Breaking: Did Iran release a video of hacked American UAVs in Syria and Iraq?

In 2011, an Iranian electronic warfare unit took over control of a Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel stealth unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and landed it with minimal damage. Since, then the Iranian regime has refused to return the drone to the U.S. Department of Defense, as Iran stated its airspace was violated. In the meantime, Iranian engineers […]

French soldiers kill al-Qaeda’s second ranked terrorist leader Yahya Abu al-Hammam: Exclusive analysis

Algerian Yahya Abu al-Hammam, a senior commander in Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) was killed in a special operation led by French forces. Yahya Abu al-Hammam ranked number two in the organization behind the Malian Tuareg Iyad Ag Ghaly. The assassination was conducted by French soldiers from the task force Operation Barkhane, an anti-insurgent operation in Africa’s […]

Terrorist groups engage in kidnapping in Mali to bankroll their operations

Over the course of the past several years, numerous high-ranking individuals have been taken captive by terror groups in Mali. Recently, two of them—the Guiré brigade commander, Mamadou Diawara, and the president of the Niono District Court, Soungalo Koné—both kidnapped by the terrorist group The Macina Liberation Front, have reportedly died due to illness while […]

Coast Guard officer charged with plotting terrorist attacks against politicians and media

A U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) lieutenant was arrested and charged with drug and firearms offenses after law enforcement officials claim he was planning a terror campaign aimed at Democratic politicians and journalists, according to a report from NBC. The lieutenant, 49-year-old Christopher Paul Hasson, was arrested on February 15th, after investigators discovered Hasson had been […]

Airstrikes in Libya: US Africa Command cover-up or another nation’s unclaimed attack?

Last week the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) denied carrying out an airstrike targeting al-Qaeda in southwest Libya despite the internationally recognized regime in Tripoli insisting they had involved their American colleagues in a joint attack. The spokesperson for the chairman of the Presidential Council of Libya said on Wednesday that a site with a […]

Flintlock 2019 gathers special operations forces from 34 nations to train in Burkina Faso

Operation Flintlock is an exercise held and led by an African host nation every year since 2005. It incorporates several actors in the security spectrum, such as military, law enforcement, justice, government, and civil society. Participants are from mainly North and West Africa Special Operations Forces (SOF), with participation by several western SOF as trainers. […]

Donbass War in Ukraine update: Multiple attacks, 1 dead, many wounded

Within the past few days, Russian-backed separatist forces have mounted 10 attacks on Ukrainian Army (UA) positions in the Donbass region of Ukraine. On February 18, 2019, Ukraine’s Joint Forces Operation released a press statement on their Facebook page announcing that one Ukrainian service member had been wounded in the recent fighting. They also announced that […]

Venezuela’s Special Action Force is using social media to find and execute opposition voices

A new report published by Amnesty International on Wednesday details the latest human rights abuses committed by the Venezuelan military against anti-Maduro protesters earlier this year. The abuses include the execution of dozens of protesters—almost all by gunshots—and the arbitrary detention of nearly 1,000 Venezuelans. The protests began in late January when opposition leader Juan […]

US Africa Command denies American casualties in latest al-Shabaab terrorist attack

The United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) denied that three U.S. soldiers were killed by an al-Shabaab mortar attack. AFRICOM accuses the extremist group of fabricating casualties of U.S. service members at the forward operating base (FOB) of Baledogle–also referred to as “B-dog”–on February 15, 2019. AFRICOM spokesman Christopher P. Karns told Xinhua News Agency, “No […]