Category: News + Intel

Presently, the Iranian government maintains control over the majority of the Persian Gulf and they claim that they are adequately prepared put into place a blockade on the exportation of any oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz as well. This measure is to be taken in response to the recently imposed sanctions from the United […]

Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has claimed that the United States intends to use the Kurds of Rojava before hanging them out to dry. Nasrallah addressed Kurdish officials staying the U.S. will “sell you out,” he claimed that their best option was to uphold negotiations with the Syrian regime and President Bashar al-Assad. On Sunday Nasrallah said that, “You do not know […]

According to Turkmen leader Hassan Turan, the Kurdish Peshmerga military forces must remain within the autonomous Kurdistan region’s borders and sending them back to Kirkuk would be “unconstitutional.” Turan, who is the Turkmen Front’s deputy head for Kirkuk, stated that, “The reason for our refusal to allow a Peshmerga return to the province of Kirkuk is because Article 121 […]

In March, a former Russian military intelligence officer that sold state secrets to the British government was attacked in Salisbury, England. While he and his daughter survived the ordeal, the international ramifications were swift once the nerve agent used was identified as one of specifically Soviet manufacture, suggesting to U.K. officials and their allies that […]

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has cautioned Hashd al-Shaabi deputy commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis about refraining from not only politicizing the militia but also against restructuring the PMU without obtaining approval from Abadi first — given his status as commander-in-chief of Iraq’s military. The Prime Minister’s directive was issued with oversight from his secretary, Lt. Gen. Mohammed Hamid Kadhim; the directive […]

The U.S. Department of Defense announced plans to develop and field “hoverbikes” a few years ago – the Army’s three propeller design began testing in January, and has already seen a shift away from use as a single-soldier mode of transportation, and toward being used as a supply drone that is merely capable of transporting […]

This week, state-owned Russian defense firms have set the internet ablaze with claimed new technologies being rolled out within the nation’s struggling military-industrial complex. Despite the U.S. led sanctions stifling the Russian economy so thoroughly that they’ve chosen to defund or significantly limit endeavors commonly considered necessary to the Russian defense apparatus like the refit […]

In Basra, Iraq health officials have shut down around 100 unlicensed water desalination stations. The shutdowns come after the discovery of an outbreak of dysentery among Basra residents. Basra’s Department of Health Inspections head Zaki Abdulsadda told local press that the region has been experiencing a drastic case of water contamination as of late and the majority of […]

Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu and Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov met this week to discuss their nations’ future relations. Lavrov claims that the two countries seek to continue a partnership and that both governments are striving to left specific visa regulations, improve military partnerships, and discover a constitutional solution for the crises in […]

Several people were seriously wounded in Tuz Khurmatu, a small town near Kirkuk, Iraq this week when mortars were dropped on a neighborhood there. Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) office head in Tuz Khurmatu, Mala Karim Shkur, told local media that, “Earlier this morning, some mortar shells were fired at the Askari neighborhood from an unknown location.” Shkur […]

Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi released a new audio recording this week calling on all Muslims to carry out jihad against the kufar, or non-believers. The Telegram message was released on the holiday of Eid al-Adha and called for attacks on Western nations from the Middle East. This is the first recording since last September claimed […]

An Iraqi governmental decree permitting Arab families to move onto Kirkuk provincial lands owned by Turkmen and Kurdish citizens has been delayed by the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture after an official inquiry was made. The order came down after a delegation of Kurdish and Turkmen officials from Kirkuk visited Baghdad to discuss the situation with Falah Hassan […]