Category: News + Intel

At least 73 Nigerien soldiers were killed in an attack on a military base in western Niger, according to reports from the Ministry of Defense.  The attack took place at the military base at Inates, along the southwestern part of the country, which borders Mali. Defense Minister Issoufou Katambe said that the troops had been […]

A C-130 destined for King George Island on the northern tip of Antarctica fell out of radio contact on Monday evening, leaving many to fear the worst for the 38 people on board. The Chilean Air Force’s C-130 departed from Punta Arenas, in Southern Chile and flew for approximately an hour and five minutes before losing […]

On Saturday night after 22:00, jets pounded three different Iranian militia sites in Syria, including at the all-important border crossing with Iraq. The airstrikes took place in the Abulkamal region of Syria. While no one is claiming responsibility for the strikes, it is believed that they were undertaken by Israel. Israel never comments on airstrikes, […]

Al Jazeera television has released several new details on the botched operation, by Israeli Special Operations troops, that took place in Gaza in November 2018. When the dust from the blown operation had settled, one Israeli operative and seven Hamas soldiers lay dead and the Israelis were peppering the area with airstrikes to cover their […]

On Saturday, an armed convoy, made up mostly of pickup trucks, rolled in the Mexican community of Villa Union and began an attack on the town’s City Hall. Mexican Security Forces were dispatched to the area. A firefight broke out that has now claimed the lives of at least 20 people, many of whom were […]

The senior Guatemalan human rights prosecutor, Judge Jimmy Bremer, has indicted another senior military officer for genocide and crimes against humanity during the country’s civil war.  Luis Enrique Mendoza Garcia, who was a senior operations officer under the former regime of General Efrain Rios Montt, will go on trial in March for his role in […]

Thanks but no thanks, is the message the Mexican government is sending to the Trump administration after Washington vowed to designate the Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations and offered to send the military across the border to help defeat them. In a radio interview with Bill O’Reilly, President Trump was asked if he was […]

The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, speaking on Thursday about the death of 13 French soldiers in Mali this week in a counter-terror operation, has ordered his military to assess its operations against Islamist militants in West Africa. Macron, in his first public address since the collision of two helicopters that killed 13 French troops […]

The State Department and the Pentagon are looking into allegations that U.S. military hardware, sold to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, has ended up in the wrong hands in Yemeni civil war.  The State Department has already sent questions to both of its allies over these allegations but has received “insufficient responses” to the questions […]

A deadly mid-air collision between two French military helicopters has turned into the worst loss of life for the French military in nearly four decades, since the death of 58 French paratroopers in an attack in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983. French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday expressed “deep sadness” at the news of Monday’s evening […]

In a big move that de-escalated the violence that has been plaguing the country, Bolivian Interim President Jeanine Anez has agreed to “pacify” the country, by withdrawing the military from the protest areas and repealing the law that gave the military broad powers in the use of force.  The deal struck with opposition leaders on […]

The Russians are trying to expand their influence in Africa. For example take the case of Mozambique: While Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claims that Russia is only trying to forge economic and security ties with the country of Mozambique, the truth tells a different story. Russia is sending proxy troops into the country — and […]