Middle East

When the missiles came and the sky turned hostile, it wasn’t doctrine or diplomacy that held the line—it was a handful of twenty something Americans with steady hands and nerves of steel.

Beneath the corrugated shadows of the Taji Market, where farmers and fanatics shared the same dust, we moved—alert, measured, and unwilling to let the chaos define us.

To preserve peace, Israel must be given the freedom to fight—and the United States must stop pretending that diplomacy alone can stop a regime built on terror and lies.

If Hezbollah’s grip on Lebanon finally breaks, it won’t just redraw maps in the Middle East—it could rewrite the calculus of American security, from Beirut to your local gas pump.

Trump’s big, brash ceasefire rolled off the runway like a flaming shopping cart—loud, chaotic, and destined to explode before anyone could say “mission accomplished.”

Iran just lit the fuse in a powder keg it doesn’t have the hands to hold, and if one American dies, the response won’t be symbolic—it’ll be biblical.

Trump’s lust for confrontation has overridden prudence, plunging America into another conflict with no justification, no congressional approval, and no clear endgame—just echoes of past blunders cloaked in fresh arrogance.

US hits Iran’s nukes, Israel recovers hostages, Ukraine gains ground, NATO faces friction, and Japan-Korea mark 60 years of ties.

We did more than send a message—we carved it into the bedrock with a 30,000-pound pen named MOP and left Tehran to read it in the dark.

You don’t build nuclear bunkers for TED Talks—Trump knew it, Tehran knew it, and now the crater where a centrifuge used to be says the quiet part out loud.

After the U.S. dropped bunker busters on Iran’s nuclear sites, Tehran fired off missile barrages at Israel, kicking off a brutal exchange that’s drawn in Washington, rattled the region, and made clear this fight is only getting hotter. Welcome to Sunday, June 22, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

As Khamenei retreats to a bunker, Israel picks off his generals one by one, Trump lands a Nobel nod from Pakistan for stopping a nuclear standoff, and U.S. B-2s loaded with bunker busters are quietly headed for Guam—because nothing says peace quite like preparing for war. Welcome to your Saturday Evening Brief for June 21, 2025.