Fire in Iranian shipyard damages 7 ships

A fire broke out in an Iranian shipyard on Wednesday. This is just the latest in a series of fires and explosions that are have hit the country, many at sensitive sites, in recent weeks. The fire on Wednesday occurred in a shipyard at the southwestern port of Bushehr about 430 miles from Tehran. It […]

Iran to ensure the air defense of Syria after new pact

The governments of Iran and Syria have signed a pact to strengthen military and defense cooperation. The deal was signed on Wednesday in Damascus by Iran’s armed forces chief, Major General Mohammad Bagheri, and Syrian Defense Minister, Ali Abdullah Ayyoub. Bagheri said that the military agreement is aimed at “fighting terrorism and countering American pressure.” […]

Iranian nuclear facility rocked by fire and explosions

Within just five days, there have been three separate explosions in Iran, one of which was at an area where the Iranians were putting centrifuges into operation. All three incidents shared one common factor: the Iranian government’s explanation of them stretched credibility to the nth degree.  In the first incident, on July 2, a large […]

Italian security services bust a $1 billion ISIS drug shipment

Italian police made a huge drug bust when they impounded three suspicious container ships on Wednesday that contained 15.4 tons (14 metric tons) of amphetamines, manufactured by ISIS in Syria. Law enforcement officials said the haul is the world’s largest drug bust in terms of both value and quantity. Authorities were tipped off about the […]

Russia’s Afghan bounties isn’t the most alarming part of the case

Last Friday, in an exclusive story, the New York Times reported that a Russian military intelligence unit had been offering bounties to militias linked to the Taliban for the killing of American and Coalition troops in Afghanistan. They did so in an attempt to derail the peace talks between the U.S and the Taliban. At […]

Israeli airstrikes target and kill six Iranian-backed militiamen in Syria

The Iranians keep pushing Quds Force troops into Syria and supplying their proxy forces with arms, ammunition, and missiles… and someone, supposedly Israel, keeps hitting them hard with airstrikes. According to reports coming out of Syria, at least six Iranian-led militia members were killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike on Saturday night. The strike hit […]

$10 million bounty for information on the new ISIS leader

The U.S. government has increased the bounty for information that will lead to the capture or killing of the new leader of the Islamic State to $10 million. Amir Mohammed Sa’id Abdal Rahman al-Mawla, also known as Hajji Abdallah, became the new leader of ISIS after his predecessor Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed during a […]

Israeli Air Force keeps pressure on Iranian forces in Syria

An airstrike, reportedly conducted by the Israeli Air Force, struck several different sites in southern and eastern Syria on Tuesday. According to different reports, one of the targets hit by the Israelis was an Iranian arms shipment. So far, two Syrian soldiers have been reported killed and another four wounded in the airstrike. Iranian militia […]

French military chief wants to overhaul military to prepare for a major conflict

General Thierry Burkhard, the French Army’s Chief of Staff, believes that a major conflict is now a relative possibility. He has a strategic plan to flip the French military from an emphasis on asymmetric warfare to symmetric and to toughen it up by 2030. Burkhard, who was the Commander of the Combined Operations Center, the […]

Islamic Jihadists ambush Malian Army convoy, heavy casualties

About a dozen military vehicles were ambushed on Sunday at Bouka Were, around 60 miles from the border with Mauritania, the army said. Unnamed Malian military sources confirmed that the ambush on the military convoy in central Mali left 24 soldiers dead and a number missing. Jihadists aligned with al-Qaeda perpetrated the attack.  According to […]

The CHAZ is now the CHOP: updates on the Autonomous Zone

The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, aka the Chaz, has now undergone a name change and is calling itself the CHOP. The new title stands for Capitol Hill Occupied Protest. The name change was a movement by the protesters inside the zone to better reflect its purpose. Yet, the CHAZ may have a new name, but […]

Boko Haram strikes again with multiple attacks in Nigeria, over 100 dead

Three separate attacks, including an assault on the military base of Monguno, killed dozens of people in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state. Boko Haram, which has allied itself with the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), claimed responsibility for the attacks. The other two targets were a United Nations office and a refugee camp which hosts […]