Category: Global Politics

South Korean protesters flocked to the little-known Seongju County in South Korea to protest the US-installed THAAD missile modernization.

TikTok is now being used as an unlikely source of vital information about Russian military movements along the Ukrainian-Russian border.

North Korea conducts the largest missile testings since 2017, firing IRBMs Hwasong-12 in the aftermath of the global hypersonic missile race.

Zelensky has told the West to stop creating panic among Ukrainian citizens as it poses a threat to the Ukrainian economy.

From the frontline to the bottom line: The crisis in Ukraine and volatility in the stock market  This week, under the looming threat of an invasion of Ukraine global stock markets became very jittery. While the threat of conflict is not the only driver of market volatility (economic policy announcements from the US Federal Reserve […]

Folks in Idaho will be seeing F-15Q fighters with Qatari air force markings and no, they are not lost.

Russia is active again in Central and South America, with cash in hand looking for bases for their ships and planes. Will their military provocations spark another Cuban Missile Crisis?

The new year always brings the promise of new things being just on the horizon. The world is a volatile place today, with shifting economies, the continued presence of Islamist terrorism around the world, and the Great Game of competition between nations seeking diplomatic, strategic, and economic advantages around the globe. Everyone is a prognosticator […]

From Russia to China and even TikTok subverting law and order in public schools, this is the SOFREP week in review.

In a seeming de-escalation of the security crisis along the Russian-Ukrainian border, Moscow has withdrawn ten-thousand of the estimated 110,000 troops it has positioned near the border. Moscow did this even as it reasserted its demand of a legal guarantee that Ukraine will never be admitted to NATO, that the U.S. cease selling arms to Ukraine and that it act as mediator in negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and European countries.

China is building new military installations along its border with India in a region with a history of clashes between the two countries.

Israel has been bombing targets in Syria for decades that it perceives as a threat to its own security. Most famously, their 2007 raid that destroyed a North Korean-built nuclear reactor in Deir al-Zour province. A story in the Washington Post now claims that Israeli aircraft have made repeated strikes on chemical weapons productions and storage facilities within Syria.