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The U.S.-led international coalition formally withdrew from Iraq’s Taji military base on Sunday. The coalition handed the base over to Iraqi security forces, coalition and local news reported. The base, 17 miles north of Baghdad, had been the site of frequent rocket attacks, in recent months, by Iran-backed militias targeting U.S.-led troops. Despite the long-term […]

A former U.S. Army’s Special Forces officer has been arrested in Alexandria, VA, and charged with passing secrets of American military units and personnel to the Russian military intelligence arm (GRU) for over a decade.  Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins, 45, was recruited by Russian intelligence operatives as he considered himself a “son of Russia,” according […]

Russia’s Defense Ministry has reported that a Russian major general was killed in eastern Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province on Tuesday after the convoy he was riding in hit an improvised explosive device (IED). According to the state-owned news agency TASS, the Russian convoy was returning from what the Russian military said was a “humanitarian mission” […]

The military leaders of Mali have conducted a coup, ousting President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita from power. The military had had enough: Government corruption, economic mismanagement, the ongoing coronavirus crisis, and the Islamic jihadists’ insurgency have paralyzed and decimated the country’s outlying areas. The military’s frustration was compounded by the poor bad and bad conditions it […]

The U.S. Department of Defense announced last Thursday that the Pentagon’s top weapons supplier, Lockheed Martin Corp, has been awarded a $62 billion, 10-year contract for the production of F-16s for Foreign Military Sale (FMS). The initial delivery order is for 90 aircraft. The 10-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) includes a $4.94 billion order for 90 fighters, […]

The story of foreign intelligence networks paying bounties for the killing of American troops in Afghanistan has gotten new life with a revelation that Iran paid Taliban troops to kill U.S. and coalition troops.  CNN has reported that they have identified payments linked to at least six attacks carried out by the Taliban in the […]

A joint United States-Kurdish (Syrian Democratic Forces) anti-ISIS patrol came under fire soon after passing through a Syrian military checkpoint. No U.S. casualties were reported.  After receiving fire from the checkpoint, the American-led coalition troops returned fire, killing one Syrian soldier and wounding two others according to statements from U.S. military officials and Syrian state-run […]

Somali commandos of the Danab “Lightning” Brigade, backed by Ugandan African Union (AU) forces, have taken the strategic town of Kuntuwaarey in the Lower Shabelle region from the al-Shabaab terrorist group, freeing at least 33 children in the process, officials said. The town of Kuntuwaarey, in the southwest of Somalia, located about 200 kilometers from […]

The United States Justice Department announced that federal agents have seized millions of dollars worth of fuel that Iranians were sending to Venezuela in an attempt to avoid U.S. economic sanctions. The seizure was characterized as the largest ever of its kind.  The petroleum was loaded in four tankers. They were stopped and their cargo […]

Israel has reached a third peace treaty with the Arab world, and the first with a Gulf Arab state. The United Arab Emirates and Israel have agreed to establish full diplomatic ties in exchange for the Israelis suspending their planned annexation of West Bank territory in Judea and Samaria.  The two sides agreed to the […]

In the changing landscape of Mexico’s cartels, the CJNG has established itself as a burgeoning power center with a cunning mix of violence and local aid.

Last month, Iran carried out a training strike on a fake U.S. Nimitz-class Carrier. Now the sunken vessel is blocking their own harbor.