Category: News + Intel

SOFREP gets into the details of the raid by Delta Force to take out the head of ISIS, Al-Qurayshi in Syria

President Biden confirms that ISIS leader al-Qurayshi was killed in a US Special Operations forces mission in Idlib, northwest Syria.

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

A pregnant Al Jazeera journalist has been offered refuge by the Taliban after she was denied re-entry to her home country, New Zealand.

Russia has sent some 2,500 troops into Kazakhstan during a civil revolt. We don’t think it has anything to do with Putin wanting to take over the country. We think it’s all about the International Space Station.

A deadly attack by government troops in eastern Myanmar on civilians carried out on Christmas Eve included two Save the Children charity staff members, the non-profit organization said on Tuesday. “With profound sadness, we confirm two of our staff are among the burnt bodies found in Myanmar after an attack by the military on Xmas […]

An Israeli airstrike in the Syrian port of Latakia during the early hours of Tuesday morning hit the port’s container facility in the second attack on the port this month. “At around 3:21 am [0121 GMT], the Israeli enemy carried out an aerial aggression with several missiles from the direction of the Mediterranean … targeting […]

Terrorist factions in the Palestinian territories and Gaza are conducting joint exercises and planning sessions that suggest they intend to renew their war with Israel.

In a seeming de-escalation of the security crisis along the Russian-Ukrainian border, Moscow has withdrawn ten-thousand of the estimated 110,000 troops it has positioned near the border.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.

Western governments protest the government of Mali hiring Russian mercenaries under the guise of bringing in the Wagner Group which is accused of operating as a proxy for Moscow and Vladamir Putin.

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.