A bigger threat than ever: North Korea successfully detonates hydrogen bomb, threatens EMP attack on U.S.

A bigger threat than ever: North Korea successfully detonates hydrogen bomb, threatens EMP attack on U.S.

North Korea conducted their sixth nuclear test on Sunday, this time of a significantly more powerful weapon believed to be a two-stage, or hydrogen bomb. Because North Korea has conducted all of its nuclear testing, Sunday’s included, underground in their Punggye-ri complex, details are sparse, but intelligence gathered from seismic readings suggest that Kim’s claims […]

19 indicted for attacking protesters during Turkey’s Erdogan visit to the US

19 indicted for attacking protesters during Turkey’s Erdogan visit to the US

A grand jury in the U.S. capital has issued indictments for 19 people, including 15 identified as Turkish security officials, for attacking protesters in May 2017. The indictments, announced Tuesday, charge the defendants with attacking peaceful demonstrators who were protesting the visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on May 17.   Read the whole […]

Op-Ed: Europe isn’t the bastion of racial harmony some may think

Op-Ed: Europe isn’t the bastion of racial harmony some may think

Many US leftists are promoting Europe as a place of racial harmony and joy, where people are not racists and everybody runs through the fields happily singing kumbaya. Well that is a big fat lie. Whatever ancestral ties the US might have with Europe, and although we see ourselves as a cultural entity, the so-called […]

Chinese Australians in supercars protest India on its 70th Independence day

Chinese Australians in supercars protest India on its 70th Independence day

On Tuesday 15th August at around 12:40pm, a fleet of supercars, organized by a Sydney-based Australian Chinese automobile club, started their parade, led by a red Bentley covered by Chinese flag pattern. Bentleys, Lamborghinis, BMW, AUDI and Maseratis were among the 10 luxury cars that joined the parade across Sydney, passing three universities including Sydney […]

Extremism in Central Asia: Pushing back on reflexive dismissals

Extremism in Central Asia: Pushing back on reflexive dismissals

Debate and discussion can be a healthy thing. This is especially true when it comes to the issue of extremism and radicalization in Central Asia, a region undercovered by major media outlets and difficult to access even by the researchers devoted to it. It is for that reason that a recent article published in The Diplomat that focuses on […]

SOFREP EXCLUSIVE: Serving under the ban, a transgender Army officer’s career in doubt

SOFREP EXCLUSIVE: Serving under the ban, a transgender Army officer’s career in doubt

It has now been one month since President Trump took to Twitter to announce an unexpected ban on transgendered service members from serving in the United States military. Since that time, officials at the Department of Defense had been operating in a vacuum, directing all questions concerning the policy back at the White House, who […]

Watch: SECDEF James Mattis delivers an impromptu speech to deployed troops in Jordan

Watch: SECDEF James Mattis delivers an impromptu speech to deployed troops in Jordan

Defense Secretary James Mattis has a reputation as a no-nonsense public speaker, and perhaps one of the most quotable war fighters of the modern era.  During his tenure in the United States Marine Corps, Mattis secured his place in the hearts of American service members with memorable statements like, “I come in peace. I didn’t […]

Antifa and Nazis: The European perspective

Antifa and Nazis: The European perspective

The recent events in Charlottesville, where the two extremes of the political spectrum were pitted against each other, have sparked a vivid debate about these so-called Antifa. The KKK white supremacists and the lot are not something new to the US political stage. The far left, on the other hand, is relatively unknown. Across the […]