He’d been feared dead.

It may not mean the end for IS, whose heartlands of Raqqa, Deir Ezzor, and Mosul remain safe havens, but it is a step in chipping away at the group’s power base, both geographically and strategically, as well as debasing the myth that the caliphate’s armies are all-conquering and unable to be defeated. Quite apart […]

Everyone makes decisions based on their past experiences, and carrying a concealed handgun is no different.

As the Army embarks on evaluating and testing new service pistol contestants, the Army’s top general wants to scrap the long, expensive multi-year process and just pick a gun. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley has repeatedly complained about the convoluted, slow and expensive acquisitions process, and cited the Modular Handgun System program as a glaring example. “We’re not […]

MARSOC’s Fox Company was wrongfully accused of killing Afghan civilians in March of 2007, but their reputations are still tarnished.

In an email sent to supporters, a prominent US anti-discrimination Muslim group announced that it’s “requesting a meeting with FBI Director James Comey” and is “demanding” that it cancel an informant program reportedly set to “be formally introduced next week.” “The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee demands that the FBI cancel the launch of its controversial ‘Shared […]

Syrian militias armed by different parts of the U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control U.S. intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and trained in the bitter 5-year-old civil war. The […]

A 1906 Medal of Honor recipient is finally receiving full military honors Friday at a cemetery in Washington state decades after he was buried without fanfare. Emil Fredreksen was one of 11 men awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions aboard the gunboat USS Bennington in San Diego in 1905. But after his death […]

Even before the atrocity in Brussels, Spain was on its highest state of alert. For years, as the shock of horrific bombings in March 2004 that killed 191 peoplesubsided, some authorities behaved as if they thought the country had achieved a sort of immunity: jihadists moved through here, they didn’t strike here. But that delusion is […]

Former Navy SEAL and best-selling author Leif Babin will be on the show “War Stories with Oliver North” on Fox News at 10 p.m. EST.

A former CIA director has said the European Union “in some ways gets in the way” of security services, as the debate continues over whether the UK would be safer in or out of the EU. Retired general Michael Hayden told the BBC the union was “not a natural contributor to national security”. Home Secretary Theresa May […]

Two days before Christmas the lights went out across the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine. As many as 225,000 customers lost power, the result of coordinated cyberattacks on three power grids. The hackers tricked utility employees into downloading malware – BlackEnergy – that was linked to Russian spy agencies and that had been used to probe power […]