“Never walk away from your home ahead of your axe and sword. You can’t feel a battle in your bones, or foresee a fight.” — The Hávamál (Viking book of knowledge), circa 1000 A.D. Occasionally here at SpecialOperations.com we get article submissions from authors, that we believe that our readers will enjoy. And this one […]
On the 10th of January, Portugal’s Armed Forces General Staff released a video of a five-hour-long battle between Portuguese paratroopers and the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) militia. The battle was instigated when Union for Peace in the Central African Republic (UPC) rebels killed two police officers and wounded another in Bambari, some 400 kilometers from […]
Since the beginning of 2019, al-Shabaab has been active with several high-profile attacks, chief among them the DusitD2 attack. In January, three al-Shabaab members detonated a VBIED in front of the business complex and hotel in an affluent Nairobi neighborhood before entering the facility and killing over 20 people. In the first part of this video, […]
Terrorist attacks are on the rise in the Sahel region of Africa, particularly in Burkina Faso and Mali. Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) has claimed responsibility for many strikes against the countries’ security forces. This would suggest that the ISGS has found a foothold in both states and is growing stronger by the […]
Right now the biggest risk to Libyan peace is the feud between the Government of National Accord (GNA) based in Tripoli and the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar. Last week, the LNA launched an operation to clear southern Libya of extremists and criminals. GNA forces have been under a lot of pressure […]
As the current Ebola virus outbreak burns through the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), public health officials are now warning the disease is threatening global health. In a recent article published in The Lancet, 12 leading global health policy experts argue that World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus “should reconvene the Emergency Committee […]
Venezuelan troops recently set roadblocks on the country’s largest road leading into neighboring Colombia in order to prevent much-needed food, medicine, and aid supplies from reaching desperate citizens. As the country descends further into madness with two men claiming to be Venezuela’s legitimate ruler, Nicolas Maduro ordered the blockade as a show of defiance in […]
Only a few years ago, the Ukrainian military was hard-pressed to counter the Russians and their Donetsk separatist lackeys that were encroaching on eastern Ukraine. With Crimea lost by a combination of hybrid warfare, special operations, and Western diplomatic and political ineptitude, the future of Ukraine looked dire. Since 2014, however, the Ukrainian armed forces […]
Somalia has been engaged in a long and bloody war with al-Shabaab. Some would claim the government is losing control; others would claim they were never in control. Currently, Somalia’s central government and the terrorist organization seem to be trading blows evenly. We hear of airstrikes killing hordes of al-Shabaab fighters one day, then the […]
On the 28th of January, 2019, in a village in northern Nigeria, Boko Haram killed at least 60 people. The onslaught took place in the border town of Rann. Amnesty International has called the attack devastating and one of the bloodiest assaults by the radical group since its formation. In what looks to be the standard […]
Attacks have been on the rise in Burkina Faso, with the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) claiming responsibility for a number of strikes against the country’s security forces. First thought to be a relatively new splinter group originating from Al-Mourabitoun, new findings reveal that the group can be traced back to 2017, when the Islamic State […]
The Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, was assassinated on December 19th, 2016 by Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş in Ankara. Scenes of the assassination are still fresh in most people’s memory as it was televised how Mevlüt shot the ambassador in the back and started circling the body, screaming in Arabic and Turkish. The next day, […]
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